Alexander Held

As Hitler launches the first major military aggressions of World War II, the strongest and smartest German young men enter exclusive schools known as "Napolas" to train as future leaders of the Third Reich. In 1942, a recruiter from one such Napola sets his sights on Friedrich, a talented adolescent boxer, who sees the training and prestige offered by the Napola as his ticket out of an impoverished family unit run by his anti-Nazi father. (Picture This! Entertainment)

The true story of Germany's most famous anti-Nazi heroine is brought to thrilling life in Germany's official Foreign Language Film selection for the 2005 Academy Awards. Sophie Scholl stars Julia Jentsch in a luminous performance as the young coed-turned-fearless activist. Armed with long-buried historical records of her incarceration, director Marc Rothemund expertly re-creates the last six days of Sophie Scholl's life: a heart-stopping journey from arrest to interrogation, trial and sentence. (Zeitgeist Films)

A look at Germany's terrorist group, The Red Army Faction (RAF), which organized bombings, robberies, kidnappings and assassinations in the late 1960s and '70s. Based on Stefan Aust's best-selling nonfiction book. (imdb.com)

70-year old Brandner Kaspar lives with his granddaughter Nannerl in the mountains at the Schliersee. As he is visited by the Death and wants to take him, Brandner Kaspar tricks him and gets another 20 years of life. (imdb)

Young Hildegard, being the offspring of a noble family, comes to the Benedictine cloister Disibodenberg at the age of 8. There, she is raised by the nun Jutta of Sponheim and is taught medical science and music. Later, when Hildegard is grown up, she admits to have visions of God. The church leaders are appalled and regard her as a heretic. But Hildegard holds on to her ideas and pushes the construction of i.e. the Rupertsberg nunnery.

The Wilhelm Gustloff was the Third Reich's classiest passenger liner when she was pressed into service evacuating German civilians from Poland as the Soviets advanced in the waning days of WWII. (imdb)

Two graffiti crews each try to cover a whole train with their work in order to prove they're the best sprayers in town. (wikipedia)

A fictious story of real abuse in borstals in West Germany in the late 1960s.

The story of the life and conversion of Aurelius Augustinus to Saint Augustine of Hippo. (imdb)

The two chaotic cops Docker and Dretzke are given the task of observing an apartment in which the State Criminal Police Office suspects a drug trafficking center. Both are forced to do the thankless night shift. When Docker falls in love with the barmaid Wanda and proudly tells her about his job, the entire operation threatens to be exposed. Now the two have to clean up the mess they've caused, and in the process they come across a hot trail that leads directly to the LKA Düsseldorf.

In a quiet Baltic Sea fishing village, 18-year-old Christian falls for his new English teacher, Stella Petersen, shortly before the school year begins. Their passionate affair is cut short when Stella tragically dies in a sailing accident. Christian, unable to bid her farewell, reflects on their brief but life-changing love amidst a somber school gathering. Their unlikely pairing sparked scandal in their tight-knit community, yet their shared longing and intense attraction transformed them both.