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Barbara Sukowa has 9 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s.
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Just after World War II, an American takes a railway job in Germany, but finds his position politically sensitive with various people trying to use him.
Dir. Lars von Trier · With Jean-Marc Barr, Barbara Sukowa, Udo Kier

Nina and Madeleine have been sharing their lives and the landing between their two apartments for decades. After more than 20 years of loving in the shadows, Madeleine promises Nina she will tell her family the truth. It takes an unexpected event to show her the importance of living your truth.
Dir. Filippo Meneghetti · With Barbara Sukowa, Martine Chevallier, Léa Drucker
Germany in the autumn of 1957: Lola, a seductive cabaret singer-prostitute exults in her power as a temptress of men, but she wants out—she wants money, property, and love. Pitting a corrupt building contractor against the new straight-arrow building commissioner, Lola launches an outrageous plan to elevate herself in a world where everything, and everyone, is for sale. Shot in childlike candy colors, Fassbinder’s homage to Josef von Sternberg’s classic The Blue Angel stands as a satiric tribute to capitalism.
Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder · With Barbara Sukowa, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Mario Adorf

A portrait of the genius that shook the world with her discovery of “the banality of evil.” After she attends the Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s trial in Jerusalem, Arendt dares to write about the Holocaust in terms no one has ever heard before. Her work instantly provokes a furious scandal, and Arendt stands strong as she is attacked by friends and foes alike. But as the German-Jewish émigré also struggles to suppress her own painful associations with the past, the film exposes her beguiling blend of arrogance and vulnerability — revealing a soul defined and derailed by exile.
Dir. Margarethe von Trotta · With Barbara Sukowa, Axel Milberg, Janet McTeer

In 1960s China, French diplomat Rene Gallimard falls in love with opera singer Song Liling – but Song is not at all who Gallimard thinks.
Dir. David Cronenberg · With Jeremy Irons, John Lone, Barbara Sukowa

The provocative story of Cole, a time traveler from a decimated future in a high-stakes race against the clock. Utilizing a dangerous and untested method of time travel, he journeys from 2043 to the present day on a mission to locate and eradicate the source of a deadly plague that will all but annihilate the human race.
Dir. Terry Matalas, Travis Fickett · With Aaron Stanford, Amanda Schull, Barbara Sukowa

In a dystopian 2021, Johnny is a data trafficker who has an implant that allows him to securely store data too sensitive for regular computer networks. On one delivery run, he accepts a package that not only exceeds the implant's safety limits—and will kill him if the data is not removed in time—but also contains information far more important and valuable than he had ever imagined. On a race against time, he must avoid the assassins sent to kill him and remove the data before it, too, ends his life.
Dir. Robert Longo · With Keanu Reeves, Dina Meyer, Takeshi Kitano

Across the globe, strange happenings, borne out of the oceans, are mystifying and imperiling the world’s population. A group of scientists undertakes a terrifying mission to the depths of the Arctic Ocean to confront a deadly intelligent life force bent on human extinction.
With Alexander Karim, Cécile de France, Leonie Benesch
Egocentric bandit Salvatore Giuliano fights the Church, the Mafia, and the landed gentry while leading a populist movement for Sicilian independence.
Dir. Michael Cimino · With Christopher Lambert, Terence Stamp, Joss Ackland