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Anymore good German movies??


Are there any more good german movies, that are enjoyable to watch. this is the first german movie i ever watch and was pretty good.

i dont want any romantic movie or any old movie, but rather anything made after 1990, and some sort of movie which has a good story, a war movie or good action or even a good comedy or horror.

can anyone suggest any?

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Check out Downfall and The Lives Of Others!

Who Killed Laura Palmer?

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ive heard of Downfall, its the one about the last hours of Hitler, rite? Have you seen Goodbye Lenin? is it any good?

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Downfall is a masterpiece!!

I don't love her.. She kicked me in the face!!

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I came here from the imdb page for "Die Wulle" (The Wave) which was based on a 1967 experiment done in a school.

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RUN LOLA RUN

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Das Boot.

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I don't know if you're into Silent / Black&White-Movies but some early German movies which wrote film history are:

"The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari"
"Nosferatu"
"Metropolis"
"M"
Plus, Fritz Lang's Films about Dr. Mabuse are also well worth seeing, although they are quite long.

Some more "recent" films that I can recommend are

- "Die Brücke" / "The Bridge" from the 1950s - an extremely gritty film about a group of naive schoolboys who are ordered to defend an allegedly unimportant bridge during the last days of WWII

- "Hunde Wollt Ihr Ewig Leben" (Imdb gives "Battle Inferno" as the English title): also from the 1950s and also a WWII movie, a very well crafted and surprisingly realistic account of the Battle of Stalingrad; definitely superior to the remake ("Stalingrad") from the early 90s, which, I think, was much more successful in the US

- Apart from that, the aforementioned "Lives of Others" is definitely a must-see, although you should perhaps read about the German Democratic Republic and the "Stasi" (East German Communist Secret Police) beforehand. Wikipedia should be sufficient.


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Quite frankly I'm not much into German cinema but the movies I've seen I did enjoy.

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Lola Rennt (Run Lola Run)
Das Leben Der Anderen (The Lives Of Others)
Der Untergang (Downfall)
Goodbye Lenin
Das Boot
Anatomie
(Anything with Franka Potente)

Also worth mentioning these series:

Tatort (Crime Scene)
Bernie Und Ert

I've been loving too much, caring too little -- TormentoR.

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What's IMDb search for?

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I just searched "A$$holes on IMDB" and "amoreska" was the first hit.

I don't love her.. She kicked me in the face!!

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and what's he got to do with me?

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If I have to explain, you wouldn't understand.

I don't love her.. She kicked me in the face!!

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North Face is good too.

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Some of the others have listed a number of good German films.

Nosferatu is good, get the 1922 version available on DVD though.
Der Blaue Engel is great, it was remade in the 70's and the original stars Marlene Deitrich.
Die Bruecke
Im Juli, it has the same lead as Das Experiment.
Lola Rennt
Goodbye, Lenin
Downfall, the first time the Germans made a movie about Hitler in anyway.
Gegen die Wand
Nirgendwo in Afrika
Das Versprechen

You really can't go wrong with any German film. The Germans are masters of movie making. In the early days of film making Berlin was what Hollywood is today and many of the techniques that are used today in movie making were created in Germany.

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"You really can't go wrong with any German film. The Germans are masters of movie making. In the early days of film making Berlin was what Hollywood is today and many of the techniques that are used today in movie making were created in Germany."

I can't let that stand. Truly, Germany had always some great movies, but also there were always a lot of crappy movies which were highly sucessful. It is just in our culture that we tend erase them fully of collective movie. Best example: the wave of soft porn movies/sex comedies in the 1970ies. Some of them, like "Schulmädchenreport" still rank among the highest billed german movies of all time!

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