Movies & TV Shows/Series by Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen at a glance

27 movies found (page 1/1):

The Reader(2008)

3.7/5 (with 1,312 votes)

The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom.

Directed by Stephen Daldry - With Ralph Fiennes, Kate Winslet, David Kross, Alexandra Maria Lara, Lena Olin, Bruno Ganz, ...

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Imagine Me & You(2005)

| 1h 33min | Drama, Comedy, Romance / Love

3.8/5 (with 435 votes)

During her wedding ceremony, Rachel notices Luce in the audience and feels instantly drawn to her. The two women become close friends, and when Rachel learns that Luce is a lesbian, she realizes that despite her happy marriage to Heck, she is falling for Luce. As she questions her sexual orientation, Rachel must decide between her stable relationship with Heck and her exhilarating new romance with Luce.

Directed by Ol Parker - With Piper Perabo, Lena Headey, Matthew Goode, Celia Imrie, Anthony Head, Angel Coulby, ...

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Amélie(2001)

| 2h 2min | Comedy, Romance / Love

4.0/5 (with 5,424 votes)

At a tiny Parisian café, the adorable yet painfully shy Amélie accidentally discovers a gift for helping others. Soon Amelie is spending her days as a matchmaker, guardian angel, and all-around do-gooder. But when she bumps into a handsome stranger, will she find the courage to become the star of her very own love story?

Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet - With Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Jamel Debbouze, Dominique Pinon, Yolande Moreau, André Dussollier, ...

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The Wind That Shakes the Barley(2006)

| 2h 7min | Drama, War

3.7/5 (with 317 votes)

In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O'Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital. As he says his goodbyes at a friend's farm, British Black and Tans arrive, and a young man is killed. Damien joins his brother Teddy in the Irish Republican Army, but political events are soon set in motion that tear the brothers apart.

Directed by Ken Loach - With Cillian Murphy, Pádraic Delaney, Liam Cunningham, Orla Fitzgerald, Roger Allam, Seán McGinley, ...

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Caché(2005)

| 1h 57min | Mystery, Drama, Thriller

3.5/5 (with 452 votes)

A married couple is terrorized by a series of videotapes planted on their front porch.

Directed by Michael Haneke - With Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche, Annie Girardot, Aïssa Maïga, Maurice Bénichou, Bernard Le Coq, ...

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Ordinary Decent Criminal(2000)

1h 33min | Comedy, Thriller

3.1/5 (with 96 votes)

Michael Lynch is a notorious criminal with two wives and a flair for showmanship. He's also a huge embarrassment to the local police, who are determined to bring him down once and for all.

Directed by Thaddeus O'Sullivan - With Kevin Spacey, Linda Fiorentino, Peter Mullan, Stephen Dillane, Helen Baxendale, David Hayman, ...

The Edge of Heaven(2007)

2h 2min | Drama

3.6/5 (with 126 votes)

The lives of six German-Turkish immigrants are drawn together by circumstance: An old man and a prostitute forging a partnership, a young scholar reconciling his past, two young women falling in love, and a mother putting the shattered pieces of her life back together.

Directed by Fatih Akin - With Baki Davrak, Nurgül Yeşilçay, Patrycia Ziółkowska, Tuncel Kurtiz, Nursel Köse, İdil Üner, ...

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It's a Free World...(2007)

1h 36min | Drama

3.3/5 (with 42 votes)

Angie is a working class woman. After being fired, she decides to set up a recruitment agency of her own, running it from her kitchen with her friend, Rose. Taking advantage of the desperation of immigrants, Angie builds a successful business extremely quickly.

Directed by Ken Loach - With Kierston Wareing, Lesław Żurek, Radosław Kaim

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Shooting Dogs(2006)

1h 55min | Drama, History

3.8/5 (with 59 votes)

Two westerners, a priest and a teacher find themselves in the middle of the Rwandan genocide and face a moral dilemna. Do they place themselves in danger and protect the refugees, or escape the country with their lives? Based on a true story.

Directed by Michael Caton-Jones - With John Hurt, Hugh Dancy, Clare-Hope Ashitey, David Gyasi, Nicola Walker, Dominique Horwitz, ...

Paradise Now(2005)

PG-13

| 1h 30min | Thriller, Crime, Drama

3.5/5 (with 106 votes)

Two childhood friends are recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.

Directed by Hany Abu-Assad - With Kais Nashef, Ali Suliman, Lubna Azabal, Hiam Abbass, Amer Hlehel, Ashraf Barhom, ...

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Land and Freedom(1995)

1h 49min | Drama, History, War, Romance / Love

3.7/5 (with 108 votes)

David Carr is a British Communist who is unemployed. In 1936, when the Spanish Civil War begins, he decides to fight for the Republican side, a coalition of liberals, communists and anarchists, so he joins the POUM militia and witnesses firsthand the betrayal of the Spanish revolution by Stalin's followers and Moscow's orders.

Directed by Ken Loach - With Ian Hart, Rosana Pastor, Icíar Bollaín, Frédéric Pierrot, Tom Gilroy, Marc Martínez, ...

My Best Fiend(1999)

1h 35min | Documentary

3.7/5 (with 80 votes)

A film that describes the love-hate relationship between Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski, the deep trust between the director and the actor, and their independently and simultaneously hatched plans to murder one another.

Directed by Werner Herzog - With Werner Herzog, Isabelle Adjani, Claudia Cardinale, Mick Jagger, Klaus Kinski, Eva Mattes, ...

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Helen(2009)

2h | Drama

3.4/5 (with 24 votes)

On the outside, Helen has it all – a loving family and a successful career – but when her suppressed mental illness resurfaces, the world crumbles around her. Crippled by depression, Helen finds solace through her friendship with Mathilda, a kindred spirit struggling with bipolar disorder.

Directed by Sandra Nettelbeck - With Ashley Judd

Honey(2010)

1h 43min | Drama

3.4/5 (with 39 votes)

In the remote and undeveloped eastern Black Sea region, a six-year-old boy (Yusuf) wanders through the woods searching for his lost father, trying to make sense of his life.His father is a beekeeper whose bees have disappeared unexpectedly, threatening his livelihood. A bizarre accident kills the father.There is little dialogue or music in the film. The three main characters (Yusuf and his parents) are all fairly taciturn, and the soundtrack is filled out with the sounds of the forest and the creatures that live there.The environment is a recurring theme.

Directed by Semih Kaplanoğlu - With Erdal Beşikçioğlu, Tülin Özen

The Truce(1997)

2h 5min | Drama, History, War

3.1/5 (with 32 votes)

Although liberated from Auschwitz on January 27, 1945, Levi did not reach Turin until October 19 of that year. After spending some time in a Soviet camp for former concentration camp inmates, he embarked on an arduous journey home in the company of Italian former prisoners of war from the Italian Army in Russia. His long railway journey home to Turin took him on a circuitous route from Poland, through Russia, Romania, Hungary, Austria and Germany.

Directed by Francesco Rosi - With John Turturro, Massimo Ghini, Rade Šerbedžija, Roberto Citran, Claudio Bisio, Andy Luotto, ...

Divine Intervention(2003)

1h 32min | Drama, Romance / Love, Comedy

3.3/5 (with 20 votes)

Santa Claus tries to outrun a gang of knife-wielding youth. It's one of several vignettes of Palestinian life in Israel - in a neighborhood in Nazareth and at Al-Ram checkpoint in East Jerusalem. Most of the stories are droll, some absurd, one is mythic and fanciful; few words are spoken. A man who goes through his mail methodically each morning has a heart attack. His son visits him in hospital. The son regularly meets a woman at Al-Ram; they sit in a car, hands caressing. Once, she defies Israeli guards at the checkpoint; later, Ninja-like, she takes on soldiers at a target range. A red balloon floats free overhead. Neighbors toss garbage over walls. Life goes on until it doesn't.

Directed by Elia Suleiman - With Elia Suleiman, Manal Khader, Nayef Fahoum Daher, Salwa Nakkara, Menashe Noy, David Belle, ...

I Love You, I Love You Not(1996)

| 1h 28min | Drama, Kids & Family, Romance / Love

2.6/5 (with 14 votes)

School student and her European-born grandmother share sad stories of their lives.

Directed by Lee Daniels - With Jeanne Moreau, Claire Danes, Jude Law, James Van Der Beek, Julia Stiles, Robert Sean Leonard, ...

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Berlin is in Germany(2001)

1h 37min | Comedy, Drama

2.7/5 (with 6 votes)

When Martin, a former GDR citizen, is released from jail, he lately becomes confronted with the consequences of the German re-unification.

Directed by Hannes Stöhr - With Jörg Schüttauf, Julia Jäger, Robin Becker, Tom Jahn, Valentin Plătăreanu, Madita, ...

Hardcover(2008)

1h 30min | Comedy

3.4/5 (with 5 votes)

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Directed by Christian Zübert - With Wotan Wilke Möhring

The Edelweiss Pirates(2004)

1h 40min | Drama, History, War

2.6/5 (with 8 votes)

Cologne towards the end of the Second World War. The city is in ruins, everyone is afraid, many are dead. It is a time of great inhumanity. Cologne’s young Edelweiss Pirates refuse to submit to the pressure of the Nazi regime. They fight with the Hitler Youth and scrawl anti-war propaganda on walls. Karl is an Edelweiss Pirate; his younger brother, Peter, is in the Hitler Youth movement. The two young men have been alone ever since their mother’s death in a bombing raid; their father is serving at the front, and their older brother, Otto, has been killed in action. Otto’s financée, Cilly, is doing her best to survive the war with her children. Carl is trying to help her.

Directed by Niko von Glasow - With Jan Decleir, Irina Sokolova, Bela B, Anna Thalbach, Jochen Nickel, Ivan Stebunov, ...

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Turtle: The Incredible Journey(2009)

| 1h 21min | Documentary

3.5/5 (with 7 votes)

The story of a little loggerhead turtle, as she follows in the path of her ancestors on one of the most extraordinary journeys in the natural world. Born on a beach in Florida, she rides the Gulf Stream up towards the Arctic and ultimately swims around the entire North Atlantic across to Africa and back to the beach where she was born. But the odds are stacked against her; just one in ten thousand turtles survive the journey.

Directed by Nick Stringer, Nick Stringer

Fiasco(2000)

1h 27min | Comedy, Drama

1.7/5 (with 3 votes)

Set in present-day Reykjavík, Fiasco draws a narrative circle of interconnecting stories in which three members of the Bardal household deal with the secret loves in their lives. Karl, an old age pensioner, is busy chasing after an amnesic old screen legend. Julia, Karl's granddaughter, is torn between a mediocre bank manager and a wild sailor, and tells them both she is pregnant. But is she really? Steingerdur, Julia's mother, has a wild crush on a preacher who has a serious drinking problem, and ends up with a dead stripper in his Jacuzzi. The characters cross each other as the film progresses, until the three interwoven strands of the story finally come together in an explosive and hilarious crescendo full of surprises.

Directed by Ragnar Bragason - With Ólafur Darri Ólafsson

La lumière des étoiles mortes(1994)

1h 50min | Drama, Romance / Love, War

4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

June 1940. The Wechrmacht appropriates the houses in which are living Pierre, his wife Magdeleine, their son Charles, their two servants Louise and Lea, and Mademoiselle, the beautiful jewish governess.

Directed by Charles Matton - With Caroline Silhol, Cécile Vassort, Jean-François Balmer, Léonard Matton, Richard Bohringer, Thomas Huber, ...

The Nomi Song(2004)

1h 38min | Documentary, Music

3.3/5 (with 10 votes)

Looks like an alien, sings like a diva - Klaus Nomi was one of the 1980s' most profoundly bizarre characters to emerge through rock music: a counter tenor who sang pop music like opera and brought opera to club audiences and made them like it. The Nomi Song is a film about fame, death, friendship, betrayal, opera, and the greatest New Wave rock star that never was!

Directed by Andrew Horn - With Klaus Nomi

Speed Dating(2009)

30min | Comedy, Romance / Love

3.9/5 (with 2 votes)

In a cold future world everybody who is single drops dead. Which means that Tim - who recently got dumped by his girlfriend - has a serious problem. None of the women he meets at a speed dating event strike a chord with him. His last chance is Denise - or better said a typo called Dennis. As to Tim being straight, hey, there's a pill for that. Or is there?

Im Westen ging die Sonne auf(2002)

1h 30min | Documentary

The mining industry, which always had been “sponsor” and “financier” of the soccer clubs in the Ruhr valley during the post-war period, doesn’t exist anymore nowadays in that form. Many of the once glorious clubs which dominated German soccer until the 1970s faded into obscurity without financial backers. The documentary “Im Westen ging die Sonne auf" ("The sun had risen in the west“) shows the history of the “Revierfußball” from after the second World War until the decline of the mining industry and recalls legendary players and forgotten clubs. The film shows especially how deeply rooted the sport was back then in the entire lifestyle of the Ruhr area - in private life as well as in society - and how structural change also left clearly visible marks in sports. With pictures from back then, interviews with contemporary witnesses, and footage of original locations nowadays, a contemporary document of German post-war history, by taking the example of soccer, has been created.

Thomas Harlan – Moving Shrapnel(2007)

1h 36min | Documentary

Thomas Harlan, filmmaker, author and revolutionary was born in 1929 in Germany. His father was the infamous propaganda filmmaker Veit Harlan, director of Jew Suess. During his childhood, as a result of his father’s closeness to the Nazi Party, the little Thomas came face to face with Hitler and Goebbels. Now an old frail man, Harlan lives in a respiratory clinic in Berchtesgaden. It is in this clinic in South Germany that he, along with documentary filmmaker Christoph Hübner, examines fragments of his past.

Directed by Christoph Hübner - With Thomas Harlan

Companies: Best Movies & TV Shows/Series by Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen

The Reader(2008)

Imagine Me & You(2005)

Amélie(2001)

The Wind That Shakes the Barley(2006)

Caché(2005)

Ordinary Decent Criminal(2000)

The Edge of Heaven(2007)

It's a Free World...(2007)

Shooting Dogs(2006)

Paradise Now(2005)

Land and Freedom(1995)

My Best Fiend(1999)

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Helen(2009)

Honey(2010)

The Truce(1997)

Divine Intervention(2003)

I Love You, I Love You Not(1996)

Berlin is in Germany(2001)

Hardcover(2008)

The Edelweiss Pirates(2004)

Turtle: The Incredible Journey(2009)

Fiasco(2000)

La lumière des étoiles mortes(1994)

The Nomi Song(2004)

Speed Dating(2009)

Im Westen ging die Sonne auf(2002)

Thomas Harlan – Moving Shrapnel(2007)

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