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23 – Nichts ist so wie es scheint

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This 1998 film won the Deutscher Filmpreis 1999 and is based on a true story. It was August Diehl’s first film role and he plays our main character. Alongside him is Fabian Busch, whom we… 23 – Nichts ist so wie es scheint

Das schaurige Haus

This 2020 Austrian Netflix film is marketed as a horror/mystery/thriller. There are moments of consequential learning that may be of interest to you and your students. For example, the older son complains that his phone… Das schaurige Haus

Kidnapping Stella

This 2019 Netflix film is marketed as a crime-thriller and is rated TV-MA. The first person we see is Max von der Groeben, whom we may recognize from the Bibi und Tina series and the… Kidnapping Stella

Blood Red Sky

This 2021 Netflix film is marketed as an action/horror/thriller and is currently rated #2 in the US market! This film uses a variety of languages for the full global effect this film calls for, but… Blood Red Sky

Krabat

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Taking place during the 30 years war in Germany, this 2008 Thriller starring Daniel Brühl is a German remake of a Czechoslovakian film from 1978, where a boy learns of the dark arts from a… Krabat

Jack the Ripper

This 2016 thriller (available on Amazon Prime in its original German!) centers around the story of the Whitechapel murders. Sonja Gerhardt, whom we know from Sommer and die wilden Hühner, plays our main character, Anna… Jack the Ripper

Anatomie (1 and 2)

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Anatomie is an awesome thriller dealing with medical school, secret societies, and, well, anatomy.  There is nudity, though the nudity in most scenes it is in a medical view rather than sexual. Franka Potente plays… Anatomie (1 and 2)