https://mrqe.com Thu, 25 Jun 2026 03:42:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://mrqe.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/MRQE-favicon-1.png https://mrqe.com 32 32 https://mrqe.com/movie/sie-hat-es-verdient-m100099065/ Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/sie-hat-es-verdient-m100099065/ Linda is a teenage girl whose own insecurities and frustrations lead her to viciously act out against others. By inviting Lindas boyfriend to her birthday party, Susanne unknowingly sets off a chain of horrific events. Is Linda a product of environment and circumstance or was she simply (in her own mothers words) born evil?

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/die-welt-der-wunderlichs-m100133245/ Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/die-welt-der-wunderlichs-m100133245/ Mimi has her hands full. Her son Felix is hyperactive, her ex-husband Johnny is a mess, her father is a chronic gambler. Then Felix signs her up for a Swiss casting show, because Mimi wanted to be a musician originally. So Mimi decides to head for Switzerland, since it could pay all their debts. But then the whole family wants to come…

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/der-mann-der-uber-autos-sprang-m100100629/ Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/der-mann-der-uber-autos-sprang-m100100629/ https://mrqe.com/movie/die-fremde-m100072243/ Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/die-fremde-m100072243/ The seedy underbelly of Vienna at night. Mercedes is a femme fatale from Mexico, newly arrived at the Vienna airport with her German boyfriend Rainer, where they have smuggled a kilo of cocaine through customs. Unfortunately for them, the city has just had a major drug crackdown, leaving them without buyers and money. Disgusted with Rainer, Mercedes ditches him and hooks up with Harry, a lonely and bored cab driver who agrees to help her find a buyer for the drugs so she can get some cash and go home. She offers Harry a deal he can’t refuse. Is he just another pawn for Mercedes or will her promises help him achieve his hope and dreams? The story careens through the night streets of Vienna, following two amateurs navigating their way through the treacherous world of the drug trade. It’s a mood piece with the backdrop of a stifling urban loneliness.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/bummm-m100057334/ Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/bummm-m100057334/ Inner chaos breaks free in two families.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/emmas-gluck-m100040513/ Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/emmas-gluck-m100040513/ Upon being informed that he is fatally ill with cancer, Max, who works at a used car store, steals money which his boss has gained through illegal means. When fleeing from the scene of the crime Max crashes his car. He is pulled unconscious from the destroyed vehicle by a homely young woman, Emma, who lives alone on a farm where Max decides to stay in order to hide from the police and his boss.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/rosenstrasse-m100032790/ Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/rosenstrasse-m100032790/ When Ruth’s husband dies in New York, in 2000, she imposes strict Jewish mourning, which puzzles her children. A stranger comes to the house – Ruth’s cousin – with a picture of Ruth, age 8, in Berlin, with a woman the cousin says helped Ruth escape. Hannah, Ruth’s daughter engaged to a gentile, goes to Berlin to find the woman, Lena Fisher, now 90. Posing as a journalist investigating intermarriage, Hannah interviews Lena who tells the story of a week in 1943 when the Jewish husbands of Aryan women were detained in a building on Rosenstrasse. The women gather daily for word of their husbands. The film goes back and forth to tell Ruth and Lena’s story. How will it affect Hannah?

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/was-tun-wenns-brennt-m100001695/ Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/was-tun-wenns-brennt-m100001695/ What To Do In Case of Fire? tells the humorous and touching story of six former creative anarchists who lived as house squatters in Berlin during its heyday in the 80s when Berlin was still an island in the middle of the former eastern Germany. At the end of the 80s they went their separate ways with the exception of Tim and Hotte, who have remained true to their ideals and continue to fight the issues they did as a group. In 2000, with Berlin as Germany’s new capital, an event happens forcing the group out of existential reason to reunite and, ultimately, come to grips with the reason they separated 12 years ago.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/feuerreiter-m100008214/ Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/feuerreiter-m100008214/ Feuerreiter is an elegant period drama that begins in Frankfurt in 1796. Through his friend, Baron von Sinclair, romantic and rebellious poet Friedrich Hölderlin secures the position of a private tutor in the home of a banker named Gontard. He is soon torn between his passion for poetry and his love for Susette, the lady of the house. To top it all off, Baron von Sinclair is in love with him. Hölderlin’s most beautiful poems are written during this trying time. However, he becomes a total recluse when he loses Susette. The film examines the effects of conflicting demands, both emotional and sensual, that may inspire art. Feuerreiter was screened as part of the New German Films at the 49th International Berlin Film Festival, 1999.

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