I april 1945 har den russiske hær lagt en jernring omkring Berlin, og Tyskland er ved at tabe krigen. Hitler har sammen med sine nærmeste...

Da Veronica ikke kan få sin elskede, synes en tilværelse som nonne at være hendes eneste mulighed, indtil hendes mor tilbyder hende...

Den unge engelske digter Christian ankommer i 1899 til Paris og forelsker sig stormende i en af natklubben Moulin Rouge's kurtisaner, den smukke...

Med en ussel pension lever Umberto på et lille værelse sammen med sin hund. Som tidligere statsansat har han stadig sin værdighed,...

Vi skriver 1974 og Sam Bicke har mistet alt. Hans kone forlader ham og deres 3 børn, han mister sit arbejde, hans bror vender sig fra ham, og...

The lives of five prostitutes employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passage of an anti-prostitution law.

In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himself as a Buddhist monk to escape imprisonment as a...

Director Jean Renoir’s entrancing first color feature—shot entirely on location in India—is a visual tour de force. Based on the...

Umekichi, a geisha in the Gion district of Kyoto, feels obliged to help her lover Furusawa when he asks to stay with her after becoming bankrupt and...

A brother and sister move into an old seaside house that has been abandoned for many years on the Cornwellian coast. They soon discover that it is...

Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing...

In early post-war Osaka, three women, war widow Fusako, her sister Natsuko, an expatriate from Korea, and Kumiko, Fusako's sister-in-law, descend...

A story about the life of a young girl living with her mother in the slums of Manila, which becomes unbearable when her mother's young boyfriend...

Utamaro, a great artist, lives to create portraits of beautiful women, and the brothels of Tokyo provide his models. A world of passion swirls around...

During the 1940s, Maurice Bendrix, a writer recently discharged from the armed service, falls in love with Sarah Miles, whom he interviews for a...