Death Was a Passenger

As the host of a literary TV show, Georges begins receiving anonymously filmed videos of his family alongside cryptic, disturbing drawings, but as the tapes become increasingly intimate, they reveal a stalker who has known him for a very long time.

Runtime

1h 58m

Director

Michael Haneke

Cast

Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche, Annie Girardot

In 1943, while the Allies are bombing Berlin and the Gestapo is purging the capital of Jews, a dangerous love affair blossoms between two women – one a Jewish member of the underground, the other an exemplar of Nazi motherhood.

Runtime

2h 5m

Director

Max Färberböck

Cast

Maria Schrader, Juliane Köhler, Johanna Wokalek

Bundeswehr soldier Klaus’ regiment is stationed in France, to take part in NATO maneuvers. The soldiers are ordered to be kind to the populace, since the West German High Command wishes the French to forget the atrocities that were committed during the Second World War. Klaus falls in love with Jeanne, the daughter of the local mayor. ...

Runtime

1h 39m

Director

Kurt Maetzig

Cast

Angelica Domröse, Arno Wyzniewski, Hannjo Hasse

Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events unfold so that he becomes a central player, he finds himself tasked with both leading the coup and personally killing the...

Runtime

2h 1m

Director

Bryan Singer

Cast

Tom Cruise, Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy

Germany in the Thirties. A movie teller realizes that his profession is not longer needed. Silent movies are not produced any longer. Telling stories is the only thing the man was ever good in, so he does not know what to do now. As political circumstances are changing dramatically these days in Germany, he gets new hope that things wi...

Runtime

1h 38m

Director

Bernhard Sinkel

Cast

Armin Mueller-Stahl, Martin Benrath, Andrej Jautze