Aloys

Aloys | Schweiz 2016 | Drama, Crime Drama | Tobias Nölle | 12

Private investigator Aloys Adorn is permanently undercover. He doesn’t go out, he never says “I” and he spends his spare time reading his clients’ files. Then one day a mysterious woman calls and invites him to take “telephone walks” ...

Asphalt Gorillas

Asphalt Gorillas | Deutschland 2018 | Thriller, Drama, Literary Film Adaptations | Detlev Buck | 12

Detlev Buck‘s comedy thriller about two small-time criminals who want to get the big bucks is a wild mix of humor, style, tension, and broad characters with some of them being directly imported from the video game series “Grand Theft Auto.“

Faust

Faust | RUS 2011 | Drama | Aleksandre Sokurov | 16

Goethe’s tale of the obsessive search of meaning, the soul, and the constant battle between faith and science.

Fremde Haut

D 2005 | Drama | Angelina Maccarone

Freud

Freud | A/D/CZ 2020 | Marvin Kren

Georg Friedrich Händel: Admeto

Georg Friedrich Händel: Admeto | D 2009 | Theatre Broadcast | Doris Dörrie, Nicholas McGegan

Georg Friedrich Händel: Arminio

D 2017 | Oper | Max Emanuel Cencic

Georg Friedrich Händel: Serse / Xerxes

D 2017 | Oper | Tilmann Köhler, Constantinos Carydis

Grosse Freiheit

Österreich/Deutschland 2020 | Drama | Sebastian Meise | 16 | Interview

From the concentration camp directly to prison: Hans Hoffmann (Franz Rogowski) is gay and that is still considered a crime in post-war FRG. He meets Viktor (Georg Friedrich) there, who is in prison for murder.

Bright Nights

Helle Nächte | Deutschland/Norwegen 2017 | Drama, Roadmovie | Thomas Arslan | oA

After the death of his father, civil engineer Michael travels to Norway with his own son. Their relationship is difficult, they don’t talk a lot, fog hangs over the mountains. A road movie about speechlessness and fatherhood.

Der Hund begraben

Deutschland 2016 | Black Comedy | Sebastian Stern

In this comedy a bland everyman realizes how empty his life is. Having lost his job and unwilling to own up to his shortcomings, he struggles to find his place in a world usurped by a dog and a shifty geezer.

Import Export

Import Export | A 2007 | Drama | Ulrich Seidl

Kaviar

Österreich 2019 | Comedy | Elena Tikhonova | 12

Austrian grotesquerie about Russian oligarchs, gigantic blueprints, lots of bribes, and a chaotic trio of women who want to sabotage the deal.

Marija

Deutschland/Schweiz 2016 | Drama | Michael Koch | 12

Michael Koch’s keenly observed and beautifully acted milieu study has the ructious and vulnerable Marija at the epicenter, whose dream of owning her own hair salon becomes a distant prospect when she loses her job as a hotel cleaning woman.

Rimini

Österreich/Deutschland/Frankreich 2022 | Drama | Ulrich Seidl | 12

Michael Thomas sings and plays pop singer Richie Bravo moves around wintery Rimini. While the Adriatic coast is packed with tourists in the summer, there are now wisps of fog. Snow is falling on the palm trees and refugees are crouching under beach ...

Schächten

A 2022 | Drama | Thomas Roth

Sparta

Österreich 2022 | Drama, Tragicomedy | Ulrich Seidl

Ewald is a power plant controller in Romania. He uses his wealth and the ignorance of the rural population to open a free “judo school“ for little boys named Sparta.

Über uns das All

D 2011 | Drama | Jan Schomburg | 12

After her husband disappears Martha discovers how little she actually knew him. Instead of dealing with her loss, she starts meeting another man who unknowingly binds her to her past.

Superegos

Über-Ich und Du | Deutschland/Schweiz/Österreich 2014 | Tragicomedy | Benjamin Heisenberg | 6

Nick Gutlicht is a small-time con man and owes a lot of people money. Curt Ledig is a retired psychology professor and is struggling with an ambiguous Nazi past. Their meeting results in an absurd kind of therapy. A comedy.

Wild

Deutschland 2016 | Drama | Nicolette Krebitz | 16

Annoyed with her boring job, Ania captures a wolf and lives with it in her flat. Her desire is not to domesticate the animal, but to become wild herself.

Wilde Maus

Deutschland/Österreich 2017 | Black Comedy | Josef Hader | 12

Josef Hader wears many hats as the writer, director, and protagonist: Georg, a music critic and misanthrope in his best years, just got laid off from his magazine, has a marriage with psychotherapist Johanna that’s on the rocks, and doesn’t ...

Das zweite Leben des Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Platow

DDR 1973 | Comedy, Social Drama | Siegfried Kühn