Demon in the Freezer (2016)
Smallpox has inflicted untold suffering and death. So why are we keeping it around?
ジャンル : ドキュメンタリー
上映時間 : 18分
演出 : Errol Morris
シノプシス
Errol Morris' "Demon in the Freezer" is a short 17-minute documentary about the stockpiles of the smallpox virus that remain stored for research purposes.
Inside the dramatic search for a cure to ME/CFS (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome). 17 million people around the world suffer from what ME/CFS has been known as a mystery illness, delegated to the psychological realm, until now. A scientist in the only neuro immune institute in the world may have come up with the answer. An important human drama, plays out on the quest for the truth.
通常は20%しか使われていない人間の脳。それを100%にまで覚醒させる新薬を手に入れた男が、ハイスピードで富と名声を手に入れるが、恐るべき副作用が表われる。ニール・バーガー監督によるSFサスペンス。
Lee Ray Oliver, a death row inmate, is given a second chance at life if he agrees to undergo a new chemical treatment used to modify behavior.
The story of Joy Division’s lead singer Ian Curtis, from his schoolboy days in 1973 to his suicide on the eve of the band's first American tour in 1980.
食中毒の発生したジェット機内のパニックをパロディ満載で描いたスラップスティック・コメディ。「JAWS/ジョーズ」に始まり「エアポート'75」「大陸横断超特急」など数々の作品がネタにされている。「ケンタッキー・フライド・ムービー」で注目を集め、近年では「裸の銃を持つ男」などでコメディ界に君臨し続けるトリオ“ZAZ”が手掛ける。
1990年代、アルジェリアの人里離れた村にある修道院では、カトリックの修道士たちが共同生活を送っていた。戒律を厳格に守り信仰に身をささげる一方、地域の診療所としても機能する修道院には、毎日地元の住民たちが訪ねてきていた。修道士たちはイスラム教徒の地元民と良好な関係を築いていたが、アルジェリア内戦による影響が出始め……。
A military veteran goes on a journey into the future, where he can foresee his death and is left with questions that could save his life and those he loves.
ロレンツォ・オドーネは、7歳までは普通の子供だったが、失神や記憶喪失などの奇妙な精神現象を経験するようになった。極めて稀な難治性の脳変性疾患であるALDと診断された彼の両親は、従来の医療の失敗に不満を抱き、非解毒の治療法を探し始めた。
Filmed and edited in intimate vérité style, this movie follows visionary medical practitioners who are working on the cutting edge of life and death and are dedicated to changing our thinking about both.
A young psychiatric intern unearths secrets about the mental health facility in which he works.
科学者アレックスとラリー。開発に成功した妊娠促進薬の治験に凍結命令が下される。納得いかないラリーは、アレックスに新薬を投与。見事妊娠してしまったアレックスは……!?A・シュワルツェネッガー主演のハートフル・コメディ。
慢性疲労症候群。博士課程の途中でこの病に倒れた女性が、自らの姿にカメラを向け、重篤ながら"怠け"と誤解されがちな疾患の理解を呼びかけるドキュメンタリー。
超大国なのに保険充実度は、なんと先進国中最下位のアメリカ!!先進国で唯一、”国民健康保険”が存在しないアメリカでは、国民の6人に1人が無保険。毎年1.8万人が、医療費を払えないために治療を受けられずに死んでいく。しかし『シッコ』は保険に入っている人々についての映画である。え?なら何の問題があるの?それは、アメリカの医療保険システム!この問題のシステムにより人々は高い保険料を払っていても、一度、大病を患えば治療費が支払えずに病死か破産を迎えるしかないのだ。「こんな医療制度はビョーキ(Sicko)だ!!」マイケル・ムーアがほえると、医療業界はたちまち厳戒態勢に!!ただちに「マイケル・ムーア対策マニュアル」を制作?!全国の支社に緘口令を発令!
An eccentric scientist working for a large drug company is working on a research project in the Amazon jungle. He sends for a research assistant and a gas chromatograph because he's close to a cure for cancer. When the assistant turns out to be a "mere woman," he rejects her help. Meanwhile the bulldozers get closer to the area in which they are conducting research, and they eventually learn to work together, and begin falling in love.
Ren Amari is the driven inventor of a revolutionary new drug. OtherLife expands the brain's sense of time and creates virtual reality directly in the user's mind. With OtherLife, mere seconds in real life feel like hours or days of exciting adventures. As Ren and her colleagues race around the clock to launch OtherLife, the government muscles in to use the drugs as a radical solution to prison overcrowding. They will create virtual cells where criminals serve long sentences in just minutes of real time. When Ren resists, she finds herself an unwilling guinea pig trapped in a prison cell in her mind. She must escape before she descends into madness, and then regain control of OtherLife before others suffer the same fate.
舞台は中世のイングランド。禁断の恋に苦しんだ青年が運命の女性と巡り合うまでをリリカルに描いた史劇。監督はマイケル・ホフマン、出演はロバート・ダウニーJr.、サム・ニールら。
Awkward teenager Charlie Bartlett has trouble fitting in at a new high school. Charlie needs some friends fast, and decides that the best way to find them is to appoint himself the resident psychiatrist. He becomes one of the most popular guys in school by doling out advice and, occasionally, medication, to the student body.
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Love and injury in time of war. Attilio de Giovanni teaches poetry in Italy. He has a romantic soul, and women love him. But he is in love with Vittoria, and the love is unrequited. Every night he dreams of marrying her, in his boxer shorts and t-shirt, as Tom Waits sings. Vittoria travels to Iraq with her friend, Fuad, a poet; they are there with the second Gulf War breaks out. Vittoria is injured. Attilio must get to her side, and then, as war rages around him, he must find her the medical care she needs. In war, does love conquer all?
Sandra is a sick kid, her parents are looking for the expensive medicine.
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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.
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