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A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century painter through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld.

Three women come to Terezin, formerly known as the concentration camp "Theresienstadt", searching for trails of Karel Svenk. He was called "Chaplin of Theresinenstadt" because he played Cabaret there until his deportation to Auschwitz. They find survivors of the holocaust who met Svenk and still know his songs.

Employees and clients of a commercial gallery only live for love; they dream it, proclaim it, sing it and dance it. Experience the encounters, reunions, passions and disappointments of a malicious chorus of girls and a group of idle boys.

His ideals challenged by life as a conscript in war-time Japan's military, a pacifist faces ever greater tests in his fight for survival.

A group of cosmopolitan female passengers aboard the Trans-Siberian/Mongolian Railway are taken prisoner by the warrior princess Ulan Iga.

A collection of four Japanese folk tales with supernatural themes.

Daniele, a gambler and poetry professor, takes a teaching job in Rimini. He falls for his 19-year-old student Vanina, who is dating his gambling friend Gerardo. Their affair ends tragically.

A young woman meets a vital young man, but their love affair is doomed because of the man's materialistic nature.

In this new wave film for Shochiku Studio by avantgarde director Hani Susumu A young Japanese woman tries several extremes, and things in the middle, to improve herself and her contentment. She tries drama, radical politics, sluttiness and more. The director offers minimal script and lots of freedom to the cast.

A wealthy man falls in love with a prostitute.

Pirelli takes close-up details of her body in a diary-like format.

A tea master and his daughter Ogin are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with a married feudal prince who shares her faith. When the Shogun bans Christianity, the situation worsens.

Set in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this standard drama looks at the inner workings of a small family, especially the relationship between a sister and brother.