German-American Dieter Dengler discusses his service as a U.S. naval pilot in the Vietnam War. Dengler also revisits the sites of his capture and eventual escape from the hands of the Viet Cong, recreating many events for the camera. Year 1997.
| Generes: Documentary, Biography, Drama, War |
| Director: Werner Herzog |
| Writer: Werner Herzog |
| Actors: Dieter Dengler, Werner Herzog, Eugene Deatrick |
In the last moments of World War II, a young German soldier fighting for survival finds a Nazi captain’s uniform. Impersonating an officer, the man quickly takes on the monstrous identity of the perpetrators he’s escaping from. Year 2017.
| Generes: Drama, History, Thriller, War |
| Director: Robert Schwentke |
| Writer: Robert Schwentke |
| Actors: Max Hubacher, Alexander Fehling, Sebastian Rudolph, Max Thommes |
A cute med student starts a summer course at Heidelberg University. David’s on her dissection table. She met him the day before on the train. Something’s wrong. Year 2000.
| Generes: Horror, Thriller |
| Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky |
| Writer: Peter Engelmann (dramaturge), Stefan Ruzowitzky |
| Actors: Franka Potente, Benno Fürmann, Anna Loos, Sebastian Blomberg |
A woman tries to survive the invasion of Berlin by the Soviet troops during the last days of World War II. Year 2008.
| Generes: Biography, Drama, History, War |
| Director: Max Färberböck |
| Writer: Max Färberböck, Marta Hillers (book), Catharina Schuchmann |
| Actors: Nina Hoss, Evgeniy Sidikhin, Irm Hermann, Rüdiger Vogler |
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 |
Rainbow press reporter Ludo is sentenced to 8 months, but is released on probation. But he has to work 300 hours for a local daycare center and meets Anna who has unfinished business with him. Year 2007.
| Generes: Comedy, Romance |
| Director: Til Schweiger |
| Writer: Anika Decker, Til Schweiger |
| Actors: Til Schweiger, Nora Tschirner, Matthias Schweighöfer, Alwara Höfels |
Dragon, a bloody dictator, is challenged by Lancelot, who comes to save the girl, and to liberate the people. Year 1989.
| Generes: Drama, Family, Fantasy |
| Director: Mark Zakharov |
| Writer: Michele Alghisio (adaptation), Grigori Gorin, Evgeniy Shvarts (play), Mark Zakharov |
| Actors: Aleksandr Abdulov, Oleg Yankovskiy, Evgeniy Leonov, Vyacheslav Tikhonov |
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 |
After a botched money delivery, Lola has 20 minutes to come up with 100,000 Deutschmarks. Year 1998.
| Generes: Crime, Drama, Thriller |
| Director: Tom Tykwer |
| Writer: Tom Tykwer (screenplay) |
| Actors: Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup, Nina Petri |
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 |
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. Year 2015.
| Generes: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy |
| Director: David Wnendt |
| Writer: David Wnendt (screenplay), Mizzi Meyer (screenplay), Timur Vermes (based on the novel by), Marco Kreuzpaintner (screenplay adaptation), Johannes Boss (screenplay contributor), Collin McMahon (translation) |
| Actors: Oliver Masucci, Thomas M. Köppl, Marc-Marvin Israel, David Gebigke |
When a woman’s fiancé disappears, Death gives her three chances to save him from his fate. Year 1921.
| Generes: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller |
| Director: Fritz Lang |
| Writer: Fritz Lang, Thea von Harbou |
| Actors: Bernhard Goetzke, Lil Dagover, Walter Janssen, Hans Sternberg |
A 19th century French aristocrat, notorious for his scathing memoirs about life in Russia, travels through the Russian State Hermitage Museum and encounters historical figures from the last 200+ years. Year 2002.
| Generes: Drama, Fantasy, History, Mystery |
| Director: Aleksandr Sokurov |
| Writer: Boris Khaimsky (dialogue), Anatoli Nikiforov, Svetlana Proskurina (dialogue), Aleksandr Sokurov (dialogue), Aleksandr Sokurov |
| Actors: Sergey Dreyden, Mariya Kuznetsova, Leonid Mozgovoy, Mikhail Piotrovsky |
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 |