Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972), The Blue Angel (1930), The Blue Angel (1930), The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (1993), The Lives of Others (2006), Metropolis (1927), M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder (1931), Fitzcarraldo (1982) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best German Cinema movies.
Storyline: Frau Kusters is preparing dinner late one seemingly ordinary afternoon in her seemingly ordinary kitchen in Frankfurt, Germany. Mrs. Kusters wants to add canned sausages to the stew, her annoying daughter-in-law thinks otherwise. The point, we soon find out, is moot: Mr. Kusters has murdered the personnel director at the soap factory where he works before committing suicide.—Tim Horrigan <horrigan@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: drama, family, social criticism, working class, tragedy, political, german cinema ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: With a promising police career and a baby on the way, Marc's life seems to be right on track - then he meets fellow policeman Kay. During their regular jogs, Marc experiences a never-before-felt sense of ease and effortlessness - and what it means to fall in love with another man. Torn between his family and his new feelings for Kay, Marc sees his world careening more and more out of control. Suddenly, his life is in free fall and Marc realizes that, try as he may, he can't make everyone happy - least of all himself.
Plot Keywords: gay, police, germany, romance, coming out, self-discovery, social pressure ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Maria is 14 years old. Her family is part of a fundamentalist Catholic community. Maria lives her everyday life in the modern world, yet her heart belongs to Jesus. She wants to follow him, to become a saint and go to heaven - just like all those holy children she's always been told about. So Maria goes through 14 stations, just like Jesus did on his path to Golgatha, and reaches her goal in the end. Not even Christian, a boy she meets at school, can stop her, even if in another world, they might have become friends, or even more. Left behind is a broken family that finds comfort in faith, and the question if all these events were really so inevitable. STATIONS OF THE CROSS is an indictment and, at the same time, the legend of a saint. It's a story of religion, devotion and radical faith, and the film itself comes along just as radical as the subject matter, telling the story in only 14 fixed-angle long shots, allowing the viewer to contemplate the interactions on screen in an entirely different way than in a traditional film.—German Films Quarterly 1/2014
Plot Keywords: religion, faith, sacrifice, family, morality, extremism, catholicism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This Ain't California is a celebration of the lust for life, a contemporary documentary trip into the world of roller boarding in the German Democratic Republic. A coming-of-age tale of three teenagers and their passionate love for a sport on the crumbling tarmac of the streets in the German Democratic Republic, which was considered very ill-fitting. The punk fairy tale is a story of the subversive powers of fun in that part of Germany, which had lost touch with its citizens. The film follows its three heroes from their childhood in the seventies through their teenage rebellion in the eighties, ending in the last summer of their life in the German Democratic Republic in 1989, when their life changed forever, and follows them to 2011.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: documentary, youth culture, rebellion, 1980s, communism, freedom, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This tragicomedy is a self-ironic portrait of a young man who drops out of university and ends up wandering the streets of the city he lives: Berlin. The film deals with the desire to participate in life and the difficulty to find one's place.
Plot Keywords: independent film, german cinema, urban life, existentialism, black comedy, social satire, self-discovery ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A group of angels in the German capital look longingly upon the life of humans.
Plot Keywords: drama, fantasy, romance, philosophy, german cinema, berlin, sequel ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The geologist Lance Hackett is employed by an Australian mining company to map the subsoil of a desert area covered with ant hills prior to a possible uranium extraction. His work is impeded by some aborigines who explain that this is the place where the green ants dream. Disturbing their dreaming will destroy humanity they claim. Hackett informs the company which offers various "solutions" such as a large amount of money or a percentage of a possible revenue. Invited on a trip to a city some of the aborigines sees a military aeroplane and express the wish to own it. The company buys it and gives it to the aborigines as a sign of good will. A runway is made in the desert and the plane is flown to the location. All negotiations concerning the area fail and the dispute goes to a court of the Commonwealth. Parties and experts are heard, obstacles are met such as an aborigine who is the sole survivor of his tribe (and language) and therefore no-one understands what he is saying. Two of the aborigines take off in the plane despite that there is very little fuel left. The mining company wins legally and the aborigines morally. Some aborigines arrives from the mountains and tells about a big winged ant that had fallen from the sky.—Frank Dabelstein <frank@dabelstein.dk>
Plot Keywords: science fiction, german cinema, ecology, indigenous culture, dreams, social criticism, colonialism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A young man suffering from Tourette's syndrome absconds from an institution with two other inhabitants to travel to Italy to fulfill his mother's last wish.
Plot Keywords: drama, road movie, mental illness, father-son relationship, therapy, self-discovery, journey ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A countess' unrequited love for an army officer leads to disaster.
Plot Keywords: war, history, romance, politics, betrayal, revolution, germany ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The story of Madame DuBarry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution.
Plot Keywords: silent film, romance, drama, european cinema, black and white, classic film, early cinema ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Country orphan Lily goes to Berlin to stay with her tippling aunt, and soon meets Richard, handsome sculptor across the street. Persuaded half-reluctantly to pose for Richard, her physical charms (shown as fully as 1933 mores permitted) soon melt away his 'strictly business' attitude, and they become lovers. But Richard, wanting his freedom, connives at her marriage to his wealthy client Baron von Merzbach... whose household includes a jealous former mistress and a susceptible farm manager. Has Richard still a role to play in her life?—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: romance, musical, drama, classic, 1930s, german cinema, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Terry and Dean head north to make sweet cash in the oil patch.
Plot Keywords: action, comedy, sequel, crime, undercover, police, gangster ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A businessman (Robert Atzorn) wants to kill his wife (Christine Buchegger) but instead ravishes and kills a prostitute.
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, crime, murder, marital crisis, psychoanalysis, dreams, violence ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Tom Kummer is still considered to be the king of faked interviews, and his specialty was Hollywood. He met Sharon Stone, Sean Penn and Bruce Willis for long, sincere talks - which all turned out to have been invented. For four years, until he was exposed, Kummer supplied reputable publications in Germany and Switzerland with his stories. Today, he earns his living as a tennis coach in Los Angeles. Kummer tricked everyone: the media, the celebrities - and possibly even himself. A movie on the wasted life of a major talent and on the question of truth.—T&C Film
Plot Keywords: youth, coming of age, rebellion, school, friendship, family, conflict ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The movie is based on real events and deals with the background to the shooting of Lang's thriller "M - A City is Looking for a Murderer." It is 1930 and Fritz Lang has been successfully active in the film business for eleven years. He is looking for material for a new film, a sound film. He is tired of the large-scale projects, his next film is said to be significantly smaller. In addition, there is a crisis in his relationship with Thea von Harbou, who seems to be more and more enthusiastic about the ideals of National Socialism. During his research, he comes across reports about a serial killer from Düsseldorf. He travels from Berlin to the Rhineland and joins the crime commissioner Ernst, who heads the investigation. Peter is arrested as a suspect, Fritz is given the opportunity to interview him. When he meets Anna, friend of a victim and suspected eyewitness, he is overwhelmed by memories of his first wife Lisa, who looks immensely similar to Anna, and who shot Peter when she caught him with Thea von Harbou.
Plot Keywords: biography, documentary, film history, german cinema, film noir, expressionism, art film ...
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