German/Swiss/Austrian Films
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- DirectorChristian AlvartStarsNorman ReedusChristian von AsterAndré HennickeWanted for a long time, serial killer Gabriel Engel gets arrested in a spectacular police raid. Small town cop Michael Martens travels to the big city to interrogate him and finds out more than he is looking for.
- DirectorChristian AlvartStarsKonstantin GraudusDetlef LutzAndreas ErfurthWriter gets curious about the violent and sado-masochistic ongoings in his neighbour's apartments.
- DirectorBaran bo OdarStarsUlrich ThomsenClaudia MichelsenWotan Wilke Möhring13-year-old Sinikka vanishes on a hot summer night. Her bicycle is found in the exact place where a girl was killed 23 years ago. The dramatic present forces those involved in the original case to face their past.
- DirectorBaran bo OdarStarsTom SchillingElyas M'BarekWotan Wilke MöhringBenjamin, a young German computer whiz, is invited to join a subversive hacker group that wants to be noticed on the world's stage.
- DirectorFlorian Henckel von DonnersmarckStarsUlrich MüheMartina GedeckSebastian KochIn 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.
- DirectorWolfgang PetersenStarsJürgen ProchnowHerbert GrönemeyerKlaus WennemannA 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.
- DirectorOliver HirschbiegelStarsBruno GanzAlexandra Maria LaraUlrich MatthesTraudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII.
- DirectorFritz LangStarsBrigitte HelmAlfred AbelGustav FröhlichIn 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.
- DirectorFritz LangStarsPeter LorreEllen WidmannInge LandgutWhen the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.
- DirectorChristian AlvartStarsNadeshda BrennickeMehdi NebbouMark WaschkeA married woman runs a successful gallery and falls for a man she met accidentally.
- DirectorChristian AlvartStarsKen DukenHeinz HoenigNadeshda BrennickeThe sudden transformation of a lower middle class woman who falls in love with a bank robber and soon becomes one herself.
- DirectorBora DagtekinStarsElyas M'BarekKaroline HerfurthKatja RiemannA comedy that follows an ex-convict who lands a position at a school that sits over the spot where money from one of his earlier robberies was stashed.
- DirectorChristian AlvartStarsSidoPeri BaumeisterWilson GonzalezJulian, Yassin, and Addi have the same mother but different fathers. When they learn about one another's existences, they go on a road trip together in search of their common roots.
- DirectorTill EndemannStarsJacob MatschenzAlice DwyerAdrian TopolMalte lives in Usedom, an island in the Baltic, very popular for its sunshine. The young boy survives with difficulty thanks to a small job in a snack bar but especially thanks to the smuggling of cigarettes. But Malta can no longer bear living with her alcoholic father. The return of her sister, who had left for Poland five years earlier, and her son Lukas, as well as her meeting with Annika, a young tourist, turns her life upside down.
- DirectorPéter PalátsikStarsAnna FinTim WilliamsDan van HusenWhat do you do when love turns into suspicion and mourning turns to fear? When Marian gets word that her brother Michael has committed suicide, she travels to Berlin to sort out his life. Marian reunites with her childhood friend Susanne who offers to help her pack up Michael s things. Together, they find unnerving photographs and clues that something might not be right
- DirectorDaniel HedfeldRené SydowStarsJochen KolendaSebastian SommerfeldKathrin HildebrandtA hunting turns into a psychological thriller when one of the huntsmen is found dead.
- DirectorAnno SaulStarsDenis MoschittoNora TschirnerEmanuel BettencourtIn Hamburg, Ibrahim "Ibo" Secmez, of Turkish descent, wants to direct the first German kung-fu movie. For now he makes commercials for his uncle's kebab restaurant. When Titzie, Ibo's aspiring-actress girlfriend, finds out that she's pregnant, Ibo's uncertainty about fatherhood is compounded by his own father's disowning him for getting a German girl pregnant--so Titzie sends him packing. He makes attempts at getting it right, but as the birth approaches, he's still not ready. In the background are three thugs in search of good tripe soup and a Capulet-Montague feud between the kebab joint and the Greek taverna across the street. Can Ibo be the glove upon that hand?
- DirectorRoland ReberStarsWolfgang SeidenbergMarina Anna EichMira GittnerA Man (Wolfgang Seidenberg) realizes the absurd emptiness of his life and leaves home, without actually knowing what he's running from as well as what he's looking for. After a ride on a taxi he ends up in a rather derelict area of town. In an abandoned business areal he runs into Godot (Mira Gittner), who is rummaging the city sewers for life's unwanted debris. During the night, the Man meets his inner self, his past and his demons. He reviews his former life, looking for meaning among (and between) the multitudes of social mannerisms of his past. In his flashbacks, he meets up with his family, his wife and loved ones, and goes on a trip trough his (and thus every other) existence. The memories are presented as differently twisted TV shows. Flipping through the channels and aided by Godot, the Man follows his own train of thought, guiding the members of the audience to their own lifes' cores.
- DirectorRoland ReberStarsMira GittnerMarcus GrüsserMarina Anna EichSophie, a student of Egyptology as well as Christoph, an out-of-work actor, apply to a classified ad in the newspaper for a job. "Someone to look after my house for six weeks - good pay." It's a box number ad, and both get the job - with one not knowing about the other. They enter the house and meet each other. Sophie doesn't want to stay six weeks in a house with an unknown man. So thinks Christoph: he doesn't like the idea either. But, after the postman brought two registered letters with advance payment, they decide to try it. The rules say that both of them can do what they want in that house except one thing; there is one room which they are not allowed to enter, and is to remain locked. They barely agree to this arrangement when strange things begin to occur. Sophie and Christoph are looking after a house with a locked room - where everything (...or nothing) can be concealed from others. "All houses have a forbidden room" says Christoph, Sophie's answer, "just like our soul."
- DirectorChristian PetzoldStarsBenno FürmannNina HossAntje WestermannPhilipp Gerber is a smart, self-satisfied car salesman. In an inattentive moment at the wheel of his car, he runs over a young boy riding a bike and drives away. As he has feelings of guilt, he tries to find out more about the accident's victim and learns that the boy lies seriously injured in a hospital. Philipp wants to tell his mother, Laura Reiser, the truth, but he doesn't. After a carefree holiday with his girlfriend Katja, he learns that the boy is dead. Meanwhile, Laura staggers between grief and the desire for revenge. One evening, she can't bear it anymore and jumps off a bridge, but Philipp saves her life.
- DirectorOliver RihsStarsJule BöweMilan PeschelJenny Deimling"Black Sheep" is about urban Berlin Lifestyle. About a bunch of hopeless losers, who are trying, to get the big money with the strangest plans. There is an Ex-Handmodel for Rolex, who wants to seduce a yuppie girl and cheat his insurance company. There is an East-German woman and her drunken artist boyfriend playing Lotto. Some satanists, who are planing a ritual with their grandmother. Two young anarchists, who are testing a new kind of Ego-economy. And last, but not least, three horny Turkish boys, who are stealing cash, to meet a prostitute. A lighthearted, stylish comedy in a electric Berlin, full of surreal moments. About material illusions and true love.
- DirectorLeander HaußmannStarsTom SchillingChristian SengewaldJulia DietzeA young game designer falls in love with an older woman and suddenly his whole life turns upside down.
- DirectorJohannes FabrickStarsWotan Wilke MöhringMatilda MerkelNick Julius SchuckA young mother and wife fights with depression which leads to committing suicide. The story follows lives of her beloved ones, husband and children, after this horrifying act.
- DirectorAlexandra SellStarsUlrike KrumbiegelAnnekathrin BürgerMaria RogozinaAnnebärbel's life and feelings have become as frigid as a block of ice. At the age of 58, she stands as an unfriendly monument to former times. As a doctor, she shows little compassion, and as a wife, not much love. Only her domineering mother elicits human emotions from her. Negative ones at that. No matter what she does, it is never good enough for her mother. Even less so since her daughter took over her practice. But everything starts to change when Annebärbel's husband leaves her and she is forced to take stock of her life. In the process, she makes a journey deep into her past, and attempts to live her childhood dream, which she had to give up all these years ago due to her mother: figure skating. With wobbly, tentative legs, she steps into a world full of chilly magic: the skating rink. This is when she has to admit that people are part of the equation as well, and they haven't exactly been waiting for "Dr Horrid" to come stumbling in front of their blades. The misanthropic Annebärbel has to endure a wide array of interpersonal conflicts, before she finds, on the ice rink, the kind of warmth she didn't know she needed: she forms a warm friendship with a young woman who is a top athlete, a group of aged amateur skaters show her how to lust for life, and she meets the 1974 World Figure Skating Champion, Christine Stüber-Errath, from Berlin. And so it is the ice that makes Annebärbel open up, and begin to emancipate herself from her mother and her own icy ways.
- DirectorLars JessenJacques PalmingerRocko SchamoniStarsDevid StriesowHeinz StrunkRocko SchamoniAn inept music manager documents his attempt of bringing about a comeback of the 80s techno pioneers Fraktus, who in the past 30 years have disconnected both from each other and their music.