Nice Women (1931)

移民として故郷の中国から苦難の人生を背負って生き抜いてきた4人の母親と、アメリカ人として生まれ育った4人の娘たちの世代間の相違と心の絆を描いた群像劇。エイミー・タンの同名ベストセラー小説を、「夜明けのスローボート」の女性監督ウェイン・ワンが映画化。 ロサンゼルス。聡明なスーユアン、リーダー格のリンド、芯の強いアンメイ、気品あるインインの同世代の4人の女性は、マージャン卓を囲んで食事をしたりおしゃべりをしたりする会″ジョイ・ラック・クラブ″を作っていた。アメリカに移住して30年、2ケ月前に他界した母スーユアンの代わりに会合に出席したジューンは、故国に残してきた双子の姉の存在が、母の死に際し語られる。居ても立っても居られぬジェーンは、まだ見ぬ姉たちを訪ねる……。

As Vic Brown vacillates between infatuation and disinterest for his co-worker Ingrid Rothwell, she finds out that she is pregnant and Vic has to reconcile how he thought his life would go with what life actually has in store for him.

A mother and daughter spend a night together after the daughter reveals that she will kill herself by the end of it.

Two teen girls, one from the city, one from the country, try to find the hidden gold of Bear Mountain learning about friendship, loyalty and courage on the way.

Newlyweds Eric and Jenni Whitlock retire to his desolate mansion, where Eric's first wife Marianne died from a mysterious freak accident. Jenni, who has a history of mental illness, begins to see strange things including a mysterious skull, which may or may not be a product of her imagination.

A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.

Life for Adela, a single mom trying to raise her infant son, and Antonia, a widow with three daughters, are forever altered by the terrorist bombing in Madrid.

Christmas Eve in New York, and the lonely divorced publisher, Rose Collins, needs a miracle to improve the health of her mother, interned in a hospital with Alzheimers. She feels sorry for another patient and meets his visitor. Meanwhile, Nina Vasquez breaks her engagement with her beloved fiancé Mike due to his suffocating jealousy, but misses him. Mike is stalked by a stranger, bartender Artie Venzuela. The poor Jules arranges to spend Christmas Eve in the hospital, where he spent the best Christmas of his life when he was a teenager. The lives of some of these characters cross with others along the night.

Jeong-hye gives a birth to a baby boy in the prison. Her and other inmates create a women's choir to compete in the national choir contest, to meet and greet their families and loving ones.

Labor Day in a small Kansas farm town. Hal, a burly and resolute drifter, jumps off a dusty freight train car with the purpose of visiting Alan, a former college classmate and son of the richest man in town.

With the help of her coach, her mom, and the boy who drives the Zamboni machine, nothing can stop Casey from realizing her dream to be a champion figure skater.

平原の真ん中でトレーラーが燃えている。不倫関係にあった2人の恋人の遺体が発見される。ドラマチックな出来事の前後にある両家の風景は、二人の間にただならぬつながりがあることを示唆している。果たして彼らの秘密とは？

After a seven-year absence, Charlotte Andergast travels to Sweden to reunite with her daughter Eva. The pair have a troubled relationship: Charlotte sacrificed the responsibilities of motherhood for a career as a classical pianist. Over an emotional night, the pair reopen the wounds of the past. Charlotte gets another shock when she finds out that her mentally impaired daughter, Helena, is out of the asylum and living with Eva.

Far from Chicago, hairdresser Gina Norris has relocated to Atlanta with her daughter and has quickly established herself as a rare talent in her profession. But after repeatedly butting heads with her shady, over-the-top boss, Jorge, Norris sets out to create her own salon -- even snagging a few of Jorge's employees and clients. Now, Jorge will do anything to shut her down.

Poindexter "Fool" Williams, his brother Leroy, and their family face eviction from their rented home in South Central Los Angeles. Their landlords are a greedy, uncaring couple who live in a mansion that's as huge as it is eerie. Leroy has a plan to burglarize the mansion, but what the boys find inside is not what they expected.

Georgia Rule follows a rebellious, uncontrollable teenager who is hauled off by her dysfunctional mother to spend the summer with her grandmother. Her journey will lead all three women to revelations of buried family secrets and an understanding that - regardless what happens - the ties that bind can never be broken.

タリバン政権下で生きる少女とその家族にスポットを当て、その恐怖と苦しみを描き、2003年カンヌ国際映画祭カメラドール特別賞を受賞した実力作。TV、映画、音楽が禁止されていたタリバン政権崩壊後初めてアフガン人の監督による、アフガンの映画が誕生したことの意味は重要だ。この作品で迫真の演技を見せた、マリナ・ゴルバハーリら次世代の才能を発掘した成果も大きい。アフガンの人々の日常生活に迫る記念すべき作品。

A teenager journeys through a series of foster homes after her mother goes to prison for committing a crime of passion.

The lives of three women have a commonality: adoption. Karen is a physical therapist who regrets that, as a teenager, she gave up her daughter for adoption. Elizabeth was an adopted child and is now a successful lawyer, but her personal life lacks warmth. Lucy and her husband have failed to conceive and now hope to adopt a baby to make their family complete.

After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved". Sethe and Denver take her in and then strange things start to happen...