Drama

Scenes from a Marriage chronicles the many years of love and turmoil that bind Marianna (Liv Ullmann) and Johan (Erland Josephson) through matrimony, infidelity, divorce, and subsequent partners.

French master Max Ophuls's most cherished work, the Earrings of Madame de... is an emotionally profound, cinematographically adventurous tale of false opulence and tragic romance. When the aristocratic woman known only as Madame de... (the extraordinary...

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John Cassavetes's a WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE is an emotionally devastating drama that charts the mental disintegration of a California housewife. Mabel Longhetti (Gena Rowlands) has no emotional or creative outlets. Instead, she pours all her energy...

In 1930s Calcutta, Anne-Marie Stretter (Delphine Seyrig) dealt with the ennui of being a French diplomat's wife with a string of affairs, but the many lovers won't suffice to quell the emptiness within. Marguerite Duras' "India Song" (1975) also stars...

John Cassavetes's THE KILLING OF a CHINESE BOOKIE is a genre-shattering drama that combines elements of the thriller and crime picture to create something wholly distinct and original. Ben Gazzara stars as Cosmo Vittelli, the proud owner of a Los Angeles...

Tracing the life of a renowned icon painter, the second feature by Andrei Tarkovsky vividly conjures the murky world of medieval Russia. This dreamlike and remarkably tactile film follows Andrei Rublev as he passes through a series of poetically linked...

Carlos Saura's exquisite Cr??a cuervos... heralded a turning point in Spain: Shot while General Franco was on his deathbed, the film melds the personal and the political in a portrait of the legacy of fascism and it's effects on a middle-class family...

A stunning drama about a ginza bar hostess as she approaches the perilous age of 30. Director Mikio Naruse Star Hideko Taka mine, Tatsuya Nakadai, Masayuki Mori Special Features: Widescreen, Commentary, Interview.

Winner of four Cesar awards, including best picture and director, Abdellatif Kechiche's the Secret of the Grain is a stirring drama about the daily joys and struggles of a bustling French-Arab family. It has the texture of a documentary but a classic,...

Well-born young dancer Victoria Page (Moira Shearer) was thrilled when impresario Boris Lermontov (Anton Walbrook) offered a spot with his ballet company. She'd meet and quickly fall for accompanist Julian Craster (Marius Goring), but she'd deal with...

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