Criminal machinations, conspiracies and mysterious cases. If you like that sort of thing, you’ll certainly know the hit series “The X-Files”. But what about films? Find out here which film is guaranteed to make the hearts of paranormal activity fans beat faster.
A conspiracy theory based on true events
In the series “The X-Files” crime, science fiction, fantasy and horror come together. The focus is often on unsolved cases that mysterious sightingssuch as UFO sightings and paranormal things, Many even consider the 90s series to be the Origin of all mystery series.
In the 90ern also follows our film recommendation. But a small difference there is: unlike The X-Files, the film is based “23 – Nothing is as it seems” based on a true story from the 80s and is about a hacker who gets deeper and deeper into his Number and conspiracy mania drifts away.
That’s what it’s about
“23 – Nothing is as it seems” is a mixture of drama and thriller from 1998 by Hans-Christian Schmidt.
German Federal Republic in the 80s: The world fears a nuclear threat. The 19-year-old Karl Koch (August Diehl) is unsettled and only finds support in her: Hagbard Celinea fictional character from the Illuminatus! trilogy by Robert Sheas and Robert Anton Wilsons. The longer he deals with the Illuminati theory the more he deals with it, the more attentive he becomes to a worldwide conspiracy economic and political forces that are associated with the number 23 is connected to.
At a meeting of the Chaos Computer Clubs Karl meets the bright student David (Fabian Busch), who shares Karl’s interests. In the hope of World peace To further their efforts, they hack into the global data network using primitive means and join the KGB. From this point on, both are under enormous pressurethrough which Karl pays primarily with his psyche.
August Diehl as Karl Koch in 23 – Nothing is as it seems.© ddp/United Archives
Viewers are thrilled
The film will also be shown on well-known platforms such as “Moviepilot” or “film releases”. On the websites, viewers have a space in which they can express their opinion about the film. The criticism is mostly the same: Outstanding.
A user writes: “I had seen the film once before in a sneak preview and thought it was very good. Now, when I saw it again, I was able to convince myself that this memory was correct. 23 is a powerful film from the first minute. Biopic, spy film, thriller, drama.” Another viewer says: “…in my opinion a really well-made German film about the aimless odyssey of Karl Koch…who got involved with the devil in order to change something and, so to speak, threw his potential out the window…”
