The Miracle of the Hills (1959)
ジャンル : 西洋
上映時間 : 1時間 13分
演出 : Paul Landres
シノプシス
A minister arrives at a run-down mining town to take over the church there. He finds he has his work cut out for him, especially when an earthquake causes a flood in the mineshaft and traps some of the local children.
新居を手に入れたアダムとバーバラの夫婦は、自分たちが事故でもう死んでいることに気付かず、幽霊になったままその家に住み続け、しばらくしてその事実を知る。人間には空家に思えるその家に、オカルト好きの少女リディアら人間の一家が引っ越してくる。アダムたちは一家を脅して家から追い出そうとするが効果はない。アダムたちは呼ばないほうがいいといわれる人間退治が得意なゴースト、ビートルジュースを呼んでしまう。
1928年のロサンゼルス。留守番をしていたはずの息子の失踪から5ヵ月後、警察からの“息子発見”の連絡に喜ぶ母・クリスティンだったが……。実話を基に描く、クリント・イーストウッド監督、アンジェリーナ・ジョリー主演のサスペンス・ミステリー。
1942年、ミュンヘン出身の若い女性ユンゲはヒトラーの個人秘書の職を得る。それから月日は流れて1945年、第2次世界大戦は大詰めを迎え、ヒトラーはごく限られた身内や腹心の部下たちとベルリンのドイツ首相官邸の地下要塞に逃げ、そこで不自由な生活を送る。敗北の気配が濃くなる中、ヒトラーはまだ反撃のシナリオを熱っぽく語るが次第に部下たちは彼から離反していき、ユンゲは歴史の証人としてその光景を静かに見守る。
巨匠ポール・シュレイダー監督が構想50年の末に完成させたサスペンス。夫に出産を反対されている女性の相談を受けた神父が、教会が汚職企業から献金を受けていることを知らされ、内なる怒りに苦しむことに……。
修道院でキリスト像から血が流れる奇怪な事件が発生。ニーマンス警視が捜査を開始する中、像と同じ体勢をとらされた男性の他殺体が見つかる。一方、麻薬事件を捜査する若手刑事レダは、キリストに似た傷だらけの男と遭遇し、彼を病院に運ぶ。ニーマンスは修道院の被害者が病院に搬入された男の仲間と知り、レダと共同で捜査に当たることに。やがて事件の背後に“黙示録の天使たち”を名乗る謎の組織があることが明らかになる。
ウェストサイド・ステインズの中心人物アリ・Gは、ギャングスタ・ヒップホップばりのスタイルでボーイスカウトを運営している。その活動場所となるレジャー施設の閉鎖計画に懸念し反対運動を起こしたところ、首相の失脚を企む大蔵大臣カールトンの陰謀に利用され、下院議員選挙に立候補し当選を果す。カールトンの意図に反し、アリ・G議員の人気と共に首相の支持率は上昇するが、サミットの際に各国首脳へマリファナ茶をもてなしたことが発覚し失脚する。
After his happy life spins out of control, a preacher from Texas changes his name, goes to Louisiana and starts preaching on the radio.
Navy Lt. Tom Farrell meets a young woman, Susan Atwell , and they share a passionate fling. Farrell then finds out that his superior, Defense Secretary David Brice, is also romantically involved with Atwell. When the young woman turns up dead, Farrell is put in charge of the murder investigation. He begins to uncover shocking clues about the case, but when details of his encounter with Susan surface, he becomes a suspect as well.
Several years after his beloved Nieh has gone, Ning is innocently put into jail. Luckily, he meets a scholar, Elder Chu Kot, in the prison who finally helps him escape. Ning then meets a young witty monk Autumn. They become friends and live in an abandoned villa together. The villa is horrific, yet they choose to stay for a while. Later that night, some ghosts suddenly appear and attack; two parties fight heavily. But after clarifications, Ning and Autumn find that "the ghosts" are humans in disguise, who intend to save their leader from imprisonment but not hurting innocence. Among them, Ning finds someone who looks identical to Nieh, and considers she is the reincarnated Nieh. A real giant zombie has seen all these in behind and is ready to ambush.
The controversial true story of a gay activist who rejects his homosexuality and becomes a Christian pastor.
A defrocked Episcopal clergyman leads a bus-load of middle-aged Baptist women on a tour of the Mexican coast and comes to terms with the failure haunting his life.
Jay Austin wants to sell you a used car, but watch out! Many victims have fallen prey to his smiling face and hasty promises. Austin does everything his way until his dishonesty and manipulation are exposed. Like many men, he becomes disgusted by the masks he wears and the lies he tells. In every man's life, there can be a turning point. When Jay makes his turn, he never looks back.
気の弱い牧師のオスカーと、自由人の女性実業家・ルシンダ。無類のギャンブル好きであったことから出会い、深い絆で結ばれた彼らの一風変わった愛の物語。レイフ・ファインズ、ケイト・ブランシェットの美男・美女が共演している。
Mateo Melgarejo is a notary public and scribe for the illiterate people of Santo Domingo, a neighborhood north of Mexico City's Zócalo. A squatter friend asks for his help in negotiating with the land census bureau to regularize a land title. After a great deal of frustration with the government bureaucracy, he writes a letter to the cabinet minister, earning an audience with him. The minister hires Melgarejo to reform the bureau, and the appointee proceeds to lecture the officials on their duties in a democratic society. At the end, he gives up the post, returning to Santo Domingo to help its poor residents.
Salma Zidane, a widow, lives simply from her grove of lemon trees in the West Bank's occupied territory. The Israeli defence minister and his wife move next door, forcing the Secret Service to order the trees' removal for security. The stoic Salma seeks assistance from the Palestinian Authority, Israeli army, and a young attorney, Ziad Daud, who takes the case. In this allegory, does David stand a chance against Goliath?
Nazarín is the priest who leaves his order and decides to go on a pilgrimage. As he goes along subsisting on alms, he shelters a prostitute wanted by the police for murder. He is released from suspicion and she eventually catches up with him when she escapes imprisonment. Another woman joins the duo and soon the ex-priest is learning more about the human heart and suffering than when he wore robes.
A troubled woman seeks out the child she gave up for adoption; a gay motel owner takes in a handsome drifter; and the wife of a preacher frets that a gay couple has moved in across the street. All of their lives will intersect as Loggerheads subtly draws out their secret losses and desires.
In a small New England town during the American War of Independence, Dick Dudgeon, a revolutionary American Puritan, is mistaken for local minister Rev. Anthony Anderson and arrested by the British. Dick discovers himself incapable of accusing another human to suffer and continues to masquerade as the reverend.
A gang of con artists disguise themselves as clerics in order to pull off a job, but soon find that even pretending to be religious people is having an effect on them.
When crooks set up operations in a traditional town, a minister and a group of church ladies are willing to do anything, no matter how wacky, to get them out.