The Business of Being Born (2008)
ジャンル : ドキュメンタリー
上映時間 : 1時間 27分
演出 : Abby Epstein
シノプシス
Director Abby Epstein's controversial documentary takes a hard look at America's maternity care system, juxtaposing hospital deliveries against the growing popularity of at-home, natural childbirths that some expectant parents are opting for. Former talk show host Ricki Lake was inspired to produce this compelling exposé after a dissatisfying birthing experience with her first child left her with many unanswered questions.
クリスマスに恋人ハーパーの実家に招待され、そこで彼女にプロポーズするつもりでいたアビー。だが実はハーパーは家族にカミングアウトしておらず、2人の関係も隠していることが判明し...。
女子高生のジュリーとカイラ、そしてサムの仲良し3人組は、卒業パーティーのプロムが開催される夜にヴァージンを捨てようと計画する。そんな娘たちの計画を知ってしまった親たち、ジュリーのお母さんリサと、カイラのお父さんミッチェル、そしてサムのお父さんであるハンターの3人組が一致団結、娘たちの処女喪失を阻止し貞操を守るため奮闘する。
An unexpected affair quickly escalates into a heart-stopping reality for two women whose passionate connection changes their lives forever.
The star of a team of teenage crime fighters falls for the alluring villainess she must bring to justice.
1952年の歳末、NYの高級百貨店でアルバイトをするテレーズは、クリスマスプレゼントを探しに店を訪れた優雅で上品な人妻キャロルと出会い、彼女に魅せられる。店に置き忘れた手袋をキャロルに送り届けたことから、彼女の知己を得たテレーズは、キャロルが夫ハージとの愛のない結婚生活に疲れ果て、いまや離婚協議中であること、そして娘の親権を彼に奪われそうになって苦しんでいることを知る。2人の距離は次第に縮まる。
Ava, 13, is spending the summer on the Atlantic coast when she learns that she will lose her sight sooner than expected. Her mother decides to act as if everything were normal so as to spend their best summer ever. Ava confronts the problem in her own way. She steals a big black dog that belongs to a young man on the run...
On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.
Dr. Jean Markham returns to the town she left as a teenager to take over her late father's medical practice. When a school-yard scuffle lands Charlie in her surgery, she invites him to visit the hives in her garden and tell his secrets to the bees, as she once did. The new friendship between the boy and the bee keeper brings his mother Lydia into Jean's world.
A young female intern at a small magazine company becomes involved with a drug-addicted lesbian photographer, both of whom seek to exploit each other for their respective careers, while slowly falling in love with each other.
A feisty young woman returns to Glasgow to run her deceased father's curry house.
米国のNSA(国家安全保障局)で働き、同じく情報機関のCIA(中央情報局)でも働いた当時29歳の男性スノーデンは、米政府が国民のプライバシーを侵害していることに憤り、2013年、“シチズンフォー”というハンドルネームを使ってドキュメンタリー監督ポイトラスと連絡を取り、自分が知っているすべてをカメラの前で語ると言い、ポイトラス監督とジャーナリストのグリーンウォルドは香港でスノーデンと面会する。
A 17-year old Missouri teen discovers she has gotten pregnant, a development that threatens to end her dreams of matriculating at an Ivy League college, and the career that could follow.
Georgia Rule follows a rebellious, uncontrollable teenager who is hauled off by her dysfunctional mother to spend the summer with her grandmother. Her journey will lead all three women to revelations of buried family secrets and an understanding that - regardless what happens - the ties that bind can never be broken.
小さな田舎町で暮らす少女アナは、幼い頃から重い消化器疾患を患い入退院を繰り返していた。母クリスティは遠方の大病院へ診察を頼み、やっとのことでアナは入院するも、治療の方法がなく自宅に戻る。一方、二人が留守にしていた間、夫や姉妹との間にも亀裂が生じていた。そんな中、アナが庭の大木から落ちてしまう事故が起こる。幸い一命を取りとめたが、彼女の身にある驚くべき“奇跡”が待ち受けていた。
出版社勤務の32歳、ブリジット・ジョーンズは禁煙とダイエットを決意する。そんな矢先、気になる上司ダニエルからEメールが届き……。ヘレン・フィールディングの大ベストセラーを映画化したラヴ・コメディ。
When her nation is invaded, a young princess is taken into the Princess Protection Program. She is relocated to Louisiana, where she stays with a covert agent and his tomboyish daughter, and must learn how to behave like an ordinary teenager.
シカゴに住む建築家のサムは癌で妻を亡くし一人息子のジョナと共にシアトルに越してきたが、ジョナは、父親のために新しい奥さんが必要だと思いラジオ局の相談番組に電話をする。同じ頃、ボルチモアに住む新聞記者のアニーは、婚約者ウォルターを伴って実家のクリスマス・パーティに出席した帰途に偶然聞いた、そのラジオ番組で、サムが切々と語る亡き妻の思い出にアニーは思わず涙する。
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Moving between two extremes - the intimate verite drama of the Miss India pageant's rigorous beauty "bootcamp" and the intense regime of a militant Hindu fundamentalist camp for young girls. The World Before Her delivers a provocative portrait of India and its current cultural conflicts during a key transitional era in the country's modern history.
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Autumn 1944, Estonia. Tens of thousands of people leave their homeland in fear of approaching frontline. Some seashore villages remain completely empty. A young woman with huge grey eyes gets off the boat. Eetla leaves the last boat, thus giving up her last chance to escape. Defying the cold wind and rain of September, she returns to the lighthouse which is unexpected to her father Gottfrid, the lighthouse keeper, and herself. Eetla's return becomes her self-encounter and self-recognition.
Oscar nominated documentary short from 1992
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A novelist's life ricochets from 1920s Paris to '50s New York and '80s London. Along the way he meets Ernest Hemingway, Ian Fleming and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor - the exiled British king and his mistress Wallis Simpson.
This special focuses on a group of men who have fallen in love with their life-size dolls, called "Real Dolls." For these men, their $10,000 lifelike, built-to-order creations have replaced human women. For some people, finding a partner in life can be difficult. For these men, it's almost impossible. Some years ago, a small factory in California began making an alternative partner. Each one is tailored made to suit every taste. There are now 3000 real dolls across the world providing some of those with love and companionship that real women cannot.
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