Trailblazers in Habits (2013)
ジャンル : ドキュメンタリー, 履歴
上映時間 : 1時間 5分
演出 : Nancy Tong
シノプシス
'Trailblazers in Habits' is an intimate portrait of a group of American Catholic nuns, the Maryknoll Sisters, who have accompanied the disenfranchised in their struggle for social justice. By turns tragic and joyous, yet always inspirational, this insightful documentary is a revealing portrait of these courageous women. A moving and absorbing chronicle that spans 100 years and several continents, the film celebrates the intelligence and tenacity; the love, compassion and generosity of these early feminists.
St. Agatha is set in the 1950s in small town Georgia. A pregnant con woman named Agatha is on the run and seeks refuge in a convent hidden in deafening isolation. What first starts out as the perfect place to have a child turns into a dark lair where silence is forced. Ghastly secrets are masked, and every bit of will power Agatha has is tested. She soon learns the sick and twisted truth of the convent and the odd people that lurk inside its halls. Agatha must now find a way to discover the unyielding strength needed to escape and save her baby before she’s caged behind these walls forever.
Viridiana is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit her aging uncle, Don Jaime. He supports her; but the two have met only once. Jaime thinks Viridiana resembles his dead wife. Viridiana has secretly despised this man all her life and finds her worst fears proven when Jaime grows determined to seduce his pure niece. Viridiana becomes undone as her uncle upends the plans she had made to join the convent.
During the 17th century, a young woman is saved from execution and led to a priory to repent her sins but discovers a greater evil lies within.
In 1960s San Francisco, bright and talented catholic school girl Celina Guerrera survives a difficult home life by following the rules. That is until an indiscretion creates a series of devastating consequences. As Celina faces the compounded obstacles of being young and alone, she sets out to rise above the oppression of poverty and invest in a future that sets new precedents for the time.
A group of women involved in the Women's Liberation Movement hatched a plan to invade the stage and disrupt the live broadcast at the 1970 Miss World competition in London, resulting in overnight fame for the newly-formed organization. When the show resumed, the results caused an uproar and turned the Western ideal of beauty on its head.
とある殺人現場を目撃したために、組織に命を狙われるようになったクラブ歌手が、裁判の日まで修道院でかくまわれるハメに。しかし、元々下町で下品に育った彼女がそんなに神聖にできるはずもなく、やがて、聖歌隊をゴスペル風に改造し……。
ウーピー・ゴールドバーグ主演でヒットした『天使にラブソングを…』の続編となるミュージカル・コメディ。前作の1年後、ラスベガスで忙しい毎日を過ごすデロリスは、かつての仲間から聖キャサリン修道院のピンチを知らされる。
Garfagnana, Italy, 1347. The handsome servant Masseto, fleeing from his vindictive master, takes shelter in a nunnery where three young nuns, Sister Alessandra, Sister Ginevra and Sister Fernanda, try unsuccessfully to find out what their purpose in life is, a conundrum that each of them faces in different ways.
1952年のルーマニアの修道院でひとりのシスターが自らの命を絶つ。不可解な点の多い自殺に教会はバーク神父と見習いシスターのアイリーンを修道院へと派遣する。二人はこの事件を追うにつれ、修道院に隠された秘密とともにいまだかつてない恐怖“悪魔のシスター・ヴァラク”と対峙することになる。果たして、この修道院に隠された想像を超える秘密とは?そして悪魔のシスターの目的とは一体何なのか!?
When a nun broke her covenant with God to save the life of her unborn son, Aman, he was cursed for life. As an adult, Aman has killed those who have crossed him. But his curse brings his victims back to life and they pursue him for revenge, so Aman enlists a young gunman to fight by his side against his undead victims.
1938年のオーストリア、院長の命により厳格なトラップ家へ家庭教師としてやって来た修道女マリア。彼女の温かい人柄と音楽を用いた教育法で、七人の子供たちはマリアの事が好きになるが、父親であるトラップ大佐とマリアの衝突は絶え間なかった。だが、次第に大佐に惹かれている事に気づき悩むマリア。やがて大佐の再婚話が持ち上がり彼女は傷心のまま修道院に戻る。
When a priest is jailed for the murder of a nun on whom he was performing an exorcism, an investigative journalist strives to determine whether he in fact murdered a mentally ill person, or if he lost the battle with a demonic presence.
The ambitious police officer Cruchot is transferred to St. Tropez. He's struggling with crimes such as persistent nude swimming, but even more with his teenage daughter, who's trying to impress her rich friends by telling them her father was a millionaire and owned a yacht in the harbor.
Rachel Keller must prevent evil Samara from taking possession of her son's soul.
A dark and disturbing adaptation of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s controversial gothic feminist horror story about patriarchy and hysteria. Jane, a writer and young mother, is prescribed a rest treatment by her physician husband John, who takes her to a remote country estate for the summer. She becomes obsessed with the peculiar yellow wallpaper in the bedroom he has chosen for her. In her isolation, she secretly writes about a woman trapped in the wallpaper—that she must free.
シカゴ郊外の刑務所(ジョリエット刑務所)を出所したジョリエット・ジェイクと、彼を迎えに来た弟のエルウッドは、兄弟を育ててくれた孤児院に出所の挨拶に行くが、そこで、孤児院が5000ドルの税金を払えないため立ち退きの瀬戸際にあることを知る。孤児院の危機を救うため援助を申し出る二人だが、犯罪で得た汚れた金は要らないと逆に院長に追い払われてしまう。
デミ・ムーア製作・主演で新たなヒロイン像を描いた、リドリー・スコット監督作。女性上院議員の政治的策謀から、海軍特殊部隊の特訓に挑む女性将校の姿を描く。デミ・ムーアが髪を短く刈り上げ、鍛え上げた肉体でこなしたリアルな特訓シーンは圧巻。海軍情報部に勤務する女性将校オニール大佐は、男性と平等な実戦訓練を強く望んでいた。そんな彼女に千載一遇のチャンスが訪れる。それは屈強な男たちでさえ60%以上が脱落する過酷な特訓プログラムに参加することだった...。
人間社会から孤立した女性のみの一族のプリンセスとして生まれたワンダーウーマンは、自分が育ってきた世界以外の環境を知らず、さらに男性を見たこともなかった。ある日、彼女は浜辺に不時着したパイロットと遭遇。彼を救出したことをきっかけに、ワンダーウーマンは身分を隠して人間社会で生活していくことにする。
Nacho Libre is loosely based on the story of Fray Tormenta ("Friar Storm"), aka Rev. Sergio Gutierrez Benitez, a real-life Mexican Catholic priest who had a 23-year career as a masked luchador. He competed in order to support the orphanage he directed.
Alice, having survived the previous installment of the Nightmare series, finds the deadly dreams of Freddy Krueger starting once again. This time, the taunting murderer is striking through the sleeping mind of Alice's unborn child. His intention is to be "born again" into the real world. The only one who can stop Freddy is his dead mother, but can Alice free her spirit in time to save her own son?