Berlinale 16
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1. Aloys (2016)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Fantasy
A lonely private investigator is contacted by a mysterious woman who pulls him into a mind game known as 'telephone walking'. Fascinated by her voice, Aloys discovers an imaginary universe that allows him to break out of his isolation.
Director: Tobias Nölle | Stars: Georg Friedrich, Tilde von Overbeck, Kamil Krejcí, Yufei Li
Votes: 2,253
2. Goat (2016)
R | 96 min | Drama
Reeling from a terrifying assault, a 19 year-old enrolls into college with his brother and pledges the same fraternity. What happens there in the name of "brotherhood" tests him and his loyalty to his brother in brutal ways.
Director: Andrew Neel | Stars: Ben Schnetzer, Nick Jonas, Gus Halper, Danny Flaherty
Votes: 8,110 | Gross: $0.02M
3. Greetings from Fukushima (2016)
108 min | Drama
A young German woman bonds with an elderly Japanese woman while touring the Fukushima region of Japan in the aftermath of the 2011 earthquake.
Director: Doris Dörrie | Stars: Rosalie Thomass, Kaori Momoi, Nami Kamata, Moshe Cohen
Votes: 831
4. Indignation (2016)
R | 110 min | Drama, Romance
In 1951, Marcus, a working-class Jewish student from New Jersey, attends a small Ohio college, where he struggles with sexual repression and cultural disaffection, amid the ongoing Korean War.
Director: James Schamus | Stars: Logan Lerman, Sarah Gadon, Tijuana Ricks, Sue Dahlman
Votes: 12,629 | Gross: $3.40M
5. La helada negra (2015)
90 min | Drama
A young woman arrives at a farm threatened by a plague. The bewildered farmers yield to her interventions and the immediate neighborhood come to think of Alejandra as their great hope and she starts to be revered like a saint.
Director: Maximiliano Schonfeld | Stars: Rubén Deming, Florencia Domínguez, Elio Guerra, Sheila Kliphan
Votes: 95
6. Little Men (2016)
PG | 85 min | Drama
A new pair of best friends have their bond tested by their parents' battle over a dress shop lease.
Director: Ira Sachs | Stars: Greg Kinnear, Jennifer Ehle, Paulina García, Theo Taplitz
Votes: 7,815 | Gross: $0.70M
7. The Wounded Angel (2016)
Not Rated | 113 min | Drama
In a godforsaken Kazakh village four adolescent teenagers try to find their place in the world.
Director: Emir Baigazin | Stars: Omar Adilov, Timur Aidarbekov, Madiyar Aripbay, Anzara Barlykova
Votes: 291
8. Der Ost-Komplex (2016)
90 min | Documentary
Even now, twenty-five years after German reunification, historians are still debating whether the GDR was an illegitimate state. In his current work, Jochen Hick tells the story of ex-GDR ... See full summary »
Director: Jochen Hick | Stars: Kurt Biedenkopf, Mario Röllig, Sahra Wagenknecht
Votes: 24
9. Mapplethorpe (2018)
Unrated | 102 min | Biography, Drama
A look at the life of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe from his rise to fame in the 1970s to his untimely death in 1989.
Director: Ondi Timoner | Stars: Matt Smith, Marianne Rendón, John Benjamin Hickey, Brandon Sklenar
Votes: 1,859 | Gross: $0.09M
10. Uncle Howard (2016)
TV-MA | 96 min | Documentary, Biography
An intertwining tale of past and present this Award Winning Sundance documentary rediscovers NYC filmmaker Howard Brookner and his body of work, unveiled by his nephew, after being buried in William S. Burroughs bunker for over 30 years.
Director: Aaron Brookner | Stars: Aaron Brookner, John Giorno, Jim Jarmusch, Tom DiCillo
Votes: 280
11. While the Women Are Sleeping (2016)
103 min | Drama, Mystery
While on vacation with his wife, a writer begins following another man and woman who are guests at the resort hotel where he stays.
Director: Wayne Wang | Stars: Takeshi Kitano, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Sayuri Oyamada, Shioli Kutsuna
Votes: 476
12. A Magical Substance Flows Into Me (2015)
68 min | Documentary
Robert Lachmann was a German-Jewish ethnomusicologist. In the 1930s, his radio show "Oriental Music" explored the musical traditions of Palestine and included regular live performances by ... See full summary »
Director: Jumana Manna
Votes: 38
13. A Road (2015)
85 min | Drama
The protagonist loved catching lizards when he was in grade school. Now he has entered an art university, which was a dream come true, but where has the excitement of catching lizards gone?... See full summary »
Director: Daichi Sugimoto | Stars: Yuta Katsukura, Daichi Sugimoto, Rika Sugimoto
Votes: 15
14. Baden Baden (2016)
Not Rated | 96 min | Comedy, Drama
Charts the trials and tribulations of Ana, a free-spirited 26 year-old returning home to Strasbourg for the summer after living abroad for long enough to feel out of place everywhere.
Director: Rachel Lang | Stars: Salomé Richard, Claude Gensac, Lazare Gousseau, Swann Arlaud
Votes: 796
15. The End (I) (2016)
85 min | Drama
Depardieu plays an unnamed hunter and we join him and his dog as they depart for a nearby forest to snare some rabbits - or perhaps he's hunting for something far more elusive? His ... See full summary »
Director: Guillaume Nicloux | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Audrey Bonnet, Swann Arlaud, Xavier Beauvois
Votes: 321
16. Elixir (II) (2015)
116 min | Drama
The surrealists are alive and well in contemporary Berlin. Living together in a decaying commune called the Glasshouse, the luminaries of art's most controversial scene wrestle with a city inclined to be rid of them, an art world being bought out by the rich, and years of wild living and simmering grudges. When founding figure Jacques dies and Lexia, a mysterious Bosnian stray is added to the mix... See full summary »
Director: Brodie Higgs | Stars: Rob Alec, Swann Arlaud, Peter Barron, Alexander Coggin
Votes: 43
17. Fantastic (2016)
75 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An absurdist, pastel noir that documents events after an artist flees New York and winds up dead in a small town. A local sheriff, an old lover, and a distant friend try to sort out what's ... See full summary »
Director: Offer Egozy | Stars: Alexandra Anthony, Persephone Apostolou, Eddie Kehler, Henry LeBlanc
Votes: 23
18. The Son of Joseph (2016)
113 min | Drama
A discontented Parisian teenager in search of a father with (Mathieu Amalric) and (Fabrizio Rongione) as his, respectively, callous and gentle alternative paternal options, and (Natacha Régnier) as his single mother.
Director: Eugène Green | Stars: Victor Ezenfis, Natacha Régnier, Fabrizio Rongione, Mathieu Amalric
Votes: 902 | Gross: $0.03M
19. Inertia (III) (2015)
75 min | Drama
Mira Segal wakes up screaming one morning to discover that her husband has disappeared. The police open a Missing Person file and advise her to wait. As weeks turn into months, Mira ... See full summary »
Director: Idan Haguel | Stars: Ilanit Ben-Yaakov, Galia Ishai, Mohammad Bakri, Ami Weinberg
Votes: 37
20. Lily Lane (2016)
91 min | Drama
A mother seeks out her estranged father in the aftermath of her mother's death.
Director: Benedek Fliegauf | Stars: Angéla Stefanovics, Bálint Sótonyi, Miklós Székely B., Mária Gindert
Votes: 169
21. Panamerican Machinery (2016)
TV-14 | 90 min | Comedy, Drama
It's Friday morning at Pan American Machinery Inc., a company specializing in selling and repairing machines for construction and destruction. The employees are already winding down for the... See full summary »
Director: Joaquin del Paso | Stars: Javier Zaragoza, Ramiro Orozco, Irene Ramirez, Edmundo Mosqueira
Votes: 309
22. We Are Never Alone (2016)
105 min | Drama
A paranoid prison guard moves into a village flanked by a state motorway. He befriends his new neighbour, an unemployed hypochondriac supported by his wife, working in the local grocery. ... See full summary »
Director: Petr Václav | Stars: Klaudia Dudová, Zdenek Godla, Miroslav Hanus, Karel Roden
Votes: 122
23. P.S. Jerusalem (2015)
87 min | Documentary
P.S. Jerusalem is about a family's personal journey to establish themselves in Jerusalem in a quest to find a place they can call "home."
Director: Danae Elon | Stars: Luai Musa Hatib, Amos Touitou Elon, Andrei Touitou Elon, Tristan Touitou Elon
Votes: 59
24. An Outpost of Progress (2016)
121 min | Drama
At the end of the nineteenth century, two inexperienced Portuguese colonizers, with a vague intention of civilizing the colonies, disembark in a remote part of the Congo River in order to ... See full summary »
Director: Hugo Vieira da Silva | Stars: Nuno Lopes, Ivo Alexandre, David Caracol, Inês Helena
Votes: 144
25. Tempestad (2016)
105 min | Documentary
The emotional journeys of two women victimized by corruption and injustice in Mexico and of the love, dignity and resistance that allowed them to survive.
Director: Tatiana Huezo
Votes: 889
26. Toz Bezi (2015)
99 min | Drama
Nesrin and Hatun are two Kurdish cleaning women living in Istanbul. While Nesrin tries to survive with her little daughter, trying to understand why her husband left her, Hatun dreams of buying a house in the district where they clean.
Director: Ahu Öztürk | Stars: Asiye Dinçsoy, Nazan Kesal, Didem Inselel, Serra Yilmaz
Votes: 1,218
27. Humidity (2016)
113 min | Drama, Mystery
The wife of a successful construction manager has disappeared after an ordinary morning in Belgrade. He is assured she will come back and continues with life, as usual. But, maybe she is just the first of the collapsed dominoes.
Director: Nikola Ljuca | Stars: Milos Timotijevic, Tamara Krcunovic, Maria Kraakman, Katarina Markovic
Votes: 858
28. The Yard (2016)
80 min | Drama
A poet and writer gets fired from his job at a local newspaper after writing a review of his own work. To make ends meet he gets a job at the shipyard, a world completely different from the one he is used to.
Director: Måns Månsson | Stars: Anders Mossling, Hilal Shoman, Isaak Thedoridis, Korosh Mirhosseini
Votes: 545
29. A Quiet Passion (2016)
PG-13 | 125 min | Biography, Drama
The story of American poet Emily Dickinson from her early days as a young schoolgirl to her later years as a reclusive, unrecognized artist.
Director: Terence Davies | Stars: Emma Bell, Sara Vertongen, Rose Williams, Benjamin Wainwright
Votes: 6,316 | Gross: $1.86M
30. Creepy (2016)
Not Rated | 130 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Takakura is a former detective. He receives a request from his ex-colleague, Nogami, to examine a missing family case that occurred six years earlier. Takakura follows Saki's memory. She is... See full summary »
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Stars: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Yûko Takeuchi, Toru Baba, Ryôko Fujino
Votes: 5,989
31. A Serious Game (2016)
115 min | Drama, Romance
An adaptation of Hjalmar Söderberg's novel "The Serious Game" from 1912. The great Swedish love story.
Director: Pernilla August | Stars: Sverrir Gudnason, Karin Franz Körlof, Liv Mjönes, Michael Nyqvist
Votes: 1,426
32. Miles Ahead (2015)
R | 100 min | Biography, Drama, Music
An exploration of the life and music of Miles Davis.
Director: Don Cheadle | Stars: Don Cheadle, Emayatzy Corinealdi, Ewan McGregor, Michael Stuhlbarg
Votes: 10,568 | Gross: $2.61M
33. The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble (2015)
PG-13 | 96 min | Documentary, Music
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma and other international artists of The Silk Road Project discuss their philosophies on music and culture.
Director: Morgan Neville | Stars: Yo-Yo Ma, Kinan Azmeh, Kayhan Kalhor, Cristina Pato
Votes: 744 | Gross: $1.16M
34. Where to Invade Next (2015)
R | 120 min | Documentary, Comedy
To learn what the USA can learn from other nations, Michael Moore playfully "invades" them to see what they have to offer.
Director: Michael Moore | Stars: Michael Moore, Johnny Fancelli, Christina Fancelli, Lorena Lardini
Votes: 25,716 | Gross: $3.82M
35. The Seasons In Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger (2016)
90 min | Documentary, Biography
The Seasons in Quincy' is the result of a five-year project by Tilda Swinton, Colin MacCabe and Christopher Roth to produce a portrait of the intellectual and storyteller John Berger. It ... See full summary »
Directors: Bartek Dziadosz, Colin MacCabe, Christopher Roth, Tilda Swinton | Stars: John Berger, Ben Lerner, Colin MacCabe, Christopher Roth
Votes: 244 | Gross: $0.02M
36. News from Planet Mars (2016)
Not Rated | 101 min | Comedy, Drama
Philippe Mars is a pleasant 40-something whose meeting with a psychotic college friend who is in search of love profoundly changes his life.
Director: Dominik Moll | Stars: François Damiens, Vincent Macaigne, Veerle Baetens, Jeanne Guittet
Votes: 1,346
37. Hedi (2016)
88 min | Drama, Romance
Hedi, a young man with great dreams, is struggling his way through social conventions in Tunisia. While his mother tries to decide his life for him, Hedi meets Rim and suddenly he discovers that his world goes beyond and above conventions.
Director: Mohamed Ben Attia | Stars: Majd Mastoura, Rym Ben Messaoud, Sabah Bouzouita, Hakim Boumsaoudi
Votes: 1,327
38. The Patriarch (2016)
103 min | Drama
From the author of "The Whale Rider", a tale of family rivalry and reconciliation, set against the stunning backdrop of rural New Zealand in the 1960s.
Director: Lee Tamahori | Stars: Temuera Morrison, Akuhata Keefe, Nancy Brunning, Jim Moriarty
Votes: 1,029
39. Saint Amour (2016)
101 min | Comedy, Drama
Chaos ensues when a father and son travel to a farm festival via the Wine Trail in a Parisian taxi.
Directors: Benoît Delépine, Gustave Kervern | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Benoît Poelvoorde, Vincent Lacoste, Céline Sallette
Votes: 1,560
40. Soy Nero (2016)
R | 117 min | Drama
Nero, a deported Mexican, returns illegally to the U.S in search of his identity. He joins the U.S army as a Green card soldier, a shortcut to citizenship. Lost in a maze, Nero fights to obtain his nationality.
Director: Rafi Pitts | Stars: Rory Cochrane, Joel McKinnon Miller, Michael Harney, Khleo Thomas
Votes: 872
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