Whatever Happens Next

Nov 8, 2018

1h 37m

★ 6.7

Overview

A road movie about a dropout who leaves himself completely to chance. A parable about freedom, self-determination and the poetry of an undefined life.

Genres

Drama

Comedy

Production Companies

StoryBay Cinema

Koi Studio

Gieren & Pörksen Filmproduktion

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Cast

Paul Zeise

Sebastian Rudolph

Nele

Lilith Stangenberg

Ulrich Klinger

Peter René Lüdicke

Luise Zeise

Christine Hoppe

Flo

Eike Weinreich

Erwin

Henning Peker

Olaf

Niels Bormann

Annett

Eva Löbau

Sohn

Kasimir Brause

Tochter

Henrike Lange

Trauernder Sohn

Matthias Buss

alte Dame

Monika Lennartz

After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Antonia's late mother has bestowed a small farm upon her. There, Antonia settles down and joins a tightly-knit but unusual community. Those around her include quirky friend Crooked Finger, would-be suitor Bas and, eventually for Antonia, a granddaughter and great-granddaughter who help create a strong family of empowered women.

7.6

Gandhi

Dec 1, 1982

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of 'passive resistance', endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed.

4.9

Land Without Evil: Ivy Maraey

Oct 17, 2013

A filmmaker and a Guarani Indian travel from La Paz to Bolivia’s swamps, exploring Guarani culture, ancient knowledge, and identity.

7.7

Alice in the Cities

May 17, 1974

German journalist Philip Winter has a case of writer’s block when trying to write an article about the United States. He decides to return to Germany, and while trying to book a flight, encounters a German woman and her nine year old daughter Alice doing the same. The three become friends (almost out of necessity) and while the mother asks Winter to mind Alice temporarily, it quickly becomes apparent that Alice will be his responsibility for longer than he expected.

7.3

Bicentennial Man

Dec 17, 1999

Richard Martin buys a gift, a new NDR-114 robot. The product is named Andrew by the youngest of the family's children. "Bicentennial Man" follows the life and times of Andrew, a robot purchased as a household appliance programmed to perform menial tasks. As Andrew begins to experience emotions and creative thought, the Martin family soon discovers they don't have an ordinary robot.

6.6

Erbsen auf halb 6

Mar 4, 2004

It all starts with a bang. The car breaks through the crash barrier and falls off the bridge. The lights go out. After that, he is not able to see anymore. His optic nerve is severed, from now on the young stage-director Jakob is blind. His life will change and nothing will ever be the same. Jakob cannot handle the idea of never being able to see again and screams at the only woman who is able and willing to help him, Lily. A rehabilitation teacher, she helps the blind deal with the darkness. Lily has been living with it since birth, she too is blind.

7.2

Reign Over Me

Mar 22, 2007

A man who lost his family in the September 11 attack on New York City runs into his old college roommate. Rekindling the friendship is the one thing that appears able to help the man recover from his grief.

6.9

Without Family

Dec 12, 2000

Young Remi, a foundling, lives on the farm run by his impoverished foster parents. When their money runs out, unbeknown to his foster-mother, Rémi is sold by his hard-hearted foster father to an old street performer named Vitalis. Vitalis was once a famous opera singer, but became destitute after a tragic love affair.

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10.0

Wilhelm Tell

Jan 1, 1990

Claus Peymann's production of Schiller's play about oppression, rebellion and human rights is less a flaming political appeal than a subtle exploration of human behavior in a social conflict.

6.8

Highway 61

Sep 5, 1991

A naive Canadian barber who knows US popular culture inside and out meets a flamboyant roadie who needs someone to drive her and her "brother's" corpse from Thunder Bay, Ontario to New Orleans. Chaos ensues after the barber agrees to drive her, the corpse, and the drugs stashed within all the way.

7.5

Samsara

Oct 10, 2002

A love story situated in the Himalayas. A Buddhist monk can't choose between life and the way of the Buddha.

0.0

Running on Empty

Feb 14, 2006

The dull daily routine of an insurance agent, who listlessly drives down the highway every day and conducts customer meetings while longing for his family, becomes a metaphor for a life that has come to a standstill and is threatened with being crushed by loneliness.

7.1

Pump Up the Volume

Aug 22, 1990

Mark Hunter, a lonely high school student, uses his shortwave radio to moonlight as the popular pirate DJ "Hard Harry." When his show gets blamed for a teen committing suicide, the students clash with high school faculty and the authorities.

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6.5

Mutants

Jan 1, 2002

Thirteen-year-old Paula lives with her mother on a well-kept estate in a small town surrounded by nice neighbours. But Paula's view of normality has been sharpened by her extensive and consistent diet of horror movies.

7.0

Uralochka

Dec 5, 2024

The capital's little thing Lana, in order to save her career, goes to the North instead of a hot vacation. There she gets involved in an adventure from which only the truck driver Grisha can save her - a rude lout who loves nothing except his Ural truck. In their joint journey-chase through the wild wilderness, Lana will find something completely different from what she was looking for: the beauty of the endless North, simple and sincere people, a real man and a woman's happiness.

5.6

Free Zone

Jun 18, 2005

Rebecca, an American who has been living in Jerusalem for a few months now, has just broken off her engagement. She gets into a cab driven by Hanna, an Israeli. But Hanna is on her way to Jordan, to the Free Zone, to pick up a large sum of money.

0.0

Peace by Piece

May 29, 2026

Jeremy’s quiet day in the park is interrupted when he's approached Martin, a strange and enigmatic man claiming to be an actor from the future preparing to play Jeremy in a film. Martin hints at future events, leaving Jeremy to interpret how much is true. Clues are dropped, questions are raised, and Jeremy begins to realize that his own story may be more complicated than he ever expected. Shot in a single unbroken take, through the perspective of an autonomous drone, Peace by Piece follows one conversation that slowly reveals the consequences Jeremy will one day face. Like Jeremy, the audience discovers the truth, piece by piece, until the final revelation.

7.6

En Route

Feb 10, 2004

A slightly sinister but charming young man falls in with a young mother and daughter and her boyfriend on a camping holiday and leads them astray.

7.7

Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron

May 24, 2002

A captured mustang remains determined to return to his herd no matter what.

0.0

En el camino

Mar 1, 2020

During the trip back from their vacation, a young couple is stranded in the middle of the road and they lose all forms of communication, including each other.