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Dance teacher and mother Nadja left her son Mario with her own mother when he was little. Now she has reappeared on his doorstep, seeking a closeness...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sarah Grether

A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. The crew tries to survive below the surface, while...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jürgen Prochnow

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bruno Ganz

A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Harry Dean Stanton

Jay, a failed musician, walked out of his family and now earns a living as head bartender in a trendy London pub. Every Wednesday afternoon a woman...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Mark Rylance

'Der Baader Meinhof Komplex' depicts the political turmoil in the period from 1967 to the bloody "Deutschen Herbst" in 1977. The movie approaches the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Martina Gedeck

Alex Kerner's mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell. When she wakes up he must try to keep her from learning what happened (as she was an...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Daniel Brühl

Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Björk

Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisible rays of hope to the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bruno Ganz

Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean-Louis Trintignant

A young Spanish woman who has newly moved to Berlin finds her flirtation with a local guy turn potentially deadly as their night out with his friends...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Laia Costa

A 9th century woman of English extraction born in the German city of Ingelheim disguises herself as a man and rises through the Vatican ranks.

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Goodman

In 1933, after leaving Dogville, Grace Margaret Mulligan sees a slave being punished at a cotton farm called Manderlay. Officially, slavery is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bryce Dallas Howard

German journalist Philip Winter has a case of writer’s block when trying to write an article about the United States. He decides to return to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rüdiger Vogler

Germany in the early 19th century. "Die Vermessung der Welt" follows the two brilliant and eccentric scientists Alexander von Humboldt and Carl...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Florian David Fitz

On planet Perdide, an attack of giant hornets leaves young Piel alone in a wrecked car with his dying father. A mayday message reaches their friend...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Sady Rebbot

German-Jewish cabaret singer Nelly survived Auschwitz but had to undergo reconstructive surgery as her face was disfigured. Without recognizing...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nina Hoss

Greta Thunberg, a 15-year-old student in Sweden, started a school strike for the climate as her question for adults was, if you don’t care...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Greta Thunberg

Michaela, an epileptic, enrolls in college to study education. She goes off her medication and soon begins hearing voices and seeing apparitions that...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sandra Hüller

A film that describes the love-hate relationship between Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski, the deep trust between the director and the actor, and their...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Werner Herzog