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Funny Games

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

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