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241) How about Adolf?
Publisher
Menemsha Films, Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Deutsch
Description
It should have been a wonderful evening: Stephan and Elisabeth have invited their family and friends over for dinner, but as soon as Thomas announces that he and his pregnant girlfriend Anna are planning to name their unborn son Adolf, things get out of hand. As the evening escalates, secrets are revealed and truths are dragged to light in a clash of egos, wounded prides and hidden passions, served up for all to enjoy.
242) Falling
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Five independent women, all former classmates, are reunited for the funeral of a beloved teacher. Nina is drifting through existence with neither a job, nor a father for her unborn child. Shy, ethereal Brigitte has followed the group's idol into education and activism. Alex is a buttoned-down career woman struggling to balance personal needs with professional goals. Cool, calm actress Carmen uses her art to avoid genuine intimacy, while loose cannon...
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
2010
Language
Deutsch
Description
Germany 1967: murderous bomb attacks, the threat of terrorism, and the fear of the enemy inside are rocking the very foundations of the still-fragile German democracy. The radicalized children of the Nazi generation, led by Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof, and Gudrun Ensslin, are fighting a violent war against what they perceive as the new face of fascism. The man who understands them is also their hunter, the head of the German police force, Horst...
244) Spies
Author
Publisher
Whirlwind Media
Pub. Date
2000
Language
Deutsch
Description
Spies: First "modern" spy film. A power-hungry banker with many disguises marshals his forces to steal the secrets of an important treaty. -- M: Perhaps the greatest example of German expressionism on the screen. Drama, social commentary, satire, and an anatomy of a crime are some of the elements of this dark masterpiece. Peter Lorre plays a psychopathic killer of children who successfully evades police but is eventually confronted by the code of...
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Lisa, once a brilliant playwright, no longer writes. She lives with her family in Switzerland, but her heart remains in Berlin, beating in time with that of her twin brother Sven, the famous theatre actor. Since Sven has been suffering from an aggressive type of leukaemia, the relationship between them has become even closer. Lisa does not want to accept this blow of fate, she does everything in her power to bring Sven back on stage. For her soulmate...
246) A woman in Berlin
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Women become the victims of the Red Army invasion in Berlin in 1945. One of them, Anonyma, a educated woman, decides to look for an officer who can protect her. A complex symbiotic relationship develops between her and Russian officer Andrej that will force them to remain enemies until the bitter end.
247) 13 minutes
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Deutsch
Description
During Hitler's anniversary speech on November 8, 1939, a man is arrested on the Swiss border for possession of suspicious objects. Just minutes later, a bomb explodes in the Munich Burgerbraukeller, immediately behind the Fuhrer's lectern, killing eight people. The man is Georg Elser, a carpenter from Konigsbronn in the Swabia region. A story of a man who nearly changed the world.
248) Afire
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Deutsch
Description
While vacationing by the Baltic Sea, writer Leon and photographer Felix are surprised to encounter Nadja, a mysterious young woman staying as a guest at the holiday home of Felix's family. Nadja soon distracts Leon from finishing his latest novel, not only because of her passionate liaison with lifeguard Devid but also because her brutal honesty forces Leon to confront his artistic inadequacies. As Nadja and Leon grow closer, an encroaching forest...
Publisher
KimStim, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Deutsch
Description
A mother desperately trying not to implode and her youngest daughter who explodes constantly form poles between which sons and daughters, aunts and uncles, cats and cousins weave in and around each other in the tight domestic space of a middle-class Berlin flat.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Germany, 1936. Salomon "Sally" Sorowitsch is the king of counterfeiters. He lives a life of cards, booze, and women. Suddenly his luck runs dry when he is arrested by Superintendent Friedrich Herzog. He is immediately thrown into the Mauthausen concentration camp. There, Salomon exhibits exceptional skills and is soon transferred to the upgraded camp of Sachsenhausen. Upon his arrival, he once again comes face to face with Herzog, who is there on...
251) Wetlands
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Deutsch
Description
An unapologetically sexy and subversive comedy based on the bestselling novel by Charlotte Roch. When a bizarre shaving incident lands rebellious teen Helen in the hospital, she develops an unlikely bond with her male nurse. She seduces him with stories of her sexual adventures while using her illness to try and reunite her divorced parents.
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Seventeen-year-old Franz journeys to Vienna to apprentice at a tobacco shop. There he meets Sigmund Freud, a regular customer, and over time the two very different men form a singular friendship. When Franz falls desperately in love with the music-hall dancer Anezka, he seeks advice from the renowned psychoanalyst, who admits that the female sex is a bit a mystery to him as it is to Franz.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Deutsch
Description
The story of an unconventional romance between two aristocratic sisters and rebellious poet, Friedrich Schiller, who took the European literary world by storm in the late eighteenth century. As the German Enlightenment flourishes in Weimar, vibrant Caroline von Beulwitz finds herself in an unhappy marriage to provide for her mother and shy younger sister Charlotte von Lengefeld. When both sisters fall for an outspoken writer, their desire ignites...
254) Stroszek
Language
Deutsch
Description
After being released from prison, Berlin street musician Bruno Stroszek finds himself lost in a world where he simply doesn't belong. So along with his prostitute girlfriend and an eccentric neighbor, Stroszek moves to America, where he's told, everyone is rich. It doesn't take long, however, after moving into a mobile home and taking a job as a mechanic, for Stroszek to realize that the streets of Railroad, Wisconsin aren't paved with gold.
Publisher
Distributed by First Run Features
Pub. Date
2010
Language
Deutsch
Description
In 2008, world-famous dancer and choreographer Pina Bausch selected forty teenagers who had never heard her name to be part of her dance piece "Contact Zone." For ten months through opening night, the young dancers discover Bausch's genius and their own bodies. The film is a testament to Bausch's revolutionary work. Pina Bausch died in 2009.
256) November
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Deutsch
Description
In a Medieval Estonian village, a group of peasants use magic and folk remedies to survive the winter, and a young woman tries to get a young man to love her. This title is in Estonian.
257) Der Fuchs =: The fox
Publisher
Greenwich Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Deutsch
Description
At the dawn of World War II, a young motorcycle courier in the Austrian army encounters a wounded fox cub and takes it with him to occupied France. The soldier and the fox develop an unlikely bond. Based on the true story of Franz Streitberger, director Adrian Goiginger's great-grandfather.
Publisher
[Gigobit Korea]
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Sonja quickly becomes unpopular when she attempts to research an essay entitled "My Town in the Third Reich" for a high school project. The reprisals against her family force her to drop the project, but years later as an adult, Sonja decides to try again. Loosely based on the true story of Anja Rosmus.
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