Building the American Dream (2019)
ジャンル : ドキュメンタリー
上映時間 : 1時間 15分
演出 : Chelsea Hernandez
シノプシス
In Texas, construction workers face the deadliest conditions in the country. This documentary follows three immigrant families who are rising up to seek justice and equality in an industry rife with exploitation.
幼い頃に遭遇した悲しい事件への復讐をもくろむ悪霊ハンターのトントは、そのスピリチュアルな力で死の一歩手前の男、ジョンを救う。正義感の強いジョンは、目的を達成するためならどんな手段も用いるトントと衝突するも、愛する者を奪われたことで豹変。マスクを装着し“ローン・レンジャー”と名乗り、トントと一緒に巨悪に挑む。
エリートFBI捜査官のケイトは、肥大化するメキシコの麻薬組織“ソノラ・カルテル”撲滅という極秘任務を負う特別部隊に選抜された。謎のコロンビア人アレハンドロと共に、麻薬戦争の最前線であるアメリカとメキシコの国境付近に向かうが、そこは仲間の動きも掴めず、人の命が簡単に奪われる無法地帯。そんな中、巨悪を追えば追うほど合法的手段だけで悪を制することができるかと、ケイトの倫理観が揺らいでゆく。
1836年の春、エルアラモの古い使命であったサンアントニオデベハルの近くで、約200人のテキサス人がメキシコ大統領で陸軍指揮官のアントニオロペスデサンタアンナ将軍の包囲に13日間抵抗しました。 テキサンズの指揮官は、若くて無謀なウィリアム・トラヴィス大佐、暴力的で情熱的なジェームズ・ボウイ、伝説のデビッド・クロケットだった。 戦闘で死ななかった人々は、サンタアンナの命令によって処刑されました。 「アラモを覚えて」はサム・ヒューストン将軍の戦いの叫び声になり、ついにテキサスをメキシコから独立させ、連合のもう一つの州になった。
不況時代のアメリカ30年代に実在した男女二人組の強盗、ボニーとクライドの凄絶な生きざまを描いた、アメリカン・ニューシネマの先駆け的作品。ケチな自動車泥棒だったクライドは、気の強いウェイトレスの娘ボニーと運命的に出会い、コンビを組んで強盗をやりはじめる。二人は順調に犯行を重ねていくが……。アカデミー賞2部門を受賞(助演女優賞エステル・パーソンズと撮影賞)した。
The archetypical renegade Texas Ranger wages war against a drug kingpin with automatic weapons, his wits and martial arts after a gun battle leaves his partner dead. All of this inevitably culminates in a martial arts showdown between the drug lord and the ranger, and involving the woman they both love.
西部開拓史に残る「アラモ砦の闘い」を描いた傑作西部劇。独立宣言をしたテキサスに対し、領主国メキシコの独裁者サンタ・アナは攻撃を仕掛けた。7000人のメキシコ軍対185名の勇者による壮絶な闘いが始まった……。
A Texas Ranger and a ruthless narcotics kingpin - they were childhood friends, now they are adversaries...
Ten years after the Civil War has ended, the Governor of Texas asks Leander McNelly to form a company of Rangers to help uphold the law along the Mexican border. With a few veterans of the war, most of the recruits are young men who have little or no experience with guns or policing crime.
Brewster is an owlish, intellectual boy who lives in a fallout shelter of the Houston Astrodome. He has a dream: to take flight within the confines of the stadium. Brewster tells those he trusts of his dream, but displays a unique way of treating others who do not fit within his plans.
テキサスで窃盗犯により服役中だった男が脱獄。パトカーをカー・ジャックし、何十台ものパトカーに追跡されながら里子に出された子供の元へ暴走する……。実話を元にしたスピルバーグの劇場用初監督作品。
Having fled to Mexico from the U.S. many years ago for killing his father's murderer, Martin Brady travels to Texas to broker an arms deal for his Mexican boss, strongman Governor Cipriano Castro. Brady breaks a leg and while recuperating in Texas the gun shipment is stolen. Complicating matters further the wife of local army major Colton has designs on him, and the local Texas Ranger captain makes him a generous offer to come back to the states and join his outfit. After killing a man in self defense, Brady slips back over the border and confronts Castro who is not only unhappy that Brady has lost his gun shipment but is about to join forces with Colton to battle the local raiding Apache Indians.
Carrie Watts is living the twilight of her life trapped in an apartment in 1940s Houston, Texas with a controlling daughter-in-law and a hen-pecked son. Her fondest wish – just once before she dies – is to revisit Bountiful, the small Texas town of her youth which she still refers to as "home."
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder. He wanders into the midst of the Riel Rebellion, in which Métis (people of French and Native heritage) and Natives want a separate nation. Dusty falls for nurse April Logan, who is also loved by Mountie Jim Brett. April's brother is involved with Courbeau's daughter Louvette, which leads to trouble during the battles between the rebels and the Mounties. Through it all Dusty is determined to bring Corbeau back to Texas (and April, too, if he can manage it.)
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Sam Elliot stars as Sam Houston, the visionary who nearly single-handedly forged the state of Texas into a powerful entity in its own right. Refusing to forget the Alamo (as if anyone could), Houston led the military in Texas' rebellion against Mexico. G.D. Spradlin co-stars as President Andrew Jackson, with Michael Beck appearing as Jim Bowie, James Stephens as Stephen Austin, and Richard Yniguez as Mexican General Santa Anna. Lensed on location in the Lone Star state, this sweeping made-for-TV film originally occupied three hours' screen time on November 22, 1986. Its title at that time was Houston: The Legend of Texas. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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