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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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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Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage aka Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (Germany , 2005)

Ratings - IMDB - 7.7 | Matacritic - 76 | 

Release Year - 2005
Country - Germany
Genres - Biography | Crime | Drama

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The true story of a young woman who did what few in Nazi Germany 

dared even think!

"Chilling Authenticity! Grippingly Portrayed!

Julia Stench is terrific! An ace performance" - Derek Elley , Variety

"A gripping true story! Challenges you to gauge your own courage! Conveys what it must have been like to be a young, smart, idealistic dissenter in Nazi Germany, where no dissent was tolerated!" - Stephen Holden, The New York Times


"A shattering experience fueled by Jentsch's electrifying performance!" - Ken Fox, TV GUIDE

"Harrowing! Heroic! Exhilarating! Inspiring! Riveting!" - Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times

"Riveting!...A heartbreaking yet stirring reminder of the perils, and glory, of courage.A  magnetic lead performance by Julia Jentsch!" - John Powers, Vogue

Synopsis : A dramatization of the final days of Sophie Scholl, one of the most famous members of the German World War II anti-Nazi resistance movement, The White Rose.

In 1943, as Hitler continues to wage war across Europe, a group of college students mount an underground resistance movement in Munich. Dedicated expressly to the downfall of the monolithic Third Reich war machine, they call themselves the White Rose. One of its few female members, Sophie Scholl is captured during a dangerous mission to distribute pamphlets on campus with her brother Hans. Unwavering in her convictions and loyalty to the White Rose, her cross-examination by the Gestapo quickly escalates into a searing test of wills as Scholl delivers a passionate call to freedom and personal responsibility that is both haunting and timeless.

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Nothing is so unworthy of a civilized nation as allowing itself to be governed without opposition by an irresponsible clique that has yielded to base instinct.

Do not forget that every people deserves the regime it is willing to endure!

Every individual human being has a claim to a useful and just state, which secures freedom of the individual as well as the good of the whole.

Dissociate yourselves from National Socialist gangsterism. Prove by your deeds that you think otherwise.

An end in terror is preferable to terror without end.

Hitler cannot win the war; he can only prolong it.

We will not be silent. We are your bad conscience. The White Rose will not leave you in peace.

Please make as many copies of this leaflet as you can and distribute them. 

-Text excerpted from actual leaflets distributed by White Rose in Nazi Germany in 1942-3

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Awards

• Nominated for Oscar - Best Foreign Language film
• Won 3 European Awards - Best European Actress, People's Choice Award : Best Director and Best Actress
• German Film Awards ("The Lolas") - Won Best Film , Best Actress , Audience Award - Best Film
• Berlin Film Festival - Silver Bear for Best Director, Silver Bear for Best Actress, Audience Award - Runner-Up Best Film, Film Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

Special Mention

• Rated by more than 12k users on IMDb

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M (Germany , 1931)

Ratings - IMDB - 8.6

Release Year - 1931
Country - Germany
Genres - Film-Noir | Thriller
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Synopsis : When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.

Someone is murdering children in Berlin. The Police search is so intense, it is disturbing the 'normal' criminals, and the local hoods decide to help find the murderer as quickly as possible.

Films Basis - M is supposedly based on the real-life case of serial killer Peter Kürten, the "Vampire of Düsseldorf", whose crimes took place in the 1920s, although Lang denied that he drew from this case. "At the time I decided to use the subject matter of M there were many serial killers terrorizing Germany — Haarmann, Grossmann, Kürten, Denke," Lang told film historian Gero Gandert in a 1963 interview.

Lists

• Ranked #33 in Empire magazines "The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema" in 2010
• Roger Ebert Top 100
• IMDb Top 250 #50

Special Mention

• The film has become a classic which Lang himself considered his finest work
• The film was one of the first to use a leitmotif (a recurring theme, associated with a particular person, place, or idea) associating "In the Hall of the Mountain King" with the Lorre character.This association of a musical theme with a particular character or situation, a technique borrowed from opera, is now a film staple.
• Rated by more than 51k users on IMDb

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Der Himmel über Berlin aka Wings of Desire (Germany , 1987)

Ratings - IMDB - 8.0 | Metacritic - 79
Release Year - 1987
Country - Germany
Genres - Fantasy | Drama | Romance
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Synopsis : An angel tires of overseeing human activity and wishes to become human when he falls in love with a mortal.

This Wim Wenders film centers around the story of two angels wandering in a mixture of post-war and modern Berlin. Invisible to humans, they nevertheless give their help and comfort to all the lonely and depressed souls they meet. Finally, after many centuries, one of the angels becomes unhappy with his immortal state and wishes to become human in order to experience the joys of everyday life. He meets a circus acrobat and finds in her the fufillment of all his mortal desires. He also discovers that he is not alone in making this cross over, and that a purely spiritual experience is not enough to satisfy anyone.

Tagline - There are angels on the streets of Berlin.

Awards - Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. 

Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival - 1987

Another 15 wins

Lists - Ranked #64 in Empire magazine's "The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema" in 2010

Roger Ebert Top 100

Special Mention - Rotten Tomatoes records that 98% of its cited critics gave the film a positive review

Rated by more than 24k users on IMDb

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Das Boot (Germany , 1981)

Ratings - IMDB - 8.5 | Metacritic - 86
Release Year - 1981
Country - Germany
Genres - Action | Drama | History
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Synopsis: The claustrophobic world of a WWII German U-boat; boredom, filth, and sheer terror.


It is 1942 and the German submarine fleet is heavily engaged in the so called "Battle of the Atlantic" to harass and destroy English shipping. With better escorts of the Destroyer Class, however, German U-Boats have begun to take heavy losses. "Das Boot" is the story of one such U-Boat crew, with the film examining how these submariners maintained their professionalism as soldiers, attempted to accomplish impossible missions, while all the time attempting to understand and obey the ideology of the government under which they served.


Awards - Nominated for 6 Oscars. Another 9 wins
Lists - IMDb Top 250 #66
Special Mention - Rated by more than 86k users on IMDb

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Angst essen Seele auf aka Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Germany , 1974)

Ratings - IMDB – 8.1

Release Year -1974

Country - Germany

Genres – Drama | Romance

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Synopsis: Emmi, a woman truly in the second half of life, falls in love with Ali, a Berber guest worker more than ten years younger. When they both decide to marry, everybody seems to be against them. When the folks calm down a bit, Emmi and Ali get deeply unsure about their relationship.

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Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle aka The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Germany , 1974)

Ratings - IMDB – 8.0

Release Year -1974

Country - Germany

Genres – Biography | Drama | History

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Synopsis: Herzog's film is based upon the true and mysterious story of Kaspar Hauser, a young man who suddenly appeared in Nuremberg in 1828, barely able to speak or walk, and bearing a strange note; he later explained that he had been held captive in a dungeon of some sort for his entire life that he could remember, and only recently was he released, for reasons unknown. His benefactor attempts to integrate him into society, with intriguing results.

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Der Untergang aka Downfall (Germany , 2004)

Ratings - IMDB - 8.4 | Metacritic - 82

Release Year - 2004

Country - Germany

Genres - Biography | Drama | History

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Synopsis: Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII.

Awards & Lists –IMDB Top 250 #95 | Nominated for Oscar. Another 15 wins

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Das Leben der Anderen aka The Lives of Others

Ratings - IMDB - 8.5 | Metacritic - 89
Release Year - 2006
Country - Germany
Genres - Drama | Thriller
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Synopsis: In the early 1980s, a successful dramatist and his longtime companion, a popular actress, were huge intellectual stars in (former) East Germany, although they secretly don't always toe the party line. One day, the Minister of Culture becomes interested in Christa, so the secret service agent Wiesler is instructed to observe and sound out the couple, but their life fascinates him more and more. 

Already fêted, Florian Henckel Donnersmarck's debut sets a closely focused, personal story against a more expansive backdrop of politics and power games -- a moving, enlightening tale of recent times.

Awards & Lists - Top250 #56 | Won Oscar (Best Foreign Language Film of the Year - 2007). Another 63 wins

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Gegen die Wand aka Head-on

Ratings - IMDB - 8.0 | Metacritic - 78
Release Year - 2004
Country - Germany
Genres - Drama | Romance
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Synopsis: A marriage of convenience in Hamburg between two troubled Turks changes both their lives in this fine, gritty, contemporary love story.

Director Fatih Akin dives deep into Turkish culture and explores the slippery slope of identity and cultural pride faced by Turks who either move to or are born in Germany.
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Awards & Lists – 23 wins

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