'' Funny Games '' is a 1997 Austrian psychological thriller film written and directed by Michael Haneke , and starring Susanne Lothar , Ulrich Mühe , and Arno Frisch . The plot involves two young men who hold a family hostage and torture them with sadistic games in their vacation home . The film was entered into the 1997 Cannes Film Festival . A remake filmed and set in the United States was released in 2007 , also directed by Haneke , this time with a different cast and a mostly American crew
1997 Cannes Film Festival
1997 Cannes Film Festival
Funny Games (1997 film)