The Monk (1990)

An uproarious version of history that proves nothing is sacred – not even the Roman Empire, the French Revolution and the Spanish Inquisition.

【アマデウス】の名匠、ミロス・フォアマン監督がハビエル・バルデム、ナタリー・ポートマン共演で描いた歴史ドラマ。18世紀末のスペインを舞台に、宮廷画家・ゴヤが描いた2枚の肖像画に込められた神父と少女のスキャンダラスな愛の行方を綴る。

Francis Barnard goes to Spain, when he hears his sister Elizabeth has died. Her husband Nicholas Medina, the son of the most brutal torturer of the Spanish Inquisition, tells him she has died of a blood disease, but Francis finds this hard to believe. After some investigating he finds out that it was extreme fear that was fatal to his sister and that she may have been buried alive!

Set during the height of Spanish Inquisition. The beautiful and kind-hearted Maria is arrested as a witch when she inadvertently cries out in horror at the public whipping of a child. As Maria’s husband Antonio tries to save her, Torquemada, the Grand Inquisitor, determines to punish Maria with torture for the desire she inflames in him. Loosely based on Edgar Allen Poe's classic short story.

Five tales by Edgar Allan Poe come to life thanks to a pictorical style animation, five tales that exude madness, pestilence, murder and torture.

In the sixteenth century, Miguel de Cervantes, poet, playwright, and part-time actor, has been arrested, together with his manservant, by the Spanish Inquisition. They are accused of presenting an entertainment offensive to the Inquisition. Inside the huge dungeon into which they have been cast, the other prisoners gang up on Cervantes and his manservant, and begin a mock trial, with the intention of stealing or burning his possessions. Cervantes wishes to desperately save a manuscript he carries with him and stages, with costumes, makeup, and the participation of the other prisoners, an unusual defense--the story of Don Quixote.

Spain, 1518: young caballero Pedro De Vargas offends his sadistic neighbor De Silva, who just happens to be an officer of the Inquisition. Forced to flee, Pedro, friend Juan Garcia, and adoring servant girl Catana join Cortez' first expedition to Mexico. Arriving in the rich new land, Cortez decides to switch from exploration to conquest...with only 500 men. Embroiled in continuous adventures and a romantic interlude, Pedro almost forgets he has a deadly enemy...

Period piece set during the Inquisition about a witch-finder general who falls in love with the village beauty, who has made a pact with the devil to seduce and condemn the man who is killing off Satan's servants.

In 1543, at the University of Salamanca, in Spain, Fray Antonio Román, an Augustinian monk who spreads humanist ideas, considered heretical, among his more inquisitive students, a clandestine group of four led by the brilliant novice Luis de León, mysteriously dies in unspeakable circumstances. In the present day, the historian Lara Cabanes is hired to find out if the monk was murdered, as is suspected and she is told, but the task will not be easy to achieve.

Towards the end of the 16th century, the Spanish conquerors living in the New World faced a serious problem: the evangelization of the indigenous people, who did not understand or accept Christianity due to their unshakable faith in their own religion. The court of the Inquisition cracks down on heretics and the natives prepare for a general uprising ...

In Madrid at the time of the Inquisition, the monk Ambrosio is renowned for his faith and his strength of will, a saint in the eyes of the populace. But when he discovers the beautiful Matilda hidden in his own monastery, all his repressed passions begin to show themselves, and he is soon using the girl, and her powers, in his lust for more innocent prey.

Isabel and Clara are growing up in a time of terror. It is 1492, and Spain has decreed that all Jews must either convert to Catholicism, go into exile or face trial and execution. Although forcibly baptized, the sisters are chased through Christendom until they arrive in Venice. It is in this great maritime empire, where opulence rhymes with tolerance, that Isabel organizes secret passages for refugees fleeing the Inquisition while Clara falls in love with a Venetian noble, Paolo Zane. Isabel intends for her family to go to Istanbul, the only place where Jews can live freely, but Clara is reluctant to leave. She challenges Isabel's authority and is prepared to break her family ties and sacrifice her faith for love. Caught in this battle of wills is Clara's daughter, Victoria, who finds she is about to be married into the same faith that murdered her father.

A Paixon De María Soliña' is a feature film with a historical setting which describes the Tribunal of the Spanish Inquisition through the inquisitorial trial against María Soliña in Galicia (Spain) in the XVII century, accused of witchcraft.

Set in the splendor and terror of the Spanish Inquisition, Flame in the Wind tells the story of Carlos, an earnest young nobleman who is faced with a choice: the church system offers safety, protection, and respectability; the Scriptures offer Christ and salvation from sin—and with these torture and death.

Set in the Spain of 1680, a time of torture and interrogation by the Grand Inquisitor. A young man appears that is healing the sick and raising the dead. There are rumours that he might be the second coming of the Messiah. He is brought before the Grand Inquisitor. Though questioned and tortured, he chooses to remain silent.

The gloomy dungeon of the Santo Oficio gaol in Logroño, northern Spain, is packed with prisoners accused of witchcraft. The sound of mystical chanting drifts out through the bars. It is a desperate cry for help that travels through valleys and mountains until it reaches the hamlet of Zugarramurdi. A young boy wakes up suddenly in the middle of the night...

名作パニック映画『ポセイドン・アドベンチャー』を大胆にリメイク。巨大な津波の襲来で豪華客船ポセイドン号は転覆し、乗客の生命が多数失われた。わずかな生存者のなかで、脱出を試みるギャンブラー、ディランだったが……。

1986年、フロリダ。ヒッチハイクをしながら売春する毎日に疲れ果てたアイリーンだが、ある少女と運命的に出会う。相手のセルビーは同性愛者で、家族や社会からつまはじきにされ、アイリーン同様、絶望と疎外感を募らせていた。2人は意気投合し、どこかで一緒に暮らそうと決心。やがてアイリーンは売春業を再開するようになるが、ある客に森の奥へ連れ込まれて暴力をふるわれた彼女は反撃した結果、相手を殺してしまう。

ロンドン。英国の新首相デヴィッドは着任早々、秘書のナタリーに一目ぼれ。最愛の妻を亡くしたダニエルは、妻の連れ子から恋に悩んでいると明かされる。作家ジェイミーは、言葉が通じないポルトガル人のメイドに好意を。3人の子どもがいるハリーとカレンの夫妻だが、ハリーは会社の若い部下と浮気をしていた。ハリーの会社に勤めるサラは入社以来ずっとある同僚に片思い中などなど、人々はさまざまな想いを胸に聖夜を迎えていく。

州立精神病院にひとりの男が収容された。彼の名はR·P·マクマーフィ。極めて自由な精神を持ち、体制やルールに徹底して反発する彼は、慇懃な仮面を被った絶対権力者であるラチェット看護士と衝突する。不屈の姿勢を崩さないマクマーフィの影響で、体制によって無気力な人間にされていた患者たちが次第に心を取り戻し始めるのだが…。