All the Queen's Men 2001  PG-13, 105 min.
Genre: Comedy / Action / Drama
Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky
Cast: Matt LeBlanc, Eddie Izzard, James Cosmo, Nicolette Krebitz, Udo Kier, David Birkin, Oliver Korittke, Karl Markovics, Edward Fox, Gordon Catlin
British agents recruit American Special Agent Steven O'Rourke (Matt LeBlanc) to join in a mission that involves breaking into a Berlin factory and stealing a decoding device that will enhance the Allies chance of winning World War II. The catch is that they must cross-dress in order to infiltrate the factory's all-women work force. Complications lie in wait–what a drag!
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Anatomy (Anatomie) 2000  R, 100 min.
Genre: Foreign / Thriller
Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky
Cast: Franka Potente, Benno Furmann, Anna Loos, Sebastian Blomberg, Holger Speckhahn, Traugott Buhre, Oliver Wnuk, Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey, Andreas Gunther, Rudiger Vogler
When medical student Paula Hening (Franka Potente) begins study at a prestigious Heidelberg medical school, she is shocked to find the cadaver of a man she had just met. Investigation turns up a conspiracy: research involving vivisections on living humans.
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Anatomy 2 (Anatomie 2) 2003 R, 101 min.
Genre: Foreign / Thriller
Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky
Cast: Barnaby Metschurat, Herbert Knaup, Heike Makatsch, Roman Knizka, Wotan Wilke Mohring, Frank Giering, Hanno Koffler, Felix Kramer, Sebastian Nakajew, Franka Potente, Rosel Zech, August Diehl
Jo (Barnaby Metschurat), an ambitious graduate of medical school, takes his first job in Berlin. His goal is to work on finding a cure for a rare disease that crippled his brother, but, instead, he becomes involved with an elite group of physicians that is into highly unethical research.
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The Counterfeiters 2007  R, 98 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky
Cast: Karl Markovics, August Diehl, Devid Striesow, Martin Brambach, August Zirner, Veit Stubner, Sebastian Urzendowsky, Andreas Schmidt, Tilo Pruckner, Lenn Kudrjawizki, Norman Stoffregen, Bernd Raucamp
Based on a true story and adapted from Adolph Burger's book "The Devil's Workshop," this is the tale of a counterfeiting program set up by the Nazis in 1936 to help fund their cause. Saloman (Karl Markovics) is a Jewish entrepreneur who is a master counterfeiter. When he is put in a concentration camp, his talents are noted, and he becomes a key contributor to the counterfeiting program. But team member Adolf (August Diehl) is attempting to undermine the operation. Thus begins the dilemma of choosing between helping the enemy–the Nazis–vs. the consequences of potentially losing their lives. An Academy Award was received for Best Foreign Language Film.
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The Inheritors 1998 R, 95 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky
Cast: Simon Schwarz, Sophie Rois, Lars Rudolph, Julia Gschnitzer, Elisabeth Orth, Tilo Pruckner
Set in rural, pre-World War II Austria, this story begins with the murder of a farmer who has bequeathed his land to the seven peasants who work on his farm. With Lukas (Simon Schwarz) and his lover, Emmy (Sophie Rois), as organizers, the peasants form a collective farm and thrive. BUT the idea of peasants owning land upsets the whole social order of the feudal society, and the local landowners bully them.
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| 1. All the Queen's Men (2001)
2. Anatomy (Anatomie) (2000)
3. Anatomy 2 (Anatomie 2) (2003)
4. The Counterfeiters (2007)
5. The Inheritors (1998)
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