Montreux Comedy Festival 2016 - Best Of (2016)

Hit Man Returns - David Foster & Friends

Hitman Returns was filmed before a sold out crowd last year at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. The lineup of talent, lead by Foster as maestro of ceremonies, includes performances by Seal, Donna Summer, Martina McBride, Earth, Wind & Fire, Natalie Cole, Ruben Studdard, All-4-One,'Glee' star Charice, Chaka Khan, Jackie Evancho, Lara Fabian and other artists whose careers have been touched by Foster, a 15-time Grammy winning producer and songwriter.

Return

RETURN tells the story of a retired Green Beret who embarks on a healing journey from Montana to Vietnam. There he retraces his steps, shares his wartime experiences with his son, treats his Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and seeks out the mountain tribespeople he once lived with and fought alongside as a Special Forces officer.

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Early morning silence is broken by screeching tires as a helicopter bears down on a speeding vehicle. Taking a quick corner, the team tumbles out into the woods as their car pulls away. Now they must make their way through the thick of nature and thick gunfire to accomplish their mission. Not a single word of dialogue is spoken throughout the entire film. Instead, the music, sounds, images and deeply truthful acting turn a simple plot into an intense experience. Passion and intrigue keep building to the very end.

Liberation: Direction of the Main Blow

This five part epic war drama gives a dramatized detailed account of Soviet Union's war against Nazi Germany during world war two. Each of the five parts represents a separate major eastern front campaign.

The Paper Man Returns

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Return

After reading an article about hypnotic regression, a woman whose maternal grandfather died when she was only three years old contacts the hypnotic subject named in the article believing that he is the reincarnation of her grandfather, and hoping that she can learn the truth about how he died.

Return

A young man returns home for the weekend to discover the difficulty of juggling friends, parents, magic mushrooms and several thousand chickens.

I Thunderman - Il ritorno

I Thunderman, famiglia con superpoteri, vive spensieratamente combattendo il crimine. I giovani gemelli Phoebe e Max, in particolare, si godono il loro stile di vita da supereroi e si rilassano troppo, mandando a rotoli una missione di salvataggio. I Thunderman vengono costretti a tornare a Hiddenville. Mentre i genitori Hank e Barb sono felici di essere tornati nella loro vecchia casa e i primogeniti Billy e Nora sperano di poter avere una normale vita da liceali, Max e Phoebe sono determinati a riconquistare il loro status di supereroi…

Miles and Lies

Lu has a perfect life. Or so she pretends to have. She meets the handsome, short-tempered Argentinian, Diego, who is on a visit to Mexico, and she is confident to get him head over heels in love with her. In order to win a wager with her friends, her life will take a turn when she does the impossible to win him over, including taking a trip to Argentina to look for him.

RR

Looping, chugging and barreling by, the trains in Benning's latest monumental film map a stunning topography and a history of American development. RR comes three decades after Benning and Bette Gordon made The United States of America (1975), a cinematic journey along the country’s interstates that is keenly aware “of superhighways and railroad tracks as American public symbols.” A political essay responding to the economic histories of trains as instruments in a culture of hyper-consumption, RR articulates its concern most explicitly when Eisenhower's military-industrial complex speech is heard as a mile long coal train passes through eastern Wyoming. Benning spent two and a half years collecting two hundred and sixteen shots of trains, forty-three of which appear in RR. The locomotives' varying colors, speeds, vectors, and reverberations are charged with visual thrills, romance and a nostalgia heightened by Benning's declaration that this will be his last work in 16mm film.

Gasping for Air

When his sister disappears after leaving their home in hopes of singing stardom, Luis tracks her down and discovers the grim reality of her whereabouts.

1920: Evil Returns

This story revolves around a famous poet who meets a woman who is in trouble. In order to treat her, he takes her to Shimla in a big hospital, but soon that woman gets possessed by devil and goes out of control. Now the question remains that what is the relation that poet shares with her which compelled him to go to any extent to save her, why she was possessed by devil and who is the devil.

Serial Killers: The Real Life Hannibal Lecters

This documentary examines a selection of real life serial killers and compares them to the fictional Hannibal Lecter.

Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen

The Japanese forces occupy Shanghai and slowly start spreading terror in the city. Chen Zhen, who was presumed dead, returns to fight against the Japanese and put an end to their tyrannical rule.

Ek Villain Returns

When a singer goes missing amid a serial killing spree, a cabbie and a businessman's son cross paths in a twisted tale where good and evil is blurred.

Terra e polvere

Nella poverissima provincia del Gansu, nel nord-ovest della Cina quasi al confine con la Mongolia, Guiying e Youtie hanno ormai una certa età e le rispettive famiglie non sanno cosa farsene di due anime tanto solitarie se non cercare di unirle in matrimonio. Tra le dune del deserto, la coppia e il loro asinello si stabiliscono in una di quelle casupole che il governo sta cercando di demolire. I due, però, sono pieni di risorse e si mettono al lavoro per costruire una casa e una vita contadina degne di questo nome.

Kamen Rider W Returns: Kamen Rider Accel

While settling into married life with Akiko, Ryu is brought into a case involving a woman named Katsuragi Aoi, a member of a pickpocketing ring with most of her teammates murdered from unknown masked vigilantes that Ryu fought as Accel. As the details of the case begin to unravel, Ryu is framed and Akiko believes that he may not be faithful to her. As the clock ticks down, Ryu must solve the case, clear his name, and save his marriage before everything comes to an explosive end!

Fantastic Return to Oz

A year to the day after Dorothy and the people of the Emerald City defeated Urfin Jus, the villain is trying to exact his revenge. To command the army of Carraci, however, Urfin needs not only the magic book, but also Dorothy’s silver slippers. The slippers are safely hidden away in Dorothy’s house. Unfortunately, Dorothy’s guest, Tim, is overcome by curiosity and picks up the shoes, accidentally transporting himself, Dorothy and the slippers to the Land of Oz. The Emerald City and its citizens are in danger once again.

L.E.T.H.A.L. Ladies: Return to Savage Beach

A stolen computer disk contains the location of a hidden tresaure trove. It's up to the sexy ladies of LETHAL (Legion to Ensure Total Harmony and Law) to find the treasure before the bad guys do.

Main Street

A small town in Spain, October 1955. Isabel, a 35-year-old dreamer who feels like a failure because she is not married yet, becomes the new target of a group of soulless pranksters.

Avatar: Creating the World of Pandora

The Making-of James Cameron's Avatar. It shows interesting parts of the work on the set.

13 Exorcisms

After participating in a séance, young Laura begins to behave strangely. Alarmed, her parents ask Father Olmedo, one of the few exorcists authorized by the Vatican to intervene in cases of demonic possession, for help.

Lupin III - Un diamante per sempre

Lupin III deve rimettere a posto gli oggetti rubati dall'amico ladro Mark Williams, recentemente morto, entro un tempo prestabilito. In cambio, gli sarà rivelata l'ubicazione del diamante oscuro, un frammento di meteorite che potrebbe condurlo ad un leggendario tesoro nascosto nella Sagrada Família dal grande architetto Antoni Gaudí. Lungo il suo viaggio per mezza Europa per rimettere a posto la refurtiva e poter quindi ottenere il diamante oscuro, Lupin conoscerà Anita, nipote di Mark, e dovrà confrontarsi con Ivan Krokovitch, un esponente di spicco della mafia georgiana determinato a sua volta a mettere le mani sul tesoro di Gaudì.

Slayers - L'eredità degli elfi

Lina e Naga difendono un villaggio da una demenziale cospirazione per impadronirsi del mondo da parte di un mago megalomane e del suo fido spadaccino. L'antica reliquia ed arma elfica nascosta nei pressi del villaggio si rivelerà totalmente incontrollabile e saranno Lina e Naga a dover risolvere la situazione.

Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II

1992: pochi mesi dopo lo scontro tra Mothra, Godzilla e Battra, un grande uovo viene rinvenuto su un'isola. Il dottor Kazuma Aoki (inventore di una nave volante anti-Godzilla chiamata Garuda) e la dottoressa Azusa Gojo analizzano l'uovo ma il gigantesco pteranodonte Rodan attacca il campo base per proteggere il fratello non ancora nato. Poco dopo lo stesso Godzilla emerge dall'acqua ed elimina apparentemente Rodan...