Petals on the Wind (2014)
Holy hag
ジャンル : テレビ映画, ロマンス, スリラー
上映時間 : 1時間 25分
演出 : Karen Moncrieff
シノプシス
This sequel to Flowers in the Attic picks up 10 years after Cathy, Chris and Carrie managed to escape Foxworth Hall.
The true story of Romper Room host "Miss Sherri" Finkbine, who, after the devastating effects of thalidomide were discovered in the early 1960s, sparked a firestorm of controversy with her determination to obtain an abortion.
Bianka and Paulina are two teenage girls watching a video on the sexuality of people and animals. They are surprised by Bianka's farther and change to another channel. They suddenly find themselves in the same house in the 1920's. The girls are totally immersed in problems associated with puberty and reaching adulthood. The atmosphere of the house is imbued with eroticism. Bianka is sensitive with a poetic nature, shocked at the role that tradition has mapped out for her, terrified by the marriage which is being planned for her. Paulina is an extrovert, well adapted to face every situation, who accepts the amorous advances made at her. Based on the 1975 Tadeusz Różewicz play called Białe małżeństwo.
A widow upholds feudal virtue by suppressing her love for a cavalry captain in favor of her daughter.
A striking generational tragicomedy, A Hoof Here, a Hoof There is a caustic group portrait of pals who enjoy a tipple, all kinds of hi-jinks and no-strings sexual adventures. Auditor Pepe, vet Dědek and restaurant manager František are financially secure and enjoy life with their similarly fun-loving girlfriends—at least until the moment when the brash Pepe collapses and ends up in hospital.
In 1961 Mississippi was a virtual South African enclave within the United States. Everything is segregated. There are virtually no black voters. Bob Moses, enters the state and the Voter Registration Project begins. The first black farmer who attempts to register is fatally shot by a Mississippi State Representative. But four years later, the registration is open. By 1990, Mississippi has more elected black officials than any other state in the union.
A filmmaker reunites with the daughter she gave up for adoption twenty years later.
Expose on the exploitation of workers in the Florida sugar cane industry.
Beirut: The Last Home Movie is a 1987 documentary film directed by Jennifer Fox. It follows the life of Gaby Bustros and her family, who live in in a 200-year old mansion in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War. The Bustros family, one of the noble families of Beirut, remain in their ancestral home despite the endless war that surrounds them.
When a super cyclone threatens the entire American eastern seaboard, a lone meteorologist and a petroleum engineer must battle the elements to stop the threat.
A mother deals with the violent murder of her daughter.
Two young orphan siblings travel to Moscow in search of their missing father. Scared of being separated and sent to orphanages, they hope to reunite with the last link of their shattered family.
A widowed theatre director moves to a small Connecticut town where he gets involved in solving the murder of a millionaire, who was the most despised man in town.
A young married woman's life takes a radical turn when, what she thinks is a passing sexual encounter with her beautiful college roommate, turns into a life altering love affair. Friends with privileges? Best friends and intimates? Delphine, French, sexy, capricious and married, is still in love with her best friend from college, Belle, a beautiful and successful interior designer in New York City. Conducting a clandestine relationship for years, Belle ends it, but meets great resistance from Delphine who is used to "having it all." Sexy, passionate and heartfelt, the two lovers meet one last time for a last rendezvous. One last reunion turns into a three way of broken hearts. Delphine's husband realizes he is up against a serious competitor for his young wife's heart, and Delphine must make a grown up decision.
Directed and narrated by Maja Borg, Future My Love is a unique love story challenging our collective and personal utopias in search of freedom.
A curious woman meets an alluring man with bat wings in this personal recollection of a pivotal journey. This 10 minute animated film was created from over 4000 hand-made collages incorporating the figures from Eadweard Muybridge’s Human and Animal Locomotion, first published in 1887. Source : Stacey Stears Vimeo
手つかずの自然が残り、自然保護区にも指定されている南フランスの国立公園。小さな虫たちは森で平和な日々を過ごしていたが、ある日、ピクニックをしていた人間が残していった角砂糖をめぐり、黒アリと赤アリの間で争奪戦が起こる。その争いに一匹のてんとう虫が巻き込まれてしまう。
A self-conscience co-ed anguishes over whether to get out of her comfort zone by stripping naked and joining other students in a run across campus.
The estranged daughter of a small town minister is forced to return to the strict, religious home of her youth where she must confront the troubled relationships that caused her to leave four years before
"Mechanical Love" is a documentary on the interrelationship between robots and humans. The film portrays people who have a close relationship with a robot, and it takes us from the high temple of robot technology, Tokyo, Japan, to Braunschweig, Germany, to Italy and back to Copenhagen, Denmark. By this world tour director Phie Ambo seeks to highlight the human need for love and our craving to be loved by others - perhaps the two most important aspects of life. Through the main characters, she examines the cultural differences in how we accept emotional robots in the East and the West.
Set in a small Swedish town, the story is centered around three best friends aged 20. Michelle, a photo model, has a drinking problem which leads to a string of one-night-stands, including sex with the hot tempered boyfriend of Anna. She has just moved in with him and is too much in love too see his faults. Petra is their clever friend who must combine being pregnant with operating her own café.
After the sudden death of their father, four children face cruel treatment from their ruthless grandmother.
Christopher and Cathy Dollanganger live together as man and wife with Cathy's two sons who are unaware of the incestuous nature of their parents' relationship. But when a mysterious woman moves in next door and befriends the younger boy, Bart, he begins a strange transformation and displays accusatory behavior towards Cathy and Christopher. When Christopher discovers their mysterious neighbor is, in fact, his mother Corrine Dollanganger, all of the family's long-hidden secrets are revealed in a tragic climax.
The Sheffield family reveal and go through some home truths as their middle child inherits the Foxworth mansion. The family's ghosts looming over, and more tragedies are in store as the curse lives on.
ヘイゼルはインディアナポリスに住む女の子だが甲状腺がんで肺にも転移してしまった。ヘイゼルの母フラニーは彼女にがん患者支援団体に参加して友達を作ることを強く勧め、そこで骨肉腫で足を失ったオーガスタスと出会った。その後、二人は親しくなり、お互いのおすすめの小説を読むことにしたが、オーガスタスは本を読み終えた後、唐突な結末に苛立ち、作者のピーター・ヴァン・ホーテンに会うためチャリティー団体の支援を受けてアムステルダム行きの飛行機のチケットを入手する。
とある王国のプリンセス、オーロラ姫の誕生祝賀パーティー。幸せな雰囲気があふれるその会場に、招かれざる邪悪な妖精マレフィセントが出現する。オーロラ姫に永遠の眠りにつく呪いをかけたマレフィセント。それは、なぜなのか。答えは、謎に包まれたマレフィセントの過去にあった。
コニー・アイランドの寂れた海岸。古いアパートに住む孤独な未亡人サラは、ある日、大好きなTVのクイズ番組から出演依頼の電話を受け、ダイエットを決意する。一方その一人息子ハリーと恋人マリオンのもとに、友人のタイロンが麻薬密売の話を持ちかける。一時はそれぞれに人生がうまく回り始めたかに思えたのだが……。
世界が崩壊してから100年後の未来。復興を果たした人類は、16歳で受ける選択の儀式によって人々を軍・警察にあたるドーントレス、政権を運営するアブネゲーション、教育・研究を担うエリュダイトといった五つの共同体に振り分け、そこで人生を全うすることを強制していた。16歳になったトリスも選択の儀式を迎えるが、どの共同体にも適さない異端者(ダイバージェント)と判断されてしまう。異端者は政府に抹殺されるのを知った彼女は、うそをついてドーントレスへと所属する。
12の地区より12歳から18歳までの男女一組を選出し、最後の1人になるまで戦わせる独裁国家パネムが実施する「ハンガー・ゲーム」。男女ペアで勝者となったカットニス(ジェニファー・ローレンス)とピータ(ジョシュ・ハッチャーソン)は、凱旋(がいせん)ツアーで各地区を回る中で、自分たちを反国家の象徴として捉える民衆の思い、静かに広がっている革命への動きを感じる。同様に国民の変化を悟ったスノー大統領(ドナルド・サザーランド)は、カットニス抹殺をひそかな目的にした歴代勝者結集の新ゲームを開催させる。
歴代勝者を戦わせる記念大会の闘技場からすんでのところで助けられたカットニスは、第13地区の地下にあるコイン首相率いる反乱軍の秘密基地に収容される。そこでは独裁国家パネムを打ち負かし、自由で平等な国家を作り上げるための戦いの準備が着々と進行しており、彼女も反乱軍と一緒に戦うことを決める。
パネムという名の独裁国家と化した近未来アメリカでは、反乱の抑止を目的に12の地区から選出された12歳から18歳までの男女24人が殺し合う殺人サバイバル「ハンガー・ゲーム」が強制されていた。プレイヤーに選ばれた妹に代わって出場するカットニス(ジェニファー・ローレンス)は、狩猟で鍛えた弓矢の腕と持って生まれた鋭い勘を生かし、同じ地区から選ばれた少年ピータとともに戦いに挑む。