IMDB: 7.5/10
An engineer from Tokyo arrives on a drought-ridden tropical island to drill a well to power a nearby sugar mill. He meets the inbred Futori family, hated by the locals for breaking religious customs.
IMDB: 7.5/10
Clara, diagnosed with tuberculosis, is treated in a sanatorium in the Alps where she can finally take a break from her miserable life.
IMDB: 6.9/10
A young man with magical powers journeys to his uncle to request help in fighting his sorcerer father.
IMDB: 7.7/10
In the 1600s, an overzealous clergy hauls innocent women in front of tribunals, forces them to confess to imaginary witchery, and engages in brutal torture and persecution of their subjects.
IMDB: 6.4/10
Sanja the Bandit after a particularly vicious shootout, stumbles into the musician Oleg at the local banya. Following a retelling of a semi-mythological story, the pair decide to make a pilgrimage to a "bell-tower of happiness".
IMDB: 7.6/10
A rural migrant comes to the city and shares a temporary shelter with an old beggar in an abandoned graveyard.