Top Secret!
Action! If there’s one word associated with cinema, the tension of movie sets, and the focus of attention, it’s this one. Action is very often at the heart of popular cinema: Harold Lloyd hanging from the clock hands in Safety Last! (1923), Cary Grant threatened and strafed by a plane in North by Northwest (1959), Franka Potente gasping for air in Run Lola Run (1998)... Westerns, swashbuckler films, martial arts or adventure flicks, thrillers, all these genres rely on action—sometimes frenetic, sometimes meticulously measured.
From movies by Sergei Eisenstein to Gilles Carle, from John Ford to John Boorman and Werner Herzog, via Paul Verhoeven, Kathryn Bigelow, Park Chan-wook, Érik Canuel, and Nicolas Winding Refn, this series will take you through the full range of emotions, from laughter to thrills, from fear to satisfaction.
Preceded by short film Northwest Hounded Police
A wolf, who broke out of prison, tries to lose a young Mountie who, for some inexplicable reason, manages to follow him everywhere.
Preserved in our collections
Nick Rivers, an international rock star, is invited to a music festival in East Berlin. Little does he know that the festival is being organized by General Streck, a Hitler admirer who dreams of reunifying Germany under his control. A parody film by ZAZ, who turn Nick Rivers into a caricature of Elvis Presley.
Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jarry Zucker
Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker, abbreviated to ZAZ, was an American comedy filmmaking trio consisting of Jim Abrahams and brothers David and Jerry Zucker. They specialised in writing slapstick comedy films during the 1980s. Their films include Airplane! (1980), Top Secret! (1984) and Ruthless People (1986), as well as Police Squad! (1982) series.
