Funny Games
1997 · Movie · R · 109 min · ★ 7.3 · 71% critics
Two young men invade a lakeside vacation home and take a family hostage. They force their captors into cruel “games” meant to entertain them, turning a quiet getaway into a tense, psychologically brutal ordeal with little room to escape.
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Details
- Years
- 1997
- Release date
- 1997-09-11
- Language
- German
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 109 min
- Critic score
- 71/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.3/10 (2,081 votes)
About
You may like Funny Games if you want a bleak, psychologically disturbing thriller that leans on discomfort and hopelessness rather than thrills, but Not for you if you’re easily disturbed by hostage-torture stories or expect fast, action-driven pacing.
Pros: realistic dread; intense performances; unsettling tension | Cons: slow stretches; disturbing premise; divisive fourth-wall moments
Themes
- lake
- sadism
- psychopath
- hostage-taking
- remote control
- sociopath
- breaking the fourth wall
- serial killer
- psychological thriller
- family holiday
- golf club
- torment
- +8 more
Cast & crew
Susanne Lothar
as Anna
Ulrich Mühe
as Georg
Arno Frisch
as Paul
- FG
Frank Giering
as Peter
- SC
Stefan Clapczynski
as Georgie
Doris Kunstmann
as Gerda
Christoph Bantzer
as Fred
- WG
Wolfgang Glück
as Robert
- SM
Susanne Meneghel
as Gerda's Sister
- MZ
Monika Zallinger
as Eva
Directed by Michael Haneke