Arno Frisch
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Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Arno Frisch (born 13 November 1975) is an Austrian actor. He has had central roles in two films by Michael Haneke, namely, Benny's Video and Funny Games. Description above from the Wikipedia article Arno Frisch, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria
Birthday: November 13, 1975
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Gender: Male
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Funny Games
Overview: Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1997-08-23
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Benny's Video
Overview: A 14-year-old video enthusiast obsessed with violent films decides to make one of his own and show it to his parents, with tragic results.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1992-10-20
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Fetish
Overview: When yuppie Korean-American lawyer Peter brings beauteous bride Sookhy home to suburban New Jersey, she seems withdrawn, English-challenged and easily bullied by her mother-in-law. But fate abruptly takes Peter out of the picture, leaving a curiously unperturbed Sookhy (who's descended from a line of female shamans) free to force her company on the glamorous Caucasian couple next door.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-05-01
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Blackout Journey
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Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2004-11-10
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The Investigation
Overview: Peter Weiss’ monumental 1965 stage play, among the greatest artworks on the Holocaust, condenses the testimonies of witnesses and the accused during the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials of 1963-1965. This ultra-faithful film adaptation builds, across four hours, in its intensity and graphically described detail.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2024-07-25
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Falco: Damn It, We're Still Alive!
Overview: Deals with the life, work, and tragic death of Johann "Falco" Hölzel. The biopic portrays his work through his early days, as member of the Viennese band "Drahdiwaberl", and later with his own hits as solo artist, like "Der Kommissar", "Wiener Blut", and his worldwide smash-hit "Rock Me Amadeus".
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-02-07
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Das Geschenk
Overview: A dispute of his parents infiltrates a boy' s dream world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2013-01-19
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Bedways
Overview: A huge, run-down apartment in Berlin Mitte. Two women and a man, rehearsals for a movie about love and sex, that will never be shot. Acting and reality mingle into a dangerous melange. Berlin is the shelter, love is impossible, flesh is the law.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-10-07
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Your Name is Justine
Overview: While living with her grandmother in Poland, a young woman falls in love. Her boyfriend is charming and suggests they travel around Europe and work here and there to pay for their trip. Unfortunately, the boyfriend isn't as he seems and the young woman is sold as a prostitute when they cross over to Germany. We follow her ordeal as she tries to free herself and stay sane as time goes by and her captors try to break and condition her to a new life of servitude.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2005-08-30
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99€ Films
Overview: Anyone can hold a mini-DV camera. Anyone can get 99 euros in credit. And everyone has already written a five-minute story in school. So everyone is actually prepared to make a 99euro-film. but "99euro-films" is more. It is the proof that German films can also be wild, new, modern, funny, political and entertaining. And all that in 80 minutes. 12 young German filmmakers come together, inspire exciting young actors and go: have an idea and simply film it. Just do it and be independent.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-09-08
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Blessed Events
Overview: A few weeks after palliative nurse Hans spends New year's eve completely with new acquaintance Simone, she finds herself pregnant, unplanned. At another surprise meeting, handsome Hannes surprises her by reacting to the news by offering her to move into his fine home. While Hannes devotes himself further to terminal hospital patients, Simone lazily renovates the house, but somehow gets jealous of the neighbors and compromises everything.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-06-19
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Life Guidance
Overview: The film is set in the near future, in a world of perfect capitalism. Society is sustained by a class of top achievers; meanwhile, so-called minimum recipients live under sedation in Fortresses of Sleep. The great majority of top achievers view themselves as happy. An outsourced agency has been established for the rest: Life Guidance is charged with turning these individuals into optimal people as well. Alexander has internalized the system but one wrong word to his child triggers Life Guidance. He starts to rebel and encounters the horror of the system in all its brightness and affability.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2018-01-12
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Metamorphosis
Overview: This short follows Gregor Samsa from Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis". It is set in the modern world and shows the events leading up to Kafka's metamorphosis. Gregor is a young man working for a textile company, who breaks down mentally after his job becomes overwhelming. He slowly loses his sanity and touch with reality.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-06-01
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Long Distance Call
Overview: Henry is alone in a silent and darkened apartment, anxious and waiting by the phone, as his small child sleeps. Finally, a call. His wife Claire is on the other side of the world on a beach at a luxury resort, drunk, also in the dark, but apparently with another man. An adulterous affair, or a life in danger? In the harrowing wait and frantic calls that follow, is it his marriage, his wife or his sanity that is most under threat? The telephone line is the single fragile thread that connects them. All Henry can do is to hang onto that phone.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-07-02
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Prélude
Overview: Nineteen-year-old David dreams of being a concert pianist on the international stage. Although his talent made him special in his home town, he soon realizes that at the conservatory he is but one of many talented students.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2019-08-29
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Angel Express
Overview: Angel Express is a film about people restlessly seeking for the ultimate experience. Set in late nineties Berlin, it shows images of radical change: Young urban heroes in the glare of flashlights; an environment in which coldness and affection or lust for power and friendship go hand in hand.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1998-07-01
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Sentimental Education
Overview: The story revolves around the lives of a group of international fashion models, focusing on the main character, Fabrice. The film examines the hollowness of his glamorous lifestyle, leading to self discovery and ultimately a personal catharsis (and his own death). The film is based on (really, inspired by) the French Book, L'Education Sentimentale, by Gustave Flaubert.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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October November
Overview: Director Gotz Spielmann follows his acclaimed thriller Revanche with this visually captivating character study, in which a family reunion at a mountainside inn lays bare old wounds and reveals long-held secrets.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-03-25
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