The Mountain Road (1960)
Flaming skies... blasted earth... the touch of love!
ジャンル : ドラマ, 戦争
上映時間 : 1時間 42分
演出 : Daniel Mann
シノプシス
In 1944, in eastern part of China, U.S.Army Major Baldwin and his volunteer team of demolition engineers are left behind the retreating Chinese forces. Their task is to slow down the Japanese advance into eastern China by blowing up bridges, roads, airfields and munitions dumps. They start by blowing up an American airfield and ammo dump. They receive the order to destroy a vital bridge over a mountain pass.The team uses a few army trucks to move around. At the bridge, they encounter a Nationalist Chinese Army unit in charge of guarding the bridge. Thanks to an American soldier who speaks some Chinese, Major Baldwin requests the permission, from the Chinese commander, to blow up the bridge.The Chinese colonel agrees but asks the American Major to do him a favor by also destroying a munitions dump located at some distance away.He also requests that Madame Sue-Mei Hung, the widow of a Chinese colonel, be transported by the American demolition team to the nearest major town.
A young man abandons his family for a solitary life of fly-fishing. His goal was to find his own way in the fishing world and thereby find himself and love.
In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love.
Charles Brady and his mother, Mary, are the last of a dying breed whose needs are not of this world. They are Sleepwalkers - able to stay alive only by feeding on the life-force of the innocent, but destined to roam the earth, avoiding discovery while searching for their next victim. That search takes them to the sleepy little town of Travis, Indiana, where beautiful teenager Tanya Robertson is about to become an unwilling pawn in their nightmarish fight for survival.
元英国首相アダム・ラング（ピアース・ブロスナン）の自叙伝執筆を依頼されたゴーストライター（ユアン・マクレガー）。ラングが滞在する真冬のアメリカ東海岸の孤島に1ヵ月閉じ込められることと、締め切りまで時間がないことを除けば、おいしい仕事のはずだった。しかし、前任者のゴーストライターは事故で死んだという―。とにかく、気乗りがしなかった…。仕事を始めた直後、ラングに、イスラム過激派のテロ容疑者を‘不法’に捕らえ、拷問にかけたという戦犯容疑がかかる。しかし、この政治スキャンダルもまだ序章に過ぎなかった。
Two Chinese miners, who make money by killing fellow miners and then extorting money from the mine owner to keep quiet about the "accident", happen upon their latest victim. But one of them begins to have second thoughts.
As youths, Andy McGee and his future wife, Vicky, participated in secret experiments, allowing themselves to be subjected to mysterious medical tests. Years later, the couple's daughter, Charlie, begins to exhibit the ability of setting fires solely with her mind. This volatile talent makes the youngster extremely dangerous and soon she becomes a target for the enigmatic agency known as "The Shop."
A Harvard anthropologist is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the power to bring human beings back from the dead. In his quest to find the miracle drug, the cynical scientist enters the rarely seen netherworld of walking zombies, blood rites and ancient curses. Based on the true life experiences of Wade Davis and filmed on location in Haiti, it's a frightening excursion into black magic and the supernatural.
鬼才ケン・ラッセルが人類進化の謎に迫ったSFスリラー。人間の肉体が変化していく特殊メイクアップが話題を呼んだ。細胞に眠る人類進化の起源を探ろうと、タンクに浸かりドラッグを試みる学者。実験は成功し、彼は太古のイメージを見るのだが、その効果は精神だけでなく肉体にも影響を及ぼし始めていた……。
An unhappy car dealer believes that a dime-store philosopher has the answers to life's important questions.
幕末の庄内地方。海坂藩の御蔵役を務める井口清兵衛は、夕方に仕事を終えると同僚の酒の誘いも断り真っ直ぐ自宅に帰り、家事と内職にいそしんでいた。認知症を抱える老母と幼い2人の娘の世話、そして労咳で死んだ妻の薬代や葬儀などで嵩んだ借金を返済するためだ。日々の暮らしに追われ、次第に身なりが薄汚れていく清兵衛。同僚の中には、そんな彼を陰で「たそがれ清兵衛」と呼んで小馬鹿にする者もいた。 春、清兵衛は親友の飯沼倫之丞と再会する。倫之丞は妹の朋江が酒乱の夫・甲田豊太郎に度々暴力を振るわれるため、離縁させたことを清兵衛にうちあける。
In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the forbidden love between their respective characters, Sarah and Charles. Both actors are involved in serious relationships, but the passionate nature of the script leads to an off-camera love affair as well. While attempting to maintain their composure and professionalism, Anna and Mike struggle to come to terms with their infidelity.
Prague, Czechoslovakia, during the inter-war period. Jan Dítě, a young and clever waiter who wants to become a millionaire, comes to the conclusion that to achieve his ambitious goal he must be diligent, listen and observe as much as he can, be always discreet and use what he learns to his own advantage; but the turbulent tides of history will continually stand in his way.
Based on Evelyn Waugh's 1945 classic British novel, Brideshead Revisited is a poignant story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence set in England prior to the Second World War.
Afflicted with a terminal illness John Bernard Brooks, the last of the legendary gunfighters, quietly returns to Carson City for medical attention from his old friend Dr. Hostetler. Aware that his days are numbered, the troubled man seeks solace and peace in a boarding house run by a widow and her son. However, it is not Brooks' fate to die in peace, as he becomes embroiled in one last valiant battle.
A gallery of characters in Brooklyn in the 1950s are crushed by their surroundings and selves: a union strike leader discovers he is gay; a prostitute falls in love with one of her clients; a family cannot cope with the fact that their daughter is illegitimately pregnant.
In the 23rd century, inhabitants of a domed city freely experience all of life's pleasures — but no one is allowed to live past 30. Citizens can try for a chance at being "renewed" in a civic ceremony on their 30th birthday. Escape is the only other option.
天才少女のマチルダは小さい頃から両親に理解されず、やっと行かせてもらえた小学校で優しい女性教師と出会う。そんな彼女の能力を否定する校長先生に悩まされる学校生活の中、妙なパワーを発揮し始める。
未来の大戦中、疎開地へ向かう飛行機が墜落し、乗員である少年たちは南太平洋の無人島に置き去りにされる。当初はラーフとピギーの二人を中心に規則を作り、烽火をあげ続けることで救援を待とうとする。 最初こそ協力し合っていた彼らであったが、元々ラーフと仲の悪かった少年・ジャックは、ラーフが中心である事を気に入らず、また食べ物等にも不自由しない島で自由に生きる事を望んでいた為に、独自に狩猟隊を結成するのだった。ジャックは狩猟隊のメンバーと共に毎日を好き勝手に漫遊し、豚を狩る事で上等なご馳走を得ており、やがてはラーフの一派の少年達もその魅力に引かれ始める。 そんな中、せっかく船が島の沖を通りかかったにも拘らず、その日の当番が烽火を怠ったのが原因で、自分達の存在に気付かないまま船は過ぎ去ってしまい、ラーフの一派では対立が巻き起こってしまう。その隙を突く様に、ジャックはラーフの仲間達を引き込んでいくまでのカリスマ性まで発揮していくも、次第に狩猟隊の少年達は、内面の獣性が目覚めていき、泥絵の具を顔に塗りたくった蛮族の様な姿となって、ついには仲間の一人であったサイモンを集団で手にかけるまでに至ってしまう。 仲間の殆どをジャックに奪われてしまったラーフは、唯一自分の味方でいてくれたピギーも、ジャックの取り巻きであるロジャーに岩を頭上に落とされ殺されてしまい、完全に孤立。その翌日、ジャックは自らが王でいられる楽園を脅かしうる一番目障りな存在であったラーフを排除すべく、狩猟隊に木の枝を槍の様に尖らせて、ラーフの殺害を指示する。ラーフは孤立してしまった恐怖や悲しみに苦しみながらも、森に火を放ったジャック達狩猟隊から、島中を逃げ回る事になる…。
Great Britain, 1944, during World War II. Relentlessly pursued by several MI5 agents, Henry Faber the Needle, a ruthless German spy in possession of vital information about D-Day, takes refuge on Storm Island, an inhospitable, sparsely inhabited island off the coast of northern Scotland.
How do you reconcile a commitment to non-violence when faced with violence? Why do the poor often seem happier than the rich? Must a society lose its traditions in order to move into the future? These are some of the questions posed to His Holiness the Dalai Lama by filmmaker and explorer Rick Ray. Ray examines some of the fundamental questions of our time by weaving together observations from his own journeys throughout India and the Middle East, and the wisdom of an extraordinary spiritual leader. This is his story, as told and filmed by Rick Ray during a private visit to his monastery in Dharamsala, India over the course of several months. Also included is rare historical footage as well as footage supplied by individuals who at great personal risk, filmed with hidden cameras within Tibet.
