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German cinema: 2000s

35 rhums (2008)
Claire Denis

Lionel has had a hard life. A black immigrant who lost his wife many years ago, he has struggled to bring up his daughter, Joséphine, alone on the modest pay he earns as a train driver...   [More...]

Astérix et Obélix Mission Cléopâtre (2002)
Alain Chabat

Cleopatra is the queen of Egypt. She is the proud ruler of a proud people, and there is nothing that infuriates her more than Julius Caesar's continual belittling of her country and its inhabitants...   [More...]

Good Bye Lenin! (2003)
Wolfgang Becker

East Germany, 1989. A young TV repairman, Alex, is taking part in a demonstration when he sees his mother collapse in the street...   [More...]

Joyeux Noël (2005)
Christian Carion

24th December 1914. Five months into World War I, regiments of French and Scottish troops face off their German opponents in the muddy, snow-covered wastes of No Man's Land...   [More...]

The Pianist (2002)
Roman Polanski

Warsaw, September 1939. Wladyslaw Szpilman is making a comfortable living as a virtuoso pianist in Poland when the Nazis invade his country and begin their systematic persecution of its Jewish population...   [More...]

La Pianiste (2001)
Michael Haneke

Erika Kohut is a brilliant pianist who gives master class piano lessons in Vienna. Although in her forties, she still lives with her dominating mother and apparently has no interest in men...   [More...]

Plus tard tu comprendras (2008)
Amos Gitai

France, 1987. The news is dominated by the trial of Klaus Barbie, a former Gestapo chief who was directly responsible for the deportation and murder of thousands of French Jews during the Second World War...   [More...]

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