Genre: Crime / Drama / Fantasy
Director: Tom Tykwer
Cast: Ben Whishaw, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Alan Rickman
Plot: Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born in the stench of eighteenth century Paris, develops a superior olfactory sense, which he uses to create the world's finest perfumes. His work, however, takes a dark turn as he tries to preserve scents in the search for the ultimate perfume.
Genre: Biography / Drama
Director: Caroline Link
Cast: Juliane Kohler, Merab Ninidze, Sidede Onyulo
Plot: A Jewish family in Germany emigrate short before the Second World War. They move to Kenya to start running a farm, but not all members of the family come to an arrangement with their new life. Shortly after their departure, things are changing in Germany very quickly, and a turning back seems impossible. So everyone has to arrange himself with the new life in a new continent.
Genre: Action / Crime / Comedy / Drama
Director: Thomas Jahn
Cast: Til Schweiger, Jan Josef Liefers, Moritz Bleibtreu
Plot: Two young men, Martin and Rudi, both suffering from terminal cancer, get to know each other in a hospital room. They drown their desperation in Tequila and decide to take one last trip to the sea. Drunk and still in pajamas they steal the first fancy car they find, a 60's Mercedes convertible. The car happens to belong to a bunch of gangsters, which immediately start to chase it, since it contains more than the pistol Martin finds in the glove box.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Wolfgang Becker
Cast: Daniel Bruhl, Chulpan Khamatova, Florian Lukas
Plot: East Germany, the year 1989: A young man protests against the regime. His mother watches the police arresting him and suffers a heart attack and falls into a coma. Some months later, the GDR does not exist anymore and the mother awakes. Since she has to avoid every excitement, the son tries to set up the GDR again for her in their flat. But the world has changed a lot.
Genre: Action / Crime / Thriller
Director: Tom Tykwer
Cast: Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup
Plot: Lola receives a phone call from her boyfriend Manny. He lost 100,000 DM in a subway train that belongs to a very bad guy. Lola has 20 min to raise this amount and meet Manni. Otherwise, he will rob a store to get the money. Three different alternatives may happen depending on some minor event along Lola's run.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Cast: Moritz Bleibtreu, Christian Berkel, Maren Eggert
Plot: For two weeks 20 male participants are hired to play prisoners and guards. The 'prisoners' are locked up and have to follow seemingly mild rules, and the 'guards' are told simply to retain order without using physical violence. Everybody is free to quit at any time, thereby forfeiting payment. In the beginning the mood between both groups is insecure and rather emphatic. But soon quarrels arise and the wardens employ ever more drastic sanctions to confirm their authority.
Genre: Drama / Sci-Fi
Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Brigitte Helm, Gustav Fröhlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge
Plot: In the future, the society of Metropolis is divided in two social classes: the workers and the dominant classes. The workers are controlled by their leader Maria, who wants to find a mediator between the upper class lords and the workers. Maria meets Freder, the son of the Lord of Metropolis Johhan and they fall in love for each other. Johhan decides that the workers are no longer necessary for Metropolis, and uses a robot pretending to be Maria to promote a revolution of the working class.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Cast: Ulrich Muhe, Sebastian Koch, Martina Gedeck
Plot: The film begins in 1984 when secret police agent Wiesler attends a play written by Georg Dreyman, who is considered by many to be the ultimate example of the loyal citizen. Wiesler has a gut feeling that Dreyman can't be as ideal as he seems and believes surveillance is called for. The Minister of Culture agrees but only later does Wiesler learn that the Minister sees Dreyman as a rival and lusts after his partner Christa-Maria. The more time he spends listening in on them, the more he comes to care about them.
Genre: Biography / Drama / History / War
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Cast: Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Juliane Kohler
Plot: In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Soviet Armies closing in from the west and south. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still achieve victory and orders his Generals and advisers to fight to the last man. "Downfall" explores these final days of the Reich, where senior German leaders began defecting from their beloved Fuhrer, in an effort to save their own lives, while still others pledge to die with Hitler.
Genre: Adventure / Drama / War
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Cast: Jurgen Prochnow, Herbert Gronemeyer, Klaus Wennemann
Plot: It is 1942 and the German submarine fleet is heavily engaged in the so-called "Battle of the Atlantic" to harass and destroy British shipping. "Das Boot" is the story of one such U-Boat crew, with the film examining how these submariners maintained their professionalism as soldiers and attempted to accomplish impossible missions, all the while attempting to understand and obey the ideology of the government under which they served.
