Angst
Why this pick
Like The Golden Glove, it is an unflinching, grimy portrait of predatory violence, using oppressive camerawork and proximity to create dread rather than conventional thriller thrills.
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
Why this pick
Like The Golden Glove, it is an unflinching, grimy portrait of predatory violence, using oppressive camerawork and proximity to create dread rather than conventional thriller thrills.
Why this pick
Its cold, naturalistic handling of real-world cruelty and marginalised domestic spaces closely matches The Golden Glove’s refusal to make monstrosity glamorous.
Why this pick
A confrontational serial-killer character study with corrosive dark humour, it shares The Golden Glove’s interest in banality, degradation and sustained viewer discomfort.
Why this pick
Katrin Gebbe’s punishing, physical drama has the same bleak German social realism and willingness to trap the viewer in prolonged moral and bodily discomfort.
Why this pick
This restrained study of isolation and escalating menace shares The Golden Glove’s disturbing observational mode, finding horror in drab environments and social neglect rather than spectacle.
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01 / THE STORY
A serial killer strikes fear into the hearts of Hamburg residents during the early 1970s.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

Fritz Honka
Gerda Voss

Frida
Ruth
Passant
Helga Denningsen

Siggi Honka
Herbert Nürnberg