Rock n Roll Asylum

A disk jockey goes to Vietnam to work for the Armed Forces Radio Service. While he becomes popular among the troops, his superiors disapprove of his humor.

Runtime

2h 1m

Director

Barry Levinson

Cast

Robin Williams, Forest Whitaker, Tom T. Tran

Achim Bornhak's movie focuses on the restless life of Uschi Obermaier, the icon of the 1968 movement in Germany and groupie. At the age of 16, Uschi is bored by her job in a photo lab, but soon becomes the "it girl" of Munich's club scene. When she gets to know Rainer Langhans, they move to Berlin and live in "Kommune 1", the first pol...

Runtime

1h 54m

Director

Achim Bornhak

Cast

Natalia Avelon, Matthias Schweighöfer, David Scheller

Fired from his band and hard up for cash, guitarist and vocalist Dewey Finn finagles his way into a job as a fifth-grade substitute teacher at a private school, where he secretly begins teaching his straight-A students the finer points of rock 'n' roll and the power of sticking it to the man. But as the school’s stern principal closes ...

Runtime

1h 50m

Director

Richard Linklater

Cast

Jack Black, Joan Cusack, Mike White

In Venice Beach, naive Midwesterner JB bonds with local slacker KG and they form the rock band Tenacious D. Setting out to become the world's greatest band is no easy feat, so they set out to steal what could be the answer to their prayers... a magical guitar pick housed in a rock-and-roll museum some 300 miles away.

Runtime

1h 33m

Director

Liam Lynch

Cast

Jack Black, Kyle Gass, JR Reed

Richy Guitar is actually called Richard, but is only called like this by his parents. The young man finds it difficult to find work in Berlin, and when he finally does, he is bullied by his boss. When he meets drummer Igor and bassist Hans, a new rock band is immediately formed. While the trio dreams of a gig at the Avus racetrack, Ric...

Runtime

1h 30m

Director

Michael Laux

Cast

Farin Urlaub, Bela B., Hans Runge