I like to watch films in German. If anyone can recommend German language film(s) to me, I’d appreciate it.
I have watched and thoroughly enjoyed “Das Boot” and “Schultze Gets the Blues.”
Any other German language films out there and rentable? When I ask at Blockbuster they just say umm, I don’t know.
Let me add German films WITHOUT NUDITY, as in PG sort of rated? Those Europeans always seem to be strippin’ down...
Stalingrad.
you can dl it.
Der Himmel über Berlin (1987) Wings of Desire.
Try to find ‘An American Friend’. It’s a German (from the seventies) retelling of the Ripley story with Bruno Ganz and Dennis Hopper as Ripley.
The Harmonists, also called The Comedian Harmonists, about a singing group in the interwar years, was good.
So were two films about East Germany: Go For Zucker! and Goodbye, Lenin.
Those are comedies but the best of the recent films is The Lives of Others, about the secret police and informers in the GDR.
Nowhere in Africa, about refugees during the war, was also interesting.
Fatih Akin makes movies about Turks in Germany (In July, Head On, The Edge of Heaven). He's brilliant, but the films can be disturbing.
Personally I'd stay away from Rainer Werner Fassbinder's films. They are very dark and dreary. For along time, Fassbinder defined German cinema for the rest of the world, for better or for worse (in my book, just for worse).
There are also a lot of East German films coming out on DVD that really aren't worth seeing.
And Men ... by Doris Dörrie. I didn't like it so much but it introduced a whole generation to the idea of "German comedy."