In 1980s East Germany, Barbara is a Berlin doctor banished to a country medical clinic for applying for an exit visa. Deeply unhappy with her reassignment and fearful of her co-workers as possible Stasi informants, Barbara stays aloof, especially from the good natured clinic head, Andre.

Jerichow

2008

German

7.0

♡ 5

90%

Christian Petzold Director

Hilmi Sözer as Ali Özkan

Nina Hoss as Laura

André Hennicke as Leon

Benno Fürmann as Thomas

In a small town in Northern Germany, a penniless German veteran is offered a job as a deliveryman by an alcoholic Turkish entrepreneur, through which the former meets the latter's wife.

Yella

2007

German

6.7

♡ 12

82%

husband wife relationship

Romance

Thriller

work

Christian Petzold Director

Peter Benedict as Dr. Friedrichs Anwalt Oliver

Michael Wittenborn as Dr. Schmidt-Ott

Devid Striesow as Philipp

Nina Hoss as Yella Fichte

A young East German woman leaves her husband and business partner and relocates to a West German city to start anew as an accountant, but he soon catches up with her.

Transit

2018

German

6.9

♡ 21

94%

66%

Action

based on novel or book

Christian Petzold Director

Trystan Pütter as American Consul

Justus von Dohnányi as Conductor

Paula Beer as Marie

Godehard Giese as Richard

In an attempt to flee Nazi-occupied France, Georg assumes the identity of a dead author but soon finds himself stuck in Marseilles, where he falls in love with Maria, a young woman searching for her missing husband.

Phoenix

2014

German

♡ 30

98%

78%

Action

auschwitz-birkenau concentration camp

based on novel or book

Christian Petzold Director

Max Hopp as Der Mann

Ronald Zehrfeld as Johnny Lenz

Nina Hoss as Nelly Lenz

Trystan Pütter as Soldat an der Brücke

German-Jewish cabaret singer Nelly survived Auschwitz but had to undergo reconstructive surgery as her face was disfigured. Without recognizing Nelly, her former husband Johnny asks her to help him claim his wife’s inheritance. To see if he betrayed her, she agrees, becoming her own doppelganger.

Undine

2020

German

6.6

♡ 13

89%

Christian Petzold Director

Anne Ratte-Polle as Anna

Franz Rogowski as Christoph

José Barros as Miguel

Paula Beer as Undine Wibeau

Undine is a historian and tour guide at the Berlin City Museum specializing in urban development, while Christoph is an industrial diver. Linked by a love of the water, the two form an intense bond, which can only do so much to help Undine overcome the considerable baggage of her former affair.

Afire

2023

German

7.1

♡ 22

91%

Christian Petzold Director

Thomas Schubert as Leon

Esther Esche as Mrs. König, Hotel Manager

Paula Beer as Nadja

Sven Tarnowski as Police Officer

Self-important author Leon joins his best friend on a summer holiday near the Baltic Sea to complete his novel. When they arrive, they find their house is already occupied by a carefree woman who challenges Leon to open up. Meanwhile, forest wildfires rage around them and impending disaster looms.

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