FR #53 | Movie | Drama, History | Germany, France | German, Japanese
Director
Florian Henckel Von Donnersmarck
Writer
Florian Henckel Von Donnersmarck
Cast
Ulrich Muhe, Martina Gedeck, Sebastian Koch
Plot
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.
FR #77 | Movie | War, Thriller | Germany | English, German
Director
Wolfgang Petersen
Writer
Lothar G. Buchheim, Wolfgang Petersen
Cast
Jurgen Prochnow, Herbert Gronemeyer, 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.
FR #98 | TV | Sci-Fi, Thriller | Germany, USA | German, Turkish
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.
FR #123 | Movie | Sci-Fi, Drama | Germany | German, English
Director
Fritz Lang
Writer
Thea Von Harbou, Fritz Lang
Cast
Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Frohlich
Plot
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.
FR #242 | Movie | History, Drama | Germany, USA | English, German
Director
Quentin Tarantino
Writer
Quentin Tarantino
Cast
Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Eli Roth
Plot
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a plan to assassinate Nazi leaders by a group of Jewish U.S. soldiers coincides with a theatre owner's vengeful plans for the same.
FR #387 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Germany, France | German, English
Director
Wolfgang Becker
Writer
Bernd Lichtenberg, Wolfgang Becker, Achim Von Borries
Cast
Daniel Bruhl, 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.
FR #425 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Germany, Turkey | English, German
Director
Fatih Akin
Writer
Fatih Akin
Cast
Birol Unel, Sibel Kekilli, Guven Kirac
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.
FR #707 | Movie | Animation, Adventure | Germany | English
Director
Lotte Reiniger, Carl Koch
Writer
Lotte Reiniger
Plot
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.
FR #732 | TV | Drama | Germany, Sweden | German, Swedish
Cast
Ewa Froling, Bertil Guve, Pernilla Allwin
Plot
Through the eyes of ten-year-old Alexander, we witness the delights and conflicts of the Ekdahl family, a sprawling bourgeois clan in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Sweden.
FR #771 | Movie | Action, Drama | Germany, USA | English, French
Director
James Mcteigue
Writer
Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski, David Lloyd
Cast
Hugo Weaving, Natalie Portman, Rupert Graves, John Hurt
Plot
In a future British dystopian society, a shadowy freedom fighter, known only by the alias of "V", plots to overthrow the tyrannical government - with the help of a young woman.
FR #891 | Movie | Thriller, Drama | Germany, France | German, English
Director
Dennis Gansel
Writer
Ron Jones, Johnny Dawkins, Ron Birnbach
Cast
Jurgen 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.
FR #919 | Movie | History, Drama | Germany, Denmark | English, German
Director
Martin Zandvliet
Writer
Martin Zandvliet
Cast
Roland Moller, Louis Hofmann, Joel Basman
Plot
In post-World War II Denmark, a group of young German POWs are forced to clear a beach of thousands of land mines under the watch of a Danish Sergeant who slowly learns to appreciate their plight.
FR #930 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | Germany | German
Director
Fritz Lang
Writer
Fritz Lang, Thea Von Harbou
Cast
Paul Richter, Margarete Schon, Theodor Loos
Plot
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.
FR #934 | 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.
FR #995 | TV | Crime, Drama | Germany, Italy | German
Cast
Gunter Lamprecht, Claus Holm, Hanna Schygulla
Plot
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.
FR #1133 | Movie | Thriller, Drama | Germany, India | German, Bengali
Director
Oliver Hirschbiegel
Writer
Mario Giordano, Christoph Darnstadt, 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.
FR #1138 | Movie | Biography, Crime | Germany, Spain | German, English
Director
Marc Rothemund
Writer
Fred Breinersdorfer
Cast
Julia Jentsch, Fabian Hinrichs, Alexander Held
Plot
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.
FR #1164 | Movie | Crime, Drama | Germany | German, English
Director
Baran Bo Odar
Writer
Jantje Friese, Baran Bo Odar
Cast
Tom Schilling, Elyas M'Barek, Wotan Wilke Mohring
Plot
Benjamin, a computer genius, is invited to join FRI3NDS, a fame-seeking hacker group. However, when his associates are murdered by Russian gangsters, he is interrogated by Europol.
FR #1171 | Movie | Drama | Germany, USA | English, German
Director
Ilker Catak
Writer
Ilker Catak, Johannes Duncker
Cast
Leonie Benesch, Anne-Kathrin Gummich, Rafael Stachowiak
Plot
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.
FR #1187 | Movie | Fantasy, Horror | Germany | German
Director
Paul Wegener, Carl Boese
Writer
Paul Wegener, Henrik Galeen
Cast
Paul Wegener, Albert Steinruck, Ernst Deutsch
Plot
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.
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.
FR #1297 | Movie | Action, Crime | Germany, USA | English, Japanese
Director
Chad Stahelski
Writer
Shay Hatten, Michael Finch, Derek Kolstad
Cast
Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, George Georgiou, Clancy Brown, Ian Mcshane
Plot
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.
FR #1385 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Germany | German, Arabic
Director
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Writer
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Cast
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.
FR #1400 | Movie | Comedy, Short | 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.
FR #1420 | Movie | Drama | Germany, Spain | German, Spanish
Director
Nora Fingscheidt
Writer
Nora Fingscheidt
Cast
Helena Zengel, Albrecht Schuch, Gabriela Maria Schmeide
Plot
Benni, age 9, bounces among institutions that cannot tackle her outbursts. She wants to move in with her mother--who cannot handle her wild daughter. After Micha is hired, Benni slowly opens up and attaches herself to him.
FR #1479 | Movie | Romance, Thriller | Germany | German
Director
Fritz Lang
Writer
Thea Von Harbou, Fritz Lang
Cast
Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Gerda Maurus, Willy Fritsch
Plot
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.
FR #1628 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Germany, UK | English, German
Director
Werner Herzog
Writer
Werner Herzog
Cast
Bruno S., Eva Mattes, Clemens Scheitz
Plot
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.
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.
FR #1632 | Movie | Biography, Action | Germany, France | English, German
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.
FR #1880 | Movie | Drama | Germany, USA | English, German
Director
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Writer
Pea Frohlich, Peter Marthesheimer, Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Cast
Hanna Schygulla, Klaus Lowitsch, 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.
FR #1895 | Movie | History, Drama | Germany, Poland | German, English
Director
Christian Petzold
Writer
Christian Petzold, Harun Farocki, Hubert Monteilhet
Cast
Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf
Plot
After surviving Auschwitz, a former cabaret singer has her disfigured face reconstructed and returns to her war-ravaged hometown to seek out her gentile husband, who may or may not have betrayed her to the Nazis.
FR #1935 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | Germany | German
Director
Fritz Lang
Writer
Thea Von Harbou
Cast
Margarete Schon, Gertrud Arnold, Theodor Loos
Plot
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...
A show about the fictional everyday adventures of real-life comedian Bastian Pastewka. He experiences funny, strange, and embarrassing moments that he often causes by his lies.
FR #2041 | Movie | Court-Drama, History | Germany, USA | German, Greek
Director
Stephen Daldry
Writer
David Hare, Bernhard Schlink
Cast
Ralph Fiennes, Jeanette Hain, David Kross, Kate Winslet
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.
FR #2137 | Movie | War, Drama | Germany, India | German, Russian
Director
Joseph Vilsmaier
Writer
Jurgen Buscher, Johannes Heide, Joseph Vilsmaier
Cast
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.
FR #2224 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Germany, USA | German, English
Director
Wolfgang Staudte
Writer
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.
FR #2276 | Movie | Documentary, Musical | Germany, USA | English, Spanish
Director
Wim Wenders
Writer
Wim Wenders, Nick Gold
Cast
Compay Segundo, Ibrahim Ferrer, Ruben Gonzalez
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...
FR #2383 | Movie | Drama | Germany, Hungary | German, Hungarian
Director
Istvan Szabo
Writer
Peter Dobai, Istvan Szabo, Klaus Mann
Cast
Klaus Maria Brandauer, Ildiko Bansagi, Krystyna Janda
Plot
In early-1930s Germany, a passionate stage actor faces a dilemma: renounce his apolitical stance and comply with the Reich's doctrine, or face oblivion. But, Faustian bargains never end well. What is the price of success?
FR #2387 | Movie | Documentary, War | Germany, France | German, Arabic
Director
Werner Herzog
Writer
Werner Herzog
Cast
Werner Herzog
Plot
This film surveys the disaster of the Kuwaiti oil fields in flames, with little narration and scarcely any interviews. Hell on Earth is presented in such transcendent visions and music that one can only be fascinated by it.
FR #2391 | Movie | Biography, Drama | Germany | English, German
Director
Caroline Link
Writer
Caroline Link, Stefanie Zweig
Cast
Juliane Kohler, Merab Ninidze, Matthias Habich
Plot
Due to Hitler's threat, Walter Redlich, a Jewish lawyer, immigrates to Kenya with his wife Jettel and daughter Regina. Things take a turn when the family is ordered to move by the British officers.
FR #2396 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Germany | German
Director
David Wnendt
Writer
David Wnendt, Mizzi Meyer, Timur Vermes
Cast
Oliver Masucci, Thomas M. Koppl, Marc-Marvin Israel
Plot
Adolf Hitler wakes up in the 21st century. He quickly gains media attention, but while Germany finds him hilarious and charming, Hitler makes some serious observations about society.
FR #2484 | 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...
FR #2641 | Movie | Comedy, Action | Germany, France | German, Danish
Director
Peter Thorwarth
Writer
Stefan Holtz, Peter Thorwarth
Cast
Oliver Korittke, Markus Knufken, Ralf Richter
Plot
A violent chain of events ensues as a jailed criminal arranges to buy a car from a shady car dealer, unaware that his partner in freedom has squandered most of the money from their last bank robbery on horse race betting.
FR #2645 | Movie | Comedy | Germany, India | German, Telugu
Director
Vicco Von Bulow, Renate Westphal-Lorenz
Writer
Vicco Von Bulow
Cast
Evelyn Hamann, Vicco Von Bulow, Irm Hermann
Plot
After ordering enough typewriting paper for 40 years, just to get discount, Heinrich Lohse is forced to retire. The former manager has plenty of time now to spend with his wife and their 16 year old son. But - do they want that?
FR #2646 | Movie | History, Drama | Germany, France | German, Swedish
Director
Michael Herbig
Writer
Kit Hopkins, Thilo Roscheisen, Michael Herbig
Cast
Friedrich Mucke, Karoline Schuch, David Kross
Plot
East Germany, 1979. After initially failing to flee from the East to the West in a self-built hot-air balloon, two families struggle to make a second attempt, while the East German State Police are chasing them.
Bruno Ganz, Isabelle Renauld, Fabrizio Bentivoglio
Plot
Famous writer Alexander is very ill and has little time left to live. He meets a little boy on the street, who is an illegal immigrant from Albania, and goes on a journey with him to take the boy home.
FR #2890 | Movie | Drama | Germany | German, English
Director
Wim Wenders
Writer
Wim Wenders
Cast
Rudiger Vogler, Hanns Zischler, Lisa Kreuzer
Plot
A traveling projection-equipment mechanic works in Western Germany along the East-German border, visiting worn-out theatres. He meets with a depressed young man whose marriage has just broken up, and the two decide to travel toget...
FR #2891 | Movie | Drama | Germany, UK | German, Russian
Director
Dennis Gansel
Writer
Dennis Gansel, Maggie Peren
Cast
Max Riemelt, Tom Schilling, Devid Striesow
Plot
Friedrich's boxing skills gets him in an elite Nazi high school in a castle in 1942. He enrolls against his dad's wish as it promises a brighter future. It's not what he expected.
