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[Film] German Films that You've Enjoyed



marlowe

Well-known member
Dec 13, 2015
3,898
Trying to name your top 12 films is an almost impossible task so I've set a much easier one. Just name some German films that you've enjoyed. No top fives or top tens as you may have only ever seen one and liked it. So name as many or as few as you like. Mine include:

Mephisto
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Fitzcarraldo (one of my favourite ever films)
The Tin Drum
Wings of Desire
The Lives of Others
 


Is it PotG?

Thrifty non-licker
Feb 20, 2017
23,096
Sussex by the Sea
Funny Games is excellent. The Hollywood balls up of a remake should not put you off.

Victoria, an amazing film in a single shot with a top soundtrack by Nils Frahm
 


Greg Bobkin

Silver Seagull
May 22, 2012
14,744
As a teenager, there used to be some great ones late on Saturday nights on the channels our old satellite dish picked up... :blush:
 




Stat Brother

Well-known member
NSC Patreon
Jul 11, 2003
73,367
West west west Sussex
May I be the first:-

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Simgull

Well-known member
Jan 3, 2013
1,637
Hove
Heimat - not strictly a film but was great - these days it would be called a box set and be on Netflix.

Downfall
Lives of Others
White Ribbon
Nosferatu
Tin Drum
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Blackadder

Brighton Bhuna Boy
Jul 6, 2003
16,077
Haywards Heath
As a teenager, there used to be some great ones late on Saturday nights on the channels our old satellite dish picked up... :blush:

For some reason, Rolf Harrris always came to mind.

Back on topic. remember a film about youngsters taking drugs. "Christiane F. Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo"
 








Gwylan

Well-known member
Jul 5, 2003
31,323
Uffern
Heimat - not strictly a film but was great - these days it would be called a box set and be on Netflix.

Downfall
Lives of Others
White Ribbon
Nosferatu
Tin Drum
M

All of those - White Ribbon and Lives of Others are particularly good.

I'd add Goodbye Lenin
The American Friend (one of my absolute faves)
Marriage of Maria von Braun (indeed, all later Fassbinder are excellent)

and forget the great German silent films
Cabinet of Dr Caligari and, best of all, Metropolis
 






Meade's Ball

Well-known member
Jul 7, 2003
13,612
Hither (sometimes Thither)
Toni Erdmann, innit. Who would have thought a 3-hour German comedy would be both so funny and so moving.
Victoria was good too, from a couple of years back (apart from the piano-playing bit).

Also, enjoyed watching The Golem: How He Came Into the World - the enjoyment added to with a live piano performance over it.
 






Tom Hark Preston Park

Will Post For Cash
Jul 6, 2003
69,880
Another vote for Das Boot here. Masterful suspense.

Not exactly a film, but Channel 4's Deutschland 83 of a couple of year's back was a Major (Tom) Must-Watch

 



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