The Absolute Beauty In Everyday's Mundanity

An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.

A lonely housewife finds her monotonous life altered when her childhood sweetheart returns to town.

In post-war Italy, a working-class man's bicycle is stolen, endangering his efforts to find work. He and his son set out to find it.

Several people try to talk 27-year-old Noriko into marrying, but all she wants is to keep on caring for her widowed father.

The rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost and a woodcutter.

A family chooses a match for their daughter Noriko, but she, surprisingly, has her own plans.

An old couple visit their children and grandchildren in the city, but receive little attention.

A care-free girl is sold to a traveling entertainer, consequently enduring physical and emotional pain along the way.

Impoverished priest Harihar Ray, dreaming of a better life for himself and his family, leaves his rural Bengal village in search of work.

Following his father's death, a boy leaves home to study in Calcutta, while his mother must face a life alone.

Two boys begin a silence strike to press their parents into buying them a television set.

After living a life marked by coldness, an aging professor is forced to confront the emptiness of his existence.

This final installment in Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy follows Apu's life as an orphaned adult aspiring to be a writer.

The head of a Japanese theatre troupe returns to a small coastal town where he left a son who thinks he is his uncle, and tries to make up for the lost time, but his current mistress grows jealous.

A young boy, left without attention, delves into a life of petty crime.

A widow tries to marry off her daughter with the help of her late husband's three friends.

A young woman meets a vital young man, but their love affair is doomed because of the man's materialistic nature.

Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.

A romance between young Parisians, shown through a series of vignettes.

Realistic chronicle of everyday life during the Great War. A ranger collects in his family several Parisian children refugees because of the conflict. All share the life of the country village, the school, the news from the front.

Young, rich, and obsessed with death, Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets lively septuagenarian Maude at a funeral.

A troubled fashion designer strikes up a romance with a much younger woman.

An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town, and her older greaser boyfriend, embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota Badlands.

A series of comedic and nostalgic vignettes set in a 1930s Italian coastal town.

A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.