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Kleo is a German spy action-thriller and dark comedy-drama series created by Hanno Hackfort, Richard Kropf, and Bob Konrad. The Netflix series is set in 1989, soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall and it follows the story of a former East German spy as she goes on a revenge mission to kill people who betrayed her. Kleo stars Jella Haase in the lead role with Dimitrij Schaad, Julius Feldmeier, Vincent Redetzki, and Marta Sroka starring in supporting roles. So, if you loved the dark comedy, thrilling drama, and espionage in Kleo here are some similar shows you should check out next.

Killing Eve Credit – BBC America

Killing Eve is a British spy thriller and dark comedy-drama series created by Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Based on a novel series titled Villanelle by author Luke Jennings, the BBC America series revolves around a bored British intelligence agent who is tasked with tracking down psychotic assassin,...

One of the coolest and most beloved sub-genres for thriller, action, and drama fans is the spy genre and there’s a good reason. In a spy film or series, we get complicated and cool characters who put their lives on the line by going against numerous people and instead of always letting their guns talk they use more covert tactics, which are always thrilling to watch. So, Netflix being what it is, it has a large library of content and also some of the best spy shows you can find and that’s what inspired us to compile a list of the best spy shows you can watch on Netflix right now.

Fubar Credit – Netflix

Fubar is an action thriller and comedy-drama series created by Nick Santora. The Netflix series follows the story of Luke Brunner, a recently retired CIA agent who finds out that his daughter is also...

The first season of Kleo was an introduction to the titular one-of-a-kind assassin and her desperate attempt to seek revenge on the ones who had wronged her. The second installation is more personal and rooted in Kleo’s childhood. When it comes to the visuals, Kleo continues to be quirky and fun with an overarching Eastern European aesthetic. Set between the late 80s and 90s, Kleo represents the angst of the common people after the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Regardless of political beliefs, there was one common feeling after the collapse of the socialist state—uncertainty. The dream of the ideal nation that Kleo was taught to believe in by her communist grandfather was completely shattered when she realized that the ones in power did not care about anyone else but themselves. After devoting herself to the State and ending up in prison, Kleo learned the importance of becoming an individual.

“The Bear” Season 3 Will Premiere Earlier Than Expected

The kitchen’s open early!

Ahead of its highly anticipated Season 3 premiere, Hulu has announced “The Bear” will now premiere three hours sooner than originally scheduled. All 10 episodes of the Emmy Award winner’s junior season will be available exclusively on Hulu at 9 p.m. Et/6 p.m. Pt on Wednesday, June 26.

Season 3 will pick up where Season 2’s high-energy finale left off, as Carmy (Jeremy Allen White), Sydney (Ayo Edebiri), and Richie (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) continue to do what it takes to elevate and propel their beef-stand-turned-fine-dining-restaurant forward.

Watch the trailer for “The Bear” Season 3 below:

The Christopher Storer-created dramedy series also stars Abby Elliott, Lionel Boyce, Liza Colón-Zayas, and Matty Matheson, with Oliver Platt and Molly Gordon in recurring roles. In its first two seasons, it has picked up 10 Emmy Award wins, including Outstanding Lead Actor In A Comedy Series for White,...

German actress Nina Hoss (Phoenix, Tár, Barbara) has signed on to star in The Other Side, an upcoming adventure thriller from German director Mariko Minoguchi.

Hoss will play Hanna, a doctor who, during the midst of an epidemic, goes into self-isolation in the mountain wilderness to protect herself and others.

Best known for her many collaborations with German director Christian Petzold —including 2007’s Yella, 2012’s Barbara and 2014’s Phoenix — Hoss played Cate Blanchett’s wife in Todd Field’s Oscar-nominated Tár (2022) and had a recurring role as Astrid in seasons 5 and 6 of Showtime’s Emmy-winning series Homeland and in Amazon’s action series Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan. More recently, Hoss co-starred in Claire Burger’s coming-of-age romantic drama Langue Étrangère, which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival last month, and in Radu Jude’s freewheeling feminist satire Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World, which...

Exclusive: Leonine Studios will handle world sales for Odeon Fiction’s new high-end German-language spy series Bonn.

The six-part political-thriller, which follows Odeon’s AMC+ series Spy City with Dominic Cooper, recounts the rise of Germany’s Federal Republic after the terror of World War II. It focuses on a young woman who struggles to find her own place in a male-dominated society in the 1950s and the political tug-of-war between German’s two rival intelligence services.

The acting ensemble comprises Mercedes Müller (Goodbye Berlin) in the lead role of Toni, Max Riemelt (Matrix 4), Sebastian Blomberg (The People Vs. Fritz Bauer), Juergen Maurer (Perfume), Katharina Marie Schubert (A Gift From The Gods), Inga Busch (I’m Your Man), Luise von Finckh (Deutschland 89), Julius Feldmeier (Babylon Berlin) and Johanna Gastdorf (The Wave).

Based on an idea by Gerrit Hermans, the series heralds from director and head writer Claudia Garde (The Window...

Ghost Town AnthologyThe titles for the 69th Berlin International Film Festival are being announced in anticipation of the event running February 7-17, 2019. We will update the program as new films are revealed.COMPETITIONThe Ground Beneath My FeetThe Golden Glove (Faith Akin, Germany/France)By the Grace of GodThe Kindness of StrangersI Was at Home, but A Tale of Three SistersGhost Town Anthology (Denis Côté, Canada)Berlinale SPECIALGully Boy (Zoya Akhtar, India)BrechtWatergate (Charles Ferguson, USA)Panorama 201937 Seconds (Hikari (Mitsuyo Miyazaki), Japan)Dafne (Federico Bondi, Italy)The Day After I'm Gone (Nimrod Eldar, Israel)A Dog Called Money (Seamus Murphy, Ireland/UK)Waiting for the CarnivalChainedFlatland (Jenna Bass, South Africa/Germany/Luxembourg)Greta (Armando Praça, Brazil)Hellhole (Bas Devos, Belgium/Netherlands)Jessica Forever (Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel, France)AcidMid90s (Jonah Hill, USA) Family MembersMonos (Alejandro Landes, Columbia/Argentina/Netherlands/Germany/Denmark/Sweden/Uruguay) O Beautiful Night (Xaver Böhm,...

Tamer Jandali’s easy love to open the selection.

The Berlin Film Festival has announced the first six titles for Perspektive Deutsches Kino - the sidebar dedicated to German films - with Tamer Jandali’s easy love opening the strand.

Jandali’s feature is a documentary-fiction hybrid, accompanying seven young people in Cologne and chronicling their personal situations and attitudes towards love. Jandali prefaces the opening credits with the words ‘No Actors, No Scripts, No Fake Emotions’.

Also included as a ’guest’ of the programme is Katja and Julius Feldmeier’s documentary 6Minuten66, in which 15 directors explore the question of...

Eager to see ‘Lou Andreas-Salomé, The Audacity to be Free’ which just opened in NYC (at the Village East) on April 20th and is opening in La on April 27th (at Laemmle Royal), I wanted to learn how this forgotten woman of the late 19th century and early 20th century thought and interacted as an equal to with the likes of Friedrich Nietzsche, the poet Rainer Marie Rilke and Sigmund Freud.

Directed by a woman, Cordula Kablitz-Post, the historical feature reveals the nonconforming life choices of Lou Andreas-Salomé, an intellectual and the first female psychoanalyst. Born 1861, Lou Andreas Salomé was a radical for her time who shunned tradition in pursuit of intellectual perfection, inflaming the hearts and inspiring the minds of the early 19th Century’s greatest thinkers. Even after her death, Lou has remained a controversial figure who was considered a groundbreaking philosopher and author by her famous male peers Nietzsche and Freud,...

There’s a great line spoken by an aged Lou Andreas-Salomé (Nicole Heesters) to new friend and potential biographer Ernst Pfeiffer (Matthias Lier) upon his praise-fueled declaration that the way she lived her life — her freedom — was a touchstone for modern feminism. Her reply is, “Nonsense. What’s changed for us women since then?” It’s not presented as a jaded reaction or one specifically attached to the era in which she spoke it (the 1930s), though, because you could say the same today and not be wrong. Yes, women do have it better, but the world has still not found its way towards true equality. See #GamerGate, the Wahlberg/Williams pay disparity on All the Money in the World, and the struggles endured by the women in your life.

I kept returning to this line as Cordula Kablitz-Post’s film Lou Andreas-Salomé, The Audacity to be Free advanced because...

A boldly unconventional woman gets a crushingly conventional biopic with “Lou Andreas-Salomé, The Audacity to Be Free.” Such a heavy-handed title fits the film perfectly, far more than the original English-language handle, “In Love With Lou,” which confusingly made the movie sound like a sitcom. In her feature debut, director and co-writer Cordula Kablitz-Post clearly decided that Andreas-Salomé, famed author, philosopher and psychoanalyst, needed to be treated not just with kid gloves, but with pristine laminated mitts, robbing her subject of humor, let alone the charm that bewitched the likes of Friedrich Nietzsche, Rainer Maria Rilke and Sigmund Freud. This one’s strictly for audiences who love historical name-dropping; German box office following its June 2016 opening was negligible.

Kablitz-Post set herself the admirable task of rescuing Andreas-Salomé from being relegated to the role of muse, recognizing that her name is more often featured as an adjunct to famous men rather...

Playwright, author, screenwriter, and director Helene Hegemann has said (through her publisher) that, “There’s no such thing as originality anyway, just authenticity.” The words were spoken after her debut novel Axolotl Roadkill earned critical praise, a spot as a finalist for a major book award, and multiple, potentially damning plagiarism claims. Hegemann was seventeen when it published and admitted to the cribbing as soon as it was brought to light. She blamed her generation’s penchant for mixing and sampling, for taking what’s bouncing around the æther and making it her own with newfound honesty and meaning. Say what you will, the book sold and kept selling. This German phenom hit upon the zeitgeist with her tale of drug-addled excess and mental instability — in subject matter and process.

Considering she had a play staged at fifteen and a short film released to acclaim, it was only a matter...

Title: Nothing Bad Can Happen ( “Tore tanzt”) Drafthouse Films Director: Katrin Gebbe Writer: Katrin Gebbe Cast: Julius Feldmeier, Sascha Alexander Gersak, Annika Kuhl, Swantje Kohlhof Running Time: 110 minutes, Special Features: “Tore Tanzt: A Conversation With Julius, Katrin and Verena”; interview with director Katrin Gebbe; 12-page booklet; theatrical trailer; digital download of the film. Available: 10.14.14 Disclaimer: Thar be spoilers. Inspired by true events. Tore (Julius Feldmeier) has recently joined a religious organization of punks called The Jesus Freaks. After getting baptized, he and his friend Owl stop by a broken down van and a helpless family inside. Tore walks up to them and offers his help, by laying [ Read More ]

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An unfortunate truth of human nature is that we're all capable of cruelty and violence. It's perhaps a part of our origins as animals, but it can manifest in shocking ways, and writer/director Katrin Gebbe explores those limits in "Nothing Bad Can Happen."  Based on a true story and winner of the German Film Critics Association Award for Best Feature Film Debut and Best Actor, the film follows young Christian punk Tore, who falls into living with a dysfunctional family, where the man of the house instigates a series of games and tests determined to test the young's man beliefs. It's an increasingly hostile world for the fragile Tore, who curiously still needs the family's love. In this exclusive featurette, lead actor Julius Feldmeier discusses some of the themes that run through the movie. "Nothing Bad Can Happen" is now available on DVD and Blu-ray via Drafthouse Films. And...

After scooping up the New Auteur Award at AFI Fest 2013, Nothing Bad Can Happen continued to garner a decidedly divisive response upon a limited theatrical release (which began after the Cannes premiere in 2013 Un Certain Regard Sidebar, where the jeers were as resounding as the guffaws, with director, cast, and Ucr President Thomas Vinterberg in attendance). At best a lurid conversation piece about despicable tendencies in human nature and at worst a hopelessly exploitative examination of based-on-a-true event terror, Gebbe’s film is a slippery slope of degradation with a heavy dose and conjecture and assumption.

Gebbe’s debut doesn’t quite reach the same levels of finesse as uncomfortably similar fare and often tries too hard to be shockingly provocative, sometimes at the expense of some narrative and character development. Nevertheless, Gebbe’s film never loses its choke-hold and will have you squirming uncomfortably until its final frames.

Tore...

Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Oct. 14, 2014

Price: DVD $24.99, Blu-ray $29.99

Studio: Drafthouse/Cinedigm

Julius Feldmeier--before the nastiness begins--in Nothing Bad Can Happen.

A young man is brought face to face with inhumanity and pushed to his limits in the thriller Nothing Bad Can Happen, the debut feature from German writer-director Katrin Gebbe.

Inspired by true events, the film follows Tore (Julius Feldmeier), a young lost soul involved with an underground Christian punk movement. After a chance encounter helping a stranded driver named Benno (Sascha Alexander Gersak), Tore is invited back to Benno’s home and becomes friendly with him, his wife and two children. Before long, Tore moves into a tent in the garden and gradually becomes part of the family. However, Benno can’t resist playing a cruel game designed to challenge Tore’s beliefs. As his trials become more and more extreme, Tore finds his capacity for love and resilience pushed to its limits…...

How far does your faith stretch? If you’ve never considered your answer to that question, I highly recommend watching Katrin Gebbe’s Nothing Bad Can Happen. The writer and director’s feature-film debut is a powerfully poignant meditation on that very question. This recommendation, however, comes with a warning of great caution. You are likely to be offended, but this is perfectly fine.

This German film’s original title is “Tore tanzt,” which translates in English to “Tore dances.” Tore, being the film’s central character, is played by Julius Feldmeier. Tore is a pale, lanky teenager who somewhat resembles Napoleon Dynamite. In an effort to find meaning and purpose in his life, Tore joins a religious group in Hamburg, Germany who refer to themselves as The Jesus Freaks. Tore is perfectly at home amidst the group, but it is apparent he is truly a lone sheep existing within a pack of wolves.

Having faith is easy, but maintaining that bond with and belief in a higher being is where the real test lies. And it's a cinematic theme that's almost as old as the medium itself, but writer/director Katrine Gebbe finds a fresh spin on it with "Nothing Bad Can Happen." Debuting at the Cannes Film Festival last in year in the Un Certain Regard category, it marked a promising start for the director's first feature, and now it's coming stateside for those intrigued by thrillers underscored by big ideas. Based on a true story, and starring Julius Feldmeier, Sascha Alexander Gersak, Annika Kuhl, Swantje Kohlhof, Til Theinert, Daniel Michel, and Nadine Boske, "Nothing Bad Can Happen" tells the tale of young Christian punk Tore, who falls into living with a dysfunctional family. And it's here where the trouble begins, when the man of the house initiates a series of games,...

A pulsating score threateningly introduces a young man led towards a lake. The music grows more ominous as the camera moves in and out of focus finally finding the young man forcefully submerged beneath the water. This aggressive action isn’t meant for dangerous intentions, but instead portrays the Christian ceremony of baptism.

This introduction is just a piece of the relationship director Katrin Gebbe is trying to convey between unwavering religious faith and volatile nihilism. It’s a subject matter that is initially handled with keen subtlety, but progresses into distracted blatancy. Gebbe, sure footed along the way, attempts to explore an interesting aspect of religion in Nothing Bad Can Happen.

Tore (Julius Feldmeier) is in a church where members are known as the “Jesus Freaks”, a youthful group who dress in punk apparel and conduct contemporary worship services in industrial settings. This is his family; not much is...

Book of Job 2: Gebbe’s Divisive Debut High Brow Torture Porn

The only German entry in 2013’s Cannes film festival also happened to be one of the most grueling with Katrin Gebbe’s debut, Tore Tanzt (Nothing Bad Can Happen), which is bound to inspire as much derision as it does praise. Unfortunately, Gebbe’s debut doesn’t quite reach the same levels of finesse as uncomfortably similar fare and often tries too hard to be shockingly provocative, sometimes at the expense at some narrative and character development. Nevertheless, Gebbe’s film never loses its choke-hold and will have you squirming uncomfortably until its final frames.

Tore (Julius Feldmeier) is a kindly drifter who we assume has been abandoned by his family like many of the ragtag misfits in the group he is now affiliated with known as The Jesus Freaks. Living (or maybe even squatting) in what looks...

A fresh batch of images from the highly acclaimed horror drama Nothing Bad Can Happen, directed by German filmmaker Katrin Gebbe, ended up in our inbox; and we decided to share before anything bad could happen. The flick will be getting a June 27th release in Los Angeles and New York with an expanded national roll-out to follow.

Nothing Bad Can Happen stars Julius Feldmeier, Sascha Alexander Gersak, Annika Kuhl, and Swantje Kohlhof.

After premiering at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013, Nothing Bad Can Happen was met with praise and awards such as:

AFI Fest 2013 (Won – New Auteur Award)

Fantastic Fest 2013 (Won- “Next Wave” Spotlight Competition,” Best Actress)

German Film Critics Association 2014 (Won – Best Feature Film Debut, Best Actor)

Bavarian Film Festival 2014 (Won – Best Young Direction)

Tallinn Black Night Film Festival 2013 (Won – Best Youth Film)

Zurich Film Festival 2013 (Official Selection)

São Paulo International Film Festival 2013 (Official Selection)

Synopsis:

Inspired by horrifying true events,...

The official theatrical artwork and trailer have arrived for the highly acclaimed horror drama Nothing Bad Can Happen, directed by German filmmaker Katrin Gebbe. The flick will be getting a June 27th release in Los Angeles and New York with an expanded national rollout to follow, so be sure to check your local listings when the time comes.

Nothing Bad Can Happen stars Julius Feldmeier, Sascha Alexander Gersak, Annika Kuhl, and Swantje Kohlhof.

After premiering at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013, Nothing Bad Can Happen was met with praise and awards such as:

AFI Fest 2013 (Won – New Auteur Award)

Fantastic Fest 2013 (Won- “Next Wave” Spotlight Competition,” Best Actress)

German Film Critics Association 2014 (Won – Best Feature Film Debut, Best Actor)

Bavarian Film Festival 2014 (Won – Best Young Direction)

Tallinn Black Night Film Festival 2013 (Won – Best Youth Film)

Zurich Film Festival 2013 (Official Selection)

São Paulo International Film Festival 2013 (Official Selection)

Synopsis:

Inspired by horrifying true events,...

Highly acclaimed horror drama Nothing Bad Can Happen, directed by German filmmaker Katrin Gebbe, is getting a June 27th release in Los Angeles and New York with an expanded national rollout to follow, and right now we have several stills and the first clip from the film to share.

Nothing Bad Can Happen stars Julius Feldmeier, Sascha Alexander Gersak, Annika Kuhl, and Swantje Kohlhof.

After premiering at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013, Nothing Bad Can Happen was met with praise and awards such as:

AFI Fest 2013 (Won – New Auteur Award)

Fantastic Fest 2013 (Won- “Next Wave” Spotlight Competition,” Best Actress)

German Film Critics Association 2014 (Won – Best Feature Film Debut, Best Actor)

Bavarian Film Festival 2014 (Won – Best Young Direction)

Tallinn Black Night Film Festival 2013 (Won – Best Youth Film)

Zurich Film Festival 2013 (Official Selection)

São Paulo International Film Festival 2013 (Official Selection)

Synopsis:

Inspired by horrifying true events, Nothing Bad Can Happen follows Tore,...

Shine on, kids! The full schedule for the Stanley Film Festival, which runs at the iconic and historic Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Co, April 24-27, has been announced; and we have all the details you need right here. Dig it!

From the Press Release

The Stanley Film Festival (Sff), produced by the Denver Film Society and presented by NBC Universal's Chiller, announced today its Opening Night film and several special event highlights and experiences taking place at the four-day event (April 24-27, 2014).

The Stanley Film Festival celebrates the best in independent horror cinema at the hotel that inspired The Shining. The Festival will host a full slate of films, panels, competitions, and special events - all at the beautiful and historically haunted Stanley Hotel.

The Stanley Film Festival will open Thursday, April 24, with a Gala Presentation of an original documentary from EPiX, Doc of the Dead. Directed by Colorado...

★★☆☆☆ Showing in the Un Certain Regard section of the 66th Cannes Film Festival, Katrin Gebbe's debut film Nothing Bad Can Happen (Tore tanzt, 2013) is a harrowing tale of abuse with a highly dubious morality at its core. Tore (Julius Feldmeier) is a young, gawky member of The Jesus Freaks, a collective dressed like anarchists or members of the Black Bloc, but who listen to Christian punk and are devoted to their own version of the faith. After a chance encounter with a family in a car park Tore fixes their car with the power of prayer - and a setback with the group and his best friend, he's persuaded to move in with them.

Tore is coerced by Benno (Sascha Alexander Gersak), an outgoing, seemingly generous man who struggles to connect with his partner's children, and also enjoys indulging in 'rough and tumble'. However, the horseplay soon becomes more...