Corsage

2022

German

♡ 20

85%

empress elisabeth of austria

History

Marie Kreutzer Director

Colin Morgan as Bay Middleton

Florian Teichtmeister as Emperor Franz Joseph

Vicky Krieps as Empress Elisabeth

Sonia Laszlo as Fencing Master

A fictional account of one year in the life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria. On Christmas Eve 1877, Elisabeth, once idolized for her beauty, turns 40 and is officially deemed an old woman; she starts trying to maintain her public image.

Oi! Warning

1999

German

6.0

♡ 3

71%

Ben Reding Director

Hedi Kriegeskotte as Janoschs Mutter

Simon Goerts as Koma

Charles Müller as Lehrer

Sandra Borgmann as Sandra

A young man gets caught up in a conflict between his friends, a skinhead and a gay anarchist.

Eldorado: Everything the Nazis Hate

2023

German

7.5

♡ 3

91%

Benjamin Cantu Director

Robert Beachy as Self

Ben Miller as Self

Katrin Himmler as Self

Klaus Mueller as Self

A glittery nightclub in 1920s Berlin becomes a haven for the queer community in this documentary exploring the freedoms lost amid Hitler’s rise to power.

Funny Games

1997

German

♡ 47

73%

Michael Haneke Director

Ulrich Mühe as Georg

Doris Kunstmann as Gerda

Susanne Meneghel as Gerdas Schwester

Wolfgang Glück as Robert

Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.

The Baader Meinhof Complex

2008

German

7.3

♡ 12

85%

Uli Edel Director

Michael Gwisdek as Helmut Ensslin - Gudruns Vater

Anna Thalbach as Ingrid

Christian Näthe as Kommunarde

Rainer Reiners as Polizist

When German police viciously quell a protest against the shah of Iran, popular journalist Ulrike Meinhof rebels against her dishonest marriage, walks away from her children and joins radical anarchist Andreas Baader. Together with Baader's girlfriend, Gudrun Ensslin, they form the violent Red Faction Army, and together perpetrate a slew of terrorist attacks as a way of disrupting the fabric of what they see as an increasingly fascist state.

Woyzeck

1979

German

7.0

♡ 14

86%

Werner Herzog Director

Wolfgang Bächler as Jew

Irm Hermann as Margret

Dieter Augustin as Marktschreier

Klaus Kinski as Woyzeck

Having fathered an illegitimate child with his lover, Marie, feckless soldier Franz Woyzeck takes odd jobs around his small town to provide some extra money for them. One job is volunteering for experiments conducted by a local doctor, who puts Woyzeck on a diet of peas. This serves to drive him close to madness, and the discovery that Marie is involved in an affair with the local drum major exacerbates the situation. Pushed too far, Woyzeck resorts to violence.

The German Lesson

2019

German

6.8

♡ 8

Action

Drama

Christian Schwochow Director

Sonja Richter as Gudrun Jepsen

Ulrich Noethen as Jens Ole Jepsen

Louis Hofmann as Klaus Jepsen

Michael Wittenborn as Pastor Treblin

In a small North German village a drama played out during and shortly after the Second World War about duty versus individual conscience and morality.

The Conference

2022

German

7.2

♡ 11

90%

Matti Geschonneck Director

Godehard Giese as Dr. Wilhelm Stuckart

Matthias Bundschuh as Erich Neumann

Jakob Diehl as Heinrich Müller

Markus Schleinzer as Otto Hofmann

On January 20, 1942, the Wannsee Conference takes place in Berlin, a meeting that had only one item on the agenda: The Final Solution, the organization of the systematic mass murder of eleven million European Jews.

Faust

2011

German

6.5

♡ 15

Aleksandr Sokurov Director

David Jonsson as Greek Boy

Hanna Schygulla as Moneylender's 'Wife'

Antoine Monot Jr. as Monk With the Basket

Andreas Schmidt as Valentin's Friend

A doctor in early 19th-century Germany becomes infatuated with the sister of a man he unintentionally killed and bargains with the Devil incarnate to conjure their union in exchange for his soul.

Young Törless

1966

German

7.2

♡ 2

Volker Schlöndorff Director

Barbara Steele as Bozena

Jean Launay as Mathematiklehrer

Mathieu Carrière as Thomas Törless

Herbert Asmodi as Vater Törless

At an Austrian boys' boarding school in the early 1900s, shy, intelligent Törless observes the sadistic behavior of his fellow students, doing nothing to help a victimized classmate—until the torture goes too far. Adapted from Robert Musil's acclaimed novel, Young Törless launched the New German Cinema movement and garnered the 1966 Cannes Film Festival International Critics' Prize for first-time director Volker Schlöndorff.

Nemesis

2020

German

6.9

♡ 1

Thomas Imbach Director

Milan Peschel as T.

The film explores the destruction of a unique train station in Zurich and the construction of the new prison and police centre in its place. From the perspective of the filmmaker’s window, and with testimony from prisoners awaiting deportation, the film probes how we deal with the extinction of history and its replacement with total security.

Great Freedom

2021

German

7.5

♡ 21

97%

Sebastian Meise Director

Franz Rogowski as Hans Hoffmann

Andreas Patton as Staatsanwalt

Joachim Schoenfeld as Wache

Alfred Hartung as Wärter

In post-war Germany, liberation by the Allies does not mean freedom for everyone. Hans Hoffmann is repeatedly imprisoned under Paragraph 175, which criminalizes homosexuality. Nevertheless, over the decades, he continues his quest for freedom and love, even if he finds it in the most unusual places.

The Heartbreak Agency

2024

German

5.3

♡ 4

43%

Action

Comedy

Romance

Shirel Peleg Director

Jerry Hoffmann as Anton

Rosalie Thomass as Maria

Maria Hofstätter as Martha

Özgür Karadeniz as Turgay

When a skeptical journalist reluctantly participates in heartbreak therapy for an article, he ends up opening his heart to his charming therapist.

The Tin Drum

1979

German

7.4

♡ 25

84%

Action

adultery

based on novel or book

Volker Schlöndorff Director

Mario Adorf as Alfred Matzerath

Daniel Olbrychski as Jan Bronski

David Bennent as Oskar Matzerath

Adolf Hitler as Self

Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his mother, Agnes, Oskar is reluctant to enter a world he sees as filled with hypocrisy and injustice, and vows on his third birthday to never grow up. Miraculously, he gets his wish. As the Nazis rise to power in Danzig, Oskar wills himself to remain a child, beating his tin drum incessantly and screaming in protest at the chaos surrounding him.

Andrea Gets a Divorce

6.4

Josef Hader Director

Thomas Schubert as Georg

Robert Kratky as Jogger

Maria Hofstätter as Mitzi

Wolfgang Hübsch as Nachbar

Rural policewoman Andrea wants to end her marriage and become a detective inspector in the city. After a birthday party, her drunken soon-to-be ex-husband runs out in front of her car. In a state of shock, Andrea commits a hit-and-run.

Office 39: Kim's Cash Machine

7.4

Sebastian Weis Director

Dulcie Smart as Narrator

Remco Breuker as Self

Simon Choi as Self

Hugh Griffiths as Self

How is it possible that North Korea, one of the poorest countries on earth finances a nuclear weapons program large enough to challenge the USA? The answer: Bureau 39, a legendary organization nestled deep inside the government apparatus. Its aim is to procure foreign exchange by any means possible to provide Kim Jong-un’s regime with money.

Soul of a Beast

2021

German

5.5

♡ 6

Action

Drama

Lorenz Merz Director

Ella Rumpf as Corey

Dagny Gioulami as Corey's mother

Lolita Chammah as Mother of Zoé

Luna Wedler as Zoé

During the summer, Gabriel, a teenage father, falls in love with the mysterious Corey, the girlfriend of Joel, his best friend, who, deeply hurt, reveals the truth about Gabriel's past.

Bagdad Cafe

1987

German

7.4

♡ 14

80%

Percy Adlon Director

CCH Pounder as Brenda

Marianne Sägebrecht as Jasmin Münchgstettner

Monica Calhoun as Phyllis

Jack Palance as Rudi Cox

A German woman named Jasmin stumbles upon a dilapidated motel/diner in the middle of nowhere. Her unusual appearance and demeanor are at first suspicious to Brenda, the exasperated owner who has difficulty making ends meet. But when an unlikely magic sparks between the two women, this lonely desert outpost is transformed into a thriving and popular oasis.

The Counterfeiters

2007

German

7.5

♡ 26

93%

Stefan Ruzowitzky Director

Marie Bäumer as Aglaia

August Diehl as Burger

Lenn Kudrjawizki as Loszek

Werner Daehn as Rosenthal

The story of Jewish counterfeiter Salomon Sorowitsch, who was coerced into assisting the Nazi operation of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp during World War II.

Dying

2024

German

7.4

♡ 8

100%

Action

Drama

Matthias Glasner Director

Robert Gwisdek as Bernard

Corinna Harfouch as Lissy Lunies

Ronald Zehrfeld as Sebastian Vogel

Lars Eidinger as Tom Lunies

Mother Lissy, father Gerd, son Tom and daughter Ellen: the members of the Lunies family are estranged. But confronted with death, they finally meet each other again.

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Oi! Warning

Eldorado: Everything the Nazis Hate

Funny Games

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Young Törless

Nemesis

Great Freedom

The Heartbreak Agency

The Tin Drum

Andrea Gets a Divorce

Office 39: Kim's Cash Machine

Soul of a Beast

Bagdad Cafe

The Counterfeiters

Dying