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Kinostart: 2013

Studio: Enrique Cerezo Producciones Cinematográficas S.A.

Genre: Alex de la Iglesia

Länge: 112

Zusammenfassung: After robbing a gold exchange pawn shop, a gang of armed robbers disguised as street performers is on the run, in a frantic attempt to escape from the Police in the crowded streets of Madrid. Without delay and with the unwilling help of a taxi driver, they head towards the safety of the borders, until night arrives and a safe haven is found deep in the woods of the secluded and notorious village of Zugarramurdi, known for some witch activity in the past. Sooner or later, in a place crammed with witches of all sorts and after numerous encounters with the bizarre, the unexpected and the occult, the clumsy thieves must learn fast the ways of the coven in order to save themselves and the world from the next witch apocalypse.

Kinostart: 2007

Studio: Estudios Picasso

Genre: Alex de la Iglesia

Länge: 77

Zusammenfassung: In Spain, the sports journalist Juan has a perfect life with his wife Sonia: they have just had a baby and moved to an old house that needs to be repaired in a fancy neighborhood. When Juan's sister and her husband visit the couple, they give them an electronic nanny to monitor the baby's room. During the night, Juan and Sonia hear voices in the room but they do not find anybody. On the next day, Juan hires an alarm system for the house and a monitor to observe the baby's room. When Juan sees a man in the room, he gets a knife to protect his son. However, Sonia believes her husband is insane and moves to her mother's house. Juan investigates the happening with the former journalist Domingo, who explains him the paradoxical experiment Schrodinger's Cat and the existence of parallel worlds. Further, he advises the obsessed Juan to leave the house otherwise could be trapped in another world.

Kinostart: 1929

Studio: British International Pictures (BIP)

Genre: Alfred Hitchcock

Länge: 85

Zusammenfassung: Alice White is the daughter of a shopkeeper in 1920's London. Her boyfriend, Frank Webber is a Scotland Yard detective who seems more interested in police work than in her. Frank takes Alice out one night, but she has secretly arranged to meet another man. Later that night Alice agrees to go back to his flat to see his studio. The man has other ideas and as he tries to rape Alice, she defends herself and kills him with a bread knife. When the body is discovered, Frank is assigned to the case, he quickly determines that Alice is the killer, but so has someone else and blackmail is threatened.

Kinostart: 1972

Studio: Universal Pictures

Genre: Alfred Hitchcock

Länge: 116

Zusammenfassung: London is terrorised by a vicious sex killer known as the neck tie murderer. Following the brutal slaying of his ex-wife, down-on-his-luck Richard Blaney is suspected by the police of being the killer. He goes on the run, determined to prove his innocence.

Kinostart: 1964

Studio: Universal Pictures

Genre: Alfred Hitchcock

Länge: 130

Zusammenfassung: Marnie Edgar is a habitual liar and a thief who gets jobs as a secretary and after a few months robs the firms in question, usually of several thousand dollars. When she gets a job at Rutland's, she also catches the eye of the handsome owner, Mark Rutland. He prevents her from stealing and running off, as is her usual pattern, but also forces her to marry him. Their honeymoon is a disaster and she cannot stand to have a man touch her and on their return home, Mark has a private detective look into her past. When he has the details of what happened in her childhood to make her what she is, he arranges a confrontation with her mother realizing that reliving the terrible events that occurred in her childhood and bringing out those repressed memories is the only way to save her.

Kinostart: 1941

Studio: RKO Radio Pictures

Genre: Alfred Hitchcock

Länge: 95

Zusammenfassung: New York sophisticates David Smith and Ann Smith née Krausheimer have been lovingly and passionately married for three years, or so they believed. They are told individually that due to a technicality - an unresolved municipal and state jurisdictional issue at the time of their supposed marriage - their wedding was not legal, and as such they are not really married. Despite David saying earlier in the day that if he had to do his life all over again that he would not have married her (even though he loves her), it is Ann that decides not to marry David this second time around due to an action, or in reality inaction, by David in reaction to the news of their marriage being invalid. While Ann goes about her life as a supposedly single woman (which includes calling herself Ann Krausheimer), David does whatever he can to win Ann back. But winning Ann's hand may be difficult as part of Ann's new life is dating other men. One of those other men and the most serious is David's best friend ...

Kinostart: 1960

Studio: Shamley Productions

Genre: Alfred Hitchcock

Länge: 109

Zusammenfassung: Phoenix officeworker Marion Crane is fed up with the way life has treated her. She has to meet her lover Sam in lunch breaks and they cannot get married because Sam has to give most of his money away in alimony. One Friday Marion is trusted to bank $40,000 by her employer. Seeing the opportunity to take the money and start a new life, Marion leaves town and heads towards Sam's California store. Tired after the long drive and caught in a storm, she gets off the main highway and pulls into The Bates Motel. The motel is managed by a quiet young man called Norman who seems to be dominated by his mother.

Kinostart: 1940

Studio: Selznick International Pictures

Genre: Alfred Hitchcock

Länge: 130

Zusammenfassung: A shy ladies' companion, staying in Monte Carlo with her stuffy employer, meets the wealthy Maxim de Winter. She and Max fall in love, marry and return to Manderley, his large country estate in Cornwall. Max is still troubled by the death of his first wife, Rebecca, in a boating accident the year before. The second Mrs. de Winter clashes with the housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers, and discovers that Rebecca still has a strange hold on everyone at Manderley.

Kinostart: 1936

Studio: Gaumont British Picture Corporation

Genre: Alfred Hitchcock

Länge: 76

Zusammenfassung: Mr. Verloc is part of a gang of foreign saboteurs operating out of London. He manages a small cinema with his wife and her teenage brother as a cover, but they know nothing of his secret. Scotland Yard assign an undercover detective to work at the shop next to the cinema in order to observe the gang.

Kinostart: 1945

Studio: Selznick International Pictures

Genre: Alfred Hitchcock

Länge: 111

Zusammenfassung: The head of the Green Manors mental asylum Dr. Murchison is retiring to be replaced by Dr. Edwardes, a famous psychiatrist. Edwardes arrives and is immediately attracted to the beautiful but cold Dr. Constance Petersen. However, it soon becomes apparent that Dr. Edwardes is in fact a paranoid amnesiac impostor. He goes on the run with Constance who tries to help his condition and solve the mystery of what happened to the real Dr. Edwardes.