Sudden Fear (1952)

スランプの作家、クビ寸前の編集者、作家志望の学生などの面々が揃った、可笑しくてちょっと切ない大人の物語。“ワンダー・ボーイ”とは人生の早いうちに大きな成功を手にした人のことなのだが……。

A hurricane swells outside, but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up - and holds at gunpoint hotel owner James Temple, his widowed daughter-in-law Nora, and ex-GI Frank McCloud.

Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a small town where he is mistaken for a long-lost son.

聖書を売り付けて小金を稼ぐ詐欺師のモーゼが、亡くなった知り合いの娘アディと出会う。彼は嫌々ながら彼女を親戚の家まで送り届ける事になったが、ペテンの相棒としてアディと旅を続けるうち、モーゼは父親めいた愛情を感じていく……。モノクロの映像が30年代の雰囲気を巧みに伝える、心温まるロード・ムービー。

子ども欲しさに、瀕死の兵士との間に一児をもうけた看護婦。生まれた子どもはガープと名づけられ、健やかに成長していくのだが……。彼の数奇な運命をユーモアとペーソスを交えて綴った人間ドラマ。

Sam Bowden witnesses a rape committed by Max Cady and testifies against him. When released after 8 years in prison, Cady begins stalking Bowden and his family but is always clever enough not to violate the law.

若き劇作家デヴィッドはギャングのボスの愛人を出演させることを条件にデビュー。しかし、彼女は大根役者で……。ブロードウェイを舞台に大騒動が繰り広げられる、ウディ・アレン監督のコメディ。

The film centers on a successful author who is forced to confront an unrequited high school crush when he returns home to deliver a commencement address to graduating seniors. Shasta O'Neil, a sexy high school senior flirts with the visiting author and invites him to the prom.

This drama centers on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of "Factotum" author Charles Bukowski, who wanders around Los Angeles, CA trying to live off jobs which don't interfere with his primary interest, which is writing. Along the way, he fends off the distractions offered by women, drinking and gambling.

アメリカの小さな町に住むベティ。ある事件から彼女の夫が殺された彼女は、ショックのあまり空想の世界に逃避してしまう。モーガン・フリーマン、レニー・ゼルウィガー主演のナンセンス・コメディ。

Two con men try to settle their rivalry by betting on who can be the first to swindle a young American heiress out of $50,000.

アメリカを代表する作家ポール・オースターが書き下ろした原作を基に、男たちの中に隠された哀しいロマンティシズムを描いた都会の物語。14年間毎朝同じ時刻に店の前で写真を撮り続けている煙草屋の店長オーギー、彼の馴染みの客で突然の事故により出産まもない妻を失って以来ペンを持てずにいる作家のポール、彼が車に跳ねられそうになった所を助けた黒人少年ラシードの3人を軸に、ブルックリンのとある煙草屋に集まる男達女達の日常を、過去と現在を、嘘と本当を巧みに交差させながら進んでゆく。

Edwardian England. A precocious girl from a poor background with aspirations to being a novelist finds herself swept to fame and fortune when her tasteless romances hit the best seller lists. Her life changes in unexpected ways when she encounters an aristocratic brother and sister, both of whom have cultural ambitions, and both of whom fall in love with her.

Shaun Brumder is a local surfer kid from Orange County who dreams of going to Stanford to become a writer and to get away from his dysfunctional family household. Except Shaun runs into one complication after another, starting when his application is rejected after his dim-witted guidance counselor sends in the wrong form.

生まれ育ったニューヨークを捨ててアルゼンチンで暮らす兄を探しに、異母弟のベニーがブエノスアイレスに降り立つが、名前を「テトロ」と変えた兄はそっけない態度をとるだけだった。そんなある日、ベニーは兄が密かに執筆していた自伝を盗み見てしまい、それをきっかけに兄弟の仲は決裂。さらにベニー自身の出生にかかわる家族の秘密が明らかになっていく。

1936年。シカゴの下町で、詐欺師の3人組が通り掛かりの男をヒッカケて金をだまし取る。しかし彼らが手にしたその金は、いつもとは段違いの思わぬ金額だった。悪い予感は的中。その金は、ニューヨークの大物ロネガンの手下が、賭博の上がりをシカゴへ届ける為の金だったのだ。怒った組織は、仲間の一人であるルーサーを殺害する……。

Centring on the activities of a gang of assorted criminals and, in particular, their leader – a vicious young hoodlum known as "Pinkie" – the film's main thematic concern is the criminal underbelly evident in inter-war Brighton.

Austin, Texas, is an Eden for the young and unambitious, from the enthusiastically eccentric to the dangerously apathetic. Here, the nobly lazy can eschew responsibility in favor of nursing their esoteric obsessions. The locals include a backseat philosopher who passionately expounds on his dream theories to a seemingly comatose cabbie, a young woman who tries to hawk Madonna's Pap test to anyone who will listen and a kindly old anarchist looking for recruits.

Con man Ray Elliot decides to leave crime behind to start a company that sells fake alibis to clients who have been unfaithful to their significant others. It seems that the streetwise Ray has found his calling, until he unexpectedly becomes a murder suspect in a case involving one of his most influential customers. Now, as the police and an assassin called "The Mormon" track Ray, he and his attractive assistant, Lola, must clear their own names.