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German cinema: Comedy/Drama

Der Blaue Engel (1930)
Josef von Sternberg

Immanuel Rath, professor of a provincial German school, is incensed when he learns that his pupils are frequenting a cabaret venue known as The Blue Angel...   [More...]

Brennendes Geheimnis (1933)
Robert Siodmak

Whilst his father, a busy lawyer, stays at the family residence in Vienna, a 12-year-old boy name Edgar takes an autumn holiday with his mother in Switzerland...   [More...]

Et si on vivait tous ensemble? (2012)
Stéphane Robelin

Annie, Jean, Claude, Albert and Jeanne have been firm friends for more than forty years. They have each lived full and happy lives, but when their memories begin to falter and the prospect of moving into a retirement home rears its ugly head, they decide to take a stand against convention...   [More...]

Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970)
Werner Herzog

In the midst of a dead, barren landscape there sits a secluded institution, which might be a prison or a lunatic asylum. All of the people in the institution - the director, the guards, the inmates - are dwarfs...   [More...]

Fanny and Alexander (1982)
Ingmar Bergman

December 1907. The once-famous actress Helena Ekdahl welcomes her family to her home to celebrate Christmas. Her sons - Gustav Adolf, Carl and Oscar arrive with their wives and children...   [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...]

Herr Tartüff (1926)
F.W. Murnau

A wealthy old man is about to sign away his entire fortune to his housekeeper when his grandson makes an unexpected return...   [More...]

Der Letzte Mann (1924)
F.W. Murnau

For the old porter at the Hotel Atlantis, his job is the main pleasure in his life. It brings him into contact with the highest in high society and his smart uniform affords him status, the respect of his family and neighbours...   [More...]

Love Is Colder Than Death (1969)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Franz, a small time pimp, finds himself in the offices of a powerful German crime syndicate. The gangsters offer him a regular income for easy work but he refuses to join them, since he prefers the freedom he gains by working on his own account...   [More...]

Menschen am Sonntag (1930)
Curt Siodmak

One Saturday evening, a young Berliner, Wolfgang, meets an attractive young woman, Christi, and invites her to spend Sunday with him by the lake...   [More...]

Sonnenstrahl (1933)
Pál Fejös

In the 1930s, Europe is caught in the grip of the Great Depression. Across the entire continent ordinary men and women are struggling to support themselves and their families in the face of an ever riding tide of unemployment...   [More...]

Sumurun (1920)
Ernst Lubitsch

The Sheik of an Oriental province is incensed when he discovers that one of his wives, Sumurun, has been making overtures to a cloth merchant, Nur-Al-Din...   [More...]

Un taxi pour Tobrouk (1960)
Denys de La Patellière

Libya, 1942. Four soldiers in the Free French Forces are crossing the desert when their jeep breaks down. They have no other option but to continue their journey to Tobruk on foot...   [More...]

Waxworks (1924)
Paul Leni

A young writer is hired by the owner of a waxworks museum to write a short story for each of the exhibits in his collection...   [More...]

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