Die Herren der Spiele (2012)

퓨처라마 3

대니와 휠러는 '미노타르'라는 에너지 드링크의 홍보사원들이다. 대니는 견인되어가는 차를 몰고 도망가려다 사고를 내고, 법정은 이들에게 감옥에 가든지 아니면 150시간동안 아이들의 멘토가 되어주는 봉사를 하든지 선택할 것을 명령한다. '불굴의 날개(Sturdy Wings)'라는 봉사단체에서 봉사활동을 시작한 이들에게 주어진 임무는 중세놀이에 푹 빠진 16세 소년 오기와 거친 입을 가진 5학년 흑인 소년 로니의 멘토가 되어주는 것. 하지만 봉사활동을 시작한지 얼마되지 않아 대니와 휠은 감옥에 가는 편이 더 나았을 수도 있다는 것을 깨닫는데...

낮에는 일 중독의 패션 디자이너 "조앤나 크레인"으로 밤에는 도발적인 거리의 여인 "차이나 블루"로 살아가는 한 여성의 이야기이다. 바비 그래디는 부부간의 성적인 문제에 대해 이야기하는 모임에서 섹스만이 전부는 아니라고 항변한다. 하지만 그는 원활하지 못한 부부관계로 아내 에이미와 갈등이 있었으며, 결국 둘은 헤어지기로 한다. 한 패션 회사 사장으로부터 회사 기밀 유출의 용의자인 그 회사 디자이너 "조앤나 크레인"을 조사해 달라는 의뢰를 받고 바비는 그녀를 미행하다가 놀라운 사실을 발견한다. 그녀는 밤이 되면 가발과 도발적인 복장으로 거리의 여인 "차이나 블루"로 변하는 것이다. 하지만 바비는 왠지 모르게 그녀에게 점점 끌리게 되는데... 한 남자가 얼굴이 상기된 채로 스트립쇼를 보고 있다. 곧 그곳을 뛰쳐나온 그는 성경책을 펼쳐들고 거리의 타락한 남녀들에게 설교를 한다. 그의 시선은 곧 차이나 블루에게 옮겨 가고, 그녀에게 끌린 그는 그녀를 구원하겠다는 사명 혹은 욕망에 불타오르게 되는데...

미국 최고의 뉴스 정보 채널인 어니언 방송의 유명한 앵커 놈이 미국에서 벌어지는 황당한 소식들을 전달한다. 하지만 신성하다고 생각하는 자신의 뉴스를 진행하던 도중 갑자기 조그만 펭귄이 영화를 광고하며 훼방을 놓자, 방송국에 이를 따져 보지만 고지식하다며 자신의 말을 들어 주지 않는다. 결국 사임을 해야겠다고 결심한 놈은 생방송으로 진행되는 뉴스에서 자신의 얘기를 한다. 그러나 놈이 사임을 하겠다고 말하려는 찰나에 테러리스트가 놈의 머리에 총을 겨누는데...

메탈 음악을 듣는 것 외에 뚜렷한 목표나 계획이 없는 조. 이런 그를 못마땅해 하던 여자 친구 베스에게 실연을 당한다. 가슴아파하는 조를 본 친구 에릭과 헝은 자신들이 좋아하는 라이브 롤플레잉 게임장에 조를 데려가 기분 전환할 것을 권유한다. 그곳은 참가자들이 중세 기사, 마법사, 요정 분장을 하고 가짜 검과 무기를 들고 실제 게임의 시나리오대로 게임을 즐기는 장소다. 조는 어느새 전투를 즐기고 있는 자신을 발견하며 친구들과 함께 라이브 롤플레잉 게임을 즐긴다. 한편 마법사 역할의 에릭이 인터넷에서 우연히 구한 마법서로 주문을 외우다가 실수로 진짜 악마 서큐버스를 소환해 버리고 마는데...

Bound together by a desire to play "Mazes and Monsters," Robbie and his four college classmates decide to move the board game into the local cavern. Robbie loses his mind, and the line between reality and fantasy fuse into a harrowing nightmare.

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 is a gay but closeted Hispanic chef living in East Los Angeles who works in the restaurant operated by his grandmother. Frustrated by the secretive lifestyle he shares with his similarly closeted lover, Pablo, Diego finds himself attracted to Wesley, one of the openly gay Caucasian men he feels are gentrifying his neighborhood. Their relationship pushes Diego to consider the possibility of a life he had never imagined.

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.

A group of devil-may-care teenagers discover they've mistakenly called upon the Prince of Darkness in this flashy horror story.

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.

An in-depth look into how the World of Darkness and Vampire: The Masquerade created a phenomenon in the 1990s – a zeitgeist that helped shape film, literature, fashion, club culture, and ultimately fans, whose lives it forever altered.

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.