Germany movies

Lusitania: Murder on the Atlantic (2007)

Monday, June 14th, 2010
Genres: Documentary | Drama | History | War
Countries: Germany | UK
Actors: Hannah, John | Cranham, Kenneth | Panzner, Florian | Feast, Michael | Hopkins, Graham | Garrood, Madeleine | Marek, Frances | Topol, Adrian | Le Maitre, Martin | Otto, Kevin | Haacke, Karen | McCoubrey, Dean | Weideman, Andre | France, Ronald | Jennings, Steven
Directors: Spencer, Christopher
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The story of the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915 after she was torpedoed off the Irish coast. The story is told from the perspective of Prof. Holbourn (a passenger), the German U-boat and its captain and crew, and other passengers, crew and Admiralty staff.

Fever Pitch (2005)

Monday, June 14th, 2010
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance | Sport
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Barrymore, Drew | Fallon, Jimmy | Spevack, Jason | Kehler, Jack | Severance, Scott | Finet, Jessamy | Keiller, Maureen | Clarke, Lenny | Skye, Ione | Strickland, KaDee | Winokur, Marissa Jaret | Helmuth, Evan | Craggs, Brandon | Murphy, Brett | Fink, Isabella
Directors: Farrelly, Bobby
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According to Boston Red Sox super fan Ben Wrightman, finding romance is just as likely as his beloved team winning the World Series. But then Ben meets Lyndsey Meeks, and suddenly anything’s possible. Well… until Spring Training begins, and Lindsey sees Ben on ESPN in Florida acting like an idiot. But these games don’t count, and she knows that there may be trouble once the first pitch is thrown. But she seems fine about it, because as she competes for a promotion, she says Ben won’t be affected by her at work all the time. But things really get out of hand when Lyndsey gets hit by a line drive foul ball off of Baltimore Orioles’ Miguel Tejada, and the Sox begin to loose. The relationship picks up, but when Lyndsey gives Ben the opportunity to go to Paris with her, he turns it down, because Seattle’s rolling in and the Sox are 3 1/2 games behind New York and Ben says that they need him. Later, the Red Sox are in the ALCS against New York, and fall behind three games to none. Then, Ben decides to sell his Red Sox tickets to make Lyndsey happy and say that he loves her. She’s at Game 4, and Lindsey has to find a way to get him to stop selling his tickets, and can the Sox finally win it all?

Deep Blue (2003)

Monday, June 14th, 2010
Genres: Documentary
Countries: Germany | UK
Actors: Gambon, Michael | Attenborough, David | Brosnan, Pierce | Glaubrecht, Frank | Perrin, Jacques | Volonitz, Dalik
Directors: Byatt, Andy
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Alastair Fothergill’s nature documentary Deep Blue consists of 90 minutes of footage of undersea creatures — living, surviving, fighting, and dying. Similar to like-minded documentaries such as Winged Migration and MicroCosmos, Deep Blue features footage from locations throughout the world. The great British actor Michael Gambon provides the narration, which favors involving the viewer emotionally over providing enlightening factual information on the creatures. The 22 segments of the film conclude with footage of how man has affected life under the sea. This film was originally produced for the British television series The Blue Planet. According to the filmmakers, some of the creatures seen here have never been previously recorded on film.

Mr. Nobody (2009)

Monday, June 14th, 2010
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Romance | Sci-Fi
Countries: Belgium | Canada | France | Germany
Actors: Leto, Jared | Kruger, Diane | Polley, Sarah | Ifans, Rhys | Beveney, Nicholas | Brochu, Daniel | Byrne, Thomas | Capelluto, Laurent | Chaves, Pierre | Cross, Joel | De Costanzo, Noa | De Neck, Didier | Dhaenens, Valentijn | Dillon, Tedd
Directors: van Dormael, Jaco
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Nemo Nobody leads an ordinary existence at his wife’s side, Elise, and their 3 children until the day when reality skids and he wakes up as an old man in the year 2092. At 120, Mr. Nobody is both the oldest man in the world and the last mortal of a new mankind where nobody dies anymore. But that doesn’t seem to interest or bother him very much. The only questions that preoccupy him in the present is whether he lived the right life for himself, loved the woman whom he was supposed to love, and had the children whom he was meant to have… now his purpose is to find the right answer.

Undisputed (2002)

Monday, June 14th, 2010
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Sport
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Snipes, Wesley | Rhames, Ving | Falk, Peter | Rooker, Michael | Seda, Jon | Studi, Wes | Stevens, Fisher | Callie, Dayton | Aquino, Amy | Williams, Johnny | D'Angerio, Joe | Stewart, Nils Allen | Arndt, Denis | Lampley, Jim | Lover, Ed
Directors: Hill, Walter
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George “Ice Man” Chambers (Rhames) is a top ranked heavyweight boxer. However Chambers has his world turned upside down when he is accused of rape and sent to prison. Upon his arrival he hears talk about Monroe Hutchen (Snipes) who is the top ranked prison boxing champ 10 years running. Immediately there is bad blood with Chambers not wanting to be second to no one which leads to a lunch room fight between the men. Figuring it will be a good way to make money fellow convict Emmanuel ‘Mendy’ Ripstein (Peter Falk) sets up a prison boxing match between the two men to decide who is the real UNDISPUTED champ. Michael Rooker plays a guard, Fisher Stevens, John Seda, and Master P co star.

Turtle: The Incredible Journey (2009)

Friday, June 11th, 2010
Genres: Documentary
Countries: Austria | Germany | UK
Actors: Richardson, Miranda | Elsner, Hannelore
Directors: Stringer, Nick
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A little loggerhead turtle follows in the path of her ancestors on one of the most extraordinary journeys in the natural world. Born on a beach in Florida, she rides the Gulf Stream all the way to the frozen north and ultimately swims around the entire North Atlantic to Africa and back to the beach where she was born.

The Last Station (2009)

Monday, June 7th, 2010
Genres: Biography | Drama | History
Countries: Germany | Russia | UK
Actors: Condon, Kerry | Sessions, John | Gaul, Christian | Giamatti, Paul | Gärtner, Maximilian | Häntsch, Wolfgang | Kennedy, Patrick | Lucic, Nenad | Masterson, David | McAvoy, James | Plummer, Christopher | Spencer, Tomas | Duff, Anne-Marie | Mirren, Helen
Directors: Hoffman, Michael
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In 1910, acclaimed Russian novelist ‘Leo Tolstoy’ (qv), in the later stage of his life, works rather than a writer but as the leader of the Tolstoyan Movement, whose basic tenets are brotherly love and world peace through pacifism, and a denouncement of material wealth and physical love. His chief follower is Vladimir Chertkov, who does whatever he requires to advance the cause. Chertkov hires a young man named Valentin Bulgakov to be Tolstoy’s personal secretary in carrying out this work. Once ensconced in the life on the estate where much of the work is taking place, Bulgakov quickly learns that many there take from the movement only what he/she wants/believes. Also chief amongst the movement’s wants is the deeding of all Tolstoy’s writings to the people so that after his death it will become public domain. Tolstoy’s wife, the Countess Sofya Andreevna Tolstoy, believes that her husband’s writings are rightfully hers after he passes, as she wants and believes she deserves the monetary benefits derived from such. This places a strain between those in the movement, especially Chertov and the Tolstoy’s daughter Sasha, and the Countess. Bulgatov acts as the mediator between the parties, he who feels he needs to do what is truly in Tolstoy’s heart regardless of what Tolstoy may say or do.

The Good Heart (2009)

Friday, May 28th, 2010
Genres: Drama
Countries: Denmark | France | Germany | Iceland | USA
Actors: Axelrod, Steve | Boði | Bro, Nicolas | Buell, Bill | Burg, Michael J. | Cox, Brian | Dano, Paul | De Shields, André | DuVal, Aristedes Philip | Foreman, Darren | Henderson, Stephen | Jónsson, Haraldur | Lyndeck, Edmund | Magnusson, Leifur | McGlynn, Sean
Directors: Kári, Dagur
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Dagur Kari’s character study The Good Heart follows crusty old bar owner Jacques (Brian Cox) as he trains a generous young homeless man named Lucas (Paul Dano) to take over his beloved bar. Jacques suffers from a very bad heart, and understands that any day could be his last. However, this does not stop him from chain smoking, drinking nonstop, and hurling an endless stream of poetically vulgar insults at the regulars who gather at his establishment every night. As the two begin to slowly influence each other, Lucas falls in love with April, and Jacques insists that women have no place in his bar.

Ghosted (2009)

Friday, April 2nd, 2010
Genres: Mystery
Countries: Germany | Taiwan
Actors: Busch, Inga | Ke, Huan-Ru | Hu, Ting Ting | Schulz, Jana | Harloff, Marek | Kao, Jack | Lu, Yi-Ching | Chen, Kevin Shih Hung | Dong-Sik, Nick
Directors: Treut, Monika
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Ghosted is a mysterious love story set in Hamburg and the beautifully depicted Taipei, marking a return to narrative filmmaking for the director after almost a decade in documentary work. Through a mixture of flashback and present day storytelling we follow the Hamburg artist Sophie as she comes to terms with her Taiwanese lover Ai-Ling’s murder. To ease her grief she creates a video installation about Ai-Ling, travelling to Taipei to exhibit and dedicate it to her. There she meets ambitious and seductive journalist Mei-Li who is investigating Ai-Ling’s death, and whom the artist is immediately drawn to. Unable to forget her dead lover Sophie runs from the journalist’s advances back to Hamburg, but when Mei-Li turns up on her doorstep Sophie can no longer deny her attraction. She risks opening her heart up once more until she discovers Mei-Li isn’t all that she seems, and Sophie realises that you can’t run away from your past. Ghosted is an intimately shot film with excellent use of location shooting in both Hamburg and Taipei. Treut’s return to narrative film builds on an already impressive oeuvre, creating a modern love story that questions and explores the differences between eastern and western cultures.

Intimacy (2001)

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
Genres: Drama
Countries: France | Germany | Spain | UK
Actors: Rylance, Mark | Fox, Kerry | Harker, Susannah | Galbraith, Alastair | Calvario, Philippe | Spall, Timothy | Faithfull, Marianne | Ayres, Fraser | Fitzgerald, Michael | Addie, Robert | McLaren, Deborah | Palmer, Rebecca R. | Sheffield, Greg | Hunter, Vinnie | Prospero, Joe
Directors: Chéreau, Patrice
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Jay, a failed musician, walked out of his family and now earns a living as head bartender in a trendy London pub. Every Wednesday afternoon a woman comes to his house for graphic, almost wordless, sex. One day Jay follows her and finds out about the rest of her life (and that her name is Claire). This eventually disrupts their relationship.