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German Cinema
Top 500 films from Germany (out of 3,400 in catalog), ranked by TMDB rating.
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Title↕ | Year↕ | Director↕ | Genres↕ | TMDB Rating↕ | Votes↕ | Language↕ | Overview↕ |
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| Bride of the Orient | 1,989 | Urs Odermatt | Drama, Romance | 9.6 | 23 | German | After the death of his mother, a lonely farmer in rural Switzerland considers finally starting a family of his own. Eventually he pays for a bride from Thailand. The couple don't share a language, but being to know each other. However the village neighbors are suspicious of foreigners. |
| Me Time | 2,022 | Ayla Yildiz | Documentary | 9.2 | 13 | German | In this documentary, 6 protagonists tell their personal experiences of abortion and sterilization, from unplanned pregnancy to a happy mother and vice versa from the wanted child to regretting motherhood. |
| FAR. The Story of a Journey around the World | 2,017 | Gwendolin Weisser | Documentary | 8.6 | 44 | German | Documentary about the journey of Patrick Allgair and Gwendolin Weisser, who travelled over 100,000 kilometres on foot and by hitchhiking. Starting in Freiburg, Germany, they travelled eastwards for three and a half years, passing through Ukraine, Russia, China, Japan and Mexico on their way around the world. |
| Fight Club | 1,999 | David Fincher | Drama, Thriller | 8.4 | 31,469 | English | A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion. |
| First Man | 2,017 | Jérôme Guiot | Documentary, History | 8.3 | 10 | English | Man’s early ancestors set off to conquer the world, to explore the unknown, to adapt to every environment. And one day, to conquer fire – a discovery that made them invincible. They built shelters. They transformed their environment. But still this did not slake their thirst for more. They sought to fathom Nature’s mysteries. They invented stories to explain the inexplicable. Now, they are Men. Here, for the very first time in television history, is the saga of our origins, told through the story of one single family - an epic journey upon which the latest scientific discoveries shine an exciting new light. |
| God | 2,016 | Edwin Brienen | Drama | 8.3 | 10 | English | A psych-drama-thriller combo that tackles shady politicians, leaked documents and a lack of enthusiasm for religion. |
| Inglourious Basterds | 2,009 | Quentin Tarantino | Drama, Thriller, War | 8.2 | 23,758 | English | In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers. |
| Joseph | 1,995 | Roger Young | Adventure, Drama, TV Movie | 8.2 | 219 | English | Joseph, favored son of Jacob and great-grandson of Abraham, is sold into slavery by his jealous brothers. Rising to become prime minister of Egypt. Joseph governed the country during a seven year famine, during which his brothers visit Egypt seeking grain, only to encounter their brother, presumed long dead. |
| Harry Belafonte: Between Calypso and Justice | 2,022 | Simone Unger | Documentary | 8.2 | 10 | German | Harry Belafonte wrote music history. How did the black boy from Harlem manage to become one of the greatest artists of the 20th century in the middle of racist America? The film portrait tells the story of the famous singer, actor, producer and activist. |
| It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story | 2,018 | Eric Friedler | Documentary | 8.2 | 10 | German | A documentary about the legendary jazz label Blue Note Records and its German founders Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff. As jews they had to flee Germany and the Hitler regime in the late 1930s. In New York they wrote music history with their record label Blue Note Records. |
| Metropolis | 1,927 | Fritz Lang | Drama, Science Fiction | 8.1 | 3,037 | German | In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind meets a prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences. |
| Das Boot | 1,981 | Wolfgang Petersen | Drama, History, War | 8.1 | 2,436 | German | A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. The crew tries to survive below the surface, while stretching both the boat and themselves to their limits. |
| M | 1,931 | Fritz Lang | Drama, Thriller, Crime | 8.1 | 2,410 | German | In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seedy underworld network. With both cops and criminals in pursuit, the murderer soon realizes that people are on his trail, sending him into a tense, panicked attempt to escape justice. |
| Satantango | 1,994 | Béla Tarr | Drama | 8.1 | 295 | Hungarian | Inhabitants of a small village in Hungary deal with the effects of the fall of Communism. The town's source of revenue, a factory, has closed, and the locals, who include a doctor and three couples, await a cash payment offered in the wake of the shuttering. Irimias, a villager thought to be dead, returns and, unbeknownst to the locals, is a police informant. In a scheme, he persuades the villagers to form a commune with him. |
| Decalogue I | 1,989 | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Drama, TV Movie | 8.1 | 257 | Polish | Krzysztof, a semantics professor and computer hobbyist, is raising his young son, Paweł, to look to science for answers, while Irena, Paweł’s aunt, lives a life rooted in faith. Over the course of one day, both adults are forced to question their belief systems. |
| (NULL) | 2,013 | David Gesslbauer | Drama | 8.1 | 41 | XX | An unknown girl breaks out of her daily grind by undergoing an intense audio-visual trip. |
| Er | 1,983 | Stefan Julian Neuschäfer | Drama | 8.1 | 23 | German | |
| Love, Deutschmarks and Death | 2,022 | Cem Kaya | Documentary | 8.1 | 18 | Turkish | Cem Kaya’s dense documentary essay celebrates 60 years of Turkish music in Germany. An alternative post-war history that is at the same time a musical Who’s Who – from Yüksel Özkasap to Derdiyoklar and Muhabbet. |
| Hamburger Gitter | 2,018 | Marco Heinig | Documentary | 8.1 | 16 | German | A city seems traumatized. Even a year after the G20 summit, the police are still looking for hundreds of suspects. 17 interviewees from the police, media, science, stock in this film. |
| Pumuckl und das große Missverständnis | 2,025 | Marcus H. Rosenmüller | Comedy, Family | 8.1 | 11 | German | This summer, Pumuckl and Eder have a lot going on: a turtle, a trip to the countryside and then neighbor Burke's birthday! Perhaps too much - becau... |
| Prince - Lovesexy Live | 1,988 | Egbert van Hees | Music | 8.1 | 11 | English | Lovesexy Live was the fifth Prince home video to be released and second live concert released on Home Video format. It was first released on 2 cassettes under the name of "Lovesexy Live 1" and "Lovesexy Live 2" in Europe. Confusingly Vol.1 contained the latter part of the concert, while Vol.2 contained the first part. The concert was later re-released as Lovesexy Live on one cassette (of 127 minutes) and on laserdisc. |
| Der König von Köln | 2,019 | Richard Huber | Comedy | 8.1 | 10 | German | A rather regular state official, who works at the building authority, becomes a puppet of a few super rich. They want to make quite a lot of profit from a planned large-scale building project. Quicker than anticipated, the father-to-be gets surprised by a couple of amenities and notices that life isn’t too bad in the sphere of these semi-legal affairs. Soon, however, he has a prosecuting attorney on his tails and has to decide himself for a side. |
| For a Few Dollars More | 1,965 | Sergio Leone | Western | 8 | 4,328 | Italian | Two bounty hunters both pursue the brutal and sadistic bandit, El Indio, who has a large bounty on his head. |
| The Lives of Others | 2,006 | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Drama, Thriller | 8 | 4,011 | German | In 1984 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and his actress-lover Christa-Maria. Wiesler becomes unexpectedly sympathetic to the couple, and faces conflicting loyalties when his superior takes a liking to Christa-Maria. |
| Autumn Sonata | 1,978 | Ingmar Bergman | Drama | 8 | 681 | Swedish | After a seven-year absence, Charlotte Andergast travels to Sweden to reunite with her daughter Eva. The pair have a troubled relationship: Charlotte sacrificed the responsibilities of motherhood for a career as a classical pianist. Over an emotional night, the pair reopen the wounds of the past. Charlotte gets another shock when she finds out that her mentally impaired daughter, Helena, is out of the asylum and living with Eva. |
| Black Beauty | 2,020 | Ashley Avis | Drama | 8 | 351 | English | Born free in the American West, Black Beauty is a horse rounded up and brought to Birtwick Stables, where she meets spirited teenager Jo Green. The two forge a bond that carries Beauty through the different chapters, challenges and adventures. |
| Decalogue VI | 1,989 | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Drama, TV Movie | 8 | 154 | Polish | A teenage postal worker, Tomek, routinely spies on his older neighbor Magda, a sexually liberated artist who lives in the apartment across the courtyard from his. As their private worlds merge, fascination turns to obsession, and the line between love and curiosity becomes violently blurred. |
| All That's Left of You | 2,025 | Cherien Dabis | Drama | 8 | 32 | Arabic | In the Occupied West Bank of the 1980s, a Palestinian teenager is swept into a protest that changes the course of his family's life. Reeling from its aftermath, his mother, Hanan, shares the story that led them to that fateful moment. Spanning seven decades, this epic drama traces the hopes and heartaches of one uprooted family, revealing not only the scars of displacement, but the unbreakable spirit of survival. |
| Live and Let Live | 2,013 | Marc Pierschel | Documentary | 8 | 12 | English | Live and Let Live is a feature documentary examining our relationship with animals, the history of veganism and the ethical, environmental and health reasons that move people to go vegan. |
| Playing God | 2,020 | Lars Kraume | Drama | 8 | 11 | German | The 78-year-old former architect Richard Gärtner (Matthias Habich) wants to put an end to his life. However, this should not be done abroad, but quite legally with the help of his family doctor. For Dr. Brandt (Anna Maria Mühe), out of personal conviction, it is out of the question to get her elderly but healthy patient a fatal preparation. |
| Black Eagles | 2,021 | Torsten Körner | Documentary | 8 | 10 | German | The documentary Schwarze Adler (Black Eagles) lets black players of the German national football team tell their personal stories for the first time. What road did they take before they got to where we cheer for them? What hurdles did they have to overcome? What prejudices and racist hostility were they exposed to – and what was it like in the past, what is it like today? |
| V for Vendetta | 2,006 | James McTeigue | Action, Thriller, Science Fiction | 7.9 | 15,325 | English | In a world in which Great Britain has become a fascist state, a masked vigilante known only as “V” conducts guerrilla warfare against the oppressive British government. When V rescues a young woman from the secret police, he finds in her an ally with whom he can continue his fight to free the people of Britain. |
| Freedom Writers | 2,007 | Richard LaGravenese | Crime, Drama | 7.9 | 2,375 | English | A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school. |
| The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari | 1,920 | Robert Wiene | Drama, Horror, Thriller, Crime | 7.9 | 1,730 | German | Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recently went through. Francis and his friend Alan visit The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, an exhibit where the mysterious doctor shows the somnambulist Cesare, and awakens him for some moments from his death-like sleep. |
| Faust | 1,926 | F. W. Murnau | Fantasy, Drama, Horror | 7.9 | 384 | German | God and Satan wager on the soul of a learned and prayerful alchemist as part of their eternal war over Earth. |
| Decalogue V | 1,989 | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Drama, TV Movie, Crime | 7.9 | 157 | Polish | Jacek, an angry drifter, murders a taxi driver, brutally and without motive. His case is assigned to Piotr, an idealistic young lawyer who is morally opposed to the death penalty, and their interactions take on an emotional honesty that throws into stark relief for Piotr the injustice of killing of any kind. |
| Decalogue X | 1,989 | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Drama, TV Movie, Comedy | 7.9 | 138 | Polish | Jerzy and Artur’s father dies, leaving behind a valuable stamp collection, which, they discover, is coveted by dealers of varying degrees of shadiness. The more involved the brothers get in their father’s world, the more dire and comical their situation becomes. |
| Dying | 2,024 | Matthias Glasner | Drama, Comedy | 7.9 | 41 | German | Mother Lissy, father Gerd, son Tom and daughter Ellen: the members of the Lunies family are estranged. But confronted with death, they finally meet each other again. |
| Roger Waters: The Wall - Live in Berlin | 1,990 | Ken O'Neill | Music | 7.9 | 37 | English | A global television broadcast of the event in which former Pink Floyd leader singer and composer Roger Waters led an all-star cast in a mammoth benefit performance of his acclaimed concept album, The Wall. Set in Berlin, Germany less than a year after the destruction of the hated Berlin Wall, Waters was accompanied by disparate talents such as Cyndi Lauper, James Galway, Joni Mitchell and Albert Finney in the classic dark musical tale of a rock star's descent into madness and back. |
| Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer | 2,022 | Thomas von Steinaecker | Documentary | 7.9 | 14 | German | With exclusive behind-the-scenes access into Herzog’s everyday life, rare archive material and in-depth interviews with celebrated collaborators – including Christian Bale, Nicole Kidman, and Robert Pattinson, we are given an exciting glimpse into the work and personal life of the iconic artist. |
| Autumn Milk | 1,989 | Joseph Vilsmaier | Drama | 7.9 | 11 | German | With the death of her mother, eight-year-old Anna ends her childhood: From now on, she has to look after the nine-member family. Deprivation-rich years, which also find no end when Anna marries: Her husband Albert must be a soldier in the Second World War, and the pregnant Anna has to work hard in the farm and care sick relatives. Lonely and exposed to the harassment of the tyrannical mother-in-law, she waits for Albert, with no certainty that he will ever return. |
| Florence Fight Club | 2,010 | Rovero Impiglia | Action, Documentary, Adventure | 7.9 | 10 | Italian | Four men decided to enter in the oldest Fight Club of the History, The Florentine Football tournament. A father and son, a black guy, an old champion and outsider clerk will enter in an arena of the time to win their fears, to go over their limits, to be heroes for a day. |
| A Fistful of Dollars | 1,964 | Sergio Leone | Western | 7.8 | 4,603 | Italian | The Man With No Name enters the Mexican village of San Miguel in the midst of a power struggle among the three Rojo brothers and sheriff John Baxter. When a regiment of Mexican soldiers bearing gold intended to pay for new weapons is waylaid by the Rojo brothers, the stranger inserts himself into the middle of the long-simmering battle, selling false information to both sides for his own benefit. |
| Perfect Days | 2,023 | Wim Wenders | Drama | 7.8 | 1,790 | Japanese | Hirayama is content with his life as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. Outside of his structured routine, he cherishes music on cassette tapes, books, and taking photos of trees. Through unexpected encounters, he reflects on finding beauty in the world. |
| Wings of Desire | 1,987 | Wim Wenders | Drama, Fantasy, Romance | 7.8 | 1,460 | German | Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisible rays of hope to the distressed but never interacting with them. When Damiel falls in love with lonely trapeze artist Marion, the angel longs to experience life in the physical world, and finds — with some words of wisdom from actor Peter Falk — that it might be possible for him to take human form. |
| Land of Mine | 2,015 | Martin Zandvliet | War, Drama, History | 7.8 | 1,446 | Danish | In the days following the surrender of Germany in May 1945, a group of young German prisoners of war is handed over to the Danish authorities and subsequently sent to the West Coast, where they are ordered to remove the more than two million mines that the Germans had placed in the sand along the coast. With their bare hands, crawling around in the sand, the boys are forced to perform the dangerous work under the leadership of a Danish sergeant. |
| Close to the Horizon | 2,019 | Tim Trachte | Romance, Drama | 7.8 | 500 | German | Jessica knows exactly what her life is supposed to look like and where it takes her. But then she meets Danny. He has a complicated past and could confuse all their plans. Jessica has to decide. |
| Decalogue IV | 1,989 | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Drama, TV Movie | 7.8 | 154 | Polish | A father and daughter, Michał and Anka, have a unique intimacy, which the college-aged Anka is beginning to feel conflicted about. When she finds an unopened letter from her deceased mother, it seems to justify her attraction to Michał, who may not in fact be her father. |
| Ivy | 2,015 | Tolga Karaçelik | Drama, Fantasy, Thriller | 7.8 | 105 | Turkish | After the owner's bankruptcy, the crew is stranded on a freighter for months. Dealing with the stress of isolation, seafarers gradually surrender to madness and terror. |
| The Farthest | 2,018 | Emer Reynolds | Documentary | 7.8 | 62 | English | The captivating tales of the people and events behind one of humanity's greatest achievements in exploration: NASA's Voyager mission. |
| Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision | 2,013 | Edgar Reitz | Drama, History | 7.8 | 54 | German | Follow-up to the TV trilogy “Heimat”, this time for cinemas, set again in the fictional village Schabbach in the Hunsrück region of Rhineland-Palatinate. |
| More Beautiful | 2,025 | Karoline Herfurth | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.8 | 40 | German | The main thing is sexy - no matter whether thin, fat, what skin color, young, old, we can all be sexy in different ways. Almost every woman grows up having to work on herself in order to remain desirable. Why? What if we stopped pushing ourselves into a sexy pose with all our might? What if we no longer fought for the right to be sexy, but were truly free? What if we stopped investing all our time and energy in being heard and the world started to hear us? A modern movie about modern women and men - who might be able to find a common language. |
| The Twelve Jurors | 1,963 | Günter Gräwert | TV Movie, Drama, Crime | 7.8 | 25 | German | Did an 18-year-old immigrant from the slums murder his father in cold blood? The twelve jurors must find a unanimous verdict. |
| Apache Stays Apache | 2,022 | Nepomuk V. Fischer | Documentary | 7.8 | 19 | German | 10 number one hits. More than 2 billion streams. Yet rap superstar Apache 207 is a mystery. Now he breaks his silence and grants access to camera crews. This compelling documentary shows his life, from plattenbau to luxury mansions, from loneliness to sold-out stadiums - accompanied by his family, best friends and rap icons Loredana, BAUSA and XATAR. |
| Mr. Bachmann and His Class | 2,021 | Maria Speth | Documentary | 7.8 | 18 | German | Mr. Bachmann And His Class explores the close bond between an elementary school teacher and his students. His unconventional methods clash with the complex social and cultural realities of the provincial German industrial town they live in. |
| Videograms of a Revolution | 1,992 | Harun Farocki | Documentary | 7.8 | 16 | German | A minute-by-minute chronology of the Romanian revolution in December 1989 in Bucharest. This cinematic montage of live footage from the state television company TVR and video taken by numerous amateurs becomes a new media-based form of historiography. |
| Elsewhere - Alone in Africa | 2,018 | Anselm Nathanael Pahnke | Documentary | 7.8 | 15 | German | 414 days, 15.000 km, 15 countries. On his 25th birthday, Anselm starts a journey across Africa on a bicycle with two friends. After they arrive in the scorching Kalahari Desert, the trio suddenly splits. His friends fly home while Anselm decides to continue the ride up north - alone. |
| Saving the Titanic | 2,012 | Maurice Sweeney | TV Movie, Documentary, Drama | 7.8 | 14 | English | In the hours after the Titanic struck an iceberg 100 years ago, a team of shipbuilders and engineers raced against time to save the stricken vessel. Based on eye-witness accounts, this film reveals what went on below decks in the hours before the Titanic sank, telling the previously relatively unheralded stories of engineers who fought courageously to hold back the power of the sea and keep the power systems running, even when they learned that all was lost. Most of these men died but their actions bought enough time to save many lives. This drama-documentary tells a poignant story of self-sacrifice by the Titanic's engineers, stokers and firemen in the face of impending death. |
| Mr. Rossi Looks for Happiness | 1,976 | Bruno Bozzetto | Animation, Family, Comedy, Fantasy | 7.8 | 14 | Italian | Where? Far from home,from work and his boss, far from city traffic and his alarm clock, far from the monotony of his life... The farthest away possible. Travelling against time, visiting places of other centuries. How? Thanks to a magic whistle given him by "Fairy Sicura" the most nutty, thoughtless, happy fairy still to be seen around. A golden whistle which can catapult him back into prehistory, or in ancient Rome, in Medieval time, on a desert island, in Fairy tale land, in ancient Egypt, in the far West or in the future.With whom? He travels with Gastone, his boss'dog, tiny,naive and a little bit spoiled : after many adventures he will realize how much more valuable a friend is rather than a cream pie. Will he find it? Yes, but not in the past, not in other centuries, full of incredible and miserable adventures for him. Happiness was much closer,at hand's reach. He only had to think about it... Isnt that right, Mr Rossi? |
| Diary of a Teacher | 1,973 | Vittorio De Seta | Drama | 7.8 | 13 | Italian | In a school on the extreme outskirts of Rome, a young teacher, instead of neglecting his half-empty classroom, decides to tackle the problem looking for the children who do not attend classes. |
| Speed: In Search of Lost Time | 2,012 | Florian Opitz | Documentary | 7.8 | 12 | German | It’s a paradox. Never before in history we have worked more efficiently. Never before we have saved time with more sophisticated technologies. Anyway, nearly all of us are feeling an increasing pressure of time. It seems that the same technology that has been invented to make our life better and easier, is now enslaving us. Why? |
| Blind Guardian: Imaginations Through the Looking Glass | 2,004 | Matthias Knézy-Bohm | Music, Documentary | 7.8 | 10 | English | Blind Guardian intended to record a DVD since early 1998, however, due to the band's high requirements, no existing metal festival had been considered suitable. Instead, Blind Guardian decided to create their own festival, back in their homeland. The First Blind Guardian Festival was held in Coburg, Germany, at June 16–17, 2003. It lasted 2 days, with the band playing during both nights. The entire show has been professionally recorded and subsequently released on a DVD entitled Imaginations through the Looking Glass in June 14, 2004. |
| John Wick: Chapter 4 | 2,023 | Chad Stahelski | Action, Thriller, Crime | 7.7 | 7,694 | English | With the price on his head ever increasing, John Wick uncovers a path to defeating The High Table. But before he can earn his freedom, Wick must face off against a new enemy with powerful alliances across the globe and forces that turn old friends into foes. |
| All Quiet on the Western Front | 2,022 | Edward Berger | War, History, Drama | 7.7 | 4,518 | German | Paul Baumer and his friends Albert and Muller, egged on by romantic dreams of heroism, voluntarily enlist in the German army. Full of excitement and patriotic fervour, the boys enthusiastically march into a war they believe in. But once on the Western Front, they discover the soul-destroying horror of World War I. |
| Nosferatu | 1,922 | F. W. Murnau | Horror, Fantasy | 7.7 | 2,396 | German | The mysterious Count Orlok summons a happily married real estate agent to his castle, located up in the Transylvanian mountains, to finalise a terrifying deal. |
| Citizenfour | 2,014 | Laura Poitras | Documentary | 7.7 | 1,382 | English | In June 2013, Laura Poitras and reporter Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden. She brought her camera with her. |
| Free Fall | 2,013 | Stephan Lacant | Drama, Romance | 7.7 | 827 | German | A promising career with the police, a baby on the way... Marc's life seems to be right on track. Then he meets fellow policeman Kay and during their regular jogs Marc experiences a never-before-felt sense of ease and effortlessness – and what it means to fall in love with another man. |
| The Conformist | 1,971 | Bernardo Bertolucci | Drama | 7.7 | 746 | Italian | A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident. |
| Never Look Away | 2,018 | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Drama, Romance, History | 7.7 | 742 | German | German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR regime. |
| Knockin' on Heaven's Door | 1,997 | Thomas Jahn | Comedy, Crime, Action, Drama | 7.7 | 570 | German | Two young men, Martin and Rudi, both suffering from terminal cancer, get to know each other in a hospital room. They drown their desperation in tequila and decide to take one last trip to the sea. Drunk and still in pajamas they steal the first fancy car they find, a 60's Mercedes convertible. The car happens to belong to a bunch of gangsters, which immediately start to chase it, since it contains more than the pistol Martin finds in the glove box. |
| Ali: Fear Eats the Soul | 1,974 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Romance, Drama | 7.7 | 444 | German | Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown children offer little companionship. One night she goes to a bar frequented by Arab immigrants and strikes up a friendship with middle-aged mechanic Ali. Their relationship soon develops into something more, and Emmi's family and neighbors criticize their spontaneous marriage. Soon Emmi and Ali are forced to confront their own insecurities about their future. |
| The Last Laugh | 1,924 | F. W. Murnau | Drama | 7.7 | 344 | German | An aging doorman, after being fired from his prestigious job at a luxurious hotel, is forced to face the scorn of his friends, neighbours and society. |
| Alice in the Cities | 1,974 | Wim Wenders | Drama | 7.7 | 327 | German | German journalist Philip Winter has a case of writer’s block when trying to write an article about the United States. He decides to return to Germany, and while trying to book a flight, encounters a German woman and her nine year old daughter Alice doing the same. The three become friends (almost out of necessity) and while the mother asks Winter to mind Alice temporarily, it quickly becomes apparent that Alice will be his responsibility for longer than he expected. |
| Die Nibelungen: Siegfried | 1,924 | Fritz Lang | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy | 7.7 | 155 | German | Siegfried, son of King Siegmund of Xanten, travels to Worms, capital of the Burgundian kingdom, to ask King Gunther for the hand of his sister, the beautiful Kriemhild. |
| Pappa ante Portas | 1,991 | Vicco von Bülow | Comedy | 7.7 | 142 | German | Heinrich Lohse, a strict and highly efficient purchasing manager at a company bulk-orders 40 tons of mustard and enough typewriting paper for 40 years just to get discount. Heinrich's boss decides it’s time for him to retire early. Heinrich suddenly finds himself with nothing to do—except micromanage his household, much to the dismay of his wife Renate and their son Dieter |
| Forklift Driver Klaus: The First Day on the Job | 2,001 | Stefan Prehn | Horror, Comedy | 7.7 | 137 | German | Short film depicting a fictional educational film about fork lift truck operational safety. The dangers of unsafe operation are presented in gory details. |
| Gloomy Sunday | 1,999 | Rolf Schübel | Drama, Romance | 7.7 | 66 | German | Budapest in the thirties. The restaurant owner Laszlo hires the pianist András to play in his restaurant. Both men fall in love with the beautiful waitress Ilona who inspires András to his only composition. His song of Gloomy Sunday is, at first, loved and then feared, for its melancholic melody triggers off a chain of suicides. The fragile balance of the erotic ménage à trois is sent off kilter when the German Hans goes and falls in love with Ilona as well. |
| Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life | 1,995 | Stephen Quay | Drama | 7.7 | 47 | English | Jakob arrives at the Institute Benjamenta (run by brother and sister Johannes and Lisa Benjamenta) to learn to become a servant. With seven other men, he studies under Lisa: absurd lessons of movement, drawing circles, and servility. He asks for a better room. No other students arrive and none leave for employment. Johannes is unhappy, imperious, and detached from the school's operation. Lisa is beautiful, at first tightly controlled, then on the verge of breakdown. There's a whiff of incest. Jakob is drawn to Lisa, and perhaps she to him. As winter sets in, she becomes catatonic. Things get worse; Johannes notes that all this has happened since Jakob came. Is there any cause and effect? |
| B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989 | 2,015 | Jörg A. Hoppe | Documentary, Music | 7.7 | 46 | English | The wild West Berlin of the 1980s became the creative melting pot of pop subcultures: music, art and chaos. Before the Iron Curtain fell, anything and everything seemed possible. |
| The Door-to-Door Bookstore | 2,024 | The Chau Ngo | Family, Comedy, Drama | 7.7 | 43 | German | Carl’s life runs like clockwork: every day, he goes door-to-door delivering books to a handful of loyal customers. He knows their preferences and takes pride in selecting the perfect story for each of them. But his well-ordered life is turned upside down by a cheerful nine-year-old girl, Schascha, who decides to join him on his daily book round. Schascha’s unique outlook on life helps Carl to come out of his shell and realise that his customers are so much more than just that to him. But when Carl unexpectedly loses his job, this vibrant community starts to fall apart - and it will take the power of books and all Schascha’s determination to bring them back together again. |
| An Unfinished Film | 2,024 | Lou Ye | Drama | 7.7 | 31 | Chinese | A film crew gathers in a hotel near Wuhan to resume production of a film that was interrupted ten years earlier, but an unexpected event once again disrupts the preparations. |
| The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu | 2,010 | Andrei Ujică | Documentary | 7.7 | 28 | Romanian | The three-hour-long documentary covers 25 years in the life of Nicolae Ceaușescu and was made using 1,000 hours of original footage from the National Archives of Romania. |
| #Female Pleasure | 2,018 | Barbara Miller | Documentary | 7.7 | 25 | English | A plea for the liberation of female sexuality in the 21st century. The film questions millennial patriarchal structures, as well as todays omnipresent porn culture. It accompanies five extraordinary women around the globe, reveals universal contexts and shows the successful fight of these courageous women for a self-determined female sexuality and an equal, passionate relationship between the sexes. |
| Freddie Mercury: The Untold Story | 2,000 | Rudi Dolezal | Documentary, Music | 7.7 | 24 | English | Freddie Mercury (1946-91) was not just a man with one of the most pure and amazing voices the world has heard, but he was also the lead singer for Queen, the most enthusiastic rock band in history. |
| Nicht ganz Koscher | 2,022 | Stefan Sarazin | Comedy | 7.7 | 19 | English | Three religions. Two men. One mission. Ben has gone off into the desert. In order to escape the matchmaking attempts of his family in Jerusalem, he agrees to fly to Alexandria to save what was once the largest Jewish community in the world, which is desperately short of a tenth man to celebrate Passover. When Ben misses his flight and is subsequently thrown off a bus in the Sinai Desert, a grumpy Bedouin in search of his lost camel becomes Ben’s only hope. |
| Laurel & Hardy: Their Lives and Magic | 2,011 | Andreas Baum | Documentary, Comedy | 7.7 | 19 | German | The lives of Stan Laurel (1890-1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957), on the screen and behind the curtain. The joy and the sadness, the success and the failure. The story of one of the best comic duos of all time: a lesson on how to make people laugh. |
| Epica: Retrospect: 10th Anniversary | 2,013 | Marcel de Vré | Music | 7.7 | 18 | English | The band announced on their official website that on March 23, 2013, they would celebrate the 10th anniversary of Epica in Eindhoven, Netherlands. The concert which would be called Retrospect, would be held in Klokgebouw with a 70-piece orchestra, choirs, international guests and many special effects. The band invited the Hungarian Remenyi Ede Chamber Orchestra and the Choir of Miskolc National Theatre to this show as they were the same orchestra that accompanied Epica in the recording of the live album The Classical Conspiracy. |
| The Flying Classroom | 1,954 | Kurt Hoffmann | Family, Comedy, Drama | 7.7 | 17 | German | The third form of a boarding school and the students of a neighboring school do not get along. Each side dreams up the craziest pranks to defeat the other. And when one day the high school students go as far as stealing the Gymnasium students’ essays and even burning them, daily school life really gets out of hand. |
| Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called | 2,022 | Lukas Hoffmann | Documentary | 7.7 | 13 | German | A portrait of the actress Winona Ryder, the great muse of nineties cinema, who, although she has had an atypical and somewhat erratic career, has always offered performances as sensitive as they are honest. |
| Utta Danella - Mit dir die Sterne sehen | 2,008 | Gloria Behrens | Drama | 7.7 | 12 | German | Pretty Floriane does not believe in love anymore, since she has learned that her boyfriend is really married and does not even think about leaving his wife. Surprisingly, the charming townspeople Sebastian comes into their lives: The handsome contractor was actually just passing through - but after a car breakdown, he hired himself in Florianes small country inn. It does not take long for an intimate love to develop between the two. But then it turns out that Sebastian also has a girlfriend who is ready to fight him. |
| Bluebeard's Castle | 1,963 | Michael Powell | TV Movie, Music, Drama | 7.7 | 11 | German | Based on the Béla Bartók opera, Duke Bluebeard reluctantly and gradually uncovers the secrets of his psyche to his fourth wife, Judit, opening the seven doors of his castle to ultimately reveal his still living previous wives, among whom Judit must take her place. |
| Blood Diamond | 2,006 | Edward Zwick | Drama, Thriller, Action | 7.6 | 8,159 | English | An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son, conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed countrywide. |
| Coach Carter | 2,005 | Thomas Carter | Drama, History | 7.6 | 3,207 | English | Based on a true story, in which Richmond High School head basketball coach Ken Carter made headlines in 1999 for benching his undefeated team due to poor academic results. |
| Who Am I | 2,014 | Baran bo Odar | Thriller | 7.6 | 1,673 | German | Benjamin, a young German computer whiz, is invited to join a subversive hacker group that wants to be noticed on the world's stage. |
| Victoria | 2,015 | Sebastian Schipper | Crime, Thriller, Romance | 7.6 | 1,316 | German | A young Spanish woman who has newly moved to Berlin finds her flirtation with a local guy turn potentially deadly as their night out with his friends reveals a dangerous secret. |
| Imagine Me & You | 2,006 | Ol Parker | Drama, Comedy, Romance | 7.6 | 1,091 | English | During her wedding ceremony, Rachel notices Luce in the audience and feels instantly drawn to her. The two women become close friends, and when Rachel learns that Luce is a lesbian, she realizes that despite her happy marriage to Heck, she is falling for Luce. As she questions her sexual orientation, Rachel must decide between her stable relationship with Heck and her exhilarating new romance with Luce. |
| Fitzcarraldo | 1,982 | Werner Herzog | Drama, Adventure | 7.6 | 855 | German | Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an epic adventure to collect rubber, a very profitable product, in a remote and unexplored region of the rainforest. |
| System Crasher | 2,019 | Nora Fingscheidt | Drama | 7.6 | 376 | German | Wherever 9-year-old Benni ends up, she is expelled. She has become what child protection services call a “system crasher.” But she is not looking to change her ways, and has one goal: go back home to her mother. When anger management trainer Micha is hired to help, suddenly there is hope. |
| The Testament of Dr. Mabuse | 1,933 | Fritz Lang | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 7.6 | 276 | German | After a detective is assaulted by thugs and placed in an asylum run by Professor Baum, he observes the professor's preoccupation with another patient, the criminal genius Dr. Mabuse the hypnotist. When Mabuse's notes are found to be connected with a rash of recent crimes, Commissioner Lohmann must determine how Mabuse is communicating with the criminals, despite conflicting reports on the doctor's whereabouts, and capture him for good. |
| Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler | 1,922 | Fritz Lang | Crime, Thriller | 7.6 | 207 | German | Dr. Mabuse and his organization of criminals are in the process of completing their latest scheme, a theft of information that will allow Mabuse to make huge profits on the stock exchange. Afterwards, Mabuse disguises himself and attends the Folies Bergères show, where Cara Carozza, the main attraction of the show, passes him information on Mabuse's next intended victim, the young millionaire Edgar Hull. Mabuse then uses psychic manipulation to lure Hull into a card game where he loses heavily. When Police Commissioner von Wenk begins an investigation of this mysterious crime spree, he has little to go on, and he needs to find someone who can help him. |
| Two by Two: Overboard! | 2,020 | Toby Genkel | Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family | 7.6 | 174 | English | Two misfit castaways struggle to reunite an unorthodox family, out-run a volcano, and negotiate a peace deal on a creaking Ark. |
| Gigantic | 1,999 | Sebastian Schipper | Drama, Comedy | 7.6 | 97 | German | The Hamburg friends Walter, Ricco and Floyd take each day as it comes between the estates of tower blocks and fast food restaurants. All three are in their early twenties and are dreaming of another life when Floyd suddenly takes a job on a freighter going to Singapore. |
| Gladbeck: The Hostage Crisis | 2,022 | Volker Heise | Documentary | 7.6 | 66 | German | In August 1988, two armed bank robbers keep German police at bay for 54 hours during a hostage-taking drama that ends in a shootout and three deaths. |
| Mafia Is Not What It Used to Be | 2,019 | Franco Maresco | Documentary | 7.6 | 52 | Italian | Palermo, Sicily, Italy, 2017. Twenty-five years after the murders of anti-mafia judges Giovanni Falcone, on May 23, 1992, and Paolo Borsellino, on July 19, 1992; and on the occasion of the tributes held in memory of both heroes, skeptical photographer Letizia Battaglia, chronicler of their titanic combat, criticizes the opportunism of shady characters who, like businessman Ciccio Mira, profit from the commemoration of both tragedies. |
| Lewis Capaldi: How I'm Feeling Now | 2,023 | Joe Pearlman | Documentary, Music | 7.6 | 48 | English | An intimate, all-access documentary that will chronicle Lewis Capaldi's journey from a scrappy teen with a viral performance to a Grammy-nominated pop star. |
| Re-Cycling | 2,014 | Unknown | Animation | 7.6 | 48 | English | This direct-to-draw animated film on 35 mm film features the imagery of 10 European directors in a collective project. Each produced 1 minute of animation on film, drawing directly onto it in his or her own style. |
| All You Need Is Love | 2,009 | Edzard Onneken | Romance, Comedy, Drama | 7.6 | 41 | German | When Katharina got an unexpected letter from her son Hans announcing that he was getting married and that he and his fiancé Nicki were leaving Berl... |
| The Best of All Worlds | 2,017 | Adrian Goiginger | Drama | 7.6 | 35 | German | Seven-year-old Adrian is growing up in the underground drug scene of Salzburg, usually famous for culture and classical music. His mother Helga is torn between her drug addiction and her love for her son. Despite this, Adrian has a happy childhood, the best of all worlds. But it is tested to the limit when the authorities and child welfare services find out about Helga's addiction. |
| Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven | 1,975 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Drama | 7.6 | 34 | German | Frau Emma Küsters prepares dinner late one seemingly-ordinary afternoon in her seemingly-ordinary Frankfurt kitchen. She wants to add canned sausages to the stew; her irritating daughter-in-law thinks otherwise. But the point is moot: Ernst Küsters has not only murdered the personnel director at the soap factory where he's employed but succeeded that by committing suicide. |
| The Dark Glow of the Mountain | 1,985 | Werner Herzog | Documentary, TV Movie | 7.6 | 29 | German | Werner Herzog follows mountaineers Hans Kammerlander and Reinhold Messner during their expedition into climbing the Gasherbrum mountains, which has some of the most difficult peaks to be conquered, and they'll do it without the use of oxygen tanks. Herzog also takes some time to hear about their past experiences with other mountains, their personal tragedies and the reasons why they are so involved with such activity. |
| Making Unorthodox | 2,020 | Marlene Melchior | Documentary | 7.6 | 25 | English | Documentary about the making of the Netflix FIlm "Unorthodox" |
| Who Killed Johnny R.? | 1,966 | José Luis Madrid | Western | 7.6 | 23 | German | An assumed-dead gangster wants to implicate a completely innocent man to pay for his crimes so he can give the slip to his avengers and persecutors. |
| Why Are We Creative? | 2,018 | Hermann Vaske | Documentary | 7.6 | 18 | German | A 30 years odyssey: the world's most intriguing artists and thinkers from the fields of visual art, music, filmmaking, acting, literature, philosophy, politics, business and science, are asked the same question: "Why are you creative?" |
| Momo | 2,025 | Christian Ditter | Family, Fantasy, Adventure, Drama | 7.6 | 16 | German | Momo is a young orphan girl who lives in the ruins of an old Roman amphitheater and becomes friends with everybody in the neighborhood. But when a powerful international corporation starts stealing everybody’s time, nobody has any time left for her, let alone their friends or families. Momo, together with Master Hora, the custodian of time, are the only ones who can go up against the time thieves before all is lost forever. |
| Dean Martin: King of Cool | 2,021 | Tom Donahue | Documentary | 7.6 | 14 | English | Dean Martin had a laid-back charm that made him successful in everything from big-screen comedies to television variety shows to live acts in Las Vegas. Filmmaker Tom Donahue explores Martin’s varied career, including his complicated relationships with Jerry Lewis, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr, and others. We hear from admirers such as critic Gerald Early, actor Jon Hamm, and Hip-Hop artist RZA who testify to Martin’s enduring mystique. |
| Leaning Into the Wind: Andy Goldsworthy | 2,018 | Thomas Riedelsheimer | Documentary | 7.6 | 14 | English | Thomas Riedelsheimer’s landmark Rivers and Tides inventively documented artist Andy Goldsworthy as he created his wondrously ephemeral site-specific sculptures, spun from nature. Fifteen years later, Goldsworthy is still appealingly engaged in his philosophical and tactical exploration of the natural world. Leaning Into the Wind is a collaborative sequel—a visual and aural sensation that takes viewers into the hillsides, terrains, and other outdoor spaces where Goldsworthy feels most at home and inspired. |
| Wild Heart | 2,018 | Charly Hübner | Music, Documentary | 7.6 | 13 | German | A portrait of Jan "Monchi" Gorkow, front man for the punk band Feine Sahne Fischfilet, and his campaign against racism and right-wing extremism. |
| Emil and the Detectives | 1,954 | Robert A. Stemmle | Family, Comedy, Crime, Adventure | 7.6 | 11 | German | Emil goes to Berlin to see his grandmother with a large amount of money and is offered sweets by a strange man that make him sleep. He wakes up at his stop with no money. It is up to him and a group of children to save the day. |
| My Brothers and Sisters in the North | 2,016 | Sung Hyung Cho | Documentary | 7.6 | 10 | German | The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a country with a very strong social cohesion and the unprecedented admiration of the people for their leader, which is absolutely unique and incomprehensible especially from a Western point of view. The native Korean director Sung-Hyung Cho tries to understand this by accompanying several Koreans from different backgrounds in their daily lives. The film shows the country and its people in a way, as it is rarely done in Western media, non-judgmental and respectful towards the people. |
| The Devil's Advocate | 1,997 | Taylor Hackford | Drama, Mystery, Horror | 7.5 | 6,613 | English | Aspiring Florida defense lawyer Kevin Lomax accepts a job at a New York law firm. With the stakes getting higher every case, Kevin quickly learns that his boss has something far more evil planned. |
| The Book Thief | 2,013 | Brian Percival | Drama | 7.5 | 4,469 | English | While subjected to the horrors of WWII Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. Under the stairs in her home, a Jewish refugee is being sheltered by her adoptive parents. |
| The Wave | 2,008 | Dennis Gansel | Drama, Thriller | 7.5 | 3,537 | German | A school teacher discusses types of government with his class. His students find it too boring to repeatedly go over national socialism and believe that dictatorship cannot be established in modern Germany. He starts an experiment to show how easily the masses can become manipulated. |
| The Reader | 2,008 | Stephen Daldry | Drama, Romance | 7.5 | 3,324 | English | The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom. |
| Let the Right One In | 2,008 | Tomas Alfredson | Horror, Drama | 7.5 | 3,186 | Swedish | When Oskar, a sensitive, bullied 12-year-old boy, meets his new neighbor, the mysterious and moody Eli, they strike up a friendship. Initially reserved with each other, Oskar and Eli slowly form a close bond, but it soon becomes apparent that she is no ordinary young girl. |
| Walk the Line | 2,005 | James Mangold | Drama, Music, Romance | 7.5 | 3,070 | English | A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins. |
| Good Bye, Lenin! | 2,003 | Wolfgang Becker | Comedy, Drama | 7.5 | 2,578 | German | Alex Kerner's mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell. When she wakes up he must try to keep her from learning what happened (as she was an avid communist supporter) to avoid shocking her which could lead to another heart attack. |
| Aguirre, the Wrath of God | 1,972 | Werner Herzog | History, Adventure, Drama | 7.5 | 1,208 | German | A few decades after the destruction of the Inca Empire, a Spanish expedition led by the infamous Aguirre leaves the mountains of Peru and goes down the Amazon River in search of the lost city of El Dorado. When great difficulties arise, Aguirre’s men start to wonder whether their quest will lead them to prosperity or certain death. |
| Au Revoir les Enfants | 1,987 | Louis Malle | Drama, War | 7.5 | 710 | French | Au revoir les enfants tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss concerning two boys living in Nazi-occupied France. At a provincial Catholic boarding school, the precocious youths enjoy true camaraderie—until a secret is revealed. Based on events from writer-director Malle’s own childhood, the film is a subtle, precisely observed tale of courage, cowardice, and tragic awakening. |
| Head-On | 2,004 | Fatih Akin | Drama, Romance | 7.5 | 613 | German | With the intention to break free from the strict familial restrictions, a suicidal young woman sets up a marriage of convenience with a forty-year-old addict, an act that will lead to an outburst of envious love. |
| Buena Vista Social Club | 1,999 | Wim Wenders | Documentary, Music | 7.5 | 366 | English | In this fascinating Oscar-nominated documentary, American guitarist Ry Cooder brings together a group of legendary Cuban folk musicians (some in their 90s) to record a Grammy-winning CD in their native city of Havana. The result is a spectacular compilation of concert footage from the group's gigs in Amsterdam and New York City's famed Carnegie Hall, with director Wim Wenders capturing not only the music -- but also the musicians' life stories. |
| The Adventures of Pinocchio | 1,972 | Luigi Comencini | Fantasy, Drama, Family, Comedy | 7.5 | 322 | Italian | Mastro Geppetto is a poor carpenter with no wife and no children. The man is very lonely, and after trading a piece of wood with his colleague Mastro Ciliegia, decides to build himself a puppet to keep him company. |
| My Blind Date with Life | 2,017 | Marc Rothemund | Comedy, Drama | 7.5 | 284 | German | An ambitious young man struggles to achieve his dream of becoming an employee in a Munich luxury hotel despite being strongly visually impaired. |
| Moonage Daydream | 2,022 | Brett Morgen | Documentary, Music | 7.5 | 255 | English | A cinematic odyssey featuring never-before-seen footage exploring David Bowie's creative and musical journey. |
| Pandora's Box | 1,929 | G.W. Pabst | Drama, Crime, Romance | 7.5 | 253 | German | The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her. |
| The Adventures of Prince Achmed | 1,926 | Lotte Reiniger | Animation, Adventure, Fantasy, Romance | 7.5 | 228 | German | Taken from The Arabian Nights, a wicked sorcerer and the beautiful prince Achmed battle one against the other during a series of wondrous adventures. |
| Bang, Boom, Bang | 1,999 | Peter Thorwarth | Crime, Action, Comedy | 7.5 | 223 | German | Bank robber Kalle Grabowski escapes from prison while his unemployed smalltime crook buddy is sitting around doing nothing after he just lost all their money. A fast paced comedy from German director Peter Thorwarth. |
| The Present | 2,014 | Jacob Frey | Animation, Comedy | 7.5 | 197 | English | The short tells the story of a boy who rather spends his time indoors playing videogames instead of discovering whats waiting in front of the door. One day his Mum decides to get a little surprise for her son, which makes it hard for him to concentrate on his video game. |
| The Bridge | 1,959 | Bernhard Wicki | Drama, History, War | 7.5 | 186 | German | A group of German boys are ordered to protect a small bridge in their home village during the waning months of the second world war. Truckloads of defeated, cynical Wehrmacht soldiers flee the approaching American troops, but the boys, full of enthusiasm for the "blood and honor" Nazi ideology, stay to defend the useless bridge. The film is based on a West German anti-war novel of the same name, written by Gregor Dorfmeister. |
| Collective | 2,019 | Alexander Nanau | Documentary | 7.5 | 181 | Romanian | In the aftermath of a tragic fire in a Romanian club, burn victims begin dying in hospitals from wounds that were not life threatening. A team of investigative journalists move into action uncovering the mass corruption of the health system and of the state institutions. Collective follows journalists, whistle blowers, and authorities alike. An immersive and uncompromising look into a dysfunctional system, exposing corruption, propaganda, and manipulation that nowadays affect not only Romania, but societies around the world. |
| Shooting Dogs | 2,006 | Michael Caton-Jones | Drama, History | 7.5 | 159 | English | Two westerners, a priest and a teacher find themselves in the middle of the Rwandan genocide and face a moral dilemna. Do they place themselves in danger and protect the refugees, or escape the country with their lives? Based on a true story. |
| There Is No Evil | 2,020 | Mohammad Rasoulof | Drama | 7.5 | 154 | Persian | Set against the backdrop of Iran's strict and oppressive legal system, this anthology film tells the stories of four men who each face a moral crisis when having to deal with death penalties. |
| Shiny_Flakes: The Teenage Drug Lord | 2,021 | Eva Müller | Documentary, Crime | 7.5 | 147 | German | Max S. reveals how he built a drug empire from his childhood bedroom in this story that inspired the series "How to Sell Drugs Online." |
| Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem | 2,014 | Ronit Elkabetz | Drama | 7.5 | 142 | Hebrew | The trial story of Viviane Amsalem's five year fight to obtain her divorce in front of the only legal authority competent for divorce cases in Israel, the Rabbinical Court. |
| Balance | 1,989 | Christoph Lauenstein | Drama, Animation | 7.5 | 139 | German | The setting is on a floating platform where a group of evenly and carefully placed men live. Each man is aware that the platform is not stable and in order not to fall to their deaths, they maintain a careful balance of weight to prevent the platform from tipping too far and cause them all to fall. |
| Decalogue VII | 1,989 | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Drama, TV Movie | 7.5 | 137 | Polish | As a high school student, Majka bore a child, Ania, whom Majka’s mother, Ewa, has been raising as her own. Now that Majka is ready for motherhood, Ewa refuses to let go, leading Majka to kidnap her own daughter, with unexpected emotional consequences. |
| Samsara | 2,002 | Pan Nalin | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 7.5 | 131 | BO | A love story situated in the Himalayas. A Buddhist monk can't choose between life and the way of the Buddha. |
| Decalogue IX | 1,989 | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Drama, TV Movie, Romance | 7.5 | 129 | Polish | Roman and Hanka have a loving marriage, but his impotence has led to her having an affair. The unbearable situation drives Roman to extreme measures both physically and mentally, testing their love and his own will to live. |
| Berlin: Symphony of a Great City | 1,927 | Walter Ruttmann | Documentary | 7.5 | 125 | German | A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions at that time. Germany had just recovered a little from the worst consequences of the First World War, the great economic crisis was still a few years away and Hitler was not yet an issue at the time. |
| The Most Beautiful Girl in the World | 2,018 | Aron Lehmann | Comedy, Romance, Drama, Music | 7.5 | 120 | German | 17-year-old Cyril is funny, smart and an all-round good guy. Just his somewhat overlarge nose spoils the picture. On a school trip to Berlin with Roxy, a stunning new classmate, Cyril is not the only one taken with her. Benno, the class Casanova has his eye on the girl too and makes a nasty wager. Roxy is more interested in the introverted Rick, who is not only shy but also slow. Cyril hastens with his spoken word skills to Rick's aid, and falls head over heels in love with Roxy himself. So whose brave heart will win the fair lady? |
| Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge | 1,924 | Fritz Lang | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy | 7.5 | 118 | German | When Kriemhild, thirsty for revenge, marries to Etzel, king of the Huns, she invites King Gunther and his court to visit them, intending to finally take the life of the man responsible of her disgrace. |
| The Four Times | 2,010 | Michelangelo Frammartino | Drama | 7.5 | 117 | Italian | An old shepherd lives his last days in a quiet medieval village perched high on the hills of Calabria, at the southernmost tip of Italy. He herds goats under skies that most villagers have deserted long ago. He is sick, and believes to find his medicine in the dust he collects on the church floor, which he drinks in his water every day. |
| Little Dieter Needs to Fly | 1,997 | Werner Herzog | Documentary | 7.5 | 94 | English | Three decades after German-American pilot Dieter Dengler was shot down over Laos, he returns to the places where he was held prisoner during the early years of the Vietnam War. Accompanied by director Werner Herzog, Dengler describes in unusually candid detail his captivity, the friendships he made, and his daring escape. Not willing to stop there, Herzog even persuades his subject to re-enact certain tortures, with the help of some willing local villagers. |
| The Wildcat | 1,921 | Ernst Lubitsch | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.5 | 46 | German | A charismatic lieutenant newly assigned to a remote fort is captured by a group of mountain bandits, thus setting in motion a madcap farce that is Lubitsch at his most unrestrained. A wonderfully anarchic and playfully subversive satire of military life from one of the great comedy filmmakers. |
| Sivas | 2,014 | Kaan Müjdeci | Drama | 7.5 | 44 | Turkish | Establishing a bleak village in Eastern Turkey as its setting, Sivas features the story of Aslan, an eleven-year-old boy, and Sivas, a weathered fighting dog who develop a strong relationship after Aslan finds Sivas wounded in a ditch, left to die. |
| The Verdict | 2,016 | Lars Kraume | TV Movie | 7.5 | 35 | German | A hijacker threatens to bring down a passenger plane to a crowded football stadium. Fighter pilot Lars Koch decides to shoot down the machine. The court of Berlin should decide whether Lars Koch is a hero or a murderer. The viewers become jurors, and their decision determines the outcome of the film. |
| Rocca Changes the World | 2,019 | Katja Benrath | Family, Comedy | 7.5 | 33 | German | 11-year-old Rocca, a clever, creative and brave girl who lives all by herself in defiance of her teachers and the authorities has to fight to keep her independence and prove to everyone that a child also has the power to change the world. |
| Tripping with Nils Frahm | 2,020 | Benoit Toulemonde | Music, Documentary | 7.5 | 29 | English | An illustration of Nils Frahm’s lauded ability as a composer and passionate live artist as well as the enchanting atmosphere of his already legendary Funkhaus shows. |
| My Blood and Bones in a Flowing Galaxy | 2,021 | SABU | Drama, Fantasy, Romance | 7.5 | 20 | Japanese | Kiyosumi's affection for his schoolmate Hari grows after he saves her from bullying, but a dark secret she's unwilling to share threatens their bond. |
| The Last Fine Day | 2,011 | Johannes Fabrick | Drama, TV Movie | 7.5 | 18 | German | The phone call from Sybille was usual. Her family didn't even know that this call just started their last fine day... |
| Blood in the Mobile | 2,010 | Frank Piasechi Poulsen | Documentary | 7.5 | 18 | English | The production of phones has a dark, bloody side. The main part of minerals used to produce phones is coming from the mines in the Eastern DR Congo. The Western World is buying these so-called conflict minerals and thereby finances a civil war that, according to human rights organisations, has been the bloodiest conflict since World War II: During the last 15 years the conflict has cost the lives of more than 5 million people and 300,000 women have been raped. The war will continue as long as armed groups can finance their warfare by selling minerals. The Documentary Blood in the Mobile shows the connection between our phones and the civil war in the Congo. Director Frank Poulsen travels to DR Congo to see the illegal mine industry with his own eyes. He gets access to Congo s largest tin-mine, which is being controlled by different armed groups, and where children work for days in narrow mine tunnels to dig out the minerals that end up in our phones. |
| The Periwig-Maker | 1,999 | Steffen Schäffler | Animation, Drama | 7.5 | 15 | German | Europe; the plague years. A wigmaker, locked in his shop, observes the events and writes about them in his journal. Mostly, we see shrouded bodies, and a young girl who lives in the tavern across the way that gets progressively sicker. |
| Unschuldig | 2,018 | Nicolai Rohde | Drama, Crime | 7.5 | 14 | German | A condemned man comes out of prison and does his utmost to find the true murderer of his wife in order to get his children back. This is the starting point for the touching crime drama "Innocent" with crime scene commissar Felix Klare in the lead role. He plays with great intensity the family man who wants to bring the truth to light on his own. For relatives, witnesses and even the police, this could be a problem. Between the fronts, Britta Hammelstein becomes an indomitable commissioner, exposing a fatal network of false statements and investigation errors. |
| The Flying Train | 1,902 | Unknown | Documentary | 7.5 | 14 | German | The Flying Train depicts a ride on a suspended railway. The footage is almost as impressive as the feat of engineering it captures. For many years our curators believed our Mutoscope rolls were slightly shrunken 70mm film, but they were actually shot on Biograph’s proprietary 68mm stock. Formats like Biograph’s 68mm and Fox’s 70mm Grandeur are of particular interest to researchers visiting the Film Study Center because the large image area affords stunning visual clarity and quality, especially compared to the more standard 35mm or 16mm stocks. |
| Borga | 2,021 | York-Fabian Raabe | Drama | 7.5 | 12 | German | "Borga" is Better. A Borga is a Ghanaian abroad living an excessive wealthy lifestyle. At least that's what they want everyone to believe. |
| Too Macabre: The Making of Elvira, Mistress of the Dark | 2,018 | Unknown | Documentary | 7.5 | 12 | English | The story of Elvira's rise to pop culture royalty. |
| The End of Meat | 2,017 | Marc Pierschel | Documentary | 7.5 | 12 | German | Although evidence of meat consumption's negative impact on the planet and on human health continue stacking up as animal welfare is on the decline, humanity's love affair with hamburgers, steaks, nuggets and chops just doesn't end. In The End of Meat, filmmaker Marc Pierschel embarks on a journey to discover what effect a post-meat world would have on the environment, the animals and ourselves. He meets Esther the Wonder Pig, who became an internet phenomenon; talks to pioneers leading the vegan movement in Germany; visits the first fully vegetarian city in India; witnesses rescued farm animals enjoying their newly found freedom; observes the future food innovators making meat and dairy without the animals, even harvesting "bacon" from the ocean and much more. The End of Meat reveals the hidden impact of meat consumption; explores the opportunities and benefits of a shift to a more compassionate diet; and raises critical questions about the future role of animals in our society. |
| Taste the Waste | 2,011 | Valentin Thurn | Documentary | 7.5 | 12 | German | Documentary about how much food goes to waste in our society and why. |
| Gold | 1,934 | Karl Hartl | Crime, Science Fiction | 7.5 | 12 | German | Using an atomic reactor, two scientists try to create gold. |
| Kaya Yanar - Planet Deutschland | 2,018 | Kaya Yanar | Comedy, Family | 7.5 | 11 | German | |
| Die fidelen Detektive | 1,957 | Hermann Kugelstadt | Comedy | 7.5 | 11 | German | Two retired Bavarian traffic police officers and a Berlin detective work together to track down jewelry thieves. |
| Oskar, das Schlitzohr und Fanny Supergirl | 2,022 | Markus Herling | TV Movie, Comedy, Family | 7.5 | 10 | German | Grandpa Oskar takes neither the truth nor himself very seriously. The rascal has just been released from prison, where he was serving a sentence for imposture. Since the ex-con needs a place to stay, he quartered himself in the old construction trailer in the farthest corner of the garden of his daughter Tilda, who is still mad at him. The senior soon meets his autistic granddaughter Fanny, whose antics and peculiarities threaten to break the family under. In contrast to the old man, the 8-year-old takes the truth very seriously. In order to gain their trust, Oskar does not introduce himself to the comic-loving girl as the criminal grandpa, who has been missing for years, but as Professor Krypton. For Fanny, who prefers to wear a brightly colored superhero costume and is teased at school for it, the omniscient mentor from the Superman planet comes along just at the right time, because she has a dream: To win the talent competition at school! |
| The Congo Tribunal | 2,017 | Milo Rau | Documentary | 7.5 | 10 | German | The war in Congo has caused more than six million deaths over the last twenty years. The population is suffering, but the offenders stay with impunity. Many people see this conflict as one of globalisation's crucial econimic distribution battles because the country has major deposits of many high-tech raw materials. Milo Rau, one of Europe's most acclaimed theatre directors, succeeds in gathering victims, perpetrators, observes and analysts of the conflict for a unique civil tribunal in eastern Congo. The documentary film brings these spectacular court trials to life on the big screen and creates an unvarnished portrait of the largest and bloodiest economic wars in human history. |
| Conni & Co | 2,016 | Franziska Buch | Comedy, Adventure, Family | 7.5 | 10 | German | A young girl goes through the ups and downs of school-life. |
| The Little Polar Bear: Lars and the Little Tiger | 2,002 | Thilo Rothkirch | Family, Animation | 7.5 | 10 | German | Hans der Beer's beloved polar bear Lars returns for more adventures, with a new feline friend. |
| Nico Icon | 1,995 | Susanne Ofteringer | Documentary | 7.5 | 10 | English | A look into the many lives of Christa Päffgen, otherwise known as Nico; from cutie German mädchen to the first of the supermodels, to glamorous diva of the Velvet Underground, to cult item, junkie and hag. Many faces for the same woman, whom, you realize, just couldn't bring herself to care enough to live. |
| Perfume: The Story of a Murderer | 2,006 | Tom Tykwer | Crime, Fantasy, Drama | 7.4 | 4,900 | English | Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born in the stench of 18th century Paris, develops a superior olfactory sense, which he uses to create the world's finest perfumes. However, his work takes a dark turn as he tries to preserve scents in the search for the ultimate perfume. |
| The Life of David Gale | 2,003 | Alan Parker | Drama, Thriller, Crime | 7.4 | 2,146 | English | A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row. |
| The Unforgivable | 2,021 | Nora Fingscheidt | Drama, Crime | 7.4 | 1,981 | English | A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past. |
| The Experiment | 2,001 | Oliver Hirschbiegel | Drama, Thriller | 7.4 | 1,181 | German | 20 volunteers agree to take part in a seemingly well-paid experiment advertised by the university. It is supposed to be about aggressive behavior in an artificial prison situation. A journalist senses a story behind the ad and smuggles himself in among the test subjects. They are randomly divided into prisoners and guards. What seems like a game at the beginning soon turns into bloody seriousness. |
| 3096 Days | 2,013 | Sherry Hormann | Drama | 7.4 | 974 | German | A young Austrian girl is kidnapped and held in captivity for eight years. Based on the real-life case of Natascha Kampusch. |
| Cabaret | 1,972 | Bob Fosse | Music, Drama, Romance | 7.4 | 949 | English | Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound the clarion call to decadent fun, while outside a certain political party grows into a brutal force. |
| The Counterfeiters | 2,007 | Stefan Ruzowitzky | Drama, War | 7.4 | 673 | German | The story of Jewish counterfeiter Salomon Sorowitsch, who was coerced into assisting the Nazi operation of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp during World War II. |
| Peaceful Warrior | 2,006 | Victor Salva | Drama | 7.4 | 462 | English | A chance encounter with a stranger changes the life of a college gymnast. |
| The Collini Case | 2,019 | Marco Kreuzpaintner | Drama, Thriller | 7.4 | 427 | German | A young lawyer stumbles upon a vast conspiracy while investigating a brutal murder case. |
| The Marriage of Maria Braun | 1,979 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Drama | 7.4 | 293 | German | Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. She must rely on her beauty and ambition to navigate the difficult post-war years alone. |
| Pina | 2,011 | Wim Wenders | Documentary | 7.4 | 271 | German | Pina is a feature-length dance film in 3D with the ensemble of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, featuring the unique and inspiring art of the great German choreographer, who died in the summer of 2009. |
| The Silent Revolution | 2,018 | Lars Kraume | Drama, History | 7.4 | 255 | German | In 1956 Stalinstadt, East Germany, during the Hungarian uprising against Soviets is taking place, local teenagers perform a seemingly harmless act that causes unexpected consequences. |
| The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant | 1,972 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Drama, Romance | 7.4 | 230 | German | Petra von Kant is a successful fashion designer -- arrogant, caustic, and self-satisfied. She mistreats Marlene (her secretary, maid, and co-designer). Enter Karin, a 23-year-old beauty who wants to be a model. Petra falls in love with Karin and invites her to move in. |
| All About Me | 2,018 | Caroline Link | Drama, Comedy | 7.4 | 191 | German | Dramatised origin story of one of Germany's most beloved contemporary comedians, Hape Kerkeling. |
| Ludwig | 1,973 | Luchino Visconti | Drama, History | 7.4 | 177 | English | Historical evocation of Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from his crowning in 1864 until his death in 1886, as a romantic hero. Fan of Richard Wagner, betrayed by him, in love with his cousin Elisabeth of Austria, abandoned by her, tormented by his homosexuality, he will little by little slip towards madness. |
| Destiny | 1,921 | Fritz Lang | Drama, Fantasy | 7.4 | 168 | German | As a young couple stops and rests in a small village inn, the man is abducted by Death and is sequestered behind a huge doorless, windowless wall. The woman finds a mystic entrance and is met by Death, who tells her three separate stories set in exotic locales, all involving circumstances similar to hers. |
| Halo Legends | 2,010 | Hiroshi Yamazaki | Animation, War, Action, Science Fiction | 7.4 | 167 | English | The universe of the Halo video game series is expanded in seven short animated films from Japan's greatest anime directors and studios. |
| It Happened in Broad Daylight | 1,958 | Ladislao Vajda | Crime, Thriller | 7.4 | 144 | German | The search for a child murderer drags a once-respected detective into an all-consuming obsession. |
| Kings of the Road | 1,976 | Wim Wenders | Drama | 7.4 | 143 | German | Itinerant projection-equipment repairman Bruno Winter and depressed hitchhiker Robert Lander - a doctor who has just been through a break-up with his wife and a half-hearted suicide attempt - travel along the Western side of the East-German border in a repair truck, visiting worn-out movie theaters, learning to communicate across their differences. |
| Windstorm 3 | 2,017 | Katja von Garnier | Family, Adventure | 7.4 | 137 | German | Ostwind and Mika have found a real home at the farm Kaltenbach with Mika's grandmother. In the hustle of running therapy center and due to Mika's fame as a horse-whisperer, she feels that she doesn't have enough freedom and time to ride. After a serious disagreement with her grandmother, Mika secretly sets off for the night in eastern Andalusia, Spain, where she suspects Ostwind's roots are. |
| Wunderschön | 2,022 | Karoline Herfurth | Drama, Comedy, Romance | 7.4 | 121 | German | After two pregnancies, Sonja struggles with her body feeling and the relationship with her husband Milan. Frauke, shortly before her 60th birthday,... |
| The Windermere Children | 2,020 | Michael Samuels | Drama, War, History | 7.4 | 119 | English | The story of the pioneering project to rehabilitate child survivors of the Holocaust on the shores of Lake Windermere. |
| Dream Factory | 2,019 | Martin Schreier | Drama, Comedy, Romance | 7.4 | 92 | German | A romantic drama set in 1961 that follows a young studio extra's ambitious efforts to reunite with the French girl he loves after being separated by the construction of the Berlin Wall. |
| The Doll | 1,919 | Ernst Lubitsch | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance | 7.4 | 88 | German | The misadventures of an effete young man who must get married in order to inherit a fortune. He opts to purchase a remarkably lifelike doll and marry it instead, not realizing that the doll is actually the dollmaker’s flesh-and-blood daughter in disguise. |
| Hitler: A Career | 1,977 | Joachim Fest | Documentary, History | 7.4 | 83 | German | A keen chronicle of the unlikely rise to power of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and a dissection of the Third Reich (1933-1945), but also an analysis of mass psychology and how the desperate crowd can be deceived and shepherded to the slaughterhouse. |
| Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul | 2,005 | Fatih Akin | Documentary, Music | 7.4 | 77 | German | German musician Alexander Hacke explores Istanbul's rich music culture and attempts to create a portrait of Turkey through music genres. On this journey, he encounters a mosaic that covers countless genres from rock to arabesque, electronic to hip-hop. |
| Land of Silence and Darkness | 1,973 | Werner Herzog | Documentary | 7.4 | 71 | German | Through examining Fini Straubinger, an old woman who has been deaf and blind since her teens, and her work on behalf of other deaf-blind people, this film shows how the deaf-blind struggle to understand and accept a world from which they are almost wholly isolated. |
| Zing | 2,011 | Cynthia Collins | Animation, Fantasy | 7.4 | 66 | XX | Day in, day out, Mr. Grimm is busy with his job as the Reaper, harvesting people's lives. One day, his monotonous existence is interrupted by the door bell. It's a little girl. She wants her cat back. Little does she know that she's the next life on Mr. Grimm's list. |
| Retablo | 2,018 | Alvaro Delgado Aparicio | Drama | 7.4 | 58 | QU | Segundo sees silence as his only option for dealing with his father Noé’s secret. The 14-year-old lives with his parents in a village high up in the mountains. Noé is a respected artisan and Segundo’s role model. With loving eye for detail, he artfully crafts altarpieces for church and homes, and is preparing his son to follow in his footsteps. But cracks form in their tight bond. |
| Nowitzki: The Perfect Shot | 2,014 | Sebastian Dehnhardt | Documentary | 7.4 | 50 | German | This documentary chronicles the life story of the Dallas Mavericks' Dirk Nowitzki and his inspiring journey from Germany to superstardom in the NBA. |
| Ordinary Men: The "Forgotten Holocaust" | 2,022 | Manfred Oldenburg | Documentary, History | 7.4 | 41 | German | Six million Jews died during World War II, both in the extermination camps and murdered by the mobile commandos of the Einsatzgruppen and police battalions, whose members shot men, women and children, day after day, obediently, as if it were a normal job, a fact that is hardly known today. Who were these men and how could they commit such crimes? |
| Supa Modo | 2,018 | Likarion Wainaina | Drama | 7.4 | 35 | SW | Jo, a witty 9-year old terminally ill girl is taken back to her rural village to live out the rest of her short life. Her only comfort during these dull times are her dreams of being a superhero, which prove to be something her rebellious teenage sister Mwix, overprotective mother Kathryn and the entire village of Maweni think they can fulfill. |
| Distant Lights | 2,003 | Hans-Christian Schmid | Drama | 7.4 | 31 | German | Lichter is an episodic tale from Hans-Christian Schmid about the life on the border between Germany and Poland. The film sheds light on the everyday stories of escape and desperateness. |
| From Caligari to Hitler | 2,015 | Rüdiger Suchsland | Documentary, History | 7.4 | 27 | German | Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1919, when the Republic of Weimar is born, to 1933, when the Nazis come into power. (Followed by Hitler's Hollywood, 2017.) |
| No More Mr. Nice Guy | 1,993 | Detlev Buck | Comedy | 7.4 | 26 | German | The brothers Kipp and Most set off to inherit their grandmother's estate. Along the way, they meet Viktor, a deserted Russian soldier who kidnaps them, and Nadine, who joins them voluntarily. On their way to their inheritance, the protagonists get into some seemingly hopeless situations. |
| Long Story Short | 2,025 | David Dietl | Comedy, Drama | 7.4 | 23 | German | A group of close friends celebrate parties over an extended period of time. They experience a lot of fun together, but also tragic moments that prove that love and friendship are the most important gifts of all our lives. |
| U2: From the Sky Down | 2,011 | Davis Guggenheim | Documentary, Music | 7.4 | 21 | English | This documentary film is about the making of U2's Achtung Baby. In 2011, U2 returned to Hansa Studios in Berlin to discuss the making of Achtung Baby. This film is directed by Davis Guggenheim. Screened in the UK as part of the BBC's Imagine series, this film was the first ever documentary to open the prestigious Toronto International Film Festival. Included is bonus footage of "So Cruel," "Love is Blindness," and "The Fly" shot in May 2010 during the band's visit to Hansa Studios to mark the 20th anniversary of Achtung Baby. Also included is a Q&A with Bono, The Edge, and Davis Guggenheim filmed at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2011. |
| No Dogs Allowed | 2,024 | Steve Bache | Drama | 7.4 | 16 | German | Fifteen-year-old Gabo seems like a regular teenager who goes to school, plays video games with his best friend, and does other things a normal teenager would do – except he’s not. He has tendencies he knows to be wrong, but cannot control. He befriends Dave, a much older man with his fantasies. Lines soon start to blur between a trusting friendship and being groomed. Once Dave is arrested on suspicion of statutory rape, Gabo must suddenly decide whether to testify against his mentor with the risk of exposing his secret. |
| Kraftwerk: Minimum-Maximum | 2,005 | Florian Schneider | Music | 7.4 | 13 | German | Kraftwerk are one of the most influential bands in music history. Over the last two years, Ralf Hütter, Florian Schneider, Fritz Hilpert and Henning Schmitz have toured the world, performing approximately 90 live shows that were unlike anything seen before, prompting global headlines such as this from the London Evening Standard: Is This The Greatest Show London Has Ever Seen? Said performance at London's Royal Festival Hall was also included in Time Out's recent list of best shows ever witnessed in the Capital. |
| Tach, Herr Dokter! – Der Heinz-Becker-Film | 1,999 | Gernot Roll | Comedy | 7.4 | 13 | German | Next to the home of Heinz and Hilde Becker is the villa of the company boss Dr. Bernhard Schenkberg and his wife, who he called "Püppchen". While Schenkberg always politely strives for a good neighborly relationship, his elegant, arrogant wife looks down contemptuously on the grumpy, constantly do-it-yourself Heinz and the conservative, naive housewife Hilde. |
| The Parallel Street | 1,962 | Ferdinand Khittl | Drama | 7.4 | 12 | German | Feature-documentary "pointing up a thousand facets of this world and probing to determine what may lie beneath the surface". |
| Le Dernier Été | 1,997 | Claude Goretta | Drama, History | 7.4 | 10 | French | The story of Georges Mandel, an anti-Nazi French parliamentarian who refused to abdicate to the Vichy regime. |
| Death Is My Trade | 1,977 | Theodor Kotulla | War, Drama | 7.4 | 10 | German | A biography of Auschwitz commander Rudolf Höss. |
| Fracture | 2,007 | Gregory Hoblit | Thriller | 7.3 | 4,217 | English | A husband is on trial for the attempted murder of his wife, in what is seemingly an open/shut case for the ambitious district attorney trying to put him away. However, there are surprises for both around every corner, and, as a suspenseful game of cat-and-mouse is played out, each must manipulate and outwit the other. |
| Bicentennial Man | 1,999 | Chris Columbus | Science Fiction, Drama | 7.3 | 3,817 | English | Richard Martin buys a gift, a new NDR-114 robot. The product is named Andrew by the youngest of the family's children. "Bicentennial Man" follows the life and times of Andrew, a robot purchased as a household appliance programmed to perform menial tasks. As Andrew begins to experience emotions and creative thought, the Martin family soon discovers they don't have an ordinary robot. |
| Run Lola Run | 1,998 | Tom Tykwer | Action, Drama, Thriller | 7.3 | 2,498 | German | Lola receives a phone call from her boyfriend Manni. He lost 100,000 DM in a subway train that belongs to a very bad guy. She has 20 minutes to raise this amount and meet Manni. Otherwise, he will rob a store to get the money. Three different alternatives may happen depending on some minor event along Lola's run. |
| Colonia | 2,016 | Florian Gallenberger | Drama, History | 7.3 | 1,963 | German | A young woman's desperate search for her abducted boyfriend draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, a sect nobody ever escaped from. |
| Christiane F. | 1,981 | Uli Edel | Drama | 7.3 | 1,412 | German | This movie portrays the drug scene in Berlin in the 70s, following tape recordings of Christiane F. 14 years old Christiane lives with her mother and little sister in a typical multi-storey apartment building in Berlin. She's fascinated by the 'Sound', a new disco with most modern equipment. Although she's legally too young, she asks a friend to take her. There she meets Detlef, who's in a clique where everybody's on drugs. Step by step she gets drawn deeper into the scene. |
| The Physician | 2,013 | Philipp Stölzl | Adventure, Drama, History | 7.3 | 1,154 | English | England, 1021: Born in a miserable mining town, Robert Cole swears to become a physician and vanquish disease and death. His harsh path of many years, a quest for knowledge besieged by countless challenges and sacrifices, leads him to the remote Isfahan, in Persia, where he meets Ibn Sina, the greatest healer of his time. |
| Nosferatu the Vampyre | 1,979 | Werner Herzog | Drama, Horror | 7.3 | 1,055 | German | A real estate agent leaves behind his beautiful wife to go to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a property in Wismar. |
| Hair | 1,979 | Miloš Forman | Music, Drama, Comedy | 7.3 | 719 | English | Upon receiving his draft notice and leaving his family ranch in Oklahoma, Claude heads to New York and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his way to boot camp. |
| Stalingrad | 1,993 | Joseph Vilsmaier | Drama, History, War | 7.3 | 613 | German | A German Platoon is explored through the brutal fighting of the Battle of Stalingrad. After half of their number is wiped out and they're placed under the command of a sadistic captain, the platoon lieutenant leads his men to desert. The platoon members attempt escape from the city, now surrounded by the Soviet Army. |
| Blood and Black Lace | 1,964 | Mario Bava | Horror, Thriller, Mystery | 7.3 | 463 | Italian | Isabella, a young model, is murdered by a mysterious masked figure at a fashion house in Rome. When her diary, which details the house employees' many vices, disappears, the masked killer begins killing off all the models in and around the house to find it. |
| Schumacher | 2,021 | Hanns-Bruno Kammertöns | Documentary | 7.3 | 440 | German | Through exclusive interviews and archival footage, this documentary traces an intimate portrait of seven-time Formula 1 champion Michael Schumacher. |
| Head Full of Honey | 2,014 | Til Schweiger | Comedy, Drama | 7.3 | 366 | German | Before eleven years old Tilda's parents can put her beloved grandfather in an old people's home due to his progressing Alzheimer disease, she takes him on one last adventure that subliminally threatens to tear her family apart. |
| The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser | 1,974 | Werner Herzog | Drama, History | 7.3 | 362 | German | The film follows Kaspar Hauser, who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny cellar with only a toy horse to occupy his time, devoid of all human contact except for a man who wears a black overcoat and top hat who feeds him. |
| The Blue Angel | 1,930 | Josef von Sternberg | Drama | 7.3 | 357 | German | Prim professor Immanuel Rath finds some of his students ogling racy photos of cabaret performer Lola Lola and visits a local club, The Blue Angel, in an attempt to catch them there. Seeing Lola perform, the teacher is filled with lust, eventually resigning his position at the school to marry the young woman. However, his marriage to a coquette -- whose job is to entice men -- proves to be more difficult than Rath imagined. |
| This Crazy Heart | 2,017 | Marc Rothemund | Drama | 7.3 | 297 | German | When 30-ish rich kid Lenny has to take care of 15-year-old David, who’s suffering from heart disease, it’s the beginning of a wild adventure. Lenny fearlessly breaks all the rules to fulfill his young friend’s every wish. |
| Windstorm | 2,013 | Katja von Garnier | Adventure, Family | 7.3 | 295 | German | While spending the summer at her grandmother's farm, a girl discovers a talent for communicating with horses and tries to tame a fierce stallion. |
| Stroszek | 1,977 | Werner Herzog | Drama | 7.3 | 291 | German | Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expectations: with a glockenspiel and an accordion, he ekes out a living as a street musician. He befriends Eva, a prostitute down on her luck and they join his neighbor, Scheitz, an elderly eccentric, when he leaves Germany to live in Wisconsin. |
| I've Loved You So Long | 2,008 | Philippe Claudel | Drama | 7.3 | 231 | French | A woman struggles to interact with her family and find her place in society after spending fifteen years in prison. |
| The Damned | 1,969 | Luchino Visconti | Drama, History | 7.3 | 225 | Italian | In the early days of Nazi Germany, a powerful noble family must adjust to life under the new dictatorship regime. |
| Windstorm 2 | 2,015 | Katja von Garnier | Family, Adventure, Drama, Romance | 7.3 | 217 | German | Summer vacation. Mika is overjoyed to see Windstorm again. But then she discovers strange wounds on the belly of Windstorm, for which no one has an explanation. Yet this is Kaltenbach verge of bankruptcy! With a heavy heart Mika decides to participate in a variety tournament in which beckons a high prize money. But during training affects Windstorm distracted, often he runs away easily. Mika pursued the black stallion until deep into the forest and is quite surprised: From the thicket a seemingly magical gray mare appears and the two horses dance around lovingly. Suddenly, a strange boy named Milan appears, who says the mare had escaped him. He claimed that he could Help Mika to win the tournament. But is there still time to save Kaltenbach? |
| My Best Fiend | 1,999 | Werner Herzog | Documentary | 7.3 | 210 | German | A film that describes the love-hate relationship between Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski, the deep trust between the director and the actor, and their independently and simultaneously hatched plans to murder one another. |
| Decalogue II | 1,989 | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Drama, TV Movie | 7.3 | 191 | Polish | Dorota Geller, a married woman, faces a dilemma involving her sick husband's prognosis. Her husband's doctor, who believes in God, sweared about it in vain. |
| Dinner for One | 1,963 | Heinz Dunkhase | Comedy | 7.3 | 190 | English | A very old woman wants to have dinner with her friends. As they are all dead, the butler has to play the role of every guest. |
| 303 | 2,018 | Hans Weingartner | Romance, Drama, Comedy | 7.3 | 148 | German | Two university students gain insight into life and love as they get to know each other during a road trip across Europe. |
| Happy People: A Year in the Taiga | 2,010 | Werner Herzog | Documentary | 7.3 | 138 | English | In the center of the story is the life of the indigenous people of the village Bakhtia at the river Yenisei in the Siberian Taiga. The camera follows the protagonists in the village over a period of a year. The natives, whose daily routines have barely changed over the last centuries, keep living their lives according to their own cultural traditions. |
| Decalogue VIII | 1,989 | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Drama, TV Movie | 7.3 | 135 | Polish | Zofia, a professor of ethics, is visited by Elżbieta, an American researching the fate of Jews who survived World War II. A daytime classroom conversation turns into a night of confrontation, and Zofia is forced to answer for a decision she made decades ago that directly affected the course of Elżbieta’s life. |
| Naked Among Wolves | 2,015 | Philipp Kadelbach | History, Drama, War | 7.3 | 134 | German | Taking place at the Concentration camp Buchenwald at the end of March 1945, prisoner Hans Pippig discovers in a carrying case of an incoming prisoner a Jewish child. If reported the three-year-old is sure to die. On the other hand, a violation of the rules of the camp would threaten the long prepared uprising of the concentration camp prisoners against the SS. |
| Diary of a Lost Girl | 1,929 | G.W. Pabst | Drama | 7.3 | 120 | German | Thymian Henning, an innocent young girl, is raped by the clerk of her father's pharmacy. She becomes pregnant, is rejected by her family, and must fend for herself in a harsh, cruel world. |
| Cherry Blossoms | 2,008 | Doris Dörrie | Drama, Romance | 7.3 | 114 | German | After finding out that her husband, Rudi, has a fatal illness, Trudi Angermeier arranges a trip to Berlin so they can see their children. Of course... |
| From the Life of the Marionettes | 1,980 | Ingmar Bergman | Drama | 7.3 | 113 | German | An account of the events before and after a murder committed by a disturbed businessman in a strained marriage, and what led him to perform such a shocking act. |
| Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? | 1,970 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Drama | 7.3 | 90 | German | Technical draftsman Herr R. is a dependable guy. He gets along with his colleagues although his boss wants him to go beyond technical cleanliness to problem solving. He's a dutiful husband; his wife's a social climber and pressures him to seek a promotion, but they also share sweet moments. He's a caring father, helping his son with homework. His parents visit; his mother criticizes his wife. Old schoolmates drop by, as do neighbours. Some comment on his wife's expensive tastes. His promotion may be a long shot, especially after he gives a dull and tipsy toast at an office dinner. But why would Herr R. run amok? |
| Back on Track | 2,013 | Kilian Riedhof | Drama, Comedy | 7.3 | 89 | German | A former Olympic champion wants to compete in the Berlin Marathon one last time. |
| Spies | 1,928 | Fritz Lang | Thriller, Romance | 7.3 | 89 | German | The mastermind behind a ubiquitous spy operation learns of a dangerous romance between a Russian lady in his employ and a dashing agent from the government's secret service. |
| Mr. Long | 2,017 | SABU | Crime, Drama, Action | 7.3 | 87 | Japanese | Long is a Taiwanese killer known for his sword skills. After Long fails a Tokyo mission, he moves to a small town where no one knows about him. |
| Sanctuary | 2,015 | Marc Brummund | Drama | 7.3 | 87 | German | Summer 1968. 14-year-old Wolfgang is deported from his family in the secluded Church Welfare Institution sanctuary. One thing is clear for Wolfgang: His yearning for freedom, he will not soon buried in the bog. |
| A Regular Woman | 2,019 | Sherry Hormann | Drama | 7.3 | 79 | German | Hatun Aynur Sürücü, a German woman of Kurdish origin, was shot dead by her brothers at a bus stop in 2005. The story of a woman who fought for her freedom and independence despite her family's objections, and whose life ended in a horrific murder. |
| One Day in September | 1,999 | Kevin Macdonald | Documentary, History | 7.3 | 78 | English | The full story of the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and the Israeli revenge operation 'Wrath of God.' The 1972 Munich Olympics were interrupted by Palestinian terrorists taking Israeli athletes hostage. Besides footage taken at the time, we see interviews with the surviving terrorist, Jamal Al Gashey, and various officials detailing exactly how the police, lacking an anti-terrorist squad and turning down help from the Israelis, botched the operation. |
| La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe | 1,977 | Werner Herzog | Documentary | 7.3 | 58 | German | Werner Herzog takes a film crew to the island of Guadeloupe when he hears that the volcano on the island is going to erupt. Everyone has left, except for one old man who refuses to leave. |
| The Captain from Kopenick | 1,956 | Helmut Käutner | Comedy, Drama | 7.3 | 53 | German | A young shoemaker is arrested for stealing a small amount of money, and is jailed for fifteen years. Upon his release, he wants to get a permit to ... |
| Asphalt | 1,929 | Joe May | Drama | 7.3 | 48 | German | Starring Betty Amann in her most famous leading role, Joe May's Asphalt is a luxuriously produced German Expressionist classic where tragic liaisons and fatal encounters are shaped alongside the constant roar of Berlin traffic. |
| Riefenstahl | 2,024 | Andres Veiel | Documentary | 7.3 | 39 | German | Explores Leni Riefenstahl's artistic legacy and her complex ties to the Nazi regime, juxtaposing her self-portrayal with evidence suggesting awareness of the regime's atrocities. |
| My Fairy Troublemaker | 2,022 | Caroline Origer | Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy | 7.3 | 39 | German | Violetta (337), a curious and cheeky fairy, gets lost in the human world. To find her way back to the fairy world, she teams up with the human girl Maxie (12) and discovers her true destiny. |
| Open the Wall | 2,014 | Christian Schwochow | Drama, Comedy | 7.3 | 39 | German | A lighthearted look at the opening of the border crossing of Bornholmer Straße in Berlin from the point of view of the confused border guards. |
| Grand Prix of Europe | 2,025 | Waldemar Fast | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 7.3 | 38 | German | Edda, a young mouse and the daughter of fairground operator Erwin, dreams of becoming a race car driver. Ahead of the 50th anniversary of the European Grand Prix, Edda gets the opportunity to meet her idol, racing star Ed, and to help her father save his failing business. But to do so, she'll have to get behind the wheel herself. |
| Port of Freedom | 1,944 | Helmut Käutner | Drama, Romance | 7.3 | 30 | German | Singing sailor Hannes, who now entertains the crowd at St. Pauli's Hippodrome after years at sea, promises his dying brother that he will take care of his ex-girlfriend Gisa. Taking Gisa to Hamburg to live with him, Hannes quickly falls in love with her, but soon has to face Gisa's affection for another man, Willem. |
| Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words | 2,016 | Thorsten Schütte | Music, Documentary | 7.3 | 26 | English | Utilizing potent TV interviews and many forgotten performances from his 30-year career, we are immersed into Frank Zappa’s world while experiencing two distinct facets of his complex character. At once Zappa was both a charismatic composer who reveled in the joy of performing and, in the next moment, a fiercely intelligent and brutally honest interviewee whose convictions only got stronger as his career ascended. |
| As Green As It Gets | 2,018 | Florian Gallenberger | Comedy, Drama | 7.3 | 25 | German | Georg "Schorsch" Kempter is a gardener in a small Bavarian town, working day-in, day-out in his nursery, which is facing bankruptcy. He doesn't like to talk much. He never has. His marriage has long lost all its magic and on top of that, he has trouble to connect with his daughter. Only when he is flying in his own rickety biplane, Schorsch feels truly free. When the owner of the local golf course tries to cheat Schorsch for his money, claiming the shade of green of the grass Schorsch has planted on the golf course is not right, insolvency seems unavoidable. So just when his airplane is about to be impounded, Schorsch grabs the control stick and flies away in an attempt to save his plane and himself. He embarks onto a journey into the unknown, to places he has never seen before, full of odd and special encounters - and with every take-off and every landing, this tough man's heart slowly warms up to what you might call an idea of happiness. |
| Biking Borders | 2,021 | Max Jabs | Documentary | 7.3 | 23 | German | Best friends Max and Nono bike from Berlin to Beijing, collecting donations to build a school for a unique fundraising adventure in this documentary. |
| Plot 35 | 2,017 | Éric Caravaca | Documentary | 7.3 | 22 | French | Plot 35 is a place that was never mentioned in my family; it is where my elder sister, who died aged three, is buried. The sister about whom I was told nothing, or nearly nothing, and of whom my parents had oddly never kept a single photograph. It was to make up for the missing images that I decided to make this film. Thinking that I would simply chronicle a forgotten life, in fact I opened up the hidden door to a past that I was unaware of, to the subconscious memory that lies inside each of us and who makes us what we are. |
| The Terrible People | 1,960 | Harald Reinl | Crime, Thriller | 7.3 | 21 | German | The ghost of a hanged man returns to fulfill his promise. All of his accusers must die! |
| The Unheard Woman | 2,016 | Hans Steinbichler | TV Movie, Drama, History | 7.3 | 18 | German | What if nobody wants to believe you? Hanni, a farmer's wife and mother of three, is worried about her daughter Magdalena. The girl is smaller than the others, more sensitive, vomits more often and has increasingly poor eyesight. The doctors, the teacher and the family all say it must be her psyche. Glasses with normal lenses will certainly help. But as a mother, Hanni senses that a new pair of glasses won't change anything and that there is more at stake. Even plagued by an unheard-of memory from her youth, she begins to fight unwaveringly and unstoppably for her daughter's suffering, not only putting her family's happiness and her livelihood at risk, but also not shying away from the Bavarian justice system in the end. |
| Faust | 1,960 | Peter Gorski | Drama, Fantasy | 7.3 | 16 | German | In 1957 Gustaf Gründgens staged a new production of Goethe's Faust in which he once again played Mephisto, a part he had played since 1932. The brilliant production was a huge success and ran for a couple of years. In 1959 Peter Gorski captured the performance on film in his directorial film debut. Basically it is a registration of the production, but Gorksi did manage to accentuate the details of the acting by using enough medium and close-up shots which give a view on the acting you normally would not able to see in a theater. |
| Fly Rocket Fly | 2,018 | Oliver Schwehm | Documentary | 7.3 | 14 | German | A long time ago, years before Elon Musk reached for the stars with his Space X project, a young man had his own childhood dream about a journey into space. This documentary tells the fantastic story of German astrophysicist Lutz Kayser who developed the world's first private space company. He did this under the curious and concerned eyes of secret services around the world. |
| Because We Are Champions | 2,022 | Christoph Schnee | Comedy | 7.3 | 12 | German | Things are not going well for basketball coach Andreas: He gets fired, his wife leaves him, and then he is caught driving under the influence. The consequence? Community hours. From now on, Andreas will coach a basketball team of players with mental disabilities. |
| Peter in Magicland | 1,990 | Wolfgang Urchs | Animation, Family | 7.3 | 12 | German | After Sumsemann the beetle loses one of his arms to a troll, he invites brother and sister Peterchen and Annaliese to join him on a journey to the moon in a quest to retrieve his lost arm. |
| Filming Othello | 1,979 | Orson Welles | Documentary, TV Movie | 7.3 | 12 | English | Filming Othello is a 1978 documentary film directed by and starring Orson Welles about the making of his award-winning 1952 production Othello. The film, which was produced for West German television, was the last completed feature film directed by Welles. |
| Intolerance III: The Final Solution | 2,007 | Phil Mulloy | Animation, Comedy, Drama, Science Fiction | 7.3 | 11 | English | Two thousand years into the future, the battlefleet from Earth is still searching for the Planet Zog. Those on board are irreconcilably divided between those that believe the Planet Zog exists, and those that don't. Caught between these warring factions Ade and Eva Hokum are determined to find happiness with each other. Will the Planet Zog be a paradise for them? |
| Oeconomia | 2,020 | Carmen Losmann | Documentary | 7.3 | 10 | German | What is money? What are debts? What are the consequences of both? And how can images be found for them? In Oeconomia, Carmen Losmann undertakes a journey in the strategic heartlands of neoliberal policy. |
| Conni & Co 2 - Das Geheimnis des T-Rex | 2,017 | Til Schweiger | Adventure, Comedy, Family | 7.3 | 10 | German | Teenager Connie and her friends try to save an island full of nature and place of their encounters from being destroyed by the construction of a hotel there. |
| Black Roots | 1,970 | Lionel Rogosin | Documentary | 7.3 | 10 | English | Black Roots is the fourth feature-length film produced and directed by American independent filmmaker Lionel Rogosin. The film gathers a number of African American folk and blues musicians in a room, where they share stories and songs about the black experience in America. |
| The Aviator | 2,004 | Martin Scorsese | Drama | 7.2 | 5,721 | English | A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessive-compulsive disorder. |
| The NeverEnding Story | 1,984 | Wolfgang Petersen | Adventure, Fantasy, Family, Drama | 7.2 | 4,291 | German | While hiding from bullies in his school's attic, a young boy discovers the extraordinary land of Fantasia, through a magical book called The Neverending Story. The book tells the tale of Atreyu, a young warrior who, with the help of a luck dragon named Falkor, must save Fantasia from the destruction of The Nothing. |
| The Patriot | 2,000 | Roland Emmerich | Drama, History, War, Action | 7.2 | 4,214 | English | After proving himself on the field of battle in the French and Indian War, Benjamin Martin wants nothing more to do with such things, preferring the simple life of a farmer. But when his son Gabriel enlists in the army to defend their new nation, America, against the British, Benjamin reluctantly returns to his old life to protect his son. |
| A History of Violence | 2,005 | David Cronenberg | Drama, Thriller, Crime | 7.2 | 3,607 | English | An average family is thrust into the spotlight after the father commits a seemingly self-defense murder at his diner. |
| K-PAX | 2,001 | Iain Softley | Science Fiction, Drama, Mystery | 7.2 | 2,664 | English | Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations. |
| Headhunters | 2,011 | Morten Tyldum | Thriller, Crime, Action | 7.2 | 1,328 | Norwegian | An accomplished headhunter risks everything to obtain a valuable painting owned by a former mercenary. |
| 2046 | 2,004 | Wong Kar-Wai | Drama, Science Fiction, Romance | 7.2 | 1,042 | Chinese | Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years after the author loses the woman he considers his one true love. |
| A Hidden Life | 2,019 | Terrence Malick | History, Drama, War | 7.2 | 765 | English | Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis during World War II. |
| The Teachers' Lounge | 2,023 | İlker Çatak | Drama | 7.2 | 670 | German | When one of her students is suspected of theft, teacher Carla Nowak decides to get to the bottom of the matter. Caught between her ideals and the school system, the consequences of her actions threaten to break her. |
| Les Misérables | 1,998 | Bille August | Crime, Drama, History, Romance | 7.2 | 670 | English | In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France. |
| Labyrinth of Lies | 2,014 | Giulio Ricciarelli | Drama, History | 7.2 | 595 | German | A young prosecutor in postwar West Germany investigates a massive conspiracy to cover up the Nazi pasts of prominent public figures. |
| Smoke | 1,995 | Wayne Wang | Comedy, Drama | 7.2 | 518 | English | Writer Paul Benjamin is nearly hit by a bus when he leaves Auggie Wren's smoke shop. Stranger Rashid Cole saves his life, and soon middle-aged Paul tells homeless Rashid that he wouldn't mind a short-term housemate. Still grieving over his wife's murder, Paul is moved by both Rashid's quest to reconnect with his father and Auggie's discovery that a woman who might be his daughter is about to give birth. |
| Wadjda | 2,012 | Haifaa al-Mansour | Drama | 7.2 | 504 | Arabic | An enterprising Saudi girl signs on for her school's Quran recitation competition as a way to raise the remaining funds she needs in order to buy the green bicycle that has captured her interest. |
| Russian Ark | 2,002 | Aleksandr Sokurov | Drama, Fantasy, History | 7.2 | 498 | Russian | A ghost and a French marquis wander through the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, encountering scenes from many different periods of its history. |
| The Captain | 2,018 | Robert Schwentke | War, Drama, History | 7.2 | 483 | German | Germany, 1945. Soldier Willi Herold, a deserter of the German army, stumbles into a uniform of Nazi captain abandoned during the last and desperate weeks of the Third Reich. Newly emboldened by the allure of a suit that he has stolen only to stay warm, Willi discovers that many Germans will follow the leader, whoever he is. |
| Bagdad Cafe | 1,987 | Percy Adlon | Comedy, Drama | 7.2 | 430 | German | A German woman named Jasmin stumbles upon a dilapidated motel/diner in the middle of nowhere. Her unusual appearance and demeanor are at first suspicious to Brenda, the exasperated owner who has difficulty making ends meet. But when an unlikely magic sparks between the two women, this lonely desert outpost is transformed into a thriving and popular oasis. |
| Heidi | 2,015 | Alain Gsponer | Adventure, Family, Drama | 7.2 | 426 | German | Heidi, is an eight-year-old Swiss orphan who is given by her aunt to her mountain-dwelling grandfather. She is then stolen back by her aunt from her grandfather to live in the wealthy Sesemann household in Frankfurt, Germany as a companion to Klara, a sheltered, disabled girl in a wheelchair. Heidi is unhappy but makes the best of the situation, always longing for her grandfather. |
| Barbara | 2,012 | Christian Petzold | Drama | 7.2 | 352 | German | In 1980s East Germany, Barbara is a Berlin doctor banished to a country medical clinic for applying for an exit visa. Deeply unhappy with her reassignment and fearful of her co-workers as possible Stasi informants, Barbara stays aloof, especially from the good natured clinic head, Andre. |
| A Coffee in Berlin | 2,012 | Jan Ole Gerster | Drama, Comedy | 7.2 | 347 | German | Niko, a twenty-something college dropout, lives for the moment as he drifts through the streets of Berlin, curiously observing everyone around him and oblivious to his growing status as an outsider. Then on one fateful day, through a series of absurdly amusing encounters, everything changes. |
| The Edge of Heaven | 2,007 | Fatih Akin | Drama | 7.2 | 347 | German | The lives of six German-Turkish immigrants are drawn together by circumstance: An old man and a prostitute forging a partnership, a young scholar reconciling his past, two young women falling in love, and a mother putting the shattered pieces of her life back together. |
| In July | 2,000 | Fatih Akin | Adventure, Comedy, Romance | 7.2 | 231 | German | Daniel’s drab existence as a physics teacher takes an adventurous turn when he falls in love with a Turkish girl named Melek. He spontaneously decides to follow her to Instanbul by car. On the road across Europe, he picks up his free-spirited friend Juli, who is secretly in love with him. |
| Contra | 2,020 | Sönke Wortmann | Comedy, Drama | 7.2 | 195 | German | With his uncouth manner, Professor Pohl doesn’t enjoy the best reputation at the university where he works. To make matters worse, he makes a racist remark when student Naima arrives late for his lecture. Unfortunately for him, a video of his verbal outburst spreads like wildfire on the Internet, and the university’s president, Lambrecht, is called to deal with the incident. But Pohl is not dismissed. Instead, he is put to the task of helping Naima prepare for an important debating competition. The lecturer and the student could not be more different, yet they are thrown together to work as a team. |
| Run Boy Run | 2,014 | Pepe Danquart | Drama, War, History | 7.2 | 194 | German | A true story of Jurek, an eight-year-old boy, who escapes from the Warsaw ghetto, then manages to survive in the woods and working as a farmhand, disguising himself as a Polish orphan. |
| Rock My Heart | 2,017 | Hanno Olderdissen | Adventure, Drama, Family | 7.2 | 153 | German | 17-year-old Jana has a congenital heart defect. To defy fate, Jana seeks every challenge, plunges into every wild and dangerous adventure. Her parents does not like that and are even more in constant fear of their daughter. |
| Veronika Voss | 1,982 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Drama | 7.2 | 150 | German | In Munich 1955, German film star Veronika Voss becomes a drug addict at the mercy of corrupt Dr. Marianne Katz, who keeps her supplied with morphine. After meeting sports writer Robert Krohn, Veronika begins to dream of a return to stardom. As the couple's relationship escalates in intensity, Veronika begins seriously planning her return to the screen -- only to realize how debilitated she has become through her drug habit. |
| Fox and His Friends | 1,975 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Drama | 7.2 | 148 | German | Fox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and things that he has always wanted. He enters an abusive relationship with wealthy industrialist Eugen in an attempt to climb the social ladder. His desperation for love and affection soon spirals into tragedy. |
| The Punch Bowl | 1,944 | Helmut Weiss | Comedy, Family | 7.2 | 148 | German | Writer Johannes Pfeiffer who goes undercover as a student in a high school after his friends told him that he missed out on a great life experience since he was home schooled. |
| As Far As My Feet Will Carry Me | 2,001 | Hardy Martins | Drama, War | 7.2 | 144 | German | The German soldier Clemens Forel - determined to be reunited with his beloved family - makes a dramatic escape through bitter cold winters, desolate landscapes, and life threatening ventures from a Siberian labor camp after World War II. 8000 miles and three endless years of uncertainty later, he is finally about to reach his destination... An edge of your seat drama that celebrates the power of the human spirit and the force of will, while inspired and impowered by love. |
| Mephisto | 1,981 | István Szabó | Drama | 7.2 | 142 | German | A German stage actor finds unexpected success and mixed blessings in the popularity of his performance in a Faustian play as the Nazis take power in pre-WWII Germany. As his associates and friends flee or are ground under by the Nazi terror, the popularity of his character supercedes his own existence until he finds that his best performance is keeping up appearances for his Nazi patrons. |
| The Diary of Anne Frank | 2,016 | Hans Steinbichler | Drama | 7.2 | 133 | German | The story of Anne Frank, the Jewish girl who went into hiding with her family in Amsterdam and became a victim of the Holocaust. |
| The Crocodiles | 2,009 | Christian Ditter | Adventure, Family | 7.2 | 127 | German | Ten-year-old Hannes, growing up with his young, poor and single mother wants to join the coolest gang in the area, the Vorstadtkrokodile. When the ... |
| Woman in the Moon | 1,929 | Fritz Lang | Drama, Science Fiction, Romance | 7.2 | 112 | German | A scientist discovers that there's gold on the moon. He builds a rocket to fly there, but there's too much rivalry among the crew to have a successful expedition. |
| People on Sunday | 1,930 | Robert Siodmak | Drama | 7.2 | 111 | German | A semi-documentary experimental 1930 German silent film created by amateurs with a small budget. With authentic scenes of the metropolis city of Berlin, it's the first film from the later famous screenwriters/directors Billy Wilder and Fred Zinnemann. |
| Tartuffe | 1,926 | F. W. Murnau | Drama, Comedy | 7.2 | 74 | German | A young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière's play "Tartuffe" in order to expose the old man's hypocritical governess who covets the young man's inheritance. |
| Gundermann | 2,018 | Andreas Dresen | Drama | 7.2 | 73 | German | The real life story of East German singer and writer Gerhard Gundermann and his struggles with music, life as a coal miner and his dealings with the secret police (STASI) of the GDR. |
| Toyland | 2,007 | Jochen Alexander Freydank | Drama, War | 7.2 | 70 | German | On a winter morning, a mother goes to waken her son Heinrich; his bed is empty. She leaves her flat to find him. The neighbors' door, with a Star of David painted on it, is ajar, the furnishings in disarray, the family gone. She asks passersby, runs to the police then on to the rail yard. Flashbacks show that Heinrich and the neighbors' son Paul are six years old and best friends. Paul's family's deportation is expected soon; Heinrich's mother tells her son that they're going to Toyland. Heinrich wants to go with them, has a bag packed, and listens for their departure. His mother realizes he's joined them, and her resolve becomes more urgent. Will she arrive in time to save Heinrich? |
| Tour de Force | 2,014 | Christian Zübert | Drama, Comedy | 7.2 | 66 | German | Belgium, of all places. What's Belgium got besides chocolates and fries? No matter, this year it was Hannes' and Kiki's turn to choose the destination of their annual bike tour with their closest friends. They all looks forward to the adventure, after all they know that what counts the most is the time they spend together. It's only after the tour has begun that Hannes tells his friends that he's suffering from an incurable disease. The trip is to be his last. At first, the group is shocked and helpless, but after they hit the road again, they embark on a wild and one-of-a-kind adventure. Through Hannes, they realize how precious life is. Equipped with a list of things that still remain to do, and aware that nothing will be the same after this trip, they celebrate life as they never did before. |
| The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner | 1,974 | Werner Herzog | Documentary | 7.2 | 65 | German | A study of the psychology of a champion ski-flyer, whose full-time occupation is carpentry. |
| Bonnie and Bonnie | 2,019 | Ali Hakim | Drama, Romance | 7.2 | 60 | German | Shattering the patriarchal concept that a true crime duo requires a man, Bonnie and Bonnie showcases the development of true friendship between two strong and independent women, determined to make their mark on the world. |
| The Wounds | 1,998 | Srđan Dragojević | War, Drama, Comedy, Crime | 7.2 | 58 | Serbian | This film follows two Belgrade youths on their rise to gangster legends in a decaying society. |
| A Tale of Three Sisters | 2,019 | Emin Alper | Drama | 7.2 | 55 | Turkish | A stagnant and gloomy village in the 1980s. Reyhan, Nurhan, and Havva, three sisters were sent to town as 'besleme' (foster child and maid). Since they fail their foster parents for different reasons, they are sent back to their father's house in their poor village. Deprived of their dreams of a better life, they try to hold on to each other. |
| Wajib | 2,017 | Annemarie Jacir | Drama | 7.2 | 53 | Arabic | After years abroad in Italy, Shadi returns to his native Nazareth. But this is no spectacular homecoming. He's back somewhat begrudgingly to honour his "wajib" (or duty) to hand out invitations to his sister's wedding with his father. The simmering tension between the two — who are often stuck in a car, more often than not in traffic — builds, exposing the sometimes-comic chasms that exist between men who live in different worlds but share an unshakable bond. |
| Rocks | 2,003 | Chris Stenner | Animation, Comedy | 7.2 | 53 | German | The stone-people Hew and Kew have seen a lot in their everlasting lives on top of their mountain. Therefore they're only mildly amazed by the ongoi... |
| Eldorado: Everything the Nazis Hate | 2,023 | Benjamin Cantu | Documentary | 7.2 | 50 | German | A glittery nightclub in 1920s Berlin becomes a haven for the queer community in this documentary exploring the freedoms lost amid Hitler’s rise to power. |
| The Green Prince | 2,014 | Nadav Schirman | Documentary, Thriller | 7.2 | 44 | English | This real-life thriller tells the story of one of Israel’s prized intelligence sources, recruited to spy on his own people for more than a decade. Focusing on the complex relationship with his handler, The Green Prince is a gripping account of terror, betrayal, and unthinkable choices, along with a friendship that defies all boundaries. |
| The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes | 1,937 | Karl Hartl | Comedy, Crime | 7.2 | 44 | German | Two dubious characters disguise themselves as Holmes and Watson to gain attention and end up chasing counterfeiters and stolen stamps. |
| The Legend of Timm Thaler: or The Boy Who Sold His Laughter | 2,017 | Andreas Dresen | Family, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy | 7.2 | 35 | German | The devil tricks a little boy off his laughter in exchange for assured wins in all his bets. It depicts his journey after the deal with the devil, how he loses his soul bit by bit with each win. |
| Master of the Universe | 2,013 | Marc Bauder | Documentary | 7.2 | 32 | German | He was one of Germany's leading investment experts with an income of several million Euros per day. Now, he sits on one of the upper floors of an empty bank building in the middle of Frankfurt, overlooking a skyline of glass and steel. And talks. In an extended mix of a monologue and an in-depth interview, which is as frightening as it is fascinating, he shares his inside knowledge from a megalomaniac parallel world where illusions are the market's hardest currency. Marc Bauder's 'Master of the Universe' is based on meticulous research and provides us with geniune insight into the notoriously secretive and self-protective 'universe' of which our nameless protagonist experiences himself a master. Where other films on the financial meltdown have focused on the epic nature of larger-than-life business, Bauder probes the mentality that made it possible in the first place. A tense drama where psychology meets finance - two things that are more closely linked than you would like to believe. |
| Single Bells | 1,997 | Xaver Schwarzenberger | Comedy, TV Movie | 7.2 | 30 | German | Kati, successful advertising manager, dreams of a family with Jonas, who has been her boyfriend since eight years. As he doesn't like the plan at a... |
| Digger | 2,021 | Georgis Grigorakis | Drama | 7.2 | 27 | Greek | When Jonny visits his father Nikitas in his cabin in the woods after 20 years, the hermit ignores him. But to prevent the muddy ground from being p... |
| I Only Want You to Love Me | 1,976 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Drama, TV Movie | 7.2 | 27 | German | Peter grew up during the economic miracle, bereft of parental care and love. Learning early on that interpersonal relationships are based on the pr... |
| When Darkness Falls | 2,006 | Anders Nilsson | Thriller, Drama | 7.2 | 26 | Swedish | A gripping and intense thriller about honour, loyalty, and the courage to fight for what you believe. |
| Under the Bridges | 1,946 | Helmut Käutner | Romance, Drama, Comedy | 7.2 | 22 | German | Two barge skippers fall in love with the same woman. |
| The Love of Jeanne Ney | 1,927 | G.W. Pabst | Drama | 7.2 | 22 | German | In the Crimea, the Reds and the Whites aren't done fighting, and Jeanne discovers that the man she loves is a Bolshevik (when he kills her father). Penniless, she returns to Paris where she works for her uncle. Soon after, her lover Andreas is in France to organize the sailors in Toulon. So also is a thief, traitor, and libertine, Khalibiev, who wants to seduce Jeanne. His schemes, Jeanne and Andreas's naivete, and a lost diamond bring the lovers to the brink of tragedy. |
| Winter Nomads | 2,012 | Manuel von Stürler | Documentary, History | 7.2 | 20 | French | Pascal, 53, and Carole, 28, are shepherds. In the month of November 2010, they embark on their long winter transhumance: four months during which they will have to cover 600 km in the Swiss-French region, accompanied by three donkeys, four dogs and eight hundred sheep. An exceptional adventure is about to begin: they brave the cold and the bad weather day in day out, with a canvas cover and animal skins as their only shelter at night. This saga reveals a tough and exacting profession, requiring constant improvisation and unflinching attention to nature, the animals and the cosmos. An eventful journey with surprise encounters, moving reunions with farmer friends, nostalgic figures of country life that is shrinking away fast. Αn adventure film, a contemporary road movie, a reflection of our current world, which takes us back to our roots and our inner questions. |
| Hello I Am David! | 2,015 | Cosima Lange | Music, Documentary | 7.2 | 19 | English | David Helfgott says what he thinks, plays what he feels and touches in the truest sense of the word. The Oscar winning film SHINE was inspired by his life story and brought him world fame. In 1970 the Australian child prodigy pianist suffered a nervous breakdown. He spent 11 years in mental institutions. In HELLO I AM DAVID we embark on a journey to discover not only the concert pianist, but also experience his unique view on our world: a world of love, wonder and wisdom. |
| The Green Planet | 2,012 | Jan Haft | Documentary | 7.2 | 19 | German | It covers thirty percent of the Earth's land mass and yet, most of us barely scratch the surface. Now, discover what few people have seen, as The Green Planet follows the stories of forest inhabitants, from graceful red deer to cunning foxes and impressive wild boar. With cutting edge technology, we also explore some of the more bizarre and wonderful forest dwellers: the purple emperor, liverworts, stag beetles and corydalis. See flowers bloom and blades of grass cut through the snow. Spend time in a foxes den with her new born cubs and follow tiny insects and creatures with microscopic detail. Be a part of a journey that takes you through the seasons and be prepared to be amazed by the natural wonder of creation, destruction and rebirth in this incomparable landscape. |
| Nuggets | 2,014 | Andreas Hykade | Animation | 7.2 | 18 | XX | A 5 minute animation on the nature of addiction. |
| Befriending the Grouch | 2,019 | Marco Petry | Comedy, TV Movie | 7.2 | 17 | German | Olav Hintz, a retired teacher who loves only himself, needs care as he sits in a wheelchair. The nurse, the single parent Trixi has several jobs to complete and gives the care to her 3 children. Chaos is on. |
| Putin's Bears - The Most Dangerous Hackers in the World | 2,024 | David | Documentary, TV Movie | 7.2 | 16 | German | They call themselves Fancy Bear, Cozy Bear or Voodoo Bear. Elite units of the Russian secret services are hidden behind these code names. They are among the most dangerous hackers in the world. The bears were already in the computer of then-Chancellor Angela Merkel in 2015, interfered in the US election campaign in 2016 and are currently influencing the war in Ukraine. The makers of the successful YouTube channel “Simplicissimus” in co-production with funk and SWR are back and show the destructive potential of state hacking with this documentary. With the help of leading German hackers, cyberspace experts and a lot of humor, they delicately demystify the Russian bears: Who are the people behind them? How do they operate? And what makes them so incredibly dangerous? |
| System Error | 2,018 | Florian Opitz | Documentary | 7.2 | 16 | German | Melting glaciers, gullied seas, the financial markets are about to collapse. Spectacular images of how growth continues to be blinding. Outside you can hardly see anything because of the smog and the smoke screen. |
| 08/15 | 1,954 | Paul May | War, Drama | 7.2 | 16 | German | Life in the barracks, drill, harassment, and private Asch′s pranks are the ingredients of Hans Hellmut Kirst′s successful novel "08/15" (the number of an Army regulation). Shortly before the outbreak of World War II: Private Asch and gunner Vierbein belong to the same unit but could not be more contrary. The instructors use every opportunity to bully the clumsy Vierbein with erratic corporal Platzek leading the way. The harassment starts with minor extra duties but soon the methods become more and more brutal. Finally, Asch comes to Vierbein′s help and takes on his superiors. Joachim Fuchsberger stars in his first major role. |
| The Echo | 2,024 | Tatiana Huezo | Documentary | 7.2 | 15 | Spanish | In the remote village of El Echo that exists outside of time, the children care for the sheep and their elders. While the frost and drought punish the land, they learn to understand death, illness and love with each act, word and silence of their parents. A story about the echo of what clings to the soul, about the certainty of shelter provided by those around us, about rebellion and vertigo in the face of life. About growing up. |
| The Devious Path | 1,928 | G.W. Pabst | Drama | 7.2 | 15 | German | Neglected by her husband, an ambitious lawyer, Irene seeks variety in Berlin's nightlife-- An evening of dancing, dolls, cocaine and immoral passion. Irene takes the "devious path" as she seeks to make her husband jealous. |
| The Congress Dances | 1,931 | Erik Charell | History, Comedy | 7.2 | 15 | German | Vienna glove-sales-lady Christel falls in love with Russian Czar Alexander. Austrian Prince Metternich tries to use this and other pleasant diversions to keep him out of the negotiation conferences of the 1815 Vienna Congress. |
| Alkohol | 2,020 | Andreas Pichler | Documentary | 7.2 | 14 | German | Alcohol: No substance in the world seems so familiar to us and is so incredibly diverse in its effect. Alcohol is available everywhere and this particular molecule has the power to affect all 200 billion neurons of our human brain in completely different ways. But hardly anyone calls alcohol a drug despite its psychoactive and cell-destroying effect. Why do we tolerate the death of three million people every year? Have we turned a blind eye to the dangers and risks for thousands of years? What role does the powerful alcohol industry play with an annual turnover of 1.2 trillion euros in this on-going concealment? The author, who himself enjoys having a drink, looks into the question why we drink at all, what alcohol does to us and to what extent the alcohol industry influences society and politics. |
| Snowden's Great Escape | 2,015 | John Goetz | Documentary | 7.2 | 14 | English | Tells the story of how Edward Snowden managed to evade capture by the US. For the first time Snowden tells the story of how he managed to escape so that not to have to spend the rest of his life in an American prison. |
| 51 Birch Street | 2,006 | Doug Block | Documentary | 7.2 | 14 | English | Documentary filmmaker Doug Block had every reason to believe his parents' 54-year marriage was a good one. But when his mother dies unexpectedly and his father swiftly marries his former secretary, he discovers two parents who are far more complex and troubled than he ever imagined. 51 Birch Street is a riveting personal documentary that explores a universal human question: how much about your parents do you really want to know? |
| Beyond The Visible - Hilma af Klint | 2,019 | Halina Dyrschka | Documentary | 7.2 | 13 | German | How can an artist discover abstraction by the beginning of the 20th century and nobody is noticing? A woman, misjudged and concealed, rocks the art world with her mind-blowing oeuvre. Hilma af Klint was a pioneer creating her first abstract painting in 1906, four years before Vassily Kandinsky. But why was she ignored? Why are her paintings not available on the market? This first film on her is about her life and work, the role of women in art history and the discovery of an art scandal. Her quest for meaning in life and a boundless thinking led into a timeless, outstanding oeuvre. |
| Theatre of War | 2,018 | Lola Arias | Documentary | 7.2 | 13 | Spanish | Theatre of War is an essay on how to represent war, performed by former enemies. British and Argentinian veterans of the Falklands war come together to discuss, rehearse and re-enact their memories 35 years after the conflict. |
| Dark Blue Girl | 2,017 | Mascha Schilinski | Drama | 7.2 | 13 | German | Luca is a strong-willed, soulful seven-year-old. After a two-year separation, her parents take her on a trip to pack up and sell their vacation home on a quiet island in the Aegean. Once there, her parents’ romantic connection is reignited. This newfound intimacy unsettles the family dynamic, as Luca suddenly ceases to be the center of attention. With childish cleverness and determination, she plays her parents against each other, intent on keeping her place as the center of their worlds. |
| ¡Vivan las Antipodas! | 2,011 | Viktor Kossakovsky | Documentary | 7.2 | 13 | Spanish | What would be the shortest route between Entre Rios in Argentina and the Chinese metropolis Shanghai? Simply a straight line through the center of the earth, since the two places are antipodes: they are located diametrically opposite to each other on the earth's surface. During his visits to four such antipodal pairs, the award-winning documentary filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky captured images that turn our view of the world upside down. |
| School of Magical Animals 4 | 2,025 | Bernhard Jasper | Family, Fantasy | 7.2 | 12 | German | Ida's friend Miriam visits the school for three months, but a secret threatens to tear them apart. Miriam is entrusted with the tarsier Fitzgeraldo, while Max, deeply in love, is given the owl Muriel. Meanwhile, the sale of the school is imminent, and the future of the magical community is in peril. |
| John Williams & the Berlin Philharmonic - The Berlin Concert | 2,022 | Michael Beyer | Music | 7.2 | 12 | English | John Williams has made cinematic history with his film scores and transported entire generations into his musical worlds. He has composed the sound... |
| Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods | 2,017 | Christine Franz | Music, Documentary | 7.2 | 12 | German | Documentary following British punk duo Sleaford Mods on their two year journey from Nottingham bedroom recording sessions to chart success |
| Touch the Sound | 2,004 | Thomas Riedelsheimer | Documentary, Music | 7.2 | 12 | English | A documentary which explores the connections among sound, rhythm, time, and the body by following percussionist Evelyn Glennie, who is nearly deaf. |
| The Endless Night | 1,963 | Will Tremper | Comedy | 7.2 | 12 | German | Anthology film about a night at airport Berlin-Tempelhof. Due to fog passengers can't leave Berlin by plane and struggle to find other ways out of Berlin. |
| The Broken Jug | 1,937 | Gustav Ucicky | Comedy | 7.2 | 12 | German | Today is a fateful day for village judge Adam. Who broke Widow Kull’s jug fleeing head over heels after his nightly visit to her daughter? As the trial unfolds, it becomes clear to everyone that the judge himself is the culprit. Judge Adam twists and turns, invents countless explanations, and piles up the most absurd lies. But he is conducting a trial against himself—one he cannot win. |
| Unterwerfung | 2,018 | Titus Selge | Drama, TV Movie | 7.2 | 11 | German | François is a literary scholar and drinker. His relationships with women are limited to one year, his life is sufficiently happy. Until the day when charismatic Muslim politician Mohamed Ben Abbes becomes president in France, introduces patriarchy and polygamy and loses his job. In his growing loneliness, Rector Rediger's offer to resume his teaching at the Sorbonne reaches him on one condition: he must convert to Islam. |
| Messi and Maud | 2,018 | Marleen Jonkman | Drama | 7.2 | 11 | Spanish | Maud and Frank are on holiday in Chile. Their relationship is fragile and so is Maud. After many years of trying, it is now time to face the fact that they will never have children. However, Maud is in denial. After a huge fight with Frank she runs off and sets out on a road trip through Chile to get her life back on track. |
| Volcano | 2,009 | Uwe Janson | Drama, Action, TV Movie | 7.2 | 11 | German | When a dormant volcano suddenly erupts into activity beneath Laach Lake in the Eiffel mountains, panic breaks out among the 500.000 residents. |
| The Exam | 2,021 | Shawkat Amin Korki | Drama | 7.2 | 10 | KU | Rojin is a young Kurdish woman about to take the university entrance exam. Rojin's unhappily married older sister Shilan decides to help her pass at any cost, hoping to give her a more emancipated life. Thus, the sisters inevitably become entangled in a huge network of corruption that connects all parts of society. |
| Curveball | 2,021 | Johannes Naber | Comedy, Drama, War | 7.2 | 10 | German | Although he already has searched Iraq unsuccessfully for weapons of mass destruction as a member of a UN mission, German bio-weapons expert Arndt Wolf is still obsessed with the idea that Saddam Hussein is hiding something. Nobody around him is interested in this topic any more. This changes abruptly when an Iraqi asylum seeker claims to have been involved in the manufacture of chemical weapons. The German Federal Intelligence Service summons Dr. Wolf to ascertain the legitimacy of the claims made by the informant, who has been given the code name “Curveball”. |
| Helmut Schmidt - Questions of life | 2,013 | Ben von Grafenstein | Documentary, History, TV Movie | 7.2 | 10 | German | On December 23, 2013, former Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt will be 95 years old. As the second Social Democratic head of government in the Federal Republic of Germany, he shaped the country like few other chancellors. Even 30 years after the end of his time in government, he is still a highly esteemed expert whose advice and opinions are in demand. He is one of the most popular chancellors among the population and is held in the highest esteem by his party; even his political opponents at the time pay him the greatest respect. |
| Mr. Rossi's Vacation | 1,981 | Bruno Bozzetto | Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family | 7.2 | 10 | Italian | A story about Mr. Rossi and his dog who go on vacation and all the adventures they have, from leading an animal revolt to climbing the Andes, or heading to the beach and being serenaded by strange fish. |
| Constantine | 2,005 | Francis Lawrence | Fantasy, Action, Horror | 7.1 | 7,843 | English | John Constantine has literally been to Hell and back. When he teams up with a policewoman to solve the mysterious suicide of her twin sister, their investigation takes them through the world of demons and angels that exists beneath the landscape of contemporary Los Angeles. |
| 8 Mile | 2,002 | Curtis Hanson | Drama, Music | 7.1 | 7,681 | English | For Jimmy Smith, Jr., life is a daily fight just to keep hope alive. Feeding his dreams in Detroit's vibrant music scene, Jimmy wages an extraordinary personal struggle to find his own voice - and earn a place in a world where rhymes rule, legends are born and every moment… is another chance. |
| The Negotiator | 1,998 | F. Gary Gray | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.1 | 2,307 | English | The police try to arrest expert hostage negotiator Danny Roman, who insists he's being framed for his partner's murder in what he believes is an elaborate conspiracy. Thinking there's evidence in the Internal Affairs offices that might clear him, he takes everyone in the office hostage and demands that another well-known negotiator be brought in to handle the situation and secretly investigate the conspiracy. |
| We Were Soldiers | 2,002 | Randall Wallace | Action, History, War | 7.1 | 2,216 | English | The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War and the soldiers on both sides that fought it. |
| Sapphire Blue | 2,014 | Felix Fuchssteiner | Fantasy, Romance, Drama | 7.1 | 1,020 | German | Gwen has just discovered, that she's the final member of the secret time-traveling Circle of Twelve. Now she has to juggle with constant trips to the past, her relationships with Gideon and figuring out dark secrets surrounding the Circle. |
| The Bird with the Crystal Plumage | 1,970 | Dario Argento | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 7.1 | 821 | Italian | An American writer living in Rome witnesses an attempted murder that is connected to an ongoing killing spree in the city and conducts his own investigation, despite he and his girlfriend being targeted by the killer. |
| Lords of Dogtown | 2,005 | Catherine Hardwicke | Drama, Action | 7.1 | 787 | English | The radical true story behind three teenage surfers from Venice Beach, California, who took skateboarding to the extreme and changed the world of sports forever. Stacy Peralta, Tony Alva and Jay Adams are the Z-Boys, a bunch of nobodies until they create a new style of skateboarding that becomes a worldwide phenomenon. But when their hobby becomes a business, the success shreds their friendship. |
| Quills | 2,000 | Philip Kaufman | Drama | 7.1 | 703 | English | In early 19th-century France, the Marquis de Sade is confined to an asylum where his forbidden writings continue to circulate beyond its walls. As the authorities tighten control, a clash unfolds between the Marquis’ unyielding imagination, the reformist ideals of the Abbé in charge, and the repressive measures of a doctor sent to silence him. Desire, power, and censorship collide in a battle over freedom of expression. |
| The Tale | 2,018 | Jennifer Fox | Drama, Mystery | 7.1 | 460 | English | An investigation into one woman’s memory as she‘s forced to re-examine her first sexual relationship and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive. |
| Cross of Iron | 1,977 | Sam Peckinpah | Drama, Action, History, War | 7.1 | 460 | English | It is 1943, and the German army—ravaged and demoralised—is hastily retreating from the Russian front. In the midst of the madness, conflict brews between the aristocratic yet ultimately pusillanimous Captain Stransky and the courageous Corporal Steiner. Stransky is the only man who believes that the Third Reich is still vastly superior to the Russian army. However, within his pompous persona lies a quivering coward who longs for the Iron Cross so that he can return to Berlin a hero. Steiner, on the other hand is cynical, defiantly non-conformist and more concerned with the safety of his own men rather than the horde of military decorations offered to him by his superiors. |
| Sophie Scholl: The Final Days | 2,005 | Marc Rothemund | Drama, History | 7.1 | 449 | German | In 1943, as Hitler continues to wage war across Europe, a group of college students mount an underground resistance movement in Munich. Dedicated expressly to the downfall of the monolithic Third Reich war machine, they call themselves the White Rose. One of its few female members, Sophie Scholl is captured during a dangerous mission to distribute pamphlets on campus with her brother Hans. Unwavering in her convictions and loyalty to the White Rose, her cross-examination by the Gestapo quickly escalates into a searing test of wills as Scholl delivers a passionate call to freedom and personal responsibility. |
| Whale Rider | 2,003 | Niki Caro | Drama, Family | 7.1 | 437 | English | A contemporary story of love, rejection, and triumph as a young Maori girl fights to fulfill a destiny her grandfather refuses to recognize. |
| White Oleander | 2,002 | Peter Kosminsky | Drama | 7.1 | 414 | English | A teenager journeys through a series of foster homes after her mother goes to prison for committing a crime of passion. |
| The Tank | 2,025 | Dennis Gansel | War, Action, Drama | 7.1 | 344 | German | A German Tiger tank crew is sent on a dangerous mission to rescue the missing officer Paul von Hardenburg from a top-secret bunker behind enemy lines. As they make their way through the lethal no-man's land, they must confront not only the enemy, but also their own fears and inner demons. Fueled by the Wehrmacht's methamphetamine, their mission increasingly becomes a journey into the heart of darkness. |
| The Express | 2,008 | Gary Fleder | Drama | 7.1 | 278 | English | Follow the inspirational life of college football hero Ernie Davis, the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy. |
| The Milky Way | 1,969 | Luis Buñuel | Comedy, Drama | 7.1 | 179 | French | Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way from France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. On their way, they meet a vast assortment of characters—some truculent, some violent, and some bizarre; they experience many adventures—some mysterious, some erotic, some even supernatural. |
| Nowhere in Africa | 2,001 | Caroline Link | Drama | 7.1 | 176 | German | A Jewish woman named Jettel Redlich flees Nazi Germany with her daughter Regina, to join her husband, Walter, on a farm in Kenya. At first, Jettel refuses to adjust to her new circumstances, bringing with her a set of china dishes and an evening gown. While Regina adapts readily to this new world, forming a strong bond with her father's cook, an African named Owuor. |
| Decalogue III | 1,989 | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Drama, TV Movie, Romance | 7.1 | 155 | Polish | It’s Christmas Eve, and Ewa has plotted to pass the hours until morning with her former lover Janusz, a family man, by making him believe her husband has gone missing. During this night of recklessness and lies, the pair grapple with choices made when their affair was discovered three years ago, and with the value of their present lives. |
| Taxi for Tobruk | 1,961 | Denys de La Patellière | History, Drama, War | 7.1 | 142 | French | During World War II, French Commandos join forces with a German officer in order to survive the African desert. |
| Lisbon Story | 1,994 | Wim Wenders | Drama, Music | 7.1 | 122 | English | Wim Wenders' homage to Lisbon and films. A sound engineer obtains a mysterious postcard from a friend who at the moment is filming a film in Lisbon. He sets out across Europe to find him and help him. |
| Mädchen in Uniform | 1,931 | Leontine Sagan | Drama, Romance | 7.1 | 117 | German | A sensitive girl is sent to an all-girls boarding school and develops a romantic attachment to one of her teachers. |
| Vampire Sisters 2: Bats in the Belly | 2,014 | Wolfgang Groos | Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy | 7.1 | 115 | German | Teen half vampire Dakaria falls in love with rock singer vampire Murdo. Dakaria, her friends and family have to face vampire Xantor who has dark plans. |
| Weekend Rebels | 2,023 | Marc Rothemund | Comedy, Drama | 7.1 | 113 | German | Mirco von Juterczenka's novel "Wir Wochenendrebellen" is the story of a father and his ten-year-old son, who is Asperger's autistic. The boy has set his mind on finally finding his favourite football club. But his selection criteria are very specific and besides, he wants to experience all the clubs (no matter in which league they play) live in the stadium. |
| The Dumpling Affair | 2,017 | Ed Herzog | Comedy, Crime | 7.1 | 108 | German | After a provincial policeman gets falsely accused of a crime that was committed with his pocket knife, he begins a turbulent hunt for the real murderer. |
| The Tunnel | 2,001 | Roland Suso Richter | Drama, Thriller | 7.1 | 108 | German | Inspired by true events, Olympic swimmer Harry Melchior defects from East Germany in the 1960s and hatches a daring plot to help his sister and others flee East Berlin through a 145-yard underground tunnel. |
| Sauerkrautkoma | 2,018 | Ed Herzog | Comedy, Crime | 7.1 | 101 | German | When a hilariously dull policeman moves in with his best buddy in Munich, he has to deal with scandals, a corpse — and potential marriage. |
| Tokyo-Ga | 1,985 | Wim Wenders | Documentary | 7.1 | 100 | German | German director Wim Wenders tries to explore the Tokyo that was depicted in the films of Yasujiro Ozu and finds a very different city. |
| Tehran Taboo | 2,017 | Ali Soozandeh | Drama, Animation | 7.1 | 99 | Persian | The lives of three strong-willed women and a young musician cross paths in Tehran’s schizophrenic society where sex, adultery, corruption, prostitution and drugs coexist with strict religious law. In this bustling modern metropolis, avoiding prohibition has become an everyday sport and breaking taboos can be a means of personal emancipation. |
| Chinese Roulette | 1,977 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Drama | 7.1 | 98 | German | Ariane and Gerhard Christ, a wealthy Munich couple, plan for the weekend on separate trips, lying to the other about their trysts. However, their itineraries are complicated when they both arrive at the family's country home with their respective lovers. |
| My Sweet Pepper Land | 2,014 | Hiner Saleem | Drama | 7.1 | 93 | KU | Baran, a war hero, becomes sheriff of the capital and refuses to bow down to a tribal chief. |
| Takva: A Man's Fear of God | 2,006 | Özer Kızıltan | Drama | 7.1 | 83 | Turkish | Humble and introvert Muharrem lives in a solitary and meager existence of a prayer and sexual abstinence adhering strictly to the most severe Islamic doctrines.His extraordinary devotion attracts the attention of the leader of a rich and powerful Istanbul religious group and he offers him an administrative post as a rent collector for their numerous properties. Muharrem's new job throws him into the modern outside world he has successfully avoided for so long. He soon witnesses conflict attitude toward alcohol consumption and goodwill.He notices that he himself has become proud, domineering and even dishonest.To make matters worse, Muharrem's inner peace is unnerved by the tormenting image of seductive woman who tempts him in his dreams,both night and day.With the balance of his devotion now upset,his fear of God begins to eat away at his senses. |
| The Fencer | 2,015 | Klaus Härö | Drama, History | 7.1 | 82 | ET | Fleeing from the Russian secret police, a young Estonian fencer is forced to return to his homeland, where he becomes a physical education teacher at a local school. The past however catches up and puts him in front of a difficult choice. |
| Troubled Water | 2,008 | Erik Poppe | Drama | 7.1 | 73 | Norwegian | A man with a troubled past is released on parole. He finds work as a church organist and develops a rewarding relationship with a priest and her young son. However, his past soon catches up with him. |
| The 3 Penny Opera | 1,931 | G.W. Pabst | Music, Crime | 7.1 | 62 | German | In London at the turn of the century, underworld kingpin Mack the Knife marries Polly Peachum without the knowledge of her father, the equally enterprising 'king of the beggars'. |
| Oskar's Dress | 2,022 | Hüseyin Tabak | Drama | 7.1 | 59 | German | Since Ben has been living apart from his ex-wife Mira and his children, his life has fallen apart. But unexpectedly, he gets a second chance: when Mira, pregnant to the teeth, has to be hospitalized, his children live with him again. This time, everything will be fine - he thinks! But his son Oskar brings a small problem: he wears a dress that he doesn't want to take off. |
| Chuck Norris vs Communism | 2,015 | Ilinca Calugareanu | Documentary, History | 7.1 | 59 | Romanian | In late eighties, in Ceausescu's Romania, a black market VHS bootlegger and a courageous female translator brought the magic of Western films to the Romanian people and sowed the seeds of a revolution. |
| Black Rider | 1,993 | Pepe Danquart | Comedy | 7.1 | 50 | German | A young black man is verbally harassed by an older woman on a streetcar, while the other passengers remain silent. He finally exacts his revenge. |
| Beltracchi: The Art of Forgery | 2,014 | Arne Birkenstock | Crime, Documentary, History | 7.1 | 48 | German | Wolfgang Beltracchi got away with forging art masterpieces for over 40 years. He may be egotistical and nihilistic, but his genius in undeniable. He managed to fool gallery owners, historians and investors with the stroke of a brush. This documentary follows his last days as a free man. |
| The Foster Boy | 2,011 | Markus Imboden | Drama | 7.1 | 46 | German | Switzerland, 1955. The young orphan Max is sent as a foster child and contracted to work for the Bösiger family who lives on a farm. His foster parents treat him like a workhorse while their son seizes every opportunity to humiliate him. Playing the accordion is the one thing that is entirely his. But when the new teacher stands up for Max, it only makes a bad situation much worse. The only thing preserving his will to survive is his friendship with Berteli, who was also taken on to work at the farm. Max dreams of Argentina with her: a fantasy world, where allegedly even hayforks are made of silver. |
| Grand Slam | 1,967 | Giuliano Montaldo | Crime | 7.1 | 38 | English | Professor James Anders is a seemingly mild-mannered teacher, an American working in Rio De Janeiro. Anders, bored with years of teaching, decides to put together a team to pull off a diamond heist during the Rio Carnival. Four international experts are brought together to carry out the robbery: a safe cracking expert, a master thief, a mechanical genius, and a playboy. |
| The War Is Over | 1,989 | Jean-Loup Hubert | War, Comedy, Drama | 7.1 | 31 | French | The film is set in France in August 1944 at the end of the war. German troops are in retreat as the allies are coming in. Two French boys run from ... |
| Annaluise & Anton | 1,999 | Caroline Link | Family, Comedy, Drama | 7.1 | 30 | German | Luise, called Pünktchen, and Anton are closest of friends. Being the daughter of a wealthy surgeon, young Pünktchen lives in a great house. Her mother, who always travels through the world more for public relation reasons than for the social tasks she pretends to fulfill, is never available to her as a mother. Anton, son of a single and sick mother in financial trouble, does his best to help her out of it by working late. Pünktchen decides to help her only friend (as nobody else would anyway) and starts singing in public places. Trouble arises when Anton can't resist stealing a golden lighter and Pünktchen's secret life is discovered by her parents. Two troubled families finally can see the need for actions to be taken. |
| Little Sharks | 1,992 | Sönke Wortmann | Comedy | 7.1 | 29 | German | When dishwasher Ingo, whose girl-friend has just left him, returns a borrowed bar stool to the Folkwang Acting School in Essen, he stumbles into the audition for next year's new students. He lets Johannes, the broke and unsuccessful applicant, stay with him. Ingo decides to go to Munich with Johannes, where he wants to try his luck once again. Hitchhiking, they get rides with very different drivers on the autobahn. They meet up with the smooth-talking Ali in the wayside dinner "Raststätte Spessart". Arriving in Munich, the trio tries to find cheap sleeping accommodation. They enter Ingo into the audition at Munich acting school. Moreover, Johannes falls in love with street artist Herta from Berlin. Written by emkarpf |
| Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever? | 1,959 | Frank Wisbar | Drama, War | 7.1 | 24 | German | In the winter of 1943, against the background of battle scenes, a young German Lieutenant who increasingly distrusts the inhuman Nazi ideology struggles with the concept of war. |
| September Says | 2,025 | Ariane Labed | Drama | 7.1 | 23 | English | Sisters September and July share an intense bond, speaking in a secret language and keeping the outside world at a distance. After September is suspended from school, their mother brings them to a remote house on the Irish coast—where July begins to resist her sister’s increasingly sadistic control. |
| Echoes from a Sombre Empire | 1,990 | Werner Herzog | Documentary | 7.1 | 20 | German | Documentary examining Bokassa's rule in the Central African Republic using the testimony of witnesses and visits to key sites. |
| Emil and the Detectives | 1,931 | Gerhard Lamprecht | Family, Comedy, Crime | 7.1 | 20 | German | When a suspicious man bribes Emil with chocolate in return for a bundle of cash, the young lad thinks of a plan to catch him. |
| Veins of the World | 2,020 | Byambasuren Davaa | Drama, Family | 7.1 | 19 | MN | Amra is growing up in the Mongolian steppe between herds of goats and YouTube videos. His hopes and dreams revolve around someday performing onstage in "Mongolia's Got Talent". However, the fight against the exploitation by gold mining companies and the campaign for a viable environment soon challenge the boy's eclectic talents. |
| Redemption | 2,013 | Miguel Gomes | History, Documentary | 7.1 | 18 | Portuguese | On January 21, 1975, in a village in the north of Portugal, a child writes to his parents who are in Angola to tell them how sad Portugal is. On July 13, 2011, in Milan, an old man remembers his first love. On May 6, 2012, in Paris, a man tells his baby daughter that he will never be a real father. During a wedding ceremony on September 3, 1977 in Leipzig, the bride battles against a Wagner opera that she can’t get out of her head. But where and when have these four poor devils begun searching for redemption? |
| North Sea Is Death Sea | 1,976 | Hark Bohm | Drama | 7.1 | 18 | German | 14-year-old Uwe lives in a suburban Hamburg housing estate. Besides trouble, the boy has not much to expect from his parents. To get his hands on some money, he prizes open vending machines, and to let out his frustration, he beats up "wogs". Among them is Dschingis, his nemesis. But one day, the rivals make peace. They become friends because they realize that they have the same problems and are driven by the same dreams and hopes. |
| Hamlet | 1,921 | Svend Gade | Drama | 7.1 | 18 | German | A free adaptation of Shakespeare′s drama. The Danish queen masquerades her daughter as a boy, and thus, the girl lives her life as 'Prince' Hamlet. Her father poisoned by a venomous snake placed by the treacherous Claudius, Hamlet fakes madness to investigate without suspicion. |
| Fucking Different XXX | 2,012 | Bruce LaBruce | Drama | 7.1 | 17 | English | In Fucking Different XXX, the passion for explicit sex scenes brought eight international filmmakers together. The eight short films shot in Paris, Berlin and San Francisco are about intensive sex, quick sex, romantic sex, funny sex, the first sex, and the last sex. The range goes from a lesbian quickie in the toilet, a bloodthirsty orgy, romantic fisting all the way to wet teenage dreams. The result is a never seen before look upon sexual tastes and varieties, far from clichés, with a fresh and sometimes humorous approach. |
| Checker Tobi und das Geheimnis unseres Planeten | 2,019 | Martin Tischner | Family, Documentary, Adventure | 7.1 | 16 | German | The greatest adventure of his life begins for Checker Tobi on a pirate ship in the middle of the sea. There he discovers a message in a bottle containing a riddle. If he solves it, he will reveal the secret of our planet. An exciting scavenger hunt around the world begins! Tobi climbs the crater of a fire-breathing volcano, dives with sea dragons in the Pacific, explores the loneliest parts of the Arctic with climate researchers and ends up in India at the driest time of the year. In Mumbai, he becomes a Bollywood star before the monsoon transforms the megacity. Tobi finally realizes that he had the solution to the puzzle in mind throughout his journey. |
| The Culpable | 2,015 | Gerd Schneider | Crime, Drama | 7.1 | 16 | German | Jakob, Dominik and Oliver are best friends, they play soccer and work as priests. They are united in their belief that the catholic church can make the world a better place. But when Dominik is confronted with allegations that he abused a boy, Jakob's world collapses. Torn between his beliefs and the friendship to Dominik, he's committed to finding the truth. |
| Empty Nets | 2,024 | Behrooz Karamizade | Drama | 7.1 | 15 | Persian | Amir, a young Iranian, signs on with a fisherman on the rugged Caspian Sea coast in order to earn the money he needs to marry his sweetheart, Narges. But in so doing, he becomes entangled in the criminal machinations of caviar poaching. Piece by piece, a complex hierarchy is revealed in a parallel realm that becomes ever more constricting and oppressive, endangering Amir’s relationship with Narges as well. |
| Little Germans | 2,019 | Frank Geiger | Documentary | 7.1 | 15 | German | LITTLE GERMANS combines animation and documentary film to tell the story of children that are born into extreme right-wing families. From a young age on they are trained to hate everything that seems 'foreign'. How does it feel to grow up in a world, where empathy is subsidiary and 'the nation' stands above everything? And who do those 'little Germans' become once they grow up? |
| Oh Sheep! | 2,012 | Gottfried Mentor | Animation, Comedy | 7.1 | 14 | German | Two flocks of sheep are searching for companionship. But their shepherds, being at odds with each other, do everything to keep them separated. |
| Workers | 2,013 | José Luis Valle | Drama | 7.1 | 13 | Spanish | Lidia is a responsible and dedicated maid for a hugely wealthy, elderly Tijuana matron who loves only her pet whippet. Rafael is a quiet and dignified janitor who buys a new pair of shoes to celebrate his imminent retirement from the large corporate facility where he's worked for 30 years. When Lidia's boss dies, leaving everything to her dog, and Rafael's plans get derailed, they both turn to criminal subterfuge to get what their harsh lot in life has denied them. |
| Trainer! | 2,013 | Aljoscha Pause | Documentary | 7.1 | 13 | German | This behind-the-scenes sports documentary follows the careers of three young German professional soccer coaches over the course of a single season. |
| Käpt’n Blaubär – Der Film | 1,999 | Hayo Freitag | Animation | 7.1 | 13 | German | Captain Blaubär’s archenemy Prof. Dr. Feinfinger, kidnapped the grandson of Blaubär, three little bears, from his custody to avenge himself at Blaubär, who had destroyed the years before Feinfinger’s plans to conquer the world. Together with his friend Hein Blöd, Blaubär sets out to free them. |
| Martin Luther | 1,953 | Irving Pichel | Drama, History | 7.1 | 13 | English | A biopic of Martin Luther, covering his life between 1505 and 1530, and the birth of the Protestant Reformation movement. |
| Enkel für Fortgeschrittene | 2,023 | Wolfgang Groos | Comedy | 7.1 | 12 | German | |
| Portrait: Werner Herzog | 1,986 | Werner Herzog | Documentary | 7.1 | 12 | German | An autobiographical short film by Werner Herzog made in 1986. Herzog tells stories about his life and career. The film contains excerpts and commentary on several Herzog films, including Signs of Life, Heart of Glass, Fata Morgana, Aguirre, the Wrath of God, The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner, Fitzcarraldo, and the Les Blank documentary Burden of Dreams. Notable is footage of a conversation between Herzog and his mentor Lotte Eisner, a photographer. In another section, he talks with mountaineer Reinhold Messner, in which they discuss a potential film project in the Himalayas to star Klaus Kinski. |
| The Owners | 2,014 | Ezequiel Radusky | Comedy, Drama | 7.1 | 11 | Spanish | Sergio and his family work in an estate in Argentina’s northern region. When their employers aren't home, they occupy the main house and emulate th... |
| Curious Tobi and the Treasure Hunt to the Flying Rivers | 2,023 | Johannes Honsell | Family, Adventure | 7.1 | 10 | German | In Curious Tobi and the Treasure Hunt to the Flying Rivers, adventurer Tobi needs to find his best friend from childhood Marina, the only person who can help him unlock a mysterious treasure chest. Tobi’s search for Marina kickstarts an adventure that takes him to the greatest and most stunning places in the world. Always with one goal in mind: solving the riddle of the treasure chest and finding the mysterious flying rivers. |
| Anderst schön | 2,015 | Bartosz Werner | TV Movie, Comedy, Drama | 7.1 | 10 | German | Roger has his own clear world. He loves his apartment. Roger works as a janitor in a house about to be demolished. Leftover GDR supporters, failed geniuses, artistic neo-Nazis live there. |
| Meine Tochter Anne Frank | 2,015 | Raymond Ley | Drama | 7.1 | 10 | German | The name Anne Frank stands for courage and confidence in hopeless times. But also for the cheeky and unsparing view of an adolescent on her family and her environment. Millions of people around the world know her diary, she wrote it while hiding from the Nazis. With this docu-drama, the first major German film adaptation of the life story of the Frankfurt girl is now available. The film follows Anne's fate from a happy childhood to hiding in the Secret Annex in Amsterdam to her death in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. It focuses on the relationship between father and daughter. Otto Frank was the only one who survived the betrayal of the Secret Annex residents. The most secret thoughts and longings |
| The Fast and the Furious | 2,001 | Rob Cohen | Action, Crime, Thriller | 7 | 10,646 | English | Dominic Toretto is a Los Angeles street racer suspected of masterminding a series of big-rig hijackings. When undercover cop Brian O'Conner infiltrates Toretto's iconoclastic crew, he falls for Toretto's sister and must choose a side: the gang or the LAPD. |
| Mamma Mia! | 2,008 | Phyllida Lloyd | Comedy, Romance | 7 | 6,903 | English | A spirited young bride-to-be living with her single mother on a small Greek island secretly invites three of her mother's ex-boyfriends in hope of finding her biological father to walk her down the aisle. |
| Kingdom of Heaven | 2,005 | Ridley Scott | Drama, Action, Adventure, History, War | 7 | 4,785 | English | After his wife dies, a blacksmith named Balian is thrust into royalty, political intrigue and bloody holy wars during the Crusades. |
| Red Dragon | 2,002 | Brett Ratner | Crime, Thriller, Horror | 7 | 4,611 | English | Former FBI Agent Will Graham, who was once almost killed by the savage Hannibal 'The Cannibal' Lecter, now has no choice but to face him again, as it seems Lecter is the only one who can help Graham track down a new serial killer. |
| Valkyrie | 2,008 | Bryan Singer | Drama, Thriller, War | 7 | 3,987 | English | Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events unfold so that he becomes a central player, he finds himself tasked with both leading the coup and personally killing the Führer. |
| The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes | 2,023 | Francis Lawrence | Science Fiction, Action | 7 | 3,385 | English | 64 years before he becomes the tyrannical president of Panem, Coriolanus Snow sees a chance for a change in fortunes when he mentors Lucy Gray Baird, the female tribute from District 12. |
| Eight Below | 2,006 | Frank Marshall | Adventure, Drama, Family | 7 | 1,794 | English | In the Antarctic, after an expedition with Dr. Davis McClaren, the sled dog trainer Jerry Shepherd has to leave the polar base with his colleagues due to the proximity of a heavy snow storm. He ties his dogs to be rescued after, but the mission is called-off and the dogs are left alone at their own fortune. For six months, Jerry tries to find a sponsor for a rescue mission. |
| Suck Me Shakespeer | 2,013 | Bora Dağtekin | Comedy | 7 | 1,745 | German | Ex-con Zeki Müller goes undercover as a teacher at a below average Gymnasium to find money he'd stashed prior to incarceration. |
| The Constant Gardener | 2,005 | Fernando Meirelles | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7 | 1,667 | English | Justin Quayle is a low-level British diplomat who has always gone about his work very quietly, not causing any problems. But after his radical wife Tessa is killed he becomes determined to find out why, thrusting himself into the middle of a very dangerous conspiracy. |
| Holy Motors | 2,012 | Leos Carax | Drama, Fantasy | 7 | 1,229 | French | We follow 24 hours in the life of a being moving from life to life like a cold and solitary assassin moving from hit to hit. In each of these interwoven lives, the being possesses an entirely distinct identity: sometimes a man, sometimes a woman, sometimes youthful, sometimes old. By turns murderer, beggar, company chairman, monstrous creature, worker, family man. |
| Running Scared | 2,006 | Wayne Kramer | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7 | 1,114 | English | A low-ranking thug is entrusted by his boss to dispose of a gun that killed corrupt cops, but things spiral out of control when the gun ends up in wrong hands. |
| The Adventures of Baron Munchausen | 1,988 | Terry Gilliam | Fantasy, Adventure, Comedy | 7 | 982 | English | An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences with his band of misfits. |
| Emerald Green | 2,016 | Katharina Schöde | Fantasy, Action, Mystery | 7 | 877 | German | Emerald Green is the stunning conclusion to Kerstin Gier's Ruby Red Trilogy, picking up where Sapphire Blue left off, reaching new heights of intrigue and romance as Gwen finally uncovers the secrets of the time-traveling society and learns her fate. |
| September 5 | 2,024 | Tim Fehlbaum | Thriller, Drama, History | 7 | 510 | English | During the 1972 Munich Olympics, an American sports broadcasting crew finds itself thrust into covering the hostage crisis involving Israeli athletes. |
| Before the Fall | 2,004 | Dennis Gansel | Drama | 7 | 355 | German | In 1942, Friedrich Weimer's boxing skills get him an appointment to a National Political Academy (NaPolA) – high schools that produce Nazi elite. Over his father's objections, Friedrich enrolls. During his year in seventh column, Friedrich encounters hazing, cruelty, death, and the Nazi code. His friendship with Albrecht, the ascetic son of the area's governor, is central to this education. |
| Trade | 2,007 | Marco Kreuzpaintner | Thriller | 7 | 304 | English | A Texas cop, whose own daughter might have been forced into sexual slavery, joins forces with a Mexican youth to find the boy's sister, who was abducted and forced into prostitution. Meanwhile, a Polish woman who was promised a better life in America also becomes a victim. |
| The Most Beautiful Day | 2,016 | Florian David Fitz | Comedy, Drama | 7 | 271 | German | The overambitious pianist Andi and the more laid back Benno have one thing in common: They will both die soon. So the two of them decide to have the most awesome day before its too late. |
| Carlos | 2,010 | Olivier Assayas | Crime, Drama, Thriller, History | 7 | 233 | English | The story of Venezuelan revolutionary, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization and raided the OPEC headquarters in 1975 before being caught by the French police. |
| The Golem: How He Came Into the World | 1,920 | Carl Boese | Fantasy, Horror | 7 | 232 | German | In 16th-century Prague, a rabbi creates the Golem - a giant creature made of clay. Using sorcery, he brings the creature to life in order to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution. |
| When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit | 2,019 | Caroline Link | Drama | 7 | 174 | German | In 1933 in Berlin. Anna is only nine years old when her life changes from the ground up. To escape the Nazis, her father Arthur Kemper, a well-known Jewish journalist, has to flee to Zurich. His family, Anna, her twelve-year-old brother Max and her mother Dorothea, follow him shortly thereafter. Anna has to leave everything behind, including her beloved pink rabbit, and to face a new life full of challenges and privations abroad. |
| Lacombe, Lucien | 1,974 | Louis Malle | Drama, War | 7 | 158 | French | In Louis Malle's lauded drama, Lucien Lacombe is a young man living in rural France during World War II who seeks to join the French Resistance. When he is rejected due to his youth, the resentful Lucien allies himself with the Nazis and joins the Gallic arm of their Gestapo. Lucien grows to enjoy the power that comes with his position, but his life is complicated when he falls for France Horn, a beautiful young Jewish woman. |
| Rafiki | 2,018 | Wanuri Kahiu | Drama, Romance | 7 | 154 | SW | Kena and Ziki long for something more. Despite the political rivalry between their families, the girls resist and remain close friends, supporting each other to pursue their dreams in a conservative society. When love blossoms between them, the two girls will be forced to choose between happiness and safety. |
| The Little Witch | 2,018 | Michael Schaerer | Family, Comedy, Drama | 7 | 146 | German | The little witch is only 127 years old – too young for the annual coven of witches. Although she is not yet old enough to be a real witch she wants to become a really good one. This decision causes trouble inside her magic world. |
| Adidas Vs. Puma: The Brother's Feud | 2,016 | Oliver Dommenget | Drama | 7 | 144 | German | Two brothers start a sportswear company in the 1920s, hoping to make the best shoes in the world. Their relationship deteriorates until they become bitter rivals. |
| Stations of the Cross | 2,014 | Dietrich Brüggemann | Drama | 7 | 129 | German | Maria finds herself caught between two worlds. At school this 14-year-old girl has all the typical teenage interests, but when she’s at home with h... |
| Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles | 2,019 | Salvador Simó | Animation, Drama, History | 7 | 128 | Spanish | Paris, 1930. Luis Buñuel is penniless after the scandal surrounding the release of his last movie. Sculptor Ramón Acín, a good friend, buys a lottery ticket and promises Buñuel that he will pay for his next movie if he wins the prize. |
| Winterkartoffelknödel | 2,014 | Ed Herzog | Comedy, Crime | 7 | 128 | German | A policeman suspects that several bizarre deaths in the same family were murders and that the killer is a mysterious woman who just moved to the village. |
| The Cakemaker | 2,017 | Ofir Raul Graizer | Drama | 7 | 127 | Hebrew | Thomas, a young German baker, is having an affair with Oren, an Israeli married man who has frequent business visits in Berlin. When Oren dies in a car crash in Israel, Thomas travels to Jerusalem seeking for answers regarding his death. Under a fabricated identity, Thomas infiltrates the life of Anat, his lover’s newly widowed wife, who owns a small Café in downtown Jerusalem. Thomas starts to work for her, creating German cakes and cookies that bring her Café to life. Thomas finds himself involved in Anat’s life in a way far beyond his anticipation. To protect the truth he will stretch his lie to a point of no return. |
| Sun and Concrete | 2,023 | David Wnendt | Crime, Drama | 7 | 116 | German | The four friends Lukas, Julius, Gino and Sanchez are trying to survive the everyday life in Neukölln, Berlin between drugs, gangs, rap, violence and boredom. Until they are one day making a serious decision with serious consequences because of a dead certain plan. |
| Grave Decisions | 2,006 | Marcus H. Rosenmüller | Drama, Comedy | 7 | 114 | German | In this black comedy set in small-town Bavaria, 11-year-old Sebastian thinks you can never be too young to be a murderer. He's convinced that he killed his mother on the day he was born and is certain he's already been condemned to purgatory. Deciding he might be able to knock off a few years of his sentence by doing good deeds, Sebastian sets out to find a wife for his father Lorenz. When Lorenz and Sebastian's schoolteacher Veronika fall madly in love with each other, it seems the heavens must be smiling. There's just one hitch: Veronika is married. |
| The Patience Stone | 2,013 | Atiq Rahimi | Drama, War | 7 | 113 | French | In a war-ridden country, a woman watches over her husband, comatose from a bullet in the neck and abandoned by Jihad companions and brothers. One day, the woman decides to say things to him she could never have done before. |
| Schweinskopf al dente | 2,016 | Ed Herzog | Comedy, Crime | 7 | 111 | German | As he tries to win back his ex-girlfriend, a lethargic Lower Bavarian police officer gets sidetracked by a panicky boss and an escaped psychopath. |
| Leberkäsjunkie | 2,019 | Ed Herzog | Comedy, Crime | 7 | 104 | German | While dealing with a burnt-down house, smelly diapers and brutal lack of sleep, a Lower Bavarian police officer faces his worst adversary: cholesterol. |
| Ajami | 2,009 | Yaron Shani | Crime, Drama | 7 | 88 | Hebrew | Ajami is an area of Tel Aviv in Israel where Arabs, Palestinians, Jews and Christians live together in a tense atmosphere. Omar, an Israeli Arab, struggles to save his family from a gang of extortionists. He also courts a beautiful Christian girl: Hadir. Malek, an illegal Palestinian worker, tries to collect enough money to pay for his mother's operation. Dando, an Israeli cop, does his utmost to find his missing brother who may have been killed by Palestinians. |
| Marianne and Juliane | 1,981 | Margarethe von Trotta | Drama | 7 | 76 | German | Germany, 1968: The priest's daughters Marianna and Juliane both fight for changes in society, like making abortion legal. However their means are totally different: while Juliane's committed as a reporter, her sister joins a terroristic organization. After she's caught by the police and put into isolation jail, Juliane remains as her last connection to the rest of the world. Although she doesn't accept her sister's arguments and her boyfriend Wolfgang doesn't want her to, Juliane keeps on helping her sister. She begins to question the way her sister is treated. |
| Momo | 1,986 | Johannes Schaaf | Comedy, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Family, Mystery | 7 | 73 | German | Momo is a young orphan girl who lives in the ruins of an old Roman amphitheater and becomes friends with everybody in the neighborhood. But when a powerful international corporation starts stealing everybody’s time, nobody has any time left for her, let alone their friends or families. Momo, together with Master Hora, the custodian of time, are the only ones who can go up against the time thieves before all is lost forever. |
| Solino | 2,002 | Fatih Akin | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7 | 69 | German | The movie portrays the story of an Italian family emigrated in Germany in the 1970s. Romano (Gigi Savoia), the father, decides to open a pizzeria which, by mutual decision with the wife Rosa (Antonella Attili), will call Solino, leaving his sons Gigi and Giancarlo to work there. A hostile relationship comes to life between the father and his sons, which will end up in the escape of the boys from family. |
| Nothing Bad Can Happen | 2,013 | Katrin Gebbe | Drama, Horror, Crime | 7 | 63 | German | Tore, a young lost soul involved with an underground Christian punk movement, falls in with a dysfunctional family who test his seemingly unwavering faith. |
| Of Fathers and Sons | 2,017 | Talal Derki | Documentary, War | 7 | 58 | German | Talal Derki returns to his homeland where he gains the trust of a radical Islamist family, sharing their daily life for over two years. His camera focuses on Osama and his younger brother Ayman, providing an extremely rare insight into what it means to grow up in an Islamic Caliphate. |
| The White Sound | 2,001 | Hans Weingartner | Drama | 7 | 58 | German | Lukas, a young schizophrenic man, has to deal with a new town, a new relationship, and the paranoia in his head. |
| The Invisibles | 2,017 | Claus Räfle | Drama, History | 7 | 57 | German | Four young Jews survive the Third Reich in the middle of Berlin by living so recklessly that they become "invisible." |
| Jack | 2,014 | Edward Berger | Drama | 7 | 56 | German | Ten-year-old Jack has to take care of his little brother, six-year-old Manuel, every day from the time he gets up to the time he goes to bed. When Manuel suffers an accident, their lives change forever. |
| Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One | 2,015 | Miguel Gomes | Drama | 7 | 55 | Portuguese | Every night, in danger of being beheaded, Scheherazade tells King Shahryar unfinished tales to continue them the following night, hence defying his promise of murdering his new wives after their wedding night. Scheherazade tells King Shahryar her stories but these are not those in the book. As in the book, these stories are tragic and comical, with rich and poor, powerless and powerful people, filled with surprising and extraordinary events. |
| The Horse | 1,970 | Pierre Granier-Deferre | Drama, Thriller | 7 | 52 | French | Auguste Maroilleur, an elderly farmer, exploits 400 hectares of crop land with the help of his family, over which he rules with an iron hand. Thing... |
| Paradise | 2,016 | Andrei Konchalovsky | Drama, War | 7 | 51 | Russian | The historical drama set during the Second World War centres on three people whose paths cross: a Russian aristocratic emigrant and member of the French resistance, a French collaborator and a high-ranking German SS officer. |
| Jungle Child | 2,011 | Roland Suso Richter | Adventure, Drama | 7 | 51 | German | A family of a German linguist lives with an indigenous tribe in Papua New Guinea. |
| From Hilde, with Love | 2,024 | Andreas Dresen | War, Drama, History | 7 | 50 | German | In Berlin 1942, Hilde is a member of an anti-Nazi group. She falls in love with another member, Hans. The two spend a summer together until they get caught by the Gestapo and Hilde is imprisoned, eight months pregnant. |
| Different from the Others | 1,919 | Richard Oswald | Drama | 7 | 50 | German | Conrad Veidt plays a famous musician who is blackmailed for being gay. Eventually he stands trial and is convicted. At the end the film pleads for the abolition of §175 (the law that punishes homosexuality). |
| Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania | 1,972 | Jonas Mekas | Documentary | 7 | 43 | English | Jonas Mekas weaves an elegiac diary film from his 1971–72 return to Lithuania, chronicling a visit to his birthplace of Semeniškiai after decades in exile. Blending personal memory with documentary observation, the film becomes both a portrait of homecoming and a meditation on displacement, family, and the passage of time. |
| Comradeship | 1,931 | G.W. Pabst | Drama | 7 | 40 | German | At a mine on the shared edge of France and Germany, an underground explosion leads to the entrapment of a group of French miners. In an effort to save the trapped Frenchmen, German miners Wittkopp and Kasper take it upon themselves to traverse a crumbling war tunnel leading down into the mines. Yet, though the workers harbor no political biases against one another, their callous, less tolerant bosses hope to halt this cross-cultural rescue mission. |
| 10 to 11 | 2,009 | Pelin Esmer | Drama | 7 | 39 | Turkish | Mithat passionately collects newspapers in his Istanbul flat. The other tenants ridicule him and he lives a lonely life. As the building is to be renovated, Mithat develops a friendship with concierge Ali, another loner, who helps him save his collection. They involuntarily change each other’s fate. |
| Hambre | 2,023 | Esra Laske | Drama | 7 | 38 | German | Leni and Paul are „all good!“, as Paul likes to emphasise. But on this evening even he realises that this is not true at all. Their new neighbours, Mariam and Ayla, who come over for dinner embody exactly what Leni and Paul have not been for one another as a couple for years. While finishing up dessert, the relationship of the perfect couple, centered on their fluffy dog Amor, unfolds. |
| Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie | 1,988 | Marcel Ophüls | War, Documentary | 7 | 37 | English | Marcel Ophuls' riveting film details the heinous legacy of the Gestapo head dubbed "The Butcher of Lyon." Responsible for over 4,000 deaths in occupied France during World War II, Barbie would escape—with U.S. help—to South America in 1951, where he lived until a global manhunt led to his 1983 arrest and subsequent trial. |
| RR | 2,007 | James Benning | Documentary | 7 | 35 | English | 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. |
| Big Mäck: Gangsters and Gold | 2,023 | Fabienne Hurst | Documentary | 7 | 34 | German | A man is convicted of a robbery he didn't commit and spends six years in jail. Decades later, he becomes a suspect again — but is he still innocent? |
| Wings of Hope | 1,999 | Werner Herzog | Documentary, TV Movie | 7 | 34 | German | Werner Herzog returns to the South American jungle with Juliane Koepcke, the German woman who was the sole survivor of a plane crash there in 1971. They find the remains of the plane and recreate her journey out of the jungle. |
| A Heavy Heart | 2,016 | Thomas Stuber | Drama | 7 | 30 | German | A former East German boxing champion reduced to working as a bouncer and debt collector is forced to reflect on his life when he is diagnosed with a fatal disease. |
| Korczak | 1,990 | Andrzej Wajda | Drama, History, War | 7 | 30 | Polish | The story of Polish pedagogue Janusz Korczak and his dedication to protecting Jewish orphans during the war. |
| Amrum | 2,025 | Fatih Akin | Drama | 7 | 27 | German | On Amrum Island in spring 1945, twelve-year-old Nanning hunts seals, fishes at night, and works the fields to help feed his family. When the war ends, his mother sinks into depression, and he must navigate new conflicts while struggling to find his own path. |
| Stitch Head | 2,025 | Steve Hudson | Animation, Adventure, Family, Comedy | 7 | 26 | English | Stitch Head was the first creature brought to 'almost life' by mad professor Erasmus. In the years since, he’s become nursemaid to the master’s ever-growing menagerie of neglected creatures, tasked with teaching them to suppress their 'inner monster' and hide out in the castle — away from prying eyes and itchy pitchfork fingers, of the village mob in the valley below. But when grubby circus impresario Fulbert Freakfinder arrives offering Stitch Head a starring role in his freak show, our hero is tempted by the promise of love and acceptance. |
| Hut in the Woods | 2,011 | Hans Weingartner | Drama | 7 | 26 | German | Two misfit males, one man-child, one boy, find each other, building a small cabin in the woods to create a new life. Their daily struggle for survival creates a strong bond between them until the hut is destroyed and one of the boys carted off. The former psychiatric patient is told that his friend was just a figment of his imagination, but this provokes him to fight back and prove the boy's existence. |
| The Flight of the Eagle | 1,982 | Jan Troell | Drama, Adventure | 7 | 26 | Swedish | The Swedish 19th century engineer Salomon August Andrée sets out to become the first man on the north pole. His idea is to launch a polar expedition using a hydrogen balloon, together with two friends. The balloon, "The Eagle", takes off from Svalbard in 1897, but the three men are never heard from again. |
| The Tramp and the Dictator | 2,002 | Kevin Brownlow | Documentary, TV Movie | 7 | 25 | English | A look at the parallel lives of Charlie Chaplin and Adolf Hitler and how they crossed with the creation of the film “The Great Dictator,” released in 1940. |
| Roses for the Prosecutor | 1,959 | Wolfgang Staudte | Drama, Comedy | 7 | 21 | German | April 1945. Because he stole two bars of chocolate, the soldier Rudi is sentenced to death by the court-martial judge Dr. Schramm. Rudi manages to escape from the firing squad at the last minute, and since the end of the war has been making a meager living as a street peddler. Years later, Dr. Schramm is now a respected public prosecutor. By chance, he runs into Rudi one day on the street. Afraid that Rudi will blow the whistle on him, Dr. Schramm wants to scare him out of town. He has Rudi arrested and bullied by the police. |
| Graf Porno und seine Mädchen | 1,969 | Günter Hendel | Comedy | 7 | 19 | German | Graf Porno is a real playboy who makes money out of everything that falls into his hands. During great sex parties he puts his girls on and afterwards everything that is not nailed down is missing. Harry Holst, on the other hand, is a young man who has successfully completed a correspondence course as a private detective and is now waiting for clients...waiting and waiting. |
| The Street | 1,923 | Karl Grune | Drama, Crime | 7 | 18 | German | The movie follows two distinct plot lines until the two eventually merge: the first is that of the bored middle-aged man seeking a departure from monotony in his life; the second is that of the blind man and the little boy, his grandson, who are interdependent. None of the characters have been given names and are therefore referred to only by description. The city is an expressionistic nightmare, a dangerous and chaotic place. |
| At Eye Level | 2,016 | Joachim Dollhopf | Comedy, Drama, Family | 7 | 16 | German | 11-year-old Michi lives in a children's home, every day fighting to win the respect of the other kids, till the day he finds his real dad, Tom - wh... |
| Visions of Eight | 1,973 | Miloš Forman | Documentary | 7 | 16 | English | Eight acclaimed filmmakers bring their unique and differing perspectives to the 1972 Summer Olympic Games held in Munich. The segments include Lelouch's take on Olympic losers and their struggle to remain dignified even in the face of bitter disappointment and defeat; Zetterling's dramatic exploration of the world of weightlifting; and Pfleghar's piece on young Russian gymnast Ludmilla Tourischev's majestic performance on the uneven bars. |
| Hochzeit auf Immenhof | 1,956 | Volker von Collande | Comedy, Drama, Family | 7 | 16 | German | The Immenhof has been closed by officials, awaiting auction. In the meantime, Angela has died, so Jochen is now a widower. Oma Jantzen and Angela's younger sisters Dick and Dalli live with him in the forester's house. In order to save the manor house, Dalli has started a "pony circus" with the village children in the barn, while Dick has given up hope of Ethelbert ever returning. |
| Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution | 2,017 | Yony Leyser | Documentary, Music | 7 | 14 | English | A documentary on Queercore, the cultural and social movement that began as an offshoot of punk and was distinguished by its discontent with society's disapproval of the gay, bisexual, lesbian and transgender communities. |
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