Search Everything

Login

Send feeback or report a bug here

Send feeback or report a bug here

Aquaplaning
Aquaplaning

Aquaplaning

1 hour 20 minutes
1987-05-12
0.0

Watch Trailer

A somewhat impressionist, at times even slightly surreal miniature about a student (Werner Stocker in a splendid performance) who, out of financial difficulties, starts out as pool attendant at an open air swimming pool in Berlin's district of Neukölln. Escaping from his unpleasant landlord and his lover Patrizia (a very young Martina Gedeck), he soon starts to live at the baths, and as swimmers disappear and the baths are closed for the winter, he turns the grounds into his own, perfect refuge from civilisation and social pressure, becoming increasingly detached from reality. What may sound like an annoyingly gimmicky premise is executed here playfully, yet with admirable simplicity and a subtle, unpretentious poetic sensibility that one would wish for more often in contemporary German cinema.

Similar Movies

Daddy's Girl

Daddy's Girl

2022

4.0

Movie
Daydreams

Daydreams

2017

4.7

Movie
The Inland Road

The Inland Road

2017

4.4

Movie
This Time Tomorrow

This Time Tomorrow

2016

6.1

Movie
Faces of a Fig Tree

Faces of a Fig Tree

2006

5.0

Movie
Strange Days

Strange Days

1995

7.0

Movie
Desert Hearts

Desert Hearts

1985

7.0

Movie
Boys Don't Cry

Boys Don't Cry

1999

7.4

Movie
Uvanga

Uvanga

2013

10.0

Movie
The Return of the Prodigal Son

The Return of the Prodigal Son

2003

5.3

Movie
Cheerless

Cheerless

1934

0.0

Movie
Open Hearts

Open Hearts

2002

6.9

Movie
Italian for Beginners

Italian for Beginners

2000

6.3

Movie
The Secret Life of Words

The Secret Life of Words

2005

7.0

Movie
My Life Without Me

My Life Without Me

2003

6.0

Movie
Siao Yu

Siao Yu

1995

7.4

Movie
Cecile

Cecile

1977

0.0

Movie
Against the Tide

Against the Tide

2016

0.0

Movie
Lullaby

Lullaby

1994

6.8

Movie
Sleepless in Seattle

Sleepless in Seattle

1993

6.7

Movie