Kursk (
2018) | IMDb:
6.6
Barents Sea, August 12th, 2000. During a Russian naval exercise, and after suffering a serious accident, the K-141 Kursk submarine sinks with 118 crew members on board. While the few sailors who are still alive barely manage to survive, their families push for accurate information and a British officer struggles to obtain from the Russian government a permit to attempt a rescue before it is late. But general incompetence are against all their efforts.
Starring:
Matthias Schoenaerts
,
Léa Seydoux
,
Peter Simonischek
,
August Diehl
,
Max von Sydow
,
Colin Firth
The Reader (
2008) | IMDb:
7.6
The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom.
Yella (
2007) | IMDb:
6.7
A young East German woman leaves her husband and business partner and relocates to a West German city to start anew as an accountant, but he soon catches up with her.
Starring:
Nina Hoss
,
Devid Striesow
,
Hinnerk Schönemann
,
Burghart Klaußner
,
Barbara Auer
,
Christian Redl
The Counterfeiters (
2007) | IMDb:
7.5
The story of Jewish counterfeiter Salomon Sorowitsch, who was coerced into assisting the Nazi operation of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp during World War II.
Starring:
Karl Markovics
,
August Diehl
,
Devid Striesow
,
Martin Brambach
,
August Zirner
,
Veit Stübner
The Lives of Others (
2006) | IMDb:
8.4
In 1984 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and his actress-lover Christa-Maria. Wiesler becomes unexpectedly sympathetic to the couple, and faces conflicting loyalties when his superior takes a liking to Christa-Maria.
Starring:
Martina Gedeck
,
Ulrich Mühe
,
Sebastian Koch
,
Ulrich Tukur
,
Thomas Thieme
,
Hans-Uwe Bauer
Directed by:
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Good Bye, Lenin! (
2003) | IMDb:
7.7
Alex Kerner's mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell. When she wakes up he must try to keep her from learning what happened (as she was an avid communist supporter) to avoid shocking her which could lead to another heart attack.
Starring:
Daniel Brühl
,
Katrin Sass
,
Chulpan Khamatova
,
Maria Simon
,
Florian Lukas
,
Alexander Beyer