The Green Ray (1986)

20世紀のはじめ、ニューヨーク・パリ間の自動車大レースが開催され、命知らずの色男・レスリーと悪漢フェイト教授が抜きつ抜かれつの展開に。行き先々で大騒動となるが、果たしてゴールするのは…。B・エドワーズ監督のサイレント映画の手法やギャグを駆使した演出、とりわけ当時最大の規模といわれた“パイ投げ”の場面は圧巻。アニメ「チキチキマシン猛レース」の元ネタともされる、スラップスティック・コメディーの超大作。

Paris, 1482. Today is the festival of the fools, taking place like each year in the square outside Cathedral Notre Dame. Among jugglers and other entertainers, Esmeralda, a sensuous gypsy, performs a bewitching dance in front of delighted spectators. From up in a tower of the cathedral, Frollo, an alchemist, gazes at her lustfully. Later in the night, Frollo orders Quasimodo, the deformed bell ringer and his faithful servant, to kidnap Esmeralda. But when the ugly freak comes close to her is touched by the young woman's beauty...

In Paris, the international police force and the Russian mafia are chasing Anthony Zimmer, an intelligent man responsible for laundry of dirty money in France. Zimmer had extensive plastic surgery, and his new face and voice are completely unknown. The only means to reach Zimmer is through his beloved mistress Chiara, who is under surveillance of the police and the mobsters. While traveling by train to the country nearby Nice, the common man François Taillandier, who has the same body shape of Zimmer, is select by Chiara as if he were Zimmer and used as a bait to lure those that are pursuing her. When Taillandier is chased by the professional Russian killers, he runs the French police when the real situation begins to be disclosed to him. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

マッティ刑事にパリまで夜行列車で護送されていたボーゲルは、刑事が寝入ったすきに手錠を外して逃亡を図る。一方、刑務所を出所したコレ―は、貸しのあったリコを訪ね、貸しを返すことを求めるがリコは断る。リコを脅して大金を奪ったコレ―は車でパリに向かうが、そのトランクには列車から脱出したボーゲルが隠れていた…。

フランスの名優、ジェラール・ドパルデューの代表作といわれる作品。1640年のブルゴーニュ。詩人にして剣客のベルジュラックは、従妹のロクサーヌが困っているところを助ける。愛する彼女に近づけると思ったが……。

Monsieur Bosquier, the owner of a private school, is far from pleased when his eldest son, Philippe, fails his end of year exams. He decides to send his wayward offspring to England to improve his English. In exchange, Philippe’s host, a wealthy whisky distiller, Mac Farrel, will send his daughter, Shirley, to live with the Bosquiers in France. However, Philippe has already decided to spend the summer holidays on a yacht with his friends, so he sends a fellow student, Michonnet, to England in his place. The deception is soon discovered but things go from bad to worse when Philippe and Shirley fall in love and fly to Scotland to get married...

When Tyler Davidson brings his college buddy Chase home for the summer holidays a secret is revealed that threatens to tear his perfect family apart.

At last! The newly crowned King of Denmark, Edward, and his wife and Queen, Dr. Paige Morgan, find time to fly to Belavia for their secret honeymoon. What better way to spend the Christmas holidays than at a fabulous ski resort? But as they take a tour of Belavia's natural beauty, Eddie and Paige discover that the evil Prime Minister Polonius has given orders to bulldoze the precious forests - to drill for oil. Then, the couple bump into Paige's ex-boyfriend, Scott. Eddie immediately becomes jealous - furthermore he suspects Scott cannot be trusted. Paige and Eddie must do everything they can to save the forest, even if it means putting aside their honeymoon.

On vacation at his ranch, western actor Roy quickly finds himself involved with a horse rustling operation and a boy ward of one of the rustlers, leading to the kidnapping of Roy's trick horse Trigger by the gang with a demand for ransom.

パリで父と暮らす少年ダニエルは、ある日、アメリカ人少女ローレンと出会い、たちまち恋に落ちる。ところが、ローレンは家族とともに帰国することに。そんな時、ある老人の言葉をきっかけに、彼らはベネチアの「ためいき橋」へ向かう。永遠に結ばれるために。

Two unlikely companions must smuggle four suitcases filled with contraband pork across Nazi-occupied Paris.

Michael Pappas and his girlfriend, Cathy, are enjoying the white sand beaches of a Greek island as well as the freewheeling nature of the locals. When Michael meets Lina, who is in Greece from Paris doing archaeological work, he is enamored with the beautiful foreigner. Cathy, unhappy about Lina getting close to Michael, confronts the woman -- only to be unexpectedly wooed by her charms as well.

In this special documentary that inspired a two-season television series, scientists and other experts speculate about what the Earth, animal life, and plant life might be like if, suddenly, humanity no longer existed, as well as the effect humanity's disappearance might have on the artificial aspects of civilization.

A divorcee has a passionate affair with a much younger surfing instructor in Hawaii.

The clothing department's floor requires renovation; rather than let the staff sit idle while the area is closed off, the management sends them on a paid holiday in Costa Plonka, a fictional city in Spain. Their hotel and its surroundings prove to be dismal, and the group tries to pass the time by acting on the crushes they have developed for one another in the workplace. This results in disaster, as multiple amorous notes reach the wrong recipients and everyone gets wrong ideas about who fancies whom. Meanwhile, Carlos, the hotel manager receives an unwelcome visit from an old acquaintance, Cesar Rodriguez, who is after Mrs. Slocombe after seeing her passport. He is also plotting a revolutionary uprising and wants to use the hotel as his base.

A great French restaurant's owner, Monsieur Septime, is thrust into intrigue and crime, when one of his famous guests disappears.

A writer of pulp fiction imagines himself as the dashing hero and his English neighbor as his love interest.

John flies over to Paris to find out his girlfriend Elizabeth. He finds a mysterious fashion designer named Lea and her assistant Claire, and it turns out that Lea was Elizabeth's friend in Paris. Lea says to John that Elizabeth married and moved away. The passion starts to appear between John and Lea, when Lea's business partner Vittorio tells John another version of Elizabeth's fate.

アリアーヌは、探偵である父の調査書を盗み見て、フラナガンというハンサムな男性に憧れを抱く。彼女は、素性を隠してフラナガンに接近。彼が愛人の夫に殺されそうになるところを助け、そのことをきっかけに憧れが本気の恋に発展。フラナガンもチャーミングなアリアーヌを忘れられなくなる。 パリを舞台にしたオードリー・ヘップバーンとゲーリー・クーパー共演作。好奇心旺盛なアリアーヌを演じるオードリーは可憐な魅力を振りまき、その魅力を惜しみなく発揮している。憧れの人と恋に落ちても、自分の正体を知られたくないアリアーヌと彼女のことを知りたいフラナガンの恋の駆け引きもスリリングで見応え十分。テンポよくイキな演出はビリー・ワイルダー。1957年のモノクロ映画だが、いつ観ても色あせないスイートなラブストーリーだ。

1941年、ナチス占領下のフランスの田舎町で、家族を虐殺されたユダヤ人のショシャナはランダ大佐の追跡を逃れる。一方、“イングロリアス・バスターズ”と呼ばれるレイン中尉率いる連合軍の極秘部隊は、次々とナチス兵を血祭りにあげていた。やがて彼らはパリでの作戦を実行に移す。

Marion is about to divorce from her husband and takes her 15-year-old niece, Pauline, on a vacation to Granville. There, she meets an old love...

デヴィッド・リンチ監督によるスリラー。ノース・キャロライナ州ランバートン。製材が主産業ののどかな町。よく晴れた日、大学生のジェフリーは、庭仕事をしていて突然異常な発作に襲われた父を見舞った病院からの帰り道、野原で異様な物を見つけた。手に取ってみると、それは何と切り落とされた人間の片耳だった……。

A shy maths graduate takes a holiday in Dinard before starting his first job. He hopes his sort-of girlfriend will join him, but soon strikes up a friendship with another girl working in town. She in turn introduces him to a further young lady who fancies him. Thus the quiet young lad finds he is having to do some tricky juggling in territory new to him.

A bombastic, womanizing art dealer and his painter friend go to a seventeenth-century villa on the Riviera for a relaxing summer getaway. But their idyll is disturbed by the presence of the bohemian Haydée, accused of being a “collector” of men.

Middle-class Parisian suburbs: Blanche and Léa, office worker and student, meet and become friends. Léa is going out with Fabien, but is thinking of leaving him. Blanche falls for Léa's handsome and witty friend Alexandre, but is tongue-tied whenever she meets him. Léa goes on holiday and Blanche, still smitten with the dashing Alexandre, begins to get to get know Fabien. A classic Rohmer moral tale.

Sabine vows to give up married lovers, and is determined to find a good husband. Her best friend Clarisse introduces her to her cousin Edmond, a busy lawyer from Paris. Sabine pursues Edmond, with the encouragement of Clarisse, but Edmond does not seem very interested.

On the eve of his wedding, on holiday on the Lake Annecy shore, a career diplomat visits an old acquaintance, perhaps a former girlfriend. Through her he meets an intense teenager, Laura, and then lusts after her sister, Claire. Whilst Laura attempts to flirt with him, his fantasy becomes focused on wanting to caress Claire's knee.

The rigid principles of a devout Catholic man are challenged during a one-night stay with Maud, a divorced woman with an outsize personality.

イタリアの名匠ジュゼッペ・トルナトーレによる、映画史に残る至高の名作。イタリアのシチリアを舞台に、少年と映写技師が映画を通して心を通わせていく様を、感動的な音楽と繊細な人物描写で描き出す。映画監督のサルヴァトーレ（ジャック・ペラン）は、映写技師のアルフレード（フィリップ・ノワレ）という老人が死んだという知らせを受け、故郷のシチリアに帰郷する。

冬の間は豪雪で閉鎖されるホテルの管理人職を得た小説家志望のジャック・トランスは、妻のウェンディーと心霊能力のある息子ダニーとともにホテルへやってくる。そのホテルでは、かつて精神に異常をきたした管理人が家族を惨殺するという事件が起きており、当初は何も気にしていなかったジャックも、次第に邪悪な意思に飲みこまれていく。

強盗の計画を立てているカップルを導入部に、盗まれたトランクを取り戻そうとする二人組のギャング、ビンセントとジュールス。ボスの情婦と一晩のデートをするハメになるビンセント。ボクシングの八百長試合で金を受け取るボクサーのブッチ。誤って人を殺し血塗れになった車の処理に右往左往するビンセントとジュールス。ギャングのボス、マーセルスを軸としたこれらの物語がラストに向けて収束していく。