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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Funny Games 1997 N/R, 108 min.
Genre: Foreign / Horror
Director: Michael Haneke
Cast: Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Muhe, Arno Frisch, Frank Giering, Stefan Clapczynski, Doris Kunstmann, Christoph Bantzer, Wolfgang Gluck, Susanne Meneghel, Monika Zallinger
A well-to-do family heads for their lakeside resort home. Their vacation takes a quick turn for the worse when they are taken hostage in their home by a pair of young men. Gruesome torture "games" take place in this sadistic, yet realistic, story. The acts of violence are all off-camera.
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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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| 1. Amen. (2002)
2. Funny Games (1997)
3. The Lives of Others (2006)
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