Showtime 2008-03-04

Amerikanskt drama från 1978

Four steel workers from Pennsylvania leave for the war in Vietnam. This experience scar them for life in different ways and returning to USA, they gradually fall apart. The Deer Hunter was awarded the Oscar for Best Picture 1978.

Michael Cimino (regissör)

Robert De Niro (skådespelare)

John Cazale (skådespelare)

Meryl Streep (skådespelare)

Film, Dramafilm

Produktion Förenta staterna

175 min.

Science fiction movies have tended to incorporate both human fear & paranoia of technology and radical technology, questioning our own identity. This episode examines this relationship with examples from Metropolis signaling how fascism and technology can go hand-in-hand. Invasion of Body Snatchers is essentially a metaphor of Americas fear of the take-over of communism. Films include: Metropolis, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Alphaville, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Blade Runner and The Matrix Solaris. Interviews include: Anna Karina, Raoul Coutard, Jan Harlan, Ruter Hauer, Peter Bogdanovich, Kevin McCarthy and Natalya Bondarchuk

Dokumentär, Dokumentär

Amerikansk science fiction från 1996

The Federation comes under attack by its ongoing enemy, the Borg, a cybernetics-enhanced race. Captain Picard and The Enterprise follows the only surviving Borg ship through a time tunnel where they intend to conquer earth in an earlier era.

Jonathan Frakes (regissör)

Patrick Stewart (skådespelare)

Jonathan Frakes (skådespelare)

Brent Spiner (skådespelare)

Film, Science fiction-film

Produktion Förenta staterna

108 min.

Kanadensisk thriller från 1999

Rachel is a young woman who falls in love with a man who turns out to be involved in a plot to kill an international leader. She manages to foil the murderer's plans but he escapes and now Rachel is his new target.

Graeme Clifford (regissör)

Natasha Henstridge (skådespelare)

Johnathon Schaech (skådespelare)

Lauren Hutton (skådespelare)

Film, Thrillerfilm

Produktion Kanada

95 min.

Franskt äventyr från 2002

Moltes is a criminal who gives some relationship advice to a prison guard in exchange for a lottery ticket. When it turns out that he has a winning ticket he breaks out of jail to claim his money. But the prison guard's girlfriend has the ticket, and she's in Africa.

Alain Berbérian (regissör)

Gérard Lanvin (skådespelare)

Benoit Poelvoorde (skådespelare)

José Garcia (skådespelare)

Film, Äventyrsfilm

Produktion Frankrike

107 min.

Amerikansk thriller från 1997

Sydney is a professional gambler who takes the young and naïve man John under his wing. When John gets involved with the pretty waitress Clementine who doubles as a prostitute, Sydney has to rescue him. But secrets from his past threaten to destroy everything.

Paul Thomas (regissör)

John C. Reilly (skådespelare)

Philip Baker Hall (skådespelare)

Gwyneth Paltrow (skådespelare)

Film, Thrillerfilm

Produktion Förenta staterna

Amerikanskt drama från 1978

Four steel workers from Pennsylvania leave for the war in Vietnam. This experience scar them for life in different ways and returning to USA, they gradually fall apart. The Deer Hunter was awarded the Oscar for Best Picture 1978.

Michael Cimino (regissör)

Robert De Niro (skådespelare)

John Cazale (skådespelare)

Meryl Streep (skådespelare)

Film, Dramafilm

Produktion Förenta staterna

175 min.

Amerikansk action från 1987

Salvatore Giuliano was a bandit who attempted to liberate 1940s Sicily from the Italians and make it an American state. As his popularity grows, so does his ego, and eventually his backer, Mafia Don Masino Croce, sees him as a threat.

Michael Cimino (regissör)

Christopher Lambert (skådespelare)

Terence Stamp (skådespelare)

John Turturro (skådespelare)

Film, Actionfilm

Produktion Förenta staterna

140 min.

Amerikansk science fiction från 1996

The Federation comes under attack by its ongoing enemy, the Borg, a cybernetics-enhanced race. Captain Picard and The Enterprise follows the only surviving Borg ship through a time tunnel where they intend to conquer earth in an earlier era.

Jonathan Frakes (regissör)

Patrick Stewart (skådespelare)

Jonathan Frakes (skådespelare)

Brent Spiner (skådespelare)

Film, Science fiction-film

Produktion Förenta staterna

108 min.

Amerikansk action från 1986

Kaminski is a former FBI-agent, fired for excessive use of violence. When several prosecution witnesses are killed by the mob, Kaminski is reinstated to bring down gang leader Max.

John Irvin (regissör)

Arnold Schwarzenegger (skådespelare)

Kathryn Harrold (skådespelare)

Darren McGavin (skådespelare)

Film, Actionfilm

Produktion Förenta staterna

97 min.

Amerikansk thriller från 1998

In this drama, a father fights to save his family from the desperate bank robbers who have taken over his newly acquired country home.

Michael Schultz (regissör)

Mario Van Peebles (skådespelare)

Holly Robinson Peete (skådespelare)

Michael J. Pagan (skådespelare)

Film, Thrillerfilm

Produktion Förenta staterna

90 min.