Here's a cross section of German films since 1920. They are not all exclusively German productions, but German production companies were involved in the making of all of them.
Which of these films would you most like to watch (once again)?
THE LIVES OF OTHERS - 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.
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…
NOSFERATU, A SYMPHONY OF TERROR - Vampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife. Silent classic based on the story "Dracula."
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.
THE WHITE RIBBON - Oscar nominated film about events in a small village in the north of Germany during the years just before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment, with the abused and suppre…
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.
THE BAADER MEINHOF COMPLEX - 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.
THE PUNCH BOWL - A successful writer, home-schooled in his youth, masquerades as a student at a secondary school to experience all the fun and pranks he missed out on.
THE BLUE ANGEL - featuring the legendary Marlene Dietrich. An elderly professor's ordered life spins dangerously out of control when he falls for a nightclub singer.
FEAR EATS THE SOUL - An almost accidental romance between a German woman in her mid-sixties and a Moroccan migrant worker around twenty-five years younger leads to their marriage, appalling everyone a…
THE TIN DRUM - Oscar winning drama. A boy, equipped with full intellect at birth, decides on his third birthday not to grow up as he sees the crazy world around him at the eve of World War II. He refu…
SOPHIE SCHOLL: THE FINAL DAYS - 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.
BEFORE THE FALL - A boy's boxing skill get him into the National Political Academy, a school that produces the new Nazi elite. During his time there he loses his innocence.
THE MYSTERY OF KASPAR HAUSER - based on the true story of Kaspar Hauser, a young man who suddenly appeared in Nuremberg in 1828, barely able to speak or walk, who later reveals that he has been held c…
THE MIRACLE OF BERN - Film about the championship-winning German soccer team of 1954, interwoven with the story of a German POW returning from Russia and struggling with life back at home, and the sto…
Fritz is a forger who draws a picture of Eva Braun, the girlfriend of Adolf Hitler. When he meets Hermann, he tells him about some Nazi- material. When Hermann pays good money for this, Fritz starts t…
Comedy featuring the legendary 'Loriot'. After ordering enough typewriting paper for 40 years, just to get discount, Heinrich Lohse is forced to retire.
BEYOND SILENCE - Oscar nominated drama about Lara, both of whose parents are deaf mute, and her difficult decision between loyalty to her parents and a career in music, which she has a great talent fo…
THE CAPTAIN FROM KOEPENICK - Oscar nominated comedy drama based on Carl Zuckmayer's play. A petty thief is released from prison and finds himself in a vicious circle, because he can't get a job withou…
US title: APACHE GOLD - Film adaption of the novel by Karl May. When violent conflict breaks out between greedy railroaders and a tribe of Mescalero Apaches, only two men, destined to be blood brother…
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