Toshiro Mifune stars as Isaburo, an aging swordsman living a quite life until his clan lord orders that his son marry the lord's mistress, who has recently displeased the ruler. Reluctantly, father and son take in the woman, and, to the family's surp...
Kamakura Shogun, giving credence to the slanders of his subordinates sends out a strict order to the barrier-guards of several provinces to apprehend his younger brother, Yoshitsune comes up to a barrier-guard on his escapade to Mutsu-no-kuni. Thanks...
Being the first masterpiece of Kurosawa, the film was a great success and established the reputation of Kurosawa. The film explores the relationship between the creator of Judo and his faithful protege. It depicts the process Sugata, arash and meddle...
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Hiroshi Inagaki's acclaimed Samurai Trilogy is based on the novel has been called Japan's Gone with the Wind. This sweeping sage of the legendary seventeenth-century samurai Musashi Miyamoto (powerfully portrayed by Toshiro Mifune) plays ...
Chushingura is a famous story in Japan on 47 samurai in the Edo period who avenge their lord against Lord Kira, who was the cause of the master's death. This drama based on Shoichiro Ikemiya’s book focuses on Kichiemon Terasaka, the only survivor of...
The setting is Hong Kong and the hero of the film is Jackie Chan. This documentary chronicles the life and entertainment career of the star of Hong Kong action films. Archival photographs and the personal recollections of family and friends paint a p...
On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front. Myra stayed with him past curfew and is thrown o...
Chaplin's final American film tells the story of a fading music hall comedian's effort to help a despondent ballet dancer learn both to walk and feel confident about life again. The highlight of the film is the classic duet with Chaplin's only real a...
In Shakespeare's classic play, the Montagues and Capulets, two families of Renaissance Italy, have hated each other for years, but the son of one family and the daughter of the other fall desperately in love and secretly marry. 故事发生在繁华的威挪挪...
Marcus Aurelius Antonius, philosopher-emperor of Rome, summons his empire's governors and princes to German war headquarters for a Pax Romanus. He confides to his daughter, Lucilla, that his adopted son, Livius, will succeed him instead of his more u...
Monsieur Verdoux is a bluebeard, he marries women and kills them after the marriage to get the money he needs for his family. But with two ladies he has bad luck. 几年里,法国发生了多起妇女失踪的案件,而失踪的妇女几乎都是小有积蓄的中年妇女,并且她们�...
Marie St. Clair believes she has been jilted by her artist fiance Jean when he fails to meet her at the railway station. She goes off to Paris alone. A year later, mistress of wealthy Pierre Revel, she meets Jean again. Misinterpreting events she bou...
An epic film that follows the life of Alexander the Great, the macedonian king that united all ancient greek tribes and led them against the vast Persian Empire. Alexander conquered most of the then known world and created a greek empire that spanne...
Watching a letterboxed version of "How the West Was Won," I noticed the dividing lines on the screen, and it was clear that much of the picture was still missing even in this format. But neither hindered my enjoyment of this sprawling epic, even if J...
One of the best-loved John Ford/John Wayne Westerns was this "three outlaws and a baby" drama, as fugitives Wayne, Pedro Armendariz and Harry Carey, Jr. promise a dying woman that they will care for her newborn child and begin a harrowing trek across...
Mrs. Bennet (Mary Boland) and her two eldest daughters, Jane (Maureen O'Sullivan) and Elizabeth (Greer Garson), are shopping for new dresses when they see two gentlemen and a lady alight from a very expensive carriage outside. They learn that the men...
When enormously-wealthy media magnate Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles) dies, he utters the word "rosebud". An obituary newsreel documents the events in his public life. The producer of the newsreel asks a reporter, Jerry Thompson (William Alland), ...
The film begins during World War I. Chaplin, as an unnamed Jewish private in the army of the fictional nation of Tomainia, valiantly attempts to rescue an officer named Schultz (Reginald Gardiner), only to lose his memory when the plane the two had t...
Modern Times portrays Charlie Chaplin as a factory worker, employed on an assembly line. After being subjected to such indignities as being force-fed by a 'modern' feeding machine and an accelerating assembly line where Chaplin screws nuts at an ever...
"One of the minor annoyances in modern life is a revolution." Due to a revolution in his country, King Igor Shahdov (Charlie Chaplin) comes to New York City with almost no money, his securities having been stolen by his own Prime Minister. He tries t...
Two prisoners of war are burying a corpse in the graveyard of a Japanese World War II prison camp in southern Burma. One, American Navy Commander Shears (William Holden), routinely bribes guards to ensure he gets sick duty, which allows him to avoid ...
A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan's most powerful clan leader. He's also challenged to fight by the supremely confident and skillful Sasaki Kojiro. Takezo agrees to f...
After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for her but to challenge the leader of the region's finest school of fencing. To prove his valor and skil...
In Shakespeare's classic play, the Montagues and Capulets, two families of Renaissance Italy, have hated each other for years, but the son of one family and the daughter of the other fall desperately in love and secretly marry. 在十五世纪意大利的贝...
Though his people, the Israelites, are enslaved by the Philistines, Samson, strongest man of the tribe of Dan, falls in love with the Philistine Semadar, whom he wins by virtue of a contest of strength. But Semadar betrays him, and Samson engages in ...
A veteran samurai, who has fallen on hard times, answers a village's request for protection from bandits. He gathers 6 other samurai to help him, and they teach the townspeople how to defend themselves, and they supply the samurai with three small me...
After sending his wife and son to Maine to escape the sweltering summer heat of New York City, 38-year old Richard Sherman meets a 22-year-old blonde television commercial spokesmodel, who is renting the apartment directly above him. Despite recent p...
At the request of his star Buster Keaton, producer Joseph M. Schenck purchased an obsolete ocean liner for $20,000. Keaton wanted to use the boat as a "prop" in his upcoming feature comedy, but went into production with nary a plot idea in his head. ...
A young Prince, Karl, from a small sub-kingdom of the German Empire near the turn of the 20th century is sent off to get a university education in Heidelberg, Baden-Wuerttemberg. His grandfather was one of a handful of petty kings within German and A...
The unnamed driver, played wonderfully by Mania Akbari, is a divorcee who has remarried. In the first journey, which begins with her son, Amin, getting into the car, we are plunged into conflict, as the young boy shouts at her, waves his hand, calls ...
gregory Peck won an Oscar for his brilliant perfomance as the Southern lawyer who defends a black man accused of rape in this film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.They way in which it captures a time a place and above all, a mood , makes ...
For years rumors abound that only Anastasia Romanoy, the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas II, survived a Bolshevik attack on her family in 1918. Because a huge fortune awaits Anatasia, greedy expatriate Russian General Bounine (Yul Brynner) attempt...
When we first meet Chaplin's Tramp in this comic gem, he's in typical straits: broke, hungry destined to fall in love and just as sure to lose the girl. Mistaken for a pickpocket and pursued by a pease officer into a circus tent, the Tramp becomes a ...
Gary Cooper won the Oscar for the Best Actor in this classic tale of a lawman who stands alone to defend a town of righteous cowards in the greatest showdow in the history of cinema. The film also stars one of Hollywood's most beloved and prolific ac...
A crowning achievement of 1980's Soviet cinema, Elem Klimov's Come And See is perhaps the ultimate WWII film. This savage and lyrical fever is a victual primer for the subsequent, similarly psychedelic intensity of Terrence Malick's "The thin Red Lin...
John Ford's 1948 classic stars John Wayne as a Cavalry officer used to doing things a certain way out West at Fort Apache. Along comes a rigid, new commanding officer (Henry Fonda) who insists that everything on his watch be done by the book, includi...
Talkies were well entrenched when Charles Chaplin swam against the filmmaking tide with this forever classic that's silent except for music and sound effects. The story, involving the Tramp's attempts to get money for an operation that will restore s...
This is a fun movie and there is something intriguing about watching Classic Chaplin films. The story is that the Tramp (Charlie Chaplin) is a prospector heading to the Yukon Territory during the Gold Rush. He meets up with two other prospectors and ...
Directed by King Vidor, "Man Without A Star" (1955) is a Western lover's Western. Kirk Douglas stars, as a drifter with no particular star to follow. He moseys into town, after saving the life of a young cow-poke wannabe, and we are treated to his fu...
War feasts upon death. Its greedy appetite carries away many a life on the battlefield, and soldiers must be ready to die at any time. Yet all these sacrifices can be given meaning and reason with honour. A weathered witness of war’s insatiable appe...
War feasts upon death. Its greedy appetite carries away many a life on the battlefield, and soldiers must be ready to die at any time. Yet all these sacrifices can be given meaning and reason with honour. A weathered witness of war’s insatiable appe...
The movie revolves around an elementary school, where a girl called Mika disappears mysteriously after following the sound of laughter into the bathroom. The rumors of the school being haunted, strange things happening around 4:44 AM and the missing ...
An amusing title directed by Johnnie To and featuring comedy star Stephen Chow is now digitally remastered! New version coming with trailers, photo gallery, behind-the-scene features, plus more!
Johnnie To and Stephen Chow collaborated for the firs...
There is no Chinese novel more famous than Journey to the West, and while there have been many movie adaptations, this memorable version presents a unique interpretation with humor, action, and fantasy galore. 岳华扮演演的西游记相当有意思,造型比较简�...
Makiko Uchida arrives in a southern Japanese port hoping to find a boat that will take her to the final resting place of the Battleship Yamato on the 60th anniversary of its sinking. She is rebuffed by all until she reveals to Katsumi Kamio tha...
In iberia, the music and dances are performed against a minimalist background and are introduced by only the names of the pieces and the performers. The numbers flow into one another seamlessly, as if following their own internal logic and the simpli...
From the story of fighting and war between women in the Kou Shiro, especially the 6th generation of the general,the first time it has been show in the drama serius,this time ,Fukada Kyouko will be acting as the lead actress, of course, there'll be al...
Kijou no Kuron" or "Japanese Tradition" is a satirical instructional film for how to woo a Japanese woman. A second short available online, "The Japanese Tradition - Sushi", is an instructional film for sushi etiquette. Both films star a pair of acto...
One of Yasujiro Ozu's early masterworks, it concerns an actor, Kihachi (Takeshi Sakomoto) leading a struggling theater troupe who returns to the provincial town where he fathered a child years before. He seeks out his son, now a young man, and the wo...
The show features Izzard and Driver as Wayne and Dahlia Malloy; they, along with their family, are Irish Traveller con artists and thieves. They travel with their children Di Di (Delilah), Sam and Cael.
As the series begins Dahlia has just been...