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Metropolis
This silent science-fiction classic follows a couple from different backgrounds who attempt to reform a dystopian city defined by class division.
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- Germany • 1927
- Director Fritz Lang
- Cast Gustav Fröhlich, Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Theodor Loos, Fritz Rasp
- Genre Drama, Science Fiction
- Available on Hoopla, fuboTV, FlixFling, Classix, Kino Film Collection, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Crackle, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Pluto TV, Kanopy, Plex, Popflick, Plex Channel
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
(Schneewittchen und die sieben Zwerge)
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- West Germany • 1955
- Director Erich Kobler
- Cast Elke Arendt, Addi Adametz, Niels Clausnitzer, Dietrich Thoms, Renate Eichholz, Zita Hitz
- Genre Romance, Family, Fantasy
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Toni Erdmann
In this absurdist tale of estrangement, a practical joker visits his workaholic daughter in an attempt to rekindle their relationship.
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- Germany, Austria, Monaco • 2016
- Director Maren Ade
- Cast Sandra Hüller, Peter Simonischek, Michael Wittenborn, Thomas Loibl, Trystan Pütter, Ingrid Bisu
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Starz Apple TV Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand
Hard to Be a God
(Es ist nicht leicht, ein Gott zu sein)
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- West Germany, France, Soviet Union • 1990
- Director Peter Fleischmann
- Cast Edward Żentara, Aleksandr Filippenko, Andrei Boltnev, Mikhail Gluzskiy, Hugues Quester, Anne Gautier
- Genre Drama, Adventure, Science Fiction
- Available on Amazon Video
All Quiet on the Western Front
(Im Westen nichts Neues)
A German film adaptation of the epic 1929 anti-war novel by Erich Maria Remarque.
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- Germany, United States, United Kingdom • 2022
- Director Edward Berger
- Cast Felix Kammerer, Albrecht Schuch, Aaron Hilmer, Edin Hasanović, Devid Striesow, Daniel Brühl
- Genre Action, Drama, War
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
The Blue Angel
(Der blaue Engel)
A professor becomes obsessed with a cabaret dancer.
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- Germany • 1930
- Director Josef von Sternberg
- Cast Emil Jannings, Marlene Dietrich, Kurt Gerron, Rosa Valetti, Hans Albers
- Genre Drama, Music
- Available on TCM, Kino Film Collection, Apple TV, Amazon Video, Kanopy
October November
(Oktober November)
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- Austria • 2014
- Director Götz Spielmann
- Cast Nora Waldstätten, Ursula Strauss, Peter Simonischek, Sebastian Koch, Johannes Zeiler, Andreas Ressl
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Paris Calligrammes
In this autobiographical film, contemporary artist Ulrike Ottinger looks back at a formative period in her life and she city where she lived it.
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- Germany, France • 2020
- Director Ulrike Ottinger
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Filmforum
The Lives of Others
(Das Leben der Anderen)
Before the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany's secret police listened to your secrets.
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- Germany • 2006
- Director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
- Cast Martina Gedeck, Ulrich Mühe, Sebastian Koch, Ulrich Tukur, Thomas Thieme, Hans-Uwe Bauer
- Genre Drama, Thriller
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, AMC on Demand
Mr. Bachmann and His Class
(Herr Bachmann und seine Klasse)
This inspiring documentary explores the close bond between a German school teacher and his students.
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- Germany • 2021
- Director Maria Speth
- Cast Dieter Bachmann, Aynur Bal, Önder Cavdar
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
System Crasher
(Systemsprenger)
Too young for psychiatric treatment, too aggressive to stay in foster care: where can this little girl go?
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- Germany • 2019
- Director Nora Fingscheidt
- Cast Helena Zengel, Albrecht Schuch, Gabriela Maria Schmeide, Lisa Hagmeister, Maryam Zaree, Melanie Straub
- Genre Drama
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
The Seventh Continent
(Der siebente Kontinent)
A haunting tale of a middle-class Austrian family’s dissatisfaction with life — based on a true story
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- Austria • 1989
- Director Michael Haneke
- Cast Birgit Doll, Dieter Berner, Leni Tanzer, Silvia Fenz, Robert Dietl
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
Great Freedom
(Große Freiheit)
A gay Jewish man is sent to prison after World War 2, immediately after being released from a concentration camp.
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- Austria, Germany • 2021
- Director Sebastian Meise
- Cast Franz Rogowski, Georg Friedrich, Anton von Lucke, Thomas Prenn, Thomas Stecher, Alfred Hartung
- Genre Drama, Romance, War
- Available on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Vudu, Amazon Video
Phoenix
A noirish study of treachery, identity, and survival.
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- Germany, Poland • 2014
- Director Christian Petzold
- Cast Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf, Trystan Pütter, Michael Maertens, Imogen Kogge
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, AMC+ Amazon Channel, IFC Films Unlimited Apple TV Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy
Our Daily Bread
(Unser täglich Brot)
An unsettling look at modern food processing only using sounds and images.
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- Germany, Austria • 2006
- Director Nikolaus Geyrhalter
- Cast Claus Hansen Petz, Arkadiusz Rydellek, Tibor Korom, András Szarvas
- Genre Documentary
- Available on OVID, DocAlliance Films, Apple TV, Amazon Video, Kanopy, Hoopla, myfilmfriend
Barbara
A Story of Love and Subterfuge with Simmering Intelligence.
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- Germany • 2012
- Director Christian Petzold
- Cast Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Jasna Fritzi Bauer, Mark Waschke, Rainer Bock, Alicia von Rittberg
- Genre Drama
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Hoopla, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Kino Film Collection, Apple TV, Kanopy
Das Boot
When the hunters become the hunted.
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- West Germany • 1981
- Director Wolfgang Petersen
- Cast Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann, Hubertus Bengsch, Martin Semmelrogge, Bernd Tauber
- Genre Drama, History, War
- Available on fuboTV, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, AMC on Demand
The Edge of Heaven
(Auf der anderen Seite)
A widower pays a prostitute to live with him and keep him company in this story of Turkish immigrants living in Germany.
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- Germany, Turkey, Italy • 2007
- Director Fatih Akin
- Cast Baki Davrak, Tuncel Kurtiz, Hanna Schygulla, Patrycia Ziolkowska, Nursel Köse
- Genre Drama
- Available on Hoopla, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV
Paragraph 175
The Nazi persecution of gay men and women is one of the least-told stories of the Third Reich—until now.
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- United Kingdom, Germany, United States • 2000
- Director Jeffrey Friedman
- Cast Rupert Everett
- Genre Documentary, History
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy
The Marquise of O
(Die Marquise von O...)
After being saved from a group of rapists by a valiant count, the Marquise of O finds herself pregnant.
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- West Germany, France • 1976
- Director Éric Rohmer
- Cast Edith Clever, Bruno Ganz, Edda Seippel, Peter Lühr, Otto Sander, Eduard Linkers
- Genre Drama, History
- Available on Hoopla, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, YouTube, FlixFling, The Roku Channel, Kanopy, Plex, Plex Channel
Wood and Water
A woman travels to Hong Kong to reunite with her estranged son.
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- Germany • 2021
- Director Jonas Bak
- Cast Anke Bak, Ricky Yeung, Alexandra Batten, Theresa Bak, Susanne Johnssen
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, OVID, Amazon Video, Hoopla
Knocked Up
(Drei in einem Bett)
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- Germany • 2013
- Director Wilhelm Engelhardt
- Cast Nadja Becker, Rüdiger Klink, Maximilian Grill, Christine Sommer, Grischa Huber
- Genre TV Movie, Comedy
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The White Ribbon
(Das weisse Band)
In rural Germany just before World War I, strange things are happening to a once-ordinary, authoritarian village society.
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- Germany, Austria, France • 2009
- Director Michael Haneke
- Cast Ursina Lardi, Ulrich Tukur, Burghart Klaußner, Christian Friedel, Leonie Benesch, Susanne Lothar
- Genre Drama, Mystery
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube
Revanche
An ex-con laying low after a robbery nearly blows his cover when he befriends the wife of a policeman.
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- Austria • 2008
- Director Götz Spielmann
- Cast Johannes Krisch, Irina Potapenko, Michael-Joachim Heiss, Andreas Lust, Hanno Pöschl, Ursula Strauss
- Genre Crime, Drama, Romance
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max, Amazon Video
Homo Sapiens
The images could be taken from a science fiction film set on planet Earth after it’s become uninhabitable. All these locations carry the traces of erstwhile human existence and bear witness to a civilization that brought forth architecture, art, the entertainment industry, technologies, ideologies, wars and environmental disasters.
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- Switzerland, Germany, Austria • 2016
- Director Nikolaus Geyrhalter
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on OVID, Apple TV, Kanopy
In My Room
An aimless man wakes up to find he is the last person on Earth.
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- Germany, Italy • 2018
- Director Ulrich Köhler
- Cast Hans Löw, Elena Radonicich, Michael Wittenborn, Emma Bading, Kathrin Resetarits
- Genre Drama
- Available on Hoopla, Apple TV, Amazon Video, Kanopy
Pina
Dance, dance, otherwise we are lost.
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- Germany, France, United Kingdom • 2011
- Director Wim Wenders
- Cast Regina Advento, Malou Airaudo, Ruth Amarante, Pina Bausch, Jorge Puerta, Mechthild Großmann
- Genre Documentary
- Available on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel, AMC+ Amazon Channel, IFC Films Unlimited Apple TV Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy, Plex, Plex Channel
The Ground Beneath My Feet
(Der Boden unter den Füssen)
Business consultant Lola controls her personal life with ruthless efficiency, until a tragic event forces a confrontation with the past.
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- Austria • 2019
- Director Marie Kreutzer
- Cast Valerie Pachner, Pia Hierzegger, Mavie Hörbiger, Michelle Barthel, Marc Benjamin
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy
The Girl and the Spider
(Das Mädchen und die Spinne)
A woman's emotions bubble to the surface on the day her roommate moves out of their apartment.
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- Switzerland • 2021
- Director Ramon Zürcher, Silvan Zürcher
- Cast Henriette Confurius, Liliane Amuat, Ursina Lardi, Flurin Giger, André Hennicke, Ivan Georgiev
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube
Downfall
(Der Untergang)
April 1945, a nation awaits its... Downfall
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- Germany, Austria, Italy • 2004
- Director Oliver Hirschbiegel
- Cast Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Corinna Harfouch, Ulrich Matthes, Juliane Köhler, Heino Ferch
- Genre Drama, History, War
- Available on Hoopla, Peacock, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Tubi TV, Pluto TV, Kanopy, Shout! Factory TV, Plex, Plex Channel
The Waldheim Waltz
(Waldheims Walzer)
History is doomed to repeat itself... again and again and again.
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- Austria • 2018
- Director Ruth Beckermann
- Cast Kurt Waldheim
- Genre Documentary
- Available on OVID, Chai Flicks, True Story, DocAlliance Films, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Tubi TV, VUDU Free, Kanopy, Hoopla
Requiem
She claimed she was possessed. There was no way to know for sure.
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- Germany • 2006
- Director Hans-Christian Schmid
- Cast Sandra Hüller, Burghart Klaußner, Imogen Kogge, Friederike Adolph, Anna Blomeier, Nicholas Reinke
- Genre Drama, Horror
- Available on AMC+ Amazon Channel, IFC Films Unlimited Apple TV Channel, Apple TV
Under the Sun
(Im Strahl der Sonne)
A year in the life of a family in Pyongyang, North Korea as the daughter prepares to join the Korean Children’s Union.
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- Czech Republic, Russia, Germany • 2016
- Director Vitaly Mansky
- Cast Lee Zin-Mi, Yu-Yong, Hye-Yong, Oh-Gyong, Choi Song-min
- Genre Documentary
- Available on OVID, Apple TV, Amazon Video, Tubi TV, Kanopy, Hoopla, Plex, Plex Channel
Western
A thriller on the frontier of Eastern Europe.
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- Germany, Bulgaria, Austria • 2017
- Director Valeska Grisebach
- Cast Meinhard Neumann, Reinhardt Wetrek, Syuleyman Alilov Letifo, Veneta Frangipova, Viara Borisova
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, YouTube
Rimini
Two brothers return to their childhood home to bury their recently deceased mother.
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- Germany, Austria, France • 2022
- Director Ulrich Seidl
- Cast Michael Thomas, Tessa Göttlicher, Hans-Michael Rehberg, Inge Maux, Claudia Martini, Georg Friedrich
- Genre Drama
- Available on MUBI
Goodnight Mommy
(Ich seh, Ich seh)
A mother should look out for her sons.
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- Austria • 2014
- Director Veronika Franz
- Cast Elias Schwarz, Lukas Schwarz, Susanne Wuest, Hans Escher, Elfriede Schatz, Karl Purker
- Genre Drama, Horror, Thriller
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Hoopla, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Tubi TV, Pluto TV, Freevee
The Inheritors
(Die Erben)
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- Austria • 1983
- Director Walter Bannert
- Cast Nikolas Vogel, Wolfgang Gasser, Kurt Jaggberg, Alexander Wussow, Rudi Schippel, Roger Schauer
- Genre Drama, Action, War
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Corsage
A stunning exploration of beauty, aging, and loneliness through a fictional account of one year in the life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria.
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- Austria, France, Luxembourg • 2022
- Director Marie Kreutzer
- Cast Vicky Krieps, Florian Teichtmeister, Katharina Lorenz, Jeanne Werner, Alma Hasun, Finnegan Oldfield
- Genre Drama, History
- Available on Hulu, AMC+, AMC+ Amazon Channel, IFC Films Unlimited Apple TV Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube
The Guardians
(Schutzengel)
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- Germany • 2012
- Director Til Schweiger
- Cast Til Schweiger, Luna Schweiger, Moritz Bleibtreu, Karoline Schuch, Hannah Herzsprung, Rainer Bock
- Genre Drama, Action, Thriller, Crime
- Available on No streaming locations found.
In the Mirror of Maya Deren
(Im Spiegel der Maya Deren)
Documentary about the life of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, who led the independent film movement of the 1940s.
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- Austria, Czech Republic, Switzerland • 2002
- Director Martina Kudlácek
- Cast Maya Deren, Stan Brakhage, Judith Malina, Alexander Hammid, Chao Li Chi, Miriam Arsham
- Genre Documentary
- Available on OVID, Kanopy
Chess Story
(Schachnovelle)
An Austrian lawyer trapped in a room by nazis becomes immersed in a game of chess.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany, Austria • 2021
- Director Philipp Stölzl
- Cast Oliver Masucci, Albrecht Schuch, Birgit Minichmayr, Andreas Lust, Samuel Finzi, Lukas Miko
- Genre Drama, History, Thriller, War
- Available on Hoopla, Film Movement Plus, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube
The Strange Little Cat
(Das merkwürdige Kätzchen)
In this family apartment, the mundane is not what it seems.
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- Germany • 2013
- Director Ramon Zürcher
- Cast Anjorka Strechel, Jenny Schily, Matthias Dittmer, Luk Pfaff
- Genre Comedy, Drama, Family
- Available on Hoopla, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy
All Good
(Alles ist gut)
A woman struggles with the trauma of being sexually assaulted.
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- Germany • 2018
- Director Eva Trobisch
- Cast Aenne Schwarz, Andreas Döhler, Hans Löw, Tilo Nest, Lisa Hagmeister, Lina Wendel
- Genre Drama
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads, Apple TV
Wings of Desire
(Der Himmel über Berlin)
There are angels on the streets of Berlin.
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- West Germany, France • 1987
- Director Wim Wenders
- Cast Bruno Ganz, Otto Sander, Solveig Dommartin, Curt Bois, Peter Falk, Hans Martin Stier
- Genre Drama, Fantasy, Romance
- Available on Criterion Channel, TCM, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube
Nosferatu the Vampyre
(Nosferatu - Phantom der Nacht)
A real estate agent seeks to buy property from Count Dracula, whose true interests lie in the agent's wife.
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- West Germany, France • 1979
- Director Werner Herzog
- Cast Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani, Bruno Ganz, Roland Topor, Walter Ladengast, Martje Grohmann
- Genre Drama, Horror
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Fandor Amazon Channel, fuboTV, Peacock, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Redbox, Crackle, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Popcornflix, Pluto TV, Freevee, Kanopy, Shout! Factory TV, Plex, Plex Channel
The American Friend
(Der amerikanische Freund)
Tom Ripley, who deals in forged art, suggests a picture framer he knows would make a good hitman.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- West Germany, France • 1977
- Director Wim Wenders
- Cast Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz, Lisa Kreuzer, Gérard Blain, Nicholas Ray, Samuel Fuller
- Genre Drama, Thriller
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Vudu, Amazon Video
Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary
(Im toten Winkel - Hitlers Sekretärin)
The first ever recorded interview with Traudl Junge, Hitler’s personal secretary from 1942 until the collapse of the Nazi regime.
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- Austria • 2002
- Director Othmar Schmiderer
- Cast Traudl Junge, Adolf Hitler, Eva Braun, Albert Speer, Hans Hermann Junge, Joseph Goebbels
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube
Silent Light
(Stellet Licht)
Johan is a Mennonite who, despite his guilt, is cheating on his wife.
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- Mexico, France, Netherlands • 2007
- Director Carlos Reygadas
- Cast Cornelio Wall, Miriam Toews, Maria Pankratz, Peter Wall, Jacobo Klassen, Elizabeth Fehr
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Vudu, VUDU Free, Kanopy
I'm Your Man
(Ich bin dein Mensch)
To secure funding for her work, an archeologist signs up to test a robot designed to be her perfect partner.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 2021
- Director Maria Schrader
- Cast Maren Eggert, Dan Stevens, Sandra Hüller, Hans Löw, Annika Meier
- Genre Comedy, Romance, Science Fiction
- Available on Hulu, Hoopla, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, AMC on Demand, Kanopy
(M)Other
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- Germany • 2019
- Director Antonia Hungerland
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on DocAlliance Films
Head-On
(Gegen die Wand)
A marriage of convenience becomes something more—something complicated.
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- Germany, Turkey • 2004
- Director Fatih Akin
- Cast Birol Ünel, Sibel Kekilli, Catrin Striebeck, Güven Kıraç, Meltem Cumbul, Stefan Gebelhoff
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Alice in the Cities
(Alice in den Städten)
A German writer journeys with a young girl through Europe in a quest to find her grandmother.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- West Germany • 1974
- Director Wim Wenders
- Cast Rüdiger Vogler, Yella Rottländer, Lisa Kreuzer, Edda Köchl, Ernest Boehm, Sam Presti
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube
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