3 Movies Starring Frank Giering

Funny Games

Funny Games

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1998-03-11

Languages:

German, French, Italian

Countries:

Austria

Runtime:

108 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (39945 Reviews)

Director:

Michael Haneke

Fullplot:

Two seemingly well-educated young men, who call each other Paul and Peter among other names, approach a family on vacation. They are, apparently, friends of the neighbors, and, at the beginning, their true intentions are not known. But soon, the family is imprisoned and tortured in its own house violently, which the viewers are forced mostly to imagine and to share a certain complicity with the criminals. It might be some kind of game with the lives of husband, wife, son, and dog, but why are they doing it?

The Castle

The Castle

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1998-10-01

Languages:

German

Countries:

Germany, Austria

Runtime:

123 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (2029 Reviews)

Director:

Michael Haneke

Genres:

DramaMystery

Cast:

Writer:

Michael Haneke

Franz Kafka (novel)

Fullplot:

When a land surveyor arrives at a small snowy village, local authorities refuse to allow him to advance to the nearby castle. Increasingly complicated bureaucratic obstacles arise.

Gigantics

Gigantics

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1999-09-30

Languages:

German, Italian

Countries:

Germany

Runtime:

80 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (3071 Reviews)

Fullplot:

In the port town of Hamburg, Germany, Floyd decides that he's shipping out to South Africa and Singapore now that his two-year probation for an unspecified juvenile offense has been completed. When he shares the news with his devoted friends Chubby, a mechanic, and Ricco, a fast-food cook and would-be b-boy, they can't comprehend their thoughtful friend's willingness to trade camaraderie for a wider view of the world. Overcoming their anger and bewilderment, the guys decide to spend one last night with Floyd, but the problem, as always, is how to find some fun. A succession of fast-food restaurants, parking garages, and local watering holes chronicles the inherent boredom of life in the provinces. But a run-in with a convention of dragster-racing Elvis impersonators sends the boys and their friend Telsa Julia Hummer on a series of adventures that veers from the farcical to the almost-tragic.

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