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77
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68
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Never Look Away (2018)
German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR regime.
poster
Kanopy
77
7.8
/8836/
78
/112/
76
/65/
3.7
/3420/
84
/63/
92
/299/
60
/22/

Gloomy Sunday (1999)
Budapest in the thirties. The restaurant owner Laszlo hires the pianist András to play in his restaurant. Both men fall in love with the beautiful waitress Ilona who inspires András to his only composition. His song of Gloomy Sunday is, at first, loved and then feared, for its melancholic melody triggers off a chain of suicides. The fragile balance of the erotic ménage à trois is sent off kilter when the German Hans goes and falls in love with Ilona as well.
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74
7.2
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70
/59/
66
/64/
3.5
/1325/
81
/37/
87
/47/

The Harmonists (1997)
Comedian Harmonists tells the story of a famous, German male sextet, five vocals and piano, the "Comedian Harmonists", from the day they meet first in 1927 to the day in 1934, when they become banned by the upcoming Nazis, because three of them are Jewish.
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45
7.8
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76
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76
/44/
3.9
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96
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B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989 (2015)
The wild West Berlin of the 1980s became the creative melting pot of pop subcultures: music, art and chaos. Before the Iron Curtain fell, anything and everything seemed possible.
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35
7.0
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72
/32/
65
/33/
3.4
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71
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79
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Brother of Sleep (1995)
In the beginning of the 19th century, Johannes Elias Alder is born in a small village in the Austrian mountains. While growing up he is considered strange by the other villagers and discovers his love of music, especially rebuilding and playing the organ at the village church. After experiencing an "acoustic wonder", his eye color changes and he can hear even the most subtle sounds.
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48
32
4.3
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46
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51
/72/
2.7
/1616/

Otto - The Disaster Movie (2000)
A man from Ostfriesland travels to Hamburg and sets course for America on a steamship to conquer this New World as well. What he leaves behind is a swath of devastation, a breach of confusion, a Milky Way full of music, a dead end full of mad jokes and perhaps a touch too much wordplay at the expense of others. But what is worst of all: he has also made a film about it!
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65
30
6.6
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52
/9/
52
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90

Sass (2001)
Brothers Franz and Erich Sass grew up poor. Together with his brother Franz, Erich specializes in cracking safes. Erich spends the money with his hands full. In the meantime, the police have also become aware of the brothers. Pursued by Detective Fabich, they get deeper and deeper into criminal circles. A man called Adolf demands that the Sass brothers work for him. He blackmails them and has their father beaten to death. The brothers then agree to work together. However, Adolf plans to have them killed after the coup. The two brothers manage to escape; they are also able to flee from the police, who catch them while they are still breaking into the bank.
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Amazon Prime Video
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/1400/
70
/54/
58
/25/
3.3
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40
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46
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Habermann (2010)
A story set in a small village in Sudetenland between 1937 and 1945. "Habermann" is based on true events.
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Amazon Prime Video
48
15
4.2
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50
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46
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The Child (2012)
Simon Sachs, a terminally ill ten year old boy, claims to have been a serial killer in his previous life and apparently he can prove it. He leads a lawyer, Robert Stern, to the locations of the bodies, who were killed long before Simon was born. Stern takes on the most compelling and mysterious case of his life.
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57
12
5.8
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55
/6/
54
/17/
3.2
/252/

Marlene (2000)
In this biopic, Marlene Dietrich leaves Berlin for Hollywood, where she establishes herself as an international star through various film roles.
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58
12
5.3
/323/
62
/9/
52
/13/
3.3
/552/

Red Zora (2008)
In this sun soaked adventure for the entire family, a group of five orphaned children form their own makeshift family while attempting to operate outside the rules of society. Though they must sometimes steal to survive, their loyalty to one another means that they will always have a brother or sister to count on.
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55
12
6.1
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48
/7/
53
/16/
3.2
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50
/8/

The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld (2000)
The life story of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, a German Jew, who as a physician established the field of sexology, and fought militantly against German anti-sodomy laws in the late 19th century. The script reveals main characters in Hirschfeld's life including impossible love interest Baron von Teschenberg, and Hirschfeld's aids- young Karl Giese and guardian angel, the transvestite Dorchen, as they establish the First Institute of Sexual Sciences in Berlin in 1920, and follows their struggles to keep it open, up to the rise of the Third Reich in the mid 1930s.
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3.4
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45
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Cinema Perverso (2015)
Before there were home video formats and the internet, the “Bahnhofskinos” (“Train station cinemas”) in West Germany regularly showed trash and erotica movies. Various filmmakers and especially contemporary witnesses recount in the documentary “Cinema Perverso – the wonderful and broken world of Bahnhofskino” their experiences and impressions.
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10
/1/

Die zukünftigen Glückseligkeiten (1990)
1640. A man attempts to flee from England, torn apart by religious unrest, to France. He is the philosopher and irreverent cynic Thomas Hobbes. But before he can reach the ship that will save him, civil war breaks out. The chaos inspires him to develop new philosophical theories. While writing his futuristic epic, he is assisted by a nobleman who accompanies him on his escape disguised as a servant. The futuristic epic that Hobbes invents is set in the present day. The main characters are a married couple who run a grocery store and try to compete with a supermarket.
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Vertrauen gegen Vertrauen (1986)
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55
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70
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Landschaft mit Dornen (1992)
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34
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4.8
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20
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Kurt Gerrons Karussell (1999)
This documentary tells the story of an unusual victim of the Nazi holocaust -- Kurt Gerron, a German film actor and cabaret star. During World War II, Gerron went from being a leading light of the German entertainment community (he made over 70 films and sang "Mack the Knife" in the first performance of The Three-Penny Opera) to a prisoner directing a propaganda film for the Nazis about a makeshift club at Theresienstadt, which was described as a "concentration camp for celebrities." Gerron was eventually executed at Auschwitz. Director Ilona Ziok combines archival footage of Gerron with interviews of peers and survivors who describe how Gerron tragically believed his gifts as an entertainer would save his life -- and how he enthusiastically kept performing right up to his death.
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7.5
/29/
20
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Gegen den Strom (1998)
After a policeman is shot dead, the Hanover CID receives an anonymous tip-off that the perpetrator is also a policeman. Detective Stefan Bregert is brought in as an undercover investigator and it looks as if some of his colleagues are hiding more than they are admitting...
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3.9
/24/
20
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10
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Die sieben Feuer des Todes (1997)
Firefighters Stefan and Johannes and psychologist Marta Weber, Stefan's girlfriend, are targeted by the psychopathic arsonist Kovacz. Johannes is killed by an insidious firebomb in an attack on Marta's apartment. Apparently the arsonist also dies in the flames, but his body is never found. Stefan fears that the madman is still alive...
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10
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Verliebte Feinde (1995)
N/A
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/14/
70
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Udo Lindenberg & Das Panikorchester - 50 Jahre Rock'n'Roll in der bunten Republik (2023)
A legendary band story began in Münster, Westphalia, in 1973: Udo Lindenberg and the Panikorchester played their first concert and released the successful album "Alles klar auf der Andrea Doria". What follows is history. The documentary shows the turbulent path from the pub Onkel Pö to the big stadiums of the republic.
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55
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6.2
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43
/3/

Die kleine Meerjungfrau (2013)
Undine rescues a prince from drowning, and leaves him unconscious on shore, where he can be found, but she has already fallen in love with him. Unable to enjoy life below the waves, the mermaid makes a deal with the Sea Witch to become human. The mermaid must also give her voice as payment. And her humanity is only conditional: if she can make the prince fall in love with her and marry her, she can gain a share in his soul and be truly human, but if he marries another, she will die at the next sunrise. It turns out that the witch only made her believe she would die if the prince married another as a Secret Test of Character: by refusing to kill the prince even to save her own life, she proves that she already has a soul. So she remains human, gets her voice back, and sets out to explore the world.
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5.1
/42/

Karigula - Monster der Liebe (2024)
Charly was a clown before he lost his talent for making people laugh. When Charly loses his last engagement, he decides to take his own life. He jumps off a bridge under which Karla, a notorious merrymaker, is disposing of her latest victim. His suicide attempt fails, so Charly blackmails Karla: either she kills him or he betrays her to the police. Karla is a lust murderer, she only kills who she loves - and Karla simply can't feel anything for the world-weary clown. When all attempts to kill her fail miserably, Charly has a plan: laughter is the best aphrodisiac. Charly wants to make Karla laugh, make her fall madly in love with him and then finally be able to kill him.
poster
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6.1
/66/

Planet Alex (2001)
Berlin Alexanderplatz; within 24 hours, various stories rotate between the heights and depths of the square, between the television tower and the subway shafts, between larger and smaller fates, that slowly but surely become entangled.
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7.1
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A Very Ordinary Jew (2006)
Emanuel Goldfarb, a Jewish journalist respond to an invitation by a professor to tell his pupils about his life as a Jew living in Germany.
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55
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Julian H. entführt – Qualen einer Mutter (1994)
N/A
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6.5
/24/
33
/3/

The Painter (2023)
Being one of the most significant, contemporary painters, Albert Oehlen’s approach is complete refusal of the common art circus. In its own way the Film reflects this very stance. Likewise, it questions the purpose of obsolete thinking patterns created by white straight male artists of a certain age that have dominated the art world for centuries.
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6.4
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58
/9/
41
/5/

Rex Gildo: The Last Dance (2022)
Rex Gildo’s songs and musicals made him very popular. His best-known song was “Fiesta Mexicana” from 1972. Rosa von Praunheim tells the story of his life in the context of the gay pride movement, the normative pressures of the Schlager music industry, and the profound changes currently underway.
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6.2
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/10/
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As White as in Snow (2001)
Inspired by real-life Elsa Andersson, this mostly fictional movie tells the story of her upbringing as a farmer's daughter, in the early 1900s, who dreams of getting away from the farm and becoming an aviatrix.
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4.9
/99/
20
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E-m@il an Gott (1999)
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6.0
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50
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Quarantäne (1989)
The discovery of an unknown virus in a young man leads to frantic activity on the part of the state apparatus. Fearing an epidemic, they want to send the man to a quarantine camp. A magistrate judge, to whom the case is presented, resists political pressure and refuses to admit him. In doing so, he puts himself in danger.
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7.1
/22/
10
/1/

Rising to the Bait (1992)
Protected from the intrigues of con-men by the overwhelming blanket of the former regime in East Germany, at first it seems that Ada Fenske, the elderly widow living on a farm near a soon-to-be abandoned Russian island military base is fair game. The (West) German military intelligence services want to acquire her farm. At first, their agent attempts to buy the property openly, but her refusal to sell motivates him to try far shadier techniques. He comes up with a relative she never knew about who is entitled to a share in the property and tries to blackmail the township's mayor to get his cooperation. However, the hard-working and honest old lady has an ally in the person of her more sophisticated border, a woman who works in the mayor's office and has been to the West. She takes great delight in foiling the underhanded agent.
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42
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6.6
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50
/2/
10
/2/

Little Angel (1997)
Ramona lives her lonely life in Berlin working in a lipstick factory. One day she accidentally runs into Andrzei, a Polish mechanic illegally selling cigarettes in Germany during the weekend. One thing leads to another, and soon she finds herself pregnant. Then her life starts falling apart, when Andrzei tells her he already has a wife back in Poland and her baby dies shortly after its premature birth.
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54
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6.3
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60
/1/
40
/7/

Trenck - Zwei Herzen gegen die Krone (2003)
Prussian general's son Friedrich, Freiherr (German baron) von der Trenck, is an unruly student whose countless affairs make him enemies, but he wins every duel. Frederic II the Great recruits him for his personal bodyguard. During his cadet training under the cruel stickler Graf (count) von Jaschinsky Friedrich falls in love with the king's headstrong oldest sister Amalia. She, however, refuses to be married off the the Swedish king's heir. When Prussia makes war on Austria over Silesia, Trenck's loyalty is dubious on account of an Austrian family branch. Janischky eagerly convinces the king there is more.
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100
/1/

Jedermann (2010)
N/A
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6.3
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10
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50
/1/

Whopper Punch 777 (1986)
The young son of a sports journalist helps his out-of-town father out of a jam by getting into the hotel room of a famous boxer and conducting a sensational star interview with him.
poster
58
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6.6
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50
/1/

Frau2 Seeks HappyEnd (2001)
A radio presenter and a telephone operator, both mourning the loss of their unhappy love affair, meet anonymously in an Internet chat room after a fated car accident, where emails bring them closer to each other.
poster
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6.7
/9/
10
/1/

Eine geschlossene Gesellschaft (1987)
Follows the lives of students and their teachers based on the director's childhood memories. The events of the film take places in the actual boarding school called "Gymnasium Canisianum", founded in 1946 by a German catholic priest.
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6.4
/8/
20
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Mère Ubu (1998)
N/A
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5.1
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Der Tiger oder Was Frauen lieben! (2009)
Franz, editor-in-chief of a large publishing house and no stranger to sadness himself, learns shortly before his wife Simone's death that she has been cheating on him. Stunned by this infidelity, he doggedly sets out in search of his rival. At Simone's funeral, a pimp turns up with two bodyguards and lays a wreath with the dedication 'With love - your tiger'. Franz wants to get to know this rival better and even follows him to his stately home in Andalusia.
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6.0
/34/

Esperanza (2008)
New Year's Eve, shortly after five. Ten travelers have missed the last ferry to Copenhagen and are lured aboard the small steamer "Esperanza" by the stewardess. At first, guests like Anna, Franz and Natascha are treated to delicacies and classical dance music. When the captain gets lost in the fog, the passengers admit to their life's lies.
poster
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5.7
/46/
50
/1/
34
/5/

Freundinnen - Alle für eine (2016)
They once played together in a band called Chix and were inseparable. Today, each of them has their own problems.
poster
53
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6.5
/112/
56
/3/
40
/2/

Emma nach Mitternacht - Der Wolf und die sieben Geiseln (2016)
Emma Mayer is a psychologist and advises people in crisis situations. She works at a radio station in Mannheim and does her best to provide callers with help and support. When a hostage-taker calls her during a broadcast, her expertise and improvisation are called for, as the caller forces her to move out of the studio and confront him directly. When she arrives at the petrol station, Emma gets involved in a question-and-answer game: For every correct answer, a hostage is allowed to leave; for every wrong answer, a hostage loses their life.
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6.5
/79/

The Serbian Girl (1991)
The naive 18 year old Dobrila leaves her little Serbian village to travel to Hamburg, Germany, where her boyfriend lives. The trip is not easy. Finally in Hamburg she has to realize her boyfriend is not very interested in a relationship. She doesn't tell him she's pregnant and starts on her way home to Serbia, which turns out to be even more exhausting.
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6.5
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/6/
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/1/

A Love in Germany (1983)
In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that he left 40 years before. He wants to discover what happened then, the truth about an affair his mother had with a young Polish prisoner of war, how the authorities came to learn of it, the lovers' arrest, and the aftermath. While his son takes Polaroid photographs, he retraces the steps of his childhood and interviews those who should remember. The story is disclosed in flashbacks that focus on the lovers (Paulina and Stanislaus), on a jealous and conniving neighbor, and on Mayer, the local SS commander who wants to find a way out of inevitable consequences.
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5.1
/88/
40
/2/
27
/3/

Alles nur Tarnung (1996)
After trying to smuggle a package into prison for his father Willi, Harry and his girlfriend Marlies also end up in jail. While Harry is billeted with Daddy, Marlies is housed just one floor up in the cell of the ageing prostitute Jutta. With Christmas just around the corner, the four of them join forces and plan to break through to their cells to celebrate a lavish party with a can of homemade schnapps.
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54
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5.6
/183/
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/5/
50
/4/

Chaostage - We Are Punks! (2009)
CHAOSTAGE is the first real german Punk movie. part fictional, part documentary it tells the story of some young punks...
poster
50
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5.9
/199/
57
/4/
35
/6/

Südsee, eigene Insel (1999)
A family spends their vacation in the basement so that their neighbors don't notice that they can't afford to go on vacation.


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