Byzance (1964)

The history and current standing of the Paralympic Games, which has grown to become the world's third largest sporting event.

The life of a female weaver is thrown onto the socio-political canvas of pre-war and post-war communist Poland through the use of expressive allegorical and symbolic imagery in this imaginative take on the documentary form.

A look at the Apollo 11 mission to land on the moon led by commander Neil Armstrong and pilot Buzz Aldrin.

After 52 years of armed conflict the FARC guerrillas are about to hand over their arms in exchange for political participation and social inclusion of the poor. Ernesto is one of them. The much celebrated Colombian peace agreement throws Ernesto and the polarised society around him into chaos in which everyone is afraid of the future and their own survival.

With stunning views of eruptions and lava flows, Werner Herzog captures the raw power of volcanoes and their ties to indigenous spiritual practices.

Story of Rani Lakshmibai, one of the leading figures of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and her resistance to the British Rule.

Two brothers — one a narcotics agent and the other a general — finally discover the identity of the drug lord who murdered their parents decades ago. They may kill each other before capturing the bad guys.

海賊・倭寇の脅威に悩まされていた明代の中国。倭寇討伐の任に当たる兪大猷（ゆたいゆう）将軍は、策に長けた大将・熊澤率いる倭寇の軍勢に翻弄され続けていた。一方、倭寇の裏には、明の財を奪って勢力を拡大しようとする松浦氏の武士たちがいたが、彼らもまた熊澤を御することができずに苦慮していた。そんな中、明軍には知力も人望も厚い武将・戚継光（せきけいこう）が着任し、倭寇の大軍勢に果敢に立ち向かっていく。

1976年6月27日、イスラエルからフランスへ向けて飛び立った民間旅客機を、武装した4人の男女がハイジャックする非常事態が発生。4人のうちの2人は、パレスチナ解放人民戦線のメンバー。残る2人は、彼らのシンパであるドイツ極左組織のメンバー、ヴィルフリードとブリギッテ。彼らは、エンテベ空港に旅客機を緊急着陸させると、大勢の乗客乗員を人質に取り、イスラエル政府に対して厳しい政治的要求を突きつける。

洪水やかんばつが相次ぎ、およそ10年もの長い期間続いた応仁の乱が勃発（ぼっぱつ）した1400年代の半ば。アシュラは荒野と化した京都でケダモノのように育ち、生き抜いていく。そんな中、優しい少女・若狭や法師の教えにより、言葉や笑うことを覚えたアシュラ。しかし天災が訪れ、人々は貧困によって追い詰められていく。

November 1944. On the flooded isle of Walcheren, Zeeland, thousands of Allied soldiers are battling the German army. Three young lives become inextricably connected. A Dutch boy fighting for the Germans, an English glider pilot and a girl from Zeeland connected to the resistance against her will, are forced to make crucial choices that impact both their own freedom and the freedom of others.

戦火近づく'40年の仏領モロッコ、カサブランカは、自由を求めて渡米しようとする人々で溢れていた。ナイトクラブを経営するリックの元へ、ナチの手を逃れてここまでやって来た抵抗運動の指導者が現れる。だがその人物の妻は、かつてパリでリックと恋に落ちたイルザだった……。

歴史で落第しかかった二人はなぜかタイムマシンに乗って原始から未来までかけめぐり、ソクラテス、ナポレオン、ベートーヴェンその他を現在に連れてきて、試験パスを目論むのだが……。リーヴスとウィンターのおバカ高校生コンビを一躍全米の人気者にした荒唐無稽コメディ。

詐欺師アーヴィンと、その相棒で愛人のシドニー。彼らはFBI捜査官リッチーに逮捕されるが、無罪放免を条件におとり捜査への協力を持ち掛けられる。それは、架空のアラブ人富豪をダシに、カジノ利権に群がる政治家やマフィアを一網打尽にするというもの。アーヴィンとシドニーは、標的のカーマイン市長に近づくが、二人の仲を嫉妬するアーヴィンの妻ロザリンがおとり捜査の邪魔をする。＜1970年代後半のアメリカを揺るがした政治家などの収賄スキャンダル、アブスキャム事件を題材にしたサスペンスドラマ。自由と引き換えに、FBIが仕掛ける悪徳政治家検挙を狙ったおとり捜査に協力させられる詐欺師たちの姿を、スリリングに映し出していく。メガホンを取るのは、『世界にひとつのプレイブック』などのデヴィッド・O・ラッセル。＞

12年9月11日、リビアの港湾都市ベンガジにあるアメリカ領事館が、イスラム過激派の武装集団に占拠された。領事館のほど近くにあるCIAの拠点アネックスは救援要請を傍受するが、アネックスの存在自体が極秘であるため手を出すことができない。アネックスに派遣されていた軍事組織GRSの6人の警備兵たちも待機命令を受けるが、領事館を取り巻く状況が緊迫していくのを見過ごすことができず、任意で救援活動に乗り出す。

A pair of investigators team up with a Special Forces Unit to venture deep inside a war raging between the military and a massive army of Nazi Zombie Stormtroopers. Their mission is to fight their way behind enemy lines, locate the technology at the source of this growing threat and prevent the seemingly inevitable rise of the 4th Reich.

ヨーロッパでの誘拐事件後、ブライアンは再婚相手とうまくいっていない元妻と娘との絆を深めていた。ブライアンは二人に仕事先のイスタンブールへ気晴らしに来ないかと誘う。イスタンブールのバザールで買い物をしようとしてたブライアントとレノーアだが、不穏な気配を察知したブライアンの行動も虚しく二人は何者かに拉致されてしまう。辛くも拉致を免れた娘キムは誘拐された両親を救うために父の指示のもと両親奪回へと動き始める。

Corporal Evan Albright joined the elite Marine Corps Security Guards to save the world and see some action-not necessarily in that order. But his first assignment, protecting a U. S. Embassy in a seemingly safe Middle Eastern capitol, relegates his unit to wrangling "gate groupies" protesting outside the compound and honing their marksmanship by playing video games. So Albright and his team are caught off guard when well-armed and well-trained militants launch a surprise attack aimed at killing an informant in the embassy. Heavily out-gunned, they will have to muster all the courage and fire power they can as their once routine assignment spirals into all-out war.

In 1980s Beirut, Mason Skiles is a former U.S. diplomat who is called back into service to save a colleague from the group that is possibly responsible for his own family's death. Meanwhile, a CIA field agent who is working under cover at the American embassy is tasked with keeping Mason alive and ensuring that the mission is a success.

A fascinating compilation of scenes showing diversity and disparity in 1940s China. The ancient Forbidden City and Great Wall are followed by Shanghai’s metropolitan skyline; primitive farming methods are juxtaposed with mechanised factories; children in rags are contrasted with models wearing the latest fashions; Nationalist commanders and Communist leaders vie for support.

An early comedic short by Maurice Pialat.

Short doc by Maurice Pialat. The first film in the series set at Turkey, Bosphore, is also the only one that was shot in color.

Two men are disappointed by women and united by a whore

Maître Galip is the most poetic and powerful of Pialat's Turkish Chronicles, using the poems of Nazim Hikmet to accompany a series of evocative images of ordinary working class people in Istanbul. This was the film that Pialat himself claimed was the most complete realization of what he was aiming for with his Turkish documentaries. It's not difficult to see why this was his favorite: here he abandons the historical commentary and documentary observation of the other shorts in favor of an emotional emphasis on the lives of the poor and the unemployed.A short doc by Maurice Pialat.

La Corne d'or is mostly concerned with religious ritual, examining the mosque (and former cathedral) discussed in Byzance. As a contrast against Istanbul's status as a center of historical religious conflict, Pialat — drawing here on texts by the French poet Gérard de Nerval — also describes the city as a place of strange ethnic and religious harmony, with representatives of various cultures and religions living in close contact. He emphasizes the city's hybrid culture, its blend of Southern European and Arab influences, reflected in both its people and its very construction.

Impressive sound design, non-linear editing, great ‘expressionistic’ locations and b&w cinematography, this is an experimental piece for Pialat, a psychological/gothic thriller of sorts...

Pehlivan focuses on a three-day wrestling competition, an ancient tradition that dates back over a thousand years to the time of the Ottoman Empire, originating in the games the soldiers would play to entertain themselves in between battles. Maybe that's why there's more than a hint of homoeroticism in the way the wrestlers oil themselves up with grease, making sure to cover every inch of their bodies so that their opponents will be unable to get a grip. Pialat's closeups emphasize the men's muscular bodies jammed together and sliding off one another, posed in intimate, twisted arrangements, struggling desperately for a grip on each other's bodies. Arms are jammed down pants, one of the only places there's some potential for a handhold, and the whole thing is very suggestive and sensual, a form of intimate male contact that's sanctioned as a show of strength and masculinity.

All of Pialat's Turkish films are uniquely interested in the country — especially Istanbul — as it was, not just as it is at the precise moment that Pialat is filming it. History informs these films in a big way, with the voiceover narration (which incorporates excerpts from various authors) introducing tension between the images of the modern-day city and the descriptions of incidents from its long and rich history. Istanbul is probably the most conventional documentary of Pialat's Turkish series, providing a general profile of the titular city, its different neighborhoods, and the different cultures and ways of living that coexist within its sprawling borders. As the other films in the series also suggest, Pialat sees Turkey, and Istanbul in particular, as a junction point between Europe and the East, between the old and the new, between history and modernity.

Shot by Methodist missionaries, this is an incredibly charming record of small-town life in an unidentified location in China. We see a bustling wharf town with canal-side dwellings, distinctive school buildings, and a hospital where newly graduated nurses pose for a group portrait. The relaxed smiles of Chinese and Europeans are captured in intimate close-ups, suggesting a tight-knit community.

Aspiring filmmakers Mel Funn, Marty Eggs and Dom Bell go to a financially troubled studio with an idea for a silent movie. In an effort to make the movie more marketable, they attempt to recruit a number of big name stars to appear, while the studio's creditors attempt to thwart them.