Told in flashback, the film recounts the events leading up to the killing of good-for-nothing Curt Jurgens. Read More »
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Stroszek (1977) Werner Herzog, Bruno S., Eva Mattes, Clemens Scheitz
Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expectations: with a glockenspiel and an accordion Read More »
I Knew Her Well (1965) Antonio Pietrangeli, Stefania Sandrelli, Mario Adorf, Jean-Claude Brialy
Adriana, a naive Italian country girl, moves to Rome to become a movie star and experiences the dark side of the business. Read More »
The Great Sacrifice (1944) Veit Harlan, Carl Raddatz, Kristina Söderbaum, Irene von Meyendorff
Albrecht is a son in a family of wealthy intellectuals that has a seaside estate near Hamburg. Read More »
The Holy Mountain (1926) Arnold Fanck, Leni Riefenstahl, Luis Trenker, Ernst Petersen
The dancer, Diotima, meets an engineer and skier, Karl, in his cottage in the mountains where they fall in love and have an affair. Read More »
A Tale of the Wind (1988) Joris Ivens, Henxiang Han, Zhuang Liu
This film travels through fantasy and reality as Joris Ivens goes to China to capture the wind. Read More »
The Wall (1991) Jürgen Böttcher
A documentary about the deconstruction of the Berlin Wall which makes no use of vocal commentary but instead focuses on visual elements. Read More »
The Fox of Paris (1957) Paul May, Martin Held, Marianne Koch, Hardy Krüger
One of the few WW2 films that indeed had something to tell. And probably it still has to tell something, as it concerns a subject that is not very well publicly known. Read More »
The Girl From Rio (1969) Jesús Franco, Shirley Eaton, Richard Wyler, George Sanders
Jeff Sutton arrives in Rio de Janeiro with a suitcase with 10 million dollars, and the powerful mobster Sir Masius sends his henchman Carl Read More »
The Doctor of Stalingrad AKA Der Arzt von Stalingrad (1958) Géza von Radványi, O.E. Hasse, Eva Bartok, Hannes Messemer
After Stalingrad battle battalions of German prisoners were taken to concentration camps. Read More »
Trunk to Cairo (1965) Menahem Golan, Audie Murphy, George Sanders, Marianne Koch
American Mike Merrick, posing as German Ludwig Baum, infiltrates the atomic laboratory of Professor Schlieben, who is attempting to create atomic missiles for the Egyptian army. Read More »
The Turin Horse (2011) Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky, János Derzsi, Erika Bók, Mihály Kormos
1889. German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche witnessed the whipping of a horse while traveling in Turin, Italy. Read More »
Delusions of Grandeur (1971) Gérard Oury, Louis de Funès, Yves Montand, Alice Sapritch
Don Salluste, a petty tyrant in his own home and minister of the King of Spain, falls from grace. Read More »
It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives (1971) Rosa von Praunheim, Berryt Bohlen, Bernd Feuerhelm, Ernst Kuchling
Daniel, a young man from the provinces come to the city and moves from one gay subculture to the next. Read More »
The Death Eye of Ceylon (1963) Gerd Oswald, Giovanni Roccardi, Lex Barker, Ann Smyrner, Magali Noël
Professor Ferlach and his daughter Helga undertake an expedition to Ceylon to look for a statue of Buddha with a priceless ruby set on its forehead. Read More »