In 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.
Jargen Prochnow, Herbert Graanemeyer, Klaus Wennemann
Plot
A 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.
TV | Crime, Drama | Germany, USA | German, English
Writer
Baran bo Odar, Jantje Friese
Cast
Louis Hofmann, Karoline Eichhorn, Lisa Vicari
Plot
A family saga with a supernatural twist, set in a German town where the disappearance of two young children exposes the relationships among four families.
After a Hmong teenager tries to steal his prized 1972 Gran Torino, a disgruntled, prejudiced Korean War veteran seeks to redeem both the boy and himself.
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
Movie | Drama | Germany, France | English, Spanish
Director
Wim Wenders
Writer
L.M. Kit Carson, Sam Shepard, Walter Donohue
Cast
Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell
Plot
Travis Henderson, an aimless drifter who has been missing for four years, wanders out of the desert and must reconnect with society, himself, his life, and his family.
Movie | Crime, Drama | Germany, USA | English, Spanish
Director
Steven Soderbergh
Writer
Simon Moore, Stephen Gaghan
Cast
Michael Douglas, Benicio Del Toro, Catherine Zeta-Jones
Plot
A conservative judge is appointed by the President to spearhead America's escalating war against drugs, only to discover that his teenage daughter is a crack addict. Two DEA agents protect an informant. A jailed drug baron's wife ...
Movie | Drama, Fantasy | Germany, France | German, English
Director
Wim Wenders
Writer
Wim Wenders, Peter Handke, Richard Reitinger
Cast
Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander
Plot
An angel tires of his purely ethereal life of merely overseeing the human activity of Berlin's residents, and longs for the tangible joys of physical existence when he falls in love with a mortal.
Bernd Lichtenberg, Wolfgang Becker, Achim von Borries
Cast
Daniel Brahl, Katrin Sass, Chulpan Khamatova
Plot
In 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.
Movie | Drama, Mystery | Germany, Austria | German, Italian
Director
Michael Haneke
Writer
Michael Haneke
Cast
Christian Friedel, Ernst Jacobi, Leonie Benesch
Plot
Strange 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?
Brigitte Mira, El Hedi ben Salem, Barbara Valentin
Plot
A lonely widow meets a much younger Moroccan worker in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love, to their own surprise and to the outright shock of their families, colleagues, and drinking buddies.
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.
A handsome prince rides a flying horse to faraway lands and embarks on magical adventures, which include befriending a witch, meeting Aladdin, battling demons and falling in love with a princess.
Siegfried, son of King Siegmund of Xanten, sets off on a treacherous journey to the Kingdom of Burgundy to ask King Gunther for the hand of his sister, the beautiful Princess Kriemhild.
Movie | Drama, Romance | Germany, Turkey | German, Turkish
Director
Fatih Akin
Writer
Fatih Akin
Cast
Birol aœnel, Sibel Kekilli, Gaven Kiraa§
Plot
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.
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.
Movie | Drama, Horror | Germany, France | German, English
Director
Werner Herzog
Writer
Werner Herzog, Tom Shachtman, Martje Grohmann
Cast
Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani, Bruno Ganz
Plot
Count Dracula moves from Transylvania to Wismar, spreading the Black Plague across the land. Only a woman pure of heart can bring an end to his reign of horror.
Princess Kriemhild vows to avenge her husband's murder but must overcome her brothers who swore allegiance to Hagen. She marries Etzel, King of the Huns, and persuades his army to attack Hagen, but she loses more than she bargaine...
Movie | Documentary, Music | Germany, USA | English, Spanish
Director
Wim Wenders
Writer
Wim Wenders, Nick Gold
Cast
Compay Segundo, Ibrahim Ferrer, Ruben Gonza¡lez
Plot
Aging Cuban musicians whose talents had been virtually forgotten following Castro's takeover of Cuba, are brought out of retirement by Ry Cooder, who travelled to Havana in order to bring the musicians together, resulting in trium...
Movie | Drama, Mystery | Germany, USA | English, German
Director
Stephen Daldry
Writer
David Hare, Bernhard Schlink
Cast
Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, Bruno Ganz
Plot
Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.
Claude Bukowski leaves the family ranch in Oklahoma for New York where he is rapidly embraced into the hippie group of youngsters led by Berger, yet he's already been drafted. He soon falls in love with Sheila Franklin, a rich gir...
Pea Fraahlich, Peter Ma¤rthesheimer, Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Cast
Hanna Schygulla, Klaus Laawitsch, Ivan Desny
Plot
Maria marries Hermann Braun in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. Alone, Maria puts to use her beauty and ambition in order to find prosperity during Germany's "economic miracle" of the 1950s.
In late-1920s Berlin, Franz Biberkopf is released from prison and vows to go straight. However, he soon finds himself embroiled in the city's criminal underworld.
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.
In Berlin, an alcoholic man, recently released from prison, joins his elderly friend and a prostitute in a determined dream to leave Germany and seek a better life in Wisconsin.
Movie | Drama, Thriller | Germany, France | German
Director
Dennis Gansel
Writer
Ron Jones, Johnny Dawkins, Ron Birnbach
Cast
Jargen Vogel, Frederick Lau, Max Riemelt
Plot
A high school teacher's experiment to demonstrate to his students what life is like under a dictatorship spins horribly out of control when he forms a social unit with a life of its own.
Follows a young rapper in the Detroit area, struggling with every aspect of his life; he wants to make it big but his friends and foes make this odyssey of rap harder than it may seem.
Movie | Drama, Thriller | Germany | German, English
Director
Oliver Hirschbiegel
Writer
Mario Giordano, Christoph Darnsta¤dt, Don Bohlinger
Cast
Moritz Bleibtreu, Christian Berkel, Oliver Stokowski
Plot
For two weeks, 20 male participants are hired to play prisoners and guards in a prison. The "prisoners" have to follow seemingly mild rules, and the "guards" are told to retain order without using physical violence.
A dramatization of the final days of Sophie Scholl, one of the most famous members of the German World War II anti-Nazi resistance movement, The White Rose.
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.
In 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.
Movie | Crime, Drama | Germany, France | German, English
Director
Sebastian Schipper
Writer
Sebastian Schipper, Olivia Neergaard-Holm, Eike Frederik Schulz
Cast
Laia Costa, Frederick Lau, Franz Rogowski
Plot
A young Spanish woman who has recently moved to Berlin finds her flirtation with a local guy turn potentially deadly as their night out with his friends reveals a dangerous secret.
Movie | Short, Comedy | Germany, Switzerland | English, German
Director
Heinz Dunkhase, Franco Marazzi
Writer
Peter Frankenfeld, Freddie Frinton, Lauri Wylie
Cast
Freddie Frinton, May Warden, Heinz Piper
Plot
At Miss Sophie's 90th birthday dinner, her butler James must fill in for her four departed friends - and that includes lots of drinks before every course.
Eberhard Keindorff, Johanna Sibelius, Fritz Staudte
Cast
Hildegard Knef, Elly Burgmer, Erna Sellmer
Plot
After returning from a concentration camp, Susanne finds an ex-soldier living in her apartment. Together the two try to move past their experiences during World War II.
Movie | Adventure, Drama | Germany, Japan | English, Cree
Director
Jim Jarmusch
Writer
Jim Jarmusch
Cast
Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Crispin Glover
Plot
On the run after murdering a man, accountant William Blake encounters a strange Native American man named Nobody who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.
PROT is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a faraway planet named K-PAX. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations.
Movie | Comedy, Crime | Germany, USA | German, French
Director
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Writer
Bertolt Brecht, Leo Lania, Ladislaus Vajda
Cast
Rudolf Forster, Lotte Lenya, Carola Neher
Plot
The Gangster Macheath secretly marries the daughter of beggar king Peachum. When Peachum finds out, he instructs the police chief Brown to arrest and hang Macheath. If not, all the beggars of Soho will disturb the upcoming coronat...
A young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière's Tartuffe, in order to expose the old man's hypocritical governess who covets his own inheritance.
Dominique Horwitz, Thomas Kretschmann, Jochen Nickel
Plot
The story follows a group of German soldiers, from their Italian R&R in the summer of 1942 to the frozen steppes of Soviet Russia and ending with the battle for Stalingrad.
Daniel F. Galouye (novel), Fritz Maller-Scherz (teleplay), Rainer Werner Fassbinder (teleplay)
Cast
Klaus Laawitsch, Barbara Valentin, Mascha Rabben
Plot
In the future, Simulacron, a computer project simulating reality, encounters strange occurrences after its leader's death. Dr. Stiller questions the sudden disappearance of a friend and wonders if Simulacron holds the answers.
Movie | Drama, War | Germany, USA | English, German
Director
Brian Percival
Writer
Markus Zusak, Michael Petroni
Cast
Sophie Nelisse, Geoffrey Rush, Emily Watson
Plot
While subjected to the horrors of World War II Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. In the basement of her home, a Jewish refugee is being protected by her adoptive parents.
Movie | Action, Biography | Germany, France | German, English
Director
Uli Edel
Writer
Bernd Eichinger, Uli Edel, Stefan Aust
Cast
Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu, Johanna Wokalek
Plot
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.
Joe May's sensual drama of life in the Berlin underworld is in many ways the perfect summation of German filmmaking in the silent era: a dazzling visual style, a psychological approach to its characters, and the ability to take a ...
Helena Zengel, Albrecht Schuch, Gabriela Maria Schmeide
Plot
9-year-old Benni is a toss-up between institutions that cannot tackle her outbursts. She wants to move in with her mother, but she can not handle her wild daughter. After Micha is hired Benni slowly opens up and attaches herself t...
Movie | Biography, Drama | Germany, Italy | German, Russian
Director
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Writer
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Cast
Tom Schilling, Sebastian Koch, Paula Beer
Plot
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.
Wolfgang Liebeneiner, Carl Esmond, Magda Schneider
Plot
Vienna in the beginning of the twentieth century. Cavalry Lieutenant Fritz Lobheimer is about to end his affair with Baroness Eggerdorff when he meets the young Christine, the daughter of an opera violinist. Baron Eggerdorff howev...
Prologue: The murderer "Boss" Huller - after having spent ten years in prison - breaks his silence to tell the warden his story. "Boss", a former trapeze artist, and his wife own a cheap side-show that displays ''erotic sensations...
