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In Darkness
To serve humanity is to serve one's inner self.
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- Poland, Germany, Canada • 2011
- Director Agnieszka Holland
- Cast Robert Więckiewicz, Benno Fürmann, Agnieszka Grochowska, Maria Schrader, Marcin Bosak, Julia Kijowska
- Genre Drama, War
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube
Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan
(Монгол)
A chronicle of the early life of Genghis Khan, a slave who went on to conquer half the world in the 11th century.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Russia, Germany, Kazakhstan • 2007
- Director Sergei Bodrov
- Cast Tadanobu Asano, Sun Honglei, Khulan Chuluun, Aliya, Ba Sen, Amadu Mamadakov
- Genre Action, Adventure, History, War
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube
Divine Intervention
(يد إلهية)
Separated by a checkpoint, Palestinian lovers from Jerusalem and Ramallah arrange clandestine meetings.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Morocco, Germany • 2002
- Director Elia Suleiman
- Cast Elia Suleiman, Manal Khader, George Ibrahim, Amer Daher, Jamel Daher, Lufuf Nuweiser
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Netflix, Chai Flicks, Netflix basic with Ads, Kino Now, Kanopy
Daughter of Mine
(Figlia mia)
A daughter torn between two mothers.
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- Italy, Germany, Switzerland • 2018
- Director Laura Bispuri
- Cast Valeria Golino, Alba Rohrwacher, Sara Casu, Udo Kier, Michele Carboni
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy
Black Cat, White Cat
(Crna mačka, beli mačor)
After a failed business deal, a small time hustler forces his teenage son into an arranged marriage.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Yugoslavia, France, Germany • 1998
- Director Emir Kusturica
- Cast Bajram Severdzhan, Srđan Todorović, Zabit Memedov, Florijan Ajdini, Branka Katić, Ljubica Adzovic
- Genre Comedy, Romance
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Square
How much inhumanity does it take before you access your humanity?
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Sweden, Germany, France • 2017
- Director Ruben Östlund
- Cast Claes Bang, Elisabeth Moss, Dominic West, Terry Notary, Christopher Læssø, Lise Stephenson Engström
- Genre Drama
- Available on Hoopla, Cinemax Amazon Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Cinemax Apple TV Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Redbox, FlixFling
The Hidden Life of Trees
(Das geheime Leben der Bäume)
An exploration of the hidden side of trees - their social life, personality, and emotions
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 2020
- Director Jörg Adolph
- Cast Peter Wohlleben
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, VUDU Free, Freevee, Redbox, Plex
Nowhere in Africa
(Nirgendwo in Afrika)
One family's tale of a homeland lost --- and a homeland found.
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- Germany • 2001
- Director Caroline Link
- Cast Juliane Köhler, Merab Ninidze, Sidede Onyulo, Matthias Habich, Lea Kurka, Karoline Eckertz
- Genre Drama
- Available on OVID, Chai Flicks, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kino Now, Kanopy
The Lady and the Duke
(L'Anglaise et le Duc)
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- France, Germany • 2001
- Director Éric Rohmer
- Cast Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Lucy Russell, Rosette, Marie Rivière, Charlotte Véry
- Genre Drama, History, Romance, War
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Paradise Now
Two Palestinian men attempt to carry out a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.
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- Palestine, France, Germany • 2005
- Director Hany Abu-Assad
- Cast Ali Suliman, Amer Hlehel, Hiam Abbass, Ashraf Barhom, Mohammad Bustami
- Genre Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube
Everyone Else
(Alle Anderen)
While on a Mediterranean vacation, a seemingly happy boyfriend and girlfriend find their connection to one another tested as they bond with another couple.
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- Germany • 2009
- Director Maren Ade
- Cast Birgit Minichmayr, Lars Eidinger, Hans-Jochen Wagner, Nicole Marischka, Carina N. Wiese, Paula Hartmann
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Apple TV, Kanopy
Joyeux Noël
France, 1914: a moment of humanity that made history.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Germany, United Kingdom • 2005
- Director Christian Carion
- Cast Benno Fürmann, Diane Kruger, Guillaume Canet, Gary Lewis, Alex Ferns, Dany Boon
- Genre Drama, History, Music, Romance, War
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Tubi TV, Plex
Honey
(Bal)
A six-year-old boy wanders through the woods searching for his lost father, trying to make sense of his life.
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- Turkey, Germany, France • 2010
- Director Semih Kaplanoğlu
- Cast Alev Uçarer, Erdal Besikçioglu, Tülin Özen, Bora Altaş
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
My Mother
(Mia madre)
Margherita has to deal with the inevitable and still unacceptable loss of her mother.
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- Italy, France, Germany • 2015
- Director Nanni Moretti
- Cast Margherita Buy, Nanni Moretti, John Turturro, Pietro Ragusa, Antonio Zavatteri, Gianluca Gobbi
- Genre Drama
- Available on Hoopla, fuboTV, OVID, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Crackle, Tubi TV, Kanopy, Plex
Amélie
(Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain)
A whimsical love letter to contemporary Parisian life in the form of an eccentric romantic comedy.
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- France, Germany • 2001
- Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet
- Cast Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus, Jamel Debbouze, Claire Maurier, Isabelle Nanty
- Genre Comedy, Romance
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand, Freevee
Intimacy
A failed musician follows his lover, unbeknownst to her, after one of their illicit meetings.
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- France, United Kingdom, Germany • 2001
- Director Patrice Chéreau
- Cast Mark Rylance, Kerry Fox, Timothy Spall, Alastair Galbraith, Marianne Faithfull, Susannah Harker
- Genre Romance, Drama
- Available on Kanopy
Never Look Away
(Werk ohne Autor)
A young West German art student in love must grapple with his past, and that of his family and his country.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany, Italy • 2018
- Director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
- Cast Tom Schilling, Sebastian Koch, Paula Beer, Saskia Rosendahl, Oliver Masucci, Lars Eidinger
- Genre Drama, History, Thriller
- Available on Starz Apple TV Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand
Women Without Men
(Zanan-e bedun-e mardan)
The destinies of four women converge against the backdrop of the 1953 CIA-backed coup in Iran.
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- Germany, Austria, France • 2009
- Director Shoja Azari, Shirin Neshat
- Cast Shabnam Toloui, Pegah Ferydoni, Orsolya Tóth, Arita Shahrzad, Ahmad Hamed, Bijan Daneshmand
- Genre Drama
- Available on Hoopla, Kanopy
Maps to the Stars
Eventually stars burn out.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Canada, Germany, France • 2014
- Director David Cronenberg
- Cast Julianne Moore, Mia Wasikowska, John Cusack, Evan Bird, Robert Pattinson, Olivia Williams
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube
I Was at Home, But...
(Ich war zuhause, aber)
After a 13-year-old disappears for a week and suddenly returns, his mother and teachers are confronted with existential questions that change their whole view of life.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany, Serbia • 2019
- Director Angela Schanelec
- Cast Maren Eggert, Franz Rogowski, Lilith Stangenberg, Jirka Zett, Dane Komljen, Thorbjörn Björnsson
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, YouTube, Kanopy
Touch Me Not
Through blending reality and fiction, this film follows characters who crave intimacy yet also deeply afraid of it.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Romania, Germany, Czech Republic • 2018
- Director Adina Pintilie
- Cast Laura Benson, Tómas Lemarquis, Christian Bayerlein, Irmena Chichikova, Grit Uhlemann, Adina Pintilie
- Genre Drama
- Available on Kino Now, Kanopy
If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle
(Eu cand vreau să fluier, fluier)
Two weeks before being released from prison, teenager Silviu's life devolves into chaos
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Romania, Sweden, Germany • 2010
- Director Florin Şerban
- Cast Ada Condeescu, Pistireanu George, Mihai Constantin, Clara Voda, Cosmin Padureanu
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Nymphomaniac: Vol. I
A self-diagnosed nymphomaniac recounts the erotic story of her adolescence and young adulthood.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Denmark, Germany, Belgium • 2013
- Director Lars von Trier
- Cast Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgård, Stacy Martin, Shia LaBeouf, Christian Slater, Uma Thurman
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Vudu, Microsoft Store, FlixFling, VUDU Free, Xumo Play, DistroTV, Plex
Giant
(Gigante)
A quiet security guard becomes enamored with a janitor while working the graveyard shift at a grocery store.
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- Uruguay, Argentina, Germany • 2010
- Director Adrián Biniez
- Cast Horacio Camandulle, Leonor Svarcas, Néstor Guzzini, Federico Garcia, Fabiana Charlo, Ernesto Liotti
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Hoopla, Tubi TV, Kanopy, Plex
Until the End of the World
(Bis ans Ende der Welt)
Dr. Farber, in trying to find a cure for his wife's blindness, has created a device that allows the user to send images directly to the brain, enabling the blind to see.
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- Germany, France, Australia • 1991
- Director Wim Wenders
- Cast William Hurt, Solveig Dommartin, Chick Ortega, Eddy Mitchell, Ernie Dingo, Sam Neill
- Genre Thriller, Drama, Science Fiction, Action
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube
Dancer in the Dark
A Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, uses her love of musicals to escape her life's troubles.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Denmark, Germany, Netherlands • 2000
- Director Lars Von Trier
- Cast Björk, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse, Peter Stormare, Joel Grey, Cara Seymour
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube
Nymphomaniac: Vol. II
The continuation of Joe's sexually dictated life delves into the darker aspects of her adulthood.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Denmark, Germany, Belgium • 2013
- Director Lars von Trier
- Cast Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgård, Shia LaBeouf, Willem Dafoe, Stacy Martin, Udo Kier
- Genre Drama, Mystery
- Available on Apple TV, Microsoft Store, FlixFling, Plex
The Chorus
(Les Choristes)
A new teacher at a school for disruptive boys gives hope and inspiration in postwar France.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Switzerland, Germany • 2004
- Director Christophe Barratier
- Cast Gérard Jugnot, François Berléand, Kad Merad, Jean-Paul Bonnaire, Marie Bunel, Jean-Baptiste Maunier
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Paradise
(Рай)
The paths of a French resistance fighter, a French-Nazi collaborator, and a German SS officer cross inextricably during WWII.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Russia, Germany • 2016
- Director Andrei Konchalovsky
- Cast Yuliya Vysotskaya, Philippe Duquesne, Viktor Sukhorukov, Vera Voronkova, Jakob Diehl, Christian Clauss
- Genre Drama, War
- Available on Film Movement Plus, Apple TV, Vudu, Amazon Video, Kanopy
Antichrist
When nature turns evil, true terror awaits.
- ✭ ✭
- Denmark, Germany, France • 2009
- Director Lars von Trier
- Cast Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Storm Acheche Sahlstrøm
- Genre Drama, Horror, Thriller
- Available on Criterion Channel, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Kanopy
M
(M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder)
When police in a German city are unable to catch a child killer, local criminals agree to join in the manhunt.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 1931
- Director Fritz Lang
- Cast Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut, Otto Wernicke, Theodor Loos, Gustaf Gründgens
- Genre Drama, Action, Thriller, Crime
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Classix, Apple TV, Vudu, Amazon Video, Pantaflix, Kanopy, Plex
Satantango
(Sátántangó)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Hungary, Germany, Switzerland • 1994
- Director Béla Tarr
- Cast Mihály Víg, Putyi Horváth, Miklós Székely B., Erika Bók, László feLugossy, Alfréd Járai
- Genre Drama
- Available on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel, Kanopy
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
(Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse)
Madman? Monster? Murderer? Scientist?
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany, France • 1933
- Director Fritz Lang
- Cast Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Oscar Beregi Sr., Paul Bernd, Henry Pleß, Otto Wernicke, Paul Henckels
- Genre Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel
Pandora's Box
(Die Büchse der Pandora)
Lulu is seductive, beautiful, and most of all, deadly.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 1929
- Director G.W. Pabst
- Cast Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Francis Lederer, Carl Goetz, Krafft-Raschig, Alice Roberts
- Genre Drama, Romance, Crime
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Kanopy
Germany, Year Zero
(Germania anno zero)
The country is obliterated, the buildings are dilapidated and the people are desolated.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy, France, Germany • 1948
- Director Roberto Rossellini
- Cast Edmund Moeschke, Ernst Pittschau, Ingetraud Hinze, Franz-Otto Krüger, Erich Gühne, Heidi Blänkner
- Genre Drama, History, War
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max
The Adventures of Prince Achmed
(Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed)
This earliest surviving animated feature film tells the story of a heroic prince attempting to save his sister from an evil sorcerer.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 1926
- Director Lotte Reiniger
- Cast Dana Dempsey
- Genre Adventure, Animation, Family, Fantasy, Romance
- Available on Criterion Channel, OVID, Kino Now, Kanopy
Stopped on Track
(Halt auf freier Strecke)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany, France • 2011
- Director Andreas Dresen
- Cast Steffi Kühnert, Milan Peschel, Talisa Lilly Lemke, Mika Seidel, Ursula Werner, Marie Rosa Tietjen
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
A Judgement in Stone
(La Cérémonie)
Subservience can be deadly.
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- France, Germany • 1995
- Director Claude Chabrol
- Cast Sandrine Bonnaire, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Jacqueline Bisset, Virginie Ledoyen, Valentin Merlet
- Genre Drama, Thriller
- Available on Criterion Channel
Comradeship
(Kameradschaft)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany, France • 1931
- Director G.W. Pabst
- Cast Alexander Granach, Fritz Kampers, Ernst Busch, Elisabeth Wendt, Gustav Püttjer, Oskar Höcker
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Vudu, Amazon Video
Toto the Hero
(Toto le héros)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Belgium, France, Germany • 1991
- Director Jaco Van Dormael
- Cast Michel Bouquet, Gisela Uhlen, Jo De Backer, Mireille Perrier, Thomas Godet, Sandrine Blancke
- Genre Drama
- Available on Kanopy
Beyond Silence
(Jenseits der Stille)
A girl with deaf parents has to decide whether she will pursue a career in music.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 1996
- Director Caroline Link
- Cast Sylvie Testud, Tatjana Trieb, Howie Seago, Emmanuelle Laborit, Sibylle Canonica, Matthias Habich
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Vampyr
(Vampyr - Der Traum des Allan Grey)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany, France • 1932
- Director Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Cast Nicolas de Gunzburg, Maurice Schutz, Rena Mandel, Sybille Schmitz, Jan Hieronimko, Henriette Gérard
- Genre Horror, Fantasy
- Available on Screambox, Screambox Amazon Channel, Criterion Channel, FlixFling, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Plex
Queen Margot
(La Reine Margot)
Margot is an heiress to the throne amidst both a religious war and the late 16th-century reign of the neurotic, hypochondriac King Charles IX.
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- France, Italy, Germany • 1994
- Director Patrice Chéreau
- Cast Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Vincent Pérez, Virna Lisi, Dominique Blanc
- Genre Drama, History
- Available on Cohen Media Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Kino Now, Kanopy
Westfront 1918
(Westfront 1918: Vier von der Infanterie)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 1930
- Director G.W. Pabst
- Cast Fritz Kampers, Gustav Diessl, Hans-Joachim Moebis, Claus Clausen, Gustav Püttjer, Vladimir Sokoloff
- Genre War
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Amazon Video
People on Sunday
(Menschen am Sonntag)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 1930
- Director Edgar G. Ulmer, Fred Zinnemann, Robert Siodmak
- Cast Erwin Splettstößer, Brigitte Borchert, Wolfgang von Waltershausen, Christl Ehlers, Annie Schreyer, Kurt Gerron
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max
Children of Nature
(Börn náttúrunnar)
Sometimes a first love becomes a last love
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- Iceland, Norway, Germany • 1991
- Director Friðrik Þór Friðriksson
- Cast Gísli Halldórsson, Sigríður Hagalín, Baldvin Halldórsson, Björn Karlsson, Bruno Ganz, Bryndis Petra Bragadóttir
- Genre Romance, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Sivas
Eleven-year-old Aslan finds a wounded fighting dog abandoned in a ditch and nurses him back to health.
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- Germany, Turkey • 2014
- Director Kaan Müjdeci
- Cast Okan Avcı, Cakir, Ozan Çelik, Ezgi Ergin, Banu Fotocan
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Grill Point
(Halbe Treppe)
Built in part from improv sessions with the cast, this offbeat tragicomedy documents the relationship crisis between two married couples.
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- Germany • 2002
- Director Andreas Dresen
- Cast Steffi Kühnert, Gabriela Maria Schmeide, Thorsten Merten, Axel Prahl, Janko Brett, Miro De Vittoris
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Schtonk!
One of the first funny german look at its past.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 1992
- Director Helmut Dietl
- Cast Götz George, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Christiane Hörbiger, Harald Juhnke, Ulrich Mühe, Rolf Hoppe
- Genre Comedy, History
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Faraway, So Close!
(In weiter Ferne, so nah!)
Your favorite Angels are back!
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 1993
- Director Wim Wenders
- Cast Otto Sander, Bruno Ganz, Nastassja Kinski, Peter Falk, Solveig Dommartin, Heinz Rühmann
- Genre Drama, Fantasy, History
- Available on Tubi TV
The Cement Garden
Love knows no limits.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom, Germany • 1993
- Director Andrew Birkin
- Cast Andrew Robertson, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alice Coulthard, Ned Birkin, Sinéad Cusack, Hanns Zischler
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
In Vanda's Room
(No Quarto da Vanda)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Portugal, Germany, Switzerland • 2000
- Director Pedro Costa
- Cast Vanda Duarte, Lena Duarte, Zita Duarte, Manuel Gomes Miranda, Diogo Pires Miranda, Evangelina Nelas
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel
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