Bella Martha (Mostly Martha)
Mostly Martha is a romantic comedy that brings up several issues of today’s society in Germany in a very subtle way. The main character Martha is a master chef in an upscale restaurant, but while she is great in her job, she is hopeless in relationships, be it with men, kids, her boss, or customers. […]
Alles wird gut (Everything’s Gonna Be Great)
With actors Kati Stüdemann and Chantal De Freitas Nabou, an Afro-German slacker, desperatly wants to win back her club kid ex-girlfriend Katja. Nabou becomes a housekeeper for Katja’s neighbor, Kim, who is a workaholic that is striving to become a partner in an advertising agency. A refreshing romantic comedy with the ingredients of a classic […]
Kleine Freiheit (A Little Bit of Freedom)
Produced by Ralph E. Cotta With actors Cagdas Bozkurt, Necmettin Cobanoglu, Leroy Delmar, Sunay Girisken available on DVD in Germany Denied political asylum after leaving his native Turkey, a Kurdish teen named Baran (Cagdas Bozkurt) lands a job as a kebab delivery boy in Germany while attempting to elude the authorities and striking up a […]
Zweite Heimat—Die Chronik einer Jugend (The Second Heimat)
Available on DVD with English subtitles The movie consist of 13 separate episodes each handling a period between 1960 and 1970. The length of these periods varies from one day to some years. It tells the story of a group of people in Munich (mostly music and film students). Every episode focuses on a different […]
Kirmes (The Fair)
With actors Juliette Mayniel and Götz George At the end of WWII a soldier who had often been ordered to execute women and children deserts and tries to find a hiding place in his native village. Almost immediately the entire village is evacuated, except the deserter and a French girl who is a compulsive worker. […]
40 Quadratmeter Deutschland (Forty Square Meters of Germany)
With actors Özay Fecht, Yaman Okay, Demir Gökgöl The tale of a young Turkish woman who, after an arranged marriage, follows her much older husband to Hamburg, where he had been working for some time. Instead of allowing his wife to experience for herself life in this German city, the husband anxiously shields her from […]
Weltmeister
With actors Hans-Joachim Grubel and Grit Hornig Links: IMDB, Film Portal
Good Bye Lenin!
With actors Daniel Brühl and Katrin Saß available on DVD with English subtitles in the US Goodbye Lenin! is a mixture of history, comedy and drama that works quite well, even when dealing with such heavy material such as the Cold War, a coma in the family and the loss of a person’s (and even […]
Zwischen Gott und Erde
Links: Filmportal Genre(s): Classic Documentary;
Escape to Paradise
With actors Düzgün Ayhan and Fidan Firat Sehmuz, his wife Delal and their three children have saved themselves by escaping from Turkey to Switzerland. They are temporarily lodged in the asylum centre, together with refugees from Africa and East Europe that can se the funny side of everyday life despite their scars and nightmares. However, […]