Payroll (1961)
Brilliant... Brutal... Torn from tonight's headlines!
장르 : 범죄, 드라마
상영시간 : 1시간 45분
연출 : Sidney Hayers
각본 : George Baxt
시놉시스
A vicious gang of crooks plan to steal the wages of a local factory, but their carefully laid plans go wrong, when the factory employs an armoured van to carry the cash. The gang still go ahead with the robbery, but when the driver of the armoured van is killed in the raid, his wife plans revenge, and with the police closing in, the gang start to turn on each other.
A nightclub piano player (Tom Neal Jr.) hitchhikes to the West Coast and soon figures into two deaths.
Stone (Peter Coyote) hits an armored truck without his usual driver. The ensuing getaway leads to the death of an innocent. The payback is swift and brutal. The wronged father hires a twisted, sociopathic assassin to avenge his loss. One by one the offenders are punished through grisly executions. Stone uses his wits to find a reclusive friend Terry (Mel Smith) just in time for a psychedelic funhouse showdown with his stalker.
Punks kill people and rape people and stuff... and cops kinda do their own thing... and there's boobs and blood and motorcycles... the end.
Boris, an ex-con thief, is persuaded by his girlfriend to pull one last heist, breaking into her paraplegic, millionaire boss' sprawling, castle-like mansion. But once inside, they become trapped in a maze-like series of escape rooms which must be solved in order to stay alive.
An upstart outlaw baits a legendary gunslinger, now a marshal in love with a saloon keeper.
Johan Wallenberger, a rich financier, is killed in the House of Horrors at an amusement park in Madrid. His insurance company assign Chris Buyer, one of their best agents, to investigate because a few days prior to his death, the businessman took out a million dollar life insurance policy. Chris ingratiates himself with Catherine, Wallenberger's beautiful daughter, and it emerges that she is being plagued by a blackmailer. Chris is invited to the Wallenbergers' country house and is soon the centre of attention for several attractive women. Meanwhile, the plot thickens...
Two Ming patriots spend their days helping the weak and rescuing damsels in distress. This alum gets them in trouble, though, as they are captured and then volunteered to go after the fearsome Dragon Gang, a tribe of bandits that have been terrorizing the land. They must fight their way through the ranks, including a Taoist monk and his nearly invulnerable "demon," before they can finally face off against the beautiful and sinister leader of the Dragon Gang.
버지니아 울프의 소설 『올란도』와 토드 브라우닝의 영화 에서 착안한 울리케 오팅거 감독의 시간여행 판타지. 남성과 여성을 오가는 여행자 주인공은 다섯 개의 무대를 관통하며 세계의 역사를 이야기한다. 중세 스페인의 종교 재판, 유랑 극단, 그리스 신화, 기형 인간, 카니발리즘적 이야기들은 퀴어적 관점에서 인간의 신체라는 한계를 극복하려 한다. (2019년 한국시네마테크협의회 - 독일 SF 특별전 - 미래는 어떻게 만들어지는가?)
Cock Robin is the swaggering ballyhoo man of a Hungarian sideshow known as the Palace of Illusions. The highlight of the show is a reenactment of Salome's dance of the seven veils, replete with the beheading of Jokanaan. The performer portraying Salome is in love with Cock Robin. Jealous, sinister The Greek is determined to eliminate that competition.
트래비스는 베트남전에서 귀환한 후 불면증에 시달리며 사회에 적응하지 못하고 있다. 그래서 그는 택시 운전기사로 일하며 뉴욕의 밤거리를 다니며 타락한 사회를 보고 자신이 직접 이 악들을 제거하려고 마음 먹는다. 어느 날 트래비스는 우연히 12살 짜리 창녀 아이리스를 만나게 되고 그녀의 인생을 구하려 하지만 그녀는 집으로 돌아가길 꺼려 한다. 자신은 아무 것도 할 수 없다는 생각에 무기력해진 트래비스는 4개의 권총을 구입하고 상원의원 팔렌타인을 저격하러 나선다. 하지만 엉뚱하게도 사창가에서 피비린내 나는 총격전을 벌인 끝에 아이리스를 묶어두고 있던 포주 스포츠를 살해하고 마는데...
주로 여성들의 돈을 훔치거나 카사노바처럼 마음을 빼앗던 비독(조지 샌더스)과 동료 에밀(아킴 타미로프)은 생일 케이크에 숨겨진 줄을 이용해 감옥에서 탈출한다. 성당 벽화로 ‘용과 싸우는 성 조지’를 그리고 있던 화가를 위해 포즈를 취해준 다음, 다시 범죄의 세계로 되돌아간다. 그들은 첫 번째로 부유층들이 드나드는 한 클럽에 왕족 행세를 하며 들어간 비독은 그곳에서 노래를 부르는 로레타의 루비 가터를 훔칠 계획을 세운다. 실존 인물 프랑소아 외젠 비독이 1775년 프랑스 감옥에서 태어나는 순간부터 파리의 경찰서장이 되기까지의 자전적인 일대기를 다룬 영화로 정체성의 혼란, 현재의 삶을 짓누르는 과거의 그림자 등 서크적인 주제가 농후한 영화. (2006년 서울 시네마테크 상영회 - 더글라스 서크 특별전)
A man returns to his native Beijing after serving in a labor camp, to find that he has no family or prospects or friends. He tries to make a living, but his old underworld contacts drag him back into a life of crime.
A gung-ho ex-military man pursues a secret life of crime, culminating in the kidnapping of a teenage heiress.
천성적으로 인정이 넘치는 샘은 도움을 청하는 사람들을 그냥 지나치지 못한다. 그는 자신은 물론 가족의 재산까지도 기꺼이 내놓는다. 그러다 보니 샘이 저지른 일의 뒤치다꺼리는 모두 자연스럽게 아내 루의 몫이 되고 만다. 그러던 어느 날, 이사를 앞두고 계약금을 지불하려던 루는 샘이 자신 모르게 전 재산을 남에게 빌려 주었다는 사실을 알게 되고, 샘 가족은 파산 위기에 처하게 된다. 샘이 베푼 온정은 과연 다시 샘에게 돌아올 것인가. (2018년 영화의 전당 - [시네마테크] 레오 맥커리 특별전)
Fontaine Khaled is the wife of a wealthy but boring businessman. She spends his money on her nightclub, The Hobo, and partying. She hires a manager, Tony, to run her club, but it is understood that his job security is dependent on him satisfying her nymphomaniac demands.
Tom Flynn, the idealist owner of a left-leaning radical café/bookstore and the quixotic publisher of a hard hitting 911 conspiracy expose, finds himself entangled with a mysterious Eastern European beauty, Kasia, who is on the run from strong hand of a global 911 cover up. In this contemporary take on film noir. When Tom is implicated in the murder of his friend and employee, he is forced to unravel Kasia's complex web of lies. As it turns out, Kasia possesses the smoking gun that proves the identities and methods of the real architects of 911, and Tom Flynn is willing to die to expose the truth. Written by Dave Herman
A corrupt television preacher and his congregation are held hostage by a woman, her lover, and her two cousins in an attempt to avenge the theft of her inheritance. A quirky look at the dishonesty of the televangelist industry.
Documentary chronicaling the rise and fall of the punk movement with rare interview footage of Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen. Also concert and news footage.
Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of business until she meets an independent design engineer.
A young factory worker stands alone against a proposed strike.