This key work of New Hollywood celebrates cinema as a great dream machine, because it knows rowing up is not easy, especially not in a small Texas town in the 1950s. Everywhere there is wasteland, boredom, and social numbness. Nevertheless, the young people are tirelessly searching for happiness in love affairs, the gambling hall and, of course, in the cinema. For the youngsters, the cinema operator Sam, is the only adult who comes into question as a guiding figure. However, when he suddenly dies, the cinema also closes. The protagonists attend the last screening, which marks their entry into adulthood and becomes a symbol of the end of the American dream.

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Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who wants to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon. Driven by an decisive will, he collects valuable caoutchouc in a remote and unexplored region of the rainforest to finance his project. What starts as an adventure of epic proportions culminates in an unforgettable undertaking. In front of and behind the camera, on the brink of madness and beyond. Werner Herzog puts Klaus Kinski as Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald against the forces of nature and the limits of what is (physically) possible in a notorious production. Anything less would be no challenge for the opera fanatic.

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The increasing greenhouse effect culminates in a worldwide climate catastrophe: Hurricanes, tornadoes, tidal waves and floods occur. Even a new ice age is setting in. Paleoclimatologist Jack Hall tries to warn the world and at the same time save his son Sam, who is stuck in New York as the ice age descends on the city.

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