Top Cast
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Gert Fröbe
Jonas Lauretz
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Joachim Hansen
Andreas von Richenau
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Christine Kaufmann
Sylvia Lauretz
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Christian Wolff
Niklas Lauretz
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Anita Höfer
Hanna Lauretz
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Edith Schultze-Westrum
Mutter Lauretz
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Joseph Offenbach
Knecht Jöry
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Anne-Marie Blanc
Frau von Richenau
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Rudolf Forster
Maler Matthias
Overview
A godless sawmill owner makes his family's life so hellish that he has to be killed.
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The Visit
Rory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After abandoning the sanctuary of their safe American suburban surroundings, the family is plunged into the despair of an archaic '80s Britain and their unaffordable new life in an English manor house threatens to destroy the family.
The Nest
An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend.
Hardball
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Little Boy Blue
A pair of high-frequency traders go up against their old boss in an effort to make millions in a fiber-optic cable deal.
The Hummingbird Project
A boozy lowlife tries to bury the truth about his crazy stepson's suspicious death, but a nosy newspaper columnist and the young man's mother complicate matters.
God's Pocket
A hard-living salesman becomes a quadriplegic after an accident.
Adam
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Bastard Out of Carolina
Based on the writer/director's childhood, FARMING tells the story of a young Nigerian boy, 'farmed out' by his parents to a white British family in the hope of a better future. Instead, he becomes the feared leader of a white skinhead gang.
Farming
Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.