"You can get anything you want at Alice's restaurant." The song by Arlo Guthrie (son of America's folk legend Woody Guthrie) and the movie he stars in express the mood in America at the end of the 60s - between rejoicing over the beginning of a new era and fear of war.

Due to the good old New Year's Eve TV tradition, Dinner For One can be considered as general education in German-speaking countries - only in Freddie Frinton's English mother country it did not reach cult status. On 31st December at the very latest it's time again for "Same procedure as every year".

"I speak English very well - I learned it from a book" says waiter Manuel. However, communication problems remain inevitable in the team of hotel owner John Fawlty (John Cleese, ex-Monty Python and of A Fish Called Wanda). British humour at its best!

Poignant drama set during the civil war in Ruanda. Hotel Ruanda is the true story of a quite normal man who shared moral courage and saved the lifes of 1,200 people.

Heinzi Bösel (Josef Hader) and Kurt Fellner (Alfred Dorfer) star as two inspectors of the Austrian hotel and catering association. During their tour of the provinces, the hotels and life as such are closely examined. Cult status!

Louis de Funès as a tyrannical restaurant chef, kowtowing to his superiors and dishing it out to his subordinates - one of his most famous roles. This movie can also be watched in a foreign language since the plot (which plot?) is borne by facial expressions and gestures anyway.

To adapt a book by John Irving for the screen must be hell for a director: Dozens of characters, bizarre ideas and continuously changing scenes of action. In this case, it was tried with a star cast. Not bad, but the book is better!

Wim Wenders movies (e.g. Paris, Texas) are characterised by three things: poetry, beautiful & quiet pictures and powerful music. The Million Dollar Hotel radiates a magical fascination. Attention: nothing for friends of action cinema!