48 Films & TV Shows Set In Germany During The 1970s
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Suspiria
Ohio ๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1970sGive your soul to the dance. โ A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the troupe's artistic director, an ambitious young dancer and a grieving psychotherapist. Some will succumb to the nightmare, others will finally wake up.
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Bohemian Rhapsody
New York Scotland Wales England ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ง๐ท Brazil The 1970s The 1980sFearless lives forever โ Singer Freddie Mercury, guitarist Brian May, drummer Roger Taylor and bass guitarist John Deacon take the music world by storm when they form the rock 'n' roll band Queen in 1970. Hit songs become instant classics. When Mercury's increasingly wild lifestyle starts to spiral out of control, Queen soon faces its greatest challenge yet โ finding a way to keep the band together amid the success and excess.
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All About Me
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1970sDramatised origin story of one of Germany's most beloved contemporary comedians.
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Three Seconds
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1970sThe story is set at the 1972 Munich Olympics where the U.S. team lost the basketball championship for the first time in 36 years. The final moments of the final game have become one of the most controversial events in Olympic history. With play tied, the score table horn sounded during a second free throw attempt that put the U.S. ahead by one. But the Soviets claimed they had called for a time out before the basket and confusion ensued. The clock was set back by three seconds twice in a row and the Russians finally prevailed at the very last. The U.S. protested, but a jury decided in the USSRโs favor and Team USA voted unanimously to refuse its silver medals. The Soviet players have been treated as heroes at home.
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Eddie the Eagle
Alberta England ๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1970s The 1980sWin or lose, always aim high โ The feel-good story of Michael 'Eddie' Edwards, an unlikely but courageous British ski-jumper who never stopped believing in himselfโeven as an entire nation was counting him out. With the help of a rebellious and charismatic coach, Eddie takes on the establishment and wins the hearts of sports fans around the world by making an improbable and historic showing at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics.
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Munich '72 and Beyond
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1970sChronicling the 4-decade struggle to memorialize the victims of the 1972 "Munich Massacre"
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The Monuments Men
๐ฆ๐น Austria ๐ง๐ช Belgium ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1940s The 1970sIt was the greatest art heist in history โ Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on seven over-the-hill, out-of-shape museum directors, artists, architects, curators, and art historians who went to the front lines of WWII to rescue the worldโs artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their rightful owners. With the art hidden behind enemy lines, how could these guys hope to succeed?
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Rush
New York England ๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands ๐ช๐ธ Spain ๐ฆ๐น Austria ๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ฏ๐ต Japan ๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa ๐ง๐ท Brazil The 1970sEveryone's driven by something. โ A biographical drama centered on the rivalry between Formula 1 drivers James Hunt and Niki Lauda during the 1976 Formula One motor-racing season.
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Christopher and His Kind
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1970s The 1950s The 1930sA Seminal Journey of Self-Discovery. โ In 1931 budding author Christopher Isherwood goes to Berlin at the invitation of his friend W. H. Auden for the gay sex that abounds in the city. Whilst working as an English teacher his housemates include bewigged old queen Gerald Hamilton and would-be actress Jean Ross, who sings tunelessly in a seedy cabaret club. They and others he meets get put into his stories. After a fling with sexy rent boy Caspar he falls for street sweeper Heinz, paying medical bills for the boy's sickly mother, to the disapproval of her other son, Nazi Gerhardt. With Fascism rapidly rising Christopher returns to London with Heinz but is unable to prevent his return to Germany when his visa expires. Years later Christopher, now a successful writer, returns to Berlin for a final meeting with Heinz, now married with children.
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The Debt
๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐บ๐ฆ Ukraine The 1970s The 1990s The 1960sEvery secret comes with a price. โ Rachel Singer is a former Mossad agent who tried to capture a notorious Nazi war criminal โ the Surgeon of Birkenau โ in a secret Israeli mission that ended with his death on the streets of East Berlin. Now, 30 years later, a man claiming to be the doctor has surfaced, and Rachel must return to Eastern Europe to uncover the truth. Overwhelmed by haunting memories of her younger self and her two fellow agents, the still-celebrated heroine must relive the trauma of those events and confront the debt she has incurred.
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The Baader Meinhof Complex
๐ธ๐ช Sweden ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq ๐ฏ๐ด Jordan The 1970s The 1960s'Der Baader Meinhof Komplex' depicts the political turmoil in the period from 1967 to the bloody "Deutschen Herbst" in 1977. The movie approaches the events based on Stefan Aust's standard work on the Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF). The story centers on the leadership of the self named anti-fascist resistance to state violence: Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof and Gudrun Ensslin.
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The Reader
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 1960s The 1950sBehind the mystery lies a truth that will make you question everything you know. โ The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom.
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Eight Miles High
๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ฎ๐ณ India The 1960s The 1970sAchim Bornhak's movie focuses on the restless life of Uschi Obermaier, the icon of the 1968 movement in Germany and groupie. At the age of 16, Uschi is bored by her job in a photo lab, but soon becomes the "it girl" of Munich's club scene. When she gets to know Rainer Langhans, they move to Berlin and live in "Kommune 1", the first politically-motivated commune in Germany. While the other occupants claim she isn't political enough, Uschi just wants to have fun, works as fashion model and leads international music stars in temptation.
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Pornorama
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1970sA free-wheeling chronicle of the Munich sex film industry in the 1970s.
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Requiem
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1970sShe claimed she was possessed. There was no way to know for sure. โ Michaela, an epileptic, enrolls in college to study education. She goes off her medication and soon begins hearing voices and seeing apparitions that tell her to avoid religious objects, although she is devoutly Roman Catholic. One priest scoffs at the idea that Michaela could be possessed by demons, but a younger pastor arranges an exorcism for the young woman.
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Munich
New York England ๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands ๐ซ๐ท France ๐จ๐พ Cyprus ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ฌ๐ท Greece ๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel ๐ฑ๐ง Lebanon The 1970sThe world was watching in 1972 as 11 Israeli athletes were murdered at the Munich Olympics. This is the story of what happened next. โ During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and execute those responsible for the attack.
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Good Bye Lenin!
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1970s The 1980s The 1990sThe German Democratic Republic lives on -- in 79 square meters! โ Alex Kerner's mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell. When she wakes up he must try to keep her from learning what happened (as she was an avid communist supporter) to avoid shocking her which could lead to another heart attack.
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Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
๐ฒ๐ฝ Mexico New York Massachusetts Pennsylvania California ๐ซ๐ฎ Finland ๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1970s The 1980s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940sSome things are better left top secret. โ Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. Television producer by day, CIA assassin by night, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA at the height of his TV career and trained to become a covert operative. Or so Barris said.
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Baader
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1970sAndreas Baader starts out as a small-time criminal. In Berlin, he is recruited by a revolutionary cell. They plan to overthrow the state.
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Solino
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1970s The 1980s The 1960sThe movie portrays the story of an Italian family emigrated in Germany in the 1970s. Romano (Gigi Savoia), the father, decides to open a pizzeria which, by mutual decision with the wife Rosa (Antonella Attili), will call Solino, leaving his sons Gigi and Giancarlo to work there. A hostile relationship comes to life between the father and his sons, which will end up in the escape of the boys from family.
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Spy Game
Jiangsu Province ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ญ๐ฐ Hong Kong ๐ฑ๐ง Lebanon ๐ป๐ณ Vietnam The 1970s The 1980s The 1990sIt's not how you play the game. It's how the game plays you. โ On the day of his retirement, a veteran CIA agent learns that his former protรฉgรฉ has been arrested in China, is sentenced to die the next morning in Beijing, and that the CIA is considering letting that happen to avoid an international scandal.
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The Invisible Circus
California ๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands ๐ต๐น Portugal ๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1970sA story of friendship, freedom and fate that could only happen in the Sixties. โ After learning that her sister, Faith (Cameron Diaz), has committed suicide in Portugal, Phoebe (Jordana Brewster), an 18-year-old hippie, decides to uproot from her San Francisco home to travel to Europe. Phoebe hopes to discover and experience the life that led to her sister's death by retracing her footsteps, which eventually leads to Wolf (Christopher Eccleston) -- Faith's boyfriend. However, as Phoebe's journey continues, a series of visions of Faith pushes her mind to the brink.
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The Legend of Rita
๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ท๐บ Russia The 1970s The 1980sRita Vogt is a radical West German terrorist who abandons the revolution and settles in East Germany with a new identity provided by the East German secret service. She lives in constant fear of having her cover blown, which unavoidably happens after the German re-unification.
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Sun Alley
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1970sA group of kids grow up on the short, wrong (east) side of the Sonnenallee in Berlin, right next to one of the few border crossings between East and West reserved for German citizens. The antics of these kids, their families, of the "West German" friends and relatives who come to visit, and of the East German border guards, all serve to illustrate the absurdity of everyday life on the Sonnenallee, and therefore throughout the former East Germany.
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One Day in September
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1970s1972. The Munich Olympic Games. 121 Nations. 7,123 Competitors. Over a billion vieweres ... and 8 Palestinian Terrorists. For the first time in 25 years, the truth is revealed. โ The full story of the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and the Israeli revenge operation 'Wrath of God.' The 1972 Munich Olympics were interrupted by Palestinian terrorists taking Israeli athletes hostage. Besides footage taken at the time, we see interviews with the surviving terrorist, Jamal Al Gashey, and various officials detailing exactly how the police, lacking an anti-terrorist squad and turning down help from the Israelis, botched the operation
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