Mini Weekend (1968)

The vivid and inspiring story of British film icon Michael Caine's personal journey through 1960s swinging London.

Sly and dry intelligence agent Harry Palmer is tasked with investigating British Intelligence security, and is soon enmeshed in a world of double-dealing, kidnap and murder when he finds a traitor operating at the heart of the secret service.

A former British spy stumbles into in a plot to overthrow Communism with the help of a supercomputer. But who is working for whom?

1967年のロンドン。モテモテのファッション・フォトグラファー、オースティン・パワーズは、実はイギリス諜報員だった……。はちゃめちゃなストーリーに、爆笑必至のギャグが満載。

1966年イギリス。まだイギリスに民放ラジオが存在せずポピュラーミュージックの放送が制限されていた時代に、北海からロック音楽を流して人気を集めていた「海賊ラジオ局」を取り巻く若者と政府を描く。ドラッグと喫煙で高校を退学になったカール（トム・スターリッジ）は、更正を望む母の提案で、母の旧友クエンティン（ビル・ナイ）のいる船に乗船。その船は、アメリカ出身のザ・カウント（フィリップ・シーモア・ホフマン）ら、クールなDJたちがロックの取締りをもくろむ政府の目を盗み、24時間ロックを流し続ける海賊ラジオ局だった。

Colonel Stok, a Soviet intelligence officer responsible for security at the Berlin Wall, appears to want to defect but the evidence is contradictory. Stok wants the British to handle his defection and asks for one of their agents, Harry Palmer, to smuggle him out of East Germany.

ザ・ビートルズの映画初出演作。当時人気の頂点にあった彼らの実生活をベースに脚色。熱狂的なファンに追いかけられるなか、TV出演やライブツアーに目まぐるしく動きまわるビートルズの姿をドキュメンタリー・タッチに描いた音楽コメディー。

The swinging London, early sixties. Beautiful but shallow, Diana Scott is a professional advertising model, a failed actress, a vocationally bored woman, who toys with the affections of several men while gaining fame and fortune.

After inheriting a run-down castle, a dispirited woman and her ill-tempered husband decide to spend the night, as time and reality shift around them.

贋作画家シャルル・ボネの家に、内偵中の私立探偵シモンが忍び込んだ。ところがたちまち、画家の娘ニコルに発見されてしまう。シモンを泥棒と信じたニコルは、美術館からビーナス像を盗み出すことを依頼する。警戒厳重な美術館に、二人は潜入することに成功するが……。オードリーのロマンティック・コメディ。

Harry Palmer heads a private investigation business based in Moscow. His associates are Nikolai "Nick" Petrov, ex-CIA agent Craig, and ex-KGB Colonel Gradsky. They take on the job of finding 1000 grams of weapons-grade plutonium stolen from the Russian government, though they do not know the identity of their client.

A homely but vivacious young woman dodges the amorous attentions of her father's middle-aged employer while attempting to please her glamorously stuck-up roommate Meredith.

After discovering the body of a murdered female agent in their trendy Soho, London nightclub, groovy owners Charles Salt and Christopher Pepper partake in a fumbling investigation and uncover an evil plot to overthrow the government. Can our cool, yet inept duo stop the bad guys in time?

TV star Jason Steel reluctantly becomes the sounding board for his best friends' bored wives, and must fend off their advances while managing his own fragile relationship.

Jamie McGregor (Barry Evans) is a virginal sixth-former in suburbia delivering groceries for the local supermarket, but he is more interested in other matters - Mary, Linda, Paula and Caroline. He tries to seduce the girls of his dreams in the swinging sixties.

Bernard meets Jane in a Night Club, in London, and he likes her. Her father was killed in a car accident, but Jane thinks he has been killed because he was blackmailed for a picture of his second wife, Jane's mother in law. In the same Night Club Bernard finds the blackmailer corpse and Jane near him, but he believes she is innocent. So Bernard and Jane run away followed by a dwarf, the blackmailer's men, who believe Bernard killed their boss and of course, the Police. They believe that Jerome, Jane's brother, can help them to solve the case. But Jane doesn't know where he is, or so she says. Corpse after corpse, Bernard will find out the truth. But will the truth help him?

原作者のモンキー・パンチは、当時放送されていたアニメに不満を持っていたため、アニメ化に反対していた。アニメ化の説得材料として13分弱のパイロットフィルムが製作された。この作品の出来のよさとリアルな描写に感動したモンキー・パンチはぜひアニメ化をお願いしたいとアニメ製作にOKを出した。

Joe Beckett, seasoned citizen of the bedsitter belt, aged about 22, is the renegade son of modest, respectable parents and, to use his own description, 'an emotional leper'. He decides that he needs a violent shock to shake him back into life, and as a result accepts a commission to carry out the murder of a total stranger for a man he meets in a coffee bar...

In April 1966, Cilla opened in a 3-week cabaret season at London’s Savoy Hotel. On her final Sunday, she starred in her own television special produced by her manager Brian Epstein’s film company, Subafilms. It was the first colour television show of its kind to be made by an independent producer in Britain. The show was broadcast in the UK in black & white but aired in colour in The Netherlands and the USA. ‘Cilla at the Savoy’ was one of the most watched television specials of the 1960s.

Based upon the Celtic legend Tam Lin, a young man is bewitched by a beautiful, heartless, aging sorceress to become her lover. When his attention wanders to a lovely girl, he is doomed to ritual sacrifice by the sorceress.