Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Peter Chatel, Karlheinz Bohm. A gay working-class man in '70s West Germany wins the lottery, but quickly finds that high society life is not all its cracked up to be. As he... more
Three-disc set includes: The Seventh Continent (1989)An unsettling drama from German director Michael Haneke, detailing three years in the life of a seemingly normal, middle-class family. As time... 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
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
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
The wildly prolific German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder (WORLD ON a WIRE) paid homage to his cinematic hero Douglas Sirk with this update of that filmmaker's 1955 ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS. a... 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
Rainer Werner Fassbinder's fifteen-hour Berlin Alexanderplatz, based on Alfred Doblin's great modernist novel, was the crowning achievement of a prolific director who, at age thirty-four, had already... 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
In 1977, German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder was thirty-two years old and had already directed more than twenty-five feature films. That summer, he embarked on a project to trace the postwar... 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
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
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
Crafted for German public television, this rediscovered, lyrical social drama miniseries from Rainer Werner Fassbinder flavorfully follows the life of a young tool factory laborer (Gottfried John) as... more
Alexander Granach, Fritz Kampers, Ernst Busch. German and French workers put aside national grudges to save French miners who become trapped in a mine on the border after a freak accident. Includes... 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
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
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
Five disc Blu-ray set. Follow the charming 19th-century exploits of Elisabeth of Bavaria, aka Sissi (Romy Schneider), in this beloved trilogy of Austrian historical romances. First, "Sissi" (1955)... 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
When a young woman spends the night with an alleged terrorist, her quiet, ordered life falls into ruins. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum portrays an anxious era in West Germany amid a crumbling... 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