General Idi Amin Dada (1974)

かつてのウガンダで独裁政治を行なったアミン大統領の内幕を大胆に脚色し、側近医師の目を通して描き出した社会派サスペンス。残虐な大統領をフォレスト・ウィテカー、権力に負ける医師をジェイムズ・マカヴォイが演じる。

1976年6月27日、イスラエルからフランスへ向けて飛び立った民間旅客機を、武装した4人の男女がハイジャックする非常事態が発生。4人のうちの2人は、パレスチナ解放人民戦線のメンバー。残る2人は、彼らのシンパであるドイツ極左組織のメンバー、ヴィルフリードとブリギッテ。彼らは、エンテベ空港に旅客機を緊急着陸させると、大勢の乗客乗員を人質に取り、イスラエル政府に対して厳しい政治的要求を突きつける。

1979年、韓国。絶大な権勢を振るっていた大統領の直属機関、KCIAこと中央情報部。そのトップに立つ部長と政敵たちが、し烈な権力争いを繰り広げてゆく。

独裁政治を学ぶ体験授業をきっかけに洗脳されていく高校生たちの姿を描き、ドイツで大ヒットを記録した心理スリラー。アメリカで起こった実話をドイツの高校に置き換え、『エリート養成機関 ナポラ』のデニス・ガンゼルがメガホンを取った。主演には『エーミールと探偵たち』などに出演するドイツの俳優ユルゲン・フォーゲル。単純な興味や好奇心、ゲーム感覚から、あっという間に集団狂気に変化していく様子は、実話ならではのリアルさを帯び、身の毛もよだつほどのラストも衝撃的だ。

ソビエト連邦崩壊前のウクライナに生まれ、少年時代に家族とともにアメリカに渡ったユーリー・オルロフ。ニューヨークで両親が開店したレストランで働くユーリーはある時、ギャング同士の銃撃戦を目撃したことをきっかけに、弟のヴィタリーと２人で武器売買の事業を始める。危険と隣り合わせの裏社会で天性の才覚を発揮し、世界有数の武器商人へと成長していくユーリー。しかし、そんな彼にインターポールのバレンタイン刑事が迫ってゆく。

Accused of the genocide of Mayan people, retired general Enrique is trapped in his mansion by massive protests. Abandoned by his staff, the indignant old man and his family must face the devastating truth of his actions and the growing sense that a wrathful supernatural force is targeting them for his crimes.

『ブルーノ』などのお騒がせ男サシャ・バロン・コーエンが、世界一危険な独裁者を熱演する痛快爆笑ムービー。それまで欲望のままに生きてきた暴君が、ひょんなことからニューヨークに渡り、生まれて初めて庶民の世界を垣間見る様子をブラックな笑いと共に描き出す。将軍の右腕を、『ガンジー』などの名優ベン・キングズレーが好演。観る者を爆笑の渦に巻き込みつつ、時代背景を反映した痛烈な社会批判も込めた力作に脱帽する。

東南アジアの軍事国家シャドルーで活動していた国連派遣医療団が、独裁者バイソン将軍に拉致される。バイソンは連合軍の司令官ガイル大佐へ巨額の身代金を要求し、72時間以内に金を払わない場合は人質全員を殺すと脅迫する。脅しに屈しないガイルは、戒厳令を破って逮捕された無法者のケンとリュウを使い一計を案ずる。一方、バイソンは捕らえた国連兵士を使い恐るべき人体実験を行おうとしていた。

自らの死を偽装したテック界の大富豪が、卓越した技能で世界を股にかけて活躍する男女を集めチームを結成。傍若無人な独裁者を倒すため、"命"をかけた任務に挑む。

荒野を彷徨い続けるマックスは、航空機を操る謎の親子連れに乗り物や装備を奪われる。 徒歩でたどり着いた“バータータウン”は、物々交換で成り立つ街だった。街の支配者であるアウンティに腕前を買われたマックスは、自分の持ち物を取り戻すべく、全ての問題を解決するために設けられたステージ“サンダードーム”にて、街の裏の支配者であるマスター・ブラスターと戦うことになる。

1942年、ミュンヘン出身の若い女性ユンゲはヒトラーの個人秘書の職を得る。それから月日は流れて1945年、第2次世界大戦は大詰めを迎え、ヒトラーはごく限られた身内や腹心の部下たちとベルリンのドイツ首相官邸の地下要塞に逃げ、そこで不自由な生活を送る。敗北の気配が濃くなる中、ヒトラーはまだ反撃のシナリオを熱っぽく語るが次第に部下たちは彼から離反していき、ユンゲは歴史の証人としてその光景を静かに見守る。

アフリカの地で体長5メートルの巨大ゴリラと幸せに暮らしていた人間の女性ジョー。だがあるとき密猟者に襲われ、カリフォルニアへの移住を計画。だがそこにも追手は迫ってきた……。

Joan Wilder is thrust back into a world of murder, chases, foreign intrigue... and love. This time out she's duped by a duplicitous Arab dignitary who brings her to the Middle East, ostensibly to write a book about his life. Of course, he's up to no good, and Joan is just another pawn in his wicked game. But Jack Colton and his sidekick Ralph show up to help our intrepid heroine save the day.

国連で通訳として働くシルビアは、謎の人物たちのグー語の会話から、ある人物の暗殺計画を偶然立ち聞きしてしまう。彼女の周りに怪しい人物が暗躍し、シークレット・サービスのトビンが彼女を守る任務につく。

チャップリンがアドルフ・ヒトラーの独裁政治を批判した作品で、ヒトラーとナチズムに対して非常に大胆に非難と風刺をしつつ、ヨーロッパにおけるユダヤ人の苦況をコミカルながらも生々しく描き、ニューヨーク映画批評家協会賞で主演男優賞を受賞した。 またこの作品は、チャップリン映画初の完全トーキー作品でもある。 1918年の第一次大戦末期、トメニアのユダヤ人一兵卒チャーリーは飛行機事故で記憶を失い入院する。それから数年後のトメニアは独裁者アデノイド・ヒンケルの天下で、ユダヤ人掃討の真っ最中。そんな折、退院したチャーリーは生まれ育ったユダヤ人街で元の床屋の職に戻る。親衛隊の傍若無人ぶり、特にそれが恋人ハンナに及ぶに至り、彼は勇猛果敢かつ抱腹絶倒のレジスタンスを開始。それがどういうわけかヒンケル総統の替え玉を演じさせられることになり……。

When political turmoil forces a British-Caribbean dictator to flee his island nation, he seeks refuge and hides with a rebellious teenage girl in suburban America, and ends up teaching the young teen how to start a revolution and overthrow the "mean girls" in her high school.

エルサルバドルで繰り広げられる残虐な行為。それをアメリカ国家が支援していることを知り、政府を告発すべく動き出す2人の男がいた。オリヴァー・ストーン監督による音声解説やドキュメンタリーなどを収録。

In a not too distant future, a totalitarian state run by ‘The Director” controls all aspects of life. All enemies of the state are dealt in the harshest way. Most of them are executed by the secret government’s assassins. The best operative is code-named “Condor” – an elite agent and hit man for the government. However, in his latest assignment, “Condor” fails to kill an opposition leader, and finds himself on the run from the very same government agency that he works for. This sets in motion a chain of events with unforseen consequences for all involved.

Irene is a magazine editor living under the shadow of the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile. Francisco is a handsome photographer and he comes to Irene for a job. As a sympathizer with the underground resistance movement, Francisco opens her eyes and her heart to the atrocities being committed by the state.

大量虐殺による恐怖ですべてを支配してきた独裁者、スターリンが1953年に死去。そこから始まる後釜を狙いの熾烈な権力バトルを描く。スティーヴ・ブシェミほか個性派俳優陣共演によるブラック・コメディ。

Nicole Védrèss' chronicle of Paris from 1900 to 1914 is brought to life through the use of original material, all authentic, secured from more then 700 films belonging to public and private collections. A few of the celebrities of the time shown are Enrico Caruso, Sarah Bernhardt, and Maurice Chevalier.

Elise (Marie-Josee Nat) is a young provincial woman working in a factory in Paris. Her revolutionary brother secured the position for her, and she falls in love with an Algerian native who works with her. She becomes painfully aware of the prejudice he experiences from the police and his superiors. The recent conflict between France and Algeria only compounds the problems of Algerians in France. Her love and concern for the man causes her to search for him after he disappears one day. Elise considers moving to Algeria to find the man she loves in this bitter social drama.

An adventure of three characters: Clarisse, a psychic’s apprentice, Lazare, who works at the Parisian catacombs, and the bronze statue of a lion at the Denfert-Rochereau (in the 14th arrondissement). Clarisse and Laraze meet daily, but one day Lazare disappears and the lion disappears as well!

Paparazzi explores the relationship between Brigitte Bardot and groups of invasive photographers attempting to photograph her while she works on the set of Jean-Luc Godard's film Le Mépris (Contempt). Through video footage of Bardot, interviews with the paparazzi, and still photos of Bardot from magazine covers and elsewhere, director Rozier investigates some of the ramifications of international movie stardom, specifically the loss of privacy to the paparazzi. The film explains the shooting of the film on the island of Capri, and the photographers' valiant, even foolishly dangerous, attempts to get a photograph of Bardot.

This drama about a barmaid caught up in events beyond her control is the first film directed by Juliet Berto, and was also based on her own concept for the story. The barmaid, played by Berto, has been trying to take care of Bobby, a teenage drug pusher who is in over his head. Before she can put him back on track and get him out of the drug underworld, the young man is killed while being chased by a narcotics agent. Depressed by his death but not derailed, she finds herself trying to help out a gay user who depended on Bobby for his supply of drugs. She decides to procure some drugs for the desperate addict, and is trapped in the bathroom of a bar - with the drugs - when narcotics agents burst upon the scene. Her boyfriend rushes to help her but is killed by an agent who shoots first and thinks later. The barmaid does not face a very optimistic future as the narc arrests her - but releases a parish minister who had been helping her find a source for the drugs.

An experiment in pure design by film artists Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart. Lines, ruled directly on film, move with precision and grace against a background of changing colors, in response to music specially composed for the films.

A complex, insightful look at the Chicano experience as mirrored in the lives and music of the most acclaimed Norteño musicians of the Texas-Mexican border, including Flaco Jimenez and Lydia Mendoza. Video includes bonus feature, Del Mero Corazon.

A portrait of a traveling circus.

One day, Saturday October 5th, in a mans life.

A student is visited in his university lodgings by his critical parents.

Norman McLaren attempts to give the opening speech for the first Montreal International Film Festival, but his microphone won't cooperate.

Rythmetic is a 1956 Canadian short animated film directed by Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart where numbers are the main characters.

A film adaptation of the novelette of the same title written by Dominik Tatarka depicts the life of a young generation of artists that was formed in Slovakia during the war. Anabella, a young and beautiful girl meets a group of artists. She awakens their erotic desires but also pure feelings of love; she becomes the object of their secret fantasies as well as their artistic inspiration. And it seems that the boundaries between reality and fantasy suddenly cease to exist.

In this short film by Norman McLaren, dancers enact the Greek tragedy of Narcissus, the beautiful youth whose excessive self-love condemned him to a trapped existence. Skilfully merging film, dance and music, the film is a compendium of the techniques McLaren acquired over a lifetime of experimentation.

Normandy, second half of the nineteenth century. Jeanne Dandieu lives in a manor house with her parents and their servant Rosalie. She gets to know Julien, a handsome man, whom she soon marries. Her happiness is short-lived as she finds out that not only has Julien married her for her money but he cheats on her as well, with Rosalie to crown it all.

Roy Andersson's short movies focus on working class and youth daily life, capturing and portraying a small slice of his characters' day.

In 1912, Szczebieniew, a rich and ailing old man, comes to Italy with his young wife, Zinaida. Bored with his company, she looks for amusement and casual affairs.

Parajanov's collage of all the footage that remained from his film "Kyiv Frescoes," which was halted by the authorities who demanded that all the negatives be destroyed.