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Berlinale 2019: Movies of the 69th Berlin International Film Festival

Public list by WPS with 41 movies or TV shows/series

These movies were running as part of the Berlinale 2019 (69th Berlin International Film Festival) from 7 to 17 February 2019.

The 69th annual Berlin International Film Festival took place from 7 to 17 February 2019. French actress Juliette Binoche served as the Jury President. Lone Scherfig's drama film The Kindness of Strangers opened the festival. The Golden Bear was won by Israeli-French drama Synonyms directed by Nadav Lapid, which also served as the closing film of the festival. ()

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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind(2019)

1h 53min | Drama, History, Kids & Family
4.0/5 (with 699 votes)

Against all the odds, a thirteen year old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine.

Directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor - With Maxwell Simba, Chiwetel Ejiofor
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Mr. Jones(2019)

1h 59min | Thriller, Drama, History
3.4/5 (with 140 votes)

In 1933, Welsh journalist Gareth Jones travels to Ukraine, where he experiences the horrors of a famine. Everywhere he goes he meets henchmen of the Soviet secret service who are determined to prevent news about the catastrophe from getting out. Stalin’s forced collectivisation of agriculture has resulted in misery and ruin—the policy is tantamount to mass murder.

Directed by Agnieszka Holland - With James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, Peter Sarsgaardd, Joseph Mawle, Kenneth Cranham, Michalina Olszańska, ...
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Vice(2018)

R
| 2h 12min | Comedy, Drama
3.5/5 (with 1,482 votes)

George W. Bush picks Dick Cheney, the CEO of Halliburton Co., to be his Republican running mate in the 2000 presidential election. No stranger to politics, Cheney's impressive résumé includes stints as White House chief of staff, House Minority Whip and Defense Secretary. When Bush wins by a narrow margin, Cheney begins to use his newfound power to help reshape the country and the world.

Directed by Adam McKay - With Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Alison Pill, Steve Carell, Sam Rockwell, Bill Pullman, ...
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mid90s(2018)

R
| 1h 26min | Drama, Comedy
3.7/5 (with 652 votes)

Stevie is a sweet 13-year-old about to explode. His mom is loving and attentive, but a little too forthcoming about her romantic life. His big brother is a taciturn and violent bully. So Stevie searches his working-class Los Angeles suburb for somewhere to belong. He finds it at the Motor Avenue skate shop.

Directed by Jonah Hill - With Sunny Suljic, Lucas Hedges, Katherine Waterston, Na-Kel Smith, Olan Prenatt
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Light of My Life(2019)

R
| 1h 59min | Science Fiction, Drama
3.3/5 (with 228 votes)

Parent and child journey through the outskirts of society a decade after a pandemic has wiped out half the world's population. As a father struggles to protect his child, their bond—and the character of humanity—is tested.

Directed by Casey Affleck - With Casey Affleck, Elisabeth Moss, Tom Bower
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Piranhas(2019)

NR
| 1h 45min | Drama, Crime
3.5/5 (with 232 votes)

A gang of teenage boys stalk the streets of Naples armed with hand guns and AK-47s to do their mob bosses' bidding – until they decide to be the bosses themselves.

Directed by Claudio Giovannesi - With Aniello Arena, Renato Carpentieri, Artem Tkachuk, Valentina Vannino, Mattia Piano Del Balzo

By the Grace of God(2019)

2h 17min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 231 votes)

Alexandre lives in Lyon with his wife and children. One day, he discovered by chance that the priest who abused him to scouts always officiates with children. He then starts a fight, quickly joined by François and Emmanuel, also victims of the priest, to "release their word" on what they suffered.

Directed by François Ozon - With Melvil Poupaud, Denis Ménochet, Swann Arlaud, Éric Caravaca, Bernard Verley, François Marthouret, ...

The Golden Glove(2019)

1h 50min | Drama, Thriller, Crime
3.5/5 (with 193 votes)

A serial killer strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s.

Directed by Fatih Akin - With Jonas Dassler, Margarethe Tiesel, Katja Studt, Marc Hosemann, Martina Eitner-Acheampong, Adam Bousdoukos, ...

Monos(2019)

1h 43min | Drama, War
3.4/5 (with 162 votes)

On a faraway mountaintop, eight kids with guns watch over a hostage and a conscripted milk cow.

Directed by Alejandro Landes - With Julianne Nicholson, Moisés Arias

The Souvenir(2019)

R
| 2h | Romance / Love, Drama
3.1/5 (with 104 votes)

A shy but ambitious film student falls into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship with a charismatic but untrustworthy older man.

Directed by Joanna Hogg - With Honor Swinton Byrne, Tom Burke, Tilda Swinton, Jaygann Ayeh

Who You Think I Am(2019)

1h 42min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 141 votes)

Claire, a romantically spurned 50-year-old divorced teacher, creates a fake Facebook profile of a 24-year-old woman to spy on her on-and-off lover.

Directed by Safy Nebbou - With Juliette Binoche, François Civil, Nicole Garcia, Guillaume Gouix, Charles Berling, Jules Houplain, ...

System Crasher(2019)

1h 58min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 126 votes)

On her wild quest for love, 9-year-old Benni's untamed energy drives everyone around her to despair.

Directed by Nora Fingscheidt - With Helena Zengel, Gabriela Maria Schmeide, Albrecht Schuch, Lisa Hagmeister, Melanie Straub, Victoria Trauttmansdorff, ...
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Gully Boy(2019)

2h 36min | Drama, Music
3.7/5 (with 72 votes)

A coming-of-age story based on the lives of street rappers in Mumbai.

Directed by Zoya Akhtar - With Ranveer Singh, Alia Bhatt, Kalki Koechlin, Siddhant Chaturvedi

Divine Love(2019)

1h 40min | Drama, Science Fiction
3.1/5 (with 35 votes)

In 2027 Brazil, civil servant Joana mainly deals with divorce cases. As a member of a branch of evangelical Christians known as the Divino Amor group, she uses her position to offer a kind of physical therapy to couples who want to separate. Although Joana and her husband Danilo regularly consummate their marriage, neither her constant prayers nor any other methods of assistance seem to be able to fulfill their desire for a child.

Directed by Gabriel Mascaro - With Dira Paes, Júlio Machado

Skin(2019)

R
| 1h 50min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 153 votes)

A destitute young man, raised by racist skinheads and notorious among white supremacists, turns his back on hatred and violence to transform his life, with the help of a black activist and the woman he loves.

Directed by Guy Nattiv - With Jamie Bell, Mike Colter, Vera Farmiga, Mary Stuart Masterson, Jenna Leigh Green, Ghazi Albuliwi, ...

The Operative(2019)

2h | Drama, Thriller
2.9/5 (with 84 votes)

A young Western woman is recruited by the Mossad to go undercover in Tehran where she becomes entangled in a complex triangle with her handler and her subject.

Directed by Yuval Adler - With Diane Kruger, Martin Freeman, Cas Anvar

Elisa & Marcela(2019)

1h 58min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 169 votes)

In 1901, Elisa Sánchez Loriga adopts a male identity in order to marry the woman she loves, Marcela Gracia Ibeas.

Directed by Isabel Coixet - With Natalia de Molina, Greta Fernández, María Pujalte, Francesc Orella i Pinell, Manolo Solo, Lluís Homar, ...
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So Long, My Son(2019)

3h 5min | Drama
4.0/5 (with 74 votes)

Two married couples adjust to the vast social and economic changes taking place in China from the 1980s to the present.

Directed by Wang Xiaoshuai - With Du Jiang, Yong Mei, Wang Jingchun, Roy Wang, Ai Liya, Zhao Yanguozhang, ...

Synonyms(2019)

2h 3min | Comedy, Drama
2.9/5 (with 54 votes)

A young Israeli man absconds to Paris to flee his nationality, aided by his trusty Franco-Israeli dictionary.

Directed by Nadav Lapid - With Quentin Dolmaire, Tom Mercier, Louise Chevillotte

37 Seconds(2019)

1h 55min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 39 votes)

In 37 Seconds, 23-year-old comic book artist Yuma, physically disabled due to profound cerebral palsy and emotionally stunted by her well-meaning but overly protective mother, forges her own unusual path to sexual awakening and independence while at the same time discovering love and forgiveness.

Directed by Hikari - With Akio Kayama, Misuzu Kanno, Shunsuke Daitō, Makiko Watanabe, Yoshihiko Kumashino, Minori Hagiwara, ...
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God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya(2019)

1h 40min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 56 votes)

In Stip, a small town in Macedonia, every January the local priest throws a wooden cross into the river and hundreds of men dive after it. Good fortune and prosperity are guaranteed to the man who retrieves it. This time, Petrunya dives into the water on a whim and manages to grab the cross before the others. Her competitors are furious - how dare a woman take part in their ritual? All hell breaks loose, but Petrunya holds her ground. She won her cross and will not give it up.

Directed by Teona Strugar Mitevska - With Labina Mitevska, Zorica Nusheva

The Kindness of Strangers(2019)

1h 52min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 43 votes)

Clara and her two sons escape from her abusive husband with little more than their car and plan to start over in New York. After the car towed away, the family meets Alice, who gets them into an emergency shelter. While stealing food at a Russian restaurant called ‘Winter Palace’, Clara meets Marc, who has been given the chance to help the old eatery regain its former glory. The ‘Winter Palace’ soon becomes a place of unexpected encounters between people who are all undergoing some sort of crisis and whom fate has now brought together.

Directed by Lone Scherfig - With Zoe Kazan, Bill Nighy, Esben Smed, Andrea Riseborough, Jay Baruchel, Tahar Rahim, ...

Acid(2018)

1h 38min | Drama
2.7/5 (with 15 votes)

They have been abandoned in a world adorned with concepts such as family, friendship, love, and opportunities. In search of answers to their questions, they devour themselves like a chemical substance that corrodes the world around, in order to eventually learn not to listen but to hear, not to look but to see. And to find their way.

Directed by Alexander Gorchilin

Anthropocene: The Human Epoch(2018)

1h 27min | Documentary
3.6/5 (with 24 votes)

Documentary on psychedelic potash mines, expansive concrete seawalls, mammoth industrial machines, and other examples of humanity’s massive, destructive reengineering of the planet.

Directed by Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier, Edward Burtynsky

Photograph(2019)

1h 51min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 33 votes)

A struggling street photographer, pressured to marry by his grandmother, convinces a shy stranger to pose as his fiancée. The pair develops a connection that transforms them in ways that they could not expect.

Directed by Ritesh Batra - With Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Sanya Malhotra

Marighella(2021)

2h 35min | Drama, History, Thriller, Action
4.0/5 (with 50 votes)

Afro-Brazilian poet and politician, the legendary Carlos Marighella. Driven to fight against the erosion of civil and human rights following the CIA-backed military coup of 1964 and the brutal, racist right-wing dictatorship that followed, the revolutionary leaves behind his wife and son to take up arms, becoming a notorious enemy to the power structure.

Directed by Wagner Moura - With Seu Jorge, Bruno Gagliasso, Adriana Esteves, Herson Capri, Humberto Carrão

A Tale of Three Sisters(2019)

1h 48min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 16 votes)

A stagnant and gloomy village in the 1980s. Reyhan, Nurhan, and Havva, three sisters were sent to town as 'besleme' (foster child and maid). Since they fail their foster parents for different reasons, they are sent back to their father's house in their poor village. Deprived of their dreams of a better life, they try to hold on to each other.

Directed by Emin Alper - With Ece Yüksel, Müfit Kayacan, Cemre Ebüzziya

The Shadow Play(2018)

2h 9min | Crime
3.5/5 (with 11 votes)

Tang Yijie, the Construction Committee Director, falls off from rooftop and dies in a demolition riot. Yang Jiadong, a young police officer starts his investigation and finds that Tang's death is tied up with another case several years ago. Soon he is framed and suspended from duty, but he never gives up. The film unfolds how individuals and family make fortune in the past 30 years since the reform in China began.

Directed by Lou Ye - With Jing Boran

The Ground Beneath My Feet(2019)

1h 48min | Drama
2.8/5 (with 14 votes)

Lola controls her personal life with the same ruthless efficiency she uses to optimize profits in her job as a business consultant. But when a tragic event forces the past back into her life, Lola's grip on reality seems to slips away.

Directed by Marie Kreutzer - With Valerie Pachner, Pia Hierzegger, Mavie Hörbiger, Michelle Barthel, Marc Benjamin, Florian Reiners, ...

Out Stealing Horses(2019)

2h 2min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 28 votes)

November 1999. 67-year-old Trond lives in new-found solitude and looks forward to spending New Year's Eve 2000 alone. As winter arrives he discovers he has a neighbor, a man Trond knew back in 1948, the summer he turned 15 and the summer Trond's father prepared him to carry the burden of his forthcoming betrayal and disappearance.

Directed by Hans Petter Moland - With Stellan Skarsgård, Tobias Santelmann, Danica Curcic, Pål Sverre Hagen, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Bjørn Floberg, ...
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