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Funny Games

1997 · 109 min

A cold, excruciatingly tense experience that implicates the viewer in the violence it depicts, leaving you shaken and complicit.

Tagline
You're on their side, aren't you?
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.

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Tone
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 3 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • violence
  • power
  • corruption
  • morality
  • media
Places
  • single country house
  • countryside
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • twist ending
  • unreliable narrator
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror7
Humour2
Realism8
Romance0
Tension9
Darkness9
Complexity7
Emotional weight9

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Details

Genres
drama, horror, thriller
Directed by
Michael Haneke
Written by
Michael Haneke
Starring
Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Mühe, Arno Frisch, Frank Giering, Stefan Clapczynski, Doris Kunstmann, Christoph Bantzer, Wolfgang Glück
Cinematography
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Runtime
109 min
Country
Austria
Languages
German, French

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