One Day of Life (1950)
ジャンル : 戦争, ドラマ, ロマンス
上映時間 : 1時間 37分
演出 : Emilio Fernández
シノプシス
A story about two men caught in the Mexican revolution: close friends before, but now on the opposite sides. One of them is military officer, while the other one expects capital punishment. The prisoner's mother comes to visit his son, unaware that his former best friend is now his enemy.
メキシコ国境の街、サンタ・セシリアに黒いギター・ケースをさげた男がやって来た。彼の目的は殺された恋人の仇を討つことで、そのギター・ケースには高性能武器が詰まっていた……。麻薬組織のボスに立ち向かう男の姿を描いたバイオレンス・アクション。
南北戦争終結後、かつて敵同士であった南軍、北軍の二人の大佐がメキシコへ向かう道程で困難に立ち向かいながら互いに協力し合って行く西部劇。
南北戦争終結直後、旧北軍と旧南軍の大佐が、互いに協力しながら困難に立ち向かっていく西部劇。北軍大佐だったトーマスは部下たちと3000頭の馬を率いてメキシコへ向かっていた。一方、同じくメキシコヘ向かっていた旧南軍大佐のラングドン一行は途中、盗賊に狙われるが、トーマスの事前の忠告と協力で窮地を救われる。友情で結ばれた2人は目的の場所を目指すが…。
Tita is passionately in love with Pedro, but her controlling mother forbids her from marrying him. When Pedro marries her sister, Tita throws herself into her cooking and discovers she can transfer her emotions through the food she prepares, infecting all who eat it with her intense heartbreak.
バイオレンス映画の巨匠サム・ペキンパー監督が、20世紀初頭のメキシコを舞台に滅びゆくアウトローたちの姿を描いた傑作西部劇。1913年、アメリカ・テキサスでの銀行強盗に失敗したパイクら強盗団はメキシコに逃走する。旧友ソーントンら賞金稼ぎに追われる中、メキシコ政府のマパッチ将軍の依頼で米軍用列車から武器を強奪するパイクたちだったが、マパッチの裏切りに遭い、仲間を人質に取られてしまう……。スローモーションに細かいカットを挿入するペキンパーのアクション演出は後続に大きな影響を与えた。出演はウィリアム・ホールデン、アーネスト・ボーグナイン。
Rachel is an intelligent, modern-day woman constantly on the move. Primarily focused on her career as a diplomatic consul for the U.S. embassy, she's literally lived her life on the move, globe-trotting from city to city. Currently working in Mexico City and set to leave for London, Rachel's world turns upside down on the eve of her own goodbye party when she gets drunk and passes out on the street. Saved by Alejandro, a handsome Mariachi singer and single father, Rachel wakes up in his apartment with no recollection of how she got there. Nor does she remember that she rejected his visa the day before, which he desperately needs for his daughter. Romance unexpectedly blossoms between the two, but either sparks or fists will fly after she finds out his secret.
A group of mariachis receives a letter to be part of the National Mariachi Contest in Mexico City. In order to be able to win they will need to travel together and solve their differences since their prime was 30 years ago.
メキシコ革命の指導者の一人、エミリアーノ・サパタの半生を描いたドラマ。
脚本は小説家のジョン・スタインベック、監督はエリア・カザン、主演のマーロン・ブランドは、この作品でカンヌ映画祭男優賞に輝き、サパタの兄を演じたアンソニー・クインは、アカデミー助演男優賞を受賞した。 20世紀初頭、メキシコの農民は大統領の圧政に苦しんでいた。不当に土地を奪われた青年サパタは、兄や友人とともにゲリラ隊を組織する。
A whimsical fish-out-of-water story of two spoiled sisters: Nora (Camilla Belle), a law student, and Mary (Alexa Vega), an undergrad party girl, living with their father in a luxurious mansion in Beverly Hills. Mary has become so "90210" she refuses to admit she is of Mexican decent. When dad suddenly passes away, their posh lives are turned upside down. They discover they have been left penniless and are forced to move into their estranged aunt Aurelia's (Adriana Barraza) modest but lively home in the Latino-centric Boyle Heights neighborhood of East LA.
In 1914, the Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa invites studios to shoot his actual battles against Porfírio Diaz army to raise funds for financing guns and ammunition. The Mutual Film Corporation, through producer D.W. Griffith, interests for the proposition and sends the filmmaker Frank Thayer to negotiate a contract with Pancho Villa himself.
メキシコの政府軍に武器を輸送するアメリカの飛行機乗りが、革命軍側に捕まった。命は救けられるが、彼は革命軍の為に働くことになる。そして次第に革命軍のリーダー、パンチョ・ビラに魅せられていくのだった......。
メキシコ革命を舞台に社会派的な要素を組み込んだ、マカロニウエスタンの金字塔。
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The Mexican Revolution serves as a backdrop to a torrid love triangle composed of three freedom fighters: a colonel, a widow, and a fiery female soldier.
In Mexican Revolution times, a guerrilla general and his troops take the conservative town of Cholula, near by Mexico City. As the revolutionaries mistreat the town's riches, Armendáriz falls for beautiful and wild Beatriz Peñafiel, the daughter of one of the town's richest men.
The assassination of Pancho Villa, on the outskirts of Parral, Chihuahua, plunged the city into mourning, and a wake for the revolutionary hero was held by his closest collaborators. Conspicuous among the mourners were the four women with whom Villa was having intimate relationships at the time of his death. Now that Villa is no longer around to mediate and keep them apart, tensions between the women grow and intensify, with unexpected consequences. An intimate and human portrait of the Centaur of the North.
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American arms dealer Kennedy hopes to make a killing by selling to the "regulares" in the 1916 Mexican revolution. American mercenary Wilson favors the rebel faction headed by Escobar, and they plot to hijack Kennedy's arms; but Wilson also has his eye on Kennedy's wife. Raids, counter-raids, and escapes follow in a veritable hail of bullets.
The ruthless and cruel Captain Ramirez hunts down and kills revolutionaries in his search for The Saint, the righteous leader of the Mexican insurrection against the Federales.