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6.5

♡ 2

Peter Handke Director

Hanns Zischler as

Bruno Ganz as Bruno

Gérard Depardieu as Mann mit dem T-Shirt

Rüdiger Vogler as Schauspieler

Mourning for a lost relationship can be every bit as devastating as mourning for someone who has died. In this drama based on the director's own novel, a couple with an unhappy marriage agree to a trial separation. They try to patch things up, and at the same time other relationships begin to develop for them.

Black Island

2021

teacher student relationship

5.2

♡ 2

31%

teenage boy

Thriller

Miguel Alexandre Director

Hanns Zischler as Friedrich / Jonas' grandfather

Jolene Andersen as Helena

Susan Angelo as Jonas' Mutter

Mercedes Müller as Nina / Jonas' girlfriend

The dark secrets of a seemingly peaceful island threaten to swallow up an orphaned student when he grows close to a mysterious new teacher.

The Cement Garden

1993

English

7.0

♡ 6

85%

74%

receiving of stolen goods

based on novel or book

Andrew Birkin Director

William Hootkins as Commander Hunt

Hanns Zischler as Father

Charlotte Gainsbourg as Julie

Sinéad Cusack as Mother

After the death of her husband, the mother of Julie, Jack, Sue and Tom begins to suffer from a mysterious illness. Aware that she is going to have to go into hospital she opens a bank account for the children, so that they can be financially self-sufficient and will be able to avoid being taken into care by the authorities. Unfortunately she also dies and Julie and Jack (the older, teenage children) decide to hide her body in the basement so that they can have free reign of their household. Soon Tom has taken to dressing as a girl whilst Sue has become increasingly reticent, confiding only to her diary, meanwhile Jack and Julie sense an attraction developing for each other. However Julie's new beau, Derek, threatens to unearth the many dark secrets within this family as he becomes increasingly suspicious of Jack.

Engel aus Eisen

6.6

War

Thomas Brasch Director

Anna Thalbach as Agnes Gabler, Tochter

Kurt Raab as Chauffeur

Hilmar Thate as Gustav Völpel

Hanns Zischler as Ridzinski

The subject of this historical drama is a splintering Berlin in the years of 1948 and 1949. Played against the backdrop of social upheaval, the characters in the drama come to epitomize the best and worst of each pole of the political sphere. A 17-year-old hoodlum by the name of Gladow works hand-in-glove with a local white-collar criminal to rob and pillage every day and night, defying capture. While he and his gang of thugs are terrorizing the people of Berlin, the Soviets are trying to make the blockade of their region of control impermeable. The future casts long shadows over the drama, as Berlin's problems take the shape of times to come.

Im Schatten

2010

6.9

♡ 2

Crime

Thomas Arslan Director

Hanns Zischler as Der Planer

Uwe Bohm as Meyer

Rainer Bock as Nico

Peter Kurth as Richard Bauer

"In the Shadows" slithers through underworld Berlin in grand style. En route to a twisty finale, German writer-director Thomas Arslan keeps his audience glued to the increasingly desperate actions of Trojan, a thirtysomething career criminal whose latest job slowly catches up with him.

A Fine Day

2001

6.3

♡ 2

Thomas Arslan Director

Nicole Winterbauer as Castingassistentin

Natalie Peters as Freundin von Diego

Simone Bär as Regiassistentin

Hanns Zischler as Regisseur

A day in the life of the 21 years old Deniz, who aims to become an actress and makes her living by dubbing movies. After she has split with her old boyfriend she gets to know Diego and spends the evening with him.

Europa Europa

1990

7.5

♡ 26

95%

90%

based on memoir or autobiography

Agnieszka Holland Director

Hanns Zischler as Captain von Lereneau

Julie Delpy as Leni

Anna Seniuk as Nazi Activist Rosemarie

Marco Hofschneider as Sally

A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a 'war hero' and eventually becomes a Hitler Youth.

All of a Sudden

2016

6.4

♡ 5

38%

Mystery

woman director

Asli Özge Director

Natalia Belitski as Anna

Luise Heyer as Judith

Sebastian Hülk as Karsten

Hanns Zischler as Klaus

Karsten apparently has it settled. However, in this provincial German town, a moment of weakness turns to disaster, disappointment soon fuels anger, justice hides behind hypocrisy, and evil gradually unfolds.

Desire

1992

English

6.1

♡ 13

Andrew Birkin Director

Vincent D'Onofrio as Gavin

Greta Scacchi as George

Shirley Henderson as Mary

Hanns Zischler as Sidney

A Scottish woman who attends school in Paris comes home for the summer and helps take in the straw, where she meets an attractive and simple man. They begin a torrid affair despite the differences in their lifestyles. He asks her to marry him but she refuses, and they continue their separate lives but also continue their affair through the years, loving each other despite their differences.

Meetings with Anna

1978

French

7.3

♡ 6

71%

Chantal Akerman Director

Hanns Zischler as Hans

Helmut Griem as Heinrich Schneider

Magali Noël as Ida

Lea Massari as La mère d'Anna

On a trip across Western Europe to promote her newest release, filmmaker Anna encounters several individuals—familiar and otherwise—and attends to their discontents.

The Edukators

2004

7.4

♡ 7

70%

Hans Weingartner Director

Oliver Bröcker as Aggressiver Globalisierungsgegner

Daniel Brühl as Jan

Stipe Erceg as Peter

Hanns Zischler as Vermieter

Three activists cobble together a kidnapping plot after they encounter a businessman in his home.

Berlin Chamissoplatz

1980

6.8

♡ 1

Romance

Rudolf Thome Director

Jochen Brunow as Apotheker

Ingo Kaetel as CB-Funker

Hans Lechner as Dieter

Hanns Zischler as Martin

An architect is assigned to modernize a squatted house in the Kreuzberg district of Berlin. But then he meets a young student who is member of a grassroots initiative trying to preserve the quarter. He falls in love with her, although this puts him into conflict with his job. Following his heart, the architect soon changes sides and supports the inhabitants in their struggle against the real estate speculators.

Rommel

2012

6.6

♡ 9

67%

Niki Stein Director

Vicky Krieps as Comtesse La Rochefoucauld

Ulrich Tukur as Erwin Rommel

Hanns Zischler as Gen. Feldmarschall von Rundstedt

Aglaia Szyszkowitz as Lucie Rommel

The story of the final seven months in the life of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.

23

1998

7.2

♡ 10

78%

based on a true story

computer

court case

german democratic republic

hacker

spy

Thriller

Hans-Christian Schmid Director

August Diehl as Karl Koch

Hanns Zischler as Karls Vater

Armin Dillenberger as Kellner im Zug

Oscar Ortega Sánchez as Mr. Minit

The movie's plot is based on the true story of a group of young computer hackers from Hannover, Germany. In the late 1980s the orphaned Karl Koch invests his heritage in a flat and a home computer. At first he dials up to bulletin boards to discuss conspiracy theories inspired by his favorite novel, R.A. Wilson's "Illuminatus", but soon he and his friend David start breaking into government and military computers. Pepe, one of Karl's rather criminal acquaintances senses that there is money in computer cracking - he travels to east Berlin and tries to contact the KGB.

Whispers Behind the Wall

2013

5.4

♡ 3

landlord tenant relationship

Horror

tenant

Thriller

Grzegorz Muskala Director

Ronald Nitschke as Hausmeister Horn

Hanns Zischler as Martins Vater

Florian Panzner as Sebastian / Simone's husband

Katharina Heyer as Simone / landlady

Martin leaves his protective parents’ home and comes to Berlin as a law student with high hopes. He finds a tiny, run-down flat in a strange, dark apartment block, from which the previous tenant has disappeared without a trace. Having no luck with social contacts at the university, Martin quickly falls for his mysterious landlady Simone, who lives just next door behind a thin wall. Hoping to find trust and intimacy, Martin loses himself in the house’s disturbing world of sex and violence. Deep in the walls, Martin discovers the true horror of his first love.

Zettl

2012

4.0

♡ 1

Comedy

Helmut Dietl Director

Hanns Zischler as Gaishofer

Götz George as Kanzler Olbrich Ebert

Senta Berger as Mona Mödlinger

Ulrich Tukur as Urs Doucier

A social satire in which a chauffeur accidentally becomes the editor of an online newspaper.

Post Impact

2004

3.3

♡ 2

Christoph Schrewe Director

Jonas Talkington as Airplane Soldier #3

Dean Cain as Capt. Tom Parker

Nigel Bennett as Col. Preston Waters

Hanns Zischler as Dr. Gregor Starndorf

Meteor Bay-Leder 7 struck earth on October 18th, 2012. Causing earthquakes, tidal waves, and a dust cloud that soon covered most of the Northern hemisphere, it changed the face of our planet forever.

Crash Test Aglaé

2017

French

6.5

♡ 1

Comedy

co-worker relationship

co-workers relationship

Eric Gravel Director

Tristán Ulloa as Clovis

Hanns Zischler as Friedrich Fürstenberg - le PDG

Adil Hussain as Shankar

Laurent Manzoni as Superviseur de crash-test

Aglaé, a young factory worker, has only one focus in life: her job at a car crash test site. When she learns that the factory is going to be relocated abroad, she accepts, to everyone's surprise, to go to India in order to hold on to her job. Accompanied by two colleagues, she sets out on a perilous road trip to the other side of the world.

Kings of the Road

1976

7.6

♡ 6

100%

87%