Magnificent Doll (1946)

国境の町に拡がる陰謀を描いたW・マスターソンのミステリ小説を、O・ウェルズが脚色・監督したフィルム・ノワールの傑作。 メキシコ国境の小さな町で起こった車の爆殺事件。偶然にも現場を目撃したメキシコ政府の特別犯罪調査官ヴァルガスは事件の捜査に乗り出すが、アメリカ側の担当者であるクインラン警部はヴァルガスの介入を露骨に拒否。だが上司の命令で、クインランはやむなくヴァルガスと共同捜査を開始する……。

The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by the Church and bourgeois society in general.

Viridiana is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit her aging uncle, Don Jaime. He supports her; but the two have met only once. Jaime thinks Viridiana resembles his dead wife. Viridiana has secretly despised this man all her life and finds her worst fears proven when Jaime grows determined to seduce his pure niece. Viridiana becomes undone as her uncle upends the plans she had made to join the convent.

Ralph Burton is a miner who is trapped for several days as a result of a cave-in. When he finally manages to dig himself out, he realizes that all of mankind seems to have been destroyed in a nuclear holocaust. He travels to New York City only to find it deserted. Making a life for himself there, he is flabbergasted to eventually find Sarah Crandall, who also managed to survive. Together, they form a close friendship until the arrival of Benson Thacker who has managed to pilot his small boat into the city's harbor. At this point, tensions rise between the three, particularly between Thacker, who is white, and Burton, who is black.

A lone-wolf scientist sequestered in a mansion near a small desert town arouses the suspicion of the town's doctor when his lab assistant is found dead from a case of acromegaly which took only four days to develop. As the doctor investigates, aided by the scientist's new, and very female, assistant, they discover that, far worse, something much larger and hungrier than it ever should be, is devouring local cattle - and humans - in increasingly large quantities.

南仏カマルグの荒地に、野生馬の一群が生息していた。地元の牧童たちは群れのリーダー、“白いたてがみ”を何とかして捕らえようとするが、逃げられるばかり。そんなある日、漁師の少年フォルコが、ついに牧童たちに捕らわれた“白いたてがみ”の姿を目撃。フォルコは彼を牧童から守りたいと願うが……。＜1953年のカンヌ国際映画祭でグランプリに輝いたアルベール・ラモリス監督の名作。南フランスの荒地を舞台に、“白いたてがみ”と呼ばれる美しい荒馬と、彼と心を通わせ、次第に強いきずなで結ばれる少年の物語が展開する。歳月を経ても決して色あせることのない、アルベール監督の作品世界が感動的。シンプルなストーリーとナレーション、さらにはモノクロームの映像で構成された、まさに伝説の一作。＞

In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love.

In 1949, composer Roman Strauss is executed for the murder of his wife. In 1990s Los Angeles, a detective comes across a mute amnesiac woman who is somehow linked to the Strauss murder.

侵略SFの古典、ジャック・フィニイの『盗まれた街』を、D・シーゲルが映画化した劇場未公開の逸品。カリフォルニアのある街が、異星生物の侵略を受けた。その生物は次々と人間の複製を造り上げ、本物と入れ換わっていく。主人公はその事実を知り、恋人と共に街を脱出しようとするが……。

The tranquility of a small town is marred only by sheriff Tod Shaw's unsuccessful courtship of widow Ellen Benson, a pacifist who can't abide guns and those who use them. But violence descends on Ellen's household willy-nilly when the U.S. President passes through town... and slightly psycho hired assassin John Baron finds the Benson home ideal for an ambush.

After serving time for manslaughter, young Vince Everett becomes a teenage rock star.

In 15th century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.

Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.

戦国の世、貧しい陶工・源十郎が若狭姫という女性と知り合い、生活をともにするようになる。だが美しい若狭姫の正体は死霊であった。それを知った源十郎は若狭姫を捨てて故郷に逃げるが、彼女の怨念は執拗に追いすがる……。「雨月物語」をベースに、川口松太郎らが脚色。

An entomologist suffers extreme psychological and sexual torture after being taken captive by the residents of a poor seaside village.

Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates, Raven sits beside Gates' lovely new employee, Ellen, on a train out of town. Although Ellen is engaged to marry the police lieutenant who's hunting down Raven, she decides to try and set the misguided hit man straight as he hides from the cops and plots his revenge.

19世紀の文豪ヘンリー・ジェイムズの名作小説『ねじの回転』を原作にしたサイコサスペンス。中年女性ギデンスが田舎の広大な屋敷に住む幼い兄妹の住み込みの家庭教師として雇われるが、亡くなった前任者と使用人の霊に取りつかれる。

John Breen (John Wayne), a Kentucky militiaman falls in love with French exile Fleurette De Marchand (Vera Ralston). He discovers a plot to steal the land that Fleurette's exiles plan to settle on and aims to foil it.

An ancient Egyptian priest named Imhotep is revived when an archaeological expedition finds his mummy and one of the archaeologists accidentally reads an ancient life-giving spell. Imhotep escapes from the field site and searches for the reincarnation of the soul of his lover.

Frederick Loren has invited five strangers to a party of a lifetime. He is offering each of them $10,000 if they can stay the night in a house. But the house is no ordinary house. This house has a reputation for murder. Frederick offers them each a gun for protection. They all arrived in a hearse and will either leave in it $10,000 richer or leave in it dead!