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German cinema: All genres
Die 1000 Augen des Dr. Mabuse (1960)
Fritz Lang
Confronted with a spate of inexplicable and unrelated murders Inspector Kras turns to a blind informer, Peter Cornelius, who claims to have psychic powers...
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Fritz Lang
35 rhums (2008)
Claire Denis
Lionel has had a hard life. A black immigrant who lost his wife many years ago, he has struggled to bring up his daughter, Joséphine, alone on the modest pay he earns as a train driver...
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Claire Denis
Abwege (1928)
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Thomas Beck may be a successful lawyer but he is also a chronic workaholic and rarely does he find the time to offer his wife Irene the tenderness she pines for...
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Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (1972)
Werner Herzog
In 1560, a party of conquistadors led by Gonzalo Pizarro cross the Andes and undertake a hazardous journey through the Amazon rain forest in search of El Dorado, the fabled city of gold...
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Werner Herzog
Der Amerikanische Soldat (1970)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
After serving in the American army in Vietnam, a former professional killer named Ricky returns to his hometown of Munich in Germany...
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Angst essen Seele auf (1974)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
One rainy evening, Emmi Kurowski, a 60-year-old cleaning lady, ducks into an Arab bar to avoid being soaked. She immediately notices a Moroccan worker, twenty years her junior, and invites him to dance with her... [More...]
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
One rainy evening, Emmi Kurowski, a 60-year-old cleaning lady, ducks into an Arab bar to avoid being soaked. She immediately notices a Moroccan worker, twenty years her junior, and invites him to dance with her... [More...]
Anna Boleyn (1920)
Ernst Lubitsch
England in the early 1500s. Her education in France now finally over, Anne Boleyn is appointed lady-in-waiting to Catherine of Aragon, the queen of King Henry VIII... [More...]
Ernst Lubitsch
England in the early 1500s. Her education in France now finally over, Anne Boleyn is appointed lady-in-waiting to Catherine of Aragon, the queen of King Henry VIII... [More...]
Asphalt (1929)
Joe May
The son of a respected police chief, Albert Holk is a young police constable who takes his duties seriously - until the fateful day when Else Kramer enters his life... [More...]
Joe May
The son of a respected police chief, Albert Holk is a young police constable who takes his duties seriously - until the fateful day when Else Kramer enters his life... [More...]
Astérix et Obélix Mission Cléopâtre (2002)
Alain Chabat
Cleopatra is the queen of Egypt. She is the proud ruler of a proud people, and there is nothing that infuriates her more than Julius Caesar's continual belittling of her country and its inhabitants... [More...]
Alain Chabat
Cleopatra is the queen of Egypt. She is the proud ruler of a proud people, and there is nothing that infuriates her more than Julius Caesar's continual belittling of her country and its inhabitants... [More...]
Au revoir, les enfants (1987)
Louis Malle
France, 1944, during the Nazi Occupation. The Christmas holidays over, 12-year-old Julien Quentin must leave his comfortable middleclass home in Paris and return to his Catholic boarding school in the country... [More...]
Louis Malle
France, 1944, during the Nazi Occupation. The Christmas holidays over, 12-year-old Julien Quentin must leave his comfortable middleclass home in Paris and return to his Catholic boarding school in the country... [More...]
Die Austernprinzessin (1919)
Ernst Lubitsch
Mr Quaker is America's Oyster King, a millionaire businessman whose seafood empire is unsurpassed. But his daughter Ossi is unimpressed by his status and spends most of her time wrecking his house in her frequent temper tantrums... [More...]
Ernst Lubitsch
Mr Quaker is America's Oyster King, a millionaire businessman whose seafood empire is unsurpassed. But his daughter Ossi is unimpressed by his status and spends most of her time wrecking his house in her frequent temper tantrums... [More...]
L'Avenir (2016)
Mia Hansen-Løve
Nathalie appears comfortable in her settled life as a mother of two and a teacher of philosophy at a Parisian high school... [More...]
Mia Hansen-Løve
Nathalie appears comfortable in her settled life as a mother of two and a teacher of philosophy at a Parisian high school... [More...]
Die Bergkatze (1921)
Ernst Lubitsch
In the mountain town of Piffkaneiro, hundreds of desolate women gather to bid a sad farewell to Lieutenant Alexis, the popular military man who has touched all their hearts and left each one of them with a permanent reminder of their liaison, in the form of a child... [More...]
Ernst Lubitsch
In the mountain town of Piffkaneiro, hundreds of desolate women gather to bid a sad farewell to Lieutenant Alexis, the popular military man who has touched all their hearts and left each one of them with a permanent reminder of their liaison, in the form of a child... [More...]
Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Grosstadt (1927)
Walter Ruttmann
At the dawn of a typical weekday, a train pulls into a station in the still sleeping city of Berlin. Over the next few hours, the city gradually awakens as the daily grind gets underway... [More...]
Walter Ruttmann
At the dawn of a typical weekday, a train pulls into a station in the still sleeping city of Berlin. Over the next few hours, the city gradually awakens as the daily grind gets underway... [More...]
Der Blaue Engel (1930)
Josef von Sternberg
Immanuel Rath, professor of a provincial German school, is incensed when he learns that his pupils are frequenting a cabaret venue known as The Blue Angel... [More...]
Josef von Sternberg
Immanuel Rath, professor of a provincial German school, is incensed when he learns that his pupils are frequenting a cabaret venue known as The Blue Angel... [More...]
Die Blechtrommel (1979)
Volker Schlöndorff
Born into a German family in Danzig of the early 1920s, Oskar Matzerath becomes aware of the world around him at an early age... [More...]
Volker Schlöndorff
Born into a German family in Danzig of the early 1920s, Oskar Matzerath becomes aware of the world around him at an early age... [More...]
Das Boot (1981)
Wolfgang Petersen
October 1941. The crew of U-boat U-96 is preparing to leave their base in La Rochelle and head out for patrols in the North Atlantic... [More...]
Wolfgang Petersen
October 1941. The crew of U-boat U-96 is preparing to leave their base in La Rochelle and head out for patrols in the North Atlantic... [More...]
Der brennende Acker (1922)
F.W. Murnau
For generations, a plot of land belonging to the wealthy Rudenburg family has been known as the Devil's Field, on account of the fact that, many years ago, the head of the family was killed in an explosion whilst digging a well to find buried treasure... [More...]
F.W. Murnau
For generations, a plot of land belonging to the wealthy Rudenburg family has been known as the Devil's Field, on account of the fact that, many years ago, the head of the family was killed in an explosion whilst digging a well to find buried treasure... [More...]
Brennendes Geheimnis (1933)
Robert Siodmak
Whilst his father, a busy lawyer, stays at the family residence in Vienna, a 12-year-old boy name Edgar takes an autumn holiday with his mother in Switzerland... [More...]
Robert Siodmak
Whilst his father, a busy lawyer, stays at the family residence in Vienna, a 12-year-old boy name Edgar takes an autumn holiday with his mother in Switzerland... [More...]
Das Cabinet des Dr Caligari (1920)
Robert Wiene
Seated on a park bench, a young man, Francis, tells an older man the tragic story of his fiancée. It began some years ago, when he and his friend, Alan, were in love with the same young woman, Jane..... [More...]
Robert Wiene
Seated on a park bench, a young man, Francis, tells an older man the tragic story of his fiancée. It began some years ago, when he and his friend, Alan, were in love with the same young woman, Jane..... [More...]
La Caduta degli dei (1969)
Luchino Visconti
Germany, 1933. As the Nazis' grip on their country increases, a family of wealthy industrialists strive to turn the situation to their advantage... [More...]
Luchino Visconti
Germany, 1933. As the Nazis' grip on their country increases, a family of wealthy industrialists strive to turn the situation to their advantage... [More...]
Cagliostro (1929)
Richard Oswald
In the late 18th century, Joseph Balsamo, alias the Count of Cagliostro, finds fame throughout Europe as a magician, alchemist and fortune teller... [More...]
Richard Oswald
In the late 18th century, Joseph Balsamo, alias the Count of Cagliostro, finds fame throughout Europe as a magician, alchemist and fortune teller... [More...]
Carlos (2010)
Olivier Assayas
A legend in his own lifetime, Carlos the Jackal (né Ilich Ramírez Sánchez) was at the epicentre of international terrorism in the 1970s and '80s... [More...]
Olivier Assayas
A legend in his own lifetime, Carlos the Jackal (né Ilich Ramírez Sánchez) was at the epicentre of international terrorism in the 1970s and '80s... [More...]
Le Chagrin et la pitié (1969)
Marcel Ophüls
Life in France at the time of the Nazi Occupation during World War II. Those who actively participated in the drama - politicians, soldiers, aristocrats, spies, collaborators and resistance supporters - recount their personal experiences with lucidity, eloquence and emotion.... [More...]
Marcel Ophüls
Life in France at the time of the Nazi Occupation during World War II. Those who actively participated in the drama - politicians, soldiers, aristocrats, spies, collaborators and resistance supporters - recount their personal experiences with lucidity, eloquence and emotion.... [More...]
Crime and Punishment (1923)
Robert Wiene
Rodion Raskolnikow is a young Russian student who has written a treatise which argues that there are certain people who should not be bound by the laws of ordinary men and can commit murder if it is for the greater good... [More...]
Robert Wiene
Rodion Raskolnikow is a young Russian student who has written a treatise which argues that there are certain people who should not be bound by the laws of ordinary men and can commit murder if it is for the greater good... [More...]
Cross of Iron (1977)
Sam Peckinpah
It is 1943 and Germany is losing the war on the Eastern Front. After a humiliating defeat at Stalingrad, German troops are in retreat, repelled by a determined Soviet fighting machine... [More...]
Sam Peckinpah
It is 1943 and Germany is losing the war on the Eastern Front. After a humiliating defeat at Stalingrad, German troops are in retreat, repelled by a determined Soviet fighting machine... [More...]
Diplomatie (2014)
Volker Schlöndorff
It is the night of the 24th-25th August 1944. The fate of Paris is in the hands of one man, General Von Choltitz, who has just received orders from the Fuhrer to blow up the capital... [More...]
Volker Schlöndorff
It is the night of the 24th-25th August 1944. The fate of Paris is in the hands of one man, General Von Choltitz, who has just received orders from the Fuhrer to blow up the capital... [More...]
Dorothea Angermann (1959)
Robert Siodmak
Late one evening, a young woman walks out of a bar and confesses to the murder of her husband. At her trial, Dorothea Angermann looks back on the events that have brought her to this tragic outcome... [More...]
Robert Siodmak
Late one evening, a young woman walks out of a bar and confesses to the murder of her husband. At her trial, Dorothea Angermann looks back on the events that have brought her to this tragic outcome... [More...]
Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler (1922)
Fritz Lang
Who is the stranger who contrives a stock exchange crash to his own advantage? Who is behind a major counterfeiting operation... [More...]
Fritz Lang
Who is the stranger who contrives a stock exchange crash to his own advantage? Who is behind a major counterfeiting operation... [More...]
Die Drei von der Tankstelle (1930)
Wilhelm Thiele
Returning home from a holiday, three friends - Willy, Kurt and Hans - learn they are bankrupt. Their fortune has evaporated and their possessions are being seized by the bailiffs... [More...]
Wilhelm Thiele
Returning home from a holiday, three friends - Willy, Kurt and Hans - learn they are bankrupt. Their fortune has evaporated and their possessions are being seized by the bailiffs... [More...]