Uncharted (2022) Review
Uncharted (2022) rates 3 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A film adapted from a series of games that were already adapting films, which means it is a photocopy of a photocopy. The cargo plane sequence is lifted directly…
Filming Location: Germany
Films in this library shot in Germany, a production base with a history running from Weimar expressionism to contemporary international shoots. Location data is sourced from Wikidata property P915, which records where a film was actually shot as distinct from where its story is set.
GermanyKings of the Road (1976) Review
Kings of the Road (1976) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Two men drive a repair truck along the East German border servicing dying cinemas, for a hundred and seventy-five minutes, with almost no plot. It was…
BerlinSpeed Racer (2008) Review
Speed Racer (2008) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The Wachowskis spent a hundred and twenty million dollars building a candy-colored world with no shadows in it, made ninety-four back, and produced the most misunderstood studio film…
GermanyThe Pianist (2002) Review
The Pianist (2002) rates 10 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Polanski survived the Krakow Ghetto as a child and spent sixty years declining to film the Holocaust before he made this. It won the Palme d'Or and three…
FranceInglourious Basterds (2009) Review
Inglourious Basterds (2009) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Tarantino wrote it in 1998, could not solve the ending, made Kill Bill instead, and came back a decade later. The opening scene is a twenty-five minute conversation…
GermanyOnly Lovers Left Alive (2013)
Not the thrill of immortality, not the hunt, not the gothic romance. What it offers instead is two ancient lovers, the crumbling cities they haunt, and the slow pleasure of their company.
Czech RepublicNosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
Werner Herzog remakes Murnau as a tragedy, and Klaus Kinski's Dracula is the genre's saddest monster. The vampire here is not merely frightening.
BerlinThe Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023)
The Last Voyage of the Demeter earns its 6.5 by taking a few haunting pages from Dracula and building an entire film from them, with mixed but genuinely entertaining results. The film's great strength is its vision of Dracula as…
GermanySuspiria (1977)
Dario Argento directs the giallo horror about an American dance student who discovers her German ballet academy is run by witches. Suspiria is Dario Argento's 1977 Italian horror film depicting an American ballet student who arrives at a prestigious German…
France28 Days Later (2002)
Danny Boyle directs the British zombie film about a man waking from a coma to find London depopulated by a rage virus. 28 Days Later is Danny Boyle's 2002 British post-apocalyptic horror film depicting a bicycle courier who wakes from…
BerlinCitizenfour (2014)
Citizenfour is Laura Poitras's 2014 American documentary depicting Edward Snowden's June 2013 meetings with Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald in Hong Kong, when Snowden disclosed classified National Security Agency documents revealing extensive surveillance programs. Citizenfour proves how documentary could operate…
GermanyThe Name of the Rose (1986)
Jean-Jacques Annaud's 1986 Eco adaptation. Sean Connery as Franciscan monk investigating monastery murders.