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1. Phoenix (II) (2014)
PG-13 | 98 min | Drama, History, Music
After surviving Auschwitz, a former cabaret singer has her disfigured face reconstructed and returns to her war-ravaged hometown to seek out her gentile husband, who may or may not have betrayed her to the Nazis.
Director: Christian Petzold | Stars: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf, Trystan Pütter
Votes: 20,688
2. Barbara (I) (2012)
PG-13 | 105 min | Drama
A doctor working in 1980s East Germany finds herself banished to a small country hospital.
Director: Christian Petzold | Stars: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Rainer Bock, Christina Hecke
Votes: 16,004
3. Transit (I) (2018)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
A man attempting to escape occupied France falls in love with the wife of a dead author whose identity he has assumed.
Director: Christian Petzold | Stars: Franz Rogowski, Paula Beer, Godehard Giese, Lilien Batman
Votes: 11,879 | Gross: $0.82M
4. Yella (2007)
Not Rated | 89 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
Yella is estranged from her possessive and violent husband; but he can't quite bring himself to give her up. When their fraught interaction finally comes to dramatic conclusion, Yella's life takes an odd shift.
Director: Christian Petzold | Stars: Nina Hoss, Devid Striesow, Hinnerk Schönemann, Burghart Klaußner
Votes: 4,286
5. Jerichow (2008)
Unrated | 93 min | Drama
The dishonorably discharged Afghanistan veteran Thomas returns to his home village of Jerichow. Ali, a local Turkish-German businessman, owner of a snack-bar chain, hires him as a driver. ... See full summary »
Director: Christian Petzold | Stars: Benno Fürmann, Nina Hoss, Hilmi Sözer, André Hennicke
Votes: 3,376 | Gross: $0.05M
6. The State I Am In (2000)
Not Rated | 106 min | Drama
Clara and Hans are left-wing terrorists who have been sought by police for almost fifteen years. Their increasingly rebellious daughter begins to pose a threat to their security when she falls in love with a boy she meets on the beach.
Director: Christian Petzold | Stars: Julia Hummer, Barbara Auer, Richy Müller, Bilge Bingül
Votes: 2,763
7. Ghosts (2005)
Not Rated | 85 min | Drama
Nina, an end-of-teenage orphan with mental problems, starts a new job as a garden cleaner when she meets Toni. They fell in love with each other, but soon Toni starts betraying Nina. In the... See full summary »
Director: Christian Petzold | Stars: Julia Hummer, Sabine Timoteo, Marianne Basler, Aurélien Recoing
Votes: 1,628
8. Class Relations (1984)
126 min | Drama
After making the domestic servant pregnant, a woman who doubles his age, a young man of only seventeen years from the German bourgeoisie is sent by his family to the United States in order to avoid a huge scandal.
Directors: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub | Stars: Christian Heinisch, Nazzareno Bianconi, Mario Adorf, Laura Betti
Votes: 769
9. Something to Remind Me (2001 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama, Thriller
The first entry in Petzold's "ghost trilogy," Something to Remind Me marks the first of his many collaborations with actress Nina Hoss. It's also the director's first variation on Vertigo, ... See full summary »
Director: Christian Petzold | Stars: Nina Hoss, André Hennicke, Sven Pippig, Heinrich Schmieder
Votes: 724
10. Videograms of a Revolution (1992)
106 min | Documentary, History, War
This documentary uses news footage and amateur video to paint a vivid picture of Romania's 1989 revolution and the fall of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.
Directors: Harun Farocki, Andrei Ujica | Stars: Ion Caramitru, Elena Ceausescu, Nicolae Ceausescu, Mircea Dinescu
Votes: 657
11. The Inextinguishable Fire (1969)
25 min | War, Short
Short film which explores the origins of napalm, it's use in the Vietnam war, and it's evil effects on society.
Director: Harun Farocki | Stars: Gerd Volker Bussäus, Harun Farocki, Caroline Gremm, Hanspeter Krüger
Votes: 339
12. Images of the World and the Inscription of War (1989)
75 min | Documentary, War
Documentary examines the 'blind spot' of the evaluators of aerial footage of the IG Farben industrial plant taken by the Americans in 1944.
Director: Harun Farocki | Stars: Ulrike Grote, Harun Farocki
Votes: 324
13. Arbeiter verlassen die Fabrik (1995)
36 min | Documentary, Short
A hundred years of scenes in which workers are seen leaving their factory spaces are used to deconstruct the ideology behind representations of such workers in both fiction and non fiction films.
Director: Harun Farocki | Star: Harun Farocki
Votes: 218
14. The Warm Money (1992 Video)
31 min | Short, Crime, Drama
Vera and Heike are two friends who aspire for a dazzling lifestyle, but don't own any savings to do so. Vera decides to start stealing from men while sipping drinks with them in bars. When ... See full summary »
Director: Christian Petzold | Stars: Halit Bademsoy, Sabahat Bademsoy, Manuela Brandenstein, Andreas Hosang
Votes: 158
15. The Dead and the Living (2012)
100 min | Drama
The personal journey of young Sita is not only an expedition into her family's burdened past during World War 2. It is also a journey to the abyss of modern European society, a trip which ... See full summary »
Director: Barbara Albert | Stars: Anna Fischer, Hanns Schuschnig, August Zirner, Itay Tiran
Votes: 157
16. Starbuck Holger Meins (2002)
90 min | Documentary
"Starbuck", the name of the navigator from the book Moby Dick, was also the undercover alias of Holger Meins (1941-1974), the navigator of the Baader-Meinhof group. A documentary about a ... See full summary »
Director: Gerd Conradt | Stars: Michael Ballhaus, Suzanne Beyeler, Manfred Blessmann, George Clooney
Votes: 156
17. In Comparison (2009)
61 min | Documentary
In Comparison revisits issues explored in the director's 2007 two channel installation Comparison Via a Third. Spanning continents and cultures, the film focuses on the brick in its many ... See full summary »
Director: Harun Farocki
Votes: 149
18. Pilots (1995 TV Movie)
68 min | Drama
Karin's world is the suburbs. It sells low-cost cosmetics in the large area of Leverkusen. She lives in simple hotels - during the week, the company pays, on weekends she gets special ... See full summary »
Director: Christian Petzold | Stars: Eleonore Weisgerber, Nadeshda Brennicke, Udo Schenk, Barbara Frey
Votes: 144
19. How to Live in the German Federal Republic (1990)
83 min | Documentary
An oddity: a mock-documentary, satirizing West German life, from the perspective of a leftwing East German filmmaker.
Director: Harun Farocki
Votes: 122
20. Gefängnisbilder (2001)
80 min | Documentary
Images from the films of Robert Bresson and Jean Genet as well as documentaries of the Nazi period exist in dialogue with discarded surveillance recordings from maximum-security prisons in the United States.
Director: Harun Farocki
Votes: 115
21. The Weather Inside (2015)
100 min | Drama
A luxury hotel in a conflict zone. Development aid worker Dorothea begins an affair with a young drifter, Alec, but what starts as sweet distraction brings her dangerously close to losing control.
Director: Isabelle Stever | Stars: Maria Furtwängler, Mehmet Sözer, Barbara Bouchet, Dorka Gryllus
Votes: 112
22. Cuba Libre (1996 TV Movie)
92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Tom steals Tina's love and money, and five years later they meet again by chance. Both wanting to get back what was taken from them, they dream of traveling to Cuba. In the end, however, they only manage to get as far as the Belgian coast.
Director: Christian Petzold | Stars: Richy Müller, Catherine Flemming, Wolfram Berger, Mark Schlichter
Votes: 112
23. Still Life (1997)
58 min | Documentary
Are today's advertising photographers continuing in the tradition of 17th century Flemish painters? This is one theory director Harun Farocki poses in his documentary STILL LIFE. According ... See full summary »
Director: Harun Farocki | Star: Kaja Silverman
Votes: 112
25. What Farocki Taught (1998)
30 min | War, Short
What Farocki Taught is a stubborn film, containing a perfect replica, shot-for-shot, in color and English, of Harun Farocki's 1969 b/w German film 'Inextinguishable Fire' - about the ... See full summary »
Director: Jill Godmilow | Stars: J. Blanford, D. Burrell, J. Cavadini, M. DeAnda
Votes: 93
26. Wie man sieht (1986 TV Movie)
72 min | Documentary
A montage of images and topics, documentary style, connected more by theme than subject matter. Such topics include weaving machines and motors and their development through history. Theme ... See full summary »
Director: Harun Farocki
Votes: 92
28. Die Worte des Vorsitzenden (1969)
3 min | Short
This short film interprets some statements from Lin Piao about Mao Tse Tung.
Director: Harun Farocki | Stars: Ursula Lefkes, Otto Schily
Votes: 78
29. Die Schöpfer der Einkaufswelten (2001 TV Movie)
75 min | Documentary
A look at how mall producers design malls in order to maximise traffic and sales.
Director: Harun Farocki
Votes: 77
30. An Image (1983 TV Movie)
25 min | Documentary
This experimental documentary on women's work focuses on the labor involved in creating a nude photograph of a woman for a slick Playboy type pornographic magazine.
Director: Harun Farocki
Votes: 75
31. Erkennen und verfolgen (2003)
54 min | Documentary
A look at production and destruction and the relation between them.
Director: Harun Farocki
Votes: 73
32. Jean-Marie Straub und Danièle Huillet bei der Arbeit an einem Film (1983)
26 min | Documentary, Short
Farocki gives us a short behind the scenes look at Straub and Huillet as they work on a film , based on America by Kafka.
Director: Harun Farocki | Stars: Manfred Blank, Alf Bold, Harun Farocki, Christian Heinisch
Votes: 69
33. Das doppelte Gesicht: Peter Lorre (1984 TV Movie)
59 min | Documentary, Biography
A documentary about the actor Peter Lorre.
Directors: Harun Farocki, Felix Hoffmann | Stars: Harun Farocki, Peter Lorre
Votes: 62
34. Der Ausdruck der Hände (1997)
30 min | Short
Director: Harun Farocki | Star: Harun Farocki
Votes: 53
35. Between Two Wars (1978)
83 min | History
Director: Harun Farocki | Stars: Ingemo Engström, Jeff Layton, Renée Schlesier, Stefan Matousch
Votes: 50
36. Interview (1996 TV Movie)
59 min | Documentary
Director: Harun Farocki | Stars: Jens Wiswede, Birgit Richter, Andrea Wenzl, Barbara Kleber
Votes: 50
37. Schnittstelle (1995)
23 min | Short
In the documentary INTERFACE media artist and director Harun Farocki examines his own media work and explores what it means to work with existing imagery rather than producing one's own, ... See full summary »
Director: Harun Farocki | Star: Harun Farocki
Votes: 49
38. Memories (2007)
102 min | Drama, History
This is the short Pedro Costa made for the Jeonju Digital Project in 2007.
Directors: Pedro Costa, Harun Farocki, Eugène Green | Stars: Isabel Cardoso, Clément Cogitore, Delphine Hecquet, Alfredo Mendes
Votes: 44
39. Die rote Fahne (1968)
12 min | Documentary, Short
A red flag is carried in the middle of the busy Berlin streets in a relay race through the city. The relay race, in which a total of 15 people are involved, begins in the Schloßstraße in ... See full summary »
Directors: Carlos Bustamante, Gerd Conradt, Harun Farocki, Holger Meins, Wolfgang Petersen, Helke Sander, Philip Werner Sauber | Stars: Thomas Giefer, Thomas Mitscherlich, Rüdiger Minow, Kai Ehlers
Votes: 42
40. Der Auftritt (1996)
40 min | Documentary, Short
An advertising firm has a business meeting with a client.
Director: Harun Farocki
Votes: 35
41. Exprmntl (2016)
65 min | Documentary, History
Knokke, Belgium. A small mundane coastal town hosts the world's first festival dedicated to avant-garde cinema: EXPRMNTL. The festival knew only five editions but those five editions soon became legendary.
Director: Brecht Debackere | Stars: Gabrielle Claes, Eric De Kuyper, Harun Farocki, Birgit Hein
Votes: 33
42. Serious Games 1: Watson Is Down (2010)
8 min | Documentary, Animation, Short
Director: Harun Farocki
Votes: 32
44. Serious Games 2: Three Dead (2010)
8 min | Documentary, Short, War
In this second of a four part series, media artist Harun Farocki explores the interplay between modern warfare and electronic media using computer simulation and documentary footage. ... See full summary »
Director: Harun Farocki
Votes: 29
45. Ein neues Produkt (2012)
36 min | Documentary, Short
A small company consults and designs work spaces for larger companies in this portrait of corporate culture and its jargon.
Director: Harun Farocki | Stars: Martin Haußmann, Bernd Fels, Nils Grote, Andrea Köpfer
Votes: 29
46. Ich glaubte Gefangene zu sehen (2004)
25 min | Documentary, Short
A quick inside look at the prison system in California.
Director: Harun Farocki
Votes: 29
47. Serious Games 4: A Sun with No Shadow (2010)
8 min | Documentary, Animation, Short
Director: Harun Farocki
Votes: 29
48. Etwas wird sichtbar (1981)
114 min | Drama
Director: Harun Farocki | Stars: Marcel Werner, Hanns Zischler, Inga Humpe, Bruno Ganz
Votes: 28
50. Immersion: Serious Games 3 (2009)
20 min | Documentary, Animation, Short
Director: Harun Farocki
Votes: 28