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5.8

♡ 3

Daphne Charizani Director

Christoph Letkowski as Alex

Maryam Boubani as Ferhat

Niels-Bruno Schmidt as Fuhrmann

Lucas Prisor as Tim

Rojda, a native of Iraqi Kurdistan and a soldier in the German army, travels to a refugee camp in Greece where she manages to meet her mother, who has bad news about her sister Dilan.

Mädchen, Mädchen

1967

6.6

♡ 1

Roger Fritz Director

Christian Friedel as

Christian Brückner as Junger Mann mit Brille

Klaus Löwitsch as Schorsch

Ernst Ronnecker as Vorarbeiter

An underage girl starts an affair with her much older employer. Then, her lover is sentenced for the seduction of a minor, and the young woman gets involved with his son, the junior head of the company. When his father is released from prison, father and son become rivals for their shared lover.

Schutzengel

5.7

Til Schweiger Director

Antoine Monot Jr. as Fahrer

Til Schweiger as Max Fischer

Tim Wilde as Nicholas

Trystan Pütter as Verteidiger

15-year-old Nina witnesses a terrible crime that puts her life in danger. Being an orphan, she has nobody she can trust. When corrupt businessman Thomas Backer sends five killers after Nina, witness protection officer, Max, a former special-forces soldier, is responsible for her safety. They soon overcome their initial distance to find common ground. While on the run from the ruthless Backer, Rudi, one of Max’s former comrades, comes to their rescue – and continues to help the two out of some precarious situations. Even Max’s ex-girlfriend Sara is not just there to help him as a federal prosecutor. Nevertheless, Nina and Max face ever-increasing danger, and soon the teenager is not the only one in need of a guardian angel – Max could use one too.

The Miracle of Bern

2003

6.7

♡ 3

82%

football (soccer) coach

hungary

Sport

sports

Sönke Wortmann Director

Peer Jäger as Ahrens

Katharina Wackernagel as Annette Ackermann

Johanna Gastdorf as Christa Lubanski

Lucas Gregorowicz as Paul Ackermann

The movie deals with the championship-winning German soccer team of 1954. Its story is linked with two others: The family of a young boy is split due to the events in World War II, and the father returns from Russia after eleven years. The second story is about a reporter and his wife reporting from the tournament.

Berlin Blues

2003

7.1

♡ 2

89%

Comedy

kreuzberg

Leander Haußmann Director

Christoph Waltz as Arzt

Michael Gwisdek as Der Trinker

Detlev Buck as Karl

Katja Danowski as Katrin

In October 1989, the part of the West Berlin borough of Kreuzberg called SO 36, had been largely shut off by the Wall from the rest of the city for 28 years. A lethargic sub-culture of students, artists, bohemians and barflys had flourished among crumbling buildings. Part of that microcosm is barkeeper Frank, semi-formally called 'Herr Lehmann' by friends and patrons. He hangs out drinking, sports utter disregard for anything beyond SO 36 and lazily pursues an affair with cook Katrin. His lifestyle is gradually disturbed, when his parents show up for a visit, things go awry with Katrin and his best friend Karl starts to act strange. Meanwhile, political turmoil mounts on the other side of the Wall.

Tom Sawyer

2011

6.1

♡ 10

29%

19th century

Adventure

based on novel or book

Family

missouri

woman director

Hermine Huntgeburth Director

Benno Fürmann as Indianer Joe

Adnan Maral as Kumpan Indianer Joe

Joachim Król as Muff Potter

Louis Hofmann as Tom Sawyer

Tom Sawyer has a head full of pranks and drives when he invents is not just a new adventure, preferably around with his best buddy Huck Finn - much to the chagrin of his Aunt Polly with Tom and his half-brother Sid in the town of St. Petersburg on the Mississippi river.

Even Dwarfs Started Small

1970

6.7

♡ 5

100%

Werner Herzog Director

Alfredo Piccini as Anselmo

Erna Gschwendtner as Azucar

Gerd Gickel as Pepe

Gerhard Maerz as Territory

A group of tormented patients stage a coup at an oppressive, dismal asylum after they're not allowed out on an excursion.

Sissi

1955

husband wife relationship

7.0

♡ 7

86%

Ernst Marischka Director

Fritz Muliar as Blumenbote

Magda Schneider as Duchess Ludovika in Bayern / Vickie

Gustav Knuth as Duke Max in Bavaria

Romy Schneider as Sissi

The young Bavarian princess Elisabeth, who all call Sissi, goes with her mother and older sister Néné to Austria where Néné will be wed to an emperor named Franz Joseph, Yet unexpectedly Franz runs into Sissi while out fishing and they fall in love.

The Reformer. Zwingli: A Life's Portrait.

2019

6.7

♡ 1

Stefan Haupt Director

Patrick Rapold as Heinrich Bullinger

Anatole Taubman as Leo Jud

Charlotte Schwab as Maria

Thomas Douglas as Ratsherr Edibach

Zurich in 1519: The young widow Anna Reinhart lives a barren life between fear of the church and worries about the future of her three children, when the arrival of a man in the city causes turmoil: The young priest Ulrich Zwingli takes up his new position at the Grossmünster in Zurich and sparks fierce discussions with his sermons against the grievances of the Catholic Church. Zwingli's revolutionary thoughts frighten Anna. But when she sees how Zwingli lives charity and not just preaches, she increasingly becomes fascinated by him. But Zwingli's success quickly becomes dangerous. His ideas almost trigger a civil war, and at the same time a struggle for power and interpretive sovereignty breaks out in the inner circle of the movement. When the Catholic forces begin to form internationally, the relationship between Zwingli and Anna is put to a hard test.

The American Friend

1977

7.4

♡ 26

88%

80%

husband wife relationship

based on novel or book

Wim Wenders Director

Samuel Fuller as Der Amerikaner

Wim Wenders as Figure Wrapped in Plaster Bandages in Ambulance

Bruno Ganz as Jonathan Zimmermann

Dennis Hopper as Tom Ripley

Tom Ripley, an American who deals in forged art, is slighted at an auction in Hamburg by picture framer Jonathan Zimmerman. When Ripley is asked by gangster Raoul Minot to kill a rival, he suggests Zimmerman, and the two, exploiting Zimmerman's terminal illness, coerce him into being a hitman.

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.

Die Superbullen - Sie kennen keine Gnade

4.0

Gernot Roll Director

Hilmi Sözer as Mario

Götz Otto as Schorsch

Werner Daehn as Thilo

Tom Gerhardt as Tommie

Tommie and Mario are on the prowl again. But this time not through the alcohol haze of Cologne Kalk or the Ballermann Club on Mallorca but through the German underworld. For a while, at least, because the police want to get rid of their two most stupid employees by far as soon as possible. When the billy goat "Hennes", the mascot of the 1st FC Cologne, is kidnapped, they see their chance for rehabilitation and rush to save their favorite club. Their investigation leads them across Germany, then they get it: "Hennes" must be in Munich - with the arch-rival of FC Bayern, who is targeting the morale of the troops of Cologne soccer with his outrageous kidnapping...

The Edge of Heaven

2007

7.7

♡ 10

90%

Fatih Akin Director

Idil Üner as Ärztin

Nurgül Yesilçay as Ayten Öztürk

Önder Çakar as Riza Bey

Hanna Schygulla as Susanne Staub

The lives of six German-Turkish immigrants are drawn together by circumstance: An old man and a prostitute forging a partnership, a young scholar reconciling his past, two young women falling in love, and a mother putting the shattered pieces of her life back together.

Rapunzels Fluch 2

2023

4.2

♡ 2

David Brückner Director

Sebastian Prenzel as Daniel

Jörg Flessa as Dr. Bierling

Valentin Kleinschmidt as Herr Müller

Malina Stark as Melissa

A pair of siblings get caught up in the revenge campaign of a malicious demon who wants to kill the descendant of an exorcist.

Piaffe

2022

5.5

♡ 2

92%

67%

Fantasy

Ann Oren Director

Don Alonso as Pferd

Björn Melhus as Piotr

Tristan Bumm as Scientist

Simon Jaikiriuma Paetau as Zara

When her sibling Zara suffers a nervous breakdown, the introvert Eva is forced to take on Zara’s job as a Foley artist. She struggles to create sounds for a commercial featuring a horse, and then a horsetail starts growing out of her body. Empowered by her tail, she lures a botanist into an affair, through a game of submission. Piaffe is a visceral journey into control, gender, and artifice.

Diary of a Lost Girl

1929

7.8

♡ 12

100%

87%

based on novel or book

Georg Wilhelm Pabst Director

Hedy Krilla as (as Hedwig Schlichter)

Vera Pawlowa as Aunt Frieda

Josef Rovenský as Robert Henning

Louise Brooks as Thymian

Thymian Henning, an innocent young girl, is raped by the clerk of her father's pharmacy. She becomes pregnant, is rejected by her family, and must fend for herself in a harsh, cruel world.

Mädchen in Uniform

1931

7.5

♡ 11

100%

86%

based on play or musical

coming out

female friendship

girls' boarding school

pre-code

Romance

suicide attempt

Leontine Sagan Director

Miriam Lehmann-Haupt as Erzieherin

Lisi Scheerbach as Mademoiselle Qeuillet

Hertha Thiele as Manuela von Meinhardis

Barbara Pirk as Mia von Wollin

A sensitive girl is sent to an all-girls boarding school and develops a romantic attachment to one of her teachers.

Reinhardtstraße

2009

5.4

♡ 1

Ramon Zürcher Director

Julien Francis Bisesi as Andreas

Verena Bukal as Janine

Jonas Littauer as Mark

Kerstin Reimann as Mutter

Nadine and Janine share a flat together with their friends Mark and Andreas. The flat share is a universe with its own rules, languages, manners and relationships. A stimulating place, where chaos is floating through corridors and rooms. Pending over everything is the approaching breakup of the community, which becomes more and more perceptible within short moments of silence. One of the flat mates, Janine, is going to leave. Janine's farewell party affects each other of her friends in an different way. A precise description of a fragile structure breaking apart.

Bunker of the Dead

2015