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German cinema: Drama

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...]

La Rafle (2010)
Rose Bosch

In 1942, Joseph is 11. A Jew, he must go to school with a yellow star sewn onto his chest. Although he is mocked by some, others treat him kindly and he feels that he and his family have found a safe refuge in Paris...   [More...]

Die Ratten (1955)
Robert Siodmak

Soon after World War II, a penniless young refugee, Pauline Karka, wanders Berlin looking for the boyfriend who has abandoned her...   [More...]

Der Student von Prag (1913)
Stellan Rye

Prague, 1820. Balduin enjoys the reputation of the wildest student and best swordsman in the city but his poverty makes him a miserable soul...   [More...]

Stützen der Gesellschaft (1935)
Douglas Sirk

The wealthy consul of a Norwegian coastal town, Karsten Bernick has devoted everything he has to his one great project, the construction of an enormous shipyard...   [More...]

Titanic (1943)
Herbert Selpin

April, 1912. As the share price of the British shipping company White Star Line begins to tumble its president, Joseph Bruce Ismay, conceives a plan that will save both the company and his personal fortune...   [More...]

Un amour de jeunesse (2011)
Mia Hansen-Løve

You never forget your first love, and when it ends - as surely it must - you feel you will never get over it. This is something that Camille, a fifteen-year-old girl, knows to be true after separating from the boy she has lost her heart to...   [More...]

Der Verlorene (1951)
Peter Lorre

In the immediate aftermath of WWII, Dr Karl Neumeister works in a refugee camp, immunising displaced people in the ruins of a defeated Germany...   [More...]

Vier um die Frau (1921)
Fritz Lang

Harry Yquem is a rich stockbroker who intends giving his wife Florence a present that will leave her in no doubt as to his devotion to her...   [More...]

Le Vieux fusil (1975)
Robert Enrico

It is 1944 and Germany is losing the war in Europe. The allied forces have broken through on the Normandy front and the occupying troops have begun their retreat...   [More...]

Die Wunderbare Lüge der Nina Petrowna (1929)
Hanns Schwarz

Nina, the beautiful wife of the wealthy Colonel Beranoff, is surrounded by luxury in her St Petersburg apartments, but the one thing she lacks is love...   [More...]

Zur Chronik von Grieshuus (1925)
Arthur von Gerlach

In 17th century Germany, the elderly rich landowner Grieshuus of Holstein has decided that his eldest son Hinrich will inherit his entire estate...   [More...]


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