Bruno Ganz
1) Heidi
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Based on the biggest Swiss bestseller (written by Johanna Spyri) of all time. Young orphan girl Heidi lives in the Swiss Alps with her goat herding grandfather. Forced to move into the home of an upper-class Frankfurt family, the energetic child struggles to fit in, longing for the simplicity of her life in the mountains.
3) Amnesia
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Ibiza, the early nineties, Jo is a 25-year-old music composer. He has come over from Berlin and wants to be part of the nascent electronic music revolution, ideally by getting a job first as a DJ in the new nightclub on the island. Martha has been living alone in her house facing the sea for forty years. One night Jo knocks on her door. Her solitude intrigues him. They become friends even as the mysteries around her accumulate: that cello in the corner...
4) Remember
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When an elderly Holocaust survivor escapes from a nursing home, he seeks revenge on the Nazi commandant who murdered his family.
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Norwegian
Description
Nils (Stellan Skarsgård), uncovers his son’s murderer, he begins to unravel. He embarks on a quest for revenge. Reminiscent of Tarantino and The Coen Brothers, Nils finds himself in a different world in order to bring his son’s murderers to justice.
6) Downfall
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Soviet Armies closing in from the west and south. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still achieve victory and orders his Generals and advisers to fight to the last man. "DOWNFALL" explores these final days of the Reich, where senior German leaders (such as Himmler and Goring) began defecting from their beloved Fuhrer, in an effort to save...
8) The Reader
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A man reunites with an older woman with whom he had a brief romance with when he was fifteen, only to discover, to his horror, that she is a defendant in a Nazi war crimes case.
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Eric Rohmer’s classic film is set in 1799 during the Russian invasion of Italy. A young widow, The Marquise (Edith Clever) lives with her parents in the fort her father commands. In the midst of battle, the Marquise is abducted by a group of rowdy soldiers and nearly taken advantage of when the Russian commander Count F (Bruno Ganz) rescues her. Later, the Marquise realizes she is pregnant, though she cannot decipher how the circumstance came to...
10) Luther
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Martin Luther challenges the government and the church in 16th century Germany in what becomes known as the Protestant Reformation.
11) The Tobacconist
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Seventeen-year-old Franz journeys to Vienna to apprentice at a tobacco shop. There he meets Sigmund Freud, a regular customer, and over time the two very different men form a singular friendship. When Franz falls desperately in love with the music-hall dancer Anezka, he seeks advice from the renowned psychoanalyst, who admits that the female sex is as big a mystery to him as it is to Franz. As political and social conditions in Austria dramatically...
14) A hidden life
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Based on real events, this is the story of an unsung hero, Franz Jägerstätter, who refused to fight for the Nazis in World War II. When the Austrian peasant farmer is faced with the threat of execution for treason, it is his unwavering faith and his love for his wife Fani and children that keep his spirit alive.
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Jonathan Harker is sent away to Count Dracula's castle to sell him a house in Wismar where Jonathan lives. But Count Dracula is a vampire, an undead ghoul living off of men's blood. Inspired by a photograph of Lucy Harker, Jonathan's wife, Dracula moves to Wismar, bringing with him death and plague... An unusually contemplative version of Dracula, in which the vampire bears the curse of not being able to get old and die.
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[c2009]
Language
Deutsch
Description
A romantic fantasy about an angel who wishes he were mortal and is willing to fall from the sky if it means a chance to fall in love. Set in modern day Berlin, the film follows angel Damiel's path from heavenly flight to earthly delight in a manner that's comical, touching and entertaining.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Takes you into Hitler's bunker, in 1945, during the brutal and harrowing last days of the Third Reich. Seen through the eyes of Hitler's infamous secretary Traudl Junge, optimism crumbles into grim realization and terror as it becomes clear that Germany's defeat is inevitable. As the Russian army circles the city, the dimly lit halls of the underground refuge become an execution chamber for the Fuhrer and his closest advisors.
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
2014
Language
Deutsch
Description
In Herzog's homage to F. W. Murnau's 1922 silent classic, Jonathan Harker, against the wishes of his wife, departs on a journey over the Carpathian Mountains to Transylvania in order to finalize a real estate arrangements with Count Dracula, leading to a series of tragic events.
20) Heidi
Publisher
Studio Canal
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Orphan Girl Heidi spends the happiest days of her childhood together with her eccentric grandfather, cut off from the outside world in a simple cabin in the Swiss mountains. But these carefree times come to an abrupt end when Heidi is taken to Frankfurt by her Aunt Dete to stay with the family of the wealthy Mr. Sesemann and be a playmate for his wheelchair-bound daughter Klara.