Happy End (
2017) | IMDb:
6.6
A well-to-do French family living in Calais deal with a series of setbacks and crises while paying little attention to the grim conditions in the refugee camps within a few miles of their home.
Starring:
Isabelle Huppert
,
Jean-Louis Trintignant
,
Mathieu Kassovitz
,
Fantine Harduin
,
Franz Rogowski
,
Laura Verlinden
A Hologram for the King (
2016) | IMDb:
6.1
Alan Clay, a struggling American businessman, travels to Saudi Arabia to sell a new technology to the King, only to be challenged by endless Middle Eastern bureaucracy, a perpetually absent monarch, and a suspicious growth on his back.
Starring:
Tom Hanks
,
Sarita Choudhury
,
Sidse Babett Knudsen
,
Ben Whishaw
,
Tom Skerritt
,
Tracey Fairaway
Directed by:
Tom Tykwer
Punk Berlin 1982 (
2015) | IMDb:
5.6
1980: 19 year old Robert, fed up with Hippy phoniness and bourgeoise narrow mindedness alike, flees the German provinces for West Berlin. A tour de force through the glorious dirt of West Berlin ensues. Full of sex, drugs, love and PUNK.
Starring:
Tom Schilling
,
Wilson Gonzalez Ochsenknecht
,
Emilia Schüle
,
Frederick Lau
,
Hannelore Hoger
,
Samuel Finzi
Directed by:
Oskar Roehler
The Dark Valley (
2014) | IMDb:
7.1
The Alps, late 19th century. Greider, a mysterious lone rider who claims to be a photographer, arrives at an isolated lumber village, despotically ruled by a family clan, asking for winter accommodation.
Hai-Alarm am Müggelsee (
2013) | IMDb:
6
A lifeguard at Lake Müggel has his hand bitten off and the marks indicate a shark attack. The lake is closed to the public by extending a local festival indefinitely while the city council thinks of what can be done to remove the shark. The public becomes restless having their lake closed for so long and come up with a plan to drive the shark from the lake with large quantities of beer.
Starring:
Henry Hübchen
,
Michael Gwisdek
,
Benno Fürmann
,
Tom Schilling
,
Uwe Dag Berlin
,
Annika Kuhl
Produced by:
Stefan Arndt
Cloud Atlas (
2012) | IMDb:
7.4
A set of six nested stories spanning time between the 19th century and a distant post-apocalyptic future. Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. Action, mystery and romance weave through the story as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero and a single act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution in the distant future. Based on the award winning novel by David Mitchell. Directed by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis.
Amour (
2012) | IMDb:
7.9
Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.
Starring:
Jean-Louis Trintignant
,
Emmanuelle Riva
,
Isabelle Huppert
,
Alexandre Tharaud
,
William Shimell
,
Ramon Agirre
The White Ribbon (
2009) | IMDb:
7.8
An aged tailor recalls his life as the schoolteacher of a small village in Northern Germany that was struck by a series of strange events in the year leading up to WWI.
Starring:
Christian Friedel
,
Ernst Jacobi
,
Burghart Klaußner
,
Steffi Kühnert
,
Maria Dragus
,
Susanne Lothar
Directed by:
Michael Haneke
The Countess (
2009) | IMDb:
6.2
Kingdom of Hungary, 17th century. As she gets older, powerful Countess Erzsébet Báthory (1560-1614), blinded by the passion that she feels for a younger man, succumbs to the mad delusion that blood will keep her young and beautiful forever.
Starring:
Julie Delpy
,
Daniel Brühl
,
William Hurt
,
Anamaria Marinca
,
Sebastian Blomberg
,
Adriana Altaras
Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan (
2007) | IMDb:
7.2
The story recounts the early life of Genghis Khan, a slave who went on to conquer half the world in the 11th century.
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
Heaven (
2002) | IMDb:
7
Cate Blanchett stars as Philippa, a British teacher living in Turin, Italy, who has seen many friends, including her husband, fall victim to drug overdoses. Philippa has repeatedly contacted the police with information about Turin's biggest drug dealer but, complicit in his dealings, they have completely ignored her. So Philippa decides to dole out her own form of justice with a homemade bomb -- setting her off on a journey from young widow to fugitive on the run.
Starring:
Cate Blanchett
,
Giovanni Ribisi
,
Remo Girone
,
Stefania Rocca
,
Alessandro Sperduti
,
Mattia Sbragia
Directed by:
Tom Tykwer