Can anybody recomend any german films?

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Run Lola Run and Wim Wenders' films are the only ones I can think of.

spanner

das boobs, hedi harda****, cumsnell and other such artistes

Crash

Goodbye lenin tbh.

Buck Owens

Yeah Run lola run is excellent. I remember being made watch it as part of an Transition Year Film Apperiation thing and thinking it was going to be boring and I ended up actually loving it

dave13

Das Experiment if you can find it.Very Good.

spanner

Originally posted by crash_000
Goodbye lenin tbh.

good idea but didnt think that much of it, maybe just dont get german humour

DrunkLeprachaun

Absolut Giganten(Gigantic in english) is a damn good film. It's about these three guys just going out for a night, and all the stuff that happens to them. It's very funny but also poignant. I got it on video at the IFI for a tenner a good while back, pick it up if you can, it's probably the best german film I've ever seen.

ObeyGiant

Time for some Herzog/Kinski action:
- Aguirre: The Wrath of God (rules)
- Fitzcarraldo (rules)
- Woyzeck (good)
- Nosferatu the Vampyre (okay)

Or if you want to go earlier, go with the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari - a silent, expressionist film.

Zoton

Try "Anatomy" starring Run Lola Run's lovely Franke Potente. Its pretty good as thrillers go.

Zaphod

Stalingrad
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108211/

Funny Games (German language, but Austrian made)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119167/

Tusky

Originally posted by DrunkLeprachaun
Absolut Giganten(Gigantic in english) is a damn good film. It's about these three guys just going out for a night, and all the stuff that happens to them. It's very funny but also poignant. I got it on video at the IFI for a tenner a good while back, pick it up if you can, it's probably the best german film I've ever seen.

I second that.

Karl Hungus

Originally posted by wonderboy
Das Experiment if you can find it.Very Good.

I concur! It's an utterly fantastic film.
Just don't think of it as an accurate character study, but rather a tense psychological thriller, and it's possibly one of the most nail-biting films out there.

Really well recommended.

Originally posted by Zaphod
Stalingrad
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108211/

Funny Games (German language, but Austrian made)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119167/

Also great films.

IDM

Originally posted by wonderboy
Das Experiment if you can find it.Very Good.

I agree. Really a great thriller. Has the bloke from Run Lola Run in it ... Moritz Bleibtreu.
There's also "The Princess & The Warrior" with Franka Potente. Same director as Run Lola Run.

Caesar_Bojangle

kinda off topic, but what was that german film they showed on net2 a few saturdays ago? It was set in a boarding school and they played soggy biscuit in a wood.

cartman

life is beautifil - mad film all together

radiospan

Originally posted by DrunkLeprachaun
Absolut Giganten(Gigantic in english) is a damn good film. It's about these three guys just going out for a night, and all the stuff that happens to them. It's very funny but also poignant. I got it on video at the IFI for a tenner a good while back, pick it up if you can, it's probably the best german film I've ever seen.

I third that! Saw it in Transition Year in the Kino in Cork.

The table football scene is excellent!

doonothing

europa europa is good...

has anyone seen the little tin drum?
i think thats what its called.... absolutely BIZARRE film.... very good though...

p.pete

Originally posted by spanner
good idea but didnt think that much of it, maybe just dont get german humour

Yeah, I thought Goodbye Lennin was a very good film but there is a lot of small jokes that are easily missed - more on a cultural level than a German humour level though (i.e. it's possibly not typical German humour but unless you have an awareness of German culture you mightn't get it).

DrunkLeprachaun

I forgot about it earlier, but Faraway, So Close is one hell of a film too. It's about this angel who decides to fall and become a human. It's an increible film, while it's not completely in german, I'd still strongly advise you or anyone else reading to watch it.

simu

Der Himmel ueber Berlin - i saw a bit of it in a class at uni and it seemed really cool. My lecturer said that the narrator is said to have the nicest-sounding voice of any German and he does sound very good, I have to say(I love the sound of the German language)!

Tis called the Wings of Desire in English (not as good as the German title imo as it sounds a bit soppy).




More info here:
http://www.metalasylum.com/ragingbull/movies/wings.html

da_deadman

I would really like to see Faraway, So Close and Goodbye Lenin but have not got around to it yet.

Tattoo is very good, in an atmospheric, Se7en kind of way. I really enjoyed it in the IFI a few months back.

hsharz

"Das Leben der Anderen" - even won an Oscar a couple of years ago

"Der Baader-Meinhoff Komplex"


Goodbye Lenin is arealy good film, but without knowledge about the former GDR(east Germany) you might miss some of the jokes

Dozen Wicked Words

Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei (The Edukators in English release) is a brilliant film.

Lot of edgy camera work that took me a few minutes to get used to but after that I didn't really notice it. Some very funny moments in it but probably a stretch to call it a Comedy.

Oldest thread I have posted on, 2004, most excellent.

faceman

My Life As A Dog.

Its pretty old now.

MikeC101

The Lives of Others brilliant character focused thriller about a Stasi surveillance operation in East Germany before the wall came down. Saw it recently and loved it.

Twiki

'Downfall' for its fairytale qualities and 'The NeverEnding Story' for its compelling take on a dark chapter in world history.

doonothing

doonothing wrote: »

europa europa is good...

has anyone seen the little tin drum?
i think thats what its called.... absolutely BIZARRE film.... very good though...

Oh wow! Hello 5 years ago me!

I'll have to dig out those films, haven't watched 'em in ages.

Wolff

cartman wrote: »

life is beautifil - mad film all together

first german film made entirely in italian !

faceman wrote: »

My Life As A Dog.

Its pretty old now.

fist german film made entirely in Swedish !

fikay

hsharz wrote: »

"Das Leben der Anderen" - even won an Oscar a couple of years ago

I loved this movie, couldn't recommend it more highly.

Kaizer Sosa

I loved "the lives of others". It was absolutely riveting and its story mirrored actual events which happened the lead actor. One of my favourite movies. I also loved Downfall which was mentioned. Another little gem is "The counterfeiters". A really well crafted movie set in a prison camp in Nazi Germany.

A few interesting tips from 04 and I'll defo be checking a few of them out!

brendansmith

Downfall

Tomohawk

Love in Thoughts (Was nützt die Liebe in Gedanken) 2004

A posthumous look at the last days of Guenther's life as he, his best friend, and his sister let loose on a four-day binge of alcohol, drugs, and sex. It's set in the Jazz age during the Weimar republic. Daniel Brühl from the Edukators and Good Bye Lenin is stars in this.

Wings of Desire (Der Himmel über Berlin) 1987 is also brilliant, it's got Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Peter Falk (Columbo) in it as well as Bruno Ganz. There was an appalling Hollywood remake in the late 1990s but the less said about that the better!

Spiritoftheseventies

Kaizer Sosa wrote: »

I loved "the lives of others". It was absolutely riveting and its story mirrored actual events which happened the lead actor. One of my favourite movies. I also loved Downfall which was mentioned. Another little gem is "The counterfeiters". A really well crafted movie set in a prison camp in Nazi Germany.

A few interesting tips from 04 and I'll defo be checking a few of them out!

yes that was a terrific film. would recommend it.

Imposter

One i'd recommend is an Austrian film Immer nie am Meer. Hilariously funny film.

Otherwise as suggested:
Run Lola Run
The lives of others
Goodbye lenin