Hedy Lamarr, Aribert Mog, Zvonimir Rogoz. Lamarr bares all in a story about a child bride's unquenchable sexual appetite that erupts when she leaves a loveless marriage to have a fufilling and... more
Bruno Ganz, Otto Sander, Peter Falk. This beautiful film sees Berlin through the eyes of angels—one of whom falls deeply in love with a female circus performer. Features cameos by Peter Falk and Nick... more
An idealistic middle school teacher who advocates for a student accused of stealing becomes embroiled in conflict when she becomes the target of a theft herself.
Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Otto Wernicke. A criminal mastermind controls his underworld empire while residing in an asylum, plotting ways of destroying the world. In German with English subtitles. Includes... more
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Elga Sorbas. In such a short amount of time, Fassbinder worked his way up to be one of the most productive artists. This collection is a mixture of his works. Includes Love... more
In it's home country, Frantisek Vlacil's MARKETA LAZAROVA has been hailed as the greatest Czech film ever made; for many U.S. viewers, it will be a revelation. Based on a novel by Vladislav Vancura,... more
As World War II splits Europe, sixteen-year-old German Jew Salomon (Marco Hofschneider) is separated from his family after fleeing with them to Poland, and finds himself reluctantly assuming various... more
Rüdiger Vogler pulls triple duty in this trio of "road" film classics from director Wim Wenders. In Wenders' first "road" film, Alice in the Cities (Yella Rottländer. 1974/110 min.), a journalist on... more
David Bennent, Mario Adorf. This Oscar-winning new-wave film tells the story of a three-year-old boy who stops growing the year Nazis gain power in Germany and takes out his anger by beating a drum.... more
New German Cinema icon Rainer Werner Fassbinder (World on a Wire) kicked off a new phase of his young career when he made the startling The Merchant of Four Seasons. In this despairing yet mordantly... more
Based on the Rainer Werner Fassbinder classic, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, François Ozon's unique retelling finds Peter Von Kant, a successful, famous director, who lives with his assistant... more
Klaus Maria Brandauer, Armin Muller-Stahl, Gudrun Landgrebe. A soldier-turned-officer in turn-of-the-century Czechoslovakia finds his long and respected career threatened by scandal. In Hungarian... more
Margit Carstensen, Irm Hermann, Hanna Schygulla. Petra is an arrogant fashion designer who mistreats her assistant and then falls in love with an aspiring young model Karin. Karin moves in with Petra... more
An anarchistic, loutish poet (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) gives booze-soaked and bitter voice to his disdain for polite society as he goes on a destructive jag through the countryside, wrecking the... more
Mathieu Carriére. A passionate young man speaks out against the violent hazing that goes on at his turn-of-the-century Austrian boarding school, only to face the ire of the administration and his... more
Margarethe von Trotta, Matthias Habich. Amid the Soviet Civil War, a young woman rebuffed by the Prussian officer she loves takes solace in the arms of other men—and by aiding the revolutionaries. In... more
Peter Andorai, Ildikó Bánsági. Towards the end of WWII, two Hungarian resistance fighters must pose as husband and wife to avoid detection and begin to fall in love. In Hungarian with English... more
Dorothea Wieck, Emilia Unda, Hedy Krilla, Hertha Thiele. In this historic film for queer cinema, an introverted girl falls for her sympathetic teacher at a very strict boarding school. Directed by... more
Box set includes the Sissi trilogy, along with Romy Schneider's first film, Victoria in Dover, a precursor to the Sissi films, in which Schneider plays Britain s Princess Victoria.*
Paul Horbiger, Magda Schneider, Luise Ullrich. An upper-class man and a middle-class woman fall madly in love in 19th century Vienna. But the man's past affair with a beautiful baroness intrudes on... more
This evocative and haunting drama, set in rubble-strewn Berlin in 1945, is like no other film about post-World War II Jewish-German identity. After surviving Auschwitz, a former cabaret singer (Nina... more
Marlene Dietrich, Emil Jannings. Deitrich is at her seductive best as the nightclub singer Lola-Lola who destroys a repressed schoolteacher. The movie marked the beginning of the legendary... more
In early-'30s Berlin, disillusioned and dissolute WWI vet Jakob Fabian (Tom Schilling) worked a tedious advertising job by day and wandered the clubs at night. The ray of hope he receives through his... more
Nadja Tiller, Peter Van Eyck, Nicole Badal, Amedeo Nazarri, Hannah Wieder. A brilliant piece of filmmaking about a group of mental misfits in a way-out-of-this-world sanatorium. Tiller is an... more