Turks' Hearing Speech on Hürriyet (1908)

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……。

将来有望な若手政治家デヴィッドは、ある日エリースという美しいバレリーナと‘運命的’に出逢い、一目惚れする。しかし次の瞬間、突如現れた「アジャストメント・ビューロー（運命調整局）」と呼ばれる男たちによってデヴィッドは拉致されてしまう。彼らの目的は、本来‘恋に落ちる予定ではなかったデヴィッドとエリースを引き離し「運命の書」に記述された運命に従わせることだった。

エイブラハム・リンカーンが、大統領に再選された1865年。アメリカを内戦状態に追い込んだ南北戦争は4年目に突入したが、彼は奴隷制度を永遠に葬り去る合衆国憲法修正第13条を下院議会で批准させるまでは戦いを終わらせないという強い決意があった。そのためにも、国務長官ウィリアム・スワードらと共に憲法修正に必要な票を獲得するための議会工作に乗り出す。そんな中、学生だった長男ロバートが北軍へと入隊し……。＜スティーヴン・スピルバーグによる、第16代アメリカ合衆国大統領エイブラハム・リンカーンの伝記ドラマ。奴隷制の廃止と禁止を強固なものにし、泥沼化した南北戦争を終結させるため、憲法の修正に挑むリンカーンの戦いを重厚なタッチで映し出していく。ダニエル・デイ=ルイスがリンカーンにふんし、国と人民の未来をめぐる理想と現実に苦悩する彼の胸中を見事に体現。ジョセフ・ゴードン=レヴィットら、脇を固める実力派の妙演も見逃せない。＞

ジョージ6世(コリン・ファース)は、幼い頃から吃音というコンプレックスを抱えていたため、英国王ジョージ5世(マイケル・ガンボン)の次男という華々しい生い立ちでありながら、人前に出ることを嫌う内気な性格となり、いつも自分に自信が持てないでいた。厳格な父はそんな息子を許さず、様々な式典のスピーチを容赦なく命じる。ジョージは妻のエリザベス(ヘレナ・ボナム＝カーター)に付き添われて、何人もの言語聴覚士を訪ねるが一向に改善しない。

As World War I rages, brave and youthful Australians Archy and Frank—both agile runners—become friends and enlist in the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps together. They later find themselves part of the Dardanelles Campaign on the Gallipoli peninsula, a brutal eight-month conflict which pit the British and their allies against the Ottoman Empire and left over 500,000 men dead.

『ハイ・フィデリティ』でメジャー・シーンに復活したスティーヴン・フリアーズ監督作品。イギリスの労働者階級を活写した描写が見事。主演のオドレイ・トトゥ目当てで観ると肩透かしを食らう、社会派の力作！

A not so clever guy called Bertie with a Opel Manta (a low budget European sports-coupe from the '80s) gets competition in a street race from a guy with a fast Mercedes, and another slick guy with a Ferrari tries to get his hands on Bertie's girlfriend.

英語を知らない女性は、家族や社会から不安を感じさせられます。そんな状況の中で、彼女はこの不安を克服し、英語をマスターして、自信に満ちた女性になるためのレッスンを世界に向けて発信していきます。

The circularity of violence seen in a story that circles on itself. In Macedonia, during war in Bosnia, Christians hunt an ethnic Albanian girl who may have murdered one of their own. A young monk who's taken a vow of silence offers her protection. In London, a photographic editor who's pregnant needs to talk it out with her estranged husband and chooses a toney restaurant.

1944年、連合軍が攻勢、自信をなくし鬱状態のヒトラー。かつてのカリスマ性を取り戻すべく、かつての名優、今は収容所にいるユダヤ人が演説指導を命じられる。

ギリシャの北に位置する北マケドニアで製作された傑作ドキュメンタリー。電気も水道もない谷で、寝たきりの盲目の老母と暮らすヨーロッパ最後の自然養蜂家の女性のユニークな日常を、3年にわたってとらえていく。

A comic, biting and revelatory documentary following a small group of prankster activists as they gain worldwide notoriety for impersonating the World Trade Organization (WTO) on television and at business conferences around the world.

Sixty-five-year-old John Hodges must retire from Acme Printing. He later impersonates the president of the parent company and arrives at his old plant on an inspection tour. Acme president McKinley is so nervous not even his beautiful secretary Harriet can calm him. McKinley's wife Lucille becomes infatuated with Hodges. Many further complications ensue.

The film covers through fiction real-life events like the occupation of Iraq, the execution of Daniel Pearl, the Hood event and the Abu Ghraib torture scandal.

Pierre is a clumsy, overly serious math teacher at an all-girls high school. His life is thrown into chaos after encountering a beautiful British actress and the paparazzi that follow her around.

This documentary tells the story of the man who overcame his own failings for the sake of his nation. When his older brother, Edward VIII, abdicated the throne to marry Wallis Simpson, nervous-mannered successor George "Bertie" VI was plagued with shyness and a speech impediment when speaking to his subjects. An introvert as well as a humble man, events and circumstances resulted in him becoming an inspiration for the British nation during its war with Germany.

In Hamburg, Ibrahim "Ibo" Secmez, of Turkish descent, wants to direct the first German kung-fu movie. For now, he makes commercials for his uncle's kebab restaurant. Titzie, an aspiring actress and Ibo's German girlfriend, finds she's pregnant. Ibo is uncertain about fatherhood - compounded by his father's disowning him for getting a German girl pregnant - so Titzie sends him packing. He makes attempts at getting it right, but as the birth approaches, he's still not ready. In the background are three thugs in search of good tripe soup and a Capulet-Montegue feud between the kebab joint and a Greek taverna across the street. Can Ibo be the glove upon that hand?

During the 1940s, Maurice Bendrix, a writer recently discharged from the armed service, falls in love with Sarah Miles, whom he interviews for a book. Sarah is married, but she and Maurice eventually give in to their mutual attraction, leading to an affair that lasts several months. Maurice's jealousy, along with the bombing of London by the Germans, seemingly leads to the end of their relationship. However, the reasons are later revealed to be more complex.

Lopitos, who is horribly inefficient but quick-witted, is invited (because of the current ambassador's superstition about 13 sitting down to a meal) to a banquet attended by the ambassadors of both superpowers. After the news of a series of coups d'état in Los Cocos arrives throughout the meal, Lopitos becomes the official ambassador. At a summit of world leaders, the representatives of the two world superpowers court the allegiances of third-world diplomats to tilt the balance of global power in their favor. The last diplomat to remain unaligned, Lopitos instead harangues the superpowers for infringing on the rights of developing countries to self determination, talking to them with his point of view as a citizen not as ambassador because he arranged his demise as ambassador one day before his speech.

During the sea battle which took place between the Ottoman Empire and the Italians, a ship which had been seized in the Mediterranean Sea is brought to Istanbul, and a young wounded lady named Francesca, the daughter of the killed Captain, becomes a slave for Hezarfen Ahmet Celebi.