A young woman is forced by circumstance into a loveless marriage while still in love with another. This episodic tale follows their story through three decades of bitter conflict which engulfs their children and those around them.
Social & External
The people behind it
Hideko Takamine
Sadako
Keiji Sada
Takashi
Tatsuya Nakadai
Heibei
Nobuko Otowa
Tomoko
Akira Ishihama
Yutaka
Masakazu Tamura
Eiichi
Yukiko Fuji
Naoko
Kiyoshi Nonomura
Rikizo
Yoshi Katō
Sojiro
Yasushi Nagata
Heizaemon
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A hardened mercenary in the Foreign Legion begins to find his own humanity when confronted with atrocities during the fighting in Bosnia.
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Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. She must rely on her beauty and ambition to navigate the difficult post-war years alone.
A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his scheduled execution for the murders of a young couple.
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
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A trailer is burning in the middle of a plain. The bodies of two adulterous lovers are found. Scenes from both families, before and after the dramatic events, suggest an unusual connection between them. But what is their secret?
After inheriting a remote Montana house, Jackson moves there from New York with his partner Grace, and the couple soon welcome a child. As Jackson becomes increasingly absent and rural isolation sets in, Grace struggles with loneliness, creative frustration, and unresolved emotional wounds. What begins as an attempt at renewal gradually turns into an intense psychological descent, placing strain on their relationship and exposing the fragile balance between love, identity, and motherhood.
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