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1Nov2017

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The Running Man | 1987 | German A1

The Running Man is a 1987 film directed by Paul Michael Glaser. It was produced by George Linder and Tim Zinnemann with Steven E. de Souza writing the screenplay. The film is based on the 1982 novel The Running Man by Richard Bachman who is a pseudonym for Stephen King. It stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, María Conchita Alonso, Jesse Ventura, Jim Brown and Richard Dawson. The storyline is based around a television show called “The Running Man”. Set in the dystopian United States between 2017 and 2019, the show is about convicted criminals who are called ‘Runners’ and the hunters, a gang of professional killers who are called ‘Stalkers’. The prize should the runners win and escape a near-certain death is a chance to be pardoned by the totalitarian police state that the United States has beco...

3Oct2017

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The Graduate | 1967 | German A1

The Graduate is a 1967 film directed by Mike Nichols and produced by Lawrence Turman. The screenplay was co-written by Calder Willingham and Buck Henry based on the 1963 novel by Charles Webb, who wrote it shortly after graduating from Williams College. The Graduate stars Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman, Katharine Ross, William Daniels, Murray Hamilton and Elizabeth Wilson. The storyline follows Ben, having recently graduated from Williams College and with his parents now expecting great things he is becoming increasingly uncomfortable. At a party to celebrate his graduation, he meets Mrs Robinson who is the wife of his father's business partner. Ben drives her home, leading to an affair between the two. When the affair ends he finds himself falling for Elaine, Mrs Robinson's daughter. ...

2Oct2017

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Mad Max | 1979 | German A1

Mad Max is a 1979 film directed by George Miller and was produced by Byron Kennedy. The screenplay was co-written by James McCausland and George Miller based on the story written by Byron Kennedy and George Miller. Mad Max stars Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Steve Bisley, Tim Burns and Roger Ward. Originally, Rosie Bailey was cast as Max's wife but four days into filming she was injured in a bike accident and replaced by Joanne Samuel. The storyline is set in a dystopian Australia and tells the story of a highway patrolman cruises the squalid back roads that have become the breeding ground of criminals foraging for gasoline and scraps. When his wife and child meet a grisly end at the hands of a motorcycle gang, Max sets out across the barren wastelands in search of reveng...

26Sep2017

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Das Boot | 1981 | Final | German A1

Das Boot (also known as The Boat) is a 1981 film directed by Wolfgang Petersen. It was co-produced by Günter Rohrbach. The screenplay was written by Wolfgang Petersen and is an adaptation of the 1973 novel of the same name by Lothar-Günther Buchheim. Das Boot stars Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann, Hubertus Bengsch, Martin Semmelrogge, Bernd Tauber, Erwin Leder, Martin May, Heinz Hoenig and Uwe Ochsenknecht. The storyline follows the crew of U-96 as they are engaged in the Battle of the Atlantic to destroy the British transatlantic fleet. It shows both the excitement and the boredom of the fruitless hunt, examining how they maintained their complete professionalism while attempting to understand and obey the ideology of the government under which they served. Wolf...

20Jan2017

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Carrie | 1976 | Style C | German A1

Carrie is a 1976 film directed by Brian De Palma. It was produced by Paul Monash and the screenplay was written by Lawrence D. Cohen. The film is based on Stephen King’s 1974 novel, Carrie. It stars Sissy Spacek, John Travolta and Piper Laurie in the lead roles. Carrie was the first novel by Stephen King to be adapted into a feature film. At the time when the film was made Stephen King was 26 years old and he was paid just $2,500 for the film rights however he said “I was fortunate to have that happen to my first book”. It became one of many film or television adaptions of his books and since Carrie more than 100 have been made. In the final scene which Sue reaches towards Carrie’s grave, was filmed backwards in order to give it a dreamlike feel. The scene was inspired by the final s...

Carrie | 1976 | Split Photo Style | German A1

19Jan2017

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Carrie | 1976 | Split Photo Style | German A1

Carrie is a 1976 film directed by Brian De Palma. It was produced by Paul Monash and the screenplay was written by Lawrence D. Cohen. The film is based on Stephen King’s 1974 novel, Carrie. It stars Sissy Spacek, John Travolta and Piper Laurie in the lead roles. Carrie was the first novel by Stephen King to be adapted into a feature film. At the time when the film was made Stephen King was 26 years old and he was paid just $2,500 for the film rights however he said “I was fortunate to have that happen to my first book”. It became one of many film or television adaptions of his books and since Carrie more than 100 have been made. In the final scene which Sue reaches towards Carrie’s grave, was filmed backwards in order to give it a dreamlike feel. The scene was inspired by the final s...

18Jan2017

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Carrie | 1976 | 1st Release | German A1

Carrie is a 1976 film directed by Brian De Palma. It was produced by Paul Monash and the screenplay was written by Lawrence D. Cohen. The film is based on Stephen King’s 1974 novel, Carrie. It stars Sissy Spacek, John Travolta and Piper Laurie in the lead roles. Carrie was the first novel by Stephen King to be adapted into a feature film. At the time when the film was made Stephen King was 26 years old and he was paid just $2,500 for the film rights however he said “I was fortunate to have that happen to my first book”. It became one of many film or television adaptions of his books and since Carrie more than 100 have been made. In the final scene which Sue reaches towards Carrie’s grave, was filmed backwards in order to give it a dreamlike feel. The scene was inspired by the final s...

18Dec2016

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Top Gun | 1986 | Style B | German A1

Top Gun is a 1986 film directed by Tony Scott, and produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, in association with Paramount Pictures. The screenplay was written by Jim Cash and Jack Epps, Jr., and was inspired by an article titled "Top Guns" published in California Magazine three years earlier. The film stars Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer, Anthony Edwards, and Tom Skerritt. Cruise plays Lieutenant Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, a young Naval aviator aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise. He and his Radar Intercept Officer (RIO) Nick "Goose" Bradshaw (Edwards) are given the chance to train at the Navy's Fighter Weapons School at Miramar in San Diego. In 2015, the United States Library of Congress selected Top Gun for preservation in the National Film Registry, finding it ...

18Dec2016

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Top Gun | 1986 | Style A | German A1

Top Gun is a 1986 film directed by Tony Scott, and produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, in association with Paramount Pictures. The screenplay was written by Jim Cash and Jack Epps, Jr., and was inspired by an article titled "Top Guns" published in California Magazine three years earlier. The film stars Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer, Anthony Edwards, and Tom Skerritt. Cruise plays Lieutenant Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, a young Naval aviator aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise. He and his Radar Intercept Officer (RIO) Nick "Goose" Bradshaw (Edwards) are given the chance to train at the Navy's Fighter Weapons School at Miramar in San Diego. In 2015, the United States Library of Congress selected Top Gun for preservation in the National Film Registry, finding it ...

The Silence of the Lambs | 1991 | Final | German A1

18Dec2016

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The Silence of the Lambs | 1991 | Final | German A1

The Silence of the Lambs is a 1991 film directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, and Scott Glenn. Adapted by Ted Tally from the 1988 novel of the same name by Thomas Harris, his second to feature the character of Dr Hannibal Lecter; a brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer, the film was the second adaptation of a Harris novel featuring Lecter, preceded by the Michael Mann-directed Manhunter in 1986. In the film, Clarice Starling, a young U.S. FBI trainee, seeks the advice of the imprisoned Dr Lecter to apprehend another serial killer, known only as "Buffalo Bill". The Silence of the Lambs is based on a young FBI trainee, Clarice Starling, who is working hard to advance her career, including trying to hide and put behind her West Virginia roo...

18Dec2016

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Futureworld | 1976 | Final | German A1

Futureworld is a 1976 film directed by Richard T. Heffron and written by Mayo Simon and George Schenck. It is a sequel to the 1973 Michael Crichton film Westworld. The second instalment in the Westworld film series, the film stars Peter Fonda, Blythe Danner, Arthur Hill, Stuart Margolin, John Ryan, and Yul Brynner, who makes a cameo appearance in a dream sequence. Other than Brynner, none of the cast members from the original film appear, and original writer-director Crichton was not involved. The film attempted to take the plot in a different direction from Westworld, but it was not generally well received by the critics. It was made by American International Pictures (its predecessor was made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which later bought AIP's successors Orion Pictures). Afterward, there...

Trading Places | 1983 | Final | German A1

29Nov2016

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Trading Places | 1983 | Final | German A1

Trading Places is a 1983 film directed by John Landis and stars Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche, Denholm Elliott, and Jamie Lee Curtis. Trading Places was written by Timothy Harris and Herschel Weingrod ands produced by Aaron Russo. It tells the story of an upper-class commodities broker and a homeless street hustler whose lives cross paths when they are unknowingly made part of an elaborate bet. The storyline is often called a modern take on Mark Twain's classic 19th-century novel The Prince and the Pauper. It also bears a resemblance to another of Mark Twain's stories, The Million Pound Bank Note. The storyline follows the fabulously wealthy but morally bankrupt Duke brothers (Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche) who make a one-dollar bet over heredity vs. environment. C...

Big Trouble in Little China | 1986 | Final | German A1

29Nov2016

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Big Trouble in Little China | 1986 | Final | German A1

Big Trouble in Little China is a 1986 film directed by John Carpenter. It stars Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun, and James Hong. Although the original screenplay by first-time screenwriters Gary Goldman and David Z. Weinstein was envisioned as a Western set in the 1880s, screenwriter W. D. Richter was hired to rewrite the script extensively and modernise it. The studio hired Carpenter to direct the film and rushed Big Trouble in Little China into production so that it would be released before a similarly themed Eddie Murphy film, The Golden Child, which was slated to come out around the same time. The project fulfilled Carpenter's long-standing desire to make a martial arts film. The storyline follows truck driver Jack Burton. After arriving in Chinatown, San Francisco, he goes t...

11Nov2016

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Chinatown | 1974 | Final | German A1

Chinatown is a 1974 film directed by Roman Polanski. Produced by Robert Evans and written by Robert Towne. The film stars Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Hillerman, Perry Lopez and Burt Young. In 1971, the producer Robert Evans offered Robert Towne $175,000 to write a screenplay for The Great Gatsby, but Towne felt he could not better the original F. Scott Fitzgerald novel. Instead, Towne asked for $25,000 to write his own story, Chinatown. Chinatown was the Roman Polanski's last film in the United States and features many elements of classic film noir, particularly a multi-layered story that is part mystery and psychological drama. Chinatown was nominated for 11 Academy Awards but won only 1 for Best Original Screenplay awarded to Robert Towne. It was nominated for 7 Golden Globe...