The Lives of Others

Movie • 2006 • Drama  

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A tragic love story set in East Berlin with the backdrop of an undercover Stasi controlled culture. Stasi captain Wieler is ordered to follow author Dreyman and plunges deeper and deeper into his life until he reaches the threshold of doubting the system.
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Does the dog die?
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Is an animal abandoned?
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Is an animal sad?
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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Is there domestic violence?
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Is there body horror?
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Are any teeth damaged?
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Are there abusive parents?
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Abandonment
Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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Abuse
Is someone gaslighted?
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Is someone stalked?
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The whole movie is about a Stasi officer who is spying on a couple who are under suspicion by the East German government. They are constantly being listened to, watched, and occasionally followed.
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Is a child abused?
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Addiction
Is there addiction?
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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a character uses prescription medicine as drugs. consumption is only seen once, but it is mentioned several times throughout the film and the character is shown buying these pills.
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Were animals harmed in the making?
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Does an animal die?
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Are animals abused?
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Is there a dead animal?
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Are rabbits harmed?
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Does a cat die?
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Does a pet die?
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Does a dragon die?
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Assault
Is someone sexually assaulted?
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Christa is confined to a moving vehicle with Hempf whilst he sexually assaults her
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the movie shows the sexual assault happening beforehand (groping etc.) and shows the rapist removing his underwear. the scene cuts after that.
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Is there pedophilia?
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Is rape mentioned?
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Bodily Harm
Is someone crushed to death?
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Does a head get squashed?
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Is someone burned alive?
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Is someone buried alive?
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Is there cannibalism?
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Is there excessive gore?
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Is someone tortured?
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At the very beginning a prisoner is interrogated while severely sleep deprived as a torture method. There are other interrogation scenes where threats are made to get prisoners to comply, but there are no other depictions of torture.
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Is there a hanging?
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It's mentioned that a character hangs himself but this is not shown on screen.
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Children
Is a minor sexualized?
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Is an infant abducted?
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Does a kid die?
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Family
Does someone cheat?
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A woman who is in a relationship is coerced into sex with a government official who threatens her career. She is clearly very unwilling and the power differential between them means there is no freely given consent, so it is not cheating.
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Fear
Is there a shower scene?
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Are there ghosts?
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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LGBTQ+
Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
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Medical
Is there a mental institution scene?
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Mental Health
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Suicide is an important theme. A friend of a main character dies by suicide - not shown, but there is a scene at his funeral. A main character then publishes an article about the high suicide rate under the current government and there's a lot of discussion of this article. Later, near the end, another major character dies by suicide (by walking into traffic - this is shown onscreen).
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Does someone self harm?
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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Pregnancy
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Race
Is there blackface?
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Sex
Is there sexual content?
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is there bestiality?
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Social
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It really depends on how you take the ending
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Someone deliberately walks into the road, gets hit by a truck, and dies a minute later. The scene is fairly graphic.
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Does a car crash?
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Violence
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a character gets hit by a car and is shown injured and covered in blood
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