The Clover Sect (1948)
ジャンル : 犯罪, 謎, ドラマ
上映時間 : 1時間 18分
演出 : Mario Soffici
シノプシス
A writer gets involved in a police case related to some jewelry belonging to a Chinese sect.
ルーブル美術館の館長が殺され、宗教象徴学の権威ラングドン教授に捜査協力が依頼される。遺体はダ・ヴィンチの素描「ウィトルウィウス的人体図」を模した姿勢を取らされ、周囲には暗号が記されていた。担当のファーシュ警部は、暗号が“ラングドンを捜せ”と示していたことから教授を疑うが、館長の孫ソフィーは教授の無実を信じ、彼を現場から逃がす。2人は警察に追われながら、暗号の真意と真犯人を捜し始める。
A veteran-turned-mercenary is hired to take a young woman with a secret from post-apocalyptic Eastern Europe to New York City.
During a routine case in L.A., NY private investigator Harry D'Amour stumbles over members of a fanatic cult who are preparing for the resurrection of their leader Nix, a powerful magician who was killed 13 years earlier.
天地黎明に続く武侠アクション第2作!医学学会に出席するために広州を訪れた黄飛鴻一行。そこで彼らに秘密結社・白蓮教徒が襲いかかる。黄は孫文と出合いともに打倒白蓮教を目指す。乱世の清朝末期を舞台に、動乱期の中国が持つ異文化との相克というドラマが展開する。
A lethal assassin for a secret Chinese organisation, who sheds tears of regret each time he kills, is seen swiftly and mercilessly executing three Yakuza gangsters by a beautiful artist. She is captivated by the grace of his kill and later falls in love with him. An intense power struggle for the leadership of the Yakuza Clans ensues as they seek vengeance for the death of their leader.
The mutilated body of a six year old girl is found in a water hole. The girl is identified as the missing daughter of Claudia. However, only two peices of evidence could be used to identify her; a bracelet with her name on it near the crime scene, and the fact that her right leg was three inches longer than her left. All other methods of identification were removed from her body. Five years later Claudia, now addicted to tranquilizers, receives a phone call from someone claiming to be her daughter, asking for her mother to come find her before 'they' kill her. Other mysterious clues show up, further indicating that Claudia's daughter is indeed still alive, and very much in danger. Claudia, a run-down ex-cop, and a parapsychology reporter put together the clues to discover Angela's whereabouts
A man discovers that he is part of a secret sect of magical beings who hunt down and destroy demons in the internet.
慎ましく暮らしている二人の老婆のもとにやって来たバベットという女性。二人の身の回りの世話をすることになるが、彼女は腕のいい料理家だった。静かな中に深い感動を与える87年の傑作。
A woman's search for her missing sister leads her to the jungles of New Guinea, where she and an expatriate guide encounter a cult leader and flesh-hungry natives.
In an attempt to pull her family together, Adèlle travels with her young daughter Sarah to Wales to visit her father. The morning after they arrive, Sarah mysteriously vanishes in the ocean. Not long after, a little girl bearing a striking resemblance to their missing daughter reveals that she has retuned from the dead — and that Sarah has been taken to the Welsh underworld.
A collection of death scenes, ranging from TV-material to home-made super-8 movies. The common factor is death by some means.
Karen, a young psychiatric nurse, boards the last subway train of the night only to have it stop in the middle of the tunnel. Suddenly, her nightmare begins: a mysterious cult has decided that it's the end of the world and the only way to save the souls of the living is to kill them in cold blood. As those around her are brutally murdered, Karen and a handful of survivors must face the homicidal cult, supernatural forces and their own fears of Armageddon in order to survive.
1999年第1の月、地中海で原子力潜水艦が爆発事故を起こす。その事故こそ、有名な予言者であるミッシェル・ド・ノストラダムスの残した預言書の第2章第3節にある「海を照らす太陽に似た灼熱のせいで、ネグロポントの魚が灰焼きにされよう」という予言が的中した証拠である、と新興集団であるノストラダムス教団の指導者ライズリーは観衆に説く。さらにライズリーは、「世界の滅亡は近く、その大災難から逃れるにはこの手にある“失われた予言書”に従うしかない!」と説く。一方、ブラジルのリオデジャネイロでは、サンバカーニバルが開催されていた。そのどさくさに紛れ、150万$のダイヤを手に入れたルパン三世は、銭形警部との鬼ごっこから逃れたアトランタ行きの旅客機の中で、ダイヤを隠した人形を生意気な少女ジュリアに奪われてしまう。
After the death of his girlfriend, Travis, a thirty-something psychiatrist, struggles to keep it together. On the brink of a nervous breakdown he stumbles across a strange church run by a charismatic leader, Pastor Jay. In search of answers Travis is led deeper and deeper into the underworld of religious fanaticism, home to a Doomsday cult and a teenage girl named Grace.
Savage Messiah is a docudrama about Roch "Moïse" Thériault, the charismatic former leader of a small religious group based near Burnt River, Ontario, Canada. Between 1977 and 1989 he held sway over as many as 12 adults and 26 children. He used all of the nine women as concubines, and probably fathered most of the children in the group. During his reign, Thériault mutilated several members. His major crime was to kill Solange Boilard, his legal wife, by disembowelment while trying to perform surgery on her. He was arrested for assault in 1989, and convicted of murder in 1993. Along with Clifford Olsen and Paul Bernardo, Thériault is considered one of Canada's most notorious criminals.
Lola is a beautiful young girl who is going to have a child but doesn't know who is the father. So she says, first Paco and later Ataulfo that the child is his. This causes the friends the enemisten and separate from Lola. Finally, reflect and come back for deciding that love between her and take care of the child. Then see who is closer, but in fact, none of them wants to take responsibility for the child.
People around Peter Crane begin dying in mysterious fashion. How is Playboy Peter involved in this? He begins having nightmares dealing with murder...His psychiatrist has no idea of what Peter is suffering from. Even the police are in danger as they start investigating the case. What is the secret of the "Magic Circle"?
A writer gets involved in a police case related to some jewelry belonging to a Chinese sect.
Helmed by writer-director Andreas Marschall - and a piece of fiction passing as fact - the direct-to-video horror indie Tears of Kali returns to the early eighties and plunges into a nightmarish scenario wrought when several EST-like groups establish themselves in India. One of the more extreme communes, the Taylor-Eriksson cult, carries its "quest for self-knowledge" to a malevolent end, with numerous group members trapped, tortured, murdered and mutilated. Tears of Kali tells their twisted and disturbing story. Mathieu Carriere, Peter Martell, Cora Chilcott, Vronie Kiefer, and Nuran Celik head the ensemble cast.
Two Spanish pan-handlers soon find themselves in over their heads when they stumble upon an opportunity to redeem themselves and perhaps the entire planet. The world appears to suffer from rampant poverty, violence and spiritual desperation and the relentless news media force-feeds these images to the Spanish people. A popular reality television show lets the audience decide between life or death for suspected felons, and one of the opportunistic pan-handlers attempts to escape poverty through this raucous and sensational TV program.