Louis van Beethoven (2020)

 

Eight-year-old Louis van Beethoven grew up in the provincial Bonn and is considered a musical prodigy; the singer and actor Tobias Pfeiffer and the Bonn court organist Christian Gottlob Neefe take care of the young genius.

Well-produced, but very superficial and rather crude bio-pic flips around in the musician's life, but hardly gives an accurate impression of the man and his music. 

Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank (2016)

During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.

Basically well-staged with a good cast, but, in comparison to other adaptations, lacks intensity and emotional impact.

Hannah Arendt (2012)

A look at the life of philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt, who reported for The New Yorker on the war crimes trial of the Nazi Adolf Eichmann.

Compelling portrayal is mostly to Barbara Sukowa's credit, who delivers a remarkable performance, but otherwise direction is messy and inconsequential.

Maltin**1/2: "Impassioned but flawed biopic...Yet another one of von Trotta's thought-provoking portayals of strong, complex women, but too much is left unexplained. You have to read the end credits  to know that Arendt's American pal and supporter (McTeer) is none other than novelist-activist Mary McCarthy."

Schattenwelt (2008)

After two decades in prison Widmer, a former German RAF-terrorist, is released and meets a young woman who  tries to get her life back on track after she lost child custody for her little son.

Although it has atmosphere and is well-played, the movies is too ambitious in trying to cover all aspects of the story.