Afire (2023)
Tensions and desire bloom among five people at a holiday home by the Baltic Sea.
Barbara (2012)
Set in 1978 East Berlin, a doctor desperate to escape to the West finds herself thrown into turmoil by the attentions of another physician.
Dreileben 1: Beats Being Dead (2011)
A young couple's passionate relationship plays out against the backdrop of a manhunt.
Ghosts (2005)
Mystery of a lost child and two teenage girls on the run.
Jerichow (2008)
Three misbegotten strangers stumble into a fateful encounter.
Mirrors No.3 (2025)
On a weekend trip to the countryside, Laura miraculously survives a car crash. Physically unhurt but deeply shaken, she is taken in by a local woman who witnessed the accident and now cares for Laura with motherly devotion. When her husband and adult son also give up their initial resistance to Laura's presence, the four of them slowly build up some family-like routine. But soon they can no longer ignore their past...
Phoenix (2014)
A disfigured concentration camp survivor searches Berlin for her husband.
Something To Remind Me (2001)
Expertly constructed thriller in the tradition of Hitchcock and Chabrol.
The State I'm In (2000)
Old revolutionaries still on the run flee from Portugal to Germany with their teenage daughter.
Transit (2018)
Georg flees to Marseilles to escape the German army. Assuming a false identity, he tries to obtain passage on a ship bound for Mexico. But then he meets Marie and his plans change.
Undine (2020)
Undine is a city historian on urban development in a Berlin museum, the 'place by the swamp'. When her boyfriend leaves her, she vows to kill the faithless man but soon meets another.
Yella (2007)
Metaphysical thriller about a woman trying to escape her past and build a future.
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