Cache 2005  R, 117 min.
Genre: Foreign / Thriller
aka: Hidden
Director: Michael Haneke
Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche, Maurice Benichou, Annie Girardot, Bernard Le Coq, Lester Makedonsky, Walid Afkir, Daniel Duval, Nathalie Richard, Denis Podalydes, Caroline Baehr, Christian Benedetti
Georges Laurent (Daniel Auteuil) hosts a literary review roundtable and lives a comfortable life in his book-filled townhouse with wife Anne (Juliette Binoche) and 12-year-old son Pierrot (Lester Makedonsky). One day, they receive a two-hour video tape of their home. More video tapes appear, often with childish drawings, giving the family a sense of danger hanging over them as it is apparent someone is monitoring their house. Tensions mount as Georges (and viewers as well) tries to solve the mystery.
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Code Unknown 2000 N/R, 118 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Haneke
Cast: Juliette Binoche, Thierry Neuvic, Josef Bierbichler, Alexandre Hamidi, Maimouna Helene Diarra, Ona Lu Yenke, Djibril Kouyate, Luminita Gheorghiu, Grenguta Hariton, Bob Nicolaescu, Bruno Todeschini
Separate lives intersect as a result of one incident on the streets of Paris. This film explores how that incident affected them in this complex film that focuses on intolerence. Each viewer will walk away with a different take on meaning of the "unknown code."
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Funny Games 1997  N/R, 108 min.
Genre: Foreign / Horror
Director: Michael Haneke
Cast: Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Muhe, Arno Frisch, Frank Giering, Stefan Clapczynski, Doris Kunstmann, Christoph Bantzer, Wolfgang Gluck, Susanne Meneghel, Monika Zallinger
A well-to-do family heads for their lakeside resort home. Their vacation takes a quick turn for the worse when they are taken hostage in their home by a pair of young men. Gruesome torture "games" take place in this sadistic, yet realistic, story. The acts of violence are all off-camera.
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Funny Games 2008  R, 110 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Michael Haneke
Cast: Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt, Brady Corbet, Devon Gearhart, Boyd Gaines, Siobhan Fallon, Robert LuPone, Susanne C. Hanke, Linda Moran
While vacationing at their lakeside home, Ann and George Farber (Naomi Watts and Tim Roth) and their young son Georgie (Devon Gearhart), Peter (Brady Corbet) appears at their door asking to borrow four eggs. Peter gets his foot inside the door, and it turns out that there is more to Peter than meets the eye. Peter and his cohort Paul (Michael Pitt) are actually serial killers moving through the neighborhood. The Farbers are their intended victims, and the tortures begin.
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La Pianiste 2001 N/R, 130 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: The Piano Teacher
Director: Michael Haneke
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot, Benoit Magimel, Susanne Lothar, Udo Samel, Anna Sigalevitch, Cornelia Kondgen, Thomas Weinhappel, Georg Friedrich, Philipp Heiss
Based on Elfriede Jelinek's novel, the story revolves around a middle-aged piano teacher (Isabelle Huppert) who is dominated by her mother (Annie Girardot), has a masochistic sexual relationship with one student (Benoit Magimel), and seems determined her students do not surpass her musical expertise.
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Time of the Wolf 2003 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Michael Haneke
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Maurice Benichou, Lucas Biscombe, Anais Demoustier, Olivier Gourmet, Patrice Chereau, Brigitte Rouan, Beatrice Dalle, Rona Hartner, Hakim Taleb, Serge Riaboukine, Florence Loiret
When Anna (Isabelle Huppert) and her family arrive at their cabin, they are confronted by strangers. Gun shots fly, and the father is killed. Anna and children Ben (Lucas Biscombe) and Eva (Anais Demoustier) flee into a hostile world that suddenly lacks any apparent social order. After wandering through the eerie countryside, they arrive at a railroad station where they encounter other refugees waiting for salvation that may or may not come.
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| 1. Cache (2005)
aka: Hidden
2. Code Unknown (2000)
3. Funny Games (1997)
4. Funny Games (2008)
5. La Pianiste (2001)
aka: The Piano Teacher
6. Time of the Wolf (2003)
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