Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin’s Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well. Year 1985.
| Generes: Drama |
| Director: Aleksey German |
| Writer: Yuri German (novel), Eduard Volodarskiy |
| Actors: Andrei Boltnev, Nina Ruslanova, Andrey Mironov, Aleksey Zharkov |
When a young woman investigates her town’s Nazi past, the community turns against her. Year 1990.
| Generes: Comedy, Drama, History, War |
| Director: Michael Verhoeven |
| Writer: Michael Verhoeven |
| Actors: Lena Stolze, Hans-Reinhard Müller, Monika Baumgartner, Elisabeth Bertram |
Balduin, a student of Prague, leaves his roystering companions in the beer garden, when he finds he has reached the end of his resources. He is scarcely seated in a quiet corner when a … Year 1913.
| Generes: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance |
| Director: Paul Wegener, Stellan Rye(co-director) |
| Writer: Hanns Heinz Ewers (story), Hanns Heinz Ewers (adaptation), Alfred de Musset (quotation) |
| Actors: Paul Wegener, Grete Berger, Lyda Salmonova, John Gottowt |
The Russian aristocracy prepares for the French invasion on the eve of 1812. Year 1966.
| Generes: Drama, History, Romance, War |
| Director: Sergey Bondarchuk |
| Writer: Sergey Bondarchuk, Vasiliy Solovyov, Leo Tolstoy (novel) |
| Actors: Sergey Bondarchuk, Lyudmila Saveleva, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Boris Zakhava |
A mistaken delivery in Mumbai’s famously efficient lunchbox delivery system connects a young housewife to an older man in the dusk of his life as they build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox. Year 2013.
| Generes: Drama, Family, Romance |
| Director: Ritesh Batra |
| Writer: Ritesh Batra (screenplay), Vasan Bala (hindi dialogue consultant) |
| Actors: Irrfan Khan, Nimrat Kaur, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Lillete Dubey |
N/A Year 1941.
| Generes: Comedy, Drama, History, Romance |
| Director: Josef von Báky |
| Writer: Walter Lieck (play), Thea von Harbou (screenplay) |
| Actors: Luise Ullrich, Werner Krauss, Käthe Haack, Karl Ludwig Diehl |
German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the DDR-regime. Year 2018.
| Generes: Biography, Drama, Romance, Thriller, War |
| Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck |
| Writer: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck |
| Actors: Tom Schilling, Sebastian Koch, Paula Beer, Saskia Rosendahl |
ASSA is set in Crimea during the winter in the mid eighties. A young musician (Bananan) falls for mobster’s (Krymov) young mistress (Alika). The parallel story line involves an 18th century… Year 1987.
| Generes: Crime, Drama, History, Music, Romance |
| Director: Sergey Solovev |
| Writer: Sergey Livnev, Sergey Solovev |
| Actors: Natan Eidelman, Anatoly Slivnikov, German Shorr, Ilya Ivanov |
The story of the Operation Bernhard, the largest counterfeiting operation in history, carried out by Germany during WWII. Year 2007.
| Generes: Crime, Drama, History, War |
| Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky |
| Writer: Adolf Burger (book), Stefan Ruzowitzky (screenplay) |
| Actors: Karl Markovics, August Diehl, Devid Striesow, Martin Brambach |
Father Alexander is trying to maintain peaceful life for his church amidst the Nazi occupation during WWII. Year 2009.
| Generes: Drama, History, War |
| Director: Vladimir Khotinenko |
| Writer: N/A |
| Actors: Sergey Makovetskiy, Nina Usatova, Elizaveta Arzamasova, Kirill Pletnyov |
Based on a true story, North Face is a survival drama film about a competition to climb the most dangerous rock face in the Alps. Set in 1936, as Nazi propaganda urges the nation’s … Year 2008.
| Generes: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Sport |
| Director: Philipp Stölzl |
| Writer: Chris Silber, Philipp Stölzl, Rupert Henning, Johannes Naber, Benedikt Roeskau (story) |
| Actors: Benno Fürmann, Johanna Wokalek, Florian Lukas, Simon Schwarz |
Tom Ripley, who deals in forged art, suggests a picture framer he knows would make a good hit man. Year 1977.
| Generes: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller |
| Director: Wim Wenders |
| Writer: Patricia Highsmith (novel), Wim Wenders |
| Actors: Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz, Lisa Kreuzer, Gérard Blain |
In WWI Africa, a gin-swilling riverboat captain is persuaded by a strait-laced missionary to use his boat to attack an enemy warship. Year 1951.
| Generes: Adventure, Drama, Romance, War |
| Director: John Huston |
| Writer: C.S. Forester (novel), James Agee (adapted for the screen by), John Huston (adapted for the screen by) |
| Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley, Peter Bull |
After returning from a concentration camp, Susanne finds an ex-soldier living in her apartment. Together the two try to move past their experiences during WWII. Year 1946.
| Generes: Drama, Romance, Thriller, War |
| Director: Wolfgang Staudte |
| Writer: Wolfgang Staudte |
| Actors: Hildegard Knef, Elly Burgmer, Erna Sellmer, Hilde Adolphi |
Young Czech-Austrian psychoanalyst, Sigmund Freud, investigates a murder conspiracy in 1880’s Vienna. Year 2020–.
| Generes: Biography, Crime, History, Thriller |
| Director: N/A |
| Writer: N/A |
| Actors: Robert Finster, Ella Rumpf, Georg Friedrich, Christoph F. Krutzler |
When two russian captains of cavalry came to a German post station one of them recalls what happened long time ago. He begins to tell the story: Ten years ago a comrade of them made a … Year 1940.
| Generes: Drama |
| Director: Gustav Ucicky |
| Writer: Alexander Pushkin (short story “Statsionnyy smotritel” from volume “Povest Belkina”), Gerhard Menzel |
| Actors: Heinrich George, Hilde Krahl, Siegfried Breuer, Hans Holt |