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German cinema: Drama
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...
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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...]
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...]
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 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...]
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...]
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...]
Die Ehe der Maria Braun (1979)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
In 1943, a young German woman named Maria marries Hermann Braun, just before he goes off to fight on the Russian front. Shortly after the end of the war, Maria's brother-in-law returns with the news that Hermann has been killed in action... [More...]
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
In 1943, a young German woman named Maria marries Hermann Braun, just before he goes off to fight on the Russian front. Shortly after the end of the war, Maria's brother-in-law returns with the news that Hermann has been killed in action... [More...]
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)
Werner Herzog
In 1828, a young man dressed in ragged clothes is found standing in the town square at Nuremberg. No one recognises him and he can only speak one phrase, "I want to be a cavalryman, like my father." The townsfolk adopt him as one of their own and attempt to civilise him, although when he becomes a financial burden he ends up as an exhibit in a sideshow... [More...]
Werner Herzog
In 1828, a young man dressed in ragged clothes is found standing in the town square at Nuremberg. No one recognises him and he can only speak one phrase, "I want to be a cavalryman, like my father." The townsfolk adopt him as one of their own and attempt to civilise him, although when he becomes a financial burden he ends up as an exhibit in a sideshow... [More...]
Fata Morgana (1971)
Werner Herzog
A barren desert landscape, a wilderness that looks as if it has been devoid of life for an eternity... Yet, there are signs of civilisation, signs that once life existed here... [More...]
Werner Herzog
A barren desert landscape, a wilderness that looks as if it has been devoid of life for an eternity... Yet, there are signs of civilisation, signs that once life existed here... [More...]
Faust (1926)
F.W. Murnau
The Devil persuades an archangel to agree to a bet: if he can corrupt one good man then the whole world will be his; if not, he will return to Hell forever... [More...]
F.W. Murnau
The Devil persuades an archangel to agree to a bet: if he can corrupt one good man then the whole world will be his; if not, he will return to Hell forever... [More...]
Faustrecht der Freiheit (1975)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Franz Biberkopf is a good-natured but guileless young man who earns a modest living as an act in a travelling circus. When his employer is arrested for tax evasion, Franz loses both his job and his boyfriend... [More...]
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Franz Biberkopf is a good-natured but guileless young man who earns a modest living as an act in a travelling circus. When his employer is arrested for tax evasion, Franz loses both his job and his boyfriend... [More...]
Fitzcarraldo (1982)
Werner Herzog
In the late 19th Century, Brian Fitzgerald has a dream - to build a grand opera house in Iquitos, a thriving new city inhabited by the nouveaux riches of Peru... [More...]
Werner Herzog
In the late 19th Century, Brian Fitzgerald has a dream - to build a grand opera house in Iquitos, a thriving new city inhabited by the nouveaux riches of Peru... [More...]
Fontane - Effi Briest (1974)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
In 1890, Effi Briest, the seventeen-year-old daughter of well-to-do parents from a provincial town outside Berlin, is courted by the wealthy Baron von Instetten... [More...]
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
In 1890, Effi Briest, the seventeen-year-old daughter of well-to-do parents from a provincial town outside Berlin, is courted by the wealthy Baron von Instetten... [More...]
Frantz (2016)
François Ozon
It is 1919 and the human cost of the First World War is still being counted across Europe. In a small German town, a young woman named Anna attends the grave of her fiancée Franz, one of the hundreds of thousands of casualties of the Somme... [More...]
François Ozon
It is 1919 and the human cost of the First World War is still being counted across Europe. In a small German town, a young woman named Anna attends the grave of her fiancée Franz, one of the hundreds of thousands of casualties of the Somme... [More...]
Frau im Mond (1929)
Fritz Lang
For some time, engineers Wolf Helius and Hans Windegger have been working on a project to send a manned rocket to the moon... [More...]
Fritz Lang
For some time, engineers Wolf Helius and Hans Windegger have been working on a project to send a manned rocket to the moon... [More...]
Die Freudlose Gasse (1925)
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Vienna, 1921. In the chaotic aftermath of WWI, food is scarce and it is only the unscrupulous who prosper. In Melchiorgasse, a street in a poorer part of town, the butcher Josef Geiringer is doing a roaring trade, and so is his wife, the owner of an upmarket nightclub with a brothel attached... [More...]
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Vienna, 1921. In the chaotic aftermath of WWI, food is scarce and it is only the unscrupulous who prosper. In Melchiorgasse, a street in a poorer part of town, the butcher Josef Geiringer is doing a roaring trade, and so is his wife, the owner of an upmarket nightclub with a brothel attached... [More...]