Jenny Tian: Chinese Australian

Life's questions are 'answered' in a series of outrageous vignettes, beginning with a staid London insurance company which transforms before our eyes into a pirate ship. Then there's the National Health doctors who try to claim a healthy liver from a still-living donor. The world's most voracious glutton brings the art of vomiting to n...

Runtime

1h 47m

Director

Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones

Cast

Graham Chapman, John Cleese

East Friesian Otto moves to the big city Hamburg. There he gets into trouble with a loan shark and needs to find a way to impress his love interest Silvia.

Runtime

1h 25m

Director

Xaver Schwarzenberger, Otto Waalkes

Cast

Elisabeth Wiedemann, Sky du Mont

The irreverent host of a political satire talk show decides to run for president to mock the political system and expose corruption in Washington. What begins as a publicity stunt quickly gathers unexpected momentum as his message resonates with frustrated voters.

Runtime

1h 55m

Director

Barry Levinson

Cast

Robin Williams, Christopher Walken, Laura Linney

The film mainly consists of various, often grotesque episodes. There is also a frame story from which the episodes are derived. However, the connection between the frame story and the episodes is very weak. Many episodes revolve around surveillance and security. In the frame story, insurance agent Erich and Richard are stuck together i...

Runtime

1h 35m

Director

Roland Willaert

Cast

Gerd Knebel, Henni Nachtsheim, Ottfried Fischer

Jerry Falk, an aspiring writer in New York, falls in love at first sight with a free-spirited young woman named Amanda. He has heard the phrase that life is like "anything else," but soon he finds that life with the unpredictable Amanda isn't like anything else at all.

Runtime

1h 48m

Director

Woody Allen

Cast

Jason Biggs, Christina Ricci, Stockard Channing