NETFLIX Indie Movies 

here comes our selection of the best indie movies on netflix. compiled by cinegeek.de

if you need more; in our film archive you can find about 10.000 more indie movies, sorted by director and country. 

Arthouse on Netflix 

Our movie list with Arthaus movies on Netflix, collected on the page of our video store cinegeek.de - and of course you can find more 10.000 Arthaus movies in our video basement. Sorted by directors and countries and genre. But a little Netflix service doesn't hurt. 

FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE Baran 

It wasn't that long ago that we used to imply that the people of Iran were basically grim fanatics living there, sulking in their resentment of the West. Really? It's easy to think that way when a country is far away and we label it the "enemy." Then something happened that no one would have suspected. Women, men take to the streets, women rip their headscarves off their heads, protest. They want the overthrow, to no longer be ruled by old grim men. Baran from 2001 shows us what the people in Iran are really like. The "foreigners" are thus given a face. Baran is a romantic fable. And it is a romantic fable about construction workers. Lateef (Hossein Abedini) works in construction, not far from the border with Afghanistan. Most of the work is done by refugees from Afghanistan. Poorly paid and hard. Right at the beginning we learn that millions of refugees from Afghanistan fled across the border. Since it is illegal to hire them, they work black for low pay. Many flee the Taliban and seek a better life in Iran. One day, an accident happens at the construction site. One man, Najaff, gets injured. This is a disaster because he has to feed five children who live in a refugee shelter. Therefore, he sends his son Rahmat (Zahra Bahrami) to carry the cement bags instead of him. Rahmat, however, is small and lanky. Therefore, the boss decides that Lateef has to work properly again. Lateef is supposed to carry the sacks. But Lateef is lazy and resentful. Nevertheless, he finds Rahmat fascinating. There is something about him. Then the secret is revealed: Rahmat is really a girl.... 

FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE Dardenne Brothers - La Promesse  

Belgians Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne have found a way to turn human weaknesses and emotions into art. They never judge. There is neither "good" nor "evil". Instead, they show how complex life really is. Often their characters have to choose between maintaining relative social stability or risking disaster. This is at the expense of their own ability to compromise. Ultimately, it is about the struggle for morality. La Promesse is about the effort to keep a promise. A teenager promises a dying man to ensure the safety of his wife and baby. They are illegal immigrants who are exploited by the teenager's father. So the dying man is buried at the construction site without calling a doctor (while the wife desperately searches for him). Normally this would be the stuff of melodrama, but not with the Dardenne brothers. The Dardennes are much more interested in examining the milieu they present here. A study of local exploiters who employ West African workers (and get most of their wages back through overpriced rooms they provide them). La Promesse is about a son who gradually realises that his father is a monster. The portrait of an abusive father-son relationship. In 1996, the Dardennes found international attention with La Promesse and have since presented their very own cinema without pathos, but with the realisation that the act of making a painful decision is not an external show or a cinema moment. The world that influences this decision is the world of the Dardennes.

90s on netflix - Filmlist on CINEGEEK.DE 

Wanted in the netflix range: films with that definite 90's feeling and those that absolutely take us back. In nostalgia! (many more films from the 90's and around 4000 of them in our video library). Found on netflix in November 2022.

Film List 80s on netflix 

netflix is not entirely without responsibility for the 80s boom of our time (through Stranger Things, of course). That's why I looked for original 80s films in the Netflix range and found some in the netflix catalogue (if you need more, there are n the 4000 titles of the time in our video store). Here is the overview for November 2022.

netflix best Romantic Comedies on CINEGEEK.DE 

Here comes our new netflix service to make your choice a little easier. This film list shows you the most beautiful romantic comedies now in November 2022. 

FREE ON CINEGEEK.De Todd Haynes - Far From Heaven 

Todd Haynes Far From Heaven looks like a film from the 50s and deals with the themes of the 50s - only much bolder and much better than a real Hollywood film of the 50s would have been able to do! It all begins in the suburban idyll of Connecticut, where Mr. and Mrs. Magnatech act like a team. Like a marriage business. Until Mr Magnatech thinks the black gardener is the most beautiful (and desirable) person he has ever seen. In the same way, the Whitakers, Cathy and Frank (Julianne Moore and Dennis Quaid), live in the perfect counterpart, the perfect street and the perfect home. In autumn, the leaves shine like pure gold and if their son utters a scolding expression in his mouth, he is reprimanded. The Whitakers are so perfect that even the local newspaper writes an article about how perfect they are. But then dark clouds gather. While Cathy is being interviewed by the paper, she sees the black gardener outside. The son of her late gardener. She enquires if he needs anything, reaches out. It will then be printed in the newspaper as follows: Cathy; "friend to Negroes". Then one day Cathy catches Frank kissing a man in the office. Far From Heaven plays exactly the values of the 50s, which is why Frank feels despicable after this incident. He desperately needs to get a grip on this problem. This is the key to Todd Haynes' film: he never pretends to be ironic. Never does he know more than a film from the 50s knew. Far From Heaven is indeed a work of that time, in which not only the clothes, the décor have been recreated, but simply everything. Right down to the mindset. Cathy and Frank don't have a sex life. She hardly knows what to say to him. At one point Cathy says to the gardener's son; "Mr. Whitaker and I support equal rights for the Negro.". People start talking in public about her being seen with the black gardener (who, by the way, has an academic degree). So they get the same frosty reception together in a "black" establishment as would probably have happened in a "white" establishment. Frank, the hypocrite, yells at them about what he wouldn't have done for the family's reputation. Of course, his homosexuality remains deeply hidden. And Cathy's feelings change.... Craft-wise, Haynes's film is as superbly made as an original Douglas Sirk melodrama. In Sirk's melodramas, one often had the impression that the plot had been scrambled - indeed, that the film was not sincere at all! Yet everything is filtered in Haynes' film. Every shot resembles the set design of the 50s, every feeling the zeitgeist of the 50s. At that time, the civil rights movement was already an issue, but not homosexual liberation. So the film is allowed to regret bittersweetly that Cathy's feelings will probably have no future. Frank's homosexuality, on the other hand, may not even be mentioned by name. Far From Heaven, as described, gets by without irony (unlike the original Douglas Sirk melodramas) - and seems all the more powerful for it! We care about Haynes' characters as if they were the audience of the 50s! We think like the 50s! So we regret that a white woman could never love a black man. And we don't even dare to imagine how Frank could live...