German Favs
by blowcake | created - 27 Nov 2011 | updated - 15 Jan 2012 | Public- Instant Watch Options
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1. Nichts bereuen (2001)
104 min | Drama, Comedy, Romance
A recent high school grad still pines for an old classmate, and devises a stunt to get her attention.
Director: Benjamin Quabeck | Stars: Daniel Brühl, Jessica Schwarz, Marie-Lou Sellem, Denis Moschitto
Votes: 1,281
2. The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)
R | 150 min | Action, Biography, Crime
A look at Germany's terrorist group, The Red Army Faction (RAF), which organized bombings, robberies, kidnappings, and assassinations in the late 1960s and '70s.
Director: Uli Edel | Stars: Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu, Johanna Wokalek, Bruno Ganz
Votes: 40,134 | Gross: $0.48M
3. Eight Miles High (2007)
Unrated | 114 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
Uschi Obermeier, a German cover model from the 1960s who embodied the dreams of the hippie generation - joins a commune, begins a modelling career, meets rock stars, and travels the world in a bus, enjoying love, drugs and freedom.
Director: Akiz | Stars: Natalia Avelon, Matthias Schweighöfer, David Scheller, Friederike Kempter
Votes: 3,028
4. Sun Alley (1999)
101 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A group of kids grows up on the east side of the Sonnenallee in Berlin, right next to one of the few border crossings between East and West Germany. The antics of the people on Sonnenallee all show the absurdity of their everyday life.
Director: Leander Haußmann | Stars: Alexander Scheer, Alexander Beyer, Robert Stadlober, Teresa Weißbach
Votes: 7,263
5. Crazy (2000)
97 min | Drama
16 year old, paralyzed Benjamin switches to a boarding school to get better grades where he has to struggle with the various problems of coming of age: He falls in love with the school's dream girl Malen.
Director: Hans-Christian Schmid | Stars: Robert Stadlober, Tom Schilling, Oona-Devi Liebich, Julia Hummer
Votes: 4,335
6. Hilde (2009)
137 min | Biography, Drama, Music
A biography of Hildegard Knef, one of Germany's biggest post-war stars.
Director: Kai Wessel | Stars: Heike Makatsch, Dan Stevens, Monica Bleibtreu, Hanns Zischler
Votes: 799
7. Berlin am Meer (2008)
98 min | Drama, Romance
They are students - at least that's what their parents think - they are the disc-jockeys in the in-clubs in town, they party with no end, they fall in love, they have the best summer in their life in the coolest city of the world: Berlin.
Director: Wolfgang Eissler | Stars: Robert Stadlober, Anna Brüggemann, Axel Schreiber, Jana Pallaske
Votes: 308
8. Kein Pardon (1993)
97 min | Comedy
Peter Schlönzke, adoring fan a TV show wants to be like the show's host. When he attends a talent contest, he fails entirely and manages to get only a job as cable person. His backstage view lets him see the real personality of his idol.
Director: Hape Kerkeling | Stars: Hape Kerkeling, Heinz Schenk, Elisabeth Volkmann, Margret Homeyer
Votes: 2,427
9. Christiane F. (1981)
R | 138 min | Biography, Drama
A teen girl in 1970s Berlin becomes addicted to heroin. Everything in her life slowly begins to distort and disappear as she befriends a small crew of junkies and falls in love with a drug-abusing male prostitute.
Director: Uli Edel | Stars: Natja Brunckhorst, Eberhard Auriga, Peggy Bussieck, Lothar Chamski
Votes: 29,431
10. Berlin Blues (2003)
105 min | Comedy, Drama
Barkeeper Frank, semi-formally called "Herr Lehmann", is part of a lethargic West Berlin-microcosm. His lifestyle is disturbed when his parents show up for a visit, things go awry with his girlfriend and his best friend acts strange.
Director: Leander Haußmann | Stars: Christian Ulmen, Katja Danowski, Detlev Buck, Janek Rieke
Votes: 7,632
11. Engel & Joe (2001)
93 min | Drama, Romance
A love story about a 17-year-old punk-rocker and a 15-year-old runaway girl.
Director: Vanessa Jopp | Stars: Robert Stadlober, Jana Pallaske, Sabine Berg, Mirko Lang
Votes: 976
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