Germany – Stream On Demand

Oscar-winning ‘The Lives of Others’ on MUBI

!Featured, Academy Award, BAFTA winner, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, historical, International Cinema, MUBI, socially aware cinema, spies and espionage, SVOD 03/12/2023 Sean Axmaker

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s politcal drama looks at the darkest moments of oppression in the surveillance state of Communist East Germany.

Marlene Dietrich stars in Josef von Sternberg's 'The Blue Angel.'

‘The Blue Angel’ – Marlene Dietrich’s breakthrough on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Criterion Channel, DVD, Free, International Classics, Kanopy, SVOD 02/20/2023 Sean Axmaker

Josef von Sternberg went to Germany to direct Emil Jannings in his sound film debut and created a sensation from his costar in this landmark production.

‘Wings of Desire’ – Angels over Berlin on HBO Max and Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Cannes winner, Criterion, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, drama, DVD, Essential Viewing, European Film Awards, fantasy, Film Independent Spirit Awards, HBO Max, International Cinema, Romance, SVOD 02/14/2023 Sean Axmaker

“There are angels over the streets of Berlin” in the lyrical romantic fantasy from filmmaker Wim Wenders.

Diane Kruger stars in the German drama directed by Fatih Akin

Diane Kruger is ‘In the Fade’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Blu-ray, Cannes winner, drama, DVD, Free, Have You Seen...?, HBO Max, International Cinema, Kanopy, socially aware cinema, SVOD, thriller 09/28/2022 Sean Axmaker

Fatih Akin’s devastating drama turned tense thriller takes on the rise of white nationalism and domestic terrorism in Germany.

Bruno Ganz is Adolph Hitler in the Oscar-nominated film from Oliver Hirschbiegel

‘Downfall’ – The last days of Hitler – free on Kanopy and Hoopla

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Amazon Prime Video, drama, DVD, Free, Have You Seen...?, historical, Hoopla, International Cinema, Kanopy, SVOD, war 01/30/2022 Sean Axmaker

Bruno Ganz plays Adolph Hitler in Oliver Hirschbiegel’s dramatization of his final days in the bunker as Germany fell to the Allied invasion.

‘Das Boot: The Series’ – submarines, spies, and WWII on Hulu

!Featured, based on a novel, Blu-ray, DVD, historical, Hulu, International TV, spies and espionage, Streaming TV, SVOD, war 01/25/2022 Sean Axmaker

The small screen series continues the story begun in the 1981 film, with a new submarine crew on a base in Nazi-occupied France and the Resistance movement working to sabotage it.

‘Babylon Berlin’ – Wiemar noir on Netflix

!Featured, based on a novel, Blu-ray, DVD, European Film Awards, historical, International TV, Mystery, neo-noir, Netflix, Streaming TV, thriller 12/15/2021 Sean Axmaker

The most expensive German TV series ever produced is Weimar noir, a detective drama turned conspiracy thriller set against the backdrop of decadence and poverty and corruption in 1929, just before the rise of Hitler.

‘Lore’ – navigating the collapse of Nazi Germany on Criterion Channel and free on Kanopy and Hoopla

!Featured, Blu-ray, childhood, Criterion Channel, drama, DVD, Fandor, Free, historical, Hoopla, International Cinema, Kanopy, MUBI, socially aware cinema, Streaming Movies, SVOD, war 08/03/2021 Sean Axmaker

Before she was tapped to helm Black Widow for Marvel, Australian filmmaker Cate Shortland directed Lore (Germany, 2012). A coproduction of Germany and Australia with a German cast, setting, and language, Lore takes the viewer on a harrowing odyssey through Germany after the fall of Hitler. The privileged life of fresh-faced German teenager Lore (Saskia […]

Susanne Wuest in the German horror drama 'Goodnight Mommy,' directed by Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz

Last chance: ‘Goodnight Mommy’ on Hulu

!Featured, Blu-ray, Directed by Women, drama, DVD, Have You Seen...?, horror, Hulu, International Cinema, Last chance, suspense, SVOD 07/24/2021 Sean Axmaker 1 Comment

Goodnight Mommy (Germany, 2015) is an unsettling horror film built on scars (physical and psychological) that upset the connection between a mother (Susanne Wuest) and her sons, adolescent twins named Lukas and Elias played by real-life twin brothers Lukas Schwarz and Elias Schwarz. That fraternal connection is apparent in every scene, not just affection but […]

Timo Vuorensola directs this German farce about space Nazis.

‘Iron Sky’ – Steampunk Nazis on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, Comedy, Cult Movies, DVD, fantasy, International Cinema, satire, Science Fiction, SVOD, war 03/07/2021 Sean Axmaker

Iron Sky (Germany, 2012) is an inspired concept—Hitler escaped Germany with a cadre of Nazi loyalists and established a colony on the dark side of the moon—executed with total conviction, at least in the physical details. This isolated outpost lives in a steampunk world forged from the legacy of Krupp machineworks, all giant gears and […]