| German movies | 2017 |
|---|---|
| Popular actors | Laia Costa, Frederick Lau & Franz Rogowski |
| Trending movies | Toni Erdmann, Ein Atem & Elser |
Anticipated 2017 German movies to watch
Der Junge Karl Marx (Thursday March 2, 2017)
Director Raoul Peck Cast August DiehlStefan Konarske
Vicky Krieps
A biographical film about the friendship between young Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, the 'founders' of what came to be known as communism. 'Der Junge Karl Marx' is a well-crafted, yet somewhat predictable period drama about the formative years of two of Europe's most influential thinkers. ...Read more
Amazon Axolotl Overkill (Thursday June 29, 2017)
Director Helene Hegemann Cast Jasna Fritzi BauerArly Jover
Laura Tonke
A gripping coming of age film about Mifti, a sixteen year old girl from Berlin struggling with the death of her mother. When she falls for a older woman who happens to be a white-collar criminal, her life is completely turned upside down. ...Read more
Best German movies on Netflix or DVD in 2017 & 2016
2010's best rated German movies out on DVD, Bluray or streaming on VOD (Netflix, Amazon).Die Andere Heimat: Chronik einer Sehnsucht (Friday September 11, 2015)
Director Edgar Reitz Cast Jan Dieter SchneiderAntonia Bill
Maximilian Scheidt
A prequel to Reitz’ much acclaimed and utterly ambitious Heimat trilogy, which covers the lives of a few generations of the Simon family, while showing Germany’s tumultuous modern history along their paths. Chronik einer Sehnsucht takes place in 1842, at a time when a lot of Germans from the rural parts of the country emigrated and tried their luck in the America’s. The film’s main protagonist, Jakob Simon, dreams of leaving too. A beautiful and deeply melancholy film about having dreams and not being able to make those come true as people are often too deeply rooted in what they call their heimat. The film takes its time (nearly four hours) and often challenges the viewer, as it is not without flaws, but is extremely rewarding in the end. A stunning and highly authentic look into the lives of nineteenth-century common German villagers....Read more
Toni Erdmann (Thursday July 14, 2016)
Director Maren Ade Cast Sandra HüllerPeter Simonischek
Michael Wittenborn
After the modest success of her low key relationship drama 'Alle Anderen', German director Maren Ade returns with one of the most unusual (and brilliant) films we've seen in the last couple of years. Mixing bizarre comedy with gripping drama, 'Toni Erdmann' tells the story of a rebellious old hippie trying to reconnect with his ambitious daughter. As he unexpectedly shows up during a business trip of hers, a very weird series of events is set into motion. ...Read more
24 Wochen (Thursday September 22, 2016)
Director Anne Zohra Berrached Cast Julia JentschBjarne Mädel
Johanna Gastdorf
A powerful and unsentimental German drama about a young, happy couple expecting a child. After a few months of pregnancy, the soon-to-be parents discover that their child will be severely disabled, both mentally and psychically. They are now faced with a horrible dilemma. ...Read more
Kreuzweg (Friday July 10, 2015)
Director Dietrich Brüggemann Cast Lea van AckenFranziska Weisz
Florian Stetter
Stations of the Cross tells the story of the radically devote Catholic fourteen year old girl Maria who wants to become a saint. Through fourteen separate chapters (parallel to the fourteen stations Jesus had to pass on his way to Golgotha),we’re witnessing her journey. In line with the austerity of the plot ( in so far there is one), director Brüggeman shot the entire film with a stationary camera. This doesn’t make Stations of the Cross an easy watch per se, but it encourages the audience to contemplate on the film’s thought evoking theme....Read more
Oh Boy (Friday June 13, 2014)
Director Jan Ole Gerster Cast Tom SchillingKatharina Schüttler
Justus von Dohnányi
Jan Ole Gerster’s debut feature film won about every award there is to win in Germany last year. Whether it received a little bit too much praise or not is debatable, but yet it’s hard to deny that Oh Boy is refreshing debut. In my local cinema it was released in the same week as Noah Baumbach’s excellent Frances Ha. And indeed these two films would make a nice double bill. Both films, shot in black and white and clearly paying homage to Woody Allen’s Manhattan, deal with restless, self-centered twentysomethings who seem to drown in modern day’s first world problems....Read more
Zwei Leben (Wednesday June 5, 2013)
Director Georg Maas, Judith Kaufmann Cast Juliane KöhlerLiv Ullmann
Sven Nordin
Katrine, in her fifties and happily married, lives in Norway after she managed to escape the GDR’s iron grip in the late sixties. When the Berlin Wall falls in ’89 however, information about her past is about to be released and it becomes clear some things are not quite what they seem. Films like these can be pretty hard to judge on its actual cinematic qualities, since the actual historical happenings are so interesting the film will grasp you attention anyway. Let’s put it this way: the choice to select this film as the German entry for the Best Foreign Film at the Oscars last February was a pretty safe one....Read more
Lore (Friday October 5, 2012)
Director Cate Shortland Cast Saskia RosendahlKai-Peter Malina
Nele Trebs
You don’t see that many World War two films from a German’s point of few, which makes this German youth film all the more interesting. The story takes off when the war is over. Lore, fourteen year old, is the daughter of an established Nazi officer who sees herself and her infant siblings forced to flee as her parents become outlaws all of a sudden. As she travels the country by foot, she finds out what exactly was going on the last five years, which makes her question her firm beliefs in the Nazi ideology. An honest and nuanced film with some stunning photography as well....Read more
The Strange Little Cat (Wednesday May 1, 2013)
Director Ramon Zürcher Cast Leon Alan BeiersdorfMatthias Dittmer
Lea Draeger
The Strange Little Cat is what you call a slow burner. It screened at the Berlin Film Festival in February 2013, but it wasn’t until a couple of months ago before the blogosphere started to pick it up. In this remarkable little gem in the veins of Jacques Tati’s observational humorist films, we follow a middle class German family from dusk till dawn. Nothing much happens and the camera barely leaves the apartment but first time director Zürcher succeeds in showing the mundane in such a way that it becomes absurd....Read more
Feuchtgebiete (Saturday January 18, 2014)
Director David Wnendt Cast Carla JuriChristoph Letkowski
Marlen Kruse
The story highlights the adventures of a young daughter of a divorced couple, who has a very eccentric view of sexuality and an...Read more
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