The Lives of Others(2006)

Combined Rating:
89
Combined Critics Rating: 85

In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.



Good Bye Lenin!(2003)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 70

In 1990, to protect his fragile mother from a fatal shock after a long coma, a young man must keep her from learning that her beloved nation of East Germany as she knew it has disappeared.



Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage(2005)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 72

A dramatization of the final days of Sophie Scholl, one of the most famous members of the German World War II anti-Nazi resistance movement, The White Rose.



Revanche(2008)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 74

Ex-con Alex plans to flee to the South with his girl after a robbery. But something terrible happens and revenge seems inevitable.



Der Krieger und die Kaiserin(2000)

Combined Rating:
65
Combined Critics Rating: 64

Young nurse Sissi lives a secluded life, seemingly entirely devoted to her patients at Birkenhof asylum. Her first encounter with ex-soldier and drifter Bodo has a lasting impact. He causes...



Das letzte Schweigen(2010)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 58

13-year-old Sinikka vanishes on a hot summer night. Her bicycle is found in the exact place where a girl was killed 23 years ago. The dramatic present forces those involved in the original case to face their past.



Der Tunnel(2001)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 52

Based on a true story a group of East Berliners escaping to the West. Harry Melchior was a champion East German swimmer at odds with the system under which he has already been imprisoned. ...



Alle Anderen(2009)

Combined Rating:
48
Combined Critics Rating: 58

While on a Mediterranean vacation, a seemingly happy boyfriend and girlfriend find their connection to one another tested as they bond with another couple.



Die Fremde(2010)

Combined Rating:
47
Combined Critics Rating: 51

Umay is a young woman of Turkish descent, fighting for an independent and self-determined life in Germany against the resistance of her family. Her struggle initiates a dynamic, which results in a life-threatening situation.



Jerichow(2008)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 56

The dishonorably discharged Afghanistan veteran Thomas returns to his home village of Jerichow. Ali, a local Turkish-German businessman, owner of a snack-bar chain, hires him as a driver. ...



Rosenstrasse(2003)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 53

After the death of her father, Hannah becomes concerned with the strange behavior of her mother. As her mother's troubled childhood is revealed, Hannah realizes how little she ever knew.



Vision - Aus dem Leben der Hildegard von Bingen(2009)

Combined Rating:
41
Combined Critics Rating: 56

The life story of the multi-talented German nun Hildegard von Bingen. The film portrays an original woman - best known as a composer and religious visionary - whose grand claims often run ...



Goethe!(2010)

Combined Rating:
41
Combined Critics Rating: 48

After aspiring poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe fails his law exams, he's sent to a sleepy provincial court to reform. Instead, he falls for Lotte, a young woman who is promised to another man.



Anatomie(2000)

Combined Rating:
37
Combined Critics Rating: 25

Medical student Paula Henning wins a place at an exclusive Heidelberg medical school. When the body of a young man she met on the train turns up on her dissection table, she begins to ...



Vincent will Meer(2010)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 34

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.



Sommer vorm Balkon(2005)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 36

A tragicomic movie which focuses on two women and their daily struggle for survival during a summer in Berlin. Katrin, a jobless single mom, and Nike, a nurse, live in the same house and ...



Strajk - Die Heldin von Danzig(2006)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 46

A nearly illiterate woman becomes one of the founders of Poland's Solidarity union.



Anatomie 2(2003)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 29

The doctor and soccer player in the leisure time Jo Hauser decides to move to Berlin and be an intern in a famous clinic, expecting to increase his knowledge and expertize, and help his ...



Ein Leben lang kurze Hosen tragen(2002)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 36

Fictionalized account of Jürgen Bartsch, a German boy who became notorious in the 1960's after his conviction for the serial killings and sexual molestation of a number of young German boys...



Yella(2007)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 26

Yella is estranged from her possessive and violent husband; but he can't quite bring himself to give her up. When their fraught interaction finally comes to dramatic conclusion, Yella's life takes an odd shift.




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