Don’t miss this terrific film. Click on the film title to read my entire review.
Martin Luther: The Idea that Changed the World (2017)
A superb six-hour production debuting on PBS September 12. Click this image to read my entire review.
Frantz (2016)
A remarkable drama about the legacy of World War I. Click the image to read my entire review.
Toni Erdmann (2016)
A German father follows his estranged business-obsessed daughter to Romania in order to win her back & help her to regain a passion for life.
The People Vs. Fritz Bauer (2015)
Catch this fascinating German film while it’s still in theaters. (5 stars!) Click the image to read my entire review.
Luther (2003)
German monk Martin Luther unwittingly launches the Protestant Reformation when he posts his “95 Theses” which list reforms that the church badly needs.
The Good German (2006)
In post-WW 2 Berlin a cynical American journalist searches for the woman he had once loved & encounters Germans trying to escape to the West, some ex-Nazis.
Labyrinth of Lies (2014)
A gripping, thought-provoking drama about the investigation leading to the 1963-65 Frankfurt Auschwitz trials of ex-Nazis. Click the image to read my entire review.
Phoenix (2014)
This film noir unfolds right after WW 2 when a disfigured survivor of Auschwitz has plastic surgery, & with a friend, who thinks her German husband betrayed her, searches for him. Not recognizing his wife now, he invites her to pretend to be his wife so he can gain the wife’s large inheritance.
Fury (2014)
During the last months of WW Two 5 tank crew members form a family as they fight their way toward Berlin. One of them is a greenhorn cruelly taught to kill.