David, a naive graduate student, has volunteered to work as a 'buddy' for people dying of AIDS. Assigned to the intensely political Robert, a lifelong activist whose friends and family have abandoned him following his diagnosis, the two men, each with notably different world views, soon discover common bonds, as David's inner activist awakens and Robert's need for emotional release is fulfilled.
In late 19th century Tokyo, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adopted son of a legendary actor, himself an actor specializing in female roles, discovers that he is only praised for his acting due to his status as his father's heir. Devastated by this, he turns to Otoku, a servant of his family, for comfort, and they fall in love. Kikunosuke becomes determined to leave home and develop as an actor on his own merits, and Otoku faithfully follows him.
At the beginning of the 1913 Mexican Revolution, greedy bandit Juan Miranda and idealist John H. Mallory, an Irish Republican Army explosives expert on the lam from the British, fall in with a band of revolutionaries plotting to strike a national bank. When it turns out that the government has been using the bank as a hiding place for illegally detained political prisoners -- who are freed by the blast -- Miranda becomes a revolutionary hero against his will.
North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incline. It's not a military objective. It's The Hill, a manmade instrument of torture, a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun. And the troops' tormentors are not the enemy, but their own comrades-at-arms.
Andreas, a man struggling with the recent demise of his marriage and his own emotional isolation, befriends a married couple also in the midst of psychological turmoil. In turn he meets Anna, who is grieving the recent deaths of her husband and son. She appears zealous in her faith and steadfast in her search for truth, but gradually her delusions surface. Andreas and Anna pursue a love affair, but he is unable to overcome his feelings of deep humiliation and remains disconnected. Meanwhile, the island community is victimized by an unknown person committing acts of animal cruelty.
かつて幼少時代を同じ孤児院で過ごしたアリーナとヴォイキツァ。ドイツに出稼ぎに行っていた身寄りのないアリーナは、修道院にいるヴォイキツァを訪ねて、冬のルーマニアに戻ってくる。アリーナの願いは、世界でただひとり愛するヴォイキツァと一緒に居ること。しかし、修道院で暮らし信仰に目覚めたヴォイキツァとは以前のように心が通わなくなり、アリーナは精神のバランスを崩していく。そしてそれが悪魔の仕業とみなされ悪魔祓いの儀式が執り行われることになり、再び彼女を取り戻そうとするアリーナは次第に精神を患っていく。静かで穏やかな生活を営んでいた修道女たちを戸惑わせ、混乱させるアリーナ。ついに修道院は彼女の病が悪魔の仕業であるとみなし、彼女を救うべくある決断を下すのだった―。＜クリスティアン・ムンジウ監督が、05年に同国で起こった事件を題材に、2人の女性が悪魔祓いの犠牲になる悲劇を描いたドラマ。＞
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
シャルロットは小型機のパイロット、ピエールと再婚しており、前夫との間にできた息子ニコラと３人で暮らしている。そんな彼女は、３ヵ月前から地方巡業劇団員ロベールと不倫している。ピエールは疑念を抱いて、私立探偵を雇い、妻を尾行させていた。対するシャルロットも尾行を警戒して、ロベールとの情事の前後にはタクシーを何台も乗り換えている。ある日、彼女は医師から妊娠３ヵ月と知らされる。しかし、父親はピエールなのかロベールなのか分からない。シャルロットはロベールとホテルで密会し、ある問いをする。
Debt-ridden painter Michel is overcome with joy at discovering that he has just won 1 million florins in the Dutch lottery, but almost immediately, he discovers that his softhearted girlfriend, Béatrice, has given away his jacket containing the winning ticket to an elderly petty thief. Soon Michel, Beatrice and Michel's artistic rival, Prosper, are hurtling through the streets of Paris on the trail of the missing jacket.
Friends battle former U.S. presidents when they come back from the dead as zombies on the Fourth of July.
The newly elected Pope suffers a panic attack just as he is about to greet the faithful who have gathered to see him. His advisors, unable to convince him he is the right man for the job, call on a renowned therapist who also happens to be an atheist. But the Pope's fear of his newfound responsibility is one he must face alone. Winner Best Film at the Italian Golden Globes.
Sergei M. Eisenstein's docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after the events and edited in Eisenstein's 'Soviet Montage' style, it re-enacts in celebratory terms several key scenes from the revolution.
A short two-minute rumination on the once volatile situation during the period of the Bosnian War presented in the form of a photo-montage with accompanying text.
1999年1月、魔術師見習いである黒桐鮮花は、師である蒼崎橙子にある事件の調査を命じられる。それは鮮花の母校である礼園女学院で、生徒の記憶が妖精に奪われているというものだった。妖精を視ることができる両儀式を連れて学院に戻った鮮花は、さっそく調査を開始する。
When her friend Martin turns up murdered just hours after auctioning off an abandoned storage unit full of unique items to Jennifer, she is immediately pulled on the case as a key eyewitness. Working with Detective Lynwood, Jennifer helps single out a disgruntled customer as the prime suspect, while she and her business partner, Danielle, sift through boxes from the auction.
The Foreign Legion marches in to Mogador with booze and women in mind just as singer Amy Jolly arrives from Paris to work at Lo Tinto's cabaret. That night, insouciant legionnaire Tom Brown catches her inimitably seductive, tuxedo-clad act. Both bruised by their past lives, the two edge cautiously into a no-strings relationship while being pursued by others. But Tom must leave on a perilous mission: is it too late for them?
The craft, creative process and complicated lives of Stand-up Comedians.
After three British agents are assigned to assassinate a mysterious German spy during World War I, two of them become ambivalent when their duty to the mission conflicts with their consciences.
Jura is 23 years old - and Lena is 23. They live in Budennovsk, play computer games, walk and learn. They live in a city where Shamil Basayev entered 23 years ago with militants, and know almost nothing about the events of that time.
Philo takes part in a bare knuckle fight - as he does - to make some more money than he can earn from his car repair business. He decides to retire from fighting, but when the Mafia come along and arrange another fight, he is pushed into it. A motorcycle gang and an orangutan called Clyde all add to the 'fun'.