Above and Below is a rough and rhythmic roller coaster ride seating five survivors in their daily hustle through an apocalyptic world. A journey of challenges and beauty in uncomfortable places: Rick & Cindy, Godfather Lalo in the flood channels deep down under the shiny strip of Sin City. Dave in the dry and lonesome Californian desert and April in simulation for a Mars mission in the Utah desert. Through the hustle, the pain and the laughs, we are whisked away to an unfamiliar world, yet quickly discover the souls we encounter are perhaps not that different from our own.
The extraordinary destiny of two people. After the Second World War, Lois is an actress in Broadway theatre, television and Hollywood films. Her husband, Edgar Snow, is world famous. A pioneer fascinated by China, he is the first journalist to film and interview Mao Tse-tung. Suspected by the American authorities of Communist sympathies, Ed and Lois are blacklisted. Together with their two small children, they go to Switzerland, mid-way between China and America, where they find a new home. A story of revolution, utopia, disillusionment, and hope.
Five highly original musicians from different countries form the Accordion Tribe. Together they aim to reinforce the original power of the long disdained instrument. The film follows the energetic soundscapes and their performers on a journey through Europe. An extraordinarily intensive documentary on the communicative, connecting power of music.
Journalist Fabian Burstein looks behind the curtains of the porn industry. Starting in Budapest he heads westwards to explore a new world on its victory march rooted deeply in Austria. On this journey he meets the heroes and leading actors of this story: Austrians Mick Blue, Renee Pornero and Thomas Janisch. Porno Unplugged follows its native porn stars to where their lives happen. From east to west...
Jackie Chan is one of the world's biggest action stars, famed for his wacky sense of humor, remarkable martial arts techniques, and willingness to perform incredible stunts without the use of doubles -- or a net. This video takes a personal look at Chan as he works on screen projects in Hollywood and Beijing and candidly discusses his life and work.
A man remembers 48 crucial hours in his life when, as a child, he visited his mother, the favorite woman of an important politician, in a bordello owned by him, right before some important political changes in 1937 Brazil. In those hours, he discovers his own sexuality.
1925年、様々な国の思惑が入り乱れ、不穏な空気に満ちた上海。抗日活動に身を投じていたチェン・ジェンは、要人が集まるナイトクラブ「カサブランカ」へ潜入し、各国の怪しい動きを諜報していた。そんな折り、反日感情を持つ人々の命が狙われる。同胞の身を守るため、全身黒ずくめの仮面の戦士と化したチェン・ジェンは、ついに怒りの鉄拳を奮いたたせる！！95年のTVシリーズ「精武門」の劇場版。
This feature-length documentary, made especially for the 2003 Aliens (1986) DVD release, is incredibly informative with all its interviews with both the cast and crew, as well as behind the scenes footage filmed during the making of the film. Every possible element towards what went into making the movie is included here and gives fans an overload of information to fill their brains with.
The film has been ten years in the making, and over time it has grown to become what the director himself has called an artistic testament. It is simultaneously his most personal and most provocative film. A film about growing older, about losing, about the special moments one remembers, and about the director's own circling around the essence of eroticism.
ジョージ6世(コリン・ファース)は、幼い頃から吃音というコンプレックスを抱えていたため、英国王ジョージ5世(マイケル・ガンボン)の次男という華々しい生い立ちでありながら、人前に出ることを嫌う内気な性格となり、いつも自分に自信が持てないでいた。厳格な父はそんな息子を許さず、様々な式典のスピーチを容赦なく命じる。ジョージは妻のエリザベス(ヘレナ・ボナム＝カーター)に付き添われて、何人もの言語聴覚士を訪ねるが一向に改善しない。
エイブラハム・リンカーンが、大統領に再選された1865年。アメリカを内戦状態に追い込んだ南北戦争は4年目に突入したが、彼は奴隷制度を永遠に葬り去る合衆国憲法修正第13条を下院議会で批准させるまでは戦いを終わらせないという強い決意があった。そのためにも、国務長官ウィリアム・スワードらと共に憲法修正に必要な票を獲得するための議会工作に乗り出す。そんな中、学生だった長男ロバートが北軍へと入隊し……。＜スティーヴン・スピルバーグによる、第16代アメリカ合衆国大統領エイブラハム・リンカーンの伝記ドラマ。奴隷制の廃止と禁止を強固なものにし、泥沼化した南北戦争を終結させるため、憲法の修正に挑むリンカーンの戦いを重厚なタッチで映し出していく。ダニエル・デイ=ルイスがリンカーンにふんし、国と人民の未来をめぐる理想と現実に苦悩する彼の胸中を見事に体現。ジョセフ・ゴードン=レヴィットら、脇を固める実力派の妙演も見逃せない。＞
The story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American pilots to fly in a combat squadron during World War II.
The Lover’s Guide 3D is the latest in the best selling series of sex education DVDs that help to educate consenting adults in the pleasures of love making. By imparting knowledge of how the body works along with how to stimulate your partners desires by being attentive to their needs, showing you specific techniques and maintaining a clear open approach to the subject matter, the documentary manages to inform and express without the need to be graphic. By advocating safe sex within a loving relationship and an emphasis on increasing desire and sustaining sex, this educational tool should appeal to those starting out or those already in a stable relationship.
遠藤周作の小説「沈黙」を、巨匠マーティン・スコセッシが映画化したヒューマンドラマ。キリシタンの弾圧が行われていた江戸初期の日本に渡ってきたポルトガル人宣教師の目を通し、人間にとって大切なものか、人間の弱さとは何かを描き出した。17世紀、キリスト教が禁じられた日本で棄教したとされる師の真相を確かめるため、日本を目指す若き宣教師のロドリゴとガルペ。2人は旅の途上のマカオで出会ったキチジローという日本人を案内役に、やがて長崎へとたどり着き、厳しい弾圧を受けながら自らの信仰心と向き合っていく。
