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1) Soul kitchen
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"Soul Kitchen" is Zinos Kazantsakis's humdrum restaurant in a working-class neighborhood of Hamburg. The food is mostly frozen, unceremoniously zapped in the microwave, or thrown into a vat of bubbling grease. He loves his restaurant and his girlfriend Nadine, even after she leaves him for an assignment in China. Wanting to liven up the restaurant, Zinos hires an out-of-work three-star chef, lets his ex-con brother Ilias spin records, and seeks out...
2) Goethe!
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In 1772 Germany, the young and tumultuous Johann Goethe aspires to be a poet. After failing his law exams, he is sent by his father to a sleepy provincial court to mend his ways. Unsure of his talent and eager to prove himself, Goethe soon wins the praise and friendship of his superior, Kestner. But then Lotte Buff enters his life and nothing is the same as before. However, the young lovers are unaware that her father has already promised Lotte's...
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Depicts the final ten days of Nazi Germany in Hitler's bunker and Berlin. Based partly on the first-hand account of secretary Traudl Junge, the film shows the collapse of Hitler's plans, the suicides of Hitler and those around him, and the entrance of the Russians into Berlin. The film begins and ends with the words of Traudl Junge and her slow realization that she too was partially responsible for the acts of the Nazis.
4) Der samurai
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A rural policeman begins to track down a mysterious dress-wearing, sword-wielding killer who is spending his nights lopping off the heads of the townspeople.
5) M
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Criterion collection volume 30
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When a serial killer is stalking the children of the city, everyone, including the criminal underworld, wants to see him brought down. The story is based on the Düsseldorf child murders of 1929.
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Profiles award-winning German architect Gottfried Böhm and the architectural dynasty that includes Böhm's father, a master builder of churches, his three architect sons, and his wife, Elisabeth, also an architect. With Elisabeth's death, the family must continue on without its emotional center.
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Vividly depicts the lives of five young German friends forced to navigate the unconscionable moral compromises of life under Hitler. Level-headed, highly decorated officer Wilhelm goes off to the eastern front with his sensitive younger brother Friedhelm. Deeply in love with Wilhelm is Charlotte, a young nurse who looks forward to serving in the Red Cross.
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Paradise trilogy volume 3
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The third installment in Ulrich Seidl's Paradise trilogy tells the story of the overweight thirteen-year-old Melanie and her first love. Melanie spends her summer vacation at a strict diet camp for overweight teenagers. Between physical education and nutrition counseling, pillow fights, and her first cigarette, Melanie falls in love with the camp director, a doctor 40 years her senior. As the doctor struggles with the guilty nature of his desire,...
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A German army deserter finds an abandoned Nazi captain's uniform in the final weeks of World War II. Emboldened by the authority the uniform grants him, he amasses a band of stragglers who cede to his command despite the suspicions of some. Citing direct orders from the Fuhrer himself, he soon takes command of a camp holding German soldiers accused of desertion and begins to dispense harsh justice.
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In 2010, after almost 50 years on stage, the legendary Scorpions embarked on a career-capping, three-year world tour. With cameras rolling front, back and side stage, the band took advantage of the opportunity and wove into the mayhem their entire history -- going back to their 60s roots in Hannover, Germany where they had the little idea that they would become that country's biggest export after sauerkraut. Never before seen Super 8 films from the...
11) Freier Fall
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With a promising law enforcement career and a child on the way, Marc's life is going according to plan until he meets the free spirited Kay. They start jogging together, bringing a breath of fresh air into Marc's life, and for the first time, he develops feelings for a man. Torn between the life he knows so well and the exhilaration of this new adventure, Marc finds himself in a state of free fall, unable to make anyone happy anymore, least of all...
12) Day and night
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"Lea and Hanna, two attractive college students, are in desperate need of some fast money. As promiscuous young co-eds, sex for pay is a no-brainer so they start working for an escort service. At first their new career choice proves to be a wild adventure, but as their clients get kinkier and kinkier, their lives start to spin out of control." --Container.
13) November
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In a 19th century Estonian village, a group of peasants use magic and folk remedies to survive the winter, and a young woman tries to get a young man to love her.
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Reveals the inner workings of Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum, one of the most important art institutions in the world, a dynamic, reflective and fast-moving institution that's both adapting to the marketing and funding realities of the 21st century while remaining faithful to its core mission.
15) Aimée & Jaguar
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Its the Battle of Berlin, during World War 2, two women find eachother. One is single, Aimée, the other, Jaguar, is unhappily married with 4 children. In war torn Germany it was not safe to be Jewish, it was just as unsafe to be a lesbian. When Jaguar's husband, who is a German soldier, finds out about the relationship of his wife to Aimée, nothing but trouble becomes the result.
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Every two years in Frankfurt, 24 young conductors from around the world are invited to take part in the prestigious Sir Georg Solti Conductors' Competition. They only have 20 minutes to work with an orchestra they've never met before and to impress an intimidating panel of judges. The documentary follows five conductors, the 20-year-old Aziz Shokhakimov from Uzbekistan, star New Yorker Alondra de la Parra, Englishman James Lowe, Andreas Hotz from...
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Film Movement volume 13, film 7
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Told in fourteen fixed-angle, single shot, individual tableaus that parallel Christ's journey to his own crucifixion, this film is both an indictment of fundamentalist faith and the articulation of an impressionable teen's struggle to find her own path in life. Though from the outside Maria lives in the modern world, her family and her heart are faithful to a Catholic radicalism that requires sacrifice and devotion at every turn. As she struggles...
18) Rosenstrasse
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After the death of her father, Hannah becomes concerned with the strange behavior of her mother. Traveling to Berlin to interview a woman who knew her mother as a child, Hannah hears the story of a week in 1943 when the Aryan wives of Jewish men held captive in a building on Rosenstrasse protested in the name of love, and realizes how little she knew of her mother's troubled childhood.
19) Stalingrad
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In the spring of 1942, German troops advanced deep into the Soviet Union en route to Stalingrad. Hitler seriously misjudged the tenacity of the Red Army and was convinced that the city could be conquered before winter. Ordinarily foot soldiers, inadequately clothed and without sufficient food, struggled just to stay alive.
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The film tells the story of Astrid, a forty-something mother of two, struggling to regain her balance in the wake of her husband's death. Her adolescent son Phillip disappeared for a week and now that he has returned, he faces disciplinary action at school and his toe requires amputation. As new questions confront Astrid from every angle, even simple activities like buying a bicycle or engaging with a work of art, are fraught with unexpected challenges....
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