Marmor, Stein, und Eisen
This 2000 film has a backdrop of the Drafi Deutscher hit Marmor, Stein, und Eisen bricht, but it is put in a context of stalkerish… Read More »Marmor, Stein, und Eisen
This 2000 film has a backdrop of the Drafi Deutscher hit Marmor, Stein, und Eisen bricht, but it is put in a context of stalkerish… Read More »Marmor, Stein, und Eisen
Starring Matthias Schweighöfer (who also served as co-director), this 2015 film is a comedy featuring humour reminiscent of the original Home Alone movie. Matthias Schweighöfer… Read More »Der Nanny
Released in 2009, Soul Kitchen is a drama-comedy featuring Moritz Bleibtreu. It is also one of the movies Monica Bleibtreu (his mother) was in that… Read More »Soul Kitchen
This 2005 film is based on the true story of Sophie Scholl, an anti-Nazi activist during WWII. She was a member of the resistance group… Read More »Sophie Scholl – den letzten Tagen
This film was originally released in 1959 and was nominated for Golden Globes and Oscars in 1960. The year: 1945. The final days of the… Read More »Die Brücke
This 2003 film featuring Franka Potente as two main characters, Iris and Siri, centers around the ethical questions of human cloning. With that, it is… Read More »Blueprint
This 2008 film is a thriller based in the classroom. A teacher, who himself is an anarchist, decides to create a social experiment, mimicking what… Read More »Die Welle
This 1955 film, known in English as The Last Ten Days, begins with a note saying it is about a part of history that must… Read More »Der letzte Akt
This 2012 film is a story told often and in many forms. In fact, there appear to be no less than seven versions of this… Read More »Ludwig II.
This 2002 film is about an Italian family who moves to Germany while the two boys are still young. We quickly get a flashback to… Read More »Solino
Released in 2001, this film focuses on the danger of using the tunnel to escape East Berlin after the wall is built. We begin by… Read More »Der Tunnel
This 1988 film is about a mechanic who is set up as an individual annoyed by politics, who loses his memory at the same time… Read More »Der Experte
Labeled as “drama, fantasy, mystery,” this 2013 film is almost more of a science fiction romance for teenagers. It is the first in a series… Read More »Rubinrot, Saphirblau, and Smaragdgrün
Die Vampirschwestern is a series of German films with a target audience around the pre-teen ages. They include interesting cultural observations (the family moving from… Read More »Die Vampirschwestern (1, 2, and 3)