Watch The Lives of Others

An actor sells his conscience to the Nazis for the stage; Klaus Maria Brandauer's great performance.

A German-Jewish family flees to a Kenyan farm in 1938 and the daughter grows up African.

A son fakes the survival of East Germany for his mother after her coma; the Berlin Wall comedy.

Two chess grandmasters, one Soviet and one defector, in a Geneva title match.

One continuous take across a Berlin night, a bank robbery included.

Hitler's last twelve days in the bunker, with Bruno Ganz; the meme and the masterpiece.

Oskar stops growing at three and drums through the rise of the Nazis in Danzig.

Bong's razor-sharp class thriller and Best Picture winner (2019).