Cinematography: Toyomichi Kurita

Direction Shinji Sômai

Cast Tomoko Tabata · Shinobu Chihara · Kiichi Nakai · Junko Sakurada

Plot Renko is a youngster whose parents have just divorced. Her father moves out and she has to adapt to a new way of life.

Direction Alan Rudolph

Cast Kris Kristofferson · Lori Singer · Keith Carradine · Geneviève Bujold

Plot The lives of an ex-con, a coffee-shop owner, and a young couple looking to make it rich intersect in the fictional and hypnotic Rain City.

Direction Mark Rydell

Cast Stephen Rea · Isabella Rossellini · J.T. Walsh · Michael Moriarty

Plot In 1932, the nation was shocked when the 14-month-old son of Charles Lindberg was kidnapped, held for ransom, and murdered. Two years later, Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested, convicted, and...

Direction Alan Rudolph

Cast Keith Carradine · Linda Fiorentino · Geneviève Bujold · Geraldine Chaplin

Plot Nick Hart is a struggling American artist who lives amongst the expatriate community in 1920s Paris. He spends most of his time drinking and socializing in local cafés and pestering...

Direction Robert Altman

Cast Glenn Close · Julianne Moore · Liv Tyler · Chris O'Donnell

Plot In a small Mississippi town, Cookie Orcutt discreetly kills herself in order to join her late husband. But her uptight daughter can't stand the idea of a suicide in the...

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Hideaki Ito · Masanobu Ando · Koichi Sato · Kaori Momoi

Plot Yojimbo, A Fistful of Dollars, Django... West drinks from East, East drinks from West and Takashi Miike, at this point in his career, raises his glass fearlessly to surprise us...

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Ryuhei Matsuda · Tadanobu Asano · Takeshi Kitano · Yoichi Sai

Plot Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors are trained in swordfighting. A number of interpersonal conflicts are brewing in the...

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Billy Drago · Youki Kudoh · Toshie Negishi · Michié

Plot The story follows an American (Billy Drago) on a journey to a ghostly island bordello in Japan; he's searching for a girl he lost years before. The prostitute he meets...

Direction Tomoyuki Takimoto

Cast Tôma Ikuta · Yasuko Matsuyuki · Fumi Nikaidou · Yôsuke Eguchi

Plot A series of bomb attacks spreads chaos across a provincial city. The latest attack kills all the passengers of a public bus. In the course of the investigation, Detective Chaya...

Direction Alan Rudolph

Cast Julie Christie · Nick Nolte · Lara Flynn Boyle · Jonny Lee Miller

Plot Director-screenwriter Alan Rudolph once again teams with producer Robert Altman (THE PLAYER) for this haunting, funny film starring Nick Nolte and Julie Christie as a married American couple living in...

Direction Mark Jean

Cast Anne Bancroft · Kimberlee Peterson · Bonnie Bedelia · Trever O'Brien

Plot Abandoned by their mentally ill mother, the Tillerman children set off in search of a place to stay. Alone, scared and with nowhere to turn, they travel cross country to...

Direction Tyler Perry

Cast Alfre Woodard · Kathy Bates · Sanaa Lathan · Rockmond Dunbar

Plot Academy Award®-winner Kathy Bates and Academy Award®-nominee Alfre Woodard star as the matriarchs of two very different families being torn apart by greed and scandal in the contemporary drama "Tyler...

Direction Peter Masterson

Cast Robert Duvall · Lukas Haas · James Earl Jones · Carlin Glynn

Plot Horton Foote's story of a teenaged boy in the Depression who finds work on an eccentric's sugar plantation and learns life's surprising lessons from the team of convicts who also...

Direction Tyler Perry

Cast Gabrielle Union · Idris Elba · Louis Gossett Jr. · Tracee Ellis Ross

Plot A single father, Monty (Elba) is a garage mechanic who lives in a poor neighborhood and struggles to make ends meet as he raises his three young daughters on his...

Direction Bill Duke

Cast Forest Whitaker · Gregory Hines · Danny Glover · Robin Givens

Plot Set in 1956, the story revolves around two step-brothers, their elaborate plans to get rich, and the woman the younger brother falls for.

Direction Tyler Perry

Cast Tyler Perry · Sharon Leal · Janet Jackson · Jill Scott

Plot The big screen adaptation of Perry's stage play about the trials of marriage, and what happens to one family when a sexy young temptress arrives on the scene.

Direction Matthew Broderick

Cast Matthew Broderick · Patricia Arquette · Jeffrey Force · Peter Riegert

Plot As a young boy, Richard was fascinated with science and objects in motion. This wonderment was reinforced through the efforts of his father. The only thing that mattered as much...

Direction Tyler Perry

Cast Tyler Perry · Loretta Devine · Bow Wow · Shannon Kane

Plot Madea jumps into action when her niece, Shirley, receives distressing news about her health. All Shirley wants is to gather her three adult children around her and share the news...

Direction Peter Masterson

Cast Eric Roberts · Dennis Hopper · Giancarlo Giannini · Julia Roberts

Plot The history of a Sicilian family who emigrated to America years ago and now lives in California cultivating vine. The problems start when they have to confront themselves with a...

Direction Forest Whitaker

Cast Whitney Houston · Angela Bassett · Loretta Devine · Lela Rochon