Lars Eidinger

Occupied France, 1942. Gilles is arrested by SS soldiers alongside other Jews and sent to a camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids sudden execution by swearing to the guards that he is not Jewish, but Persian. This lie temporarily saves him, but Gilles gets assigned a life-or-death mission: to teach Farsi to Head of Camp Koch, who dreams of opening a restaurant in Iran once the war is over. Through an ingenious trick, Gilles manages to survive by inventing words of "Farsi" every day and teaching them to Koch.

Dir. Vadim Perelman · With Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Lars Eidinger, Jonas Nay

A road movie about two very different brothers who have not seen each other for 20 years: city manager Christian and cabinetmaker Georg, who never left their hometown and took care of their father until his passing. After their fathers funeral, the brothers decide on a whim, and with some help from the alcohol, to fulfil their old dream: travel trough Germany together on their mopeds.

Dir. Markus Goller · With Lars Eidinger, Bjarne Mädel, Sandra Hüller

A coroner finds a capsule in the head of a heavily mutilated corpse, containing a phone number and single word: the name of his daughter.

Dir. Christian Alvart · With Moritz Bleibtreu, Jasna Fritzi Bauer, Lars Eidinger

Beneath the decadence of 1929 Berlin, lies an underworld city of sin. Police investigator Gereon Rath has been transferred from Cologne to the epicenter of political and social changes in the Golden Twenties.

Dir. Tom Tykwer, Achim von Borries, Hendrik Handloegten · With Volker Bruch, Liv Lisa Fries, Lars Eidinger

A blind French girl and a young German soldier's paths collide during WWII.

Dir. Steven Knight · With Aria Mia Loberti, Louis Hofmann, Lars Eidinger

In 2016 the sun has turned the entire world into a scorched and barren wasteland. The humans who have survived are either resourceful or violent, and sometimes both. Marie, her little sister Leonie, and best friend Phillip, are in a car headed to the mountains - rumor has it there is water there. Along the way they meet Tom, a first-rate mechanic. But can they trust him? Fraught with deep distrust, the group is lured into an ambush where their real battle for survival begins.

Dir. Tim Fehlbaum · With Hannah Herzsprung, Lars Eidinger, Stipe Erceg

A veteran actress comes face-to-face with an uncomfortable reflection of herself when she agrees to take part in a revival of the play that launched her career 20 years earlier.

Dir. Olivier Assayas · With Juliette Binoche, Kristen Stewart, Chloë Grace Moretz

Monte and his daughter are the last survivors of a damned and dangerous mission to deep space. The crew—death-row inmates led by a doctor with sinister motives—has vanished. As the mystery of what happened onboard the ship is unraveled, father and daughter must rely on each other to survive as they hurtle toward the oblivion of a black hole.

Dir. Claire Denis · With Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, Mia Goth

Sarah is a French astronaut training at the European Space Agency in Cologne. She is the only woman in the arduous program. She lives alone with Stella, her seven year old daughter. Sarah feels guilty that she cannot spend more time with her child. Her love is overpowering, unsettling. When Sarah is chosen to join the crew of a year-long space mission called Proxima, it creates chaos in the mother-daughter relationship.

Dir. Alice Winocour · With Eva Green, Matt Dillon, Zélie Boulant-Lemesle

Mira is an American movie star disillusioned by her career and a recent breakup, who comes to France to star as “Irma Vep” in a remake of the French silent film classic, “Les Vampires.” Set against the backdrop of a lurid crime thriller, Mira struggles as the distinctions between herself and the character she plays begin to blur and merge.

Dir. Olivier Assayas · With Alicia Vikander, Vincent Macaigne, Lars Eidinger

Maureen, mid-20s, is a personal shopper for a media celebrity. The job pays for her stay in Paris, a city she refuses to leave until she makes contact with her twin brother who previously died there. Her life becomes more complicated when a mysterious person contacts her via text message.

Dir. Olivier Assayas · With Kristen Stewart, Lars Eidinger, Sigrid Bouaziz