Berlinale 2019
by thomashummitzsch | created - 14 Feb 2019 | updated - 14 Feb 2019 | PublicFilms I watched during Berlinale 2019
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1. The Kindness of Strangers - Kleine Wunder unter Fremden (2019)
112 min | Drama
The story of people whose lives intertwine during a dramatic winter in New York City.
Director: Lone Scherfig | Stars: Zoe Kazan, Esben Smed, Jack Fulton, Finlay Wojtak-Hissong
Votes: 1,365
2. Systemsprenger (2019)
125 min | Drama
On her wild quest for love, 9-year-old Benni's untamed energy drives everyone around her to despair.
Director: Nora Fingscheidt | Stars: Helena Zengel, Albrecht Schuch, Gabriela Maria Schmeide, Lisa Hagmeister
Votes: 8,762
3. Der Boden unter den Füßen (2019)
16 | 108 min | Drama
A high-powered business consultant struggles to keep her professional and personal lives from colliding after her schizophrenic sister attempts suicide.
Director: Marie Kreutzer | Stars: Valerie Pachner, Pia Hierzegger, Mavie Hörbiger, Michelle Barthel
Votes: 773 | Gross: $0.02M
4. Elisa y Marcela (2019)
118 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
In 1901, Elisa Sanchez Loriga took on the identity of Mario Sánchez to marry her lover of fifteen years, Marcela Gracia Ibeas.
Director: Isabel Coixet | Stars: Natalia de Molina, Greta Fernández, Sara Casasnovas, Tamar Novas
Votes: 3,319
5. Der Goldene Handschuh (2019)
16 | 115 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A serial killer strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s.
Director: Fatih Akin | Stars: Jonas Dassler, Tristan Göbel, Margarete Tiesel, Adam Bousdoukos
Votes: 8,902
6. Gospod postoi, imeto i' e Petrunija (2019)
100 min | Drama
A Macedonian woman throws herself into a traditionally men-only ceremony, kicking up a ruckus and standing her ground.
Director: Teona Strugar Mitevska | Stars: Zorica Nusheva, Labina Mitevska, Stefan Vujisic, Suad Begovski
Votes: 1,680
7. Gelobt sei Gott (2018)
137 min | Crime, Drama
Three men, abused by the same priest during their childhood, engage in a fight for justice that will expose their personal experiences and question their life with their wife, family, and colleagues.
Director: François Ozon | Stars: Melvil Poupaud, Denis Ménochet, Swann Arlaud, Éric Caravaca
Votes: 5,252
8. Ich war zuhause, aber (2019)
105 min | Drama
After a 13-year-old student disappears without a trace for a week and suddenly reappears, his mother and teachers are confronted with existential questions that change their whole view of life.
Director: Angela Schanelec | Stars: Thorbjörn Björnsson, Esther Buss, Martin Clausen, Lucas Confurius
Votes: 690
9. Kiz Kardesler (2019)
108 min | Drama
Three young girls are sent back to their father in a poor village in central Anatolia, one after another, after failing in more affluent foster families.
Director: Emin Alper | Stars: Cemre Ebuzziya, Ece Yüksel, Helin Kandemir, Müfit Kayacan
Votes: 2,452
10. Mr. Jones (2019)
141 min | Biography, Drama, Thriller
A Welsh journalist breaks the news in the western media of the famine in Ukraine in the early 1930s.
Director: Agnieszka Holland | Stars: James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, Peter Sarsgaard, Joseph Mawle
Votes: 6,159
11. Öndög (2019)
100 min | Drama
A murder case in the Mongolian steppe. A herder is asked to guard the crime scene - a woman who resolutely scares off both wolves and her neighbor. She has her own plans for the future, ... See full summary »
Director: Quan'an Wang | Stars: Aorigeletu, Gangtemuer Arild, Dulamjav Enkhtaivan, Norovsambuu
Votes: 578
12. Paranza - Der Clan der Kinder (2019)
16 | 111 min | Crime, Drama
A gang of teenage boys stalks the streets of Naples armed with hand guns and AK-47s to do their mob bosses' bidding.
Director: Claudio Giovannesi | Stars: Francesco Di Napoli, Viviana Aprea, Mattia Piano Del Balzo, Ciro Vecchione
Votes: 3,676 | Gross: $0.02M
13. Ghost Town Anthology (2019)
97 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
In a small and isolated town, Simon Dubé dies in a car accident. The stunned townspeople are reluctant to discuss the circumstances of the tragedy. From that point on time seems to lose all meaning, and the days stretch on without end.
Director: Denis Côté | Stars: Robert Naylor, Josée Deschênes, Jean-Michel Anctil, Larissa Corriveau
Votes: 1,246
14. Synonymes (2019)
123 min | Comedy, Drama
A young Israeli man absconds to Paris to flee his nationality, aided by his trusty Franco-Israeli dictionary.
Director: Nadav Lapid | Stars: Tom Mercier, Quentin Dolmaire, Louise Chevillotte, Uria Hayik
Votes: 4,708
15. Ut og stjæle hester (2019)
123 min | Drama, Mystery
A grieving widower moves to the country where a chance encounter rekindles memories from his past.
Director: Hans Petter Moland | Stars: Stellan Skarsgård, Bjørn Floberg, Tobias Santelmann, Danica Curcic
Votes: 1,783
16. Vice - Der zweite Mann (I) (2018)
12 | 132 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
The story of Dick Cheney, an unassuming bureaucratic Washington insider, who quietly wielded immense power as Vice President to George W. Bush, reshaping the country and the globe in ways that we still feel today.
Director: Adam McKay | Stars: Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Steve Carell, Sam Rockwell
Votes: 118,814 | Gross: $47.84M
17. Brecht (2019)
187 min | Biography, Drama, History
Starting from the year 1956, Brecht's year of death, the film looks back on the time of the First World War and the life Bertolt Brecht in a mixture of fiction and documentary.
Director: Heinrich Breloer | Stars: Burghart Klaußner, Tom Schilling, Adele Neuhauser, Lou Strenger
Votes: 271
18. So wie du mich willst (2019)
101 min | Drama, Romance
Claire, a 50-year-old divorced teacher, creates a fake Facebook profile of a 24-year-old woman. She finds a photo of a pretty young blonde and uses it. She has created an entirely fictional character, but why?
Director: Safy Nebbou | Stars: Juliette Binoche, Nicole Garcia, François Civil, Marie-Ange Casta
Votes: 3,892
19. Photograph (I) (2019)
PG-13 | 110 min | Drama, Romance
A struggling street photographer in Mumbai, pressured to marry by his grandmother, convinces a shy stranger to pose as his fiancée. The pair develop a connection that transforms them in ways they could not expect.
Director: Ritesh Batra | Stars: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Sanya Malhotra, Sachin Khedekar, Denzil Smith
Votes: 4,016 | Gross: $0.34M
20. Berlin Bouncer (2019)
87 min | Documentary
An exciting piece of Berlin's cultural history from the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall to the vibrant present.
Director: David Dietl | Stars: Sven Marquardt, Frank Künster, Smiley Baldwin
Votes: 162
21. Easy Love (2019)
89 min | Documentary, Biography, Comedy
easy love is the experimental fiction debut of Tamer Jandali. His way of working shifted between documentary and fiction when he followed seven men and women from Cologne on their search ... See full summary »
Director: Tamer Jandali | Stars: Stella Vivien Dhingra, Niclas Jüngermann, Sönke Andersen, Sophia Seidenfaden
Votes: 104
22. Retrospekt (2018)
101 min | Drama
Puzzle-like psychological drama about a domestic violence support worker .
Director: Esther Rots | Stars: Circé Lethem, Martijn van der Veen, Lien Wildemeersch, Felice de Bruijn
Votes: 108
23. Heute oder morgen (2019)
93 min | Drama
A young couple with an open, long-term relationship, engage in a three-way relationship with Chloe in the free-spirited city of Berlin.
Director: Thomas Moritz Helm | Stars: Paula Knüpling, Maximilian Hildebrandt, Tala Gouveia, Hans-Jochen Wagner
Votes: 65
24. Savovi (2019)
105 min | Drama, Thriller
Stitches combines elements of thriller and melodrama, and deals with the story of newborn babies abducted from hospitals, which has been a hot social issue in Serbia recently. The script ... See full summary »
Director: Miroslav Terzic | Stars: Snezana Bogdanovic, Jovana Stojiljkovic, Marko Bacovic, Vesna Trivalic
Votes: 834
25. Los miembros de la familia (2019)
86 min | Comedy, Drama
Body-obsessed teenager Lucas and his mystically-inclined older sister, Gilda, unexpectedly become stranded when they travel to a nearly deserted coastal town to try to fulfill their dead mother's last wishes in whatever way they can.
Director: Mateo Bendesky | Stars: Sergio Boris, Edgardo Castro, Ofelia Fernández, Laila Maltz
Votes: 155
26. Marighella (2019)
155 min | Action, Drama, History
Facing a violent military dictatorship and an intimidated opposition, writer-turned-politician Carlos Marighella articulates a resistance all the while ousting heinous crimes of torture and the infamous censorship instituted by the regime.
Director: Wagner Moura | Stars: Ana Paula Bouzas, Bella Camero, Herson Capri, Humberto Carrão
Votes: 42,791
27. Bis dann, mein Sohn (2019)
185 min | Drama
Two married couples adjust to the vast social and economic changes taking place in China from the 1980s to the present.
Director: Xiaoshuai Wang | Stars: Jingchun Wang, Mei Yong, Xi Qi, Roy Wang
Votes: 2,860
28. Aretha Franklin: Amazing Grace (2018)
G | 89 min | Documentary, Music
A documentary presenting Aretha Franklin with choir at the New Bethel Baptist Church in Watts, Los Angeles in January 1972.
Directors: Alan Elliott, Sydney Pollack | Stars: Aretha Franklin, James Cleveland, Alexander Hamilton, Cornell Dupree
Votes: 3,504 | Gross: $4.45M
29. Schönheit & Vergänglichkeit (2019)
79 min | Documentary
"Beauty and decay" is a documentary about three rebels, who shine even brighter than the rest of the vibrating East Berlin boheme of the 80ies: Sven Marquardt, Dominique Hollenstein (Dome) ... See full summary »
Director: Annekatrin Hendel | Stars: Dominique Hollenstein, Sven Marquardt, Robert Paris, Volker Spengler
Votes: 34
30. Woosang (2019)
144 min | Crime, Thriller
The politician Koo Myung-hui finds his wife in the garage. She is cleaning her son's bloodstained car, which has just run over a person.
Director: Su-jin Lee | Stars: Byeong-gyu Jo, Suk-kyu Han, Woo-hee Chun, Kyung-gu Sol
Votes: 225
31. Holy Beasts (2019)
90 min | Drama
Fading actress Vera V. gathers with the remnants of her 70's social circle to shoot her last film: an unfinished script left behind by cherished friend J. L. Jorge.
Directors: Israel Cárdenas, Laura Amelia Guzmán | Stars: Geraldine Chaplin, Udo Kier, Jackie Ludueña Koslovitch, Jaime Pina
Votes: 71
32. What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael (2018)
98 min | Documentary, Biography
A portrait of the work and life of controversial film critic Pauline Kael, and her battle to achieve success and influence in the 20th century movie business.
Director: Rob Garver | Stars: Woody Allen, Lili Anolik, Alec Baldwin, Carol Baum
Votes: 431
33. The Souvenir (2019)
R | 120 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A young film student in the early '80s becomes romantically involved with a complicated and untrustworthy man.
Director: Joanna Hogg | Stars: Neil Young, Tosin Cole, Jack McMullen, Frankie Wilson
Votes: 8,468 | Gross: $1.04M
34. Weitermachen Sanssouci (2019)
80 min | Comedy, Drama
The shape of planet Earth is not perfectly spherical. It rather looks like a potato. Climate scientist Phoebe Phaidon starts with a teaching contract at the Institute for Cybernetics at ... See full summary »
Director: Max Linz | Stars: Sarah Ralfs, Sophie Rois, Philipp Hauß, Bernd Moss
Votes: 107
35. Talking About Trees (2019)
16 | 93 min | Documentary
Four older Sudanese filmmakers with passion for film battle to bring cinema-going back to Sudan, not without resistance. Their 'Sudanese Film Club' have decided to revive an old cinema, and again draw attention to Sudanese film history.
Director: Suhaib Gasmelbari | Stars: Manar Al Hilo, Suleiman Ibrahim, Altayeb Mahdi, Ibrahim Shaddad
Votes: 627
36. The Stone Speakers (2018)
92 min | Documentary
The Stone Speakers examines the intersection between tourism and ideology in four post-war Bosnia and Herzegovinian towns.
Director: Igor Drljaca
Votes: 30
37. Angels Never Cry (2019)
84 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
All Theresa wants to do is paint. Unfortunately, she's going blind, and it's only a matter of time before she can never see another canvas. Her husband Eric is not supportive, and Theresa's... See full summary »
Director: Lok Kwan Woo | Stars: Eva Oskarsdottir, Jonathan Stoddard, Matt Munroe, Walker Mintz
Votes: 15
38. O Beautiful Night (2019)
89 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Yuri is a young musician. He is very afraid of death. For this reason, he hardly leaves his apartment. One day he meets a mysterious man who claims to be death. He takes him on an extraordinary journey.
Director: Xaver Böhm | Stars: Noah Saavedra, Marko Mandic, Vanessa Loibl, Gerhard Bös
Votes: 231
39. Shooting the Mafia (2019)
94 min | Documentary, Biography
Italian photographer Letizia Battaglia spends her career documenting the life and crimes of the Mafia.
Director: Kim Longinotto | Star: Letizia Battaglia
Votes: 489
40. Feng Zhong You Duo Yu Zuo De Yun (2018)
125 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The Chief of Construction Committee leaps to his death from a tall building. Yang Jiadong, a rookie cop begins investigating it. Forced out of his job and to the safety of Hong Kong, he endeavors to discover the truth.
Director: Ye Lou | Stars: Boran Jing, Songwen Zhang, Jia Song, Sichun Ma
Votes: 825
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