A Lady’s Beaded Bag (2024)

Sunny house

On the outskirts of Tokyo, a family of Mitsu Nakahara lives in one of the small huts surrounded by barracks and tin pens. Mitsu's husband died in the war, and she was left alone with four children and works as a day laborer. The eldest daughter Haruko, who is already nineteen years old, works in a clothing store, the second daughter Natsuko works in a restaurant, a schoolboy Akio is studying carpentry, and even the youngest Fuyuko helps her mother by working as a nanny in a neighboring house. Nearby lives a widowed electrician Tokuji Yamada with two boys - Norio and Tatsuo. He has a widowed daughter, Sakiko, who, along with a small child, ran away from home, as she is going through hard times. At Haruko's suggestion, Mitsu and Tokuji get married, and it would seem that happiness smiles on their new family, but it turned out to be short-lived…

Whistling in the morning

Minoru delivered newspapers to earn money for high school, but when his mother came down with illness he decided to use this money for her doctor's bill and gave up going to high school. His friends heard about this, and they donated money to his mother. So, Minoru goes to high school and yet he delivers newspapers cheerfully whistling every morning. A memorable film debut by Sayuri Yoshinaga, a representative of the Japanese film industry.The film adaptation of "Newspaper Delivery" by Minoru Yoshida, who won the Minister of Education Award at the national small and Medium student essay competition.

Desperation

When a sheriff arrests a writer, a family, a couple, and a hitchiker and throws them in a jail cell in the deserted town of Desperation, they must fight for their lives.

EverAfter

Danielle, a vibrant young woman is forced into servitude after the death of her father when she was a young girl. Danielle's stepmother Rodmilla is a heartless woman who forces Danielle to do the cooking and cleaning, while she tries to marry off the eldest of her two daughters to the prince. But Danielle's life takes a wonderful turn when, under the guise of a visiting royal, she meets the charming Prince Henry.

Maharaj

Based on a real-life historic court case, a bold journalist questions a revered leader's immoral behavior.

The Lears

A modern take on William Shakespeare's King Lear.

West Side Story

In the slums of the upper West Side of Manhattan, tensions are high as a gang of Polish-Americans compete against a gang of recently immigrated Puerto Ricans, but this doesn't stop two romantics from each gang falling in love.

Le Notti Bianche

A middle-aged man meets a young woman who is waiting on a canal bridge for her lover's return.

I'm Still Here

A woman married to a former politician during the 1971 military dictatorship in Brazil is forced to reinvent herself and chart a new course for her family after a violent and arbitrary act.

A Tale of the Laundry Game

A night ride, a few beers with an old friend, memories of better times. One seemingly ordinary drive reveals the dark truths of men’s past and a sinister web of strange events.

Cain Rose Up

Curt, a depressed student is at the end of his school year in university. As he gets ready to leave his dorm-room, something in Curt's mind goes wrong. He is surrounded by some friends and many people he dislikes. On Curt's last day at school he pulls out his guitar case, but inside is not a guitar rather an instrument of death, and what he is about to do with it will cause a huge uproar of screams and distress. In the end, Curt is looking down the sight at one of his best friends. Will Curt pull the trigger?

A Breakfast Chronicle

A view of the end-of-the-century Mexican family. A father who comes back home after a long absence, but who would rather be somewhere else. A daughter suffering from a trapped pain. A son full of guilt and recriminations. A little kid who soaks up all the tension in the house, like a sponge, and a self-effacing mother who would like to go away and leave everything behind.

Gotham Cafe

With divorce on the horizon, a couple are about to find out that a lunch meeting with the wife's attorney is about to get very gruesome.

Dedication

A young maid enlists supernatural help in order to escape her past.

Bride & Prejudice

Mrs. Bakshi is eager to find suitors for her four unmarried daughters when a family friend introduces them to handsome American Will Darcy. A Bollywood-style modern adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel.

Rainy Season

Based on the story by Stephen King, Rainy Season follows a young couple who arrive in the small town of Willow, ME.

Mr. Malcolm's List

When she fails to meet an item on his list of requirements for a bride, Julia Thistlewaite is jilted by London’s most eligible bachelor, Mr. Malcolm. Feeling humiliated and determined to exact revenge, she convinces her friend Selina Dalton to play the role of his ideal match. Soon, Mr. Malcolm wonders whether he’s found the perfect woman...or the perfect hoax.

It Ends with Us

When a woman's first love suddenly reenters her life, her relationship with a charming, but abusive neurosurgeon is upended, and she realizes she must learn to rely on her own strength to make an impossible choice for her future.

Falling in Love Like in Movies

A film adaptation writer wants to secretly write his first original screenplay about his true story of falling in love with someone who has recently become a widow.

Mr. Harrigan's Phone

Craig, a young boy living in a small town befriends an older, reclusive billionaire, Mr. Harrigan. The two form a bond over books and an iPhone, but when the man passes away the boy discovers that not everything dead is gone.

A Mother Should Be Loved

A young man discovers that the woman who raised him is his stepmother. His stepbrother, who is unaware of the revelation, resents his mother for always punishing him more severely than his stepsibling.

Les Miserables

Based on Victor Hugo's novel, a poor man is sent to prison after stealing a loaf of bread. He escapes and becomes rich, but this does not protect him from people's disdain as they know where he came from.

The Red Point of Marriage

A couple's relationship hits rock bottom after 11 years – until an intriguing young woman reawakens emotions and threatens to end their marriage.

Un amor

Upon settling in the countryside village of La Escapa, Nat accepts a disturbing sexual proposal by neighbour Andreas, paving the way for a self-consuming passion.

The Mayor of Rione Sanità

Antonio Barracano is a respected man among the Neapolitan underworld, keeping order and administering justice according to his own criteria, beyond the law. One day he's faced with a dilemma after a young man asks him permission to kill his father.

Sugar Fields

A young peasant is forced to flee for killing involuntarily an abusive guard. After an entire year hiding in a remote fishing island, he decides to return to his countryside and reunite with his wife and daughters.

The Map That Leads to You

Heather is a young woman traveling Europe with friends before starting her perfectly planned life. A chance meeting with Jack sparks an unexpected romance that leads to deep emotional discovery. As secrets and life choices test their bond, her path changes forever.

Cain Rose Up

Who has the final say when it comes to morality? Curt Garrish believes his twisted view on life trumps even God's guiding light.

A Sensitive Person

This darkly grotesque drama unfolds on multiple paths. The tangible one, now cruel, now crazy, along which the nomadic actor "Dad Mour", his wife "Mum" and two sons try to return home, but also the imaginary one, even more, tortuous and dusty, on which the often impressive mental youth (or immaturity, a scrooge might say) is welded with life circumstances forcing the protagonist to wise up. An anxious and exuberant cinematic faerie about love, the fear of loneliness and the gaze of sons fixed on their fathers.

Launchpad

Based on the myth of Icarus, in 1968, a boy attempts to pave a better future for himself by building rockets.

Night Surf

The super-flu (a.k.a. A6, Captain Trips) has devastated the world's population. A group of young survivors cope with the thought that they could be the only ones left when they meet one final victim. A short film based on the story of the same name by Stephen King.

Cain

The film tells us the story of the excellent student Chris, who decides to purge the world. Together with his Winchester, Chris gives God what He wanted. 'Cain' changes completely our notions about everything that surrounds us. How well do we know the people we are communicating with every day?

The Metropolitan Opera: Dead Man Walking

American composer Jake Heggie’s compelling masterpiece, the most widely performed new opera of the last 20 years, arrives in cinemas in a haunting new production by Ivo van Hove. Based on Sister Helen Prejean’s memoir about her fight for the soul of a condemned murderer, Dead Man Walking matches the high drama of its subject with Heggie’s beautiful and poignant music and a brilliant libretto by Tony and Emmy Award–winner Terrence McNally. Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium, with mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato starring as Sister Helen. The outstanding cast also features bass-baritone Ryan McKinny as the death-row inmate Joseph De Rocher, soprano Latonia Moore as Sister Rose, and legendary mezzo-soprano Susan Graham—who sang Helen Prejean in the opera’s 2000 premiere—as De Rocher’s mother.

I Miss You

Bai Xiaoyu meets Wang Jinjin for the first time in the summer of 2010 during their college entrance exams. However, she slips through his fingers and they don’t see each other again until an unexpected meeting during college graduation season. The pair fall in love and date, but marriage seems impossible when they come from such different worlds. Bai Xiaoyu fears he will lose Jinjin once again like before.

The Woman in the Room

Johnny is burdened with the desire to euthanize his terminally ill mother in order to relieve her.

LT's Theory of Pets

A husband, L.T., believes his marriage problems stem from the pets his wife and he acquired. He argues that his wife's dog favors her, while his cat prefers him, creating a dysfunctional dynamic that ultimately leads to her leaving him.

Everything's Eventual

A young man with a unique psychic talent is recruited by a mysterious company. In return, he is given everything he wants: a house, a car — everything. His situation seems ideal. Everything's eventual — or is it?

Los inocentes

Cara de Ángel's sexuality is about to explode. His masculinity is constantly being tested, threatened by Colorete and the pack from his neighborhood. To prove his manhood, he joins a robbery; however, driven by his hormones and his attraction to Gabriela and Johnny, a punk singer, his plans will change.

The Woman in the Room

Narrated from the perspective of a man burdened with deep remorse, pain and his inner demons, the story concerns his decision to euthanize his terminally ill mother with painkillers.

The Reaper's Image

Legend has it that the Delver Glass is cursed and certain souls who look into it see a reaper in the reflection, these selected people disappear soon after. (Adapted from the Stephen King short story.)

A Chant

There is a man by the door in a raincoat smoking a cigarette.

Luckey Quarter

Darlene, a single mom and flat-broke chambermaid in a ramshackle Carson City, NV hotel receives a quarter for a tip. "A lousy quarter", she says. As she's soon to find out, both it and she are lousy...with luck.

Lembrar de Mim

Where's the girl? Can you hold her for me? I need her now.

Cain Rose Up

A depressed student goes on a sniping rampage from his dorm room window.

The Man Who Loved Flowers

It's the story of David. He has a girlfriend, Julia, a nice house, an ordinary life. One day, he decided to perform her a wedding proposal. He dresses up and have to buy some flowers. Once done, the decisive moment came.

ALICE

During a turbulent night marked by the announcement of a pregnancy and escalating violence, the camera clings from one character to another at the heart of Wonderland.

Flowers

Christine, 23, is Stephan's fifth victim. After the loss of his beloved Ann, he kidnaps women that look like her. Stefan wants to relive the memories with his love. Christine gives him his desire, but the closer they come makes him unsure of his feelings and confuses him even more.

Suffer

An ageing teacher confined to a hospital for the criminally insane reveals the sinister plot that provoked her violent actions.

Door of Flowers

Goto Tamiko starred in TV commercials and her father, Keisuke, was a powerful financier who is now fallen on hard times. Tamiko wants to marry her boyfriend Sanpei, an aspiring composer, but her father wants her to marry a young company president.

The Ordinary Madness of a Daughter of Ham

In Jean Rouch's cinematic reinterpretation of Julius-Amédée Laou's theatrical work, a freshly appointed nurse steps into the chaotic world of a psychiatric ward. Tasked with nurturing the minds within, she forms a profound connection with a patient from Martinique who has been confined within the institution's walls for half a century. As their relationship deepens, the lines between reality and delusion blur, weaving a complex narrative of human connection and psychological intrigue.

Dead Man’s Hand

George Gregson's world is turned upside down when he meets a man in a 1940's gentleman's club who refuses to shake hands. Based on Stephen King's short story 'The Man who Would Not Shake Hands'.

Calypso

A nurse keeps a patient in a coma, but one day his wife and son visit him.

Un Mariage d'amour

Laurent is a failed and lazy painter. When Camille, his childhood friend, invites him to his home to get back in touch, Laurent meets Thérèse, his wife, whom he falls under the spell. The man pretexts wanting to make a portrait of his friend in order to go to the couple's house every day. Thus, Laurent and Thérèse become lovers. Their love seems to grow, but it is impossible for them to fully live their relationship. They consider excluding Camille from their lives...

Flowers for Norma

A young man strolls the streets of New York City to meet the love of his life, only to find that love is not all he expected it to be.

The Man Who Loved Flowers

The past, present, and future come to haunt a man and his wife.