The Road Taken (1996)
ジャンル : ドキュメンタリー
上映時間 : 52分
演出 : Selwyn Jacob
シノプシス
This 1996 documentary takes a nostalgic ride through history to present the experiences of Black sleeping-car porters who worked on Canada's railways from the early 1900s through the 1960s. There was a strong sense of pride among these men and they were well-respected by their community. Yet, harsh working conditions prevented them from being promoted to other railway jobs until finally, in 1955, porter Lee Williams took his fight to the union.
法も秩序もない西部のある町。腹黒い知事は、黒人奴隷バートを保安官にして住民の不安を募らせ、彼らを町から追い出すことを企てる。だがバートは監獄の常連ジムと意気投合し、知事が送り込んだ無法者一味に立ち向かうのだった。
金持ち親子にマイアミからダラスまで象の輸送を頼まれたトラック野郎のバンディットが、パトカーをけちらしながらの大暴走を展開する。好評を博したカー・アクション映画『トランザム7000』の続編。
自分に課した3つのルールを厳格に守りつつ犯罪すれすれの運び屋家業を続けるフランク。ある日いつものように運び屋の依頼が舞い込む。指定された時刻に指定重量のバッグを運ぶ。簡単ないつもの仕事のはずだったが、車のパンクを修理する途中バッグが動きだし中から声がするのを見つけ不審感がぬぐえなくなったフランクはついに自分に課したルール「荷の中身は見ない」を破り バッグを開けてしまうと中からはアジア人の美女があわられるのだった。
1941年、日中戦争さなかの中国。鉄道員のマー・ユエンは、勇気ある仲間たちと“レイルロード・タイガース”と呼ばれるゲリラ部隊を結成し、日本軍に対する独自の抵抗活動を続けていた。ある日、日本軍に追われる中国軍兵士のダーグオが逃げ込んできて、マーたちは負傷した彼をかくまう。結局命を落としたダーグオの遺志を受け継いで、“レイルロード・タイガース”は、日本軍の物資輸送を阻止すべく、橋の爆破作戦に乗り出す。
かつて教師をしていたドーラは、今はリオデジャネイロの中央駅で代筆業を営んでいる。字の書けない人のために手紙を書くのが彼女の仕事だが、次第に何の感情も持たないようになり、その手紙を実際に出すことはほとんどなくなっていた。
The friendship of two working stiff railroad engineers is put to the test when one falls for the other’s wife.
Lucy Hill is an ambitious up-and-coming executive living in Miami. She loves her shoes, she loves her cars and she loves climbing the corporate ladder. When she is offered a temporary assignment — in the middle of nowhere — to restructure a manufacturing plant, she jumps at the opportunity, knowing that a big promotion is close at hand. What begins as a straightforward assignment becomes a life-changing experience as Lucy discovers greater meaning in her life and, most unexpectedly, the man of her dreams.
Lovely Singh is extremely respectful of Mr Rana and his daughter Divya. While appointed as Divya's bodyguard, he falls in love with a girl he has never met, unaware that she is none other than Divya.
Impoverished priest Harihar Ray, dreaming of a better life for himself and his family, leaves his rural Bengal village in search of work.
ミシシッピーの小さな町にやってきたオーエンは、下宿先でアルバという美しい女性に出会う。恋に落ちたふたりだったが、アルバの母親は彼らの仲を裂こうとするのだった……。
Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumption to be the key associate to a visiting labor union organizer. Together, they undertake the difficult, and possibly dangerous, struggle to unionize her factory.
西部開拓時代に実在した大強盗、ジェームズ兄弟の鮮烈な半生を綴る傑作西部劇。鉄道の敷設で土地を奪われたジェームズ兄弟は、復讐のために鉄道を襲って義賊となる……。西部劇の醍醐味が存分に味わえる作品だ。
A maniac butchers a fashion model on a Caribbean island and leaves the body to be eaten by rats. The model's sister suspects something isn't quite right with the police investagation and decides to go snooping on her own. With her friend, Fred, their investagations lead them to an unknown part of the island where they discover a monstrosity of a rat like man. The creature is killed by Fred, but the true horror of it's nature is just beginning...
At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to liberate himself from his virginity. Oblivious to the war and the resistance that surrounds him, this young man embarks on a journey of sexual awakening and self-discovery, encountering a universe of frustration, eroticism, and adventure within his sleepy backwater depot.
FBIによって仕組まれたでっち上げの報道が、それまで築いてきた地位や社会的信用、そして生活を瞬時に崩してしまう。その脅威にさらされた男が一人、マスコミに立ち向かっていく姿を描く。シドニー・ポラック監督作品。
After the train station clerk is assaulted and left bound and gagged, then the departing train and its passengers robbed, a posse goes in hot pursuit of the fleeing bandits.
Maya is a quick-witted young woman who comes over the Mexican border without papers and makes her way to the LA home of her older sister Rosa. Rosa gets Maya a job as a janitor: a non-union janitorial service has the contract, the foul-mouthed supervisor can fire workers on a whim, and the service-workers' union has assigned organizer Sam Shapiro to bring its "justice for janitors" campaign to the building. Sam finds Maya a willing listener, she's also attracted to him. Rosa resists, she has an ailing husband to consider. The workers try for public support; management intimidates workers to divide and conquer. Rosa and Maya as well as workers and management may be set to collide.
Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Kenehan, a scab named "Few Clothes" Johnson and a sympathetic mayor and police chief heroically fight the power represented by a coal company and Matewan's vested interests so that justice and workers' rights need not take a back seat to squalid working conditions, exploitation and the bottom line.
After promising 1100 employees that they would protect their jobs, the managers of a factory decide to suddenly close up shop. Laurent takes the lead in a fight against this decision.