Perros Callejeros is based on the juvenile delinquency of the 1970s and 80s in Spain. The story is set in Barrio de la Mina in Barcelona one of the most conflict neighbourhoods in Spain. The characters chosen were real juvenile delinquents all with criminal records, which the director used to give the film a realistic touch. This film is very powerful and dramatic, it shows how these kids were brought up to survive on the streets.
A chronicle of the life of Jaro, the leader of a juvenile delinquent gang, depicting his rise from street urchin to outlaw anti-hero on the way to his inevitable end.
Angela is a young waitress who turns her back on society when she meets and falls in love with Pablo, a reckless criminal delinquent. Along with Pablo’s gang of car thieves, the pair embark on a drug and disco-fueled robbery spree as they hurtle toward oblivion.
A veteran policeman named Fernando feels a lot of hatred against Ángel because the boy ran him over with a car leaving him lame. Now Fernando accuses the young crook of having participated in a robbery at a gas station in which a murder has occurred. Helped by his friends, Ángel rebuilds the facts that serve him as an alibi, but while he is in pre-trial detention in La Modelo prison (Barcelona) a terrible mutiny will take place.
マドリードに住む移植コーディネーターのマヌエラは、作家志望の息子・エステバンを女手一つで育ててきた。エステバンの誕生日、二人は『欲望という名の電車』の舞台を観に行く。そして、マヌエラが息子に今まで話さなかった父のことを話そうと決心したとき、エステバンは舞台の主演だった大女優ウマ・ロッホにサインをもらおうとして車にはねられ、そのまま亡くなってしまう。 息子の死を行方不明となっている父に伝えるため、バルセロナへ旅立ったマヌエラは、ひょんなことから息子の死の原因となったウマの付き人になる。バルセロナでマヌエラは、ウマのレズビアンの恋人で麻薬中毒の若手女優・ニナ、性転換した明るいゲイの娼婦・アグラード、エイズを抱えて妊娠した純朴なシスター・ロサ、その母親でボケの進んだ夫に手を焼く厳格な贋作画家、そして、今では「ロラ」という名の女性となりロサにエイズをうつした、息子と同名の元夫といった様々な女性たちと出会い、やがて人生への希望を取り戻していく。
A henpecked housewife ekes out a meager existence, surrounded by a host of colorful characters: her ungrateful husband, her delinquent sons, her headstrong mother-in-law, and her sex worker neighbor, among others.
建築事務所に勤めるジョージ・モンローは42歳の建築デザイナー。父親との確執が原因で、自分の息子ともうまくコミュニケーションがとれなかった。ついには妻にも逃げられ、上司との摩擦から会社もクビになる。挙げ句の果てに医者から余命3ヵ月との宣告を受けてしまう。再婚して幸せに暮らす妻。そしていまだに父を憎み続ける16歳になる息子。ジョージは初めて自分の人生に疑問を感じた。そして、昔からの夢だった自分の家を建て直すことを決意する。最後の夏、ジョージは反発する息子を無理やり手伝わせ、手造りの家を建て始めた……。
In Madrid, Spain, a mysterious serial killer ruthlessly murders his victims by recreating the first appearance of several comic book superheroes. Cosme, a veteran police inspector who is about to retire, works on the case along with the tormented inspector David Valentín and his own son Jorge Elías, a nerdy young man who owns a comic book store.
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.
タイで自堕落な生活から麻薬中毒者となってしまったイギリス人ボクサーのビリー・ムーアは、家宅捜索により逮捕され、タイでも悪名の高い刑務所に収監される。殺人、レイプ、汚職がはびこる地獄のよう刑務所で、ビリーは死を覚悟する日々を余儀なくされた。しかし、所内に新たに設立されたムエタイ・クラブとの出会いによって、ビリーの中にある何かが大きく変わっていく。＜タイの刑務所に服役し、ムエタイでのし上がることに成功したイギリス人ボクサー、ビリー・ムーアの自伝小説を映画化したアクションドラマ。＞
In the Mexican state of Michoacán, Dr. Jose Mireles, a small-town physician known as "El Doctor," shepherds a citizen uprising against the Knights Templar, the violent drug cartel that has wreaked havoc on the region for years. Meanwhile, in Arizona's Altar Valley—a narrow, 52-mile-long desert corridor known as Cocaine Alley—Tim "Nailer" Foley, an American veteran, heads a small paramilitary group called Arizona Border Recon, whose goal is to halt Mexico’s drug wars from seeping across our border.
イラク戦争の真っただ中、武器商人の若者2人は米軍相手に次々と契約を取り付ける。だがアフガニスタン軍相手に3億ドルの契約を交わしたため事態は暗転し...。
カリフォルニア州ロサンゼルス郡イングルウッド市。アフリカ系市民が多い犯罪多発地帯で暮らすアフリカ系少年マルコムは高校卒業を控え、ハーバード大への入学を志願する一方、1990年代のヒップホップ文化のオタクで、レズビアンのディギーら親友たちとパンクバンドを組んでいた。あるパーティーに行ったマルコムだが、麻薬の売人が大量のドラッグを彼のリュックに隠してしまい、それを持ち帰ったことから運命は大きく狂う。
70～80年代のポルノ業界を舞台にした作品。ディスコで皿洗いをしていたエディは股間のモノの大きさを買われポルノ男優としてデビュー、成功を収める。しかし次第に彼は傲慢になり……。
何も知らずに友人から麻薬を手渡されたばかりに、逮捕されてしまった18歳の少年。その父親ジョンは、無実の罪を着せられている息子を少しでも早く刑務所から出所できるようにと検事に掛け合う。そんな彼に検事は、捜査に貢献することで刑期が軽減されるシステムがあることを告げる。ほかに手立てはないと感じたジョンは、息子の減刑と彼が巻き込まれた事件の真相をつかむためにも麻薬組織に潜入することに。やがて、組織の中枢へと近づき、大物密売人と対峙する。
舞台は歴史的な建造物や美術品、最先端のファッション、現代アートが混在するローマ。筆を折った作家ジェップの元に忘れられない初恋の女性の訃報が届いて……。パオロ・ソレンティーノ監督による巨大なる映像モニュメント。
アメリカ国内の商業施設で自爆テロ事件が発生。政府は 犯人はメキシコ経由で不法入国したと考え、 国境地帯で密入国ビジネスを仕切る麻薬カルテルを混乱させる任務を、 CIA工作員のマット・グレイヴァーに命じる。マットは、 カルテルへの復讐に燃える旧知の暗殺者アレハンドロに協力を要請。 麻薬王の娘イサベルを誘拐し、 カルテル同士の戦争を誘発しようと企てる。 しかし、その極秘作戦は、 敵の奇襲やアメリカ政府の無慈悲な方針変更によって想定外の事態を招いてしまう。 メキシコの地で孤立を余儀なくされたアレハンドロは、 兵士としての任務と復讐心、そして人質として保護する少女の命の狭間で、 過酷なジレンマに直面していく。
A tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from crime to pursue his passion, rap music.
麻薬取締局、通称DEAの中でも最強と言われる特殊部隊を率いるジョン・ウォートンは、不屈の捜査官だった。ある日、部下８人と麻薬カルテルのアジト制圧に成功するが1000万ドルが現場から忽然と消えてしまう。それ以降、ジョンの部隊メンバーが何者かに殺されて行く。麻薬組織の仕業か、それともチーム内の誰かによるものなのか、犯人の目的が見えないままメンバーたちは疑心暗鬼に陥る。ジョンと地元の女性刑事は捜査に当たるが、さらなる異常事態が彼らを待ち構えていた。
A U.S Customs official uncovers a massive money laundering scheme involving Pablo Escobar.
A comedy based on NBC's "People Are Funny" radio (and later television) program with Art Linkletter with a fictional story of how the program came to be on a national network from its humble beginning at a Nevada radio station. Jack Haley is a producer with only half-rights to the program while Ozzie Nelson and Helen Walker are the radio writers and supply the romance. Rudy Vallee, always able to burlesque himself intentional and, quite often, unintentional, is the owner of the sought-after sponsoring company. Frances Langford, as herself, sings "I'm in the Mood for Love" while the Vagabonds quartet (billed 12th and last) chimes in on "Angeline" and "The Old Square Dance is Back Again."
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
KNOW YOUR MUSHROOMS follows uber myco visionaries Gary Lincoff and Larry Evans (two of the more expert and unforgettably mercurial characters in the community) as they lead us on a hunt for the wild mushroom and the deeper cultural experiences attached to the mysterious fungi.
