Amazon (1990)
Adventure in a world where every man has his limits... and every dream its price.
ジャンル : アドベンチャー, ドラマ
上映時間 : 1時間 27分
演出 : Mika Kaurismäki
シノプシス
Widowed and broke Finnish businessman Kari takes his two teenage daughters with him to Brazil. A bush pilot introduces him to the idea of gold mining in the jungle, but a beautiful and educated local woman warns him about the possible consequences to the rain forest. Kari has mixed feelings about the project, until an accident puts him in the care of a local Indian tribe.
Xixo is back again. This time, his children accidentally stow away on a fast-moving poachers' truck, unable to get off, and Xixo sets out to rescue them. Along the way, he encounters a couple of soldiers trying to capture each other and a pilot and passenger of a small plane, who are each having a few problems of their own.
For ten years, engineer Bill Markham has searched tirelessly for his son Tommy who disappeared from the edge of the Brazilian rainforest. Miraculously, he finds the boy living among the reclusive Amazon tribe who adopted him. And that's when Bill's adventure truly begins. For his son is now a grown tribesman who moves skillfully through this beautiful-but-dangerous terrain, fearful only of those who would exploit it. And as Bill attempts to "rescue" him from the savagery of the untamed jungle, Tommy challenges Bill's idea of true civilization and his notions about who needs rescuing.
Forrest Taft is an environmental agent who works for the Aegis Oil Company in Alaska. Aegis Oil's corrupt CEO is the kind of person who doesn't care whether or not oil spills into the ocean or onto the land—just as long as it's making money for him.
Eight people embark on an expedition into the Congo, a mysterious expanse of unexplored Africa where human greed and the laws of nature have gone berserk. When the thrill-seekers -- some with ulterior motives -- stumble across a race of killer apes.
When a sprite named Crysta shrinks a human boy, Zak, down to her size, he vows to help the magical fairy folk stop a greedy logging company from destroying their home: the pristine rainforest known as FernGully. Zak and his new friends fight to defend FernGully from lumberjacks — and the vengeful spirit they accidentally unleash after chopping down a magic tree.
ベトナム戦争が真っただ中のサイゴン。アメリカ陸軍情報部のウィラード大尉にある密命が下される。それは、カンボジアに特殊任務で赴いたままジャングル奥地に自らの王国を築き、カリスマ的な存在と化した危険人物カーツ大佐を暗殺せよ、というもの。任務を全うすべく、ウィラード大尉は4人の部下とともに哨戒艇に乗り込み川をさかのぼる。道中、極限状態に晒され続けた彼らは幾多の異常な世界を体験していく。やがて彼らはついに、ジャングルの奥深く、カーツ大佐が潜伏する“王国”へと辿り着くのだった。
舞台はマヤ文明の栄える中央アメリカの密林地帯。平穏な生活を営む狩猟民族の集落を、マヤ帝国の傭兵部隊が襲撃する。そして拉致連行された村民たちを待っていたのは、見たことのないような先進的な文明を持つマヤの都だった。そして彼らは、何故自分たちがここに連れてこられたのか、《衝撃の真実》を目の当たりにすることになる・・・!セリフは全編マヤ語を用い、キャストも映画未経験の現地人を採用するなど、徹底的にリアリティを追求。また、今なお謎の多いマヤ文明の都市や風俗、そして想像を絶する残酷な祭祀の一部始終を、徹底した調査を元に造営された巨大な都市のセットと最新のCG技術を駆使し見事に再現。その圧倒的スケールの映像世界は全米の批評家たちにも絶賛され、アカデミー賞、ゴールデン・グローブ賞などで数々のノミネーションを獲得した。そして、縦横無尽にジャングルを駆け巡り繰り広げられる迫真のサバイバル・アクション・シーンは、息をも付かせぬスピード感と臨場感で観る者の心拍数を極限まで上昇させる!
A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were making a film about the area's local cannibal tribes.
Three friends out to disprove cannibalism meet two men on the run who tortured and enslaved a cannibal tribe to find emeralds, and now the tribe is out for revenge.
西暦2154年。人類は惑星ポリフェマスの最大衛星パンドラに鉱物採掘基地を開いている。この星は熱帯雨林のような未開のジャングル覆われていて獰猛な動物と”ナヴィ”という先住種族が暮らしており、森の奥には地球のエネルギー問題解決の鍵となる希少鉱物の鉱床がある。この星の大気は人間に適さないので屋外活動にはマスクを着用する必要があり、ナヴィと意思疎通し交渉するために人間とナヴィの遺伝子を組み合わせて人間が作りあげた”アバター”が用いられた。
A Coca-Cola bottle dropped from an airplane raises havoc among a normally peaceful tribe of African bushmen who believe it to be a utensil of the gods.
荒野を彷徨い続けるマックスは、航空機を操る謎の親子連れに乗り物や装備を奪われる。 徒歩でたどり着いた“バータータウン”は、物々交換で成り立つ街だった。街の支配者であるアウンティに腕前を買われたマックスは、自分の持ち物を取り戻すべく、全ての問題を解決するために設けられたステージ“サンダードーム”にて、街の裏の支配者であるマスター・ブラスターと戦うことになる。
In 1981, an enthusiastic young adventurer follows his dreams into the Bolivian Amazon jungle with two friends and a guide with a mysterious past. Their journey quickly turns into a terrifying ordeal as the darkest elements of human nature and the deadliest threats of the wilderness lead to an all-out fight for survival.
20世紀初頭、アマゾン奥地にあるという黄金の古代都市エル・ドラードの存在を信じる探検家のパーシー・フォーセットは、過酷なジャングルや現地の住民の襲撃など、何度も命を危険にさらしながらも探検を繰り返していた。やがて協力的だった仲間や家族も、彼に愛想を尽かしてしまう。それでもフォーセットはアマゾンに強いこだわりを見せ…。
カート・ラッセル主演の西部劇ホラーアクション。荒野に佇むアメリカの田舎町。ある夜、複数の住人が忽然と姿を消し、納屋では体を八つ裂きにされた男の遺体が見つかった。現場に駆け付けた保安官・ハントは、原住民たちによる犯行ではないかと疑い…。
悲劇、裏切り、そして恐ろしい発見。大切な家族と仲間の命を奪われた女性は、自らの手で復讐(ふくしゅう)を果たすことを誓う。「キングダム」の特別エピソード。
Under the pretense of having a picnic, a geologist takes his teenage daughter and 6-year-old son into the Australian outback and attempts to shoot them. When he fails, he turns the gun on himself, and the two city-bred children must contend with harsh wilderness alone. They are saved by a chance encounter with an Aborigine boy who shows them how to survive, and in the process underscores the disharmony between nature and modern life.
Natural changes have the clans moving. Iza, medicine woman of the "Clan of the Cave Bear" finds little Ayla from the "others"' clan - tradition would have the clan kill Ayla immediately, but Iza insists on keeping her. When the little one finds a most needed new cave, she's allowed to stay - and thrive.
The local sheriff of Dead River, Maine, thought he had killed them off ten years ago -- a primitive, cave-dwelling tribe of cannibalistic savages. But somehow the clan survived. To breed. To hunt. To kill and eat. And now the peaceful residents of this isolated town are fighting for their lives...
An eccentric scientist working for a large drug company is working on a research project in the Amazon jungle. He sends for a research assistant and a gas chromatograph because he's close to a cure for cancer. When the assistant turns out to be a "mere woman," he rejects her help. Meanwhile the bulldozers get closer to the area in which they are conducting research, and they eventually learn to work together, and begin falling in love.