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Thanks to perhaps the most indelible character in Akira Kurosawa's oeuvre, Yojimbo surpassed even Seven Samurai in popularity when it was released. The masterless samurai Sanjuro, who slyly manipulates two warring clans to his advantage.

Swedish master Jan Troell (The Emigrants, the New Land) returns triumphantly with Everlasting Moments, a vivid, heartrending story of a woman liberated through art at the beginning of the twentieth century. Though poor and abused by her alcoholic...

In 1930s Hong Kong, the hopeless affair between courtesan Fleur (Anita Mui)and playboy heir Chan (Leslie Cheung) culminated in a suicide pact. Fifty years later, her ghost appears before disillusioned couple Yuen (Alex Man) and Chor (Emily Chu) for aid...

In late-19th-century Shanghai, the volatile lives of a group of concubines are detailed, as rich and privileged men try to keep the women subservient to them by creating a sheltered and decadent world for themselves inside the city's brothels. This...

For what would prove to be his final film, Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami gave himself a challenge: to create a dialogue between his work as a filmmaker and his work as a photographer, bridging the two art forms to which he had dedicated his life...

Sequestered in his home, a disgraced President Nixon arms himself with a bottle of Scotch and a gun to record memoirs that no one will hear. Direction: Robert Altman Actors: Philip Baker Hall Special Features: New High-definition digital transfer, with...

Michael Fassbender, Stuart Graham, Liam Cunningham. Beautifully, painfully shot and scripted, this drama follows the 1981 hunger strike by Irish prisoners in Belfast, protesting their mistreatment at the hands of British guards and the British...

In Alfred Hitchcock's most quick-witted and devilish comic thriller, the beautiful Margaret Lockwood (NIGHT TRAIN TO MUNICH), traveling across Europe by train, meets a charming spinster (Dame May Whitty, SUSPICION), who then seems to disappear into thin...

Gerard Depardieu and Wojciech Pszoniak star in Andrzej Wajda's powerful, intimate depiction of the ideological clash between the earthy, man-of-the-people Georges Danton and icy Jacobin extremist Maximilien Robespierre, both key figures of the French...

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Swedish master Jan Troell (The Emigrants, the New Land) returns triumphantly with Everlasting Moments, a vivid, heartrending story of a woman liberated through art at the beginning of the twentieth century. Though poor and abused by her alcoholic...

In this poetic and atmospheric horror fable, set in a village in war-torn medieval Japan, a malevolent spirit has been ripping out the throats of itinerant samurai. When a military hero is sent to dispatch the unseen force, he finds that he must struggle...