Bush Mama (1979)

An enigmatic drifter from the South comes to visit an old acquaintance who now lives in South-Central LA.

Stan works in drudgery at a slaughterhouse. His personal life is drab. Dissatisfaction and ennui keep him unresponsive to the needs of his adoring wife, and he must struggle against influences which would dishonor and endanger him and his family.

A hitchhiker named Martel Gordone gets in a fight with two bikers over a prostitute, and one of the bikers is killed. Gordone is arrested and sent to prison, where he joins the prison's boxing team in an effort to secure an early parole and to establish his dominance over the prison's toughest gang.

A naive young woman moves from the South to stay with her aunt and uncle in Compton. As an outsider, she struggles at first to find her footing, but soon falls into the middle of a community of rebellious youth. She soon becomes more and more aware of the social injustices of the big city.

In 1902, an African-American family living on a sea island off the coast of South Carolina prepares to move to the North.

A man who despises his upwardly mobile lawyer brother reluctantly agrees to be best man at his wedding.

In this meditative film the everyday lives of poor Ethiopian peasants are shown using documentary as well as storytelling techniques, with its drama arising out of the timeless yet persistent issues of their lives.

The story of Dorothy and her husband T.C. He is a discharged Vietnam veteran who thought he would return home to a "hero's welcome." Instead he is falsely arrested and imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. Her life revolves around the welfare office and a community facing poverty and unemployment. As a result of the film's events, both the main characters become radicalized and Dorothy eventually turns to violence.

Charlie Banks, chronically unemployed, struggles to find dignity and a meaning for life in poorer districts of South Central Los Angeles.

Ashes and Embers is an original screenplay by Haile Gerima, about a Vietnam veteran, who, several years after the war, is struggling to come to terms with his role in the war, and his role as a Black person in America. He survives by working odd jobs in Washington, D.C. and living with his girlfriend and her son. When criticism of his alienated behavior come from her and a father figure too often, he runs to the streets or to his grandmother's rural house in Virginia. Her criticism and his memories of the past both send him fleeing again to Los Angeles, where he is surrounded by superficial people who have forgotten how to be compassionate human beings. It is here that the advice of his friends and grandmother combine to transform him from an embittered ex-soldier to a strong and confident man.

Eddie Warmack, an African American jazz musician, is released from prison for the killing of a white gangster. Not willing to play for the mobsters who control the music industry, including clubs and recording studios, Warmack searches for his mentor and grandfather, the legendary jazz musician Poppa Harris.

Daydream Therapy is set to Nina Simone’s haunting rendition of “Pirate Jenny” and concludes with Archie Shepp’s “Things Have Got to Change.” Filmed in Burton Chace Park in Marina del Rey by activist-turned-filmmaker Bernard Nicolas as his first project at UCLA, this short film poetically envisions the fantasy life of a hotel worker whose daydreams provide an escape from workplace indignities. —Allyson Nadia Field

A drama centered on a troubled young woman who moves to San Francisco, where she gets involved in pornography and aligns herself with a cocaine-addicted lawyer.

キャメロン・ディアス、ジェニファー・ロペスら豪華スターが結集した、女性のホンネ全開のロマンティック・コメディ。ダイエットのトレーナー、不妊のカメラマンなど、さまざまな境遇に置かれたカップルの物語を女性視点で描く。

【ハート・ロッカー】のキャスリン・ビグロー監督が9.11テロの首謀者・ビンラディン暗殺の真実を描いたサスペンス。若きCIA分析官・マヤはビンラディン捜索チームに抜擢される。同僚を自爆テロで失った彼女は執念でターゲットに迫るが…。

1970年代、毎年2人が事故で死亡するF1の世界で伝説となった2人のレーサーが存在した。 ジェームズ・ハントは野性的思考であり、毎日を人生最期の日の様に謳歌する豪放なプレイボーイで、勘を活かした走りを得意としていたイギリス人。ニキ・ラウダは「コンピュータ」と評される論理的思考であり、レーサーのイメージとはかけ離れた勤勉な男で、工学の知識を活かして自らマシンを整備する走りを得意としていたオーストリア人。全く正反対の性格の2人はやがてライバル関係となり、度々レースで競い合う仲になる。 そして1976年― シーズン成績1位を独走するラウダとそれを追うハント。ドイツグランプリのその日は朝から豪雨でニュルブルクリンクの状態が悪かったため、レースを決行するべきかどうか審議が行われた。ラウダは中止を主張したが、ハントは決行を支持し、最終的に予定通り開催されることとなった。しかし、そのレースでラウダはクラッシュし、生死をさまよう重症を負ってしまう。ハントは彼のクラッシュの原因が自分にあると考えショックを受けるが、その後のラウダが参加できないレースでラウダとの差を埋めていく。一命は取り留めたラウダは、病院でその様子を見て奮起し、事故後わずか42日後にレースに復帰する。

文豪トルストイの名作を、「プライドと偏見」「つぐない」のジョー・ライト監督が映画化。19世紀末ロシアの社交界を舞台に、政府高官の妻と青年将校との運命の愛を描く。 19世紀末のロシア。政府高官カレーニン（ジュード・ロウ）の妻にして、社交界の花として人々から注目されるアンナ・カレーニナ（キーラ・ナイトレイ）。しかし、華やかな生活の裏で夫との愛なき結婚に空虚なものを抱いていた。そんな中、彼女は離婚の危機に陥った兄夫婦の関係を修復させようと、彼らのいるモスクワへ。駅に降り立ったアンナは、そこで青年将校ヴロンスキー（アーロン・テイラー=ジョンソン）と出会う。彼から強い思いをぶつけられて戸惑う彼女だが、自分にも彼を慕う気持ちで胸がいっぱいだった。

A marriage counselor's personal and professional life becomes complicated after she enters into a relationship with one of her clients.

Monica is 13 years old and has already created her own world, on the street, where she fights courageously to defend what little she has: her friends, her boyfriend, who sells drugs, and her dignity and pride that makes no concessions to anyone. On Christmas night, like every night, she sells roses to make a living. But life brings her a new appointment with loneliness, poverty, drugs and death.

デパートガールの土屋名美はある日友人からバイトを紹介され軽い気持ちで受けるが、それはビニール本のモデルだった。世に出たビニ本のせいで名美の人生の歯車は狂う。そんな名美のビニ本に魅せられた男・村木が接近してくるのを名美はけ入れ…。