Amen. 2002  N/R, 130 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Costa-Gavras
Cast: Ulrich Tukur, Mathieu Kassovitz, Ulrich Muhe, Michel Duchaussoy, Ion Caramitru, Marcel Iures, Friedrich von Thun, Antje Schmidt, Hanns Zischler, Sebastian Koch
World War II, S.S. officer Kurt Gerstein (Ulrich Tukur) learns that the Nazis are exterminating Jews at a Polish death camp and tells a Jesuit priest (Mathieu Kassovitz) who, in turn, promises to inform Pope Pius XII.
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Black Book 2006  R, 145 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
aka: Zwartboek
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Cast: Carice van Houten, Sebastian Koch, Thom Hoffman, Halina Reijn, Waldemar Kobus, Derek de Lint, Christian Berkel, Dolf de Vries, Peter Blok, Michiel Huisman, Ronald Armbrust, Frank Lammers, Xander Straat, Johnny de Mol, Matthias Schoenaerts
Rachel Stein (Carice van Houten) seeks help from the Dutch Resistance in Holland during World War II and manages to contact Mr. Smaal (Dolf de Vries) who helps Rachel, her family, and other refugees get access to a ferry heading to Belgium. But, Nazis take over the boat, and Rachel is the sole survivor. Alone in the world, she joins the Dutch Resistance and becomes the girlfriend of Gestapo chief Ludwig Muntze (Sebastian Koch). Leading this double life allows her to get an inside look into Gestapo headquarters where she learns that people and things are not always the way they seem to be.
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Gloomy Sunday 1999  N/R, 114 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Rolf Schubel
Cast: Joachim Krol, Erika Marozsan, Stefano Dionisi, Ben Becker, Rolf Becker, Andras Balint, Geza Boros, Ilse Zielstorff, Julia Zsolnai, Sebastian Koch, Urike Grote, Ferenc Bacs
Set in Budapest during the 1930s, piano player Andras (Ben Becker) works for restaurant owner Laszlo (Joachim Krol) and becomes part of a romantic triangle involving Laszlo and the restaurant's hostess, Ilona (Erika Marozsan). Andras plays the haunting song, "Gloomy Sunday," and the legend begins that people who hear the tune kill themselves. Behind the legend is the fact that the suicides are taking place in a world where the Nazi death machine is rolling across Hungary.
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The Lives of Others 2006 R, 137 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama / Thriller
Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Cast: Martina Gedeck, Ulrich Muhe, Sebastian Koch, Ulrich Tukur, Thomas Thieme, Hans-Uwe Bauer, Volkmar Kleinert, Matthias Brenner, Herbert Knaup, Thomas Arnold
This story begins in East Berlin during the 1980s with dramatist Georg Dreyman (Sebastian Koch) and his companion Christa-Maria Sieland (Martina Gedeck) who don't always agree with the party line. In the mid-80s, East German Secret Police agent Captain Gerd Wiesler (Ulrich Muhe) is assigned to spy on Dreyman and Sieland. In the process of his observations, the hard-nosed Wiesler becomes fascinated with the couple and turns into an anti-establishment figure himself. By story's end it is 1991, and the Berlin Wall has fallen allowing for a reunited Germany. An Oscar was received for Best Foreign Language film.
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The Tunnel 2001 N/R, 157 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Roland Suso Richter
Cast: Heino Ferch, Nicolette Krebitz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Sebastian Koch, Claudia Michelsen, Felix Eitner, Mehmet Kurtulus, Heinrich Schmieder, Uwe Kockisch, Karin Baal
After the wall goes up in 1961 to separate East and West Berlin, East German swim champion Harry Melchior (Heino Ferch) makes use of a forged passport and escapes to the West. However, his sister, Lotte Lohmann (Alexandra Maria Lara), remains in East Berlin, and Harry is determined to get her out. His solution: dig a simple tunnel under the wall. But, the project grows to an enormous tunnel to accommodate many others who want to escape the East German regime. Based on a true story.
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| 1. Amen. (2002)
2. Black Book (2006)
aka: Zwartboek
3. Gloomy Sunday (1999)
4. The Lives of Others (2006)
5. The Tunnel (2001)
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