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
Renate Muller, Hermann Thimig. In this electric musical romance, an aspiring young actress who can't find meaningful work teams up with a down-on-his-luck thespian and dresses in drag to find success... more
Includes: Immensee (1943)For Elisabeth (Kristina Söderbaum), the end of her relationship with gifted composer Reinhart (Carl Raddatz) would eventually lead her to a less-than-romantic marriage to the... more
Seeing no point in going on but lacking the nerve for suicide, put-upon Hans Herfort (Heinz Rühmann) hired a thug to do away with him when he least expected it. Not long after, however, love entered... more
Claus Holm, Mario Adorf. A Nazi soldier turned police detective pursues the serial killer he believes is responsible for the murders of dozens of women over the course of the Third Reich. The... more
Sybilie Schmitz, Hans Nielsen, Kirsten Heiberg. One of the first feature films about the infamous tragedy of the H.M.S. Titanic, lost in the frigid waters of the North Atlantic on her maiden voyage... more
A young farmer (Kurt Fischer-Fehling) looking for domestic help chooses a willful single mother (Hansi Knoteck), but their mutual attraction isn't lost on his angry fiancée (Ellen Frank), in Douglas... 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
An opportunistic German stage actor makes a tragic mistake when he endeavors to use his relationship with the Nazi party to gain national fame. In Hungarian with English subtitles. Written and... 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
Made under the auspices of Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels to mark the 25th anniversary of Germany's UFA studio, this lavish, effects-filled fantasy stars Hans Albers as the baron whose... more
The game is afoot when two unemployed sleuths dress themselves up as Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary detective and Dr. Watson in order to gain some publicity. When the pair stumbles upon an actual... more
Though living in a squalid Berlin boardinghouse, salesman Peter (Aribert Mog) and his fiancée Hella (Brigitte Horney) were happy with one another. However, when he gets an opportunity in Dresden-and... more
Respected airman Elissen (Hans Albers) finagled agreement from aviation heiress Claire Lennartz (Sybille Schmitz) to execute the visionary design of his engineer buddy Droste (Paul Hartmann) for an... more
Helmut Wildt, Robert Neidhardt, Ingmar Zeisberg, Hans Cossy. In this hard-boiled, Cold War noir, conflict bubbles close to the surface between a small German town and a US military base as the... more
Georg Wilhelm Pabst's masterfully rendered, hard-to-find biopic of the revolutionary 16th-century Swiss physician and philosopher-crafted under the Third Reich's wary auspices-casts Werner Krauss in... more
In a bizarre blending of art and politics, the 1912 Titanic disaster was turned by German filmmakers-working under the watchful eye of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels-into a drama filled... more
Young salesman Peter Frank (Heinz Rühmann) couldn't believe his luck when he stood to inherit his late uncle's prosperous champagne vineyard lock, stock, and barrel. Unfortunately, the will came with... more
In the red light district of St. Pauli, retired, musically inclined sailor Hannes (Hans Albers)entertained in the streets and clubs, looking to help support his late brother's willful girlfriend... more
Hans Albers, Brigitte Helm, Michael Bohnen. A brilliant German scientist must make a deal with a shady, domineering businessman in order to fund his controversial experiment to turn common lead into... more
In a blighted, 28th-century Austrian metropolis, cartoonist Spy (Susana Helmayr) found her print shop a smoldering casualty courtesy of pyromaniac performance artist Volley (co-director Ursula... more