The Sahara: The Forgotten History of the World's Harshest Desert (2006)
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At once a vast expanse of mesmerizing desolation and the crucible of human history, the Sahara Desert has been both the battlefield of empires and the haunted wilderness at the margins of the known world for thousands of years. Shot on location, this exhilarating documentary brings to life the Sahara’s cruel history and the conflicts that still plague its people. THE SAHARA recounts the story of kings who once led caravans of 30,000 people across the desert, bearing riches beyond imagination. It tells of Roman death squads that exterminated the citizens of the Empire’s most bitter rival and how the Foreign Legion crafted a legend out of last stands and lost causes. From the fabled metropolis of Timbuktu to the shores of Tripoli, THE SAHARA is an illuminating exploration of this unforgiving and remote land of myth and mirage.
遠い昔、遙か彼方の銀河では帝国軍の独裁体制が敷かれていた。反乱の機会をうかがう惑星アルデラーンのレイア姫は暗黒卿ダース・ベイダーに捕らえられるが、その寸前に二体のドロイドR2-D2とC-3POを砂漠の惑星タトゥイーンに送り込む。偶然にもそのドロイドを手に入れた青年ルークは、ジェダイの騎士団の一人オビ＝ワン・ケノービや密輸船ミレニアム・ファルコンの船長ハン・ソロたちと共に、反乱軍と帝国軍の闘いに巻き込まれていく。
名優ロバート・デ・ニーロ、シャロン・ストーン、ジョー・ペシ等、豪華キャストの競演が実現！激突する野望、燃えるような情熱、そして尽きることのない欲の絡み合いを、巨匠マーティン・スコセッシ監督が空前のスケールで描き上げた超大作。事実を踏まえたこの壮大な物語の舞台は、1973年の虚飾と夢の街ラスベガス。そのラスベガスでカジノを牛耳り大金を操作する命知らずのギャングたち。彼らの巨大な富と彼ら自身の運命はダイスとともに生み出され、ダイスと共に消えていくー。
スポーツ記者のラウル・デュークと、サモア人で弁護士のドクター・ゴンゾー。彼らはバイクレースの取材のため、トランク一杯に「治療薬」と称したあらゆるドラッグを詰め込み、一路ラスベガスへ。超一流ホテルのスウィートルームに到着した彼らは、取材そっちのけで、早速ドラッグ三昧。ホテルを荒らしまくってやりたい放題する。
反乱同盟軍のルークとレイア姫は、悪党ジャバ・ザ・ハットに身柄を奪われた仲間のハン・ソロを奪回すると、帝国軍との決戦に備える。ルークは帝国の皇帝もいる新たな基地衛星、第2デス・スターが軌道上に浮かぶ森の惑星エンドアに潜入。住民イウォーク族を味方につけるのに成功する。だがそこへ帝国の最新兵器陣も到着。やがてルークは、かつて自分がルークの父親だと言い放った宿敵ダース・ベイダーと再会し、最後の対決に挑むのであった。
遺伝子工学者ブルース・バナーは、実験装置の事故で大量のガンマ線を浴びてしまう。命に別状はなかったが、以来、彼は何度も強い怒りに我を忘れそうになり、ついにその怒りがピークに達した時、彼は怪力を持つ巨人ハルクに変貌する。その後もブルースは何度もハルクに変身するが、我に返ると自分が引き起こした惨事に苦悩する。実は元をたどれば同じく遺伝子工学者だった彼の父デヴィッド・バナー博士の研究に端を発していた。
『ユージュアル・サスペクツ』の脚本を手がけたクリストファー・マッカリーが初監督を務めたクライム・サスペンス。ある男女が、大富豪・チダック夫妻が代理出産を依頼した女性を身代金目的で誘拐するのだが……。
A helicopter crashes in the desert, and the crew winds up in the underground city of Atlantis and get mixed up in a slave revolt.
Alain Lefevre is a boxer paid by a Marseille mobster to take a dive. When he wins the fight he attempts to flee to America with the mobster's girlfriend Katrina. This plan fails and he seeks escape by joining the foreign legion. As part of the legion he tangles with abusive lieutenant Steinkampf and bonds with legionnaires Luther, Mackintosh and Rosetti.
Anthropology student Daria, who's helping a property developer build a village in the Los Angeles desert, and dropout Mark, who's wanted by the authorities for allegedly killing a policeman during a student riot, accidentally encounter each other in Death Valley and soon begin an unrestrained romance.
When his SUV breaks down on a remote Southwestern road, Jeff Taylor lets his wife, Amy, hitch a ride with a trucker to get help. When she doesn't return, Jeff fixes his SUV and tracks down the trucker -- who tells the police he's never seen Amy. Johnathan Mostow's tense thriller then follows Jeff's desperate search for his wife, which eventually uncovers a small town's murderous secret.
While filing for a divorce, beautiful ex-stripper Roslyn Taber ends up meeting aging cowboy-turned-gambler Gay Langland and former World War II aviator Guido Racanelli. The two men instantly become infatuated with Roslyn and, on a whim, the three decide to move into Guido's half-finished desert home together. When grizzled ex-rodeo rider Perce Howland arrives, the unlikely foursome strike up a business capturing wild horses.
A teenage summer in a small town in the desert, a dysfunctional family, a rock band, a can full of glue, two boys, one girl, loads of tongue kisses, dry heat, wind in Patagonia, existential angst... A teenage story in the middle of nowhere.
A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself.
Advertising executive Nick Beame learns that his wife is sleeping with his employer. In a state of despair, he encounters a bumbling thief whose attempted carjacking goes awry when Nick takes him on an involuntary joyride. Soon the betrayed businessman and the incompetent crook strike up a partnership and develop a robbery-revenge scheme. But it turns out that some other criminals in the area don't appreciate the competition.
Four high school football stars enlist in the Marines and head off to fight in the war in Iraq. When one of them is killed and another wounded, they return home only to find is extremely difficult to pick up the threads of their old lives. The memories of events in Iraq combined with the lack of public support pushes many of these men to the breaking point.
金持ち親子にマイアミからダラスまで象の輸送を頼まれたトラック野郎のバンディットが、パトカーをけちらしながらの大暴走を展開する。好評を博したカー・アクション映画『トランザム7000』の続編。
Two terrible lounge singers get booked to play a gig in a Moroccan hotel but somehow become pawns in an international power play between the CIA, the Emir of Ishtar, and the rebels trying to overthrow his regime.
トレーラーで旅していたボブ・カーターとその家族一行はかつて核の実験場だった民間人立ち入り禁止エリアに迷い込む。しかもそこで車が故障。荒野の真ん中で立ち往生するボブたちはやがて思わぬ恐怖に遭遇する。彼らは異常な殺人鬼一家に襲われ、次々と犠牲に…。
El Topo decides to confront warrior Masters on a trans-formative desert journey he begins with his 6 year old son, who must bury his childhood totems to become a man.
One-armed war veteran John J. Macreedy steps off a train at the sleepy little town of Black Rock. Once there, he begins to unravel a web of lies, secrecy, and murder.
