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 »
Tag Archives: Germany
Bluebeard (1972) Edward Dmytryk, Richard Burton, Raquel Welch, Virna Lisi, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Baron von Sepper is an Austrian aristocrat noted for his blue-toned beard, and his appetite for beautiful wives. Read More »
The Treasure of San Teresa / Hot Money Girl (1959) Alvin Rakoff, Eddie Constantine, Dawn Addams, Marius Goring, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
After World War II, an ex-spy returns to Germany to search for a cache of jewels he hid in a Czechoslovakian convent. 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 »
Hexen geschändet und zu Tode gequält / Mark of the Devil II (1973) Adrian Hoven, Erika Blanc, Anton Diffring, Percy Hoven, Drama, History, Horror, Thriller
A tribunal interrogates, tortures and murders “witches” and “heretics” during the Inquisition. Read More »
The Man You Loved to Hate (1979) Patrick Montgomery, Edward Binns, Paul Kohner, Marcel Dalio, Documentary
Erich von Stroheim was an director of silent movies, as well as an actor in both silents and talkies. 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 »
Der Student von Prag / The Student of Prague (1926) Henrik Galeen, Conrad Veidt, Elizza La Porta, Fritz Alberti, Drama, Horror
For Balduin, going out to beer parties with his fellow students and fighting out disputes at the tip of the sword have lost their charms. Read More »
Bloodline (1979) Terence Young, Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara, James Mason, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Sam Roffe, president of a multi-national pharmaceutical corporation, is killed while mountain-climbing. Read More »
Atentat u Sarajevu / The Day That Shook the World (1975) Veljko Bulajic, Christopher Plummer, Florinda Bolkan, Maximilian Schell, Drama, History
Historical depiction of the events preceding the political murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, would-be emperor of the Austro-Hungarian throne, in Sarajevo, June 28, 1914. Read More »