Die Herren der Spiele (2012)
Género : Documental
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 28M
Director : Uta Bodenstein
Sinopsis
A documentary about three people with an extraordinary hobby: live Game (LARP). A weekend to be someone else, experience adventure, fight battles, be a child again; recovery from reality and yourself.
Debido al aumento del precio de los combustibles, la tripulación del Planet Express se embarca en una misión peligrosa: infiltrarse en la única mina de sustancia oscura, el origen del combustible de todas las naves espaciales. Pero lo que descubren es un lugar mucho más especial...un mundo medieval donde dragones, magia y borrachos caballeros rodean y se fijan en Bender sospechosamente. Tercera película basada en la serie Futurama.
Danny (Paul Rudd) y Wheeler (Seann William Scott) son comerciales de una bebida energética. Tras estrellar el vehículo de la empresa son arrestados, y sentenciados a completar 150 horas de servicio a la comunidad haciendo de mentores de niños. Mala idea...
Joanna Crane vive una doble vida. Durante el día trabaja como diseñadora de moda pero durante la noche es la prostituta de clase alta China Blue. Como está acusada de espionaje industrial, Bobby Grady es contratado para seguirla. Sin embargo, se enamoran. Mientras tanto, un predicador psicópata comienza a acecharla.
The Onion Movie es la segunda parte no oficial de The Kentucky Fried Movie película oficial de la agencia de noticias The Onion, donde a diario se publican todo tipo de noticias ficticias de carácter humorístico.
Comedia de aventuras fantásticas dirigida por Joe Lynch con unos jugadores de rol en vivo, es decir, que juegan a un juego de rol a campo abierto y en tiempo real, que accidentalmente traerán a un demonio de verdad al mundo.
Cuando en 1980 un estudiante de la Universidad de Pensylvania desaparece misteriosamente, se descubre que pertenecía a un grupo de estudiantes obsesionados por un juego fantástico: "Mazes and Monsters". Juntos habían creado un mundo de terrores ficticios y tesoros deslumbrantes capaz de llenarlos de satisfacción, pero dieron un paso más allá de lo permitido y convirtieron el juego en realidad.
A MODERN MEDIEVAL SAGA, The Wild Hunt tells the story of Erik Magnusson, a young man who decides to follow his estranged girlfriend Evelyn into a medieval re-enactment game when he discovers that she has been seduced by one of the players. As the down-to-earth Erik treks deeper into the game in search of his love, he inadvertently disrupts the delicate balance of the make believe fantasy-land. Passions are unleashed. Rules are broken. Reality and fantasy collide. The good-hearted game turns into a tragedy of mythic proportion... Capturing the culture of costume play and the potentially dangerous intersection of real and made-up worlds, The Wild Hunt is a timely and potent comment on the consuming nature of adopting another identity, even within a game, and the modern yearning for ritual.
Diego trabaja en el restaurante de comida mexicana que su familia tiene en Los Ángeles, pero a pesar de gustarle lo que hace sueña con algo mejor. La vida le sonríe, tiene trabajo, pareja, pero todo se complica cuando aparece un tercero en discordia. Un nuevo y sexy vecino entrará en acción lo que provocará más de una cómica y divertida situación.
Voss entices local gamers to create a utopia to impress a potential employer, but paradise is disrupted when his nemesis lays claim to the city and Voss's true love.
Un grupo de jóvenes estudiantes, deciden jugar a un juego del rol (El príncipe de las Tinieblas). Uno de los chicos trae un libro de magia negra, para invocar a los espíritus. Lo que no saben es que despertarán al mismísimo demonio.
Darkon is an award-winning feature-length documentary film that follows the real-life adventures of the Darkon Wargaming Club in Baltimore, Maryland, a group of fantasy live-action role-playing (LARP) gamers.
College freshmen Debbie and Marcie are excited to start their new lives at a Pacific Northwest university but after being invited to a Zeta Omega Epsilon party the two suddenly find themselves in the strange and occult world of Role Playing Games. The duo are soon hooked on the highly addictive experience that is RPGing and the game quickly becomes a habit that consumes their lives. After Debbie’s intense pagan training through the RPGs lead her to accept an invitation to join a witches’ coven, her grades begin to plummet and she is in danger of flunking out of college. She calls on darker and deeper magical forces to use a “mind bondage” spell on her professor. Meanwhile, Marcie foolishly reads from the Necronomicon and summons Cthulhu.
Welcome to Monster Camp, the true story about a world where people transform into creatures, heroes, and monsters to escape their daily lives. In the vein of Lord of the Rings, World of Warcraft, and Dungeons and Dragons; these enthusiasts have developed a complicated world to bring their fantasies to life. Romantic relationships are forged between characters. Friendships are destroyed over plot disputes. Characters are slain and never return. But keeping this world alive takes a lot of real world work. And unless someone is willing to take charge, the fantasy may be lost forever.
Über Goober focuses on the often-misunderstood, sometimes-controversial, and always-kind-of-geeky world of Gamers. Director Steve Metze examines several different groups including historical miniature gamers, role-players, and those known simply as "LARPers." The film also explores opposition from religious groups, negative media portrayals, and some of the meanest 'man-on-the-street' interviews ever committed to video. Meet the Gamers, learn their exotic language, see their bizarre rituals, gasp at their semi-authentic costumes, and thrill to the painting techniques on their miniatures!
The Dungeon Masters explores the subculture of role-playing games, specifically Dungeons & Dragons, which for over 30 years has offered gamers the chance to escape their mundane lives and participate in a world they might otherwise never experience. Popularity and power are based on creativity and imagination rather than social status or wealth, and success is based not on who you know but on what you do.
Humans & Households follows a group of fantasy heroes on their day off as they sit down to enjoy a rousing role-playing game set in a mundane world of traffic lights, errant puppies, indoor plumbing, and other diabolical evils.
While her mother is away from home, 12-year-old Adar's role-playing games with her stepfather move into dangerous territory. Seeking an escape, Adar finds Alan, an ethereal boy that accompanies her on a dark journey between reality and fantasy.
A naïve young paladin with a prophesy, a drunken wizard, a barbarian, and a greedy rogue team up with a hesitant druid and a ranger to defeat an evil necromancer and a lich.
El documental del universo rolero de Mundo de Tinieblas explora el fenómeno que durante los años noventa surgió a raíz de Vampiro: la mascarada. Su influencia alcanzó a la literatura, la moda, el cine y las series de televisión, pero sobre todo impactó en sus fans. Una aproximación a este fenómeno con miles de seguidores en todo el mundo. "World of Darkness: El Documental" se adentra en el fenómeno creado en los años 90 por el juego de rol de culto, Vampiro: La Mascarada, y por su posterior adaptación del videojuego World of Darkness.
Every year during summer one of the biggest battles of mankind takes place amidst the hillsides of middle earth. Knights, elves and magicians are fighting orcs and the dark powers. What looks like a scene from Lord of the Rings actually takes place in a field in Germany, where thousands of role players meet to plunge into a fantasy world of their own. More than 250.000 people in Germany regularly make this transition. The documentary accompanies five role players in their daily lives and their parallel ones. Where does their yearning for a shared world of fantasy come from? What does this reveal about our hectic, technological life? Sunday warriors is a film about the passion for playing and the ambition to exceed your limits.