An Uncertain Season (1988)

When the popular, restless Landon Carter is forced to participate in the school drama production he falls in love with Jamie Sullivan, the daughter of the town's minister. Jamie has a "to-do" list for her life and also a very big secret she must keep from Landon.

ロンドンの劇場で劇作家のジェームズ・バリは新作の『リトル・メアリー』の初日を迎えていた。しかし、観客の反応は芳しくなく、翌日の新聞でも、酷評されてしまう。失意の中で日課の散歩に出かけるジェームズ・バリは公園で父親を亡くしたショックから夢や希望を持てなくなっていた少年ピーターとその家族に出会う。ジェームズは、兄を亡くして早く大人になろうとした少年時代の自分をピーターに重ね、励ましていく。やがて彼らとの交流から着想を得たジェームズは、新しい劇に取りかかる。

A stage director and an actress struggle through a grueling, coast-to-coast divorce that pushes them to their personal extremes.

私立のラシュモア高校に通う行動派生徒のマックスは、並行して20前後の課外活動をこなすという忙しい毎日を送っているが、肝心の学業は不振。高校に新たに赴任した女性教師クロスに好意を抱くが、高校に無断で水族館を建てようとしたせいで退学となり、公立校に転校することに。クロスを忘れられないマックスだったが、自分の大人の友人であるブルームに彼女を取られてしまったせいで、次第に自暴自棄になっていく。

When Berke Landers, a popular high school basketball star, gets dumped by his life-long girlfriend, Allison, he soon begins to lose it. But with the help of his best friend Felix's sister Kelly, he follows his ex into the school's spring musical. Thus ensues a love triangle loosely based upon Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream", where Berke is only to find himself getting over Allison and beginning to fall for Kelly.

スウェーデンの歴史ある街で暮らすブルジョワ一家の2年間を描いた、ベルイマン最後の映画監督作として知られる名作。アカデミー賞外国映画賞をはじめ、各国の映画祭で高い評価を得た、まさにベルイマンの集大成と呼べる壮大にして華麗な映像が楽しめる。

A man rescues a mermaid in Paris and slowly falls in love with her.

女優を目指し、日々舞台の稽古に励む貞子。そんな中、劇団の看板女優が怪死を遂げ、次の公演の主役に新人の貞子が抜擢される。稽古場ではその後も怪現象が続き、貞子のせいだと噂が立つ。そんな貞子を音響担当の遠山だけがかばう。一方、新聞記者の宮地は密かに貞子の過去を探っていた。婚約者を貞子の母・志津子の超能力の公開実験で失った彼女は貞子への復讐に燃えていたのだ……。

第二次世界大戦中のパリで、美貌の女優マリオンは亡命したと偽り劇場の地下に匿われた夫に演技指導を受けながら、その劇場を守っていた。しかし新人俳優ベルナールに惹かれていき……。

A troupe of struggling stage actors rehearsing for a small-town production of a play panic after finding out they are locked in the theater with a killer wearing an owl mask.

A group of teenagers living in a housing project in the outskirts of Paris rehearse a scene from Marivaux's play of the same name. Krimo is determined not to take part, but after developing feelings for Lydia, he quickly assumes the main role and love interest in the play.

Madeline has become an integral part of a prestigious physical theater troupe. When the workshop's ambitious director pushes the teenager to weave her rich interior world and troubled history with her mother into their collective art, the lines between performance and reality begin to blur. The resulting battle between imagination and appropriation rips out of the rehearsal space and through all three women's lives.

Some teenagers are ambitiously setting up a famous Jon Fosse-play. They hire a well known actor to be their mentor, unaware that he's going through a life crisis. Their new mentor chooses Vegard, promising footballer and local douchebag, to play the leading role.

Out of work actor Joe volunteers to help try and save his sister's local church for the community by putting on a Christmas production of Hamlet, somewhat against the advice of his agent Margaretta. As the cast he assembles are still available even at Christmas and are prepared to do it on a 'profit sharing' basis (that is, they may not get paid anything) he cannot expect - and does not get - the cream of the cream. But although they all bring their own problems and foibles along, something bigger starts to emerge in the perhaps aptly named village of Hope.

A film adaptation by Max Reinhardt of his popular stage productions of Shakespeare's comedy. Four young people escape Athens to a forest where the king and queen of the fairies are quarreling, while meanwhile a troupe of amateur actors rehearses a play. When the fairy Puck uses a magic flower to make people fall in love, the whole thing becomes a little bit confused...

The story of the De Filippo brothers, children of Eduardo Scarpetta.

China's rapid changes from the late-1970s to the early 1990s, as seen through the lives of four performers in a theater troupe.

January 1942, in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II. Thousands of Jews have been confined to the Warsaw ghetto for more than a year. Outside, life goes on; inside, they struggle to survive another day. Still, on a cold winter night, a group of Jewish actors manage to stage a lively musical comedy.

Impelled by a spirit which still preserves a patina of idealism, Alfredo arrives to Madrid with the intention to create "a performance that is free, straight from the heart, capable of making people feel alive". His concept of what acting should be begins beyond the stage, out in the streets face to face with the public. Outdoors, in any town square, in a park or in the city's most commercial street, Alfredo and his troupe November start the show; demons to provoke passers-by, displays of social conscience, actions taken to the extreme to put the forces of law and order on full alert. There are no limits, no censorship; only ideas which are always valid so long as the public ceases to be the public and becomes part of the show swept by surprise, fear, tears or laughter. Theater as life, life as theater… there is no longer any difference.

While two theater groups rehearse plays by Aeschylus, two solitary individuals wander the Parisian streets hustling the populace for cash.