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Hanky Panky (1982)Hanky Panky, fuga para dos
Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner team up to blend their unique brands of comedy in this romantic, Hitchcock-style thriller. Wilder plays Michael Jordan, an innocent bystander turned victim, turned hero. Kate Hellman (Gilda Radner) falls in love with him while looking for her brothers murderers. Together they're caught in a world of international intrigue, suspense and murder. Ransom (Richard Widmark), a ruthless adversary, is intent on eliminating Michael. Pursued by Ransom, Michael and Kate embark on a bold mission which takes them on a wild ride in an airplane high above the Grand Canyon, to a hidden military command centre, through a frenzied chase in the streets of New York and to a desert outpost where attackers besiege them from all sides. - Director:
- Sidney Poitier
- Cast:
- Gene Wilder, Gilda Radner, Kathleen Quinlan
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Summoned by a will to his late grandfather's castle in Transylvania, young Dr. Frankenstein (Gene Wilder) soon discovers the scientist's step-by-step manual explaining how to bring a corpse to life. Assisted by the hunchback Igor (Marty Feldman) and the curvaceous Inga (Teri Garr), he creates a monster (Peter Boyle) who only wants to be loved. - Director:
- Mel Brooks
- Cast:
- Gene Wilder, Mel Brooks, Madeline Kahn
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George (Gene Wilder) and Eddie (Richard Pryor), a couple of liars who just can't seem to kick the habit. What beings as a few harmless lies leads them into a labyrinth of hilarious complications involving a missing millionaire, his beautiful wife, a dangerous estate executive and a major mistaken identity crisis. - Director:
- Maurice Phillips
- Cast:
- Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder, Mercedes Ruehl
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Wally (Kichard Pryor) is brash, loud-mouthed and blind. Dave (Gene Wilder) is quiet, mild-mannered and deaf. Both of them are individual disaster zones. But together...they're even worse! When a murder takes place right under their noses, Wally and Dave are the only witnesses. The trouble is, Wally didn't see it and Dave didn't hear it, and all of a sudden they're both wanted for it! Suspected by the police and pursued by the real killers - the cool and calculated Eve (Joan Severance) and her fanatical henchman (Kevin Spacey) - Wally and Dave decide to take the law into their own hands. The results are hilarious! These guys are senseless, but they're certainly not stupid! - Director:
- Arthur Hiller
- Cast:
- Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder, Joan Severance
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Starring Gene Wilder as Larry Abbot, a man undergoing a psychological procedure at his Great Aunt Kates (Dom DeLuise) mansion, designed to rid him of his irrational phobias - by frightening them right out of him. But the jolts and frights may turn out to be the least of his problems when his Great Aunt Kate names him her sole heir. Suddenly, the entire family seems a little too vigorous in participating with his 'scare-apy', leading Larry to believe that one of his jealous kin may be murderous, and that another may be werewolverous. - Director:
- Gene Wilder
- Cast:
- Gene Wilder, Gilda Radner, Dom DeLuise
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Silver Streak (1976)El expreso de Chicago
In this wild comedy adventure, rail passenger George Caldwell (Gene Wilder) finds that a romantic escapade with a sultry secretary (Jill Clayburgh) puts him in the middle of a Hitchcockian murder plot. Leaping on and of the train, in and out of roomettes, bars and dining cars, George teams up with an amiable, small-time crook (Richard Pryor) to defy the murderer's henchmen, FBI agents and a host of other outrageous characters. - Director:
- Arthur Hiller
- Cast:
- Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Jill Clayburgh
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Max Bialystock (Zero Mostel) is a washed up Broadway producer forced to romance old ladies to finance his plays. When timid accountant Leo Bloom (Gene Wilder) is brought in to do his books, he inadvertently reveals to Bialystock that under the right circumstances, a producer could make more money with a flop than a hit. Bialystock cajoles Bloom into helping him achieve this end and together they come up with what they consider to be a sure-fire disaster waiting to happen - a musical version of Adolf and Eva's love story entitled 'Springtime for Hitler'. But is it possible that they might actually have the most unlikely hit of all time on their hands? - Director:
- Mel Brooks
- Cast:
- Mel Brooks, Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder
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The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975)Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
Leave it to legendary funnyman Gene Winder to write, direct and star in an uproarious Sherlock Holmes mystery film spoof that goes far beyond the scope of elementary comedies. After spending decades living in the shadow of his more famous and successful sibling, Consulting Detective Sigerson Holmes (Wilder) is called upon to help solve a crucial case that leads him on a hilarious trail of false identities, stolen documents, secret codes... and exposed backsides. - Director:
- Gene Wilder
- Cast:
- Gene Wilder, Mel Brooks, Madeline Kahn
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The World's Greatest Lover (1977)Der größte Liebhaber der Welt
When frustrated movie studio mogul Adolph Zitz (Dom DeLuise) announces a talent search for a romantic leading man to rival the great Rudolph Valentino, thousands of hopefuls descend upon Hollywood - including Rudy Valentine (Gene Wilder), a neurotic baker from Milwaukee who knows as little about romance as he does about acting. But when his wife, Annie (Carol Kane), leaves him for the real Valentino, Rudy goes to outrageous (and hilarious) lengths to win the role of a lifetime... and win back the love of his life. - Director:
- Gene Wilder
- Cast:
- Gene Wilder, Carol Kane, Dom DeLuise
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Stir Crazy (1980)Prison Rodeo
Would-be playwright Skip Donohue (Gene Wilder) and would-be actor Harry Monroe (Richard Pryor) should be on the road to success. But along the way to seeking their fortunes in California, they get stranded in Arizona. Hired to dress as woodpeckers for a bank promotion, Skip and Harry are mistaken for bank robbers and find themselves thrown behind bars. Outwitting wardens, sadistic guards, and fellow prisoners, the two even wind up in a prison rodeo. - Director:
- Sidney Poitier
- Cast:
- Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Georg Stanford Brown
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Species II (1998)Species 2: Offspring / Species 2
During a mission to Mars, astronaut Patrick Ross (Justin Lazard) is infected by alien DNA. Back on Earth he starts to transform into a terrifying alien entity with a one track mind - to mate with human women and colonise the world with his half-alien offspring. Scientist Laura Baker (Marg Helgenberger) and ex-military assassin Press Lennox (Michael Madsen) race against time to stop Patrick.They use Eve (Natasha Henstridge), the beautiful half-alien clone, to lure Patrick, but Eve's instinct to mate is too strong and she escapes looking to procreate with Patrick to create and alien race that spells doom for mankind. - Director:
- Peter Medak
- Cast:
- Natasha Henstridge, Michael Madsen, Marg Helgenberger
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Sophie, a respectable middle-class housewife and mother suddenly loses her husband in a freak accident. On the day of his funeral the true nature of the family business is finally disclosed to her: the production of porno movies! It's a major bombshell for Sophie to digest but in order to save her home and feed her children she has to immediately resume management of the company, a business that has been wilting for some time. Can she revitalise the fortunes of Sophie and bring some much-needed new ideas to the business without losing all sense of respectability in the process…? - Director:
- Cathy Verney
- Cast:
- Natacha Lindinger, François Vincentelli, Anne Caillon
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Bill Murray has joined the Army, and the Army will never be the same! When John Winger (Murray) loses his job, his car, his apartment and his girlfriend, all in one day, he decides he only has one option: volunteer for Uncle Sam. He talks his friend Russell (Harold Ramis) into enlisting with him. Where else, they figure, can they help save the world for democracy and meet girls! John and Russell find basic training a snap: they are arrested twice, have endless run-ins with their drill sergeant (Warren Oates) and get into a big mess at a female mud-wrestling match. They even steal a top secret government vehicle to take some gorgeous female MPs on a date, and wind up behind the Iron Curtain. - Director:
- Ivan Reitman
- Cast:
- Bill Murray, John Candy, Harold Ramis
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The Stendhal Syndrome (1996)La sindrome di Stendhal
Asia Argento stars as Anna Manni, a policewoman on the trail of a savagely vicious serial rapist and killer who has been terrorizing Italy. The trail leads Anna to the famous Uffizi Museum in Florence, where the investigation takes a violently psychotic turn. Anna is struck by the bizarre phenomenon known as the Stendhal Syndrome, a psychosomatic disorder that causes dizziness and hallucinations when the sufferer is exposed to works of art... Trapped in a mysterious trance, Anna's troubles are just beginning… - Director:
- Dario Argento
- Cast:
- Asia Argento, Thomas Kretschmann, Marco Leonardi
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Based on one of the biggest book franchises of all time by Terry Brooks and executive produced by Jon Favreau (Iron Man), "The Shannara Chronicles" is the epic series set in a world thousands of years after the destruction of our civilisation. Earth has been divided into the Four Lands, whose inhabitants are a mix of races including elves, dwarves, trolls, gnomes and humans. At the centre is the Shannara family, whose descendants are empowered with ancient magic and whose adventures continuously reshape the future of the world. As the story begins, dark and terrible forces, thought to be confined for years, begin to escape. Three unlikely heroes learn that only they have the power to stop the advancing evil and they form an uneasy alliance as they are forced to embrace their destinies. - Director:
- Jonathan Liebesman
- Cast:
- Austin Butler, Ella Rouhier, Poppy Drayton
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