Book Hunters (2017)

Italy, 1970. An increasing legion of harmless warriors begins a peaceful struggle for sexual freedom through pornography, shaking and shocking religious authorities and conservative political institutions. They are ironic, happy, crazy. They are dreamers, defenders of definitive communion between body and soul. But they were censored and humiliated. They were mistreated and arrested for demanding loud a new cultural renaissance.

書物を読むことが禁じられた近未来の世界。幼い頃に両親を失ったモンターグは、自分を育ててくれたベイティ隊長のもと、書物を燃やすファイヤーマンとして日々を送っていた。ある日、これまでに見たこともないほどの本が隠されている家を発見してしまう。全ての本を燃やせと隊長から命令が下った直後、家と本の所有者である老婆が“オムニス（ＯＭＮＩＳ）”という謎の言葉を残して、本と共に焼身自殺を遂げる…。

第三次世界大戦後に出現した都市国家・リブリア。そこは、テトラグラマトン党の党首ファーザーが君臨し、二度と戦争が起らぬよう感情を持つことが禁じられていた。ジョン・プレストンは、同僚のパートリッジが、違反者だったことを知り射殺するが、その一件から彼の心は揺らぎ始める。そんな中、新たな同僚ブラントとともに仕事に出ることになり逮捕した違反者メアリー・オブライエンの尋問中、逆に動揺させられてしまう。

1920年代、心理学の教授であるウィリアム･モールトン･マーストンは、授業を受けていた学生のオリーブ･バーンに惹かれ、彼女を助手にする。彼とともに研究をしていた妻のエリザベスは当初オリーブへの嫌悪感を示すが、彼女もまた徐々にオリーブに惹かれていく。3人は共同で嘘発見器の発明に向けて研究に没頭するが、あるときその関係が明るみになり大学を追い出されてしまう。大学を出て3人で共同生活をする中、2人の進歩的な女性に触発され、マーストンは”ワンダー・ウーマン”という新たなヒロインを産み出す。

2032年の平和な未来都市に、36年前冷凍刑に処せられた狂暴な男が蘇った。残忍な男に対抗するため警察が解凍したのは、“デモリションマン＝破壊人間”と恐れられた危険な刑事だった……。

活字の存在しない未来の管理社会を描いたレイ・ブラッドベリの小説を映画化。主人公モンターグは禁止されている書物の捜索と焼却にあたる有能な消防士だったが、クラリスという女性と知り合った事から本について興味を持ち始める。やがて読書の虜となった彼の前には妻の裏切りと同僚の追跡が待っていた……。

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。

ニューオーリンズの実業家マイケルは、愛妻エリザベスとの結婚10周年を祝うパーティーを開き、友人たちから祝福される。ところがその晩、エリザベスと娘のエイミーが何者かに誘拐され、犯人と人質の乗る車が警察の追跡を受けて逃走中、川の中へ転落。愛する妻子を失って、マイケルの運命は一気に暗転する。それから16年後、イタリアのフィレンツェを訪れた彼は、亡き妻にうり二つの女性と出会い、驚く。

A documentary primarily focusing on the filming and release of the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

高校生デイビッドは、1950年代のホームドラマ“プレザントヴィル”にハマッていた。そんな彼はある日、双子の妹ジェニファーとリモコンでチャンネル争いをしていると、いつの間にかプレザントヴィルの世界に入ってしまう。2人が主人公パーカー家の子供となったその白黒の世界は、暴力も性描写もなく平穏そのもの。だが、本能のままに行動するジェニファーによって、モノクロの世界は次第に色づきはじめていく…。

Taking inspiration from Peter M. Bracke's definitive book of the same name, this seven-hour documentary dives into the making of all twelve Friday the 13th films, with all-new interviews from the cast and the crew.

When a small Utah-based edited movie company is caught sanitizing Hollywood's copyrighted material, the film industry strikes back with a devastating blow.

A documentary analyzing the furore which so-called "video nasties" caused in Britain during the 1980s.

Martin, an ex-Parisian well-heeled hipster passionate about Gustave Flaubert who settled into a Norman village as a baker, sees an English couple moving into a small farm nearby. Not only are the names of the new arrivals Gemma and Charles Bovery, but their behavior also seems to be inspired by Flaubert's heroes.

A documentary about the Staatsoper Stuttgart (Stuttgart State Opera) in Germany.

A yellow cab is driving through the vibrant and colourful streets of Tehran. Very diverse passengers enter the taxi, each candidly expressing their views while being interviewed by the driver who is no one else but the director Jafar Panahi himself. His camera placed on the dashboard of his mobile film studio captures the spirit of Iranian society through this comedic and dramatic drive…

It is a sex education film of sorts dedicated to all forms of human sexuality.

A look at the forces that shaped Pre-Code Hollywood and brought about the strict enforcement of the Hays Code in 1934.

A retrospective documentary about the groundbreaking horror series, Friday the 13th, featuring interviews with cast and crew from the twelve films spanning 3 decades.

North Korea has nuclear weapons. How did it manage to get them quietly? Donald Trump is under the impression that as US president he could convince Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, to disarm his nuclear weapons and make peace with South Korea. But how was it possible that one of the poorest countries in the world could acquire the knowledge to produce nuclear-tipped rockets?

French Basque Country, year 1609. The men of a small fishing village have gone to sea. Judge Rostegui, who has been charged by the king with ridding the country of the devil's wiles, arrests Ana and her friends and accuses them of witchcraft.

The surprising and entertaining life of renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert (1942-2013): his early days as a freewheeling bachelor and Pulitzer Prize winner, his famously contentious partnership with Gene Siskel, his life-altering marriage, and his brave and transcendent battle with cancer.

The famous Spanish comedian Andreu Buenafuente, CEO of the production company El Terrat and prestigious TV host, tells how he and his numerous collaborators, both on set and behind the cameras, managed to carry on with their work despite the chaos and the several logistical and human problems caused by the global pandemic that began in early 2020.

In Israel, a joint French-Israeli scientific mission is set to unearth the secrets of the hill of Kiryath-Jearim (or Kiryat Ya’arim), converted to the site of a Catholic convent, where, according to the Bible, the Ark of the Covenant was kept for at least twenty years before being brought to Jerusalem by King David, father of King Solomon, who would eventually build the Holy of Holies inside the First Temple to house it.

As violence escalates in Los Angeles and heinous murders are committed, Steven Hardin, a young judge of the California Supreme Court, must struggle with his tortured conscience and growing despair as he watches helplessly as the ruthless criminals brought before his court go free because clever lawyers find obscure loopholes in the law.

The extraordinary story of Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf (1858-1940), creator of Nils Holgersson, a memorable and legendary literary character, and the first female storyteller to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1909); a woman as pioneering in her life as in her remarkable work.

In 1945, two young American soldiers, brothers Budd and Stuart Schulberg, are commissioned to collect filmed and recorded evidence of the horrors committed by the infamous Third Reich in order to prove Nazi war crimes during the Nuremberg trials (1945-46). The story of the making of Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today, a paramount historic documentary, released in 1948.

After years of caring exclusively for the needs of her husband and children, Agnes, a devoted housewife living in a small town near New York, has found something she really enjoys doing: solving puzzles.

Japanese Masao Maruyama, co-founder of the Madhouse studio and producer of the cult films Perfect Blue and Tokyo Godfathers talks about the fantastic universe of mangaka and filmmaker Satoshi Kon (1963-2010), one of the most brilliant and fascinating authors of world animation, ten years after his death.