Little Man Tate (1991)
It's not what he knows. It's what he understands.
ジャンル : ドラマ, ファミリー
上映時間 : 1時間 39分
演出 : Jodie Foster
脚本 : Scott Frank
シノプシス
Dede is a sole parent trying to bring up her son Fred. When it is discovered that Fred is a genius, she is determined to ensure that Fred has all the opportunities that he needs, and that he is not taken advantage of by people who forget that his extremely powerful intellect is harboured in the body and emotions of a child.
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Nina is an unemployed actress who has just taken a lethal overdose of tranquilizers. Stumbling though the streets of Paris in a deathly haze, Nina collapses into unconsciousness. Fortunately for Nina, lonely Algerian Sami happened to jog by at just the right time. But as soon as Sami previously appeared, he vanishes back into the blackness of night, leaving the recovered Nina with no one to thank for saving her life. Determined to let her guardian angel know just how thankful she truly is, Nina discovers that Sami was once a promising long-distance runner whose dreams of Olympic stardom had been dashed, and who now scrapes by as a transvestite prostitute. Realizing that they've both hit rock bottom, Nina and Sami make a pledge to support one another to the point where they can both get clean and pursue their dreams before it's too late.
The complicated travails of several generations of Italian women provide the basis for this drama that is based on a novel by Susanna Tamaro. It begins with the peaceful death of Olga, the elderly family matriarch. Marta, her granddaughter returns from the US to attend the funeral and once in Olga's villa in Trieste, begins reading her grandmother's diary. Olga's story unfolds via flashback. As a young woman, Oldga had to marry Antonio a man she didn't love. Later she became passionately involved with a handsome doctor at the local spa. He impregnates her and shortly thereafter dies in a terrible car wreck. The result of their love is Illaria, who grows up to be terribly neurotic. She bears Marta and then she too dies in an automobile accident, leaving Marta to be raised by Olga.
After a string of abusive relationships, Wanda abandons her family and seeks solace in the company of a petty criminal.
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After telling her fiancé, Dana, that her entire family is dead, Manhattanite Alex whisks off to her childhood home in South Carolina to serve as bridesmaid at her high-maintenance, estranged sister Jeannie's wedding. As she tries not to steal Jeannie's thunder by telling her family that a) she's engaged, and b) the man she's going to marry is a Jewish African American, things get a little mixed up.
A Finnish documentary follows four young men who have one year to find new love in Helsinki.
A day in the life of two film-school students trying to find love and another house-mate.
Viva Zapatero! is a 2005 documentary by Sabina Guzzanti telling her side of the story regarding the conflict with Silvio Berlusconi over a late-night TV political satire show broadcast on RAI-3. The show, RAIot (a play on the name of the Italian state public TV: RAI, and the English word riot), lampooned prime minister Berlusconi. Since it wasn't considered a satirical show, but a political one, it was cancelled after the first episode.
Adapted from a novel from sci-fi series by Kyr Bulychev about a little girl Alice. It's Alice's birthday and as a present she is invited by an old alien friend archaeologist Gromozeka to join him on an expedition to an alien planet Coleida which population was destroyed by a space plague a hundred years ago. Arriving at the planet they decide that Alice, using a time-traveling device, will go back in time to the day when the plague was brought in by their space expedition to try and save the planet from destruction by spraying the astronauts with a vaccine. To achieve that, she and another alien scientist professor Rrrr, who looks just like a cat, must make a long and perilous journey to the planet's spaceport.
The scheming mad scientist Dr. Goldfoot (Vincent Price) plots another mad scheme to take over the world by killing off the major military leaders of every country; to that end, he creates in his secret lab a bevy of bodacious girl bombs; full-length, life-size robots that explode when embraced.
During the armed uprisings of the sixties left in Venezuela, a young guerrilla should give birth in secret. To her surprise, her daughter is the first to be born MOTHER'S DAY and photos appear in the press. Since then, both have to flee. Costumes, fake names are hiding places and everyday life GIRL, narrator of this story. Together with his cousin TEO, reinvent the adventures of their guerrilla parents, building a fantastic maze of superheroes and strategies around armed subversion, in which you never know where reality begins, or madness. But the children's game can not hide the death, torture, accusations and betrayals that live inside the guerrillas.
Dive into more than a century of decadence with this tantalizing look at the evolution of burlesque. Cabaret star Leslie Zemeckis traces the art form from vaudeville-style variety show through its extinction and contemporary rebirth. Vintage photos, film clips and ads illustrate burlesque's resilient history and how the public's sexual appetite kept it alive amid moral and legal ado.
It's an experiment in human behavior. It's an exploration of the most natural of animal impulses. It's something new under the moon. And it bites. When security dispatcher Aaron Scates is blinded in an explosion, he's put in the care of Dr. Andrea Hewlitt, famous in her field for spearheading extraordinary-though controversial-medical breakthroughs. Her newest is cross-species organ transplants, and Aaron is her first human subject. When a severely wounded wolf is brought to Dr. Hewlitt's office by museum curator Lydia Armstrong, Dr. Hewlitt leaps on the opportunity and successfully transplants the wolf's eyes to Aaron-despite Lydia's objections. Aaron, however, is thrilled. Not only can he see again, he can see in the dark. He also has an unusually acute sense of hearing, and tears into a raw steak like never before. Unfortunately, he also tends growl, and to target people as prey.
A seedy bar owner hires a mysterious Croatian to commit murder, but a planned double-crossing backfires when a young waitress is taken hostage. A suspenseful, yet darkly humorous chain of events builds to a bloodcurdling climax.
Kathleen Turner stars as suburban mother and devout Catholic Eileen Cleary, who has always kept up appearances. When she runs for the Catholic Woman of the Year title at her local parish, her final test is introducing her family to the board for the seal of approval. Now she must finally face the nonconformist family she has been glossing over for years...
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This documentary looks at the conception, design and live shows of The Wall performed by Pink Floyd in 1980 and 1981. It features in-depth 1980s era interviews with Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Richard Wright and Nick Mason and shows footage of The Wall performed at Earl's Court in 1980. It also features archival footage of the Syd Barrett era Pink Floyd and discusses how David Gilmour was brought into the band to initially augment their live shows when Syd became unreliable due to his drug problem and how Gilmour ultimately replaced him.
During the Bosnian War, Danijel, a soldier fighting for the Serbs, re-encounters Ajla, a Bosnian who's now a captive in his camp he oversees. Their once promising connection has become ambiguous as their motives have changed.
ベロニカは、ヘザースという名の女子三人組の取り巻きとしてこき使われ、チアリーダーやフットボール部員が威張り散らすハイスクール生活に心底うんざりしていた。そんなとき、転校生JDがやってくる。フットボール部員たちにも不敵な態度をとるJDに、ベロニカは「ヘザースなんか殺してやりたい!」とこぼす。JDはそれに対して「じゃあ殺しちゃえば?」と冗談とも本気ともつかぬ発言をする。ある時、パーティでフットボール部員2人に輪姦されたと吹聴されたベロニカはJDと結託、おもちゃの銃で報復を実行したが、JDの銃は男たちに火を噴いた。ハイスクールの権力者2人をいとも簡単に殺したJDは、慌てまくるベロニカを巻き込んで、とんでもない事態をハイスクールに引き起こしていく。<学校内の上下関係を描いたシニカルな青春ブラック・コメディ。1988年10月のミラノ国際映画見本市で初上映された。>
国連で通訳として働くシルビアは、謎の人物たちのグー語の会話から、ある人物の暗殺計画を偶然立ち聞きしてしまう。彼女の周りに怪しい人物が暗躍し、シークレット・サービスのトビンが彼女を守る任務につく。
場末の酒場で起きた複数の男によるレイプ事件。勝ち目がないと言われながらも、裁判を引き受けた女性検事補は調査を開始するが、被害者の女性は酒に酔っており、被告側の男たちは和姦を主張していた。やがて原告がマリファナを服用していた事が発覚、裁判は絶対不利となっていく。
夫の突然の他界に深く悲しみつつ、幼い娘ジュリアとともにニューヨーク行きの航空機に乗り込んだ航空機設計士の女性カイル。くしくもこの機は、彼女自身が設計した最新型の大型旅客機だった。そんな飛行中の機内からジュリアが姿を消してしまう。どういう訳か乗員乗客の誰もがジュリアを覚えておらず、乗客名簿にすらジュリアの名前はない。周囲から精神状態をいぶかしむ声も上がる中、カイルは必死にジュリアの姿を求める。
Two teenage couples traveling across the backwoods of Texas searching for urban legends of serial killers end up as prisoners of a bizarre and sadistic backwater family of serial killers.
地球外知的生命体の存在を研究している天文学者エリーは、ある夜、未知の電波をキャッチする。それはヴェガ星からのものであり、地球上の映像と謎の設計図が納められていることが判明。それはヴェガ星への輸送機関であった。急ピッチで基地が建造されるが、エリーはパイロットの選考から洩れてしまう。だがテロリストによってヴェガへの発進基地は無残にも破壊されてしまう。
夫と離婚して間もないメグは、11歳の娘・サラと共に、少し前に死去した老富豪が住んでいたニューヨークの豪邸に引っ越してくる。その豪邸は法律上あと数日は入居してはならないと決められていた物件だったが、販売業者のミスでメグ達は予定より早く入居してしまう。 その夜、メグ達が入居していることを知らずに、富豪の遺族の一人であるジュニアが仲間であるラウールとバーナムを連れて邸内に侵入する。ジュニアは屋敷に設けられた緊急避難用の密室「パニック・ルーム」に隠し財産があることを知り、屋敷が人手に渡る前に仲間を連れてこれを秘密裏に奪取しようと考えていたのだった。 強盗達の存在を監視カメラと物音で確認したメグはすぐに事態を察知し、娘と共にパニック・ルームへと逃げ込む。それに対し強盗達は、数々のパニック・ルームの建設に携わってきたバーナムの知識を頼りに、中から出てこさせようと様々な行動に出る。
若い女性の皮膚を剥ぎ落とし、その死体を川に流すという残忍な連続猟奇殺人が発生した。 犯人の仮称を冠し“バッファロー・ビル事件”と呼ばれるこれを解決するため、FBI訓練生のクラリスは、クロフォード主任捜査官からある任務を課される。それは、元は天才的な精神科医であり、自分の患者を食したため現在は州立精神病院に措置入院されているレクター博士を訪ね、バッファロー・ビルの精神状態を解明させるというものだった。 クラリスから依頼されたレクターは、その引き換えとしてクラリスに、彼女自身の過去を語らせる。
エドワードは、発明家の博士によって生み出された人造人間。だが、完成直前に博士が急死してしまった為、彼は両手がハサミのままこの世に残されてしまう。その後、ゴースト屋敷のような丘の上の家で、顔が傷だらけで孤独な日々を送っていた彼の元にある日、化粧品のセールス・ウーマンのペグが訪ねて来た。心優しい彼女は、そんな彼の姿に同情し、自分の家に連れて帰る。そうして家の中へ通された彼は、写真に写っているペグの娘キムに心奪われ、彼女に恋してしまう。