Catapult (2009)

On August 7th 1974, French tightrope walker Philippe Petit stepped out on a high wire, illegally rigged between New York's World Trade Center twin towers, then the world's tallest buildings. After nearly an hour of performing on the wire, 1,350 feet above the sidewalks of Manhattan, he was arrested. This fun and spellbinding documentary chronicles Philippe Petit's "highest" achievement.

天才的な操縦技術を誇り、民間航空会社のパイロットとして何不自由ない暮しを送っていたバリー・シールの元に、ある日CIAのエージェントがスカウトに現れる。CIAの極秘作戦に偵察機のパイロットとして加わる事となったバリーは、その過程で伝説的な麻薬王パブロ・エスコバルらと接触し、麻薬の運び屋としてもその才能を見せ始める。ホワイトハウスやCIAの命令に従いながら、同時に違法な麻薬密輸ビジネスで数十億円の荒稼ぎをするバリー。しかしそんな彼の背後には、とんでもない危険が迫っていた。

Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972, as the three are members of an East L.A. gang known as the "Vatos Locos", and the story focuses on how a violent crime and the influence of narcotics alter their lives. Miklo is incarcerated and sent to San Quentin, where he makes a "home" for himself. Cruz becomes an exceptional artist, but a heroin addiction overcomes him with tragic results. Paco becomes a cop and an enemy to his "carnal", Miklo.

A teenage girl with nothing to lose joins a traveling magazine sales crew, and gets caught up in a whirlwind of hard partying, law bending and young love as she criss-crosses the Midwest with a band of misfits.

After a bloody invasion of the BOPE in the High-Security Penitentiary Bangu 1 in Rio de Janeiro to control a rebellion of interns, the Lieutenant-Colonel Roberto Nascimento and the second in command Captain André Matias are accused by the Human Right Aids member Diogo Fraga of execution of prisoners. Matias is transferred to the corrupted Military Police and Nascimento is exonerated from the BOPE by the Governor.

ドラッグ中毒のマークと悪友たちは常にハイ状態か、あるいはドラッグを手に入れるため盗みに精を出しているというていたらく。ある日、マークはこのままではいけないと更生するためにロンドンに行き職に就く。ところが、彼らの仲間が会社に押し掛けたことが原因で、マークはクビになってしまう。

CIAエージェントのイーサン・レナーは任務中に病で倒れ、医師から余命3カ月を宣告される。残された時間を別れた家族と過ごそうと決め、パリを訪れたイーサンだったが、思春期の娘ゾーイとの溝は深まるばかり。そんな時、謎の女エージェントのヴィヴィが、イーサンの病気に効果のある試験薬を提供するかわりに、現役最後の仕事として凶悪なテロリスト抹殺の任務を引き受けてほしいとと持ちかける。

When his hard-earned kicks get snatched by a local hood, fifteen-year old Brandon and his two best friends go on an ill-advised mission across the Bay Area to retrieve the stolen sneakers.

1920年代のシカゴ。スターを夢見るロキシーは、キャバレーの専属歌手ヴェルマのステージを羨望の眼差しで見ていた。そんなロキシーはある日、ショーに売り込むとの約束を守らなかった愛人と諍いを起こし、ついに彼を撃ち殺してしまう。そして逮捕され留置所に送られたロキシーは、驚くことにあのヴェルマと出会った。彼女は不倫した夫と妹を殺した罪に問われていた。しかし、マスコミ操作に長けた辣腕弁護士ビリーのおかげで、巷では一躍スター扱い。ロキシーも同じ手段でヴェルマ以上の注目を浴びようとビリーを雇う。

この新しい冒険では、マイアミの麻薬探偵マイク・ローリー（ウィル・スミス）とマーカス・バーネット（マーティン・ローレンス）が、マイアミのエクスタシーデザインの陰謀を暴こうとするハイテクチームの一員として割り当てられます。 しかし、彼らは無意識に麻薬王、ジョニー・タピア（ジョルディ・モラ）が関与する致命的な陰謀を発見します。 さらに悪いことに、DEAの秘密捜査官であるマーカスの美しい姉妹であるシド（ガブリエルユニオン）は、クロスファイアに巻き込まれ、ヒーローたちを法の端に追いやることを余儀なくされました。 キューピッドがマイクとシドの上を飛行し始めると、すべてがさらに複雑になり、保護者の兄弟の怒りを引き起こします。

Terrence McDonagh is a New Orleans Police sergeant, who recieves a medal and a promotion to lieutenant for heroism during Hurricane Katrina. Due to his heroic act, McDonagh injures his back and becomes addicted to prescription pain medication. He then finds himself involved with a drug dealer who is suspected of murdering a family of African immigrants.

The true story of Richard Kuklinski, the notorious contract killer and family man.

恋人メイと穏やかな生活を送る香港警察のエース、チェン刑事の元に、国際警察から極秘プロジェクトの参加依頼が入る。それは東南アジアを拠点に暗躍する世界的な犯罪組織”チャイバの帝国”を壊滅すること。中国の国家保安局部長で、特殊任務のエキスパートである美女ヤンとコンビを組んだチェンは、組織のボスであるチャイバに取り入り、黄金の三角地帯で行われる大型取引への潜入捜査を開始する。 ジャッキー・チェンの人気シリーズ第３弾。美しきアクション女優ミシェール・ヨーが男顔負けの危険なスタントを披露。手に汗握る超絶バトルから目が離せない！

Russian inmate Boyka, now severely hobbled by the knee injury suffered at the end of Undisputed 2. No longer the feared prison fighter he was, he has declined so far that he is now good only for cleaning toilets. But when a new prison fight tournament begins - an international affair, matching the best fighters from prisons around the globe, enticing them with the promise of freedom for the winner - Boyka must reclaim his dignity and fight for his position in the tournament.

Heavyweight Champ George "Iceman" Chambers is sent to a Russian jail on trumped-up drug charges. In order to win his freedom he must fight against the jailhouse fighting champ Uri Boyka in a battle to the death. This time he is not fighting for a title, he is fighting for his life!

白人至上主義の極右組織“ネオナチ”のメンバーとなったある兄弟の悲劇を通し、現代アメリカの暗部を衝いてゆく。共演にエドワード・ファーロング。父を黒人に殺された恨みから、白人至上主義グループのメンバーとなったデレク。やがて殺人事件で刑務所送りになった彼が出所してきた時、デレクは自分を崇拝する弟がメンバーとなっている事実を知る。

Hoping to bring his family closer together and to recreate his childhood vacation for his own kids, a grown up Rusty Griswold takes his wife and their two sons on a cross-country road trip to the coolest theme park in America, Walley World. Needless to say, things don't go quite as planned.

わずか３分１６秒のうちに殺人犯に仕立てられた主人公クォン。次々に出てくる思いもよらない証拠。全ては何者かに仕組まれたかのように彼を犯人として導いていく―まったく身に覚えのない罪を着せられたクォンは、仲間から黒幕の存在を告げられる。クォンの元に、この仕組まれた殺人の実態を暴くためそれぞれの特技を持ったゲーマー仲間５人が集結。次々と明らかになる真実に伴い、ある男の存在が浮かび上がる。しかし、その存在を知ったとき、男の恐るべき力を目の当たりにするのだった。 街全体を操作する巨大な力を持った男に、たった６人で立ち向かうゲーマーたち。果たして彼らに勝機はあるのか！？

アクション・ゲーム「フィックス・イット・フェリックス」の敵キャラを30年間も演じているラルフ。人々から嫌われている状況にうんざりしていた彼は、自分のゲームの世界を抜け出してお菓子だらけの世界でレースが繰り広げられるゲーム「シュガー・ラッシュ」の世界へ。そこで彼は、仲間外れにされてレースに出ることを禁止されている少女ヴァネロペと出会う。お互いに孤独を抱えていた彼らは意気投合し、友情を深めていくように。だが、違うゲームのキャラクター同士が遭遇することはゲーム世界のおきてに背く行為であった。

ニコラス・ケイジ主演のクライム・アクション。1974年の「バニシングIN60」をモチーフに、伝説のカー泥棒チームが目論む一世一代の強盗計画をスピーディーな展開で描く。街中を疾走する迫力のカーチェイスは必見。ロバート・デュバル、アンジョリーナ・ジョリー共演。“60秒でどんな車でも盗み出す”伝説のエキスパート、メンフィス。すでに足を洗っていた彼だったが、弟に危機が迫った時、彼は無謀な賭けに出る。

MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES is the striking new documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Internationally acclaimed for his large-scale photographs of “manufactured landscapes”—quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines and dams—Burtynsky creates stunningly beautiful art from civilization’s materials and debris.

Directors Hetherington and Junger spend a year with the 2nd Battalion of the United States Army located in one of Afghanistan's most dangerous valleys. The documentary provides insight and empathy on how to win the battle through hard work, deadly gunfights and mutual friendships while the unit must push back the Taliban.

Reviewers found this somewhat surreal film so visually stunning as to be worth watching even when it was not clear to them what was going on. In the story, Jozef Schrevek is a man with unusual powers which he wishes to pass on to his son before his death, which is coming soon. Unfortunately, his son is much more interested in boozing and womanizing and being a well-known habitué of nightclubs, than in taking his father seriously and receiving his powers and the responsibilities which come along with them. The tension between the two escalates when a young woman enters their lives.

While a woman is in the hospital preparing to deliver her child, her husband has all day to reflect upon his wife and their relationship. As he tends to his job as a television repairman, Slavek fondly remembers how he first met Ivana and the days they spent getting to know one another. Slavek also grows increasingly aware of the environment that surrounds him and questions the society his new child will be entering. Loaded with a repeated plea for social change, this is the first feature from Czech writer/director Jaromil Jires.

Sweden, 1782. Jacob, a young noble, somewhat wild and vehement, returns from his studies in France. After his absence, he returns home happy, but is even happier of meeting his beloved sister Charlotte again. However, she has been promised to the Baron Alsmeden, a man of great influence at court, and this fact will awake a feeling like jealousy in Jacob.

A portrait of Sigmund Freud as a young man.

OSTKREUZ tells the episodic story of 15-year-old Elfie, who literally and metaphorically inhabits a no-man’s-land between the two Germanies shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The film deploys a neorealist aesthetic to reinforce the difficulties confronting the girl, and by inference, Germany.

Experimental Yugoslav short film.

A candid, fly-on-the-wall BBC television documentary portrait of Russian Nationalist politician, Vladimir Zhirinovsky. The film shows the leader on a cruise surrounded by two hundred supporters getting plenty of media attention in New York. We are left with the nagging question: to what extent is Zhirinovsky really dangerous? To take that further, to what extent are populist politicians truly dangerous?

Neurosia is the autobiography of the director Rosa von Praunheim. The movie begins with Rosa presenting his autobiography in a movie theater. Before the film begins, he is shot. But - his body gets lost. A female journalist from a TV station begins researching the life of Rosa. In the course of the movie she speaks to lots of aquaintances, shows short clips from Rosas old movies. Her main aim is to provide sensational and shocking details from Rosas life. It turns out that nearly everybody had some reason to kill Rosa. At the end of the movie, she discovers Rosa at a boat where he is kept prisoner by some of his old enemies. She frees him, and the movie ends.

L’art d’aimer / The Art of Loving (1985), another colour short, is probably the weakest of the ten films, mostly because it’s a blurry monologue (read by Smolders) from the perspective of a man confused about past events from his youth, and the fate of his mother. Smolder’s voice is deadly monotone, and the short drones on towards a climax set in an old age home, and a room filled with men and women suffering from diverse ailments, or seniors trapped in some darkened mental gloom. - kqek.com

Experimental short film from Yugoslavia.

Colorfully edited vignettes of young characters having fun in the town of Onomichi.

Told from the point of view of a rescued buffalo, this is the story of a small town trying to find itself after the Armenian-Azeri conflict. The buffalo's reception by the other farm animals reflects the distrust rife in the countries of the post-Soviet world.

Two years after making his film BLIND KIND, Van der Keuken contacted the blind boy that had impressed him most at the time.

A documentary charting the rigors of the Russian space program, where the symbol of national pride would justify the most demanding training conditions.

A series of three episodes which explore the relationship between men, women and the physical and mental spaces they inhabit.

The Monarchy leads a repressive campaign against a Serb village, where an Austrian officer was killed.

Deals with filmic reality and conformity in East and West. Won acclaim at 1976 Edinburgh Festival.

Life on the Danube is essentially determined by two factors: the river itself and the often strange idiosyncrasies of the people who live along its banks. And they are multifarious: fishermen and graveyard wardens, Buddhist monks, allotment holders on Danube Island, stranded shippers, tramps and soldiers. All linked by the great current against which they swim.