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- DirectorEwald André DupontStarsHenny PortenRuth WeyherHermann VallentinBaruch Mayr, son of an orthodox rabbi from a poor shtetl in Galizia, decides to break with the family tradition and leave the shtetl to become an actor. Due to this behaviour his father bans him from his family. Baruch, who joined a small burlesque troupe is discovered by an Austrian Erzherzogin (archdutchess) who introduces him to the director of the most important Theater in Vienna, the Burgtheater. Baruch receives a contract there and becomes more and more an assimilated jew. But his relation with the Erzherzogin isn't approved by the Austrian court, so they have to end it. When an old friend of his father, who is always traveling from one Jewish community to the next (and has told him first about the theatres in the world), Baruch becomes a little bit homesick and returns for a holiday to his old shtetl to see his folks and to pick up his childhood sweetheart. But his father wants him not to enter his house, so he returns to Vienna, with his bride. But his old friend does not stop trying to convince his father of his errors.Berlinale 2018
- DirectorGerhard LamprechtStarsLissy ArnaJack TrevorAndreas Behrens-KlausenThe film centers on a family divided by politics. While the son, a staunch Prussian, is horrified by his father's treacherous support for the French, he equally condemns the local patriots' mindless spirit of revenge.Berlinale 2018
- DirectorUrban GadStarsConrad VeidtLillebil IbsenHermann VallentinChristian Wahnschaffe, the spoiled son of an industrialist, meets Iwan Becker, a leader in the Russian Nihilist movement. Impressed by Becker's concern for society's weak and poor, Christian develops sympathies for the movement's ideals.Christain Wahnschaffe Teil 1
Berlinale 2018 - DirectorUrban GadStarsConrad VeidtRose MüllerWerner KraussA wealthy industrialist's son who dabbles in radical politics in the Weimar era meets up with a pimp while slumming in a miserable working class rooming house.Berlinale 2018
- DirectorJoe MayStarsKäthe von NagyFrancis LedererOtto WallburgFred von Wellingen is a wealthy industrialist, part of a large family-owned corporation. Fred has fallen for Lia, a comely bartender in the Berlin Cabaret. He proposes to her, much to the horror of his family, which considers Lia and her unsophisticated father far below their caste. The family convinces Fred to give up the girl in exchange for increased position and income in the company. But Fred's lapse is momentary, and he again pursues Lia. But she, by this time, has learned of his erstwhile agreement and has agreed to marry someone else.Berlinale 2018
- DirectorAlfred SchirokauerReinhold SchünzelStarsReinhold SchünzelCharlotte AnderAdele SandrockReinhold Schünzel plays the rigid representative Traugott Bellmann, who publicly condemns the low morals of the night life. Although Belmann's stance is supported by his wife, he is strongly opposed by his father-in-law, a champagne manufacturer. But when he inherits 500 000 Marks in cash and the infamous nightclub "Der Himmel auf Erden" ("Heaven on Earth") from his deceased brother, Bellmann really gets himself into trouble: In order to fulfil his brother's will - and to get hold of the money - , he has to be at the club every night at 9 pm.Berlinale 2018
- DirectorRichard OswaldStarsMathilde SussinToni van EyckPaul HenckelsAbout the rebellion of the youth and the increasingly debated erotic exploratory experiments - a modern theme of the late 1920s.Berlinale 2018
- DirectorE. Elias MerhigeStarsJohn MalkovichWillem DafoeUdo KierThe filming of Nosferatu (1922) is hampered by the fact that its star Max Schreck is taking the role of a vampire far more seriously than seems humanly possible.Berlinale 2018
- DirectorRobert WohlmuthStarsValerie BoothbyJaque CatelainMarion GerthBerlinale 2018
- DirectorHenry KosterStarsLil DagoverHans RehmannMargarete KupferA modernist lady sculptor seeks a model for a statue to be put in front of a Berlin hospital, and finds him in the form of a London policeman-boxer.She's also interested in having a child.Berlinale 2018
- DirectorLav DiazStarsPiolo PascualShaina MagdayaoBituin EscalanteA young and fearless doctor opens a clinic for a poor community in a remote village of the Phillipines. However, she disappears without a trace. Her husband, a poet and teacher seeks the truth of her vanishing.Berlinale 2018
- DirectorGeorg Wilhelm PabstStarsGustav DiesslBrigitte HelmHertha von WaltherNeglected by her husband, an ambitious lawyer, Irene seeks variety in Berlin's nightlife, drugs and flirtations included.Berlinale 2018
- DirectorRobert ReinertStarsEduard von WintersteinSybill MorelWerner KraussA Chinese opium dealer takes revenge on Westerners who have corrupted his wife.Berlinale 2018
- DirectorErich WaschneckStarsJenny JugoWilly FritschFritz RaspWhen Hamburg ship's mate Klaus Brandt catches a thief one night at the port, his downfall is pre-ordained. For the thief turns out to be a young, attractive woman and the otherwise upright sailor allows her to slip away. Jenny is the star of a local dive bar, with a side-line in smuggling.Berlinale 2018
- DirectorAlexis GranowskyStarsAribert MogMargot FerraElsa WagnerHow can we lead more authentic lives? This daring surrealist sound film centers on a young woman who rejects marriage to a wealthy baron.Berlinale 2018
- DirectorSidney LumetStarsHenry FondaWalter MatthauFritz WeaverA technical malfunction sends American planes to Moscow to deliver a nuclear attack. Can all-out war be averted?Berlinale 2018
- DirectorEvan JohnsonGalen JohnsonGuy MaddinStarsNorm AsherWilliam BondXander BoulardEvery balcony is a poem, a chant -- a muscle. But whoever lives with that extra blueprint luxury of a balcony lives on the wrong side of a cross-section, on the busy, narrative-addled side of something like an ant-farm window, a brazen architectural arrangement selling cheap peeks into the naked sideshows of the quotidian -- even the grisly. Step right up. Behold. A ten story wall of solid twitching muscle.Berlinale 2018
- DirectorEvan JohnsonGalen JohnsonGuy MaddinStarsRock HudsonKarl MaldenChuck NorrisDirector Guy Maddin's interpretation of the Alfred Hitchcock classic Vertigo, pieced together using footage from old films and television shows shot in and around the San Francisco area.Berlinale 2018
- DirectorHeinz PaulStarsConrad VeidtTheodor LoosFriedrich EttelIn WW1, Captain Stanhope is the commander of a British company fighting against the Germans. The young Lieutenant Raleigh admires the older man who he knows from the prewar days. While Stanhope tries to keep up the image of an exemplary soldier, in fact he is thoroughly disillusioned and fights his despair with alcohol, all the while waiting for the signal to start the foray against the Germans. When it comes, it leads to disaster.Berlinale 2018
- DirectorWerner HochbaumStarsGyula BaloghErna SchumacherIlse BergerA dockworker joins a strike, and comes into conflict with his police officer brother.Berlinale 2018
- DirectorFranz SeitzStarsErich Kaiser-TitzHanna RalphWilly Kaiser-HeylBerlinale 2018
- DirectorJoe MayStarsLars HansonDita ParloGustav FröhlichFollowing World War I, after a long imprisonment, two German prisoner-of-war soldiers escape from a Siberian lead-mine. Karl manages to reach Germany before Richard, and is sheltered by Anna, wife of Richard. While Richard is still on his homeward trek, Karl and Anna fall in love. And then Richard comes home.Berlinale 2018
- DirectorGeorg AsagaroffBernhard VillingerStarsRuth WeyherNils FocksenLotte LorringThree researchers challenge snow deserts, rifts and arctic storms in a race with an American expedition en route to the North PoleBerlinale 2018
- DirectorFranz OstenHimanshu RaiStarsHimanshu RaiPrafulla Roy GhoshDevi. SitaThis adaptation of Arnold's 1861 Orientalist epic opens with documentary shots of tourists in Bombay watching street performers. Then a white-bearded old man sitting under the bodhi tree tells the tourists the story of Gautama (Rai), son of King Suddodhana (Ukil) and Queen Maya (Bala), who left his consort Gopa (Seeta) and became a wandering teacher credited with founding Buddhism. The religious epic, with its idealized figures, takes up the narrative in flashback and ends with Gopa kneeling before Gautama asking to become his disciple.Berlinale 2018
- DirectorCarl Ludwig Achaz-DuisbergStarsHeinrich GeorgeViola GardenIvan Koval-SamborskyBerlinale 2018
- DirectorWerner HochbaumStarsErich HaußmannHilde von StolzHarry FrankAfter serving 5 years in prison, Robert finds himself disappointed since his wife isn't waiting outside the gates. He heads into the city while Marie makes her way into his direction. For one day, they look for each other in the noisy city of Berlin. Doubt, mistrust, and jealousy begin to germinate in Robert's breast.Berlinale 2018
- DirectorRichard EichbergStarsAnna May WongHeinrich GeorgeMary KidAfter committing a murder for his lover, Gloria, the famous painter Jack is forced to go underground. In the harbor district, he saves the poor Malaysian girl Song in front of two intrusive sailors. She loves him for it, and together Song and Jack appear in the tingle dungeon of the port, he as a knife artist, she as a dancer.Berlinale 2018
- DirectorMarianne RosenbaumStarsPeter FondaSaskia TyrollerHans BrennerA movie about little Marianne's life in a little German village 1943-1950. The peace comes in the shape of an American soldier who brings chewing gum to all the children, a soldier they call Mr. Frieden. Marianne's head is filled with fear of war and belief that the war will come back.