Released Date:
1975-10-10
Languages:
German
Countries:
West Germany
Runtime:
106 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (2618 Reviews)
Heinrich Bèll (novel)
Volker Schlèndorff (screenplay)
Margarethe von Trotta (screenplay)
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.
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)
Director:
Volker SchlèndorffJean-Claude Carrière
Gènter Grass (additional dialogue)
Gènter Grass (novel)
Volker Schlèndorff
Franz Seitz
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...
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 HanekeA 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.
Released Date:
2008-11-14
Languages:
German
Countries:
Germany
Runtime:
99 min
IMDB Ratings:
5.1 (224 Reviews)
Director:
Vadim GlownaVadim Glowna
Yasunari Kawabata (novel)
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.
Released Date:
2010-12-23
Languages:
German, English
Countries:
Germany
Runtime:
119 min
Rated:
UNRATED
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (3937 Reviews)
Director:
Tom TykwerA Berlin-set drama centered on a 40-something couple who, separately, fall in love with the same man.
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