Backroom Troubles (1997)
ジャンル : ドキュメンタリー
上映時間 : 51分
演出 : Andrea Bosshard, Shane Loader
シノプシス
Women talk about the circumstances that drove them to seek illegal abortions and the often traumatic result. Interwoven with historical photographs and newsreel footage, the stories expose how the reality of women's lives were counterposed to what was socially and morally expected of them.
19世紀の半ば、スコットランドからニュージーランドへ写真結婚で嫁ぐエイダ。旅のお供は娘のフロラと一台のピアノ。エイダは6歳の時から口がきけず、ピアノが彼女の言葉だった。夫のスチュアートはそのピアノを重すぎると浜辺に置き去りにし、原住民に同化している男ベインズの土地と交換してしまう。ベインズはエイダに“ピアノ・レッスン”をしてくれればピアノを返すというが……。
When two married business executives having an affair are blackmailed by a violent criminal, they are forced to turn the tables on him to save their families.
1920年型の伝説のバイク“インディアン”に乗る、年金暮らしの老人。彼がユタ州のボンヌヴィル塩平原で行なわれるレースで世界最速記録に挑戦する……。夢を追い続ける老齢ライダーの実話をもとにした、アンソニー・ホプキンス主演の感動映画。
アフリカ奥地で発見された未知の生物ラット・モンキーに噛まれたためにゾンビ化してしまった母親。息子のマザコン青年はなんとか事態の収拾を図るが、その間にも犠牲者の数は増えていく......。
Vampire housemates try to cope with the complexities of modern life and show a newly turned hipster some of the perks of being undead.
Ricky is a defiant young city kid who finds himself on the run with his cantankerous foster uncle in the wild New Zealand bush. A national manhunt ensues, and the two are forced to put aside their differences and work together to survive.
When a San Francisco exec wins a New Zealand inn, she ditches city life to remodel and flip the rustic property with help from a handsome contractor.
Se-jin, a high school student, becomes pregnant and gets ostracized by her family and school. While wandering the streets, she meets Joo-yeong, an experienced runaway, and tries to get an abortion with Joo-yeong's help.
Defying the state legislature that outlawed abortion, the Catholic Church that condemned it, and the Chicago Mob that was profiting from it, the members of “Jane” risked their personal and professional lives to support women with unwanted pregnancies. In the pre-Roe v. Wade era — a time when abortion was a crime in most states and even circulating information about abortion was a felony in Illinois — the Janes provided low-cost and free abortions to an estimated 11,000 women.
巨匠ポール・シュレイダー監督が構想50年の末に完成させたサスペンス。夫に出産を反対されている女性の相談を受けた神父が、教会が汚職企業から献金を受けていることを知らされ、内なる怒りに苦しむことに……。
ホーマーはセント・クラウズの孤児院で生まれ育った。親代わりのラーチ院長の仕事である助産と当時は禁止されていた堕胎の仕事を手伝う彼だが、やがて自身の将来に不安を抱き始める。ある日、ホーマーは手術に訪れた若い女性キャンディとその恋人の軍人ウォリーと共に孤児院を飛び出した。彼はウォリーの誘いで彼の母親オリーヴが経営するリンゴ園で働き、収穫人たちの宿舎サイダーハウスで暮らし始めるが・・・。
When the teenagers in a small Illinois town start getting murdered, the police chief makes a connection to the mysterious scientific experiments being done at the local university and must stop them before his own son is dragged into the deadly scheme.
A genetic engineering experiment gone horribly awry turns a large flock of docile sheep into unrelenting killing machines.
法律で中絶が禁止されていた、1960年代のフランス。望まぬ妊娠をした大学生のアンヌは、前途洋々だと思っていた自分の人生が思わぬ方向へ進もうとしているのではないかと狼狽する。医者に中絶を求めるも「違法行為になる」と突き放され、次第に追い詰められて孤立していくアンヌ。だが、自身が願っていた未来をかなえるためにある選択をする。
A 17-year old Missouri teen discovers she has gotten pregnant, a development that threatens to end her dreams of matriculating at an Ivy League college, and the career that could follow.
A teen faces a night of terror when three malevolent trick-or-treaters come knocking at her door.
A team from the intergalactic fast food chain Crumb's Crunchy Delights descends on Earth, planning to make human flesh the newest taste sensation. After they wipe out the New Zealand town Kaihoro, the country’s Astro-Investigation and Defense Service (AIaDS) is called in to deal with the problem. Things are complicated due to Giles, an aid worker who comes to Kaihoro the same day to collect change from the residents. He is captured by the aliens, and AIaDS stages a rescue mission that quickly becomes an all-out assault on the aliens’ headquarters.
ニュージーランドの海と大地。少女パイケアが起こす奇跡とは……。天才少女の呼び声も高いケイシャ・キャッスル=ヒューズ主演作品。マオリ族の伝説の勇者の魂を受け継いだ少女を演じる。
A drama about a Maori family living in Auckland, New Zealand. Lee Tamahori tells the story of Beth Heke’s strong will to keep her family together during times of unemployment and abuse from her violent and alcoholic husband.
Boy, an 11-year-old child and devout Michael Jackson fan who lives on the east coast of New Zealand in 1984, gets a chance to know his absentee criminal father, who has returned to find a bag of money he buried years ago.