Laschen, a German journalist, travels to the city of Beirut during the fights between Christians and Palestinians to produce an essay about the situation. Read More »
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Die 1000 Augen des Dr. Mabuse AKA The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960) Fritz Lang, Dawn Addams, Peter van Eyck, Gert Fröbe, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Reporter Peter Barter gets murdered while driving to his tv station. Commisioner Kras gets a phone call from clairvoyant Cornelius who saw Barter’s death in a vision. Read More »
Scotland Yard jagt Dr. Mabuse / Dr. Mabuse vs. Scotland Yard (1963) Paul May, Peter van Eyck, Agnes Windeck, Dieter Borsche, Crime, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Horror, Mystery
The spirit of the evil Dr. Mabuse takes over the body of a famous professor. The professor/Dr. Mabuse then begins a new crime wave that terrorizes the city.
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Was nützt die Liebe in Gedanken / Love in Thoughts (2004) Achim von Borries, Daniel Brühl, August Diehl, Anna Maria Mühe, Drama, Romance
Weimar, Germany, in 1927. Best friends Günther and Paul ask themselves: is that really it, the highest point in life? Read More »
Winnetou und Shatterhand im Tal der Toten / The Valley of Death (1968) Harald Reinl, Lex Barker, Pierre Brice, Rik Battaglia, Western, Adventure
Mabel Kingsley arrives at a western town to clear her missing father of the charge that he stole a shipment of government gold. Read More »
Winnetou und das Halbblut Apanatschi / Winnetou and the Crossbreed (1966) Harald Philipp, Lex Barker, Pierre Brice, Götz George, Western, Adventure
On her 21st birthday, settler Mac Haller’s daughter Apanatschi receives her father’s secret gold mine as a gift. Read More »
Winnetou – 3. Teil / Winnetou: The Last Shot (1965) Harald Reinl, Lex Barker, Pierre Brice, Rik Battaglia, Action, Adventure, Western
After the Civil War, desperadoes led by a renegade named Rollins, following the settlers moving westward, try to drive a wedge in the friendship between the whites and the Indians. Read More »
Winnetou – 2. Teil (1964) Harald Reinl, Lex Barker, Pierre Brice, Anthony Steel, Western, Adventure
When white settlers encroach on Indian lands, the Assiniboins declare war on the settlers. Apache chief Winnetou vows to help keep the peace between whites and natives. Read More »
Winnetou – 1. Teil (1963) Harald Reinl, Lex Barker, Pierre Brice, Marie Versini, Western, Adventure
The construction of the Great Western Railroad creates heavy conflict between the railway company and neighboring Indian tribes. Read More »
Old Shatterhand (1964) Hugo Fregonese, Lex Barker, Pierre Brice, Daliah Lavi, Western, Adventure
A peace treaty between the United States government and the Apaches is about to be signed in Washington. Read More »
Hong ying tao / Red Cherry (1995) Daying Ye, Ke-Yu Guo, Hsiao-Ling Hsu, Vladmill Nizmiroff, Drama, War
It is 1940. Chuchu and Luo Xiaoman are Chinese students who have been sent to study in Moscow, at the International School. Read More »
Abschied von gestern / Yesterday Girl (1966) Alexander Kluge, Günter Mack, Hans Korte, Drama
The film tells the story of Anita G., a young East German migrant to West Germany and her struggle to adjust to her new life.
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Honolulu (2001) Uschi Ferstl, Florian Gallenberger, Peter Bechtel, Daniel Brühl, Shira Fleisher, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Produced and directed by seven Munich Film School students, Honolulu takes place not in Hawaii, but inside of a rural town just outside of Munich, Germany. Read More »
Fontane Effi Briest (1974) Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Hanna Schygulla, Wolfgang Schenck, Ulli Lommel, Drama, History
In the nineteenth century, seventeen year old Effi Briest is married to the older Baron von Instetten and moves into a house, that she believes has a ghost, in a small isolated Baltic town. Read More »
Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler / Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler (1922) Fritz Lang, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Aud Egede-Nissen, Gertrude Welcker, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Dr. Mabuse and his organization of criminals are in the process of completing their latest scheme, a theft of information that will allow Mabuse to make huge profits on the stock exchange. Read More »