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
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
A hauntingly beautiful tale from German filmmaker Wim Wenders, depicting a black-and-white Berlin as seen through the eyes of angels who pass unnoticed to follow the people they're assigned to watch.... 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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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