5 Movies Starring Angela Winkler

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1975-10-10

Languages:

German

Countries:

West Germany

Runtime:

106 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (2618 Reviews)

Genres:

CrimeDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Heinrich Bèll (novel)

Volker Schlèndorff (screenplay)

Margarethe von Trotta (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Katharina Blum is a young handsome German maid. She meets Ludwig, and they fall in love at once. They spend the night together. In the morning, the police bursts in her flat, looking for Ludwig : he is a terrorist. But he was no longer here. Katharina is arrested, humiliated, suspected to be a terrorist herself, dragged in the mud by the newspapers... A plea for democracy and individual rights.

The Tin Drum

The Tin Drum

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1980-04-11

Languages:

German, Italian, Hebrew, Polish, Russian

Countries:

West Germany, France, Poland, Yugoslavia

Runtime:

142 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (16573 Reviews)

Genres:

DramaWar

Cast:

Writer:

Jean-Claude Carrière

Gènter Grass (additional dialogue)

Gènter Grass (novel)

Volker Schlèndorff

Franz Seitz

Fullplot:

Danzig in the 1920s/1930s. Oskar Matzerath, son of a local dealer, is a most unusual boy. Equipped with full intellect right from his birth he decides at his third birthday not to grow up as he sees the crazy world around him at the eve of World War II. So he refuses the society and his tin drum symbolizes his protest against the middle-class mentality of his family and neighborhood, which stand for all passive people in Nazi Germany at that time. However, (almost) nobody listens to him, so the catastrophe goes on...

Benny's Video

Benny's Video

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1993-02-11

Languages:

German, English, Arabic, French

Countries:

Austria, Switzerland

Runtime:

105 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (8541 Reviews)

Director:

Michael Haneke

Genres:

CrimeDrama

Fullplot:

A 14-year-old video enthusiast is so caught up in film fantasy that he can no longer relate to the real world, to such an extent that he commits murder and records an on-camera confession for his parents.

House of the Sleeping Beauties

House of the Sleeping Beauties

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2008-11-14

Languages:

German

Countries:

Germany

Runtime:

99 min

IMDB Ratings:

5.1 (224 Reviews)

Director:

Vadim Glowna

Cast:

Writer:

Vadim Glowna

Yasunari Kawabata (novel)

Fullplot:

Edmond, a man in his sixties whose wife has recently passed away, is told about a secret establishment where men can spend an entire night in bed alongside beautiful, sleeping young women, who stretch, roll over and dream, but never awaken. Bedazzled by their seductive yet innocent tenderness, but distressed about the reason for their deep sleep, he delves into the mystery of the house of sleeping beauties.

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3

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2010-12-23

Languages:

German, English

Countries:

Germany

Runtime:

119 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (3937 Reviews)

Director:

Tom Tykwer

Fullplot:

A Berlin-set drama centered on a 40-something couple who, separately, fall in love with the same man.

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