OPENING THE DOORS TO GERMAN FILMS IN THE USA
A Texas cop, whose own daughter might have been forced into sexual slavery, joins forces with a Mexican youth to find the boy's sister, who was abducted and forced into prostitution. Meanwhile, a Ukrainian woman who was promised a better life in America also becomes a victim.
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When Greek restaurant owner Zinos chases the girl he loves to China, the restaurant falls into his brother's hands. Upon returning, Zinos finds his kitchen taken over by the mob and in debt. Deciding to reopen by bringing in a hotshot chef, Zinos risks the loyalty of regular customers for a flashier atmosphere.
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A look into the elite culinary world of El Bulli.
Can you fall in love with someone you've never met?
A story of healing --- in the most unlikely circumstances.
How will we feed 10 billion people in 2050?
Ibo must face fatherhood and film at the same time.
Martha, the head chef at a chic restaurant, must reevaluate her life and priorities when a fateful accident brings her niece to her doorstep.
In 1936, the Jewish writer Stefan Zweig flees Nazi Germany for Brazil. The jetset of Rio de Janeiro expects him to denounce Germany, but he cannot blame all German people for Nazism. As he struggles to define his feelings for his home country, he falls in love with Brazil, and plans a book about his new home.
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Bound By Desire. Torn Apart By War.
A young Hasidic Jewish woman flees to Berlin.
To serve humanity is to serve one's inner self.
A woman learns that there is more to her mother's past that she realized.
A young spy comes of age in the divided Germany of 1983 where everyone is hiding something.
After stumbling into an advertising career, Viktor must choose between love and success.
Tobias, a young director, sets out to make a documentary about his brother Markus's band, Hansen, although Tobias suspects Markus had an affair with his girlfriend, Ellen. Ellen soon joins the project, and the camera crew captures as much interpersonal drama as onstage action.
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Two aspiring oarswomen's lives are changed dramatically during a training camp at Lake Balaton in Hungary.
Welcome to the city of sin.
The complicated lives of locals in a small German town are revealed as they search for missing children.
After stumbling into an advertising career, Viktor must choose between love and success.
What do you find worth living for?
Romeo and Juliet meets the communist East Berlin of the 1980s.
She claimed she was possessed. There was no way to know for sure.
Keep moving --- you just might find something worth moving for.
A thriller on the frontier of Eastern Europe.
Once upon a time in Nazi occupied France...
A "romantic comedy" based loosely on the suicide of the poet Henrich von Kleist in 1811.
A noirish study of treachery, identity, and survival.
A young woman who is part of a Neo-Nazi group meets an afghan refugee who challenges her worldview.
An old group of friends are investigated after one of them is murdered.
One man's act of resistance, thwarted by time.
A young art student, Kurt falls in love with fellow student, Ellie. Ellie's father, Professor Seeband, a famous doctor, is dismayed at his daughter's choice of boyfriend, and vows to destroy the relationship. What neither of them knows is that their lives are already connected through a terrible crime Seeband committed decades ago... An epic inspired by real events and spanning three eras of German history.
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Every second of every day, you're faced with a decision that can change your life.
One family's tale of a homeland lost --- and a homeland found.
The children of the Nazi generation vowed fascism would never rule their world again.
In Havana, music isn't a pastime, it's a way of life.
Is history history if no one knows about it?
The German Democratic Republic lives on -- in 79 square meters!
The secret story of Schiller's passion.
Before the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany's secret police listened to your secrets.
She built one life on love, the other on deceit.
What do you find worth living for?
A young lawyer in post-war Germany works to punish Nazis that worked in the camps and uncovers family secrets along the way.
A woman seeks justice for the death of her husband and son.
Dance, dance, otherwise we are lost.
A savage, sweeping epic of a German society in chaos.
Having survived the Holocaust, David Berman and his friends have the singular goal of getting to America. However, strapped for cash, they must find a way to get money. Just as they seem to have enough, David loses his savings and must confront his questionable past.
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There are angels on the streets of Berlin.
A family living in an old swimming pool faces outsiders.
One City. One Night. One Take.
A woman seeks justice for the death of her husband and son.
After moving in with his older sister, Lukas must adjust to his new home while battling the onset of paranoid schizophrenia.
Four jewish teenagers in Berlin go to extraordinary lengths to survive in World War II Berlin.
Troubling, mysterious events pervade a small, rural German town.
Don't look away. All that is true is beautiful.
What do you find worth living for?
Four young people from Tehran, Iran are forced to break the taboos of a restrictive Islamic society.
When there is nowhere to go, nowhere is home.
Amidst Gaza's political turmoil, there's a beautiful escape out in the water.
Pianomania takes the audience on a humorous journey through the secret world of sound and accompanies Stefan Knüpfer in his extraordinary work with the greatest pianists in the world.
A thriller on the frontier of Eastern Europe.
Coworkers flirt over coffee in this supermarket drama.
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