Ikiru
Oct 09, 1952 | IMDB 8.3
143 min Watch NowDrama
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.
Drama
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.
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A Widow with Three Daughters
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Hobson's Choice
Risiko für Weihnachtsmänner
The Emperor of Atlantis
The Old Gun
Arena
Roma
Flags of Our Fathers
The Naked Island
Kikujiro
Visitor Q
Hotel Very Welcome
Last Year at Marienbad
Black Rain
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Throne of Blood
Red Beard
River Made to Drown In
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IMDB 0 | Jan , 1965
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IMDB 0 | Jun , 1965
When Mafouz dies, his partner Diab seizes his share, which leaves Mahfouz's family living in poverty. Gawdat, Zahra's fiancé, sleeps with her after she surrenders in the hope that they will get married quickly, but his mother forces him to leave Zahra after their financial situation deteriorates.Veterans of Foreign Wars
IMDB 0 | Mar , 2026
Veterans of Foreign Wars follows a queer college student struggling with loneliness and confinement. Escaping her dorm room, she finds herself lost in a memory with her mother and an ice cream cone. Navigating the emotions of an outsider, this poem/screenplay hybrid documents the typical, yet rarely displayed remoteness of college life. The abrupt turn at the end leaves the viewer questioning their associations with anger, savagery, and our national gun violence crisis.Hobson's Choice
IMDB 7.4 | Apr , 1954
A widower refuses to let his three daughters marry in order to avoid paying settlements, so they'll just have to outsmart him.Risiko für Weihnachtsmänner
IMDB 0 | Dec , 1968
The Emperor of Atlantis
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1977
Opera written by inmates of a Nazi concentration camp in 1943 before their murder in Auschwitz.The Old Gun
IMDB 7.5 | Aug , 1975
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IMDB 7 | Aug , 1967
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IMDB 7.6 | Nov , 2018
In 1970s Mexico City, two domestic workers help a mother of four while her husband is away for an extended period of time.Flags of Our Fathers
IMDB 6.9 | Oct , 2006
There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the story of three of the six surviving servicemen - John 'Doc' Bradley, Pvt. Rene Gagnon and Pvt. Ira Hayes - who fought in the battle to take Iwo Jima from the Japanese.The Naked Island
IMDB 8 | Nov , 1960
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IMDB 7.5 | Jun , 1999
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IMDB 6.3 | Mar , 2001
In a dysfunctional family where the mother is a heroin addict and prostitute, beaten by her son, and the father is an ex-TV reporter, sleeping with his daughter and filming his son being beaten up, ‘Q’, a complete stranger enters the bizarre family, changing their lives for the better, finding a balance in their disturbing natures.Hotel Very Welcome
IMDB 5.5 | Feb , 2007
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IMDB 7.4 | May , 1961
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IMDB 6.6 | Sep , 1989
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IMDB 7.4 | Mar , 1988
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IMDB 7.9 | Jan , 1957
Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spirit's prophecy comes true, Washizu's scheming wife, Asaji, presses him to speed up the rest of the spirit's prophecy by murdering his lord and usurping his place. Director Akira Kurosawa's resetting of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" in feudal Japan is one of his most acclaimed films.Red Beard
IMDB 8.1 | Mar , 1965
Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic under the gruff doctor Red Beard. Yasumoto rebels in numerous ways, but Red Beard proves a wise and patient teacher. He gradually introduces his student to the unglamorous side of the profession, ultimately assigning him to care for a prostitute rescued from a local brothel.River Made to Drown In
IMDB 4.6 | Oct , 1997
Thaddeus Mackenzie, a wealthy lawyer, learns that he is dying and decides to sell all of his property and visit his old friend Allen Hayden. Allen is a struggling artist with a passion for life who once survived by working the streets, but now is romantically involved with Eva, a wealthy European gallery owner living in L.A. Thaddeus implores Allen to find Jamie, a young street hustler that Thaddeus had once tried to rescue. Allen returns to the streets to face the dark corners of his past where he must choose between what he left behind and the uncertainty that lies ahead.