Ernst Stötzner’s Typical Vibe
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Ernst Stötzner has 6 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Underground.
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Mr & Mme Adelman
2017
Romance · Drama

The Five-Year Engagement
2012
Comedy · Drama

The Switch
2010
Comedy · Romance

You Are the Apple of My Eye
2011
Romance · Comedy

Hello, My Name Is Doris
2015
Comedy · Drama

Chinese Puzzle
2013
Comedy · Drama

Just Before I Go
2015
Comedy · Drama

Inadequate People
2010
Comedy · Romance

Black marketeers Marko and Blacky manufacture and sell weapons to the Communist resistance in WWII Belgrade, living the good life along the way. Marko's surreal duplicity propels him up the ranks of the Communist Party, and he eventually abandons Blacky and steals his girlfriend. After a lengthy stay in a below-ground shelter, the couple reemerges during the Yugoslav Civil War of the 1990s as Marko sees the opportunity to exploit the situation.
Dir. Emir Kusturica · With Predrag 'Miki' Manojlović, Lazar Ristovski, Mirjana Joković

In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious French man who visits the fiance’s grave to lay flowers.
Dir. François Ozon · With Pierre Niney, Paula Beer, Ernst Stötzner

With his uncouth manner, Professor Pohl doesn’t enjoy the best reputation at the university where he works. To make matters worse, he makes a racist remark when student Naima arrives late for his lecture. Unfortunately for him, a video of his verbal outburst spreads like wildfire on the Internet, and the university’s president, Lambrecht, is called to deal with the incident. But Pohl is not dismissed. Instead, he is put to the task of helping Naima prepare for an important debating competition. The lecturer and the student could not be more different, yet they are thrown together to work as a team.
Dir. Sönke Wortmann · With Nilam Farooq, Christoph Maria Herbst, Hassan Akkouch

Isi and Ossi couldn't be any more different: She's a billionaire's daughter from Heidelberg, he's a struggling boxer from the nearby town of Mannheim. But when Isi meets Ossi, the two quickly realize that they can take advantage of one another: She dates the broke boxer to provoke her parents and get them to fund a long-desired chef training in New York. He tries to rip off the rich daughter to finance his first professional boxing match. Their plans soon develop into emotional chaos that challenges everything the two believe to know about money, career and love.
Dir. Oliver Kienle · With Lisa Vicari, Dennis Mojen, Lisa Hagmeister

Berlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime’s victory over France, a kitchen-cum-living room in Prenzlauer Berg is filled with grief. Anna and Otto Quangel’s son has been killed at the front. This working class couple had long believed in the ‘Führer’ and followed him willingly, but now they realise that his promises are nothing but lies and deceit. They begin writing postcards as a form of resistance and in a bid to raise awareness: Stop the war machine! Kill Hitler! Putting their lives at risk, they distribute these cards in the entrances of tenement buildings and in stairwells. But the SS and the Gestapo are soon onto them, and even their neighbours pose a threat.
Dir. Vincent Perez · With Emma Thompson, Brendan Gleeson, Daniel Brühl

An inexperienced U-boat crew has to survive a secret mission and a young German woman is torn between loyalty for her home country and the French resistance in the WWII drama.
Dir. Johannes W. Betz, Tony Saint · With Franz Dinda, Pierre Kiwitt, Anna Schudt