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Tag Archives: Germany
Fanny Hill (1983) Gerry O’Hara, Lisa Foster, Oliver Reed, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Erotic
Happily engaged to her handsome fiance, Charles, Fanny is soon hit with one misfortune after another until she is forced to become a prostitute to survive. Read More »
Schlußakkord / Final Accord (1936) Douglas Sirk, Willy Birgel, Lil Dagover, Mária Tasnádi Fekete, Music, Drama
A young, impoverished German woman named Hanna (Maria von Tasnady) gives her infant up for adoption and emigrates to American to live with her husband. Read More »
Zur Chronik von Grieshuus (1925) Arthur von Gerlach, Arthur Kraußneck, Paul Hartmann, Rudolf Forster, Drama
Hinrich, the son of a feudal German landowner, falls in love with the beautiful daughter of one of his father’s serfs despite opposition from both families. Read More »
Shameless / Schamlos (1968) Eddy Saller, Thomas Astor, Gino Baldini, Rolf Eden, Crime, Drama
A very dynamic Udo Kier stars as Pohlmann, a teenager setting up a gang to collect protection money, who falls in love with an exotic dancer, who gets murdered. Can Pohlmann revenge her?
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O Megalexandros / Alexander the Great (1980) Theodoros Angelopoulos, Omero Antonutti, Eva Kotamanidou, Mihalis Giannatos, Drama
Lead by Alexandros (Omero Antonuti), a group of thieves escape from prison. They take several aristocrats hostage, and, together with a few anarchists Read More »
Engel and Joe / Engel + Joe (2001) Vanessa Jopp, Robert Stadlober, Jana Pallaske, Lena Sabine Berg, Drama, Romance
Engel, a punk, meets Joe, a runaway, and that adventure called life begins. Read More »
Le dimanche de la vie / The Sunday of Life (1967) Jean Herman, Danielle Darrieux, Jean-Pierre Moulin, Olivier Hussenot, Comedy
A still attractive lady (Danielle Darrieux in her strangest part) realizes that time is passing her by and she wants to marry a young virgin Read More »
Homo faber / Voyager (1991) Volker Schlöndorff, Sam Shepard, Julie Delpy, Barbara Sukowa, Drama, Romance, Art-house
Having recently survived a plane crash, American engineer Walter Faber (Sam Shepard) decides to forgo flying and cross the Atlantic Ocean via ship. Read More »
Bittere Ernte / Angry Harvest (1985) Agnieszka Holland, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Wojciech Pszoniak, Drama, Romance, War
In the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. Read More »
Tmavomodrý svet / Dark Blue World (2001) Jan Sverák, Ondrej Vetchý, Krystof Hádek, Tara Fitzgerald, War, Drama, Action
March 15, 1939: Germany invades Czechoslovakia. Czech and Slovak pilots flee to England, joining the RAF. Read More »
Wir / We (2003) Martin Gypkens, Jannek Petri, Knut Berger, Karina Plachetka, Drama
A group of school friends meet real life in Germany after school is over. From failed love affairs to unpaid bills, growing up means learning that life is not as you imagined it. Read More »
Zugvögel – … einmal nach Inari / Trains’n’Roses (1998) Peter Lichtefeld, Joachim Król, Outi Mäenpää, Peter Lohmeyer, Comedy, Romance, Crime
Hannes is a beer-truck driver in Dortmund. His biggest dream is to win the first prize at the International Time-Table Contest in Inari (Finland). Read More »
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978) Ted Kotcheff, George Segal, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Morley
Mystery abounds when it is discovered that, one by one, the greatest Chefs in Europe are being killed. Read More »
Das Stahltier / The Steel Animal (1935) Willy Zielke, Aribert Mog, Sophia Hagen, Documentary, Comedy, Drama, History
In present day Germany, by 6:30 a.m., the railway workers are waiting the opening of the factory’s door to start a new day of hard work. Read More »