| NOSFERATU | German director Murnau 'borrowed' the plot of Dracula from Bram Stoker to make this classic silent f |
| RAINERWERNERFASSBINDER | German director of the films The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant and The Marriage of Maria Braun |
| EMBEDDED | Back me to plot against the German director with journalist in army (8) |
| SWAHILI | We've borrowed the words simba, meaning a lion, and hatari, meaning danger, from this African langua |
| TITLE | Vulnerability expert Brene Brown borrowed the ___ of her bestselling book "Daring Greatly" from a famous quote by Theodore Roosevelt |
| SADDLE | Upsets the German director with the French interest of Bicycle Thieves (6) |
| NANOOK | '___ of the North (classic silent film)' |
| SCHERZO | Eg acquiring this lively piece shows overlap of Dutch artist and German director (7) |
| THEWHITERIBBON | Film by German director Michael Haneke awarded the Palme d'Or at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival (3,5,6) |
| PORTUGUESE | The language from which English borrowed the words 31A and 43D |
| DUST | Form of dark matter that is integral to the plot of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy of novels |
| WIMWENDERS | German director of films including Wings of Desire and Paris, Texas |
| WERNERHERZOG | German director of the films Woyzeck and Fitzcarraldo (6,6) |
| KEATON | Buster of classic silent comedies |
| PERILSOFPAULINE | Classic silent serial, with "The" |
| INUIT | We borrowed the word "anorak" from what language? (5) |
| INQUIRER | The ____ is the newspaper central to the plot of Citizen Kane |
| ACTION | The collective events forming the plot of a drama, film, play or story; the mechanism of a piano or a watch; or, any deed, gesture or thing done (6) |
| SCENARIO | Postulated sequence of events; or, an outline or synopsis of the plot of a play or other dramatic work (8) |
| FAWLTYTOWERS | The last line of this classic comedy series was "I'm afraid it's started to rain again" |
