All Recommendations

Pulse
6.6

Pulse

2001

In the immense city of Tokyo, the darkness of the afterlife lurks some of its inhabitants who are desperately trying to escape the sadness and isolation of the modern world.

Creepy
6.7

Creepy

2016

After having narrowly escaped an attempt on his life at the hands of a psychopath, detective inspector Takakura quits active service in the police force and takes up a position as a university lecturer in criminal psychology. But his desire to get to the bottom of criminals’ motives remains, and he does not hesitate long when former colleague Nogami asks him to reopen an old case.

The Bird People in China
7.2

The Bird People in China

1998

Wada, a salary man, is enlisted to venture off to China to investigate a potential Jade mine. After his arrival, Wada encounters a violent, yet sentimental, yakuza, who takes the liberty of joining his adventure through China. Led on their long and disastrous journey to the mine by Shen, the three men come across something even more magical and enticing.

Dogra Magra
6.9

Dogra Magra

1988

A young man kills his bride on the day of his marriage and goes insane. He wakes up in an asylum with no memory, left in the hands of two mysterious doctors who relate his condition with his biological identity.

Scarlet Innocence
6.3

Scarlet Innocence

2014

A university professor gradually succumbing to blindness is entranced by an obsessive love, in this modern-day adaptation of a classic Korean fairy tale.

Violette Nozière
6.7

Violette Nozière

1978

Paris, 1933. The daughter of a respectable lower middle class couple, Violette Nozière, leads a disreputable double life. Far from being the innocent 18-year-old her parents mistake her for, she spends her nights with dissolute young men in the less salubrious areas of the city.

Happy Flight
6.2

Happy Flight

2008

A variety of aviation professionals such as pilots, flight attendants, the ground crew, mechanics, dispatchers, controllers, and the bird patrol crew all support a single flight. They have only one mission: to secure the safety of the passengers.

Sanshiro Sugata Part Two
6.1

Sanshiro Sugata Part Two

1945

In this government-suggested sequel, Sugata again grows as a judo master, and demonstrates his (and by extension, all Japanese) superiority to the foreign warrior.

The Unforgettable Director of Love Movies
7.2

The Unforgettable Director of Love Movies

1990

Hasmet, director of love stories, wants to make a film which is different than the movies he made before. This movie has a social message. He tries to find a producer but film industry is mainly out of money. When he thinks he finds one, nothing goes as it planned.

Spontaneous Combustion
4.8

Spontaneous Combustion

1990

A young man finds out that his parents had been used in an atomic-weapons experiment shortly before he was born, and that the results have had some unexpected effects on him.

Maurice's Bar
7.9

Maurice's Bar

2024

In 1942, on a train to nowhere, a former drag queen remembers a night from her past in one of Paris’ first queer bars. Remnants of customer gossip recall this mythic bar and its mysterious Jewish-Algerian owner.

The Golden Cane Warrior
6.6

The Golden Cane Warrior

2014

A martial arts master angers two of her protégés when she selects a third to take her post and the legendary weapon that comes with it.

Snow Trail
7.1

Snow Trail

1947

Three bank robbers, Eijima, Nojiri, and Takasugi, flee the police and escape into the mountains. At an inn high in the Japanese Alps, Eijima and Nojiri encounter a young woman and her father, as well as Honda, a mountaineer. The inn folk do not realize their guests are wanted criminals and the visitors are treated with great kindness. Honda volunteers to lead them over the mountains, but Eijima's paranoia endangers all of them as they make the perilous trip.

Loft
5.4

Loft

2005

A writer retreats to a secluded suburban house to work on her new novel. But her attention is instead occupied by her archaeologist neighbor's newly discovered mummy and a ghostly presence in her house.

Eer
6.9

Eer

2021

Based on real events, the short takes a poke at our cultural climate of paranoia and fake news.

Death of the Rat
7.8

Death of the Rat

1975

A factory siren sounds, workers punch in, the machinery starts... Aubier makes use of a series of successive pictures to portray the series of events that completes a cycle.

I Hired Two Contract Cleaners
6.7

I Hired Two Contract Cleaners

1997

Japanese Summer: Double Suicide
5.6

Japanese Summer: Double Suicide

1967

A sex-obsessed woman, a suicidal man she meets on the street, and a gun-crazy wannabe gangster become trapped in an underground hideaway.

Vengeance Is Mine
7.5

Vengeance Is Mine

1979

A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police.

The Witch's Mirror
6.7

The Witch's Mirror

1962

A husband murders his wife, and years later her ghost emerges from a witch's mirror to take her revenge.