A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II. Year 2002.
| Generes: Biography, Drama, Music, War |
| Director: Roman Polanski |
| Writer: Ronald Harwood (screenplay by), Wladyslaw Szpilman (based on the book by) |
| Actors: Adrien Brody, Emilia Fox, Michal Zebrowski, Ed Stoppard |
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. Year 2008.
| Generes: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller |
| Director: Uli Edel |
| Writer: Bernd Eichinger (screenplay), Uli Edel (screenplay collaborator), Stefan Aust (book) |
| Actors: Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu, Johanna Wokalek, Jan Josef Liefers |
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? Year 2009.
| Generes: Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller |
| Director: Michael Haneke |
| Writer: Michael Haneke, Michael Haneke (story) |
| Actors: Christian Friedel, Ernst Jacobi, Leonie Benesch, Ulrich Tukur |
Balloon is a German thriller that deals with the crossing of the inner German border of the families Strelzyk and Wetzel from the GDR to West Germany with a homemade hot-air balloon. Year 2018.
| Generes: Drama, Family, History, Thriller |
| Director: Michael Herbig |
| Writer: Kit Hopkins (screenplay), Thilo Röscheisen (screenplay), Michael Herbig (screenplay) |
| Actors: Friedrich Mücke, Karoline Schuch, David Kross, Alicia von Rittberg |
A criminal mastermind uses hypnosis to rule the rackets after death. Year 1933.
| Generes: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller |
| Director: Fritz Lang |
| Writer: Norbert Jacques (characters), Fritz Lang (scenario), Fritz Lang, René Sti (French adaptation), Thea von Harbou (scenario), Thea von Harbou |
| Actors: Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Thomy Bourdelle, Gustav Diessl, Rudolf Schündler |
While never-ending rain and a strange disease spread by cockroaches ravage Taiwan, a plumber makes a hole between two apartments and the inhabitants of each form a unique connection, enacted in musical numbers. Year 1998.
| Generes: Drama, Fantasy, Musical, Sci-Fi |
| Director: Ming-liang Tsai |
| Writer: Ming-liang Tsai, Pi-ying Yang |
| Actors: Kuei-Mei Yang, Kang-sheng Lee, Tien Miao, Hui-Chin Lin |
The story of Kafka’s Castle. Year 1994.
| Generes: Drama |
| Director: Aleksey Balabanov |
| Writer: Aleksey Balabanov, Franz Kafka (novel), Sergey Selyanov |
| Actors: Nikolay Stotskiy, Svetlana Pismichenko, Anvar Libabov, Viktor Sukhorukov |
A group of Russian noblemen want to maintain the monarchy and plan to kill Rasputin. Year 2011.
| Generes: Biography, Drama, History |
| Director: Josée Dayan |
| Writer: Vincent Fargeat (scenario, adaptation and dialogue), Philippe Besson (scenario, adaptation and dialogue), Pierre Aknine |
| Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant, Vladimir Mashkov, Filipp Yankovskiy |
In 1999, Claire’s life is forever changed after she survives a car crash. She rescues Sam and starts traveling around the world with him. Writer Eugene follows them and writes their story, as a way of recording dreams is being invented. Year 1991.
| Generes: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller |
| Director: Wim Wenders |
| Writer: Peter Carey (screenplay), Wim Wenders (screenplay), Wim Wenders (original idea by), Solveig Dommartin (original idea by), Michael Almereyda |
| Actors: Solveig Dommartin, Pietro Falcone, Enzo Turrin, Chick Ortega |
A serial killer strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s. Year 2019.
| Generes: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller |
| Director: Fatih Akin |
| Writer: Fatih Akin (screenplay), Heinz Strunk (novel) |
| Actors: Jonas Dassler, Adam Bousdoukos, Margarete Tiesel, Katja Studt |
Hong Kong life from the perspective of a young northern mainland Chinese woman working as a prostitute in Hong Kong. Year 2000.
| Generes: Drama |
| Director: Fruit Chan |
| Writer: Fruit Chan, Wai-Keung Chan, Zhi Min Sheng |
| Actors: Hailu Qin, Wai-Fan Mak, Xiao Ming Biao, Wai Yiu Yung |
At the turn of the century, a young Russian cadet falls in love with an American beauty, endangering his career and even their lives. Year 1998.
| Generes: Comedy, Drama, History, Romance |
| Director: Nikita Mikhalkov |
| Writer: Nikita Mikhalkov (story), Rustam Ibragimbekov (screenplay), Nikita Mikhalkov (screenplay), Rospo Pallenberg (in cooperation with) |
| Actors: Julia Ormond, Oleg Menshikov, Aleksey Petrenko, Richard Harris |
The life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was insanely jealous of Mozart’s talent and claimed to have murdered him. Year 1984.
| Generes: Biography, Drama, History, Music |
| Director: Milos Forman |
| Writer: Peter Shaffer (original stage play), Peter Shaffer (original screenplay) |
| Actors: F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, Roy Dotrice |
Nikolay (played by Sergei Dontsov) has been fired from his job as a music teacher and has to live in the gym until he finds a place to stay. Finally, he gets a communal room in the … Year 1993.
| Generes: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi |
| Director: Yuri Mamin, Arkadiy Tigay(co-director) |
| Writer: Vyacheslav Leykin (participating writer), Yuri Mamin (original screenplay), Feliks Mironer (original idea), Guy Seligmann (adaptation), Arkadiy Tigay (original screenplay), Vladimir Vardunas (participating writer) |
| Actors: Agnès Soral, Sergey Dreyden, Viktor Mikhailov, Nina Usatova |
A filmmaker recalls his childhood when falling in love with the pictures at the cinema of his home village and forms a deep friendship with the cinema’s projectionist. Year 1988.
| Generes: Drama |
| Director: Giuseppe Tornatore |
| Writer: Giuseppe Tornatore (story), Giuseppe Tornatore (screenplay), Vanna Paoli (collaborating writer), Richard Epcar |
| Actors: Antonella Attili, Enzo Cannavale, Isa Danieli, Leo Gullotta |
An astronaut prepares for a one-year mission aboard the International Space Station. Year 2019.
| Generes: Action, Drama |
| Director: Alice Winocour |
| Writer: Alice Winocour (screenplay), Jean-Stéphane Bron (collaboration) |
| Actors: Eva Green, Zélie Boulant, Matt Dillon, Aleksey Fateev |