Summer 1968. 14-year-old Wolfgang is deported from his family in the secluded Church Welfare Institution sanctuary. One thing is clear for Wolfgang: His yearning for freedom, he will not soon buried in the bog.

Talking About the Weather

2022

German

6.3

Drama

Annika Pinske Director

Emma Frieda Brüggler as Emma

Sandra Hüller as Hanna

Max Riemelt as Marcel

Ronald Zehrfeld as Roland

Clara is studying for a Ph.D in philosophy in Berlin. In this middle-class male academic environment, she feels pushed to one side. She returns to her childhood village in former East Germany for her mother's birthday, and becomes aware that a distance has grown between her and her family.

The German Friend

2012

Spanish

6.1

♡ 1

Jeanine Meerapfel Director

Max Riemelt as Friedrich Burg

Hartmut Becker as Herr Werner Kunheim

Susana Varela as Mujer

Joaquín Berthold as Polaco

It’s the late 1950s, and in an affluent and quietly respectable part of Buenos Aires, young Sulamit Löwenstein strikes up a friendship with her next-door neighbour Friedrich over the whereabouts of her family dog. She is the daughter of German-Jewish immigrants to Argentina, he is the son of a senior SS officer, a tragic political legacy from whose shadow both characters struggle to escape over the next three decades. Following the teenaged Friedrich to Germany, Sulamit finds him caught up in the radical politics of late-1960s student life; and she’s forced to make important decisions about her attitude to her homeland when Friedrich returns to Argentina to join the fight against the military junta.

Berlin Syndrome

2017

English

6.3

♡ 124

74%

53%

Action

based on novel or book

Cate Shortland Director

Max Riemelt as Andi

Teresa Palmer as Clare

Emma Bading as Franka Hummels

Morgane Ferru as Young Tourist

A passionate holiday romance leads to an obsessive relationship when an Australian photojournalist wakes one morning in an abandoned Berlin apartment and is unable to leave.

Amnesia

2015

French

6.1

♡ 1

81%

older woman younger man relationship

tragic past

Barbet Schroeder Director

Bruno Ganz as Bruno - le grand-père de Jo

Max Riemelt as Jo Gellert dit DJ Gello

Marthe Keller as Martha Sagell

Joel Basman as Rudolfo

A young composer moves from Berlin to the island of Ibiza and begins a friendship with an elderly woman whose painful past has caused her to reject everything to do with Germany, including her native language.

The Tasters

2025

German

6.4

♡ 1

Drama

Silvio Soldini Director

Max Riemelt as Albert Ziegler

Boris Aljinovic as Cook

Emma Falck as Leni

Berit Vander as Ulla

The film follows in the wake of young Rosa who flees bomb-stricken Berlin in the autumn of 1943 and heads to a small, isolated village near the eastern border. This is where her in-laws live and where her husband, who’s deployed on the front, has advised she take shelter until the war ends and he returns. Rosa soon discovers that this seemingly sleepy village conceals a secret: in the forest bordering the hamlet is Hitler’s headquarters, the Wolf’s Lair.

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