Genre: Germany
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3 (2010)
Cast: Sophie Rois, Sebastian Schipper, Devid Striesow …
Directed by: Tom Tykwer
Berliners Hanna and Simon, a couple in their 40s, have grown comfortable in their marriage. Independently, each meets and romances Adam, a handsome younger man. When Hanna becomes pregnant,…
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The Green Wave (2010)
Cast: Navid Akhavan, Payam Akhavan, Shirin Ebadi …
Directed by: Ali Samadi Ahadi
Combining original animation with authentic cell-phone videos and other Internet media of violence in the streets, documentary filmmaker Ali Samadi Ahadi tells the story of Iranians who in…
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Rammbock (2010)
Cast: Michael Fuith, Theo Trebs, Emily Cox …
Directed by: Marvin Kren
Hoping to reunite with his ex-girlfriend, a lovesick young man drops in to see her but instead finds a brash teen plumber -- and before you can say "the undead," the twosome must barricade…
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Cindy Does Not Love Me (2010)
Cast: Clemens Schick, Peter Weiss, Anne Schäfer …
Directed by: Hannah Schweier
Franz, a carefree bartender with no grand ambitions, falls in love with the purposeful Maria and begins to question his life choices. When Maria suddenly disappears, Franz discovers that she…
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In Face of the Crime (2010)
Cast: Max Riemelt, Ronald Zehrfeld, Misel Maticevic …
Directed by: Dominik Graf
Set in Berlin in the Russian Jewish enclave of "Charlottengrad," this serial drama centers on Gorsky (Max Riemelt), a cop who's pulled in conflicting directions by duty, his heritage and…
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New York Memories (2010)
Cast: Claudia Steinberg, Anna Steegmann, Lucie Pohl …
Directed by: Rosa von Praunheim
In this filmic memoir, German director Rosa von Praunheim returns to New York, a city he knew and loved in the woolly 1970s, to see what he might find and also to check in on the colorful…
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In the Shadows (2010)
Cast: Misel Maticevic, Karoline Eichhorn, Uwe Bohm …
Directed by: Thomas Arslan
In this German gangster drama from writer-director Thomas Arslan, career criminal Trojan (Misel Maticevic) is released from prison, only to return to the sole means of survival he knows:…
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Day of the Sparrow (2010)
Directed by: Philip Scheffner
Director Philip Scheffner's documentary springs from his sighting of two headlines side by side: one about a sparrow killing, the other noting a German casualty in Kabul. The pairing…
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The Hairdresser (2010)
Cast: Gabriela Maria Schmeide, Natascha Lawiszus, Ill-Young Kim …
Directed by: Doris Dörrie
When a salon refuses to hire her because of her plump figure, irrepressible hair stylist Kathi plots revenge by opening her own beauty parlor next door. But when she faces a cash-flow…
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The Drifter (2010)
Cast: Mira Partecke, Laura Tonke, Bastian Trost …
Directed by: Tatjana Turanskyj
Greta (Mira Partecke) is the face of the "new woman" in the "new Berlin" -- unemployed after losing her job as an architect, separated from her husband, the mother of a young son, and…
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Bedways (2010)
Cast: Miriam Mayet, Matthias Faust, Lana Cooper …
Directed by: RP Kahl
Filmmaker Nina invites actors Hans and Marie to a huge, dilapidated apartment in Berlin to screen-test for an avant garde movie, which may not actually get made due to the abstractness of…
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David Wants To Fly (2010)
Directed by: David Sieveking
Determined to follow in the footsteps of his idol, David Lynch, documentarian David Sieveking decides to try the transcendental meditation method espoused by the eccentric Lynch and explores…
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Jew Suss: Rise and Fall (2010)
Cast: Tobias Moretti, Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu …
Directed by: Oskar Roehler
This intricate historical drama tells the story of actor Ferdinand Marian (Tobias Moretti), who is ordered by Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels to star in the 1940 anti-Semitic film Jew Suss.…
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The Robber (2010)
Cast: Andreas Lust, Franziska Weisz, Florian Wotruba …
Directed by: Benjamin Heisenberg
Having developed a taste for the adrenaline that comes from the thrill of the chase, Austrian marathon runner Johann Rettenberger (Andreas Lust) turns his disciplined mind and world-class…
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Silver Girls (2010)
Directed by: Saara Aila Waasner
Proving that the world's oldest profession knows no age limit, grandmothers Christel, Paula and Karolina ply their trade as prostitutes in Germany. This forthright documentary examines…
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When We Leave (2010)
Cast: Sibel Kekilli, Nizam Schiller, Derya Alabora …
Directed by: Feo Aladag
Umay, 25, is torn between two cultures when she leaves her abusive husband and takes their young son, Cem, from Istanbul to her family home in Germany. Seeking refuge with her parents, Umay…
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Boundaries (2010)
Cast: Klara Manzel, Nora Rim Abdel-Maksoud, Jan Dose …
Directed by: Andreas Kleinert
With summer in the air, nine hopeful actors from Berlin head to the country to audition for a renowned Swiss director's upcoming theater production. But it doesn't take long for…
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A Film Unfinished (2010)
Cast: Alexander Beyer, Rüdiger Vogler
Directed by: Yael Hersonski
This potent documentary uses a long-lost film reel to illustrate how the Nazis controlled images of Jewish life during World War II. Though the Nazis made a propaganda movie of contented Jews…
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Mahler on the Couch (2010)
Cast: Barbara Romaner, Johannes Silberschneider, Karl Markovics …
Directed by: Percy Adlon, Felix O. Adlon, Felix Adlon …
When famed composer Gustav Mahler (Johannes Silberschneider) uncovers his wife Alma's (Barbara Romaner) sexual infidelities with up-and-coming architect Walter Gropius (Friedrich Mücke),…
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Orly (2010)
Cast: Natacha Régnier, Bruno Todeschini, Maren Eggert …
Directed by: Angela Schanelec
While waiting for their flights at Paris's Orly airport, a captivating cross section of passengers -- including two French expatriates, a mother (Mireille Perrier) and her son (Emile…
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Thieves by Law (2010)
Cast: Leonid Bilunov, Alimzhan Tokhtakhunov, Vitaly Demochka …
Directed by: Alexander Gentelev
Former heads of the Russian Mafia who have shrewdly transformed themselves into reputable businessmen reveal their past experiences influencing their nation's economy, building up…
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Blessed Events (2010)
Cast: Annika Kuhl, Stefan Rudolf, Arno Frisch …
Directed by: Isabelle Stever
A meditation about people's inability to accept happiness when it makes a surprising appearance, this intense drama follows 37-year-old wallflower Simone (Annika Kuhl), who enjoys an…
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At Ellen's Age (2010)
Cast: Jeanne Balibar, Julia Hummer, Georg Friedrich …
Directed by: Pia Marais
Stunned by her longtime lover's unexpected confession of infidelity, Ellen Kolmar (Jeanne Balibar) decides it's time to change her life and walks away from her job as a flight…
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The Poll Diaries (2010)
Cast: Paula Beer, Edgar Selge, Tabet Tuisk …
Directed by: Chris Kraus
Taught macabre medical procedures by her coldly scientific father while living on the family estate in Estonia, German teen Oda Schaefer (Paula Beer) secretly uses her training to save the…
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Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010)
Cast: Werner Herzog
Directed by: Dmitry Vasyukov
Venerated documentarian Werner Herzog teams with director Dmitry Vasyukov for this observant look at life along the River Yenisei in northern Russia, where the industrious inhabitants of a…