Lockfågeln (1971)

幕末。東北の小藩である海坂藩の平侍であった片桐宗蔵は、母と妹の志乃、女中のきえと貧しくも平穏な日々を送っていた。やがて母が亡くなり、志乃ときえは嫁入りしていった。ある雪の日、宗蔵ときえは３年ぶりに町で再会するが、きえのやつれた表情に宗蔵は胸を痛める。きえが嫁ぎ先で酷い扱いを受け寝込んでいることを知った彼は自宅へ連れ帰り、回復したきえと共に暮らし始める。そんな時、藩に大事件が起きた。宗蔵と同じく藩の剣術指南役・戸田寛斎の門下生だった狭間弥市郎が謀反を企んだ罪で囚われ、さらに山奥の牢を破って逃げ出したのだ。宗蔵は、逃亡した弥市郎を斬るよう家老に命じられる。

Cairo: a 70-year-old building of once-luxury flats with tenements on the roof. Zika, an aging libertine, feuds with his sister. Pius Haj Azzam takes a second wife, in secret, to satisfy sexual drive within religious bounds. Bothayna, poor and beautiful, supports her family, wanting to do so with dignity intact. Her former fiancé, Taha, the janitor's son, humiliated by the police, turns to fundamentalism. Hatem, a gay editor, seduces and corrupts a young man from the sticks. Two brothers, Copts, one a tailor and one Zika's factotum, connive for property. Allah is on most everyone's lips, and corruption is in their hearts.

This is the second part of a projected three-part epic biopic of Russian Czar Ivan Grozny, undertaken by Soviet film-maker Sergei Eisenstein at the behest of Josef Stalin. Production of the epic was stopped before the third part could be filmed, due to producer dissatisfaction with Eisenstein's introducing forbidden experimental filming techniques into the material, more evident in this part than the first part. As it was, this second part was banned from showings until after the deaths of both Eisenstein and Stalin, and a change of attitude by the subsequent heads of the Soviet government. In this part, as Ivan the Terrible attempts to consolidate his power by establishing a personal army, his political rivals, the Russian boyars, plot to assassinate him.

戦国時代にあって、お茶の道を追究し続けた千利休。そんな美と知の体現者・利休と、絶大な権力を持ちながらも粗野で利休とは対極にある秀吉の確執を描く。映画に登場する生花はすべて、自身も華道・草月流の家元である勅使河原監督の手による。利休を演じた三國連太郎と秀吉を演じた山崎努の対照的な演技のぶつかり合いもみどころ。また、同時期に公開された「千利休　本覺坊遺文」との“利休対決”も話題となった。

Based on a true story, set in the late 19th century: Lord Tichborne, the ninth richest nobleman in England, disappears after a South American shipwreck. Some years later his erudite Afro-English valet, Bogle, is sent to investigate rumors that Tichborne survived and settled in Australia. An alcoholic ruffian answer's Bogle's inquiries claiming to be the lost heir. Bogle suspects fraud, but conspires with the claimant to split the inheritance should the latter succesfully pass himself off to friends, family and the courts. As the claimant returns to England to continue his charade, enough people confirm his identity to make both the claimant and Bogle believe that he just might be the rightful heir after all.

In the land of Israel, Solomon (Jimmy Smits) is trying to figure out a way to become the world’s supplier of frankincense. He sends an envoy to the tiny country of Sheba to announce his intentions. The Queen of Sheba, Nikaule (Halle Berry), is outraged by Solomon’s greedy plan.

During the latter years of the reign of the tyrannical Roman emperor Nero, Marcus Vinicius, one of Nero's officers, falls in love with a young Christian hostage named Lygia. "Quo Vadis?" is a landmark in epic film-- Certainly Enrico Guazzoni’s grand-scale masterpiece laid the foundations for what colossal Italian spectacles would become. The film had tremendous influence on Giovanni Pastrone’s Cabiria (1914) and D.W. Griffith’s Intolerance (1916).

The story of president Andrew Jackson from his early years, through his meeting with and subsequent marriage to Rachel Donelson Robards. The plot concentrates on the later scandal concerning the legality of their marriage and how they overcame the difficulties.

わずか30人あまりの手勢を率いて5000人もの合衆国騎兵隊を相手に闘った最後のアパッチ族戦士ジェロニモ。合衆国の西部進出とインディアン迫害の歴史の中でひときわ異彩を放つこの伝説的人物の実像に迫ったドラマ。20年近くもの間、合衆国の植民に抵抗していた最後のアパッチ族ジェロニモが、遂に投降する日がやってきた。士官学校を出たばかりの若き少尉ブリットン・デイヴィスは、彼をサンカルロスの基地へと連行する初めての任務を受ける。

映像製作会社社長・立花源也は、かつて一世を風靡した大女優・藤原千代子の半生を振り返るドキュメンタリー制作を依頼された。千代子の大ファンだった立花は若いカメラマンを引き連れ、30年前に人気絶頂の中、忽然と姿を消し、以来公の場に現われなかった千代子の屋敷へ向かった。ようやく姿を現した千代子は、歳は老いても昔の清純な印象を残していた。そして、戸惑いながらも自らの人生を語り始めた。それは、女優になる前、女学生の頃に恋した名も知らぬ男性を、生涯をかけて追い求める壮大なラブ・ストーリーだった。

剣の英雄たちが群雄割拠する時代。天下の名剣“グリーン・デスティニー”の使い手としてその名を轟かせる英雄リ－と女弟子ユーは、心惹かれ合いながらも長い間人々のため正義に生きてきた。リーは剣を置く決意をしてグリーン・デスティニーをユーに託し、依頼されたティエ氏に無事剣を届けたユーは、そこで貴族の娘イェンと出会う。その夜、グリーン・デスティニーが何者かに盗まれ、ユーはイェンを疑い彼女の家を訪ねる。

シェイクスピア史劇を、ローレンス・オリヴィエの再来ともいわれるケネス・ブラナーが監督・主演で映像化した作品。15世紀前半、百年戦争の最中にあったイギリス・ヘンリー5世の活躍を描く。

Spurred by a white woman's lie, vigilantes destroy a black Florida town and slay inhabitants in 1923.

This documentary takes a piercing investigative look at the economic, political and ecological implications of the worldwide disappearance of the honeybee. The film examines our current agricultural landscape and celebrates the ancient and sacred connection between man and the honeybee. The story highlights the positive changes that have resulted due to the tragic phenomenon known as "Colony Collapse Disorder." To empower the audience, the documentary provides viewers with tangible solutions they can apply to their everyday lives. Vanishing of the Bees unfolds as a dramatic tale of science and mystery, illuminating this extraordinary crisis and its greater meaning about the relationship between humankind and Mother Earth. The bees have a message - but will we listen?

Downtrodden wife and mother Nella's life takes an unexpected turn for the better after she joins the Women's Voluntary Service office in Barrow-in-Furness during the Second World War. However, her new-found happiness is shattered when her son Cliff leaves to join the troops - provoking a painful confrontation with her husband Will.

In late 1700s Korea, Lady Cho challenges the playboy Lord Jo-won into seducing and sleeping with her husband's coming young, virgin concubine. Lady Cho agrees to sleep with him if he succeeds.

Based on the medieval legend of Pope Joan, who was made Pope for a brief period around 855 A.D. The movie presents her existence as fact, though it is questionable that Pope Joan really did exist, and portrays her relationships with other notables of the time.

Mary Surratt is the lone female charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination trial of Abraham Lincoln. As the whole nation turns against her, she is forced to rely on her reluctant lawyer to uncover the truth and save her life.

In August 1950, waiting for UN troops to arrive, the South Korean army assembled to protect Nakdong River. Only 71 student-soldiers are left behind to guard the city of Pohang. Now they are on a mission to defend the country from North Korean troops.