Blueberry Hill (1989)

The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or Cambridge. Bounced between their maverick English master, a young and shrewd teacher hired to up their test scores, a grossly out-numbered history teacher, and a headmaster obsessed with results, the boys attempt to pass.

『メリーに首ったけ』『ベガスの恋に勝つルール』などラブコメの女王キャメロン・ディアス主演による恋愛コメディー。玉のこしに乗ることに執念を燃やす女教師が、金持ちの息子だとうわさされる同僚の心をつかもうと暴走する姿をハイテンションなタッチで活写する。教育に対する理念や思想はゼロで、頭の中は金目当ての結婚のことばかりというトンデモ教師をキャメロンが怪演。彼女に狙われる純情な青年教師にふんした『TIME/タイム』のジャスティン・ティンバーレイクの好演も見もの。

筒井康隆の小説『時をかける少女』が原作であるが、原作の物語の映画化ではなく、原作の出来事から約20年後を舞台に次世代の登場人物が繰り広げる物語を描く続編である。

When a high school teacher is asked a question in class about Jesus, her reasoned response lands her in deep trouble and could expel God from the public square once and for all.

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。

Several ordinary high school students go through their daily routine as two others prepare for something more malevolent.

戦後変わりつつある家族の関係をテーマに人間の生と死までをも見つめた深淵なドラマ。故郷の尾道から20年ぶりに東京へ出てきた老夫婦。成人した子どもたちの家を訪ねるが、みなそれぞれの生活に精一杯だった。唯一、戦死した次男の未亡人だけが皮肉にも優しい心遣いを示すのだった……。

高校のバスケット・チームを舞台に教師の苦悩と葛藤を描く感動の人間ドラマ。監督は『ネゴシエーター』のトーマス・カーター。R＆B界の歌姫・アシャンティが本作で映画デビューを飾っている。サミュエル・L・ジャクソン演じるコーチ・カーターの人間らしいキャラクターはハマリ役。

周囲になじめない少女の唯一の楽しみは、猫に変身して好きな人に会いにいくこと。でもそんな毎日を続けるうちに、猫と人間の境界が次第にあいまいになり始め...。

東日本大震災で心に傷を負った福島県いわき市の女子高生・佐智は、友人や家族とどこか距離を置きながら、人にも恋にも無関心に生きてきた。幼い頃からバイオリンを続け、高校でも音楽部に所属する彼女は、文化祭で四重奏を披露するため日々練習に励んでいる。一方、震災で実家が帰宅困難地域となり、いわき市に避難してきた男子高校生・祐介は、当たり前の景色が失われてしまう現実に直面し、“美しい今”を絵画として残すべく描き始める。展覧会に出品する夕景画を描くため田園風景を訪れた彼は、そこで出会った佐智と惹かれ合っていく。

A teacher from New York moves to a small town in Texas, gets fired for being gay, and returns disguised in drag to get revenge on the people who were nasty to him.

Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.

The true story of an 84 year-old Kenyan villager and ex Mau Mau freedom fighter who fights for his right to go to school for the first time to get the education he could never afford.

Three kids hire a low-budget bodyguard to protect them from the playground bully, not realising he is just a homeless beggar and petty thief looking for some easy cash.

「デスペラード」「フロム・ダスク・ティル・ドーン」のロバート・ロドリゲスと、「スクリーム」の脚本家ケヴィン・ウィリアムソンが組んだSFスリラー。気弱な少年ケイシーは、ある日、グラウンドで奇妙な生き物を見つける。その生き物を水槽に入れた時、その生き物は変形し、攻撃的な本性を露にした。やがて、ケイシーはやたらに水を欲しがる辺りの人達のおかしな行動に気づく。「あの生物が人間に寄生しているかもしれない」と感じたケイシーは、仲間と共に学園の調査を開始。そこで、取り付かれた先生が保険医を襲う場面に遭遇する……。

「十八歳。高校最後の年。なのに六花は……まだ中二病だった」大学受験も見えてきた高校三年間近の春休み。相も変わらず冨樫勇太は小鳥遊六花と共同生活をしていた。しかし未だ上位契約も結べていない様子……。そんなある日、姉の十花が六花をイタリアに連れて行くと宣言する。仕事も安定したので、家族で移住すると言うのだ。焦る勇太だったが、大学進学も危うい六花をこのままにしてはおけない、という十花の意見はもっともだった。このままでは二人が引き裂かれてしまう。心配した丹生谷らいつものメンバーから、勇太はなんと〝駆け落ち〟を提案される。こうして、日本全国を舞台にした二人の逃走劇が、今始まるのだった。

高校二年生の梓川咲太（声：石川界人）は、空と海が輝く街・藤沢に暮らし、先輩であり恋人でもある桜島麻衣（声：瀬戸麻沙美）と心躍るような日々を過ごしている。しかしそんな日常が初恋の相手・牧ノ原翔子（声：水瀬いのり）の出現により一変。何故か中学生の翔子と大人の翔子との二人が存在しており、咲太はやむなく翔子と一緒に住むことになるが、大人翔子に翻弄され麻衣との関係がぎくしゃくしだす。そんな中、中学生翔子が重い病気にかかっていることが判明。咲太の傷跡が疼きはじめる。

バンドをクビにされ、ルームメイトのネッドからも追い出されたデューイは名門小学校で代用教員をしているネッドになりすましバイト感覚で学校へ行くが……。＜ミュージシャンでもあるジャック・ブラックが破天荒なロッカー教師を演じるコメディータッチの人間ドラマ。名門小学校にそぐわないニセ教師と小学生たちがロックを通じて交流を深める、笑いと風刺、感動、そして涙ありの作品。監督に「オースティン映画批評家協会」の設立者であるリチャード・リンクレイター。脚本は本作で友人役を演じるマイク・ホワイト。実際に楽器を演奏している子役たちの演奏の巧さもにも注目。＞

スティーヴン・チョボスキーによるベストセラー小説を、ローガン・ラーマン主演で映像化した青春映画。陽気でまばゆい兄妹と出会い、初めての友情と恋を知った高校生に降りかかる悲喜劇をセンチメンタルに描く。

近未来の大都市の一角に佇む忍者屋敷。 そこで暮らす忍者一族である石動家の長女・律花は研究者である父親に憧れていた。 平凡で幸せな生活が続くと思っていたとある日、突然何者かによって屋敷が襲撃を受けてしまう。絶体絶命の危機に果敢に立ち向かう律花だが――。 闇を斬り裂く“黒”になれ！

At the height of Reign of Terror Maximilien Robespierre orchestrates the trial and execution of several of his fellow leading French revolutionaries including Georges Danton.

While Douglas Coupland works on a grand art project about Canada, the writer recounts his life and his musings about the various aspects of Canadian identity.

Letters, Riddles and Writs is a one act opera for television by Michael Nyman broadcast in 1991.

Iskyss is a strong and poetic love story based on Gunvor Galtung Haavik’s double life through 30 years. During the Cold War, she was employed by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and assigned to the Norwegian Embassy in Moscow. With the information she had access to in the capacity of her position as interpreter and secretary, she frequently fed the KGB secret information.

A girl has to decide who to marry: a poor country boy or a rich nightclub owner.

Moody, atmospheric ghost story starring Mason as a retired tradesman who purchases an old mansion that has been vacant for 40 years because it is believed to be haunted by the spirit of a young woman who had died there. Unaware of the mansion's reputation, Mason and his wife Mullen move in and hire a young woman, Lockwood, to keep house. Soon after Lockwood's arrival, strange things begin to happen in the household, and it becomes apparent that she is possessed by the spirit of the dead girl, though Mason scoffs at the idea. On death's door and bedridden, Lockwood asks for the same doctor who treated the woman who died 40 years ago. He arrives and treats her. The next morning Lockwood is cured, and it is revealed by the police that the doctor's dead body was found in his carriage hours before the time Mason claims he arrived to see Lockwood. Convinced that not only the ghost of the girl but that of the doctor as well entered his home, Mason finally believes in the supernatural.

A filmmaker returns to Normandy thirty years after a working on a movie based on a local homicide and tries to find the actors who worked on the project.

A loving couple struggle to fend for themselves in modern day Los Angeles, One a loner and down and out, the other a lonely but hardworking secretary. Eventually, as cracks form in their passionate relationship, they resort to robbing an aging actress for money.

This is not merely another film about cinema history; it is a film about the love of cinema, a journey of discovery through over a century of German film history. Ten people working in film today remember their favourite films of yesteryear.

The story of the Dassau family, a family of artists: Frau Dassau is a composer, her husband is a writer, and their children are equally gifted as painters, poets and musicians. But unfortunately, no one wants to invest money in their art. The family is about to starve when Nicole comes up with a marvelous idea: She is going to write the "most scandalous book", the sex memoirs of a teenager. For this, she hides under the pseudonym of Eva. The book becomes an enormous success indeed, but Nicole's parents are decent people, and the public interest in their sluttish daughter begins to bother them. Things begin to get even more unpleasant when Nicole falls in love with an American publisher who'd prefer a virgin…

Four nights in Caracas. A documentary essay about chaos and civilization.

On Christmas Eve, Léa and Juliette, a couple, want to rob a supermarket that Juliette knows is empty of surveillance on this festive evening. But, as much for each of them as for Eric, the vigil who is there after all, nothing will happen as planned. Besides, shortly before leaving him alone, the store manager gave Eric a gun, just in case.

The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, King Boy D and Rockman Rock, try to find and gain access to the mystical White Room. They leave a party at their house and drive in their 1968 US Cop Car through night-time London and the dusty plains of the Sierra Nevada region of Spain. There they face judgement: will they be allowed to enter the White Room? Meanwhile their lawyer David Franks tries to find a loophole to free them from their contract with Eternity.

Produced in 1943 under the guidance of Army Air Force Lieutenant Clark Gable, this film follows a single 8th Air Force B-17 crew from training through a series of missions over Europe.

I love Vienna is a social comedy that explores the clash of cultures and values.

Based on a story by Vietnam veteran Paul Staples, the film concerns six American Green Berets, held for 17 years in a Vietnamese POW camp. They are finally released in secret, during a delicate trade-talk session between Vietnam and the United States. Captain Tom Watkins, the ex-prisoners' CO, begins to suspect that government-man Adam Roth, who is in charge of the debriefing, may be pursuing a hidden agenda that will result in the early deaths of Watkins and the five men under his command.

A humorous and satirical comedy, which places a man from the year 2222 one day in the (then) present day life in GDR, East Germany under Communist regime. Using a crystal for mind reading he uncovers some improprieties and moral weaknesses in the "Beautiful future" professed by VEB ("Volkseigener Betrieb" – "State Owned Holdings").

The subject of this historical drama is a splintering Berlin in the years of 1948 and 1949. Played against the backdrop of social upheaval, the characters in the drama come to epitomize the best and worst of each pole of the political sphere. A 17-year-old hoodlum by the name of Gladow works hand-in-glove with a local white-collar criminal to rob and pillage every day and night, defying capture. While he and his gang of thugs are terrorizing the people of Berlin, the Soviets are trying to make the blockade of their region of control impermeable. The future casts long shadows over the drama, as Berlin's problems take the shape of times to come.

The same day of their marriage, Jean's wife dies of a strange ailment in the middle of surgery. Afflicted by the loss, the young man abandons his medical studies and takes refuge in the memories of his time of courtship. At the same time that this happens, a wave of murders shakes the city with the same pattern of behavior: the victims are surgery students whose bodies have had both hands amputated.