マッド・シティ (1997)
男たちはテレビカメラの放列の前で少しずつ狂い始める。
ジャンル : アクション, ドラマ, スリラー
上映時間 : 1時間 54分
演出 : Costa-Gavras
脚本 : Tom Matthews
シノプシス
真面目な博物館の元警備員サムが経費削減する館長へ再就職交渉に散弾銃を携行した。あくまでも威嚇のつもりが元同僚警備員に誤って発砲したものが命中、サムは止むなく館内にいた子供たちを人質にろう城してしまう。トイレにいて事件に居合わせたTV報道記者マックスは、全国ネット放映網への再帰を狙いスクープ取材に係るが、事情を聴きサムに対する事実を広めようと世論の同情を引出すものの、事件収束へ向かうより面白半分の興味が優先した世論操作から高視聴率となる。事件を聞きつけた大マスコミにより更なる事実と違う虚構のニュース合戦が繰り広げられる。
At Chicago's North Avenue Beach, the lifeguards are the law. These ragtags will do everything in their power to make sure you don't go out past your waist. Best friends Hughie (the hopeless romantic) and Otis (the ladykiller) get caught in one love triangle after another as young vixen Maggie and tomboy May make it hard for them to keep their eyes on the water at all times. As the summer sun heats up, so does tension among the crew, and their despotic superiors make sure that's it's never just another day at the beach.
In a quiet suburban community where everything is peaceful and in its place, a single crack has just appeared. Angie and Russ are a young married couple with a bright future. Angie is pregnant and expecting to join her circle of friends in happy motherhood, but fate has other plans.
A series of urban legends take place around the life of a troubled man who is searching New York City for a mysterious stranger.
A sailor and a stripper fall in love on the beaches of Nassau in this romance. Unfortunately, the exotic dancer already has a lover.
A journalist tries to balance the duties of marriage and motherhood while researching a piece on college women who work as prostitutes to pay their tuition.
Two men, both hiding a deadly secret, are on a murderous rampage through the desert.
Georges Duroy travels through 1890s Paris, from cockroach ridden garrets to opulent salons, using his wits and powers of seduction to rise from poverty to wealth, from a prostitute’s embrace to passionate trysts with wealthy beauties, in a world where politics and media jostle for influence, where sex is power and celebrity an obsession.
A group of models fly into the jungle of some South American country to look for a photo location. Their plane is shot down and they are captured by a drug baron's private army. At the same time, the Mafia's representative arrive to negotiate future collaboration.
A corrupt General plans on smuggling one million US dollars out of the Banana Republic he dominates. Local revolutionaries plan on stealing the cash but are thwarted when a bandit leader they are working with double crosses them. A tough cop and her boyfriend help two of the female revolutionaries escape from prison hoping that they will lead them to the cash, which they plan on keeping for themselves.
Film adaptation of a real event that occurred on May 23, 1981, in which a TV broadcaster, director of a major newspaper, and a deputy were involved
The city of Turin is in the grip of a brutal crime boss known as "the Marsellaise," and plenty of cops have good cause to want him dead — none more than Inspector Vanni, whose wife was murdered by the ruthless gangster. Having exhausted every other avenue, Vanni forms a crack squad of motorcycle-riding, Colt .38-toting elite officers, tasked with meting out justice on the margins of the law. But when the Marsellaise launches a bombing campaign designed to extort a vast ransom from the city's authorities, Vanni finds himself in a race against time to exact his revenge and avert disaster.
A stone-encrusted body is unearthed at Pompeii, and people left alone with it keep dying of crushed skulls...
A woman living in a boarding house is kidnapped by a small-time criminal. Soon others in the gang try to take her away from him so they can get the ransom.
1969年、ベトナム戦争反対を世に訴えるために連続爆破事件を起こした過激派組織ウェザーマンはFBIの最重要指名手配リストに記載された後、突如消息を絶つ。30年後、元メンバーの一人が警察に捕まる。再び話題を呼んでいる事件を調査する新聞記者のベンは、一見真面目そうな雰囲気のシングルファーザーの弁護士ジム・グラントにたどり着く。
If you want to know what is Slam, you have to come see it. Freaks, piercings, thongs and a lot of cream. 100% wild.
Harvey Keitel plays Penfield Gruber, a once great scientist, reduced to managing a sleazy hotel. Gruber monitors the daily comings and goings of his tenants, mainly for his own interest, until underworld figures ask him to spy on a suspected double-crosser. While watching the man, Gruber overhears a murder plot.
William Douglas Street is bored with his life. Working for his father is getting to him, his wife wants more money, and he's had enough. His solution is to re-invent himself. He becomes a chameleon, taking on whatever role suits the situation. From reporter to doctor to lawyer, he impersonates anyone he feels a need to be and he can earn money being. The movie is based on the real figures William Douglas Street, Jr. and Erik Dupin.
Crazed members of a sadistic family return to their childhood home to terrorize the new owners.
A woman and her delinquent rebellious teen daughter return to their small hometown after the death of the woman's distant father. Old wounds reopen quickly but they soon find a reason to stay. Will they find peace or more scars?
Billy Robinson has become the hottest hot-rodder on the professional motorcycle-racing circuit. But when he returns in triumph to his hometown to bask in all the adulation, he also skids into some pretty rank jealousy from envious motorcycling wanna-bes. And when a local race is organized, Billy must shift gears completely and compete against his best friend, Rick, for the top prize.
