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Films from the country "german", sorted by revenue
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09:06 (2009)
, 1h11Origin German
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Labina Mitevska
L'inspecteur de police, Dussan, enquête sur la mort étrange d'un jeune pianiste. Jusque-là, rien d'anormal, mais cette enquête va vite tourner à l'obsession. Il va peu à peu s'approprier la vie du défunt : de son appartement à sa vie sentimentale, il ne laissera rien au hasard. Les secrets et problèmes de l'inspecteur refont ainsi surface et le submergent.
Palermo Shooting (2008)
, 2h4Directed by Wim Wenders
Origin German
Genres Drama
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Dennis Hopper, Lou Reed, Milla Jovovich, Inga Busch, Jana Pallaske
The film follows a German photographer (played by Campino, singer of German punk band Die Toten Hosen) who comes to Palermo because he needs to make a clean break from his past. In the city, he meets a young woman (Mezzogiorno) and a completely different way of life.
Four Minutes (2006)
, 1h52Directed by Chris Krâus
Origin German
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Prison films, Films about sexuality, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films, Piano, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Monica Bleibtreu, Hannah Herzsprung, Vadim Glowna, Richy Müller, Nadja Uhl, Jasmin Tabatabai
Traude Krueger (Bleibtreu) is working as a piano teacher in a women's prison. While selecting new students, she meets Jenny Von Loeben (Herzsprung). When she tells her she can't take any lessons because her hands are too rough and she is uncooperative, Jenny becomes enraged and almost kills the prison guard, Mütze (Pippig), also one of Krueger's students. Then she starts playing the piano. Krueger listens from the hallway and, impressed by her talent, later offers Jenny lessons, but requires absolute obedience, including eating a sheet of paper. She tells Jenny never to play 'that kind of negro-music' again.
And Along Come Tourists (2007)
, 1h25Directed by Robert Thalheim
Origin German
Genres Drama
Actors Alexander Fehling, Piotr Rogucki, Lena Stolze
Sven est un jeune Berlinois qui doit se rendre à Oświęcim (plus connu sous le nom allemand de Auschwitz) pour y effectuer son service civil, dans une auberge de jeunesse attenante à l'ancien camp de concentration. Cet endroit est aujourd'hui un musée sur l'horreur survenue dans l'ancien camp nazi. Le jeune homme a pour tâche d'assister Stanislas Krzeminski, un vieil homme de 80 ans au caractère fort, survivant du camp, dans ses déplacements et la vie de tous les jours.
Berlin Calling (2008)
, 1h49Directed by Hannes Stöhr
Origin German
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Corinna Harfouch, Maximilian Mauff, Megan Gay, Mehdi Nebbou
Berlin techno DJ and producer Martin Karow (nicknamed Ickarus) is touring the techno clubs of the world with his girlfriend Mathilde while working on a new studio album that he plans to release soon. In order to be able to work and party day and night, Ickarus takes all kinds of drugs, mainly supplied by his friend Erbse at the clubs in Berlin. After consuming a PMA-containing ecstasy tablet, Ickarus goes into a drug-induced psychosis, eventually finding himself naked in a Berlin hotel where his antics attract the attention of the hotel staff. He is taken to a psychiatric hospital in Berlin, which puts his album and upcoming live performances in danger.
Punish Me (2006)
, 1h27Directed by Angelina Maccarone
Origin German
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, BDSM in films
Actors Kostja Ullmann, Maren Kroymann, Sıla Şahin, Sophie Rogall
Une relation sadomasochiste et obsessionnelle entre un jeune délinquant (Ullmann) et son agente de probation plus âgée (Kroymann).
Messy Christmas (2007)
, 1h25Origin German
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about families, Christmas films
Actors Martina Gedeck, Heino Ferch, Meret Becker, Jasmin Tabatabai, Roeland Wiesnekker, Alexandra Neldel
Le soir de Noël chez Sara et Jan, Sara a invité pour le réveillon, sans prévenir Jan, tous leurs ex-compagnes et compagnons respectifs, ainsi que leurs conjoints. La soirée sera forcément mouvementée…
Counterparts (2007)
, 1h36Origin German
Genres Drama
Themes Feminist films, Films about domestic violence
Actors Wotan Wilke Möhring, Susanne Bormann, Özgür Özata
Georg Hoffmann est policier, Anne, son épouse, est institutrice. Leurs deux enfants ne vivent plus chez eux. Respectés et appréciés dans leurs milieux professionnels respectifs, ils forment apparemment un couple équilibré. Mais, ce n'est qu'une pure façade : Anne, insatisfaite, est devenue une femme violente qui maltraite son mari. Georg accepte avec résignation cette situation. Déchiré, le couple demeure pourtant uni face à l'adversité…
Trick or Treaters (2007)
, 1h19Origin German
Genres Animation
Themes Children's films
Actors Joachim Król, Katharina Thalbach, Saïd Amadis, Erwin Leder, Pascal Casanova
The three robbers are very successful in their exploits, but one day there is a different treasure in the carriage they have stopped. There is only a lonely girl named Tiffany on her way to live with a wicked aunt, so the robbers carry Tiffany off to their hideout. When Tiffany sees all of the treasure the robbers have collected, she asks what it is for, and the robbers have no answer. Later the robbers decide to open an orphanage with their wealth and all uncared for children go to live there.
Straight (2007)
, 1hOrigin German
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Oktay Özdemir, Özgür Özata
The young German-Polish Jana does everything possible to give the impression of a straight acting woman. Her good-looking, bourgeois friend David and her pretence to work for a newspaper are attempts to hide her inner conflicts and her true occupation of a social worker in the low-prestigious Berlin district of Neukoelln.
Little King Macius (2007)
, 1h23Origin German
Genres Animation
Themes Films about magic and magicians
Actors Paul Falk, Otto Sander, Barbara Delsol, Maia Baran, Mélanie Dermont, Friedrich Schoenfelder
Macius devient roi à neuf ans à la suite de la mort de son père le roi Stéphane. Erasmus, son précepteur, et ses amis Anton, Félix, Hanna et Clou-Clou, l'aident à déjouer les pièges du Général, qui souhaite profiter de la situation pour s'emparer du pouvoir.
My Führer (2007)
, 1h29Directed by Dani Levy
Origin German
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Historical
Themes Hitler, Political films
Actors Helge Schneider, Ulrich Mühe, George Lopez, Sylvester Groth, Adriana Altaras, Lambert Hamel
En décembre 1944 à Berlin, Joseph Goebbels, le ministre de la Propagande, veut qu'Adolf Hitler fasse un grand discours pour galvaniser les masses. Mais celui-ci est dépressif et un seul homme est capable de relever le défi : l'ancien professeur de théâtre d'Hitler, un juif extrait d'un camp de concentration, qui se prénomme lui aussi Adolf. Il a cinq jours pour le préparer à cette harangue.
Fata Morgana (2007)
, 1h28Origin German
Genres Drama, Thriller, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Matthias Schweighöfer, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Marie Zielcke
Daniel (Matthias Schweighöfer) and Laura (Marie Zielcke) are a young couple vacationing in Morocco. They rent an off-road vehicle for a day trip to the desert. At a gas station they meet a shady stranger (Jean-Hugues Anglade), who offers them to show them the desert. Declining his offer the two continue their trip and spontaneously decide to veer off the road. After making love on a dune they find out that their vehicle does not start. They set out on foot, but are soon lost as their tracks have been blown away by the wind.
Pingpong (2006)
Directed by Matthias Luthardt
Origin German
Genres Drama
Actors Sebastian Urzendowsky
Paul, 16 ans, vient de perdre son père. Il débarque à l'improviste dans la famille de son oncle. À la recherche d'un havre où il pourra oublier la douleur de la mort de son père, il s'immisce dans l'univers de cette famille trop belle pour être parfaite. Après un accueil froid voire frigide, la femme de son oncle, Anna se rapproche progressivement de lui, en même temps que sa relation avec son fils est en train d'imploser. Sous la déliquescence apparente de cette famille petit bourgeoise, se cache le vice, sournois, de la manipulation, du mensonge et de la névrose.
The Elementary Particles (2006)
, 1h53Directed by Oskar Roehler
Origin German
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about families, Films about sexuality
Actors Moritz Bleibtreu, Franka Potente, Christian Ulmen, Martina Gedeck, Nina Hoss, Corinna Harfouch
The film focuses on Michael (Michael Djerzinski) and Bruno and their disturbed sexuality. They are half-brothers who are very different from each other. They both had an unusual childhood because their mother was a hippie, instead growing up with their grandmothers and in boarding schools.