German Movie Gems
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- DirectorStefan RuzowitzkyStarsKarl MarkovicsAugust DiehlDevid StriesowThe story of the Operation Bernhard, the largest counterfeiting operation in history, carried out by Germany during World War II.Holocaust drama, based on a true story
2008 Oscar "Best Foreign Language Film" - DirectorTom TykwerStarsFranka PotenteMoritz BleibtreuHerbert KnaupAfter a botched money delivery, Lola has 20 minutes to come up with 100,000 Deutschmarks.Crime-Thriller mixed with butterfly effect
One event - three different outcomes - DirectorWolfgang PetersenStarsJürgen ProchnowHerbert GrönemeyerKlaus WennemannA German U-boat stalks the frigid waters of the North Atlantic as its young crew experience the sheer terror and claustrophobic life of a submariner in World War II.Epic submarine thriller, based on true events in the WW2
- DirectorOliver HirschbiegelStarsBruno GanzAlexandra Maria LaraUlrich MatthesTraudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII.War Drama
Realistic portrayal of Hitler's final ten days in his bunker - DirectorUli EdelStarsNatja BrunckhorstEberhard AurigaPeggy BussieckA 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.Realistic portray of the Berlin drug scene, based on a true story
- DirectorFlorian Henckel von DonnersmarckStarsUlrich MüheMartina GedeckSebastian KochIn 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.Drama, about the secret police in East Germany
2007 Oscar "Best Foreign Language Film - DirectorBernhard WickiStarsVolker BohnetFritz WepperMichael HinzIn 1945, Germany is being overrun, and nobody is left to fight but teenagers.Anti-war film, based on real events in WW2
- DirectorWolfgang BeckerStarsDaniel BrühlKatrin SassChulpan KhamatovaIn 1990, to protect his fragile mother from a fatal shock after a long coma, a young man must keep her from learning that her beloved nation of East Germany as she knew it has disappeared.Tragicomedy
About life in East Germany, after and before the fall of the Berlin Wall - DirectorFatih AkinStarsBirol ÜnelSibel KekilliGüven KiraçWith 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.German-turkish Drama film about suicide and love
- DirectorAgnieszka HollandStarsSolomon PerelMarco HofschneiderRené HofschneiderA boy in Nazi Germany, trying to conceal that he is Jewish, joins the Hitler Youth.Polnish-german historical drama
The story of a communist jew in the Hitler Youth, based on a true story - DirectorJean-Jacques AnnaudStarsSean ConneryChristian SlaterHelmut QualtingerAn intellectually nonconformist friar investigates a series of mysterious deaths in an isolated abbey.French-italian-german co-production
Medieval mystery crime movie - DirectorChristian ZübertStarsLucas GregorowiczMoritz BleibtreuMarie ZielckeStefan and Kai have good going business, self-grown cannabis screened as pizza delivering service. For now they only have to deal with aphids.Stoner Comedy
- DirectorWerner HerzogStarsKlaus KinskiRuy GuerraHelena RojoIn the 16th century, the ruthless and insane Don Lope de Aguirre leads a Spanish expedition in search of El Dorado.Adventure movie about the spanish Conquistadors
- DirectorVolker SchlöndorffStarsDavid BennentMario AdorfAngela WinklerIn 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.Surrealistic Black Comedy, settled before and during the Third Reich
1980 Oscar "Best Foreign Language Film" - DirectorLeander HaußmannStarsChristian UlmenKatja DanowskiDetlev BuckBarkeeper 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.Comedy/Drama
Berlin's (night)life just days before the Fall of the Berlin Wall - DirectorAkizStarsNatalia AvelonMatthias SchweighöferDavid SchellerUschi 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.The story of Uschi Obermayer, hippie girl and german groupie, who had sexual relations with Mick Jagger, Keith Richard and Jimi Hendrix, based on a true story
- DirectorMarcus H. RosenmüllerStarsMarkus KrojerFritz KarlJürgen TonkelSebastian, an 11-year-old Bavarian boy, feels responsible for his mother's death, who died during his birth, and naively attempts multiple ways to reach immortality (procreation, reincarnation, sanctification) to prevent his tenure in hellComedy, the delightful story about an 11 years old boy in Bavaria
- DirectorFatih AkinStarsBaki DavrakGürsoy GemecCengiz DanerA Turkish man travels to Istanbul to find the daughter of his father's former girlfriend.German-turkish drama about faith, love and destiny
- DirectorCaroline LinkStarsSylvie TestudTatjana TriebHowie SeagoSince the earliest days in her childhood Lara has had a difficult but important task. Both her parents are deaf-mute and Lara has to translate from sign-language to the spoken word and vice versa when her parents want to communicate with other people. Getting older and more mature she becomes interested in music and starts to play clarinet very successfully. However her parents are deaf, they cannot share Lara's musical career. The day comes when Lara has to decide between her parents and her own ambitions.Drama, about the daugther of deaf parents who discovers the world of music
- DirectorPaul HaratherStarsJosef HaderAlfred DorferMaria HofstätterHeinzi Boesel and Kurt Fellner are two Austrian health inspectors forced to work together, traveling through Austria. Over time a beautiful friendship evolves between the odd couple who couldn't stand each other initially; a friendship that even overcomes the boundaries of great tragedy.Tragicomedy and road movie
- DirectorMichael HanekeStarsChristian FriedelErnst JacobiLeonie BeneschStrange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. Who is responsible?Drama, about life in 1910s in Germany
- DirectorSönke WortmannStarsLouis KlamrothPeter LohmeyerJohanna GastdorfA young boy from a working class family in post-war Germany struggles with his estranged father returning from war captivity, while a friend of his plays for the German National Soccer Team at the 1954 FIFA World Cup in Switzerland.Movie about the post-war era in Germany and the unexpected West German miracle victory in the 1954 World Cup Final
- DirectorVolker SchlöndorffStarsUlrich MatthesAugust DiehlHilmar ThateA drama loosely based on Jean Bernard's Nazi-era prison diary.Historical Holocaust Drama about a priest imprisoned in KZ, based loosly on a real story
- DirectorHarald SicheritzStarsRoland DüringerNina ProllRudolf RohaczekHerbert Krcal lives with his wife and son in a small apartment in Vienna. He dreams of owning his own house but houses are expensive. During a walk in the woods, he finds an old run-down house and decides to buy it. When he begins the renovation he realizes that his new home requires more than some wallpaper and paint. Soon the do-it-yourself handyman is caught up in a home building nightmare.One of Austrians finest comedies.
- DirectorRalf HuettnerStarsFlorian David FitzKaroline HerfurthHeino FerchA young man suffering from Tourette's syndrome absconds from an institution with two other inhabitants to travel to Italy to fulfill his mother's last wish.Delightful Tragicomedy with profound acting