The Great Dictator 1940 ( 8.291)

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.

To Be or Not to Be 1942 ( 7.825)

During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.

A Star Is Born 1954 ( 7.128)

A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.

The Outsider 2016 ( 6.957)

A drama about the less known aspects of the trading activity inside one of the biggest banks in the world - Société Générale. The movie tracks the rise and fall of anonymous trader turned superstar turned escape goat - Jérôme Kerviel - just as the 2008 financial crisis was unfolding

Beating Hearts 2024 ( 7.2)

Local rebellious teenager Clotaire falls for his schoolmate Jackie, but gang violence leads him to a darker destructive path. After years apart, the star-crossed lovers discover that every path they've taken leads them back together.

The Accusation 2021 ( 7.1)

The Farels are a power couple: Jean is a prominent French pundit and his wife Claire an essayist known for her radical feminism. Together they have a model son, Alexandre, who is a student at a prestigious American university. During a brief visit to Paris, Alexandre meets Mila, the daughter of his mother’s new partner, and invites her to a party. The next day, Mila files a complaint against Alexandre for rape, destroying family harmony and setting in motion an inextricable media-judicial machine that posits opposing truths.

The Devils of Loudun 1969 ( 8)

This opera revolves around the demonic collective possession suffered by the Ursuline nuns in the convent of Loudun in 1634. The story concentrates on the handsome but doomed Urbain Grandier who fights against fanaticism and evil.

Annelie 2013

Annelie was once a well-frequented hotel in Munich. When guests stopped coming, it was closed. The building was then converted into a homeless shelter, which was supposed to be a temporary solution but became a permanent fixture for ten years. During this time, a diverse group of junkies, alcoholics, petty criminals, and other homeless people considered "unplaceable" by the authorities settled there. This world is suddenly turned upside down when the city decides to demolish the entire building. Max turns to drugs, while the others try everything they can to ensure the continued existence of their home.

The Nonentity 1986 ( 6.12)

Each evening, four men – a doctor, a journalist, a professor and a merchant – meet up in a deserted bar to play cards. As they play, the bar’s owner, her downtrodden barman (nicknamed “le paltoquet”) and a strange woman in white watch from a distance. One night, the card game is disturbed when a police inspector suddenly appears and declares that a dead body has been found nearby. Certain that one of the four men is the murderer, the inspector starts his investigation. All the evidence suggests that the doctor did the deed, but we soon learn that nothing is quite what it seems…

Jannan - Die Abschiebung 1986

Klettermaxe 1993

Kim rescues and adopts a baby squirrel while having to defend himself from two older boys.

Steck lieber mal was ein - Ein Schüler wird Lehrling 1980

A long-term observation from 1977-1980, focusing on the apprentice Gerd and his family. Gerd wants to become an electrician, but after several rejections he accepts an apprenticeship as a lathe operator at Ford. In the first two years he works in an apprentice workshop, in the third year he has to go into production; from now on he is under a lot of pressure, because the company keeps the decision as to whether to take on an apprentice as a normal employee open until the last moment. When Gerd talks about the apprenticeship at home and criticizes the training, his parents reprimand him. They say: You'd better put something away! He shouldn't stand out in the company. The work of a lathe operator is increasingly being taken over by automatic machines. Gerd realizes that he is learning a trade that no one will need any more soon.