The Misfortunates (2009)
ジャンル : ドラマ, コメディ
上映時間 : 1時間 48分
演出 : Felix van Groeningen
脚本 : Felix van Groeningen, Christophe Dirickx, Dimitri Verhulst
シノプシス
13-year-old Gunther Strobbe grows up surrounded by alcohol, trash and his completely useless father and uncles. Slowly but surely, he's being prepared for the same hapless life. Can he defy his destiny?
アルコール依存症のため映画会社を解雇された脚本家のベンは、大都会ラスヴェガスへ向かう。そこで出会った娼婦のサラと同居生活を始めるが……。ジョン・オブライエンの同名小説を基にした、短くも壮絶な愛の姿を綴った異色のラヴ・ストーリー。
名優ロバート・デ・ニーロ、シャロン・ストーン、ジョー・ペシ等、豪華キャストの競演が実現!激突する野望、燃えるような情熱、そして尽きることのない欲の絡み合いを、巨匠マーティン・スコセッシ監督が空前のスケールで描き上げた超大作。事実を踏まえたこの壮大な物語の舞台は、1973年の虚飾と夢の街ラスベガス。そのラスベガスでカジノを牛耳り大金を操作する命知らずのギャングたち。彼らの巨大な富と彼ら自身の運命はダイスとともに生み出され、ダイスと共に消えていくー。
Ellie Mae lives on Primrose Hill with her good-hearted and fancy free mother, her drunken father, her younger sister and a mean-spirited grandmother. The Hill is not a good part of town, however. When she meets and falls for a hard-working man, they marry and she hides her past from him. When he discovers the truth it jeopardizes their marriage.
A man's heavy drinking drives away his family and threatens to destroy his relationship with his little daughter.
A musician who lost his hands falls for a woman whose technologically adept friends help him make a comeback.
A nightclub singer uses alcohol in excess to sooth her painful life.
After spending three years in an asylum, a washed-up actor views a minor assignment from his old director in Rome as a chance for personal and professional redemption.
An ordinary LDS family has a teenager named Jimmy and he wonders about life and what is coming. Jimmy's sister Julie has a boyfriend on a mission who she plans to marry when he gets home. Jimmy's twin sister Pam is handicapped and is confined to a wheelchair and wants to make things good for Jimmy. Jimmy doesn't seem to care about his large family and wants to do his own things. When Jimmy hears his mother is going to have another child, Jimmy is filled with anger and leaves. His family wants Jimmy to return and love him, but Jimmy does not want their love.
Michael is a recovering addict. Back on the wagon, he's now responsible for a young, beautiful, and pregnant wife. He's working the graveyard shift at a gas station to support his new family, but the job drives him crazy. Then a wealthy stranger, Stuart, enters Michael's life, taking Michael through a tour of the seediest and slimiest parts of L.A. underbelly. Is Stuart leading Michael to hell, or salvation?
Set against the turbulent backdrop of London in the 1940s, this adaptation of Sarah Waters' bestselling novel, The Night Watch, follows four young Londoners inextricably linked by their wartime experiences. In a time when the barriers of sexual morality and social convention have been broken down, Kay, Helen, Viv and Duncan enjoy a freedom never experienced before. Moving back in time through the 1940s into the maelstrom of the Blitz, the lives, loves and losses of these four central characters are unravelled. For them, the post-war victory is bittersweet, for it returns them to the margins of society, from which they hoped they had been liberated. In order to build their future they must each make peace with their past.
Retroband Evergreen's reunion party is ruined when Viktor, who was once the band's frontman, threatens to blow the house up for revenge of his sad destiny.
Real-life drama about why, in a beautiful and quirky rural town, film- maker Jez Lewis' childhood friends are killing themselves. Beginning with a personal quest for understanding, the film moves into a year-long drama of human tragedy and redemption as principal character Cass comes to terms with his own mortality and attempts to lift himself out of his cycle of self-destruction. This core narrative carves an upward arc through an intimate study of a place often described as paradise, but which harbours an undertow of lethal hedonism and disillusionment. As people continue to kill themselves during the making of the film, a maelstrom of conflicting values throws up unexpected truths about the human condition.
Fearing her son could be gay, a conservative mother takes in a French foreign exchange student, who ends up teaching the family a lot about life, acceptance, and love.
Already suffering fiscal and emotional bankruptcy after a car crash shatters his life, young Van finds himself in a vacuum when his buddies go off to college and he stays behind to look after his disabled, alcoholic father. Lacking an outlet for his rage, Van starts to run with two local punks and drifts into a life of crime. Then he meets Doug, who seems to have everything Van desires ... but Doug has demons of his own.
Bank teller and widower with seven kids, Bob Hope finds $10,000 in a parking lot.
Mike Hagan is a pilot in passenger service and candidate for the honor "Best Pilot of the Year". Nobody knows that he's got private sorrows - he's an alcoholic. A stewardess notices his regular visits of the toilet and reports it.
A mismatched couple's marital problems come to the surface when the husband develops an interest in their pretty boarder.
When Shirley, Madea's niece, receives distressing news about her health, the only thing she wants is her family gathered around her. However, Shirley's three adult children are too preoccupied with their own troubled lives to pay attention to their mother. It is up to Madea, with the help of rowdy Aunt Bam, to bring the clan together and help Shirley deal with her crisis.
かつては人気を極めたものの今では落ち目のレスラー、ランディ。ある日、ステロイドの副作用のために心臓発作を起こし、レスラー生命を絶たれてしまう。家族とはうまくいかずストリッパーのキャシディにも振られ、孤独に打ちひしがれる中で、ランディは再びリングに上がる決意をする。
Mabel Longhetti, desperate and lonely, is married to a Los Angeles municipal construction worker, Nick. Increasingly unstable, especially in the company of others, she craves happiness, but her extremely volatile behavior convinces Nick that she poses a danger to their family and decides to commit her to an institution for six months. Alone with a trio of kids to raise on his own, he awaits her return, which holds more than a few surprises.
Put in charge of his young son, Ali leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Ali's bond with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, grows deeper after Stephanie suffers a horrible accident.
18世紀ヨーロッパ貴族社会の風俗や世界観を鮮やかに再現し、日和見主義で英国貴族に成り上がっていくアイルランド青年の栄華と没落の半生を描いたヒューマン・ドラマ。
A young cattle farmer is approached by an unscrupulous veterinarian to make a shady deal with a notorious beef trader.
A middle-aged Tehranian man, Mr. Badii is intent on killing himself and seeks someone to bury him after his demise. Driving around the city, the seemingly well-to-do Badii meets with numerous people, including a Muslim student, asking them to take on the job, but initially he has little luck. Eventually, Badii finds a man who is up for the task because he needs the money, but his new associate soon tries to talk him out of committing suicide.
2014年カンヌ国際映画祭でパルム・ドールを受賞したヌリ・ビルゲ・ジェイラン監督によるクライムサスペンス。殺人容疑者を連れて死体の捜索を始めた警察官たち。容疑者の曖昧な記憶に草原を転々と移動させられ、彼らは疲労と苛立ちを募らせていき…。
クリスのアラスカでの生活と、アラスカに至るまでの道中、妹のナレーションが交互に挟まれる構成である。 裕福な家庭に生まれ、物質的に恵まれた環境で育ったクリス・マッキャンドレスは、エモリー大学を優秀な成績で卒業する。両親はハーバードのロースクールに進学することを望んでいたが、幼い頃から不和を見せつけられ、金で物ばかりを与えようとする両親に嫌気が差していたクリスは、学資預金を全額寄付し、世界の真理を求めアラスカへと旅に出る。
イングランド王の圧制に家族を殺された、スコットランド人のウォーレス。愛する家族の仇を討つため、多くの民衆とともに立ち上がった……。中世スコットランドに実在した、伝説のヒーローの激闘を描いた歴史スペクタクル・アクション。
狩りをしていたルウェリンは、死体の山に囲まれた大量のヘロインと200万ドルの大金を発見する。危険なにおいを感じ取りながらも金を持ち去った彼は、謎の殺し屋シガーに追われることになる。事態を察知した保安官ベルは、2人の行方を追い始めるが……。
地表から600キロメートルも離れた宇宙で、ミッションを遂行していたメディカルエンジニアのライアン・ストーン博士とベテラン宇宙飛行士マット・コワルスキー。すると、スペースシャトルが大破するという想定外の事故が発生し、二人は一本のロープでつながれたまま漆黒の無重力空間へと放り出される。地球に戻る交通手段であったスペースシャトルを失い、残された酸素も2時間分しかない絶望的な状況で、彼らは懸命に生還する方法を探っていく。
強盗の計画を立てているカップルを導入部に、盗まれたトランクを取り戻そうとする二人組のギャング、ビンセントとジュールス。ボスの情婦と一晩のデートをするハメになるビンセント。ボクシングの八百長試合で金を受け取るボクサーのブッチ。誤って人を殺し血塗れになった車の処理に右往左往するビンセントとジュールス。ギャングのボス、マーセルスを軸としたこれらの物語がラストに向けて収束していく。
近未来の地球では植物の枯死、異常気象により人類は滅亡の危機に立たされていた。元宇宙飛行士クーパーは、義父と15歳の息子トム、10歳の娘マーフとともにトウモロコシ農場を営んでいる。マーフは自分の部屋の本棚から本がひとりでに落ちる現象を幽霊のせいだと信じていたが、ある日クーパーはそれが何者かによるメッセージではないかと気が付く。クーパーとマーフはメッセージを解読し、それが指し示している秘密施設にたどり着くが、最高機密に触れたとして身柄を拘束される。