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Georg Friedrich has 13 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s.
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Chronicles three years of a middle-class family seemingly caught up in their daily routines, troubled only by minor incidents. Behind their apparent calm and repetitive existence, however, they're planning something much more sinister.
Dir. Michael Haneke · With Birgit Doll, Dieter Berner, Leni Tanzer

North Face tells the story of two German climbers Toni Kurz and Andreas Hinterstoisser and their attempt to scale the deadly North Face of the Eiger.
Dir. Philipp Stölzl · With Benno Fürmann, Florian Lukas, Johanna Wokalek

Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her.
Dir. Michael Haneke · With Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot, Benoît Magimel
Teen half vampire Dakaria falls in love with rock singer vampire Murdo. Dakaria, her friends and family have to face vampire Xantor who has dark plans.
Dir. Wolfgang Groos · With Laura Roge, Marta Martin, Christiane Paul

In post-war Germany, liberation by the Allies does not mean freedom for everyone. Hans Hoffmann is repeatedly imprisoned under Paragraph 175, which criminalizes homosexuality. Nevertheless, over the decades, he continues his quest for freedom and love, even if he finds it in the most unusual places.
Dir. Sebastian Meise · With Franz Rogowski, Georg Friedrich, Anton von Lucke

71 scenes revolving around multiple Viennese residents who are by chance involved with a senseless gun slaughter on Christmas Eve.
Dir. Michael Haneke · With Gabriel Cosmin Urdes, Lukas Miko, Otto Grünmandl
A doctor in early 19th-century Germany becomes infatuated with the sister of a man he unintentionally killed and bargains with the Devil incarnate to conjure their union in exchange for his soul.
Dir. Aleksandr Sokurov · With Johannes Zeiler, Anton Adasinsky, Isolda Dychauk-Ott

A nurse from Ukraine searches for a better life in the West, while an unemployed security guard from Austria heads East for the same reason. Both are looking for work, a new beginning, an existence, struggling to believe in themselves, to find a meaning in life...
Dir. Ulrich Seidl · With Ekateryna Rak, Paul Hofmann, Michael Thomas
Erik has is own motorbike workshop in a sleepy little town. He may have the telling word ‘scoundrel’ tattooed onto his lower arm but he nonetheless creates an impression of a well-behaved average Joe. His relationship with his girlfriend Julia is going well and her daughter Linda is very fond of her new Dad. But then all of a sudden the mysterious Henry appears and begins following him about like a sinister shadow. The more Erik tries to shake off his diabolical guest the more Henry intrudes into his life. But then when a violent gangster named Keitel enters the fray and threatens not only Erik but Julia and Linda, Erik’s seemingly ideal world begins to run off the rails.
Dir. Maximilian Erlenwein · With Jürgen Vogel, Moritz Bleibtreu, Petra Schmidt-Schaller

Vignettes of the lives of several residents of a Vienna suburb during a heat wave.
Dir. Ulrich Seidl · With Maria Hofstätter, Alfred Mrva, Franziska Weisz

Eager to make his name in 19th-century Vienna, a hungry young Sigmund Freud joins a psychic and an inspector to solve a string of bloody mysteries.
Dir. Marvin Kren, Stefan Brunner · With Manuel Ossenkopf, Robert Finster, Georg Friedrich
Germany in the early 19th century. "Die Vermessung der Welt" follows the two brilliant and eccentric scientists Alexander von Humboldt and Carl Friedrich Gauss on their life paths.
Dir. Detlev Buck · With Florian David Fitz, Albrecht Schuch, Vicky Krieps

When a small-town con artist joins the local mafia with his manipulative brother, his obsession with balancing his karma gets hilariously brutal.
Dir. Arne Feldhusen · With Bjarne Mädel, Georg Friedrich, Anita Vulesica
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