22 Films & TV Shows Set In Germany During The 2000s
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Curveball
🇩🇪 Germany 🇮🇶 Iraq The 2000sAlthough he already has searched Iraq unsuccessfully for weapons of mass destruction as a member of a UN mission, German bio-weapons expert Arndt Wolf is still obsessed with the idea that Saddam Hussein is hiding something. Nobody around him is interested in this topic any more. This changes abruptly when an Iraqi asylum seeker claims to have been involved in the manufacture of chemical weapons. The German Federal Intelligence Service summons Dr. Wolf to ascertain the legitimacy of the claims made by the informant, who has been given the code name “Curveball”.
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The Good Liar
England 🇩🇪 Germany The 2000s The 1940sRead between the lies. — Career con man Roy sets his sights on his latest mark: recently widowed Betty, worth millions. And he means to take it all. But as the two draw closer, what should have been another simple swindle takes on the ultimate stakes.
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Unforgiven
🇨🇭 Switzerland 🇩🇪 Germany 🇪🇸 Spain 🇷🇺 Russia The 2000sI've Given Up On God — Based on true and tragic events in the life of Vitaly Kaloyev, an architect and family man. In 2002, his wife and children die in a mid-air collision along with 70 other people, mostly children. Vitaly is one of the first people to discover the bodies of his family at the site of the crash. The blame is put on the company responsible for monitoring the air space, as well as the lone air traffic controller on duty at the time. Two years later, after much obstructed efforts to get apologies and answers, Vitaly flies to Switzerland to obtain justice.
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Futuro Beach
🇩🇪 Germany 🇧🇷 Brazil The 2000s The 2010sA hero split in half. — Donato fails in his attempt to save a drowning man, and meets one of the man's friends. He decides to start his life over, but pieces of his past keep coming after him.
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The Fifth Estate
District of Columbia England 🇩🇪 Germany The 2000s The 2010sYou can't expose the world's secrets without exposing yourself — A look at the relationship between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his early supporter and eventual colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and how the website's growth and influence led to an irreparable rift between the two friends.
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Debris Documentar
🇭🇷 Croatia 🇩🇪 Germany The 2000sThe film, released on DVD in 2014 as part of a boxset also containitng Melancholie der Engel (2009) and Reise nach Agatis (2010), deals with the everyday life of a man, Carsten , who works on the set of the 2004 Ulli Lommel film Zombie Nation. At the same time, he is planning to realize his own film, a task he finds extremely difficult.
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Fast Five
Florida 🇲🇨 Monaco 🇩🇪 Germany 🇧🇷 Brazil The 2000sGet the Fifth Gear. — Former cop Brian O'Conner partners with ex-con Dom Toretto on the opposite side of the law. Since Brian and Mia Toretto broke Dom out of custody, they've blown across many borders to elude authorities. Now backed into a corner in Rio de Janeiro, they must pull one last job in order to gain their freedom.
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The A-Team
🇲🇽 Mexico 🇮🇶 Iraq California Colorado 🇩🇪 Germany The 2000sThere Is No Plan B — A group of Iraq War veterans goes on the run from U.S. military forces while they try to clear their names after being framed for a crime they didn't commit. Along the way, Col. Hannibal Smith, Capt. H.M. ‘Howling Mad’ Murdock , Sgt. Bosco ‘B.A.’ Baracus, and Lt. Templeton ‘Faceman’ Peck help out various people they encounter.
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Goal! III : Taking On The World
🇩🇪 Germany The 2000sMexican footballer Santiago Muñez, along with his best friends and England national team players Charlie Braithwaite and Liam Adams, are selected for their respective national teams at the 2006 FIFA World Cup Finals in Germany.
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My Words, My Lies - My Love
🇩🇪 Germany The 2000sDavid, a waiter, finds an unpublished manuscript in a dresser drawer. To impress a girl, he claims to be the author. When the novel becomes a best-seller the real author introduces himself in his life and begins to take-over David's life.
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Saturn Returns
🇩🇪 Germany The 2000sYou're doomed to only repeat those moments in the past — Lucy, a privileged North American in contemporary Berlin, living a life of post Punk hedonism, roams the streets with her best friend, Derek. Together they use the city like a playground, a stage, and a never ending party. Into their lives enters Galia, a young Israeli woman carrying the promise of a better, cleaner way of living. A tribute to Punk underground films turns into a melodrama in "Saturn Returns", mirroring Lucy and Galia's modulating states of mind. Our and their look into each other's life and culture, becomes an investigation of empty facades. The film was constructed by both improvised and pre-scripted scenes, as required by the nature of each scene.
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Prison of Hell: K3
🇩🇪 Germany The 2000sThree women attempt a daring escape from K3, a women's prison where the inmates are abused by the physician and guards, all under the watchful eye of the sadistic female warden.
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Strangers
🇩🇪 Germany The 2000sSix days in the lives of an Israeli living in a kibbutz and a Palestinian living in Paris, which starts with an accidental meeting in the Berlin Subway during the World cup finals, will change them completely.
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Summer '04
🇩🇪 Germany The 2000sSommer ’04 is a character study of a family on vacation. German director Stefan Krohmer examines the emotional abyss and problems behind the seemingly nice facade of an intact family as they experience guilt, love and jealousy.
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Crusade in Jeans
🇳🇱 Netherlands 🇩🇪 Germany 🇮🇹 Italy The 2000s The 13th CenturyDolf a 15 year old boy is sent back in time by a timemachine. Accidentally he is sent back to the Middle Ages. He is rescued by children who are part of a childrens' crusade, on their way to rescue Jeruzalem. During the trip Dolf finds out the danger is not coming from outside the crusade, but from within.
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Lord of War
New York 🇩🇪 Germany 🇺🇦 Ukraine 🇱🇧 Lebanon 🇱🇷 Liberia 🇸🇱 Sierra Leone 🇧🇴 Bolivia 🇨🇴 Colombia 🇸🇴 Somalia The 1980s The 1990s The 2000sWhere there's a will, there's a weapon — Yuri Orlov is a globetrotting arms dealer and, through some of the deadliest war zones, he struggles to stay one step ahead of a relentless Interpol agent, his business rivals and even some of his customers who include many of the world's most notorious dictators. Finally, he must also face his own conscience.
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The Edukators
🇩🇪 Germany The 2000sEvery heart is a revolutionary cell. — Three activists cobble together a kidnapping plot after they encounter a businessman in his home.
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The Bourne Supremacy
New York 🇳🇱 Netherlands 🇩🇪 Germany 🇮🇹 Italy 🇷🇺 Russia 🇮🇳 India The 2000sThey should have left him alone. — When a CIA operation to purchase classified Russian documents is blown by a rival agent, who then shows up in the sleepy seaside village where Bourne and Marie have been living. The pair run for their lives and Bourne, who promised retaliation should anyone from his former life attempt contact, is forced to once again take up his life as a trained assassin to survive.
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EuroTrip
England 🇫🇷 France 🇩🇪 Germany 🇮🇹 Italy 🇳🇱 Netherlands Ohio 🇸🇰 Slovakia 🇻🇦 Holy See The 2000sNo actual Europeans were harmed in the making of this film. — When Scott learns that his longtime cyber-buddy from Berlin is a gorgeous young woman, he and his friends embark on a trip across Europe.
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Rosenstrasse
🇩🇪 Germany The 2000s The 1940sWhen Ruth's husband dies in New York, in 2000, she imposes strict Jewish mourning, which puzzles her children. A stranger comes to the house - Ruth's cousin - with a picture of Ruth, age 8, in Berlin, with a woman the cousin says helped Ruth escape. Hannah, Ruth's daughter engaged to a gentile, goes to Berlin to find the woman, Lena Fisher, now 90. Posing as a journalist investigating intermarriage, Hannah interviews Lena who tells the story of a week in 1943 when the Jewish husbands of Aryan women were detained in a building on Rosenstrasse. The women gather daily for word of their husbands. The film goes back and forth to tell Ruth and Lena's story. How will it affect Hannah?
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Aram
🇫🇷 France 🇩🇪 Germany The 1990s The 2000sAram, an ex-soldier from the Armenian cause, has come to France to close an arms deal under secret service surveillance. Held responsible and banished by his faher for his brother's injuries in a terrorist ttack, he's also come to seek revenge for the drama that has marked his family and his life.
