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Plot Summary:
Tom is constantly running into problems and gets beaten up time and time again.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense
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Something to Remind Me (2001)
Plot Summary:
Middle-aged lawyer Thomas assists Leyla, an attractive blonde, when she drops her things at the pool. After their paths keep crossing, he picks up the courage to ask her out for a date. Somewhat to his surprise she agrees, but arrives late, just as the restaurant is closing. They go back to his apartment for an impromptu pizza and, after a few drinks, she falls asleep on the couch. The next morning Thomas awakes to find Leyla and his laptop, which contains vital case files, missing... An expertly constructed thriller in the tradition of Hitchcock and Chabrol, writer/director Christian Petzold's Something To Remind Me keeps the viewer enthralled throughout. -- Keith Hennessey Brown, Eye for Film.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 708
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Father's Day (1996)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Afire (2023)
Plot Summary:
A seaside vacation takes an unexpected turn when Leon and Felix show up at Felix's family's holiday home to discover Nadja, a mysterious woman, already there. As an ever-encroaching forest fire threatens their well-being, relationships are tested and romances are kindled.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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Love Your Female Neighbor! (1998)
Plot Summary:
Two young and attractive social workers/nuns bring fresh air into a city missionary station, but are also challenged by lust and money, offered by a millionaire.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 388
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Citizen Nikanorova Waits for You (1978)
Plot Summary:
Katya Nikanorova leaves her village in order to find her loved one.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Die Hunde sind schuld (2001)
Plot Summary:
A comedy directed by Andreas Prochaska. Barbara Valentin's last movie.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: detective
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The Family Jewels (2003)
Plot Summary:
Martin is the ambitious one in the family. He is poised to start on his doctorate, when he is diagnosed with testicular cancer and all his future plans begin to unravel. The removal of one testicle reduces the most immediate threat, but the cancer has already spread and Martin's doctor argues for an operation that would save him, but could also castrate him.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 627
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy
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I Hate the Man in My Basement (2020)
Plot Summary:
After his wife's death, Claude struggles to appear normal while living with a Secret.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 414
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, serious, emotional
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You're Not Alone (2007)
Plot Summary:
Master painter Hans Moll and his wife, the television announcer Ms. Wellinek and her husband, and the German-Russian Jew Yevgenia have many things to live on: food, drink, an apartment. What they do not have is work. They all discover the yearning for a chance to start all over again and bring themselves back to life.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Chameleon (2008)
Plot Summary:
While cleaning offices at night, Zsolt Kovàcs learns a lot about his invisible employers by examining what they leave behind, carefully choosing his targets, often disillusioned women whom he seduces, methodically taking their money. An artist of manipulation, with a generous dose of humor and the ability to assume different personalities, Zsolt begins to work in a psychologist's practice, where he meets Hanna, a 30 year-old dancer who is physically incapacitated and the daughter of a millionaire. The ideal victim if love doesn't get in the way.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hungary
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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Ajlawju (1999)
Plot Summary:
The story follows complicated relation between Adas Miauczynski "Cezary Pazura" and Gosia "Katarzyna Figura".
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 760
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Je Suis Karl (2021)
Plot Summary:
After most of her family is murdered in a terrorist bombing, a young woman is unknowingly lured into joining the very group that killed them.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany, Czech Republic
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Chanthupottu (2005)
Plot Summary:
Chanthupottu is a 2005 Malayalam film directed by Lal Jose, written by Benny P. Nayarambalam, and produced by Lal. The story is about a man named Radhakrishnan who was brought up like a girl by his grandmother.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 868
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags:
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Fabian: Going to the Dogs (2021)
Plot Summary:
In 1930s Berlin, Dr. Jakob Fabian, who works by day in advertising for a cigarette company and by night wanders the streets of the city, falls in love with an actress. As her career begins to blossom, prospects for his future begin to wane.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 176 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Pharmacist (1997)
Plot Summary:
Hella is around 30 and works in a pharmacy. She is waiting for the right man to step into her life, but as she has a certain affinity for losers, she is kind of disillusionized. When she gets to know Levin, a dentist student who likes cars most, her dreams seem to come true. Levin has a very rich grandfather who likes her at first glance. The old man thinks of changing his last will to the condition that Levin has to marry Hella in order to inherit his fortunes. Like in a fairy-tale the door to a new life opens for Hella, but can she take it?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 986
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: manga, atmospheric, humorous, realistic, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy
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Undine (2020)
Plot Summary:
Undine works as a historian lecturing on Berlin's urban development. When the man she loves leaves her, the ancient myth catches up with her. But falling in love anew, Undine reworks the myth of the mysterious water spirit as a modern fairy-tale in a disenchanted world.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, romantic, scenic, lyrical, crying, mystical, weird, urban fantasy
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Sachertorte (2022)
Plot Summary:
Karl meets Nini at a Berlin train station: it is love at first sight. But the few hours they spend together before she travels back to Vienna end in a mishap in which Karl loses her phone number. He decides to move to the Austrian capital to find his dream woman again.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags:
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Tempting Fate (2015)
Plot Summary:
Two brothers, one of deep faith and the other buried in a life of crime have their worlds torn apart when the wrong one goes to jail and the other commits an unforgivable act.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, emotional, suspense, poignant, independent film
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303 (2018)
Plot Summary:
On the way from Berlin to Portugal in her rusty '303' camper van, young biology student Jule picks up hitchhiker Jan. While having intense conversations about everything and the world, they try not to fall in love.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: road movie, light, sincere, melancholic, philosophical, noir, mumblecore, art house, aesthetic, independent film
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What to Do in Case of Fire? (2001)
Plot Summary:
What To Do In Case of Fire? tells the humorous and touching story of six former creative anarchists who lived as house squatters in Berlin during its heyday in the 80s when Berlin was still an island in the middle of the former eastern Germany. At the end of the 80s they went their separate ways with the exception of Tim and Hotte, who have remained true to their ideals and continue to fight the issues they did as a group. In 2000, with Berlin as Germany's new capital, an event happens forcing the group out of existential reason to reunite and, ultimately, come to grips with the reason they separated 12 years ago.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: political, compassionate, melancholic, talky, realistic, humorous, semi serious, suspense, breathtaking, clever
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Phoenix (2014)
Plot Summary:
A disfigured concentration-camp survivor, unrecognizable after facial reconstruction surgery, searches ravaged postwar Berlin for the husband who might have betrayed her to the Nazis.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Drama, History, Music, Romance
Country: Germany, Poland
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, enigmatic, tricky, neo noir, social, suspense, stylized, philosophical, noir
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The State I Am In (2000)
Plot Summary:
With 1970s Germany in the background, this film depicts the story of a family from the “R.A.F. Terrorist” group and their search for a normal life and their inner self.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, serious, realistic, political, gloomy
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Yella (2007)
Plot Summary:
Drama about a woman who is estranged from the possessive and violent husband who can't bring himself to give her up. When their fraught interaction finally comes to a dramatic conclusion, her life takes an odd shift.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, captivating, tense, mysterious, intelligent, atmospheric, serious, realistic, surprise ending
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Victoria (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young Spanish woman who has newly moved to Berlin finds her flirtation with a local guy turn potentially deadly as their night out with his friends reveals a dangerous secret.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 62000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, intense, tense, realistic, atmospheric, neo noir, meditative, disturbing, art house, sentimental
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Dreamfactory (2019)
Plot Summary:
A romantic drama set in 1961 that follows a young studio extra's ambitious efforts to reunite with the French girl he loves after being separated by the construction of the Berlin Wall.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: romantic, uplifting, touching, sweet, sentimental
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Desire Will Set You Free (2015)
Plot Summary:
Desire Will Set You Free is a feature film that explores life in contemporary Berlin with an often critical and sometimes humorous eye. Based on a true story, the plot follows the relationship of an American writer of Israeli/Palestinian descent and a Russian aspiring artist working as a hustler, offering access to the city's vibrant queer and underground scenes while examining the differences between expatriate and refugee life. Our characters travel through Berlin's layered history and unique subcultural landscape; on their adventures they discover influences and remnants of the Weimar Republic, WWII, the Bowie years, and punk.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: lgbt cinema, psychological, sexy, humorous, erotic, queer cinema, gay cinema, cult film
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Taxi (2015)
Plot Summary:
Hamburg, mid 80s, Alex is a cabby. The sound is hard, pubs are dark and loud, people constantly argue about anything and everything, people smoke all the time, and not just cigarettes. Alex wants love and freedom and sleeps with Dietrich. It's far from being love, but the sex is okay. With Marc, a little person full of dignity, she finds more than that. The rest is struggles with her passengers, the indifferent and the doomed, brutes as other nuisances. This sort of life could go on and on, Alex could drive away from her own life and in doing so lose Marc and not getting rid of Dietrich. Wouldn't there be a small monkey with the same invincible desire for freedom as hers.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 556
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Loverboy (2017)
Plot Summary:
15-year-old Caro is one of the inconspicuous students in her school. One day she get noted by a handsome, wealthy Turkish guy who is 5 years older than her. Since they start seeing each other she turns into a totally different person.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, sentimental, sexy, captivating, disturbing
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Dedh Ishqiya (2014)
Plot Summary:
Khalujaan (Naseeruddin Shah)and Babban (Arshad Warsi), the two romantic thieves are back in Dedh Ishqiya, sequel to the acclaimed and successful Ishqiya with their romantic adventures. And this time love will take them through the SEVEN STAGES OF LOVE... with the beautiful and dangerous Madhuri Dixit as Begum Para and Huma Qureshi as Munniya.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 152 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, semi serious, humorous, realistic, queer cinema, extraordinary
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Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (2002)
Plot Summary:
Dek, a decent but somewhat dull man, enjoys a happy existence with beloved girlfriend Shirley. They live together with her 12-year-old, Marlene: her daughter by the delinquent Jimmy, who flew the coop years ago and hasn't been heard from since. Dek loves Shirley so much that he proposes to her on national television.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, sweet, entertaining, melancholic, intense, atmospheric, witty, touching, feel good, semi serious