IMDB: 8.4/10

In medieval Japan, a compassionate governor is sent into exile. His wife and children try to join him, but are separated, and the children grow up amid suffering and oppression.

IMDB: 8.0/10

A crafty samurai helps a young man and his fellow clansmen trying to save his uncle, who has been framed and imprisoned by a corrupt superintendent.

IMDB: 8.1/10

On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.

IMDB: 7.4/10

A Jewish-Hungarian concentration camp prisoner sets out to give a child he mistook for his son a proper burial.

IMDB: 7.7/10

Two parallel stories about two identical women; one living in Poland, the other in France. They don't know each other, but their lives are nevertheless profoundly connected.

IMDB: 8.2/10

Two Soviet partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the winter cold, the occupying Germans, and their own psyches.

IMDB: 8.2/10

After a boy loses his sister's pair of shoes, he goes on a series of adventures in order to find them. When he can't, he tries a new way to "win" a new pair.

IMDB: 7.6/10

In a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits a lawyer friend to help, but the man's arrival brings further misfortune for Kolya and his family.