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- The rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost and a woodcutter.
- Impoverished priest Harihar Ray, dreaming of a better life for himself and his family, leaves his rural Bengal village in search of work.
- A tale of ambition, family, love, and war set in the midst of the Japanese Civil Wars of the sixteenth century.
- Following his father's death, a boy leaves home to study in Calcutta, while his mother must face a life alone.
- This final installment in Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy follows Apu's life as an orphaned adult aspiring to be a writer.
- A samurai pursues a married lady-in-waiting.
- In the closing days of WWII, remnants of the Japanese army in Leyte are abandoned by their command and face certain death by starvation.
- Life at home changes when a house-wife from a middle-class, conservative family in Calcutta gets a job as a saleswoman.
- The personal tales of various prostitutes who occupy a brothel.
- A man getting on in years sets out to find a way to resurrect his flagging virility.
- Depicts the end days of a decadent zamindar (landlord) in Bengal, and his efforts to uphold his family prestige even when faced with economic adversity.
- A young woman is deemed a goddess when her father-in-law, a rich feudal land-lord, has a dream envisioning her as an avatar of Kali.
- A young female student arrives in a new city, and finds herself in a confusing situation: there is no place for her for sleeping. An incredible odyssey through the endless maze of night streets is ahead.
- An upper-class Bengali family is on vacation in Darjeeling, a popular hill station and resort near Kanchenjungha.
- A lowly divorcee is tricked into becoming the mistress of a despised moneylender but soon falls in love with a student.
- After a puritan youth, a young English woman discovers her sensuality in North-Africa.
- The struggle for civil rights has been one of the most important issues of American life for the last fifty years. In August of 1963, groups from all over the country journeyed to Washington D.C. for a massive demonstration, and this film is a fascinating document of this event. Celebrated filmmaker Haskell Wexler ("Medium Cool") traveled with the San Francisco delegation, photographing and conversing candidly with the participants. He has succeeded admirably in capturing the significance and drama of this historic trip.
- A poor musician hires a courtesan to pose as his wife so he can "give" her to a wealthy count in return for patronage.
- Following the tragic death of his father, a young boy's family trains his horse to compete in the local derby.
- Mexican and Latin-American classic. Four independent stories based on writer Francisco Rojas Gonzáles's work, depicting the reality of Mexican indian people: Las Vacas, Nuestra Señora, El Tuerto and La Potranca. In El Tuerto, crosseyed boy is made fun of by his mates. His religious mother asks God to make the boy's eyes equal. The outcome is tragic.
- Tokyo, 1890. Through avarice, a series of misunderstandings, and failures of courage, the engagement of Kan-ichi (a student) and Miya (the daughter of Kan-ichi's debtor) is canceled to enable Miya to marry Tomiyama, a wealthy banker's son. In bitter despair, Kan-ichi breaks with his friends, drops his studies, and declares he has ceased to be human. He apprentices to a money-lender, and he's soon ruthless and wealthy. Several years later, Miya's in misery, her husband mistreats her. She goes to Kan-ichi to beg forgiveness; he pushes her away. He's now pursued by Akagashi, herself a cold-hearted loan shark. Can anything free Kan-ichi's hard heart from the golden demon?
- After a romantic love affair ends, the young man, broken-hearted, wanders the New York City streets and cafes, remembering the relationship when it was present in his life and feels the loneliness and torment of its ending.