Mikaël is an artist who rises as his teacher, the aging Zoret, falls. Zoret gives Mikaël his start, and their relationship is sexual as well. Read More »
Tag Archives: Germany
Un divan à New York / A Couch in New York (1996) Chantal Akerman, Juliette Binoche, William Hurt, Stephanie Buttle, Comedy, Romance
Dr. Henry Harriston is a successful psychoanalyst in New York City. When he is near a nervous breakdown, he arranges to change his flat with Beatrice Saulnier from France for a while. Read More »
Vampyr (1932) Carl Theodor Dreyer, Julian West, Maurice Schutz, Rena Mandel, Fantasy, Horror
Allan Gray arrives late in the evening to a secluded riverside inn in the hamlet of Courtempierre. An old man enters his room, puts a sealed parcel on the table, blurts out that some woman mustn’t die, and disappears. Read More »
Utz (1992) George Sluizer, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Brenda Fricker, Peter Riegert, Drama
Fisher, a fine art dealer, goes to Prague after the death of a friend, the Baron von Utz, to see if he can obtain some of the pieces of the Baron’s priceless Meissen porcelain collection. Read More »
The Tiger of Eschnapur / Der Tiger Von Eschnapur (1959) Fritz Lang, Debra Paget, Paul Hubschmid, Walther Reyer, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller
An architect travels to the remote city of Eschnapur to oversee some work being done at the bequest of the local Maharajah. Read More »
The Corrupt Ones (1967) James Hill, Robert Stack, Elke Sommer, Nancy Kwan, Adventure, Crime, Drama
Cliff Wilder, a free-lance photographer on assignment in mainland China, is surprised taking unauthorized photographs and narrowly escapes capture. Read More »
Nordrand (1999) Barbara Albert, Nina Proll, Edita Malovcic, Astrit Alihajdaraj, Drama
Vienna, 1995. Jasmin, Tamara, Valentin, Senad and Roman live near the northern border of Austria. Their lives repeatedly intersect and drift apart. Read More »
Raus aus der Haut / Changing Skins (1997) Andreas Dresen, Susanne Bormann, Fabian Busch, Otto Mellies, Comedy, Drama
Anna and Marcus are in the same class and there are just some weeks left before they get their leaving certification and with it the permission to study. Read More »
Marija (2016) Michael Koch, Margarita Breitkreiz, Georg Friedrich, Sahin Eryilmaz, Drama
Marija, a young Ukranian woman, earns a living as a cleaning woman in a hotel in Dortmund, but dreams of having her own hairstyling salon, and puts away some money each month. Read More »
Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920) Robert Wiene, Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Feher, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recently went through. Read More »