The Silent Forest

The Silent Forest

The Secrets Of The Past Are Buried Deep

Directed by Saralisa Volm

Produced by if... Productions, HR

202295 min5.7 / 10

A dark, paranoia-soaked mystery where a woman's return to a forest tied to her father's disappearance unearths a village's violent secrets.

As a forestry student doing an internship, Anja Grimm ends up in that remote area in the Upper Palatinate Forest, where she went on vacation with her parents as an eight-year-old girl and her father disappeared without a trace. Her job is to take soil samples to create a soil map. At one point in the forest floor she comes across abnormal irregularities. Not long after their arrival, a brutal murder occurs. Anja soon arouses suspicion and hostility not only among the villagers with her suspicion that the perpetrator knows something about her father's fate and with her questions about the atypical soil composition in the forest clearing. Even the police react extremely reservedly to their investigations. And when it turns out that the young woman can read the signs of the forest like an open book, forces mobilize in the village who are apparently ready for anything because there is a dark secret that needs to be kept.

Questions people ask

  • Is The Silent Forest sad? Yes. More sad than 88% of films.

  • Is The Silent Forest scary? Yes. More frightening than 87% of films.

  • Is The Silent Forest easy watching? Not especially. Less comforting than 74% of films.

  • Is The Silent Forest violent? Somewhat. More violent than 71% of films.

  • Does The Silent Forest end with hope? Not especially. Less hopeful than 70% of films.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

18/ 100

Cinnamon Score

How much this film gives you that nothing else will, and whether it delivers.

Conventional, and it does not land.

Rarity28

How unlike any other film this one feels

Surprise15

How much more it delivers than it promises

Love13

How much audiences actually like it

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Ensemble

Like The Silent Forest

Nearest across the full emotional profile.

Same Mood as The Silent Forest

Nearest on what's most distinctive about this one.

Like The Silent Forest, But Darker

Similar, pushed toward heavier and more intense.

Like The Silent Forest, But Lighter

Similar, pushed toward warmer and easier.

Like The Silent Forest, But Less Popular

Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.

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