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Gods of the Plague

Rated: 0 | 122 Views Released Year: 1970

Genre: German Language
About: Director Rainer Werner Fassbinder's sequel to his own Love Is Colder Than Death finds Franz (Harry Baer) just released from prison and in fast cahoots with his brother's murderer (Gunther Kaufmann). While the pair plans a robbery of a supermarket, Franz rekindles an old flame (Hanna Schygulla) and lights several new ones. Munich's directionless, grim youth culture is the focus of this bleak crime drama by the acclaimed German auteur.
URL: Gods of the Plague

The Good American

Rated: 0 | 128 Views Released Year: 2009

Genre: German Language
About: Everybody has their own version of the American dream. For Berliner Thomas Weise, the subject of this documentary, it's escaping the stigma of his HIV status and making good in the Big Apple as a party organizer and owner of a rent-boy Web site. Ostensibly, Weise succeeds, but Jochen Hick's film reveals cracks in the façade as it follows Weise while he plans the last of his HustlaBalls and returns to Germany for the first time in 15 years.
URL: The Good American

Go For Zucker

Rated: 0 | 110 Views Released Year: 2005

Genre: German Language
About: Henry Hubchen stars as the titular Jaeckie Zucker in this entertaining German comedy from director Dani Levy. A former sportscaster turned pool hustler, the down-on-his-luck Jaeckie finds himself facing a mounting stack of debts -- and jail time, to boot. But when his mother suddenly passes away, Jaeckie stands to inherit a fortune … that is, if he can reconcile with his uptight, humorless brother (Udo Samel) for a week.
URL: Go For Zucker

Council of the Gods

Rated: 0 | 109 Views Released Year: 1950

Genre: German Language
About: Based on testimony from the Nuremberg Trials, this East German drama explores the collusion between international corporations and Nazi scientists. Considering himself politically neutral, a chemist remains silent when his company creates the gas that kills millions of prisoners in concentration camps. This vintage film was used as propaganda for the new German Democratic Republic. Bonus materials include newsreel clips, interviews and more.
URL: Council of the Gods

Don't Look for Me

Rated: 0 | 86 Views Released Year: 2004

Genre: German Language
About: Wounded in the line of duty, contract killer Anna (Lea Mornar) has decided it's time to hang it up. Her boss is willing to let her retire, provided she fulfills one last job. But when Anna learns that her final target is someone close to her heart, she finds herself faced with an impossible decision. Directed by Tilman Zens, this stylish German thriller also stars Udo Schenk, Stipe Erceg, Jürgen Lehmann and Mark Zak.
URL: Don't Look for Me

My Sister Maria

Rated: 0 | 126 Views Released Year: 2002

Genre: German Language
About: In an intimate documentary dedicated to the Austrian actress Maria Schell, her brother, filmmaker Maximilian Schell, chronicles her five-decade career as well as his personal relationship with the prolific performer. A poignant study of celebrity and family, the film follows the actress from the height of her fame in the 1950s, when she became a symbol of hope for postwar Germany, to her decline into a reclusive, debt-ridden old age.
URL: My Sister Maria

Meier Marilyn

Rated: 0 | 129 Views Released Year: 2003

Genre: German Language
About: With her hair salon near financial ruin, her relationship with her married boyfriend at a standstill and her weight dangerously on the rise, Marilyn (Bettina Stucky) can't help but feel that her life is headed south. But when her best friend, Halil, pushes her to perform on a television talent show, she'll have to pull herself together to hit the right notes. Stucky's performance earned her a Swiss Academy Award for Best Actress.
URL: Meier Marilyn

Big Girls Don't Cry

Rated: 0 | 100 Views Released Year: 2002

Genre: German Language
About: Seventeen-year-olds Kati and Steffi are best friends. But while Steffi has a great boyfriend and a loving home, Kati is lovelorn amid her family's incessant squabbling. The tables suddenly turn, though, when Kati discovers that Steffi's father is having an affair. As Steffi's perfect world falls apart, the girls try to find out all they can about her father's new lover.
URL: Big Girls Don't Cry

The Baader Meinhof Complex

Rated: 0 | 91 Views Released Year: 2008

Genre: German Language
About: Uli Edel directs this Best Foreign Language Film Oscar nominee charting the birth of West Germany's Red Army Faction, a radical left-wing terrorist group formed in the late 1960s amid a climate of revolution and a fallen generation. Staging a series of bombings, kidnappings and assassinations, the RAF waged a war against fascism with a direct assault against the powers of American imperialism and the fledgling German democracy.
URL: The Baader Meinhof Complex

Comrade Couture

Rated: 0 | 98 Views Released Year: 2008

Genre: German Language
About: Filmmaker Marco Wilms summons the creative spirits of East Germany's rigid past by throwing a party for designer Sabine von Oettingen, shutterbug Robert Paris, and stylist and hairdresser Frank Schäfer and inviting them to discuss their lives. As eccentric artists living beneath the weight of the Berlin Wall, they were forced to invent their own avant-garde styles. The results were typically off the wall -- and always fabulous.
URL: Comrade Couture

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