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Funny Games

Name: Funny Games
Released: 1997

1997

A vacationing family is taken hostage in their lakeside home by two polite young men who subject them to a series of sadistic games. Michael Haneke's coldly confrontational thriller turns the audience's appetite for screen violence back on itself.

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Michael Haneke's Austrian German-language psychological thriller.

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Part of 10 Essential Austrian Films

This film is stop 10 of 10 in the hand-ranked native-cinema route through Austria. See the complete ranking or read the selection methodology.

Watching this film stamps Austria in the 196 country film challenge.