In Darkness / W ciemności (2011)
Drama | War
A dramatization of one man's rescue of Jewish refugees in the German-occupied Polish city of Lvov.
Starring: Robert Wieckiewicz, Benno Fürmann, Agnieszka Grochowska, Maria Schrader, Herbert Knaup, Marcin Bosak, Julia Kijowska
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Run Lola Run / Lola rennt (1998)
Action | Crime | Thriller
Set against the gritty urban scenescape of Berlin and a pounding techno soundtrack, Run Lola Run is a frenetic, inventive existential thriller that explores the life-altering impact of seemingly inconsequential actions. Beautiful, hip, and young, poor Lola has but 20 minutes to locate a missing bag containing 100,000 Deutsche marks or come up with the money some other way – if she can't, gangsters are going to kill her boyfriend. A pulse-raising race against time, the film employs a startling array of innovative techniques to present three separate scenarios, all departing from a single split-second decision Lola makes.
Starring: Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup, Armin Rohde, Joachim Król, Nina Petri
Director: Tom Tykwer
Schutzengel / The Guardians (2012)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
A troubled veteran from the war in Afghanistan works to protect an orphaned teenager who witnessed a murder from the killer's henchmen.
Starring: Til Schweiger, Moritz Bleibtreu, Karoline Schuch, Luna Schweiger, Herbert Knaup
Director: Til Schweiger
Hotel Desire (2011)
Drama | Erotica
Sergej Moya is a German actor, writer and director who had the idea for the movie. The 23-aged filmmaker appreciates erotic films which celebrate emotional relationships and depict explicit sexual actions as part of an interesting and demanding love story. So he created the ambitious project HOTEL DESIRE. In his film he wants to tell the story of a woman who is longing for more in her life than only the daily business. It's an attempt to explore human aspiration for explicit sexuality and to present it as an intriguing story with erotical feelings and sensual pictures.
It's said that women think about sex every 60 seconds on average during the day, men every 52 seconds," he says. "However, I could not find any data on how many seconds, minutes or hours we think about murder and homicide every day. I want to make a film that does justice to sexuality as an expression of human joy of life. A film that confidently borrows from the porn genre, but that is not a porn film."
Starring: Saralisa Volm, Clemens Schick, Jan Gregor Kremp, Herbert Knaup, Frederick Lau
Director: Sergej Moya
