General

• Search the University of Michigan Language Resource Center's catalog of video holdings.  Look for a specific title (it's a great colection!) or just enter "German" in the "Language" field and get a list of all titles to browse.  If you see an interesting film, ask your instructor or email Hartmut to have it put on reserve so you can watch it in the LRC.  Or you can just look through the list of movies on reserve at the LRC for this term.

• Internet Movie Database--Deutsche Filme Hier können Sie Informationen über die deutschen Filme im Internet Movie Database finden.  Homepage des Internet Movie Database Hier können Sie englische Informationen über viele deutsche Filme finden.
• German movie trailers A regularly updated selection of German-language movie trailers.
• about.com's German Movie Guide A guide to recent releases and German movie classics
• Film.de "Kino-, Video- und Fernsehhighlights - übersichtlich [=clearl and well-organized] und aktuell [=current, up-to-date]!!"  The info provided here includes links to a selection of current movie trailers.  For each trailer, you can see if it is the "deutsche Version" or "englische Version."
• Kinopolis Huge site with reviews of lots of movies and tons of other info.
• Dirk Jasper Filmlexikon Encyclopaedic site with info on tons of German and international films
• A - Z. Das Kinofilm Lexikon. Kurze Infos zu hunderten von Filmen.  Part of a site devoted to the city of Cologne.
• CineGraph Umfassende [=comprehensive] Site über den deutschen Film.  Es gibt zum Beispiel ein Filmlexikon, und Links zu den Drehbüchern [=scripts] von einigen deutschen Filmen.
• angelaufen.de "Film Pressespiegel": summarizes the most important German reviews of new (==> Neustarts) and older (==> Vorwochen) movies, and includes direct links to the reviews being summarized.

• Kölner Kinoprogramm Current list of what's showing in Cologne.  Includes a link to reviews of the movies by users of the site, and links to the Internet Movie Database for most of the movies.
• Online Film Wörterbuch
• Marlene Dietrich mit Biographie, Filmen, Liedern, Bildergalerie, Zeitungsausschnitten und einem Bücherverzeichnis.

TV-Guides

• Hörzu Biggest German guide to TV programming
• Fernsehmagazin Austrian guide to TV programming

Online Magazines Devoted to Movies

• Film Demnächst - Das Kinomagazin
• Film ab - Aktuelles Kinomagazín: Spielpläne, Trailer, Chat, Filmbesprechungen
• Spielfilm - das Internetmagazin für Kinofans, Profis und Quereinsteiger Spielfilme [=movies], Produktionsberichte, Filmmusik, Filmkritiken, Filmbilder, Cartoons, Filmstarts, Filmcharts
• Just Movies - Das deutsche Onlinekinomagazin This link was not working 9/23/00, but there are tons of links to this site on the web, so I'm guessing/hoping it will soon be fixed...
• Filter A radical online film-magazine.  A reduced version is available for free downloading.

Deutsche Filmwebseiten

• Deutsche-Filme.de Info about recently released German movies, as well as an archive of German movies from the last several years.

• 20th Century Fox of Germany Here you can find trailers and more for the most recent Fox releases in Germany.
• Senator Film Click on "Im Kino" [for current releases] "Preview" [for upcoming releases] or "Archiv" and then follow the links to see trailers or selected film clips [=zur Filmauswahl]
• United International Pictures Deutschland Here you can find info about recent UIP releases in Germany.

• Lola rennt [=Run Lola Run]
• Nirgendwo in Afrika This film by Caroline Link won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2003.
• Good bye Lenin! Very successful, witty and entertaining 2003 movie with a great premise: a young man is arrested for protesting against the East german government shortly before the fall of the wall. His mother sees the police arrest him, suffers a heart attack and falls into a coma. When she awakes, the wall is gone, but her frail health makes it dangerous for her to get this kind of shocking news--so the son tries to hide it for her by making everything in their flat seem as if the GDR still existed....
• Der Krieger und die Kaiserin Neuer Kinofilm mit Franka Potente [aus Lola rennt], Benno Führmann. Regie Tom Tykwer [Lola rennt]. Ein Film über Einsamkeit [=loneliness] und die Liebe.  [Ab Oktober in deutschen Kinos]
• Bandits Sort of a German Thelma and Louise.

• American Pie 3
• Herr der Ringe
• Krieg der Sterne [Star Wars] Extensive German site devoted to the entire saga.
• Indiana Jones A very comprehensive private fanpage devoted to all the Indiana Jones movies.  Click on "deutsch" and then "filme" to get to conventional infos about the movies.  Includes a very comprehensive list of links.
• Natürlich Blond 2 [=Legally Blond 2]
• Steven Spielberg German site devoted to the work of Spielberg and John Wiliams
• Terminator 3 An annoying barrage of pop-ups--but worth it if you liked the movie.

Film "language" links

• Cinema Vocabulary A thorough list from about.com
• English-German Movie Title Glossary A fun page where you can see how movie titles change in translation. If the German title is the same as the English title, the movie is not listed.