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  • 2009
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    Pope Joan

    Pope Joan

    6.80 2009 HD

    A 9th century woman of English extraction born in the German city of Ingelheim disguises herself as a man and rises through the Vatican ranks.

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  • 2005
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    Fateless

    Fateless

    6.90 2005 HD

    An Hungarian youth comes of age at Buchenwald during World War II. György Köves is 14, the son of a merchant who's sent to a forced labor...

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  • 2019
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    Collective

    Collective

    7.60 2019 HD

    In the aftermath of a tragic fire in a Romanian club, burn victims begin dying in hospitals from wounds that were not life threatening. A team of...

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  • 2024
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    Micha denkt groß

    Micha denkt groß

    5.20 2024 HD

    It's a hot, dry summer in Klein-Schappleben. Micha, a pretentious video game designer, wants to turn his late parents' dilapidated guesthouse into a...

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  • 2022
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    In a Land That No Longer Exists

    In a Land That No Longer Exists

    6.60 2022 HD

    It's 1989 in East Berlin: Suzie is kicked out of school shortly before she graduates from high school and has to defend herself as a worker in the...

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  • 2019
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    Meeting Gorbachev

    Meeting Gorbachev

    6.58 2019 HD

    Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the Soviet Union, sits down with filmmaker Werner Herzog to discuss his many achievements. Topics include the...

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  • 2022
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    Jeanny - The Fifth Girl

    Jeanny - The Fifth Girl

    6.30 2022 HD

    In Mödling, a small town near Vienna, girls between the ages of 18 and 20 have been disappearing without a trace at ever shorter intervals for...

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  • 2024
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    Trotz und Treue: Das Phänomen Sahra Wagenknecht

    Trotz und Treue: Das Phänomen Sahra Wagenknecht

    1 2024 HD

    2024 is likely to be a decisive year for Sahra Wagenknecht's political future. In the arena of power, she might assume a role that she is already...

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  • 2016
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    Shed My Skin

    Shed My Skin

    6.90 2016 HD

    The adolescent Milan discovers his own suspected homosexuality at the age of 17 and the consequences for him and his family but also the liberation...

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  • 2012
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    This Ain't California

    This Ain't California

    6.40 2012 HD

    A retrospective look at the youth cultures born in the German Democratic Republic. A celebration of the lust for life, a contemporary trip into the...

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  • 2016
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    The Olympic Dream: 1936 Nazi Games

    The Olympic Dream: 1936 Nazi Games

    6.50 2016 HD

    Leni Riefenstahl's flamboyant Nazi aesthetics shaped the public image of the 1936 Olympics. Never before had sports and politics been mixed. Through...

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  • 2021
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    The Crossing

    The Crossing

    7.40 2021 HD

    In a small town plunged into darkness, two children, Kyona and Adriel, are separated from their parents and, facing the path of exile alone, embark...

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  • 2018
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    Kruso

    Kruso

    4.90 2018 HD

    "Kruso" tells of the last summer before the Wall came down on the small island of Hiddensee in the Baltic Sea. Beyond state-organized tourism, the...

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  • 2000
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    The Legend of Rita

    The Legend of Rita

    5.90 2000 HD

    Rita Vogt is a radical West German terrorist who abandons the revolution and settles in East Germany with a new identity provided by the East German...

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  • 2015
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    A Heavy Heart

    A Heavy Heart

    7.10 2015 HD

    A former East German boxing champion reduced to working as a bouncer and debt collector is forced to reflect on his life when he is diagnosed with a...

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  • 2019
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    Fritzi: A Revolutionary Tale

    Fritzi: A Revolutionary Tale

    6.60 2019 HD

    September 1989 in the GDR. With the change of the general mood in the country, the life of 12-year-old FRITZI changes as well. Her best friend Sophie...

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  • 2022
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    Harry Belafonte: Between Calypso and Justice

    Harry Belafonte: Between Calypso and Justice

    8.20 2022 HD

    Harry Belafonte wrote music history. How did the black boy from Harlem manage to become one of the greatest artists of the 20th century in the middle...

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  • 1996
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    The Burning Snail

    The Burning Snail

    6.80 1996 HD

    In this grim German drama, a troubled 14-year-old boy's pent-up rage and frustration leads him to involvement with a bad crowd and gets him caught up...

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  • 2024
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    Bach - Ein Weihnachtswunder

    Bach - Ein Weihnachtswunder

    1 2024 HD

    Leipzig, in December 1734: Christmas brings the Bach family together. The first snow has fallen and the children are happy about the arrival of their...

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  • 2018
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    Friendship of Men

    Friendship of Men

    5.50 2018 HD

    In this docudrama Rosa von Praunheim looks into Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s sexual orientation, especially into his erotic experiences during...

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