Yearning(乱れる)
✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
Japan · 1964
1h 38m
Director Mikio Naruse
Starring Hideko Takamine, Yûzô Kayama, Mitsuko Kusabue, Mie Hama
Genre Drama
Add to Watchlist
Please login to add films to your watchlist.
Yearning, one of Mikio Naruse’s finest films, focuses on a widow named Reiko and her romance with her deceased husband's brother, Koji. When Reiko learns of Koji's love for her, she tries to leave her old way of life, but her powerful feelings get in the way of reason...
What are people saying?
Users who liked this film also liked
Contempt
(Le Mépris)
A vivid display of conflict between passion and art.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Italy • 1963
- Director Jean-Luc Godard
- Cast Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance, Giorgia Moll, Fritz Lang, Raoul Coutard
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Revenge of the Pink Panther
Everyone believes Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau has been murdered, and Clouseau takes advantage, seeking to discover why somebody tried to kill him.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom, United States • 1978
- Director Blake Edwards
- Cast Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Dyan Cannon, Robert Webber, Robert Loggia, Paul Stewart
- Genre Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
- Available on Cinemax Amazon Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Cinemax Apple TV Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand
Eat Drink Man Woman
(飲食男女)
Food unites the diverging lives of a widowed chef and his four daughters
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Taiwan, China • 1994
- Director Ang Lee
- Cast Sihung Lung, Yu-Wen Wang, Wu Chien-Lien, Yang Kuei-Mei, Winston Chao, Sylvia Chang
- Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Available on Hoopla, ScreenPix Apple TV Channel, Apple TV, Vudu, Amazon Video, The Roku Channel, Pluto TV, Kanopy
The Best of Youth
(La meglio gioventú)
Spanning four decades, from the chaotic 1960s to 2003, director Marco Tullio Giordana's passionate epic 'La Meglio Gioventu' follows two Italian brothers through some of the most tumultuous events of recent Italian history.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy • 2003
- Director Marco Tullio Giordana
- Cast Luigi Lo Cascio, Alessio Boni, Adriana Asti, Sonia Bergamasco, Fabrizio Gifuni, Maya Sansa
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Vudu, Amazon Video
Werckmeister Harmonies
(Werckmeister harmóniák)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Hungary, Italy, Germany • 2000
- Director Béla Tarr
- Cast Lars Rudolph, Peter Fitz, Hanna Schygulla, Alfréd Járai, Gyula Pauer, János Derzsi
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
(女が階段を上る時)
A middle-aged bar hostess, constantly in debt, is faced with numerous social constraints and challenges.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1960
- Director Mikio Naruse
- Cast Hideko Takamine, Masayuki Mori, Reiko Dan, Tatsuya Nakadai, Daisuke Katō, Ganjirô Nakamura II
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
La Notte
(La notte)
A married couple attend a bourgeois party and wade through the stifling strain that long-term marriage has imposed upon them.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy, France • 1961
- Director Michelangelo Antonioni
- Cast Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, Monica Vitti, Bernhard Wicki, Rosy Mazzacurati, Maria Pia Luzi
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Amazon Video, Kanopy
Street of Shame
(赤線地帯)
The daily personal dramas of five women employed as sex workers in Tokyo’s Yoshiwara district.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1956
- Director Kenji Mizoguchi
- Cast Machiko Kyō, Aiko Mimasu, Ayako Wakao, Michiyo Kogure, Kumeko Urabe, Yasuko Kawakami
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
The Man Who Stole the Sun
(太陽を盗んだ男)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1979
- Director Kazuhiko Hasegawa
- Cast Kenji Sawada, Bunta Sugawara, Kimiko Ikegami, Kazuo Kitamura, Shigeru Kôyama, Kei Satō
- Genre Comedy, Crime, Thriller, Action, Science Fiction
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Assassination
(暗殺)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1964
- Director Masahiro Shinoda
- Cast Tetsurō Tamba, Eiji Okada, Eitarō Ozawa, Isao Kimura, Shima Iwashita, Keiji Sada
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Blood of the Condor
(Yawar mallku)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Bolivia • 1969
- Director Jorge Sanjinés
- Cast Marcelino Yanahuaya, Benedicta Mendoza, Vicente Verneros Salinas, Danielle Caillet, Felipe Vargas
- Genre Crime, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Girl Asleep
Fifteen opens up a whole new world... literally.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Australia • 2015
- Director Rosemary Myers
- Cast Bethany Whitmore, Harrison Feldman, Amber McMahon, Matthew Whittet, Eamon Farren, Tilda Cobham-Hervey
- Genre Fantasy, Comedy, Drama
- Available on Peacock, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, Pluto TV, Kanopy, Plex
Demi-sœurs
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Belgium • 2018
- Director Saphia Azzedine, François-Régis Jeanne
- Cast Sabrina Ouazani, Alice David, Charlotte Gabris, Barbara Probst, Patrick Chesnais, Meriem Serbah
- Genre Comedy
- Available on No streaming locations found.