Archive for the ‘Germany’ Category

The Jacket (2005)

Friday, February 26th, 2010
The Jacket
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Adrien Brody | Keira Knightley | Kris Kristofferson | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Kelly Lynch | Brad Renfro | Daniel Craig | Steven Mackintosh | Brendan Coyle | Mackenzie Phillips | Laura Marano | Jason Lewis | Richard Dillane | Jonah Lotan | Angel Coulby
Directors: John Maybury
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In 1991, in Iraq, the military Jack Starks is shot in the head and presumed dead. When he blinks his eyes in the morgue, the doctor is called. One year later, after being discharged from the army, while hitchhiking in a road in Vermont having amnesia problem, he helps a drunken woman, Jean Price, and her daughter, Jackie Price, fixing their car. Later, he gets a lift, but the driver is stopped by the police and kills the policeman with three shots. Jack is also shot in the head and incriminated by the real killer, who leaves his gun close to the fainted Jack. He goes to court and is sentenced to the mental institution Alpine Grove for insane criminals. Jack becomes the experiment of Dr. Thomas Becker, who drugs and dresses him with a jacket and lock him in a drawer for corpses in the morgue. While locked, Jack travels to 2007, where he meets a grown-up Jackie Price and they fall in love for each other. Jack envisions that the only exit from the institution is though the jacket.

Don’t Wake the Dead (2008)

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Don’t Wake the Dead
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Ralph Fellows | Sonja Kerskes | Fiana de Guzman | Carolin Schmidt | Cristiane Malia | Sarah Plochl | Maren Lisner | Amy Lee | Julia Casper | Courtney Peltzer | Wolfgang Wobeto | Joi von Regenstein | Jürgen Teuchert | Christian Rothholz | Wolfgang Noack
Directors: Andreas Schnaas
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A group of women, hired to assist with an impromptu concert, spend the evening at an ancient German castle. Unbeknownst to them, they’ve chosen the worst night on Earth to visit, as every sixty-six years, the long-dead bodies of Templar Knights buried there have the chance to wake and feast upon the living…

Paris 36 (2008)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Paris 36
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Gérard Jugnot | Clovis Cornillac | Kad Merad | Nora Arnezeder | Pierre Richard | Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu | Maxence Perrin | François Morel | Élisabeth Vitali | Christophe Kourotchkine | Eric Naggar | Eric Prat | Julien Courbey | Philippe Du Janerand | Marc Citti
Directors: Christophe Barratier
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Set in a suburb of north-east Paris between December 1935 and July 1936 during the “revolutionary” period of the Popular Front (who introduced the first paid holidays and a shorter working week). Three unemployed performers decide to take over by force the music hall where they worked a few months earlier and stage a show there.

Pippi Longstocking (1997)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Pippi Longstocking
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: Germany | USA
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The Anarchist’s Wife (2008)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
The Anarchist’s Wife
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: Germany | USA
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“The Anarchist’s Wife” is the story of Manuela who is left behind when her husband Justo fights for his ideals against Franco’s Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War. He is deported to a concentration camp, and upon his release, continues the fight against nationalism in the French resistance. Years, pass without a word from him, but his wife never gives up hope of seeing him again.

Kirschblüten – Hanami (2008)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Kirschblüten – Hanami
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: Germany | USA
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When Trudi learns that her husband Rudi is dangerously ill, she suggests visiting their children in Berlin without telling him the truth. As Franzi and Karl don’t care much about their parents, Trudi and Rudi go to the Baltic Sea, where Trudi suddenly dies. Rudi is thrown out of gear, even more when he learns that his wife wanted to live a totally different life in Japan…

Les choristes (2004)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Les choristes
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Gérard Jugnot | François Berléand | Kad Merad | Jean-Paul Bonnaire | Marie Bunel | Jean-Baptiste Maunier | Maxence Perrin | Grégory Gatignol | Thomas Blumenthal | Cyril Bernicot | Simon Fargeot | Théodule Carré-Cassaigne | Philippe Du Janerand | Carole Weiss | Erick Desmarestz
Directors: Christophe Barratier
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On 15 January 1949, the former music teacher Clément Mathieu arrives in “Fond de l’ Etang” (“Bottom of the Well”), a boarding school for orphans and problematic boys, to work as an inspector. The place is administrated with iron fist by the cruel director Rachin, and most of the boys have severe punishments for their faults. Clément decides to teach the boys to sing in a choir in their spare time, and identify the musical potential of the rebel Pierre Morhange, the son of a beautiful single mother for whom he feels a crush. He also has a special feeling for the young Pépinot, a boy that expects the visit of his father every Saturday near the gate, but indeed lost his parents in the war. With his methods, Clément changes the lives of the boys, of the other employees and his own.

Caché (2005)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Caché
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Daniel Auteuil | Juliette Binoche | Maurice Bénichou | Annie Girardot | Bernard Le Coq | Walid Afkir | Lester Makedonsky | Daniel Duval | Nathalie Richard | Denis Podalydès | Aïssa Maïga | Caroline Baehr | Christian Benedetti | Philippe Besson | Loic Brabant
Directors: Michael Haneke
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Guilt. Anne and Georges Laurant have a book-lined Paris townhouse, jobs at a publishing house and as the host of a high-brow talk show, and a teenage son, Pierrot, who’s on the swim team. Their dinner parties sparkle, but there’s tension. They have little to say to each other: Anne may be on the verge of an affair with a close family friend, and Pierrot is monosyllabic and out with friends some evenings. There’s new strain when they begin to receive tapes of their home under surveillance—tapes accompanied by childlike drawings of a boy and blood. Anne and Georges are unnerved, dreams give Georges a clue, but he shares little with Anne. What part of himself and his past has he kept hidden?

Keinohrhasen (2007)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Keinohrhasen
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Nora Tschirner | Matthias Schweighöfer | Alwara Höfels | Jürgen Vogel | Rick Kavanian | Armin Rohde | Wolfgang Stumph | Barbara Rudnik | Christian Tramitz | Pasquale Aleardi | Gregor Bloéb | René Böhnke | Johannes Halonen | Lars Joermann
Directors: Til Schweiger
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Nordwand (2008)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Nordwand
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Benno Fürmann | Florian Lukas | Johanna Wokalek | Georg Friedrich | Simon Schwarz | Ulrich Tukur | Erwin Steinhauer | Branko Samarovski | Petra Morzé | Hanspeter Müller | Peter Zumstein | Martin Schick | Erni Mangold | Johannes Thanheiser | Arnd Schimkat
Directors: Philipp Stölzl
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NORTH FACE is the tense, edge-of-your-seat documentary that relives 48 death-defying hours in the lives of the two climbers who scaled the eponymous wall of the Eiger Mountain in 1936. What started as an event that bore the expectations of their nation and Fuhrer became a race for survival when the pair became threatened by serious injury and unrelenting weather conditions.

The Lives of Others (2006)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Lives of Others, The
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: Germany | USA
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The horrifying, sometimes unintentionally funny system of observation in the former East Germany. In the early 1980s, the successful dramatist Georg Dreyman and his longtime companion Christa-Maria Sieland, a popular actress, are big intellectual stars in the socialist state, although they secretly don’t always think loyal to the party line. One day, the Minister of Culture becomes interested in Christa, so the secret service agent Wiesler is instructed to observe and sound out the couple, but their life fascinates him more and more…

Niko – Lentäjän poika (2008)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Niko – Lentäjän poika
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: Germany | USA
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A reindeer boy named Niko dreams about flying like his father, whom he has never met. Despite constant mocking from others, he sneaks out of his home valley to take flying lessons from Julius, a flying squirrel.

Krabat (2008)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Krabat
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: David Kross | Daniel Brühl | Christian Redl | Robert Stadlober | Paula Kalenberg | Anna Thalbach | Hanno Koffler | Charly Hübner | Moritz Grove | Tom Wlaschiha | Sven Hönig | Stefan Haschke | Tom Lass | Daniel Fripan | Daniel Steiner
Directors: Marco Kreuzpaintner
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A boy learns the black arts from an evil sorcerer

Helloween – High Live (1996)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Helloween – High Live
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Roland Grapow | Marcus Grosskopf | Uli Kusch | Michael Weikath | Andi Deris
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Helloween rocks!

Pushing Tin (1999)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Pushing Tin
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: John Cusack | Billy Bob Thornton | Cate Blanchett | Angelina Jolie | Jake Weber | Kurt Fuller | Vicki Lewis | Matt Ross | Jerry Grayson | Michael Willis | Philip Akin | Mike O'Malley | Neil Crone | Matt Gordon | Joe Pingue
Directors: Mike Newell
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Nick “The Zone” Falzone is an air traffic controller at New York TRACON, where it’s busy 24 hours a day. He’s acknowledged as the best, until a quiet guy Russell Bell arrives on the scene from the Southwest somewhere. Russell and his wife Mary don’t quite fit into the close-knit community of controllers and their wives, and a rivalry soon builds.

The General’s Daughter (1999)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
General’s Daughter, The
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: John Travolta | Madeleine Stowe | James Cromwell | Timothy Hutton | Leslie Stefanson | Daniel von Bargen | Clarence Williams III | James Woods | Peter Weireter | Mark Boone Junior | John Beasley | Boyd Kestner | Brad Beyer | John Benjamin Hickey | Rick Dial
Directors: Simon West
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Military police detectives Paul Brenner and Sarah Sunhill investigate a horrifically bizarre rape and murder of a respected female Pysch-Ops officer who is also the daughter of a renowned retiring general. Yet the case becomes more complicated when the autopsy showed no evidence of sexual assault. Furthermore, that is but the beginning of the twists when they discover the victim’s secret life, her past and a disturbing determination by senior staff to keep this investigation short and quiet.

The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Wind That Shakes the Barley, The
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Cillian Murphy | Padraic Delaney | Liam Cunningham | Gerard Kearney | William Ruane | Kieran Aherne | Roger Allam | Laurence Barry | Frank Bourke | Fergus Burke | Antony Byrne | Tom Charnock | John Crean | Máirtín de Cógáin | Keith Dunphy
Directors: Ken Loach
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Ireland, 1920. Damien and Teddy are brothers. But while the latter is already the leader of a guerrilla squad fighting for the independence of his motherland, Damien, a medical student at University College, would rather finish his training at the London hospital where he has found a place. However, shortly before his departure, he happens to witness atrocities committed by the ferocious Black and Tans and finally decides to join the resistance group led by Teddy. The two brothers fight side by side until a truce is signed. But peace is short-lived and when England imposes a treaty regarded unfair by a part of the population war resumes, this time pitting Irishmen against Irishmen, brothers against brothers, Teddy against Damien…

Out of Season (2004)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Out of Season
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Dennis Hopper | Gina Gershon | Jordan Frieda | Dominique Swain | Jim Carter | William Armstrong | David Murray | Dragos Bucur | Robert Cilinca | Geoffrey Clapham | Tomi Cristin | Alin Olteanu | Mircea Stoian | Stefan Velniciuc | Irina Dinescu
Directors: Jevon O'Neill
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It is out of season and the temporary employee Pierre of an amusement park seaside has all his savings stolen by the crook Simeon Guant, a friend of his girlfriend Kelly Phillips. Kelly is daughter of the owner of the park, Michael Philipps, who is married with Eileen Phillips. Eileen cheats her husband with Simeon, and they plot to kill Michael simulating a burglary and get his life insurance. Pierre, without any money, associates to the owner of a bar, the former thief Harry Barlow, who teaches him how to burglar. The reunion of these six characters has no happy ending.

Investigating Sex (2001)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Investigating Sex
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Dermot Mulroney | Julie Delpy | Robin Tunney | Neve Campbell | Jeremy Davies | Alan Cumming | Til Schweiger | John Light | Nick Nolte | Terrence Howard | Tuesday Weld | Emily Bruni | Jacqueline Anderson | Marc Hosemann | Joseph May
Directors: Alan Rudolph
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A group of men and two female stenographers scientifically study sex.

People I Know (2002)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
People I Know
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Al Pacino | Kim Basinger | Ryan O'Neal | Téa Leoni | Richard Schiff | Bill Nunn | Robert Klein | Mark Webber | Eldon Bullock | Juliet Papa | Ramsey Faragallah | Brian McConnachie | Frank Wood | Rex Reed | Lewis Dodley
Directors: Daniel Algrant
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know everything suddenly realizes he knows too much. Smart, resourceful and uncommonly devoted seasoned publicist Eli Wurman has smoothly managed the public lives of the rich, the famous and the incredibly powerful throughout his long career. There has never been a crisis he couldn’t handle—until now. Cary Launer is a famous actor—he’s as good at manipulating and controlling those around him as he is at giving award-winning performances. Yet Launer is in trouble over a young starlet, Jilli, and enlists Eli to discreetly escort her out of his life. It seems just one more celebrity baby-sitting job, until they arrive at an after-hours party where Eli experiences a shock that will change his life forever. The crime he’s witnessed involves the most powerful and influential people in the country.