Lola rennt aka Run Lola Run (Germany , 1998)

Ratings - IMDB - 7.9 | Matacritic - 77 | Rotten Tomatoes - 93%

Release Year - 1998

Country - Germany

Genres – Crime | Thriller

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Every second of every day you make a choice that can change your life

"DAZZLING! PLAYFULLY PROFOUND! HOT, FAST, AND POST HUMAN!" - Janet Maslin, The New York Times

"A LANDMARK!" - Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly

"EXHILARATING! The most promising German filmmaker since Fassbinder!" - Howard Feinsten, Time Out

"PASSIONATE FILM MAKING AT ITS BEST" - Chris Gore, Film Threat

Synopsis: A young woman in Germany has twenty minutes to find and bring 100,000 Deutschmarks to her boyfriend before he robs a supermarket.

The film begins with Lola (Franka Potente) receiving a phone call from her distraught boyfriend, Manni (Moritz Bleibtreu). He is a small-time criminal and has lost 100,000 marks belonging to his crime boss by accidentally leaving it on a train (Lola was supposed to pick him up, but her moped was stolen while she was buying cigarettes). After the doors of the train closed, he saw a homeless man pick up the bag of money but he was unable to get back onto the train before it left the station. Upon not seeing any trace of his money or the homeless man at the next station, Manni assumes the money is long gone.

Manni has to get the money within 20 minutes before his boss finds out, and plans to rob a nearby supermarket. Lola urges him to wait and tells him she will sort out the money. She decides to ask her father (Herbert Knaup), who is a bank manager .

The main part of the film is divided in three "runs". Each run starts from the same situation but develops differently and has a different outcome. Each run contains various flash-forward sequences, showing how the lives of the people that Lola bumps into develop after the encounter. In each run, those people are affected in different ways.

Awards

• Nominated for BAFTA Film Award - Best Film not in English language
• Winner - Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival
• Winner - Best Film at the Seattle International Film Festival
• Seven separate wins at the German Film Awards

Lists

• Ranked #86 in Empire magazines "The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema" in 2010

Special Mention 

• Rated by more than 98k users on IMDB

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Gomorra aka Gomorrah (Italy , 2008)

Ratings - IMDB - 7.0 | Matacritic - 87 | Rotten Tomatoes - 91%

Release Year - 2008
Country - Italy
Genres - Crime | Drama

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In 2006, a book on organised crime in Naples shocked the world. Its author, Roberto Saviano, has been living under police protection ever since.

Now a motion picture tells the unbelievable true story.

"A FURIOUS and BRILLIANT Engagement With The Times In Which We Live" - A.O.Scott, The New York Times

"STUNNING. A Reinvention of the Mafioso Movie." - Andrew O'Hehir, Salon

"The Greatest Mafia Movie Ever Made. Strips Every Last Pretense of Romanticism from 'The Godfather' Saga." - Stephen Schaeffer, The Boston Herald

Synopsis: An inside look at Italy's modern-day crime families.

"Gomorra" is a contemporary Neapolitan mob drama that exposes Italy's criminal underbelly by telling five stories of individuals who think they can make their own compact with Camorra, the area's Mafia.

Awards

• Winner of Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival
• Winner of five  European Film Awards  including Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay
• Nominated for Golden Globe - Best Foreign Film
• Nominated for the Palme d'Or at  the Cannes Film Festival
• Italy's Official Entry in Best Foreign Language Film category

Lists - The film appeared on several critics' top ten lists of the best films of 2008

• Ranked 2nd - Josh Rosenblatt, The Austin Chronicle
• Ranked 5th - Kenneth Turan - Los Angeles Times ,Lisa Schwarzbaum - Entertainment Weekly , Marc Savlov, The Austin Chronicle
• Ranked 6th - A.O. Scott - The New York Times , Wesley Morris - The Boston Globe
• Ranked 7th - Marjorie Baumgarten, The Austin Chronicle
• Ranked 10th - Empire

Special Mention

• Rated by more than 21k users on IMDb
• Rating of 91% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 137 critics review

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Entre les murs aka The Class (France , 2008)

Ratings - IMDB - 7.6 | Matacritic - 92 | Rotten Tomatoes - 97%

Release Year - 2008
Country - France
Genres - Drama

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The Greatest Lessons Are Learnt When Life Enters The Classroom
Recommended and praised by audiences and critics all over ....

"A true movie miracle" - David Edelstein, New York Magazine

"Extraordinary. Fierce, funny and moving. The Class is truly unmissable." - Peter Travers, Rolling Sone

"Masterful" - Kenneth Turan, L.A. Times

"Full of incredible drama and beautiful human subjects" - Manohla Dargis, New York Times

"Utterly engrossing from start to finish ... lucid, subtle and thought-provoking drama" - Geoff Andrew, Time Out

"A sheer delight ... the pupils reflect the tensions and culture of a nation" - Jason Solomons, The Observer

"A miracle, a perfect movie, just so exciting to see" - Sean Penn, Cannes Jury 2008

Synopsis : Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.

Teacher François Marin and his colleagues are preparing for another school year teaching at a racially mixed inner city high school in Paris. The teachers talk to each other about their prospective students, both the good and the bad. The teachers collectively want to inspire their students, but each teacher is an individual who will do things in his or her own way to achieve the results they desire. They also have differing viewpoints on the students themselves, and how best to praise and discipline them. The administration of the school tries to be as fair as possible, which includes having student representatives sit on the student evaluation committee. Marin's class this year of fourteen and fifteen year olds is no different than previous years, although the names and faces have changed. Marin tries to get through to his students, sometimes with success and sometimes resulting in utter failure...

Films Basis : It is based on the 2006 novel of the same name by François Bégaudeau. The novel is a semi-autobiographical account of Bégaudeau's experiences as a French language and literature teacher in a middle school in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, particularly illuminating his struggles with "problem children" Esmerelda (Esmeralda Ouertani), Khoumba (Rachel Regulier), and Souleymane (Franck Keïta). The film stars Bégaudeau himself in the role of the teacher.

Awards

• Nominated for Oscar - Best Foreign Film
• Won Palme d'Or - Cannes Film Festival
• Nominated for 6 César Awards including Best Film, Best Director
• Nominated for European Film Awards -  Best Film, Best Director
• Nominated for Satellite Awards - Best Foreign Language Film

Lists - The film appeared on many critics' top ten lists of the best films of 2008

• Ranked 2nd - Dana Stevens - Slate , Kenneth Turan - Los Angeles Times, Michael Phillips - Chicago Tribune, Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor
• Ranked 3rd - David Denby - The New Yorker
• Ranked 5th - David Edelstein - New York magazine, Dennis Harvey - Variety, Ella Taylor, LA Weekly, Stephanie Zacharek, Salon
• Ranked 7th - Andrea Gronvall - Chicago Reader, Robert Mondello - NPR
• Ranked 8th - Owen Gleiberman - Entertainment Weekly, Sean Axmaker - Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Special Mention

• The featured 'opening night' selection at the 46th New York Film Festival in 2008
• Rated by more than 14k users on IMDb

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Die Fälscher aka The Counterfeiters (Germany , 2007)

Ratings - IMDB - 7.6 | Metacritic - 78 | Rotten Tomatoes - 94%

Release Year - 2009
Country - Germany
Genres - Crime | Drama | War

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"Salomon Sorowitsch - The King of Counterfeiters"

Based on the True Story of a Master Criminal

During The War, He was a prisoner of the Third Reich
He Was The One Man Who Could Save The Nazi War Machine

"Morally challenging twist on the long and honorable tradition of forgery movies" - Jonathan Richards , Film.com

"Deft and fascinating handling of a moral quandary in a Nazi concentration camp" - Kirk Honeycut , Hollywood Reporter

Synopsis : The Counterfeiters fictionalizes Operation Bernhard, a secret plan by the Nazis during the Second World War to destabilize the United Kingdom by flooding its economy with forged Bank of England bank notes. The film centres on a Jewish counterfeiter, Salomon 'Sally' Sorowitsch, who is coerced into assisting the Nazi operation at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

The Counterfeiters is the true story of the largest counterfeiting operation in history, set up by the Nazis in 1936. Salomon "Sally" Sorowitsch is the king of counterfeiters. He lives a mischievous life of cards, booze, and women in Berlin during the Nazi-era. Suddenly his luck runs dry when arrested by Superintendent Friedrich Herzog. Immediately thrown into the Mauthausen concentration camp, Salomon exhibits exceptional skills there and is soon transferred to the upgraded camp of Sachsenhausen. Upon his arrival, he once again comes face to face with Herzog, who is there on a secret mission. Hand-picked for his unique skill, Salomon and a group of professionals are forced to produce fake foreign currency under the program Operation Bernhard. The team, which also includes detainee Adolf Burger, is given luxury barracks for their assistance. But while Salomon attempts to weaken the economy of Germany's allied opponents...

Films Basis : Based on the True Story of a Master Criminal

The film is based on a memoir written by Adolf Burger, a Jewish Slovak typographer who was imprisoned in 1942 for forging baptismal certificates to save Jews from deportation, and was later interned at Sachsenhausen to work on Operation Bernhard.

Awards

• Won Oscar - Best Foreign Language Film
• Nominated for Golden Bear award - Berlin International Film Festival

Lists - The film appeared on some critics' top ten lists of the best films of 2008

• Josh Rosenblatt of The Austin Chronicle named it the 4th best film of 2008
• Ella Taylor of LA Weekly named it the 8th best film of 2008

Special Mention

• Rated by more than 21k users on IMDb

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Das weiße Band - Eine deutsche aka The White Ribbon (Germany , 2009)

Ratings - IMDB - 7.8 | Matacritic - 82 | Rotten Tomatoes - 85%

Release Year - 2009
Country - Germany
Genres - Drama | Mystery

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A German children's story - If real life were ever as cold, bleak and irredeemable as the fictional realms depicted by The White Ribbon, it wouldn't be worth living a day longer

"It Feels Like a Classic Even as You Are Watching It For The First Time" - Scott Foundas, LA Weekly

"Chilling and Resonant" - Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly

"A Tale of the Past That Points to the Future; A Picture That Will Be Viewed and Discussed for Decades to Come" - Xan Brooks, The Guardian

Synopsis : The drama darkly depicts society and family in a northern German village just before World War I. According to Haneke, the film is about "the origin of every type of terrorism, be it of political or religious nature."

The White Ribbon comes with a tagline 'A German children's story'. It's one of the film's many ironies. For, unlike the innocence and purity (words that come up twice in the film in a very disturbing context) of childhood, the young ones in this seemingly idyllic setting are anything but that. It all starts with the local doctor's horse tripping over a wire that's deliberately planted in his path. A series of bizarre accidents follow and the population of the village is unable to unravel the mystery. The Baron who employs half of them and the pastor who looks after their spiritual well-being are the two power centres of the community -- both equally authoritarian in their own realms. The Baron is hated for his selfishness, the icy pastor cuts a sorry figure as a vicious tyrant who rules his own brood at home with a iron whip. The doctor, the third important spoke in the wheel, persecutes his mistress with savage indifference and sexually abuses his teenage daughter.

These are the upholders of morality and tradition and the dispensers of values. Is it any wonder that the generation that grew up under their watch voted for Nazism and perhaps joined its ranks as well? Haneke alludes to this link between this oppressive community and the emergence of a totalitarian state in Germany as a reaction to the humiliating defeat in the First World War. And then perhaps, he also uses this tale about extremely aberrant behaviour set in a very 'normal' community to suggest that every society on earth has the potential to morph into a savage mass turning violent on innocents to avenge their own degradation. 

Awards

• Nominated for 2 Oscars including Best Foreign Language Film and Best Cinematography
• Winner of Palme d'Or - Cannes Film Festival
• Winner of FIPRESCI Grand Prix for best film of the year
• Won three major prizes at the European Film Awards, for Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenwriter
• Won the BBC Four World Cinema Award

Special Mention

• Rated by ~25k users on IMDb

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