Leonard Hoffman is an insurance salesman struggling to make ends meet. The fact that he has triplet sons who all want to go to Yale isn’t making things any easier. Read More »
Tag Archives: german
Carthage in Flames (1960) Carmine Gallone, Pierre Brasseur, Daniel Gélin, Anne Heywood, Drama, Action, Adventure, Romance, War
Historical drama depicting the last of the Punic Wars between the Roman Republic and Carthage. Read More »
Marseille (2004) Angela Schanelec, Maren Eggert, Emily Atef, Alexis Loret, Drama
Sophie, a young photographer, exchanges her apartment with a student from Marseille. Read More »
Stukas (1941) Karl Ritter, Carl Raddatz, Hannes Stelzer, Ernst von Klipstein, Drama, War
This Nazi propaganda film details the exploits of a group of German Luftwaffe pilots flying Stukas–fighter-bombers–in the Battle of France in the early days of World War II. Read More »
The Albanian (2010) Johannes Naber, Nik Xhelilaj, Amos Muji Zaharia, Çun Lajçi, Drama
Handsome Albanian villager Arben wants to marry Etleva, daughter of a neighboring clan, but her father has promised her to another man who is offering a 10,000 Euros bride price. Read More »
The American Soldier (1970) Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Karl Scheydt, Elga Sorbas, Jan George, Drama
Ricky is a cold-blooded U.S. German contract killer. After serving in Viet Nam, he returns to his home town of Munich to eliminate a few problem crooks for three renegade cops. Read More »
Espionage in Lisbon (1965) Federico Aicardi, Tulio Demicheli, Brett Halsey, Marilù Tolo, Fernando Rey, Action, Adventure
An international gang pretends to have the means to destroy a small country in 30 seconds. The authorities have reason to believe this may be true, and the spying battle is on. Read More »
Contempt (1963) Jean-Luc Godard, Brigitte Bardot, Jack Palance, Michel Piccoli, Drama
Paul Javal is a writer who is hired to make a script for a new movie about Ulysses more commercial, which is to be directed by Fritz Lang and produced by Jeremy Prokosch. Read More »
G.P.U. (1942) Karl Ritter, Laura Solari, Will Quadflieg, Marina von Ditmar, Drama, Thriller, Action
Olga, a Russian refuge from Bolshevik terror has joined the Soviet secret police, the G.P.U. to find the man who killed her parents. Read More »
Fire in Paradise / Flammen im Paradies (1997) Markus Imhoof, Élodie Bouchez, Heinz Bühlmann, Laurent Grévill, Drama
Swiss director Markus Imhoof made this Swiss-German-French drama in which a love story, elaborate period details of the year 1912, and an ocean liner all combine to bring Titanic to mind. Read More »
Nora Helmer (1974) Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margit Carstensen, Joachim Hansen, Barbara Valentin, Drama
A beautiful young housewife, Nora, is trying to convince her tight-laced, bourgeois husband, Torvald, to give her some extra money for the holidays, even if he has to borrow it. Read More »
Invisible Adversaries (1977) Valie Export, Susanne Widl, Peter Weibel, Josef Plavec, Drama
Anna, an artist, is obsessed with the invasion of alien doubles bent on total destruction. Read More »
Bremen Freedom (1972) Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margit Carstensen, Wolfgang Schenck, Wolfgang Kieling, Drama
A very stylized TV version of the Fassbinder play. The set consists of a few pieces of furniture in front of a large screen on which coastal scenery is back projected. Read More »
Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty (1938) Leni Riefenstahl, Sheigo Arai, Jack Beresford, Ralf Berzsenyi, Documentary, Sport
After being commissioned by the 1936 Olympic Committee to create a feature film of the Berlin Olympics Read More »
Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations (1938) Leni Riefenstahl, David Albritton, Arvo Askola, Jack Beresford, Documentary, Sport
After being commissioned by the 1936 Olympic Committee to create a feature film of the Berlin Olympics Read More »