Klara is going to die today unless she kills her husband instead. The Calendar Killer has given her that impossible choice. When Jules starts his night shift at a telephone safety helpline for lonely women on their way home, Klara's call reaches him. He soon becomes her last hope for survival and races against time to save her.

Short Sharp Shock

1998

German

7.1

♡ 3

77%

german-turkish living together

street gang

Thriller

underworld

Fatih Akin Director

Idil Üner as Ceyda

Mehmet Kurtulus as Gabriel

Fatih Akin as Nejo

Oscar Ortega Sánchez as Waffenhändler

Gabriel, Bobby and Costa are old friends from Altona, a multicultural hood in Hamburg. Just out of prison, Gabriel wants to turn his back on crime, but the others continue to operate as petty criminals. Friendships are tested as the trio navigate a dark world of mafia bosses and deals gone wrong.

The Sparrow in the Chimney

2024

German

6.3

♡ 4

67%

Action

Drama

Ramon Zürcher Director

Paula Schindler as Christina

Luana Greco as Edda

Ilja Bultmann as Leon

Luise Heyer as Liv

Karen and Markus live with their children in Karen’s parents’ house. Karen’s sister Jule travels with her family to Markus’ birthday party. While Karen takes everyone’s breath away with her domineering manner, Jule is the complete opposite. Gradually a front forms against Karen until everything escalates into a fiery inferno. An inferno that destroys the old to create the new.

Stopped on Track

2011

German

7.6

♡ 1

88%

Action

Drama

Andreas Dresen Director

Milan Peschel as Frank Lange

Inka Friedrich as Ina

Ursula Werner as Renate, Simones Mutter

Thorsten Merten as Tumor

Frank and Simone have fulfilled a dream and live with their two children in a row house in the suburbs. They are a happy couple, until the day Frank is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. The family is suddenly confronted with death.

The Captain from Köpenick

1931

German

7.0

♡ 2

Comedy

Richard Oswald Director

Albert Florath as Aufseher

Leonard Steckel as Krakauer, ein Trödler

Hans Leibelt as Mann der Litfassäule

Eugen Rex as Zweiter Bahnbeamter

Based on the true story of a cobbler who bought a second-hand captain's uniform, assumed command of a troop of guardsmen, declared the town of Köpenick under military law, arrested the mayor and confiscated the town treasury.

ASCHE

2023

German

4.2

♡ 3

Thriller

Tobias Obentheuer Director

Katrin Becker as Christin Mir

Thomas Peckhaus as Male Nurse

Tanja Mager as News Speaker

Hanna Böcher as Vanessa Montes

Shortly before Christmas, a strange piece of evidence and an ancient book drive the young detective Carolin Arends to reopen the mysterious murder case of Alexander Michalski. She doesn't yet know that her greatest enemy is time itself and that she is already in the perpetrator's sights.

The Chambermaid Lynn

2014

German

6.1

♡ 6

42%

Ingo Haeb Director

Steffen Münster as Heinz

Vicky Krieps as Lynn

Christine Schorn as Lynn's Mother

Sonja Baum as Silvia

Lynn Zapatek, a chambermaid in a large hotel, has a deathly fear of human interaction yet she craves intimacy. A chance encounter prompts her to emerge from her cocoon.

Feste & Freunde - Ein Hoch auf uns!

6.8

relationship problems

David Dietl Director

Trystan Pütter as Adam

Laura Tonke as Ellen

Annette Frier as Mareike

Ronald Zehrfeld as Sebastian

A group of close friends celebrate parties over an extended period of time. They experience a lot of fun together, but also tragic moments that prove that love and friendship are the most important gifts of all our lives.

Schlagzeilen Gegen Hitler

2018

German

6.6

♡ 2

investigative journalism

pressure from the press

pre-war

Ute Bönnen Director

Silvia Bittencourt as Autor and journalist

Gunter Gerstenberg as Historian

Paul Hoser as Historian

Sascha Rotermund as Narrator

As early as 1920, the journalists of the "Münchener Post" recognized the danger posed by Adolf Hitler. Consistently and boldly they wrote about National Socialism. The brave journalists and their newspaper are almost forgotten today. A single book has been published about them - in Brazil.

Sparschwein

2024

German

6.4

Drama

Christoph Arge Schwarz Director

Judith Revers as Self

Hanna Schwarz as Self

Michaela Schwarz as Self

Rafael Haider as Self

Filmmaker Christoph Schwarz is broke. Fortunately, he gets an offer from ORF. But does Schwarz really want to document his self-experiment as an environmental activist? Wouldn’t it be better to reorient the longterm experiment into a critique of capitalism and secretly buy the desired weekend house with the film budget? A self-mocking film about double standards, which playfully and humorously shows that the problems you clear away, are often smaller than the new ones that you thereby create.

100 Things

2018

German

6.3

♡ 28

55%

Florian David Fitz Director

Maria Furtwängler as Antonietta Kärcher

Matthias Schweighöfer as Anton Katz

Florian David Fitz as Paul Konaske

Hannelore Elsner as Renate Konaske

Best friends Toni and Paul decide to relinquish all of their belongings for 100 days, whereby they receive one of their items back on each day. During this challenge the two realize, that the only thing they cannot be without is their friendship. A story about contemporary materialism and the quest for the truly important things in life.

Lore

2012

German

7.1

♡ 19

94%

Cate Shortland Director

Lucas Reiber as German Soldier 1

Pit Bukowski as German Soldier 2

Philip Wiegratz as Helmut

Wanda Perdelwitz as Young Blonde

After being abandoned by their Nazi parents at the end of World War II, five German siblings embark on a harrowing journey across their war-torn country. Led by the eldest, 14 year-old Lore, the children are forced to confront their parents’ actions and the reality of a new world.

The Keeper

2018

German

7.3

♡ 46

Action

based on a true story

Marcus H. Rosenmüller Director

Chloe Harris as Betsy

Michael Socha as Bill Twist

Barbara Young as Grandma Sarah

Julian Sands as Tilson

The story of a man whose love for football, for England and for the love of his life, Margaret, saw him rise from Nazi 'villain' to British hero. Bert Trautmann, the German goalkeeper won over even his harshest opponents by winning the FA Cup Final for Manchester City in 1956 - playing on with a broken neck to secure victory.

Everything's Fifty Fifty

2024

German

6.3

♡ 3

Comedy

Alireza Golafshan Director

Moritz Bleibtreu as Andi

Herbert Forthuber as Lehrer

Laura Tonke as Marion

David Kross as Robin

Marion and Andi thought they were happily divorced until their old love unexpectedly reignites during a family vacation with their son Milan.

The Golem

1920

German

7.2

♡ 19

100%

72%

Action

based on novel or book

Fantasy

Horror

in vitro fertilisation

jewish ghetto

prague, czech republic

prequel

rabbi

Paul Wegener Director

Lothar Müthel as Der Junker Florian / Knight Florian

Otto Gebühr as Der Kaiser / Emperor Luhois

Hans Stürm as Der Rabbi Jehuda, der Älteste der Gemeinde

Dore Paetzold as Des Kaisers Kebse / The Emperor's Mistress

In 16th-century Prague, a rabbi creates the Golem - a giant creature made of clay. Using sorcery, he brings the creature to life in order to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution.

Run Boy Run

2013

German

7.2

♡ 6

Pepe Danquart Director

Jeanette Hain as Mrs. Herman

Sebastian Hülk as SS-Man 1 Janczyk Village

Rainer Bock as SS-Officer

Adrian Topol as Young Partisan

Run Boy Run is the true story of Jurek, an eight-year-old boy, who escapes from the Warsaw ghetto, then manages to survive in the woods and working as a farmhand, disguising himself as a Polish orphan. He encounters people who will betray him for a reward, who will beat him up or try to kill him, and he meets those, who will do and risk almost everything to help him. Jurek’s resilience is put to the ultimate test, when an accident cripples him, making it harder to find work. But he struggles on against all odds. Eventually the Russians reach his area and Jurek even finds a family where he could stay. Yet he is betrayed again, and a young man from a Jewish orphanage forcefully tries to bring Jurek back to his people and his faith.