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1. Alcarràs (2022)

120 min | Drama

85 Metascore

The life of a family of peach farmers in a small village in Catalonia changes when the owner of their large estate dies and his lifetime heir decides to sell the land, suddenly threatening their livelihood.

Director: Carla Simón | Stars: Josep Abad, Jordi Pujol Dolcet, Anna Otin, Albert Bosch

Votes: 7,833

2. The Great Dictator (1940)

G | 125 min | Comedy, Drama, War

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.

Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner

Votes: 237,321 | Gross: $0.29M

3. Undine (2020)

Unrated | 91 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

75 Metascore

Undine works as a historian lecturing on Berlin's urban development. But when the man she loves leaves her, the ancient myth catches up with her. Undine has to kill the man who betrays her and return to the water.

Director: Christian Petzold | Stars: Paula Beer, Franz Rogowski, Maryam Zaree, Jacob Matschenz

Votes: 9,218

4. Great Freedom (2021)

Unrated | 116 min | Drama

89 Metascore

In post-war Germany, liberation by the Allies does not mean freedom for everyone. Hans is repeatedly imprisoned under Paragraph 175, which criminalizes homosexuality. Over the decades, he develops an unlikely bond with his cellmate Viktor.

Director: Sebastian Meise | Stars: Franz Rogowski, Georg Friedrich, Anton von Lucke, Thomas Prenn

Votes: 7,336

5. Nowhere Special (2020)

96 min | Drama

77 Metascore

When John, a thirty-five-year-old window cleaner, is given only a few months to live, he attempts to find a new, perfect family for his three-year-old son, determined to shield him from the terrible reality of the situation.

Director: Uberto Pasolini | Stars: James Norton, Daniel Lamont, Carol Moore, Valene Kane

Votes: 6,507

6. Barbara (I) (2012)

PG-13 | 105 min | Drama

86 Metascore

A doctor working in 1980s East Germany finds herself banished to a small country hospital.

Director: Christian Petzold | Stars: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Rainer Bock, Christina Hecke

Votes: 15,961

7. Happy as Lazzaro (2018)

PG-13 | 128 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

87 Metascore

An unceasingly kind Italian peasant and his family are blatantly exploited by a tobacco baroness.

Director: Alice Rohrwacher | Stars: Adriano Tardiolo, Agnese Graziani, Alba Rohrwacher, Luca Chikovani

Votes: 20,600

8. Citizenfour (2014)

R | 114 min | Documentary, Biography

88 Metascore

A documentarian and a reporter travel to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden.

Director: Laura Poitras | Stars: Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, William Binney, Jacob Appelbaum

Votes: 57,975 | Gross: $2.80M

9. No (I) (2012)

R | 118 min | Drama, History

81 Metascore

An advertising executive comes up with a campaign to defeat Augusto Pinochet in Chile's 1988 referendum.

Director: Pablo Larraín | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Alfredo Castro, Antonia Zegers, Luis Gnecco

Votes: 26,218 | Gross: $2.34M

10. Phoenix (II) (2014)

PG-13 | 98 min | Drama, History, Music

89 Metascore

After surviving Auschwitz, a former cabaret singer has her disfigured face reconstructed and returns to her war-ravaged hometown to seek out her gentile husband, who may or may not have betrayed her to the Nazis.

Director: Christian Petzold | Stars: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf, Trystan Pütter

Votes: 20,664

11. 45 Years (2015)

R | 95 min | Drama, Romance

94 Metascore

A married couple preparing to celebrate their wedding anniversary receives shattering news that promises to forever change the course of their lives.

Director: Andrew Haigh | Stars: Charlotte Rampling, Tom Courtenay, Geraldine James, Dolly Wells

Votes: 35,136 | Gross: $4.25M

12. Kitchen Brigade (2022)

Not Rated | 97 min | Comedy, Drama

62 Metascore

Cathy is a sous-chef wanting to open a restaurant. With financial difficulties, Cathy accepts a job at a shelter for young migrants. At first she hates the job then her passion for cuisine starts to change children's lives.

Director: Louis-Julien Petit | Stars: Audrey Lamy, François Cluzet, Chantal Neuwirth, Fatou Kaba

Votes: 1,077

13. Neruda (2016)

R | 107 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

82 Metascore

An inspector hunts down Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who becomes a fugitive in his home country in the late 1940s for joining the Communist Party.

Director: Pablo Larraín | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Luis Gnecco, Mercedes Morán, Emilio Gutiérrez Caba

Votes: 11,049 | Gross: $0.94M

14. A Fantastic Woman (2017)

R | 104 min | Drama

81 Metascore

Marina, a transgender woman who works as a waitress and moonlights as a nightclub singer, is bowled over by the death of her older boyfriend.

Director: Sebastián Lelio | Stars: Daniela Vega, Francisco Reyes, Luis Gnecco, Aline Küppenheim

Votes: 27,273 | Gross: $2.02M

15. Invisible Life (2019)

R | 139 min | Drama

81 Metascore

Kept apart by a terrible lie and a conservative society, two sisters born in Rio de Janeiro make their way through life each believing the other is living out her dreams half a world away.

Director: Karim Aïnouz | Stars: Julia Stockler, Carol Duarte, Flávia Gusmão, António Fonseca

Votes: 9,657

16. Martin Eden (2019)

TV-PG | 129 min | Drama, Romance

75 Metascore

Martin Eden struggles to rise above his destitute, proletarian circumstances through an intense and passionate pursuit of self-education, hoping to achieve a place among the literary elite.

Director: Pietro Marcello | Stars: Luca Marinelli, Jessica Cressy, Vincenzo Nemolato, Marco Leonardi

Votes: 7,652

17. Transit (I) (2018)

Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

82 Metascore

A man attempting to escape occupied France falls in love with the wife of a dead author whose identity he has assumed.

Director: Christian Petzold | Stars: Franz Rogowski, Paula Beer, Godehard Giese, Lilien Batman

Votes: 11,852 | Gross: $0.82M

18. Lore (2012)

Not Rated | 109 min | Drama, Romance, War

76 Metascore

As the Allies sweep across Germany, Lore leads her siblings on a journey that exposes them to the truth of their parents' beliefs. An encounter with a mysterious refugee forces Lore to rely on a person she has always been taught to hate.

Director: Cate Shortland | Stars: Saskia Rosendahl, Kai-Peter Malina, Nele Trebs, Ursina Lardi

Votes: 15,931 | Gross: $0.97M

19. Even the Rain (2010)

Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, History

69 Metascore

As a director and his crew shoot a controversial film about Christopher Columbus in Cochabamba, Bolivia, local people rise up against plans to privatize the water supply.

Director: Icíar Bollaín | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Luis Tosar, Karra Elejalde, Juan Carlos Aduviri

Votes: 14,222 | Gross: $0.56M

20. The Club (2015)

Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

73 Metascore

A crisis counselor is sent by the Catholic Church to a small Chilean beach town where disgraced priests and nuns, suspected of crimes ranging from child abuse to baby-snatching from unwed mothers, live secluded, after an incident occurs.

Director: Pablo Larraín | Stars: Alfredo Castro, Roberto Farías, Antonia Zegers, Marcelo Alonso

Votes: 11,987 | Gross: $0.03M

21. Still Life (I) (2013)

TV-14 | 92 min | Drama

45 Metascore

A council case worker looks for the relatives of those found dead and alone.

Director: Uberto Pasolini | Stars: Eddie Marsan, Joanne Froggatt, Karen Drury, Andrew Buchan

Votes: 8,901

22. So Long, My Son (2019)

185 min | Drama

88 Metascore

Two married couples adjust to the vast social and economic changes taking place in China from the 1980s to the present.

Director: Xiaoshuai Wang | Stars: Jingchun Wang, Mei Yong, Xi Qi, Roy Wang

Votes: 5,276

23. The Door (I) (2012)

97 min | Drama

An author forms a strange bond with her eccentric maid that will have a lasting effect on both women.

Director: István Szabó | Stars: Helen Mirren, Martina Gedeck, Károly Eperjes, Gábor Koncz

Votes: 2,457

24. Maixabel (2021)

115 min | Biography, Drama

11 years after her husband was killed by the Basque group ETA, Maixabel Lasa agrees to a request to meet one of the assassins who is in prison, in an attempt to find some kind of restorative justice.

Director: Icíar Bollaín | Stars: Blanca Portillo, Luis Tosar, María Cerezuela, Urko Olazabal

Votes: 3,431

25. Mondays in the Sun (2002)

R | 113 min | Comedy, Drama

64 Metascore

This is the story of those who live as if every day was a constant Sunday, those who spend their Mondays in the sun. The story of people who worked in a dockyard but are now unemployed.

Director: Fernando León de Aranoa | Stars: Javier Bardem, Luis Tosar, José Ángel Egido, Nieve de Medina

Votes: 15,392 | Gross: $0.15M

26. Princesses (2005)

109 min | Drama

64 Metascore

Friendship and love in the world of prostitution in Madrid.

Director: Fernando León de Aranoa | Stars: Candela Peña, Micaela Nevárez, Mariana Cordero, Llum Barrera

Votes: 5,611 | Gross: $0.03M

27. Lorna's Silence (2008)

R | 105 min | Drama

80 Metascore

Lorna, a young Albanian woman living in Belgium, has her sights set on opening a snack bar with her lover Sokol. In order to do so, she has become involved in a scam conducted by Fabio, a gangster.

Directors: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne | Stars: Arta Dobroshi, Jérémie Renier, Fabrizio Rongione, Alban Ukaj

Votes: 9,170 | Gross: $0.34M

28. Yella (2007)

Not Rated | 89 min | Drama, Horror, Romance

Yella is estranged from her possessive and violent husband; but he can't quite bring himself to give her up. When their fraught interaction finally comes to dramatic conclusion, Yella's life takes an odd shift.

Director: Christian Petzold | Stars: Nina Hoss, Devid Striesow, Hinnerk Schönemann, Burghart Klaußner

Votes: 4,278

29. Remainder (2015)

103 min | Drama, Mystery

A large black box crashes through the sky, landing on a man's head. He spends months recovering, having lost all memory. After a multi-million pound settlement, he becomes increasingly extravagant in enacting fragments of memory.

Director: Omer Fast | Stars: Cush Jumbo, Ed Speleers, Tom Sturridge, Nicholas Farrell

Votes: 1,130

30. Jerichow (2008)

Unrated | 93 min | Drama

71 Metascore

The dishonorably discharged Afghanistan veteran Thomas returns to his home village of Jerichow. Ali, a local Turkish-German businessman, owner of a snack-bar chain, hires him as a driver. ... See full summary »

Director: Christian Petzold | Stars: Benno Fürmann, Nina Hoss, Hilmi Sözer, André Hennicke

Votes: 3,371 | Gross: $0.05M

31. Pazar - Bir Ticaret Masali (2008)

93 min | Drama

A Turkish small time black marketeer wants to enter the cell phone business. To get enough money, he promises the local doctor to get medicine for sick children.

Director: Ben Hopkins | Stars: Tayanç Ayaydin, Genco Erkal, Senay Aydin, Hakan Sahin

Votes: 1,243

32. My Brother Tom (2001)

105 min | Drama

A teenage girl, Jessica, befriends a teenage boy called Tom, who is bullied by a local gang. She is abused by Jack, who is both her neighbour and school teacher, and Tom is sexually abused ... See full summary »

Director: Dom Rotheroe | Stars: Jenna Harrison, Ben Whishaw, Honeysuckle Weeks, Michael Erskine

Votes: 991

33. Yuli (2018)

Not Rated | 115 min | Biography, Drama, History

The director Icíar Bollaín presents the story of the Cuban dancer Carlos Acosta, a legend on the dance world and the first black dancer to perform some of the most famous ballet roles. A dancer who did not want to dance.

Director: Icíar Bollaín | Stars: Carlos Acosta, Santiago Alfonso, Keyvin Martínez, Edilson Manuel Olbera Núñez

Votes: 2,296

34. Four Minutes (2006)

Not Rated | 112 min | Drama, Music

An elderly piano teacher trains a young convict at a women's penitentiary.

Director: Chris Kraus | Stars: Hannah Herzsprung, Monica Bleibtreu, Vadim Glowna, Sven Pippig

Votes: 7,494

35. Gold (I) (2013)

Not Rated | 101 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

In the summer of 1898, a small group of German compatriots head into the hostile northern interior of British Columbia in search for gold at the height of the Klondike Gold Rush.

Director: Thomas Arslan | Stars: Nina Hoss, Marko Mandic, Peter Kurth, Uwe Bohm

Votes: 1,344

36. The Olive Tree (2016)

100 min | Comedy, Drama

A girl, her uncle and a friend start an emotional travel to recover a family tree.

Director: Icíar Bollaín | Stars: Anna Castillo, Javier Gutiérrez, Pep Ambròs, Manuel Cucala

Votes: 3,808

37. The Notebook (2013)

R | 112 min | Drama, War

57 Metascore

Twin siblings enduring the harshness of WWII in a village on the Hungarian border hedge their survival on studying and learning from the evil surrounding them.

Director: János Szász | Stars: László Gyémánt, András Gyémánt, Piroska Molnár, Ulrich Thomsen

Votes: 3,244 | Gross: $0.07M

38. Aware: Glimpses of Consciousness (2021)

102 min | Documentary

What is consciousness? Is it in all living beings? What happens when we die? Why do we seem to be hardwired for mystical experience? In these times of existential crisis, there has been an ... See full summary »

Directors: Eric Black, Frauke Sandig | Stars: Richard Boothby, Mary Cosimano, Justine Fritz, Monica Gagliano

Votes: 158

39. Honey (2010)

Not Rated | 103 min | Drama

70 Metascore

The quiet life of a boy and his family is endangered when his father does not return home from his work collecting honey in the forest.

Director: Semih Kaplanoglu | Stars: Bora Altas, Erdal Besikçioglu, Tülin Özen, Ayse Altay

Votes: 7,480

41. Storm (I) (2009)

Not Rated | 105 min | Drama

58 Metascore

Hannah Maynard, a prosecutor of Hague's Tribunal for war crimes in former Yugoslavia, charges a Serbian commander for killing Bosnians. However, her main witness might be lying, so the court sends a team to Bosnia to investigate.

Director: Hans-Christian Schmid | Stars: Kerry Fox, Anamaria Marinca, Stephen Dillane, Rolf Lassgård

Votes: 1,389 | Gross: $0.02M

42. Popular Music (2004)

105 min | Comedy, Drama

Two boys grow up together in the town of Pajala during the 1960s. United by rock'n'roll music.

Director: Reza Bagher | Stars: Max Enderfors, Andreas af Enehielm, Jarmo Mäkinen, Kati Outinen

Votes: 5,614

43. Western (2017)

Unrated | 121 min | Drama

81 Metascore

German construction workers building a dam near a Bulgarian village interact with the locals, and soon the troubles arise both with the locals and among themselves.

Director: Valeska Grisebach | Stars: Meinhard Neumann, Reinhardt Wetrek, Syuleyman Alilov Letifov, Veneta Fragnova

Votes: 4,301 | Gross: $0.04M

44. The Bloom of Yesterday (2016)

125 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A very romantic comedy on the edge of the abyss: in the middle of the deepest life crisis, Holocaust researcher Toto is assigned an assistant for the Congress preparation: Zazie, of Jewish ... See full summary »

Director: Chris Kraus | Stars: Lars Eidinger, Adèle Haenel, Jan Josef Liefers, Hannah Herzsprung

Votes: 1,079

45. Grain (2017)

128 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

This film was inspired by a chapter from the Noble Quran. It is a post-apocalyptic story set in a world where those that survive, are divided between the remnants of cities and agricultural... See full summary »

Director: Semih Kaplanoglu | Stars: Jean-Marc Barr, Ermin Bravo, Grigoriy Dobrygin, Cristina Flutur

Votes: 1,669

46. Rosa's Wedding (2020)

97 min | Comedy

About to turn 45, Rosa realises that she's always lived her life to serve everyone else, so she decides to leave it all behind, take charge of her life, and fulfill her dream of starting her own business

Director: Icíar Bollaín | Stars: Candela Peña, Sergi López, Nathalie Poza, Ramón Barea

Votes: 2,023

47. The City Below (2010)

105 min | Drama

Steve recently moved to Frankfurt for work. His wife is a stranger in the new city, bored and vulnerable. She meets her husband's boss who is going through some big events in his life as well. They start to have an affair.

Director: Christoph Hochhäusler | Stars: Nicolette Krebitz, Robert Hunger-Bühler, Mark Waschke, Corinna Kirchhoff

Votes: 742

48. I Was at Home, But... (2019)

Not Rated | 105 min | Drama

67 Metascore

After a 13-year-old student disappears without a trace for a week and suddenly reappears, his mother and teachers are confronted with existential questions that change their whole view of life.

Director: Angela Schanelec | Stars: Thorbjörn Björnsson, Esther Buss, Martin Clausen, Lucas Confurius

Votes: 1,200

49. Rivers and Tides (2001)

TV-G | 90 min | Documentary

82 Metascore

Portrait of Andy Goldsworthy, an artist whose specialty is ephemeral sculptures made from elements of nature.

Director: Thomas Riedelsheimer | Stars: Andy Goldsworthy, Anna Goldsworthy, Holly Goldsworthy, James Goldsworthy

Votes: 2,472

50. Egg (2007)

97 min | Drama

Yusuf, who goes to town for his mother's funeral, meets his mother's friend Ayla. Ayla pressures Yusuf to fulfill her mother's vow.

Director: Semih Kaplanoglu | Stars: Nejat Isler, Saadet Aksoy, Ufuk Bayraktar, Kaan Karabacak

Votes: 5,668

51. Invisibles (2018)

102 min | Comedy, Drama

Following a municipal decision, SDF Women's Shelter, will close. There are only three months left for social workers to reintegrate at any cost the women they care for: falsification, pistons, lies - From now on, everything is allowed.

Director: Louis-Julien Petit | Stars: Patricia Mouchon, Khoukha Boukherbache, Bérangère Toural, Patricia Guery

Votes: 1,613

52. Francofonia (2015)

Not Rated | 88 min | Drama, History

71 Metascore

A history of the Louvre during the Nazi occupation and a meditation on the meaning and timelessness of art.

Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Stars: Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Benjamin Utzerath, Vincent Nemeth, Johanna Korthals Altes

Votes: 3,001 | Gross: $0.30M

53. The Poll Diaries (2010)

129 min | Drama

In the summer of 1914, thirteen-year-old Oda von Siering (Paula Beer) leaves Berlin to join her family and an assortment of German and Russian aristocrats on an estate in Estonia. The von ... See full summary »

Director: Chris Kraus | Stars: Paula Beer, Edgar Selge, Tambet Tuisk, Jeanette Hain

Votes: 1,064

54. Ghosts (2005)

Not Rated | 85 min | Drama

Nina, an end-of-teenage orphan with mental problems, starts a new job as a garden cleaner when she meets Toni. They fell in love with each other, but soon Toni starts betraying Nina. In the... See full summary »

Director: Christian Petzold | Stars: Julia Hummer, Sabine Timoteo, Marianne Basler, Aurélien Recoing

Votes: 1,628

55. Lost in Karastan (2014)

96 min | Comedy, Drama

A filmmaker from England is hired to direct an epic production in the Caucasus region of Europe.

Director: Ben Hopkins | Stars: Matthew Macfadyen, MyAnna Buring, Noah Taylor, María Fernández Ache

Votes: 271

56. Actresses (2007)

107 min | Comedy, Drama

Marcelline is an actress. Forty, single and childless, she begins rehearsals for Turgenev's A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY. Denis, the director, admires her greatly and promises he'll make her ... See full summary »

Director: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi | Stars: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Noémie Lvovsky, Louis Garrel, Mathieu Amalric

Votes: 783

57. Gerhard Richter Painting (2011)

Unrated | 97 min | Documentary

77 Metascore

A documentary on the German artist that includes glimpses at his studio, which has not been seen in decades.

Director: Corinna Belz | Stars: Gerhard Richter, Norbert Arns, Hubert Becker, Sabine Moritz-Richter

Votes: 771 | Gross: $0.24M

58. Süt (2008)

102 min | Drama

Yusuff has a hard time defining his adulthood. In one hand, there are his mother's expectations while on the other hand his passions.

Director: Semih Kaplanoglu | Stars: Melih Selcuk, Basak Köklükaya, Riza Akin, Saadet Aksoy

Votes: 3,350

59. Leaning Into The Wind (2017)

PG | 97 min | Documentary

76 Metascore

Leaning into the Wind follows artist Andy Goldsworthy on his exploration of the world and himself through ephemeral and permanent workings on the landscape, cities and with his own body.

Director: Thomas Riedelsheimer | Stars: Andy Goldsworthy, Holly Goldsworthy

Votes: 482 | Gross: $0.40M

60. Im toten Winkel - Hitlers Sekretärin (2002)

PG | 90 min | Documentary, Biography, War

79 Metascore

Documentary featuring interview footage with Traudl Junge, one of Hitler's personal secretaries during WWII.

Directors: André Heller, Othmar Schmiderer | Star: Traudl Junge

Votes: 1,812 | Gross: $0.38M

61. In den Uffizien (2021)

96 min | Documentary

Hidden doors open in this film about the iconic Uffizi Gallery in Florence, home to the world's most prominent collection of Renaissance art. We dive into famous masterpieces that captivate visitors of all ages and nationalities.

Directors: Corinna Belz, Enrique Sánchez Lansch | Star: Eike Schmidt

Votes: 39

62. Bright Nights (2017)

Not Rated | 86 min | Drama

A father tries to rekindle his relationship with his son after years of absence and lack of communication. He takes him on a car ride across northern Norway, hoping it is not too late.

Director: Thomas Arslan | Stars: Georg Friedrich, Tristan Göbel, Marie Leuenberger, Hanna Karlberg

Votes: 519

63. Touch the Sound: A Sound Journey with Evelyn Glennie (2004)

Not Rated | 99 min | Documentary

75 Metascore

A documentary which explores the connections among sound, rhythm, time, and the body by following percussionist Evelyn Glennie, who is nearly deaf.

Director: Thomas Riedelsheimer | Stars: Evelyn Glennie, Fred Frith, Roxane Butterfly, Horacio 'Negro' Hernández

Votes: 680 | Gross: $0.18M

64. Sehnsucht (2006)

88 min | Drama, Romance

62 Metascore

A metalworker and volunteer firefighter, who is content with his marriage to his childhood sweetheart, sees his life turn upside down when he falls in love with an attractive waitress from a nearby town.

Director: Valeska Grisebach | Stars: Andreas Müller, Ilka Welz, Anett Dornbusch, Erika Lemke

Votes: 709

65. Central Airport THF (2018)

Not Rated | 100 min | Documentary

Berlin's Tempelhof Airport was opened in 1923 and, under Adolf Hitler, extended to become the world's largest airport which was finally closed in 2008. But even today Tempelhof Airport ... See full summary »

Director: Karim Aïnouz | Stars: Ibrahim Al Hussein, Qutaiba Nafer, Maria Alahmad, Christine Kiessig-Kämper

Votes: 295

66. How I Taught Myself to Be a Child (2019)

140 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

Paul Silberstein, youngest son of an urbane but deeply-strange old Austrian dynasty of confectionery millionaires, discovers the power of love and humor--and also his own extraordinary ability to shape his realities.

Director: Rupert Henning | Stars: Valentin Hagg, Karl Markovics, Sabine Timoteo, Nikolaas von Schrader

Votes: 194

67. The Dreamed Path (2016)

Not Rated | 86 min | Drama, Romance

A young German couple find their relationship tested after his mother suffers an accident. Thirty years later, a middle-aged actress splits with her anthropologist husband. Soon, these two couples' paths cross in unexpected ways.

Director: Angela Schanelec | Stars: Miriam Jakob, Thorbjörn Björnsson, Maren Eggert, Phil Hayes

Votes: 460

68. Sunset Over Mulholland Drive (2019)

97 min | Documentary

A behind-the-scenes look into a retirement home in Hollywood.

Directors: Uli Gaulke, Agnes Lisa Wegner | Stars: Connie Sawyer, Anne Faulkner, Madie Smith, Dena Dietrich

Votes: 66

69. Beuys (2017)

107 min | Documentary, Biography, History

58 Metascore

A documentary about the 20th century German sculptor and performance artist Joseph Beuys.

Director: Andres Veiel | Stars: Joseph Beuys, Caroline Tisdall, Rhea Thönges-Stringaris, Franz von der Grinten

Votes: 505 | Gross: $0.07M

70. The Look (I) (2011)

Not Rated | 99 min | Documentary

58 Metascore

CHARLOTTE RAMPLING: THE LOOK features Charlotte Rampling in a series of reflective conversations with artists, friends, and one-time collaborators such as novelist Paul Auster and ... See full summary »

Director: Angelina Maccarone | Stars: Charlotte Rampling, Peter Lindbergh, Paul Auster, Barnaby Southcombe

Votes: 325 | Gross: $0.02M

71. The PianoTuner of EarthQuakes (2004)

Not Rated | 99 min | Animation, Drama, Family

66 Metascore

Dark fairy-tale about a demonic doctor who abducts a beautiful opera singer with designs on transforming her into a mechanical nightingale.

Directors: Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay, Weiser Quay | Stars: Amira Casar, Gottfried John, Assumpta Serna, César Sarachu

Votes: 1,526 | Gross: $0.03M

72. Rhythm Is It! (2004)

100 min | Documentary, Music

RHYTHM IS IT! records the first big educational project of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Sir Simon Rattle. The orchestra ventured out of the ivory tower of high culture into ... See full summary »

Directors: Thomas Grube, Enrique Sánchez Lansch | Stars: Simon Rattle, Royston Maldoom, Susannah Broughton, Marie Theinert

Votes: 716

73. 19 (2000)

83 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Stylish road movie in which a kidnapped youth becomes friends with his abductors.

Director: Kazushi Watanabe | Stars: Daijirô Kawaoka, Kazushi Watanabe, Takeo Noro, Ryo Shinmyo

Votes: 575

75. Casting (V) (2017)

91 min | Comedy, Drama

For her first television film - a remake of Fassbinder's Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant - director Vera wants the perfect cast. But the first day of shooting is fast approaching and... See full summary »

Director: Nicolas Wackerbarth | Stars: Andreas Lust, Judith Engel, Milena Dreißig, Nicole Marischka

Votes: 339

76. Peter Handke: Bin im Wald. Kann sein, dass ich mich verspäte... (2016)

89 min | Documentary

Explores the life and work of the Austrian novelist, playwright and political activist, Peter Handke.

Director: Corinna Belz | Stars: Peter Handke, Amina Handke, Léocadie Handke, Sophie Semin

Votes: 87

77. The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz (2000)

87 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

A man comes to London, uses a strange force to take over different men's identities, and creates chaos.

Director: Ben Hopkins | Stars: Tom Fisher, Ian McNeice, Tony Maudsley, Will Keen

Votes: 1,194

78. Lucy (2006)

93 min | Drama, Romance

Eighteen-year-old Maggy has a baby, Lucy, eight months old. Maggy still lives with her mother, who often takes care of the baby so that Maggy can go out for an evening. At a disco she meets Gordon and soon falls in love with him.

Director: Henner Winckler | Stars: Kim Schnitzer, Gordon Schmidt, Feo Aladag, Polly Hauschild

Votes: 220

79. Dorfpunks (2009)

90 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

A 17-year-old discovers punk rock in rural northern Germany.

Director: Lars Jessen | Stars: Cecil von Renner, Ole Fischer, Pit Bukowski, Daniel Michel

Votes: 432

80. Mondscheinkinder (2006)

87 min | Animation, Drama, Family

Paul wants to become an astronaut. It is his favorite game. Pauls older sister, Lisa is playing his assistant in the spaceship. Lisa meets Simon and he also joins in but when Paul's physical conditions worsen, the game needs to favor Paul.

Director: Manuela Stacke | Stars: Leonie Krahl, Lucas Calmus, Lucas Hardt, Renate Krößner

Votes: 141

81. Superegos (2014)

93 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A weird friendship story between a book thief and an old psychology professor who was a Nazi in the past.

Director: Benjamin Heisenberg | Stars: Georg Friedrich, André Wilms, Nicolas Wackerbarth, Saskia Walker

Votes: 288

82. Hasret: Sehnsucht (2015)

82 min | Documentary, Drama

A European director is commissioned to make a documentary about Istanbul. He starts to film its everyday life - but soon becomes drawn to the darker, more mysterious side of the city - its ... See full summary »

Director: Ben Hopkins | Stars: Isa Çelik, Bilge Güler, Serhat Saymadi, Ben Hopkins

Votes: 199

83. Die Polizistin (2000 TV Movie)

98 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

The trials and tribulations of Anne, a young Berliner whose aspirations to be a police officer land her in Rostock, a run-down city in the northeastern part of the country.

Director: Andreas Dresen | Stars: Gabriela Maria Schmeide, Axel Prahl, Paul Grubba, Yevgeni Sitokhin

Votes: 283

84. Trip to Asia - Die Suche nach dem Einklang (2008)

108 min | Documentary, Music

Director Thomas Grube (RHYTHM IS IT!) and his accomplished film crew accompany the Berlin Philharmonic on a concert tour into six pulsating, dynamic Asian metropolises, juxtaposing ... See full summary »

Director: Thomas Grube | Stars: Simon Rattle, Virginie Reibel, Micha Afhkam, Raphael Haeger

Votes: 130

85. Pepe Mujica - Lessons from the Flowerbed (2014)

90 min | Documentary

In this documentary about the president of Uruguay, José Mujica, we follow the eccentric man in his simple life.

Director: Heidi Specogna | Stars: Lucia Topolansky, Pepe Mujica

Votes: 149

86. Mülheim - Texas: Helge Schneider hier und dort (2015)

89 min | Documentary, Biography, Music

Helge Schneider is one of the most extraordinary German artists. Jazz musician, entertainer, film director, actor and clown. His exceptional talent is his improvisational skill. This is ... See full summary »

Director: Andrea Roggon | Stars: Helge Schneider, Andrea Schumacher, Erwin Klempke, Rudi Olbrich

Votes: 128

87. Hello I Am David! (2015)

TV-G | 105 min | Documentary, Biography, Music

HELLO I AM DAVID! is a journey into the world of the outstanding pianist David Helfgott whose life inspired the OSCAR-winning film 'Shine'

Director: Cosima Lange | Stars: David Helfgott, Gillian Helfgott, Matthias Foremny, Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra

Votes: 274

88. Der Kick (2006)

82 min | Documentary

The neo-Nazi brothers Marco and Marcel Schönfeld from Potzlow have their sights set on the 16-year-old Marinus Schöberl, who stutters. They consider Marinus to be a so-called "subhuman".

Director: Andres Veiel | Stars: Susanne-Marie Wrage, Markus Lerch

Votes: 92

89. Porgy & Me (2009)

86 min | Documentary

In the (white) world of opera, George Gershwins alternately celebrated and controversial opera Porgy and Bess is one of the very few works that takes people of color as its subject. Susanna... See full synopsis »

Director: Susanna Boehm | Stars: Alteouise DeVaughn Austin, Jolie Rocke Brown, Terry Lee Cook, Jacqueline Echols

Votes: 11

90. Denk ich an Deutschland - Herr Wichmann von der CDU (2003)

80 min | Documentary

Documentary about a conservative candidate who runs for German parliament. But this electoral district has been in the hands of the social democrats ever since. So, how will he deal with that?

Director: Andreas Dresen | Stars: Henryk Wichmann, Markus Meckel, Angela Merkel, Jürgen Rüttgers

Votes: 306

91. Orly (2010)

Not Rated | 84 min | Drama

Amidst the impersonal hubbub of Paris' Orly Airport, strangers meet, secrets are revealed, and sudden intimacies develop in this beautifully observed mosaic of lives in transit.

Director: Angela Schanelec | Stars: Josse De Pauw, Maren Eggert, Natacha Régnier, Bruno Todeschini

Votes: 457

92. Heart of Sky, Heart of Earth (2011)

98 min | Documentary

Heart of Sky, Heart of Earth

Clouds pass before the sun and away again while a gentle voice speaking in the splendid tones of the Mayan language explains how the Earth came to be. There were... See full synopsis »

Directors: Eric Black, Frauke Sandig | Stars: Josefa 'Chepita' Hernández Pérez, Floridalma Pérez Gonzalez, Carlos Chan Chanuk, Kajkan Felipe Mejía Sepet

Votes: 49

93. Die wundersame Welt der Waschkraft (2009)

93 min | Documentary

The film is a story about everyday work that has been outsourced and the people who do it every day.

Director: Hans-Christian Schmid

Votes: 68

94. Beyond Punishment (2015)

98 min | Documentary, Crime, Drama

Three men who killed, and three families who lost a loved one. No way to imagine the two sides will ever get closer.

Director: Hubertus Siegert

Votes: 37

95. 7 Brüder (2003)

86 min | Documentary

7 Brothers 7 Brothers, born between 1929 and 1945 in Mülheim/Germany, are led into a silent setting. No questions asked, a vast conversation begins. Together they tell the story of their ... See full summary »

Director: Sebastian Winkels | Stars: Hannes Hufschmid, Hartmut Hufschmid, Jochen Hufschmid, Klaus Hufschmid

Votes: 12

96. Pigs Will Fly (2002)

98 min | Drama

A man struggles with memories of his violent childhood.

Director: Eoin Moore | Stars: Andreas Schmidt, Laura Tonke, Thomas Morris, Kirsten Block

Votes: 132

97. Im Schwitzkasten (2005)

95 min | Comedy, Drama

The siblings Nadine and Jost meet up with their friends every Thursday in their Berlin sauna 'Im Schwitzkasten'. Not only do we sweat together, we also discuss everyday problems.

Director: Eoin Moore | Stars: Charly Hübner, Steffi Kühnert, Christiane Paul, Andreas Schmidt

Votes: 140

99. Frozen Angels (2005)

93 min | Documentary

A scientific and social exploration of the future of human reproductive technology.

Directors: Eric Black, Frauke Sandig | Stars: Bill Handel, Kari Ciechoski, Lyne Macklin-Fife, Kim Brewer

Votes: 73

100. Aus Liebe zum Volk (2004)

Documentary

In February 1990, shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Ministry for State Security is dissolved. The end of the Stasi has come.

Directors: Audrey Maurion, Eyal Sivan | Star: Axel Prahl

Votes: 55



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