Battered (1978)
ジャンル : ドラマ, テレビ映画
上映時間 : 1時間 40分
演出 : Peter Werner
シノプシス
Gritty drama of three interweaving stories of three women of various backgrounds and ages whose marriages are complicated by spouse-abuse by their husbands.
A young woman fakes her own death in an attempt to escape her nightmarish marriage, but discovers it is impossible to elude her controlling husband.
A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were making a film about the area's local cannibal tribes.
Charles, an attorney, and Helen, his devoted wife, seemed to have everything – money, a beautiful mansion – the American Dream. However, as Helen prepares to celebrate their 18th wedding anniversary, her life takes an unexpected twist when she comes home to find her clothes packed up in a U-Haul van parked in the driveway. Charles is divorcing her and kicks her out. Helen moves in with her grandmother Madea, an old woman who doesn't take any lip from anyone. Madea helps Helen through these tough times by showing her what is really important in life. Helen is forced to rediscover love, life and religion on her pursuit for happiness.
Old Mexican-American sheriff Bob Valdez has always been a haven of sanity in a land of madmen when it came to defending law and order. But the weapon smuggler Frank Tanner is greedy and impulsive. When Tanner provokes a shooting that causes the death of an innocent man and Valdez asks him to financially compensate the widow, Tanner refuses to do so and severely humiliates Valdez, who will do justice and avenge his honor, no matter what it takes.
ある事件を解決した元記者のミカエルと女性調査員リスベットのコンビだが、ミカエルが雑誌“ミレニアム”の編集部に復帰したこともあり、コンビは自然と解消した。1年後、少女売春組織を追う記事を準備していた記者2人が殺される事件が起き、リスベットの指紋がついた拳銃が犯行現場に残されていたことから、彼女は指名手配されてしまう。ミカエルが独自に真相を調べる一方、リスベットは謎の大男ニーダーマンに命を狙われる。
長い単身赴任を終え、妻アンナのもとに戻ったマルクは、妻の冷やかな態度に傷つく。ようやく、その不倫相手ハインリッヒと対峙するが、彼から“第三の相手”の存在をほのめかされたマルクもまた愛に苦しむ。だが一人息子ボブの通う学校にやって来たマルクはそこで妻と瓜二つの教師ヘレンと出会い、彼女に強く惹かれていく…。
A waitress confronts all the wrong turns she has made in her short life and ultimately ends up facing the biggest wrong turn of all: her dangerous ex-boyfriend who's determined to win back her love or die trying.
In Oklahoma, Agnes, a lonely waitress living in an isolated and dilapidated roadside motel, meets Peter, a quiet and mysterious man with whom she establishes a peculiar relationship.
Dr. Henry Jekyll believes that there are two distinct sides to men - a good and an evil side. He believes that by separating the two, man can become liberated. He succeeds in his experiments with chemicals to accomplish this and transforms into Hyde to commit horrendous crimes. When he discontinues use of the drug, it is already too late.
Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil side, Mr. Hyde, to come to the fore. He faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run amok.
The act of a woman with a broken nose, who suddenly jumps out of a taxi and throws herself off the bridge in Belgrade, connects the lives of three witnesses.
A writer returns to Hollywood after finishing his novel in the wilderness. Still smarting from his girlfriend's suicide and his publisher's criticisms of his novel, he becomes intrigued by the neighbor couple's abusive relationship.
Portrayal of the late Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar. Andrea Dunbar wrote honestly and unflinchingly about her upbringing on the notorious Buttershaw Estate in Bradford and was described as ‘a genius straight from the slums.’ When she died tragically at the age of 29 in 1990, Lorraine was just ten years old. The Arbor revisits the Buttershaw Estate where Dunbar grew up, thirty years on from her original play, telling the powerful true story of the playwright and her daughter Lorraine. Also aged 29, Lorraine had become ostracised from her mother’s family and was in prison undergoing rehab. Re-introduced to her mother’s plays and letters, the film follows Lorraine’s personal journey as she reflects on her own life and begins to understand the struggles her mother faced.
A disciplined and sexually driven man forces his family to stay isolated in their home in order to protect them from the “evil nature” of human beings.
A woman subject to mental, physical, and sexual abuse on a remote island seeks a way out.
元夫ポールとの間に生まれた息子ディランの結婚式のために、現在の家族を連れて久々に実家へ戻ったリン。ただでさえ反りの合わない家族に再会することは憂鬱なのに、久々に一堂に会しながら、お互いが抱える悩みや問題を全く受け入れようとしない、わがままで身勝手な家族たちに気が滅入るリン。それぞれの苦しみは、結婚式が近づくにつれてどんどん高まり、そして遂には祝いの席で大騒動を巻き起こすことになる。
In Philadelphia, the psychologist Dr. Liz Manners is the host of the WLOR Talk Radio Show giving advices about relationships to her audience. When she suggests to her listener Sara Jane to leave her abusive and obsessive husband Kyle Lundstrom, Sara runs away home chased by Kyle and is hit by a car, immediately dying. The psychopath Kyle decides to use his money to destroy Dr. Manners' life, and assuming the fake identity of the investor James, he meets her husband Rob and poisons her marriage
The story of a dysfunctional couple, whose problems will inevitably deteriorate their marriage and their son's life.
メイソンは、母オリヴィアと姉サマンサとテキサス州の小さな町で生活していた。彼が6歳のとき、母は子供たちの反対を押し切って祖母が住むヒューストンへの引っ越しを決める。さらに彼らの転居先に、離婚してアラスカに行っていた父が1年半ぶりに突然現れる。
Patty Sullivan (Erica Eleniak) is a battered woman who decides to take charge of her life by taking boxing lessons to better protect herself when her boyfriend becomes violent. Patty soon learns she has some talent for boxing and sets her sights on competing in a professional fight. More is on the line than just the woman's title.