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Strike
(Strajk - Die Heldin von Danzig)
After working her way to the top, single mother Agnieszka faces the ultimate tests of her leadership skills.
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- Germany, Poland • 2007
- Director Volker Schlöndorff
- Cast Katharina Thalbach, Andrzej Chyra, Dominique Horwitz
- Genre
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Rainmaker
(Die Regentrude)
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- East Germany • 1976
- Director Ursula Schmenger
- Cast Cox Habbema, Ingolf Gorges, Brigitte Heinrich, Fred Delmare, Helga Göring, Gerd Ehlers
- Genre Adventure, Fantasy, Family
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Hagazussa
A Heathen's Curse.
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- Austria, Germany • 2018
- Director Lukas Feigelfeld
- Cast Aleksandra Cwen, Claudia Martini, Tanja Petrovsky, Haymon Maria Buttinger
- Genre Horror, Drama, Fantasy
- Available on Fandor Amazon Channel, Hoopla, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, Freevee, Kanopy, Plex, Plex Channel
In July
(Im Juli)
A Summer Night's Dream
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- Germany • 2000
- Director Fatih Akın
- Cast Moritz Bleibtreu, Christiane Paul, Mehmet Kurtuluş, İdil Üner, Branka Katić, Fatih Akın
- Genre Adventure, Comedy, Romance
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Bagdad Cafe
(Out of Rosenheim)
A German woman finds community amongst the eclectic members of a rural desert community in the American Southwest.
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- West Germany • 1987
- Director Percy Adlon
- Cast Marianne Sägebrecht, CCH Pounder, Jack Palance, Christine Kaufmann, Monica Calhoun, Darron Flagg, George Aguilar
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Cohen Media Amazon Channel, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, VUDU Free, Freevee, Kanopy, Hoopla, Shout! Factory TV, Plex, Plex Channel
The Unknown Soldier
(Der unbekannte Soldat)
An examination of the popular reaction to the traveling Wehrmacht exhibition detailing ordinary German soldier’s involvement in atrocities during WWII.
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- Germany • 2006
- Director Michael Verhoeven
- Cast
- Genre Documentary, Drama, History, War
- Available on Kanopy
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance
(71 Fragmente einer Chronologie des Zufalls)
71 scenes detailing a college student who murders four people before committing suicide in his car on Christmas Eve
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- Austria, Germany • 1994
- Director Michael Haneke
- Cast Gabriel Cosmin Urdes, Lukas Miko, Otto Grünmandl, Anne Bennent, Udo Samel, Dorothee Hartinger
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
To the Limit
(Am Limit)
Daredevil mountain climbers attempt to break another speed climbing record.
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- Germany, Austria • 2007
- Director Pepe Danquart
- Cast Alexander Huber, Thomas Huber
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Pure Flix
Jerichow
Bite the hand that feeds. Kiss the hand that is fed.
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- Germany • 2008
- Director Christian Petzold
- Cast Benno Fürmann, Nina Hoss, Hilmi Sözer, André Hennicke, Claudia Geisler, Marie Gruber
- Genre Drama
- Available on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel, Vudu, Kanopy
Everyone Else
(Alle Anderen)
While on a Mediterranean vacation, a seemingly happy boyfriend and girlfriend find their connection to one another tested as they bond with another couple.
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- Germany • 2009
- Director Maren Ade
- Cast Birgit Minichmayr, Lars Eidinger, Hans-Jochen Wagner, Nicole Marischka, Carina N. Wiese, Paula Hartmann
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Apple TV, Kanopy
Searching for Ingmar Bergman
(Auf der Suche nach Ingmar Bergman)
A documentary about the life and work of director Ingmar Bergman, in celebration of what would’ve been his 100th birthday.
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- Germany, France • 2018
- Director Margarethe von Trotta
- Cast Margarethe von Trotta, Olivier Assayas, Daniel Bergman, Ingmar Bergman Jr., Stig Björkman, Jean-Claude Carrière
- Genre Documentary
- Available on OVID, Night Flight Plus, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube, Pluto TV, Kanopy, Hoopla, Plex, Plex Channel
Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision
(Die andere Heimat - Chronik einer Sehnsucht)
Follow-up to the acclaimed miniseries "Heimat," this time for cinemas.
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- Germany, France • 2013
- Director Edgar Reitz
- Cast Jan Dieter Schneider, Antonia Bill, Maximilian Scheidt, Marita Breuer, Rüdiger Kriese, Philine Lembeck
- Genre Drama, History
- Available on Hoopla, Apple TV, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Kanopy, Plex, Plex Channel
My Best Fiend
(Mein liebster Feind)
A revelatory documentary depicting the complicated and conflict-filled relationship between an iconic filmmaker and actor.
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- Germany, United Kingdom, United States • 1999
- Director Werner Herzog
- Cast Werner Herzog, Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, Justo González, Mick Jagger, Eva Mattes
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Fandor, Fandor Amazon Channel, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Freevee, Cineverse, Kanopy, Shout! Factory TV, Plex, Plex Channel
Solino
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- Germany • 2002
- Director Fatih Akin
- Cast Barnaby Metschurat, Moritz Bleibtreu, Gigi Savoia, Antonella Attili, Patrycia Ziolkowska, Hermann Lause
- Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Cleaners
Who is controlling what we see... and what we think?
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- Germany, Brazil, Netherlands • 2018
- Director Moritz Riesewick
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Silence Before Bach
(Die Stille vor Bach)
A playful exploration of Bach’s music, using a combination of historical recreation and documentary sequences.
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- Spain • 2007
- Director Pere Portabella
- Cast Àlex Brendemühl, Féodor Atkine, Christian Brembeck, Daniel Ligorio, Georg C. Biller, Antonio Serrano
- Genre Drama, Experimental
- Available on No streaming locations found.
At the Edge of the World
(Am Rande der Welt)
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- Germany • 1927
- Director Karl Grune
- Cast Albert Steinrück, William Dieterle, Brigitte Helm, Max Schreck, Imre Ráday, Camilla von Hollay
- Genre War, Romance, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Europa
World War II had finished, but it left indelible marks
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- Denmark, Sweden, France • 1991
- Director Lars von Trier
- Cast Jean-Marc Barr, Barbara Sukowa, Udo Kier, Max von Sydow, Eddie Constantine, Jørgen Reenberg
- Genre Drama
- Available on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max
Hannah Arendt
Her ideas changed the world.
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- Germany, Luxembourg, France • 2012
- Director Margarethe von Trotta
- Cast Barbara Sukowa, Axel Milberg, Janet McTeer, Julia Jentsch, Nicholas Woodeson, Ulrich Noethen
- Genre Drama
- Available on Chai Flicks, Metrograph, Apple TV, Kanopy, Hoopla
Amour Fou
(Amour fou)
A "romantic comedy" based loosely on the suicide of the poet Henrich von Kleist in 1811.
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- Austria, Luxembourg, Germany • 2014
- Director Jessica Hausner
- Cast Christian Friedel, Birte Schnoeink, Stephan Grossmann, Katharina Schüttler, Hana Sofia Lopes
- Genre Drama, Comedy, Romance
- Available on Hoopla, Film Movement Plus, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand, Kanopy
Good Bye, Lenin!
The German Democratic Republic lives on -- in 79 square meters!
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- Germany • 2003
- Director Wolfgang Becker
- Cast Daniel Brühl, Katrin Sass, Chulpan Khamatova, Maria Simon, Florian Lukas, Alexander Beyer
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube
Never Look Away
(Werk ohne Autor)
A young West German art student in love must grapple with his past, and that of his family and his country.
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- Germany, Italy • 2018
- Director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
- Cast Tom Schilling, Sebastian Koch, Paula Beer, Saskia Rosendahl, Oliver Masucci, Lars Eidinger
- Genre Drama, History, Thriller
- Available on Starz Apple TV Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand
The Edukators
(Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei)
Three young anti-capitalist activists decide to "educate" the upper-classes by breaking into homes and vandalizing them.
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- Germany, Austria • 2004
- Director Hans Weingartner
- Cast Daniel Brühl, Julia Jentsch, Stipe Erceg, Burghart Klaußner, Peer Martiny, Petra Zieser
- Genre Drama, Comedy
- Available on Amazon Video
Stations of the Cross
(Kreuzweg)
A young girl is torn between normal teenage life and her fundamentalist Catholic upbringing.
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- Germany, France • 2014
- Director Dietrich Brüggemann
- Cast Lea van Acken, Franziska Weisz, Florian Stetter, Lucie Aron, Moritz Knapp, Michael Kamp
- Genre Drama
- Available on Fandor Amazon Channel, Hoopla, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, Freevee, Kanopy, Plex, Plex Channel
Wintersleepers
(Winterschläfer)
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- Germany • 1997
- Director Tom Tykwer
- Cast Ulrich Matthes, Marie-Lou Sellem, Floriane Daniel, Heino Ferch, Josef Bierbichler, Laura Tonke
- Genre Drama, Thriller, Romance
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Enlightenment Guaranteed
(Erleuchtung Garantiert)
Two Strangers in a Strange Land.
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- Germany • 2000
- Director Doris Dörrie
- Cast Uwe Ochsenknecht, Gustav-Peter Wöhler, Petra Zieser, Ulrike Kriener, Heiner Lauterbach, Wilson Gonzalez Ochsenknecht
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
In the Basement
(Im Keller)
What do people do in their basements when they can do anything they want?
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- Austria, Germany • 2014
- Director Ulrich Seidl
- Cast Alessa Duchek, Gerald Duchek, Inge Ellinger, Manfred Ellinger, Walter Holzer
- Genre Documentary
- Available on MUBI, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube
Vision – From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen
(Vision - Aus dem Leben der Hildegard von Bingen)
The story of Hildegard von Bingen, a Benedictine nun ahead of her time.
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- Germany, France • 2009
- Director Margarethe von Trotta
- Cast Barbara Sukowa, Heino Ferch, Hannah Herzsprung, Devid Striesow, Sunnyi Melles, Lena Stolze
- Genre Drama
- Available on Hoopla, Apple TV, Kanopy
Learn to Swim
(Freischwimmer)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 2019
- Director Gaya Von Schwarze
- Cast Stephanie Petrowitz, Luca Hennig, Julia Brunsch, Jasper Brunsch, Jean-François Roy
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
In Heaven Underground: The Weissensee Jewish Cemetery
(Im Himmel, unter der Erde)
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- Germany • 2011
- Director Britta Wauer
- Cast William Wolff
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
North Face
(Nordwand)
A suspenseful adventure film based on two men’s infamous 1936 attempt to climb the biggest north face in the Alps.
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- Germany, Austria, Switzerland • 2008
- Director Philipp Stölzl
- Cast Benno Fürmann, Florian Lukas, Johanna Wokalek, Georg Friedrich, Simon Schwarz, Ulrich Tukur
- Genre Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Thriller
- Available on Hoopla, fuboTV, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Crackle, Tubi TV, Kanopy, Plex, Plex Channel
The Green Wave
Director Ali Samadi Ahadi illustrates the fight for democracy by protesters in the Persian Green Movement.
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- Germany • 2010
- Director Ali Samadi Ahadi
- Cast Mohsen Kadivar, Mitra Khalatbari, Shadi Sadr, Mehdi Mohseni, Payam Akhavan, Babak
- Genre Animation, Documentary
- Available on fuboTV, YouTube, Tubi TV, Kanopy, myfilmfriend
Pianomania
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.
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- Austria, Germany • 2009
- Director Robert Cibis
- Cast Lang Lang, Stefan Knüpfer, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Hyung-Ki Joo, Alfred Brendel, Aleksey Igudesman
- Genre Documentary, Music
- Available on Fandor Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube
The Goebbels Experiment
(Das Goebbels-Experiment)
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- Germany, United Kingdom • 2005
- Director Lutz Hachmeister
- Cast Kenneth Branagh
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Circle
(Der Kreis)
Love should never be a crime
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- Switzerland • 2014
- Director Stefan Haupt
- Cast Matthias Hungerbühler, Sven Schelker, Babett Arens, Aaron Hitz, Martin Hug, Peter Jecklin
- Genre Documentary, Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Vudu, The Roku Channel, Kanopy
The Captain
(Der Hauptmann)
A deserter of the Nazi army stumbles upon an officer's uniform and soon finds people following him.
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- Germany, France, Poland • 2017
- Director Robert Schwentke
- Cast Max Hubacher, Milan Peschel, Frederick Lau, Marko Dyrlich, David Scheller, Sebastian Rudolph
- Genre Drama, History, War
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel, Hoopla, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, Freevee, Plex, Plex Channel
Abendland
A documentary of Europe at night.
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- Austria • 2011
- Director Nikolaus Geyrhalter
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on OVID, DocAlliance Films
Berlin Babylon
A documentary focusing on the rebuilding projects in Berlin after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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- Germany • 2001
- Director Hubertus Siegert
- Cast Günter Behnisch, Werner Durth, Helmut Jahn, Josef Paul Kleihues, Hans Kollhoff, Rem Koolhaas
- Genre Documentary, History
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Divine Order
(Die göttliche Ordnung)
The Swiss countryside is untouched by the major social upheavals the movement of 1968 has brought about, and Nora’s life isn't effected either – until she starts to publicly fight for women’s suffrage, which the men are due to vote on in a ballot on February 7, 1971.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Switzerland • 2017
- Director Petra Biondina Volpe
- Cast Marie Leuenberger, Maximilian Simonischek, Marta Zoffoli, Bettina Stucky, Rachel Braunschweig, Sibylle Brunner
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, Kanopy
Schultze Gets the Blues
A retired salt miner hears zydeco music for the first time and travels from his East German village to Louisiana.
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- Germany • 2003
- Director Michael Schorr
- Cast Horst Krause, Harald Warmbrunn, Karl-Fred Müller, Ursula Schucht, Hannelore Schubert, Marylu Poolman
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube
The Ninth Day
(Der neunte Tag)
A difficult decision between faith and death
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- Germany, Luxembourg, Czech Republic • 2004
- Director Volker Schlöndorff
- Cast Ulrich Matthes, August Diehl, Hilmar Thate, Bibiana Beglau, Germain Wagner, Jean-Paul Raths
- Genre Drama
- Available on Chai Flicks, Amazon Video, Freevee
The Tower
(Der Turm)
A bourgeois family’s struggles during crumbling Communist rule in 1980’s East Germany
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 2012
- Director Christian Schwochow
- Cast Jan Josef Liefers, Claudia Michelsen, Nadja Uhl, Sebastian Urzendowsky, Götz Schubert, Stephanie Stumph
- Genre Drama, TV Movie
- Available on No streaming locations found.
In the Aisles
(In den Gängen)
Coworkers flirt over coffee in this supermarket drama.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 2018
- Director Thomas Stuber
- Cast Sandra Hüller, Franz Rogowski, Peter Kurth, Henning Peker, Ramona Kunze-Libnow, Sascha Nathan
- Genre Drama
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Hoopla, fuboTV, OVID, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Crackle, Tubi TV, Kanopy, Plex, Plex Channel
Jesus, You Know
(Jesus, Du weisst)
Six Catholics share their prayers.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Austria • 2003
- Director Ulrich Seidl
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Kanopy
The Wall
(Die Wand)
A woman finds herself inexplicably cut off from all human contact when an invisible wall suddenly surrounds her countryside cabin.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Austria, Germany • 2012
- Director Julian Pölsler
- Cast Martina Gedeck, Ulrike Beimpold, Karlheinz Hackl, Wolfgang Maria Bauer, Julia Gschnitzer, Hans-Michael Rehberg
- Genre Drama, Science Fiction
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Fandor, Fandor Amazon Channel, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, Freevee, Kanopy, Plex, Plex Channel
I Was at Home, But...
(Ich war zuhause, aber)
After a 13-year-old disappears for a week and suddenly returns, his mother and teachers are confronted with existential questions that change their whole view of life.
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- Germany, Serbia • 2019
- Director Angela Schanelec
- Cast Maren Eggert, Franz Rogowski, Lilith Stangenberg, Jirka Zett, Dane Komljen, Thorbjörn Björnsson
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, YouTube, Kanopy
That's Life
(Verliebt in Berlin)
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- Germany • 2005
- Creator Michael Esser, Peter Schlesselmann
- Cast Alexandra Neldel, Laura Osswald, Tim Sander, Hubertus Regout, Mathis Künzler, Olivia Pascal
- Genre Soap
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Woman with the 5 Elephants
(Die Frau mit den 5 Elefanten)
Chronicles the incredible life of Svetlana Geier, a Ukrainian woman who translated the great works of Dostoyevsky into German.
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- Switzerland, Germany • 2010
- Director Vadim Jendreyko
- Cast Svetlana Geier, Anna Götte, Hannelore Hagen, Jürgen Klodt
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube
Dog Days
(Hundstage)
A series of vignette storylines woven into a tapestry of loneliness and quiet desperation.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Austria • 2001
- Director Ulrich Seidl
- Cast Maria Hofstätter, Alfred Mrva, Franziska Weisz, Christine Jirku, Viktor Hennemann, Georg Friedrich
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Kanopy
Breathing
(Atmen)
A 19-year-old is coming out of prison and trying to build a new life, but he can't deal with his guilt.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Austria • 2011
- Director Karl Markovics
- Cast Thomas Schubert, Karin Lischka, Georg Friedrich, Gerhard Liebmann, Stefan Matousch, Luna Mijović
- Genre Drama
- Available on Hoopla, Kanopy
Tattoo
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 2002
- Director Robert Schwentke
- Cast August Diehl, Christian Redl, Nadeshda Brennicke, Johan Leysen, Ilknur Bahadir, Joe Bausch
- Genre Thriller, Drama, Crime
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Beloved Sisters
(Die geliebten Schwestern)
The secret story of Schiller's passion.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany, Austria, Switzerland • 2014
- Director Dominik Graf
- Cast Florian Stetter, Henriette Confurius, Hannah Herzsprung, Ronald Zehrfeld, Andreas Pietschmann
- Genre Drama, History, Romance
- Available on Fandor Amazon Channel, Hoopla, OVID, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, Kanopy, Plex, Plex Channel
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