Das Experiment 2001  R, 115 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Cast: Moritz Bleibtreu, Christian Berkel, Oliver Stokowski, Wotan Wilke Mohring, Stephan Szasz, Polat Dal, Danny Richter, Ralf Muller, Markus Rudolf, Peter Fieseler
This story is based on the infamous "Stanford Prison Experiment" in which students were assigned to play either prisoners or guards in a lab prison. Almost from the beginning, prisoners became defiant, and guards employed humiliation tactics. An interesting study of how absolute power corrupts.
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Downfall 2004  R, 150 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Cast: Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Corinna Harfouch, Ulrich Matthes, Juliane Kohler, Heino Ferch, Christian Berkel, Matthias Habich, Thomas Kretschmann, Michael Mendl, Ulrich Noethen, Birgit Minichmayr, Andre Hennicke, Rolf Kanies, Justus von Dohnanyi
Adolf Hitler's (Bruno Ganz) secretary Traudl Junge (Alexandra Maria Lara) narrates this story of Hitler's last ten days, which he spent in a Berlin bunker before his suicide in 1945. Hitler's Reich is crumbling, and his mistress Eva Braun (Juliane Kohler) throws parties. Meanwhile, Joseph Goebbels (Ulrich Matthes) and his wife Magda (Corinna Harfouch) contemplate murdering their six children and then killing themselves. Meanwhile, Hitler refuses to leave and, like the others in the bunker, will choose suicide rather than facing the Allies after Germany is defeated.
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The Invasion 2007  PG-13, 98 min.
Genre: Action / Horror / Thriller
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel, James McTeigue
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Jeremy Northam, Jackson Bond, Jeffrey Wright, Veronica Cartwright, Josef Sommer, Celia Weston, Roger Rees, Eric Benjamin, Susan Floyd, Stephanie Berry, Adam LeFevre, Joanna Merlin, Alexis Raben
A space shuttle crashes in flames on Earth and spreads extraterrestrial spores than ominously transform the actions and emotions of ordinary people who come in contact with them. After pricking his finger on one of the spores, Centers for Disease Control official Tucker Kaufman (Jeremy Northam) goes through a personality transformation. His ex-wife, Washington, D.C. psychiatrist Carol (Nicole Kidman), notices the change and becomes even more concerned when Tucker takes off with their son Oliver (Jackson Bond). Now, Carol and her friend Dr. Ben Driscoll (Daniel Craig) put their heads together looking for a cure before the Earth is devastated by extraterrestrials.
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| 1. Das Experiment (2001)
2. Downfall (2004)
3. The Invasion (2007)
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