German Movies 2013
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- DirectorBille AugustStarsJeremy IronsMélanie LaurentJack HustonSwiss Professor Raimund Gregorius abandons his lectures and buttoned-down life to embark on a thrilling adventure that will take him on a journey to the very heart of himself.
- DirectorAntonin SvobodaStarsKlaus Maria BrandauerJulia JentschJeanette HainAt the end of his life, Wilhelm Reich - psychiatrist and experimental scientist searching for the fundamentals of life - finds himself on trial, charged with deception. His dream of liberating human individuality makes him a dangerous opponent of an American system that is striving after 1945 for global hegemony, using all available means. Was it madness to believe in man's liberty or was Reich simply in the wrong place at the wrong time, and, being a holistic global thinker, accurately observing far-reaching socio-political linkages? Ten years after his mysterious death, his writings, once burnt by the US FDA, become an important source of inspiration for a '68 generation in revolt.
- DirectorWolfgang BeckerStarsDaniel BrühlJesper ChristensenAmira CasarYoung journalist Sebastian Zöllner is writing an article on artist Manuel Kaminski. Zöllner hopes that Kaminski dies soon, so that he can cash in on his article.
- DirectorZüli AladagInci DemirbasStarsPegah FerydoniChristoph Maria HerbstVedat ErincinA German-Turkish woman (student and judoka) gets into a moral conflict when her father (the mosque's principal) wants her to help Turkish "imported brides' pass a 300-word German test in order to get a residency permit.
- DirectorRick OstermannStarsLevin LiamHelena von HaveVivien CiskowskiThe story of a boy who, driven by the search for his lost brother in the turmoil of WWII end, joins a group of children in order to survive the chaos of post-war anarchy in the haunted forests of Lithuania.
- DirectorOskar RoehlerStarsJürgen VogelMeret BeckerMoritz BleibtreuThis is a family story that covers 30 years in the life of the Freytag family, narrated by grandson Robert. When his grandfather returns from Russia in 1949, he becomes part of the German "economic miracle" by producing garden gnomes. Robert's father Klaus wants to become a writer. He marries Gisela, who almost immediately gets pregnant with Robert, but the marriage doesn't work. Both parents abandon the boy, who is raised by both sets of grandparents. While his father belongs to the 1960s generation that rebels against their fathers, he falls in love with the neighbor's's daughter Laura.
- DirectorKatja von GarnierStarsHanna BinkeMarvin LinkeCornelia FroboessMika is sent to spend the summer at her strict grandmother's horse farm. She is hesitant at first, but when she meets the wild stallion Ostwind, Mika discovers her amazing horse whispering powers.
- DirectorXavier KollerStarsFynn HenkelMoritz BleibtreuWaldemar KobusGiorgio's poor parents sell their son to Milan to work as a chimney sweeper. There he joins the «Black Brothers».
- DirectorFranziska BuchStarsJessica SchwarzHans Werner MeyerSandrine BonnaireInvestment bank manager FRANK BERNDSSEN (c. 40), based in Berlin, believes life to be just a matter of careful advance planning. Currently, he works for a Swiss investor group keen on taking over the French nation-wide meat production chain of Charcuteries Albert. If everything turns out well, Frank's bank will earn billions, and he'll be promoted to a director's post. He just needs the French side to agree to his plan, which is why he's on his way to Paris. While still at Airport Berlin-Tegel waiting to check in, Frank's progress is slowed to a standstill by chaotic author PATRIZIA MUNZ (beginning 30s), who wishes to board the plane under all circumstances, although the flight is overbooked in the economy class. Patrizia, an upcoming novelist, has forgotten her credit cards, when she received a phone call just an hour ago from a Paris clinic. Her lover, Parisian architect JEAN-JACQUES SECRETIN lies in a coma, heavily injured in a car crash. Frank, queuing nervously behind her, loans to Patrizia the cash she needs for the upgrade of her economy-class ticket. On the flight in business class, they make hesitant but ineffective efforts to do smalltalk and then leave each other alone.
- DirectorWolfgang GroosStarsMarta MartinLaura Antonia RogeChristiane PaulA tale of two 12-year-old vampire sisters who have to adapt to the human world after their family decides to emigrate to Germany.
- DirectorAndreas KleinertStarsDevid StriesowAnna LoosUrsina Lardi
- DirectorMarkus DietrichStarsFlora Li ThiemannFinn FiebigLuca JohannsenAn adventurous story about the "real" happenings of November 9, 1989 in Germany, the day the wall came down! For ten-year-old Frederike (10) October 1989 gets off to a disastrous start: her beloved Uncle Mike (27) is expelled from the GDR and has to leave the country within 48 hours. Inspired by her big idol Captain Kirk, Frederike and her friends Jonathan (10) and Fabian (10) construct a teleporting machine to "beam" herself to West Berlin to visit her uncle Mike. But the experiment dramatically fails. Instead of successfully beaming the three kids across, the entire village population disappears! For a moment it seems that Frederike and her friends are the last remaining kids on earth. But TV proves what Frederike had immediately suspected: they have managed to beam everybody but themselves to West Berlin. They witness on TV how their families and friends desperately try to climb back over the Wall to their home country. Only quick thinking and action can undo the experiment and prevent the worst from happening before the border guards open fire. A race against time and the nasty local policeman Mauder begins.
- DirectorThomas ArslanStarsNina HossMarko MandicPeter KurthIn the summer of 1898, a small group of German compatriots head into the hostile northern interior of British Columbia in search for gold at the height of the Klondike Gold Rush.
- DirectorStefan GierenSimona GierenStarsJeff CasterJulia DietzeProschat MadaniA German-afghan photographer witnesses the air-strike on two petrol trucks near Kunduz in September 2009. Heavily wounded he boards a plane that shall bring him out of Afghanistan. As the crew and a traveling doctor fight for his life he tells the true story of this fatal incident.
- DirectorBerengar PfahlStarsSibel KekilliKen DukenFelicitas WollWhen their ship is sunk in the first world war, in the Indian ocean, 50 men have to cross infinite stretches of sea and desert, avoid enemies, find allies and finally make it home to Germany. A breathtaking real-live odyssey.
- DirectorRob SavageStarsPhiline LembeckOliver MalamHannah WilderA German exchange student begins an impulsive and ultimately destructive relationship with a shy British boy in her final weeks before returning to Munich and her warring family.
- DirectorFrauke FinsterwalderStarsGisela AderholdChristoph BachMargit CarstensenA number of individuals in Germany whose lives are connected in some ways, and all of them have dark sides which may shock us to the core.
- DirectorBastian GüntherStarsUlrich TukurGarret DillahuntJenny SchilyA German corporate headhunter travels to Houston, Texas, in pursuit of a renowned oil company CEO, only to have his life fall apart.
- DirectorCaroline LinkStarsUlrich TukurSamuel SchneiderHafsia HerziAfter accidentally confronting his estranged father about his lack of responsibility, 17-year-old Ben spends his nights in sleazy nightclubs. There, a girl named Karima helps him tackle his issues.
- DirectorStefan HeringStarsBernadette HeerwagenSebastian StröbelChristoph BachABSEITSFALLE is the story of Karin and Mike. They work at Perla, a washing machine manufacturer. She is a career woman, he is on the assembly line and plays for the factory soccer team. The company is owned by an American corporation. Until now it has been business as usual, but all of a sudden comes the news that 400 redundancies are needed if Perla is to survive. Suddenly, there is everything to play for.
- DirectorChristian SchwochowStarsJördis TriebelTristan GöbelJacky IdoShe Can See Her Future, But Can't Escape Her Past.
- DirectorLars KraumeStarsJördis TriebelNina KunzendorfLisa HagmeisterLinda has been suffering from a congenital heart defect ever since her birth. She managed to reach 30 contrary to medical predictions. But, with another operation looming, she feels a need to spend what might be the last weekend with her two sisters, so they start a short journey from Hamburg to Paris.
- DirectorFelix FuchssteinerStarsJosefine PreußFlorian BartholomäiUwe KockischOn her 16th birthday, Gwendolyn Shepherd finds out that instead of her cousin, she has inherited a rare gene that allows her to travel through time.
- DirectorUlrich SeidlStarsMelanie LenzVerena LehbauerJoseph LorenzThe final installment in Ulrich Seidl's Paradise trilogy, 'Paradise: Hope' tells the story of overweight thirteen-year-old Melanie and her first love. While her mother travels to Kenya ('Paradise: Love') and her aunt does missionary work ('Paradise: Faith'), Melanie spends her summer vacation at a strict diet camp for overweight adolescents. Between physical education and nutrition counseling, pillow fights and her first cigarette, Melanie falls in love with the camp director, a doctor forty years her senior. As the doctor struggles with the guilty nature of his desire, Melanie had imagined her paradise differently.
- DirectorVivian NaefeStarsHannah HerzsprungFlorian StetterMarie BäumerAfter the death of their grandmother, a family in Northern Germany meets again at the inherited real estate. The family saga sheds light on their past; beautiful and harsh memories. Adaptation of the 2008 book of the same name.
- DirectorHelge SchneiderAndrea SchumacherStarsHelge SchneiderZorroPeter ThomsCommissioner Schneider is back. Nineteen years after "00 Schneider - Jagd auf Nihil Baxter" aging policeman now has to face villain Jean-Claude Pillemann.
- DirectorGregor SchnitzlerStarsMichelle BarthelJannik SchümannMaximilian BrücknerA tangled drama of cruelty and manipulation, attraction and love.
- DirectorFlorian EichingerStarsLennart BartelsLuise BerndtWilliam BoerNORDSTRAND tells the story of two brothers, Marten and Volker, who meet in their parents' now empty house on the coast. Older brother Marten would like to pick up together their mother from prison where she has been since the death of their violent father years ago. But Volker seems only to have come in order to sell the house. He apparently can't forgive neither his mother nor his older brother for the fact they didn't protect him from the abuse committed by the head of the family.
- DirectorMargarethe von TrottaStarsBarbara SukowaAxel MilbergJanet McTeerA look at the life of philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt, who reported for 'The New Yorker' on the trial of the Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem.
- DirectorWolfgang GroosStarsTim Oliver SchultzPaula KalenbergConstantin von JascheroffMax and his band, "Systemfehler", are preparing for an important concert when their guitarist injures his hand. Know-it-all eco-activist Inge, who Max has made fun of, seems to be the only available stand-in.
- DirectorUlrich SeidlStarsMargarete TieselPeter KazunguInge MauxTeresa, a fifty-year-old Austrian mother, travels to the paradise of the beaches of Kenya, seeking out love from African boys. But she must confront the hard truth that on the beaches of Kenya, love is a business.
- DirectorUlrich SeidlStarsMaria HofstätterNabil SalehRené RupnikA single woman in her 50s devotes her vacations to doing Catholic missionary work in Vienna, descending into violent self-punishment as part of her faith.
- DirectorThor KleinStarsFrançois GoeskeJytte-Merle BöhrnsenPit BukowskiWhile on a GPS treasure hunt in the Palatinate forest (Pfaelzerwald), four teenagers come across an abandoned US military radio tower station that once was part of a secret military program with horrible side effects.
- DirectorTim StaffelStarsWolfram SchorlemmerBurak YigitTamer ArslanTwo distinctly different men meet on the island of Sylt and decide to start a relationship, when their previously uneventful lives start to spin out of control.
- DirectorChristian AlvartStarsKen DukenHeinz HoenigNadeshda BrennickeThe sudden transformation of a lower middle class woman who falls in love with a bank robber and soon becomes one herself.
- DirectorLars-Gunnar LotzStarsEdin HasanovicJulia BrendlerMarc Ben PuchIn a project with the concept of open-prison, Benjamin is given the unique chance of a new beginning. As one of seven juvenile offenders he should adopt social skills and experience security in a family-like community. But when he meets his house-mother Eva, he is shocked. She was one of his victims, but cannot recognize him because he was hidden by a mask. His brutal assault on her was never resolved. Ben does his best not to attract attention. But Eva's suspicion is aroused.
- DirectorBernd FischerauerStarsKen DukenJulie EngelbrechtGwendolyn GöbelA German doctor was a successful contributor to Hitler's Germany. After WWII, he seeks to escape accountability. He meets a Polish-German-Jewish beauty, who was brutalized during the War, and rescues her from further violation. The two start a compelling journey together in another country. Instinctual killer sometimes becomes compassionate, caring, and passionate man. Quiet victim becomes a resistor. Is love found or momentary, passionate comfort? Is the doctor a good man after all, worthy of a woman's love? Has one ever reached a point of no return? Can true love grow from the ashes of soul and society? Are we ever free?
- DirectorAlain GsponerStarsJonas HoldenriederEmily KuscheNico HartungThe Little Ghost lives in the castle over looking a small town and awakens for precisely one hour after the clock strikes midnight. Follow him on this adventure to see his first sunrise ever!
- DirectorFriederike JehnStarsMaria DragusNicolette KrebitzWolfram KochTeenager Wanda and her siblings experience the deterioration of the relationship between their parents, which adds to their own problems.
- DirectorDito TsintsadzeStarsLasha BakradzeElie James BlezesNadeshda BrennickeGiorgi, a Georgian unemployed actor and tragic looser is suddenly confronted with the arrival of his 15-year old daughter Tina whom he hasn't seen for 10 years. Together with his black lover-to-rent room mate Ngudu and the wooden-legged soap opera actress Mia he desperately tries to show Tina a fake life of a rich man who's got everything, including a big car and a villa. But things go wrong and his daughter isn't that stupid. So soon she starts enjoying the pure chaos around her until all secrets are revealed.
- DirectorMartin JablonskiStarsTorben KarstensGerhard MohrKatalyn BohnLured by quick money, David a loving family man and aspiring star lawyer lives a dangerous double life. While under the assumption the end would always justify the means he gets mixed-up in a political intrigue.
- DirectorJan SchomburgStarsMaria SchraderJohannes KrischRonald ZehrfeldAfter university professor Lena Ferben gets meningitis, she gets a newfound sense of openness after loses her memory, personality and tastes.
- DirectorStephan LacantStarsHanno KofflerMax RiemeltAttila BorlanA soon-to-be-father policeman falls for a gay fellow officer and his life starts falling apart.
- DirectorJulia von HeinzStarsKaroline SchuchDoron AmitLeah KoenigA German girl travels to Israel to help people with disabilities, where she learns a lot about the role of her grandparents in WWII and meets a man who wants to move to Berlin.
- DirectorThomas SiebenStarsFriedrich MückeLiv Lisa FriesArnd SchimkatThe Dam tells the story of young man called Roman, who is working for an attorney. Roman has to travel to a small village in Bavaria, in order to get some files from a local police station. These files keep records about a high school massacre committed by a student a year ago. Due to bureaucratic reasons, Roman has to stay in the village for a few days. By accident he meets a young girl called Laura, who has survived the massacre. By becoming more acquainted to Laura, Roman also becomes more interested in the tragic event. Later on he realizes that Laura is hiding a secret. She has been more involved in the incident.
- A retired jewel thief is brought back into the game when his old crime partner persuades him to intercept a diamond transfer on the high-speed rail lines of Europe.