Golden Bear winners at the Berlin International Film Festival
# Cinderella
Année: 2021 | Pays: US
Réalisateur: Kay Cannon
Distribution: Camila Cabello, Nicholas Galitzine, Idina Menzel, Billy Porter, Pierce Brosnan
Synopsis
Cinderella, an orphaned girl with an evil stepmother, has big dreams and with the help of her Fabulous Godmother, she perseveres to make them come true.
# The Enforcer
Année: 2022 | Pays: US
Réalisateur: Richard Hughes
Distribution: Antonio Banderas, Kate Bosworth, Mojean Aria, Alexis Ren, Zolee Griggs
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A noir thriller set in Miami, the film follows an enforcer who discovers his femme fatale boss has branched out into cyber sex trafficking, putting a young runaway he’s befriended at risk. He sacrifices everything to save the young girl from the deadly organization he’s spent his life building.
# The Wages of Fear
Année: 2024 | Pays: BE
Réalisateur: Julien Leclercq
Distribution: Franck Gastambide, Alban Lenoir, Ana Girardot, Sofiane Zermani, Astrid Whettnall
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When an explosion at an oil well threatens hundreds of lives, a crack team is called upon to make a deadly desert crossing with nitroglycerine in tow.
# 12 Angry Men
Année: 1957 | Pays: United States of America
Réalisateur: Sidney Lumet
Distribution: Henry Fonda, Martin Balsam, John Fiedler, Lee J. Cobb, E.G. Marshall
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The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and sh
# Alphaville
Année: 1965 | Pays: Italy, France
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An American private-eye arrives in Alphaville, a futuristic city on another planet which is ruled by an evil scientist named Von Braun, who has outlawed love and self-expression.
# The Spirit of the Beehive
Année: 1973 | Pays: Spain
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In 1940, in the immediate aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, a young girl living on the Castilian plain is haunted after attending a screening of James Whale's 1931 film Frankenstein and hearing from
# Rain Man
Année: 1988 | Pays: US
Réalisateur: Barry Levinson
Distribution: Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino, Gerald R. Molen, Jack Murdock
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When car dealer Charlie Babbitt learns that his estranged father has died, he returns home to Cincinnati, where he discovers that he has a savant older brother named Raymond and that his father's $3 million fortune is being left to the mental institution in which Raymond lives. Motivated by his father's money, Charlie checks Raymond out of the facility in order to return with him to Los Angeles. The brothers' cross-country trip ends up changing both their lives.
# The Wedding Banquet
Année: 1993 | Pays: Taiwan, United States of America
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A Taiwanese-American man is happily settled in New York with his American boyfriend. He plans a marriage of convenience to a Chinese woman in order to keep his parents off his back and to get the woma
# In the Name of the Father
Année: 1993 | Pays: United Kingdom, Ireland
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A small time thief from Belfast, Gerry Conlon, is falsely implicated in the IRA bombing of a pub that kills several people while he is in London. He and his four friends are coerced by British police
# Get Shorty
Année: 1995 | Pays: United States of America
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Chili Palmer is a Miami mobster who gets sent by his boss, the psychopathic "Bones" Barboni, to collect a bad debt from Harry Zimm, a Hollywood producer who specializes in cheesy horror films. When Ch
# Sense and Sensibility
Année: 1995 | Pays: GB
Réalisateur: Ang Lee
Distribution: Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, Alan Rickman, Hugh Grant, Gemma Jones
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The Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, whose chances at marriage seem doomed by their family's sudden loss of fortune. When Henry Dashwood dies unexpectedly, his estate must pass on by law to his son from his first marriage, John and wife Fanny. But these circumstances leave Mr. Dashwood's current wife, and daughters Elinor, Marianne and Margaret, without a home and with barely enough money to live on. As Elinor and Marianne struggle to find romantic fulfillment in a society obsessed with financial and social status, they must learn to mix sense with sensibility in their dealings with both money and men.
# The Thin Red Line
Année: 1998 | Pays: Canada, United States of America, Solomon Islands
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The story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ultimately make essential discoveries about themselves during the fierce World War II battle of Guadalc
# Magnolia
Année: 1999 | Pays: US
Réalisateur: Paul Thomas Anderson
Distribution: Tom Cruise, Philip Baker Hall, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Julianne Moore, William H. Macy
Synopsis
On one random day in the San Fernando Valley, a dying father, a young wife, a male caretaker, a famous lost son, a police officer in love, a boy genius, an ex-boy genius, a game show host and an estranged daughter will each become part of a dazzling multiplicity of plots, but one story.
# Intimacy
Année: 2001 | Pays: FR
Réalisateur: Patrice Chéreau
Distribution: Mark Rylance, Kerry Fox, Susannah Harker, Alastair Galbraith, Philippe Calvario
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Failed musician Jay abandoned his family and now earns a living as head bartender in a trendy London pub. Every Wednesday afternoon, a woman comes to his house for graphic, almost wordless, sex. One day, Jay follows her and learns about her. This eventually disrupts their relationship.
# Bloody Sunday
Année: 2002 | Pays: Ireland, United Kingdom
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The dramatised story of the Irish civil rights protest march on January 30 1972 which ended in a massacre by British troops.
# Spirited Away
Année: 2001 | Pays: Japan
Réalisateur: Hayao Miyazaki
Distribution: Rumi Hiiragi, Miyu Irino, Mari Natsuki, Takashi Naito, Yasuko Sawaguchi
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A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free her family
# Elite Squad
Année: 2007 | Pays: Brazil
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In 1997, before the visit of the pope to Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento from BOPE (Special Police Operations Battalion) is assigned to eliminate the risks of the drug dealers in a dangerous slum n
# Honey
Année: 2003 | Pays: United States of America
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Honey Daniels dreams of making a name for herself as a hip-hop choreographer. When she's not busy hitting downtown clubs with her friends, she teaches dance classes at a nearby community center in Har
# Taxi
Année: 1998 | Pays: FR
Réalisateur: Gérard Pirès
Distribution: Samy Naceri, Frédéric Diefenthal, Marion Cotillard, Manuela Gourary, Emma Wiklund
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In Marseilles a skilled pizza delivery boy Daniel who drives a scooter finally has his dreams come true. He gets a taxi license. Caught by the police for a huge speed infraction, he will help Emilien, a loser inspector who can't drive, on the track of German bank robbers, so he doesn't lose his license and his dream job.