The final installment in Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise trilogy, ‘Paradise: Hope’ tells the story of overweight thirteen-year-old Melanie and her first love. Read More »
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Paradise: Faith (2012) Ulrich Seidl, Maria Hofstätter, Nabil Saleh, René Rupnik
Anna Maria, a single woman in her 50s, devotes her summer vacation to doing missionary work Read More »
Hunting List (1994) Yen-Ping Chu, Ray Lui, Shu-fang Lu, Vivian Hsu
Chu Chi Kit returns to HK from Taiwan after many years in hiding Read More »
Malou (1981) Jeanine Meerapfel, Reinhard vom Bauer, Michael Böhme, Margarita Calahorra
Malou feels that the difficulties she is experiencing in her relationships lie in her past Read More »
The Patriotic Woman (1979) Alexander Kluge, Hannelore Hoger, Dieter Mainka, Alfred Edel
A history teacher and a patriot goes out into the winter landscape carrying a shovel. Read More »
The Pedestrian (1973) Maximilian Schell, Gustav Rudolf Sellner, Peter Hall
When a German businessman causes a car accident with deadly consequences, the papers start digging into his past to find scandals. Read More »
The Memory of Justice (1976) Marcel Ophüls, Yehudi Menuhin, Noël Favrelières, Anthony Herbert
Explores the subject of atrocities during wartime, especially during World War II and the Vietnam War. Read More »
The Haunted Castle (1960) Kurt Hoffmann, Liselotte Pulver, Heinz Baumann, Hanne Wieder
From her father Charlotte inherits a dilapidated castle near the small German town Bonn. Read More »
Not Reconciled (1965) Jean-Marie Straub, Heinrich Hargesheimer, Carlheinz Hargesheimer, Martha Staendner
An entangled story which details the lives of a German family throughout their various generations. Read More »
My First Mister (2001) Christine Lahti, Albert Brooks, Leelee Sobieski, Rutanya Alda
Jennifer does not fit in. A total misfit, she’s as wacky as a teenager can be. Read More »
Gangster’s Law (1969) Siro Marcellini, Klaus Kinski, Maurice Poli, Franco Citti
A con man pulls a double-cross on a gang of vicious bank robbers. Read More »
Combat Girls (2011) David Wnendt, Alina Levshin, Jella Haase, Sayed Ahmad
Marisa, a 20-year-old German girl, hates foreigners, Jews, cops, and everyone she finds guilty for the decline of her country. Read More »
Ludwig (1972) Luchino Visconti, Helmut Berger, Romy Schneider, Trevor Howard
Historical evocation of Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from his crowning in 1864 until his death in 1886, as a romantic hero. Read More »
Naked (2002) Doris Dörrie, Heike Makatsch, Benno Fürmann, Alexandra Maria Lara
Emilia and Felix have separated some time ago, at Charlotte and Dylan (crumbling) the facade of the marital living together already Read More »
It Happened in Broad Daylight (1958) Ladislao Vajda, Heinz Rühmann, Sigfrit Steiner, Siegfried Lowitz
Several young girls were killed. Policeman Matthaei travels to the region where it happened Read More »