Inspired by West German terrorists, two pupils hijack a teacher in the GDR.//”Andreas Dresen is one of the most successful contemporary German filmmakers whose career began as the Berlin Wall…

An illegal Polish worker on a building site falls from the scaffolding in the Ruhr region. Everyone wants to hush up the accident except the well-educated trainee.

As a swingin’ fashion photographer by day and a groovy British superagent by night, Austin Powers is the ’60s’ most shagadelic spy, baby! But can he stop megalomaniac Dr. Evil…

Behind the glitz and glamour of Tinseltown exists a harsh reality. Lolita (Hilary Swank) is a streetwalker hustling for business on Hollywood Blvd. Julie (Meta Golding) is a waitress coping…

There is jealousy brewing in the toy chest. A new toy has taken all of the little boy’s attention. When Pino the Toy decides to run away the others become…

On the run after murdering a man, accountant William Blake encounters a strange North American man named Nobody who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.

Wolfgang (13) lives on the street. One night, by chance, he finds the head of a statue for which a large reward is being offered. To collect the reward, he…

Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also responsible for drawing him…

Lugubrious Finns Valto and Reino take to the road in search of coffee and vodka, without which their lives are not worth living. But their reveries are interrupted by the…

The Search for Hank Williams Sr. A documentary featuring Willie Nelson, Townes van Zandt, Bill Monroe, M.C Jarrett narrated by Dave Alvin.

Low budget horror film from Germany.

DEFA documentary.

Postwar Germany, 1945. Leopold Kessler, an American of German descent, works as a sleeping car conductor for the Zentropa railway line. When he meets Katharina Hartmann, the railroad owner’s daughter,…

Barrage and Bunker is an essay film about the (narrative) space imagined by fiction films. Reflections and associations about movement in space are the basis of every kind of story-telling….

Frank, a tenth grade student, falls in love with his classmate Regine. His father is a well-connected plant manager in the GDR; Regine’s mother is a single parent with four…

Comic artist Brösel trades a magic pen that helps him come up with funny stories for the promise to fulfill one of Rumpelstiltskin’s wishes. The resulting animated films show episodes…

A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a…

Although too long by half, this documentary is subtitled “A Trip Through Lotti’s Life” and that is essentially what it is. Although done in a style that keeps you guessing…

In ruined Berlin, several bands of abandoned children roam the streets, engaging in petty crimes. When a circus arrives nearby, the boys are charmed by one Trapeze performer called Corona.

After the war, infinite numbers of refugees leave in search of a new home. They now stand in the hall of a large mansion, waiting to receive their deeds of…

German training film from World War II. Sharpshooter: Master of Camouflage and Deception.

Die Feuerzangenbowle from Director Helmut Weiss is based on the novel by the same name from Heinrich Spoerl and Hans Reimann that has turned into a cult German film. The…

Chronicles combat action of Hitler’s elite bodyguard regiment from 1940 to 1941. From Rotterdam to Greece, German frontline cameramen captured footage of early victorious campaigns. Scenes of camp life and…

Nazi documentary about the Jews being filthy, evil, corrupt, and intent on world domination. Street scenes are shown, along with clips from Jewish cinema of the day and photos of…

Rudi, who’s been quite the ladies’ man, finally wants to settle down and marry Hilde. So as to not get into a touchy situation with all his many women, he…

The feisty boss of a chain of cafes wants to push the youngest of her daughters off on a husband, who would be well-suited to take over the business one…

This is essentially a “Kraft durch Freude” propaganda film though the organization is never mentioned. A company’s three day outing might very well be the last because bankruptcy is just…

Comedy about the love life of the Russian emperor.

This Nazi propaganda film attempts to justify and extols the “benefits” of euthanasia.

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France in the 15th Century: The country is marked by the wars with England and internal power struggles. King Charles sees himself powerless against the state. As emerges from the…

This powerful anti-war film statement focuses on the plight of a German unit in World War I that finds itself surrounded by British and French forces.

After a detective is assaulted by thugs and placed in an asylum run by Professor Baum, he observes the professor’s preoccupation with another patient, the criminal genius Dr. Mabuse the…

A woman staying at a health spa (Lillian Harvey, goes to the theater every night to see “Quick” a comic performer, who wears clown make-up. She meets him off stage,…