Knife in the Head

1978

German

7.0

♡ 8

86%

100%

Action

Drama

Reinhard Hauff Director

Hans Christian Blech as Anleitner

Angela Winkler as Ann Hoffmann

Bruno Ganz as Dr. Berthold Hoffmann

Herbert Kerz as Hausmeister

One night when seeking his estranged wife, Hoffmann goes to the youth center where she works. The police are there rounding up radicals who frequent the center - Hoffmann runs into the building and ends up being shot in the head. He awakens with brain trauma, partially paralyzed and unable to speak. The police accuse him of stabbing an officer; the radicals herald him as an innocent victim of police brutality. During his slow recovery at the hospital, Hoffmann must piece together his life and struggle to remember the events of that night.

Vacation

2007

German

6.2

♡ 1

Drama

Thomas Arslan Director

Angela Winkler as Anna

Gudrun Ritter as Annas Mutter

Karoline Eichhorn as Laura

Uwe Bohm as Paul

All summer long, a group of people circumnavigate each other. A group of people who are so close and yet so alienated from one another. Their isolated holiday home is the site for a resurgence of smouldering conflicts and lifelong illusions that threaten to wreck the family’s fragile unity forever.

Hell

2011

German

5.8

♡ 9

36%

post-apocalyptic future

Sci-Fi

survival

Thriller

Tim Fehlbaum Director

Angela Winkler as Bäuerin

Lisa Vicari as Leonie

Lars Eidinger as Phillip

Stipe Erceg as Tom

In 2016 the sun has turned the entire world into a scorched and barren wasteland. The humans who have survived are either resourceful or violent, and sometimes both. Marie, her little sister Leonie, and best friend Phillip, are in a car headed to the mountains - rumor has it there is water there. Along the way they meet Tom, a first-rate mechanic. But can they trust him? Fraught with deep distrust, the group is lured into an ambush where their real battle for survival begins.

Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt

2015

English

7.3

♡ 2

94%

holocaust (shoah) survivor

jew persecution

nuremberg trials

woman director

Ada Ushpiz Director

Angela Winkler as Hannah Arendt

Alison Darcy as Hannah Arendt

Hermann Göring as Self

Adolf Eichmann as Self

The life and work of German political philosopher of Jewish descent Hannah Arendt (1906-75), who caused a stir when she coined a subversive concept, the banality of evil, in her 1963 book on the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolph Eichmann (1906-62), held in Israel in 1961, which she covered for the New Yorker magazine.

Danton

1983

French

7.4

♡ 8

85%

Andrzej Wajda Director

Andrzej Seweryn as Bourdon

Gérard Depardieu as Danton

Ronald Guttman as Herman

Angela Winkler as Lucile Desmoulins

Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 Robespierre was France's ruler, determined to wipe out opposition with a series of mass executions that became known as the Reign of Terror. Danton, well known as a spokesman of the people, had been living in relative solitude in the French countryside, but he returned to Paris to challenge Robespierre's violent rule and call for the people to demand their rights. Robespierre, however, could not accept such a challenge, even from a friend and colleague, and he blocked out a plan for the capture and execution of Danton and his allies.