A thinly disguised version of the life of Marilyn Monroe Read More »
Biography
Gangster Wars (1981) Richard C. Sarafian, Michael Nouri, Brian Benben, Joe Penny
Three poor ghetto kids in turn-of-the-century New York City grow up to become feared gangsters. Read More »
From Caligari to Hitler: German Cinema in the Age of the Masses AKA Von Caligari zu Hitler: Das deutsche Kino im Zeitalter der Massen (2014) Rüdiger Suchsland, Siegfried Kracauer, Fritz Lang, Thomas Elsaesser
Focuses on the Weimar Republic (1918-1933) and its ‘collective spirit’ in cinema. Read More »
Evil Angels (1988) Fred Schepisi, Meryl Streep, Sam Neill, Dale Reeves
Based on the true story of Lindy Chamberlain. During a camping trip to Ayers Rock in outback Australia Read More »
Bismarck (1940) Wolfgang Liebeneiner, Paul Hartmann, Friedrich Kayßler, Lil Dagover
A biographical film of Otto von Bismarck, the Prime Minister of Prussia Read More »
To Hell and Back (1955) Jesse Hibbs, Audie Murphy, Marshall Thompson, Charles Drake
True-life account of the military career of Audie Murphy, the most decorated soldier in WWII. Read More »
Henri 4 AKA Henry of Navarre (2010) Jo Baier, Julien Boisselier, Joachim Król, Andreas Schmidt
A wide-ranging, energetic period piece tracing the rise of the Protestant Henry of Navarre Read More »
Gods and Generals (2003) Ron Maxwell, Stephen Lang, Robert Duvall, Jeff Daniels
The rise and fall of confederate general Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson Read More »
The Flight of the Eagle AKA Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd (1982) Jan Troell, Max von Sydow, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Göran Stangertz
Based on the novel by Per Olaf Sundman, Ingenjör Andrées Luftfärd (Flight of the Eagle) Read More »
Bloody Che Contra AKA El ‘Che’ Guevara (1968) Paolo Heusch, Francisco Rabal, John Ireland, Susanna Martinková
The story of Che Guevara’s desperate attempt to escape the mountains of Bolivia. Read More »
The Farewell AKA Abschied – Brechts letzter Sommer (2000) Jan Schütte, Josef Bierbichler, Monica Bleibtreu, Jeanette Hain
It is one of the last days of an exceptionally hot summer in 1956. Read More »
Sybil (1976) Daniel Petrie, Joanne Woodward, Sally Field, Brad Davis
The story tells of a young woman admitting to having blackouts, fearing they are getting worse. Read More »
Zina (1985) Ken McMullen, Rom Anderson, Ron Anderson, George Antoni
Zina, the daughter of Leon Trotsky by his first wife, is undergoing freudian analysis in Berlin in the thirties. Read More »
I Was Nineteen AKA Ich war neunzehn (1968) Konrad Wolf, Jaecki Schwarz, Vasiliy Livanov, Aleksey Eybozhenko
April 1945: Gregor Hecker, 19 years of age, reaches the outskirts of Berlin Read More »
Baby Peggy, the Elephant in the Room (2012) Vera Iwerebor, Baby Peggy, Hobart Bosworth, Jack Earle
This is a unique portrait of one of Hollywood’s last Silent Stars, Baby Peggy. Read More »