Genre: German Movies
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Barbara (2012)
Cast: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Rainer Bock …
Directed by: Christian Petzold
In 1980 East Germany, Barbara, a doctor, is reassigned to a small rural hospital as punishment for trying to find work in the West. Biding time until her lover can help her defect, Barbara…
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Mommy Is Coming (2012)
Cast: Papí Coxxx, Lil Harlow, Maggie Tapert …
Directed by: Cheryl Dunye
With things growing a bit stale in the bedroom, lesbian couple Claudia and Dylan agree to seek sexual experiences outside their relationship. Dylan discovers new pleasures at a sex club,…
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Parabeton: Pier Luigi Nervi und römischer Beton (2012)
Directed by: Heinz Emigholz
This survey by Heinz Emigholz places Pier Luigi Nervi's distinctive architecture in the context of ancient Rome's great concrete buildings. Emigholz illustrates what Nervi's…
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Bliss (2012)
Cast: Alba Rohrwacher, Vinzenz Kiefer, Andrea Sawatzki …
Directed by: Doris Dörrie
Berlin prostitute Irina and her boyfriend, Kalle, have a perfect (if seedy) life together, until one of her johns ends up dead in her bed. Desperate, Kalle tries to "fix" things, threatening…
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Formentera (2012)
Cast: Sabine Timoteo, Thure Lindhardt, Ilse Ritter …
Directed by: Ann-Kristin Reyels
The dynamics of Ben and Nina's marriage change during an island vacation, their first since their 3-year-old daughter's birth. Ben wants to move there, but the locals make Nina feel…
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Mercy (2012)
Cast: Jürgen Vogel, Birgit Minichmayr, Henry Stange …
Directed by: Matthias Glasner
Soon after Niels and Maria move to a Norwegian town shrouded in darkness two months of the year, Maria hits something, or someone, with her car. She rushes home without reporting the…
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King of Comics (2012)
Cast: Ralf König, Joachim Krol, Hella von Sinnen …
Directed by: Rosa von Praunheim
This compelling documentary tells the story of one of Germany's best-loved cartoonists, Ralf Konig, who offers sharp observations about bigotry, queer life, urban neuroses, social…
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Calm at Sea (2012)
Cast: Leo Paul Salmain, Ulrich Matthes, Martin Loizillon …
Directed by: Volker Schlondorff
When French Communists shoot a Nazi officer, Hitler responds by killing 150 men, including 17-year-old Guy Môquet, the focus of this biopic. War's toll on innocence likewise resonates in…
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Home for the Weekend (2012)
Cast: Lars Eidinger, Corinna Harfouch, Sebastian Zimmler …
Directed by: Hans-Christian Schmid
When German writer Marko visits his parents for the weekend, his mother's revelation that she has stopped taking her medication prompts the family to confront their feelings about her…
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The Raw and the Cooked (2012)
Directed by: Monika Treut
This sumptuous doc explores Taiwan's diverse culinary culture, drawn from both ethnic Chinese and myriad outside influences. The menu includes upscale urban restaurants, dumplings,…
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The Wall (2012)
Cast: Martina Gedeck, Karl Heinz Hackl, Ulrike Beimpold …
Directed by: Julian Roman Pölsler
Vacationing with a couple in their mountain retreat, a woman finds herself alone at the cabin one afternoon, inexplicably trapped by an invisible wall. Her isolation behind the barrier grows…
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Reported Missing (2012)
Cast: André Hennicke, Luzie Ahrens, Sandra Borgmann …
Directed by: Jan Speckenbach
In this enigmatic drama, a teenage girl vanishes, and her father -- long absent from her life -- begins searching for her. Soon, he comes to realize that the landscape is changing -- the…
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Westerland (2012)
Cast: Wolfram Schorlemmer, Burak Yigit, Muri Seven …
Directed by: Tim Staffel
Against a wintry German landscape, two young men -- Cem and Jesús -- meet under bizarre circumstances and strike up a relationship. Their considerable differences in backgrounds prove no…
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Mark Lombardi: Death Defying Acts of Art and Conspiracy (2012)
Cast: Mark Lombardi
Directed by: Mareike Wegener
This documentary profiles Mark Lombardi, who turned exposure of the global power elite into art so powerful it drew the attention of the FBI. Filmmaker Mareike Wegener explores…
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Polluting Paradise (2012)
Directed by: Fatih Akin
The fate of a Turkish village threatened by the creation of a huge garbage landfill is the focus of this documentary, shot between 2007 and 2012. Residents and local politicians wage a…
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Paradise: Love (2012)
Cast: Margarethe Tiesel, Peter Kazungu, Inge Maux …
Directed by: Ulrich Seidl
Teresa, a 50-year-old Austrian, vacations on Kenya's sun-kissed shores looking for love among the local beach boys who survive on European "sugar mamas." She falls for Munga, but soon…
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Forgotten (2012)
Cast: Mina Tander, Laura de Boer, Katharina Thalbach …
Directed by: Alex Schmidt
Childhood friends Hanna and Clarissa are reunited after 25 years when Clarissa is admitted to the hospital where Hanna works as a physician. They decide to revisit the island where they…
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Cinema Jenin: The Story of a Dream (2012)
Directed by: Marcus Vetter
Marcus Vetter returns to the Palestinian West Bank town featured in his Heart of Jenin to document the resurrection of a dilapidated theater. More than just a construction project, the…
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The Divide (2011)
Cast: Lauren German, Michael Biehn, Milo Ventimiglia …
Directed by: Xavier Gens
After a cataclysmic explosion wipes out New York City, eight survivors blockade themselves in their apartment house basement. But claustrophobia and armed attackers turn the tenants against…
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Pina 3D (2011)
Cast: Pina Bausch, Regina Advento, Malou Airaudo …
Directed by: Wim Wenders
Director Wim Wenders uses 3D technology to arresting effect in this performance documentary about Pina Bausch's Tanztheater Wuppertal dance company. Performing alfresco in Wuppertal,…
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Hell (2011)
Cast: Hannah Herzsprung, Stipe Erceg, Michael Kranz …
Directed by: Tim Fehlbaum
The sun has turned the entire world into baked and barren wasteland. Heading for the mountains in search of water, Marie, her sister Leonie and Phillip run into Tom, a first-rate mechanic who…
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In the Name of the King 2: Two Worlds (2011)
Cast: Dolph Lundgren, Lochlyn Munro, Natassia Malthe …
Directed by: Uwe Boll
Dolph Lundgren stars in this action-packed fantasy as Granger, a former Special Forces soldier who finds himself pulled back into medieval times by a powerful female wizard to become a leader…
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Brasch: Words of Want, Words of Fear (2011)
Cast: Thomas Brasch
Directed by: Christoph Rüter
Documentarian Christoph Rüter trains his lens on the life of London-born writer Thomas Brasch, who was raised in East Germany and continually at odds with the government -- despite his…
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Rent Boys (2011)
Cast: Sergiu Grimalschi, Peter Kern, Claudia Thomas …
Directed by: Rosa von Praunheim
This nonjudgmental and engrossing documentary profiles the lives of five male sex workers in Germany, three of whom are Roma. They tell their stories with candor, revealing how past…
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UFO in Her Eyes (2011)
Cast: Ke Shi, Udo Kier, Mandy Zhang …
Directed by: Guo Xiaolu
When Chinese peasant Kwok Yun witnesses a huge UFO, her story ignites a chain of odd events and turns her into a celebrity. The village chief uses Kwok's "encounter" to promote local…