Klaus Lowitsch, Barbara Valentin. With dashes of Stanley Kubrick, Kurt Vonnegut, and Philip K. Dick, as well as a flavor entirely his own, Rainer Werner Fassbinder tells the noir-spiked tale of a... more
Peter Lorre, Otto Wernicke. Lorre made his powerful screen debut as a child murderer hunted by the authorities and the underworld. Bonus features include audio commentary by German film scholars... 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
Julian West, Maurice Schultz, Rena Mandel. Carl Theodor Dreyer's stunning camera work and unsettling imagery are at masterful work here in this classic horror flick. Relive the adventures of a... 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
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
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
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
The astonishing The Bridge, by Bernhard Wicki (The Longest Day), was the first major antiwar film to come out of Germany after World War II, as well as the nation's first postwar film to be widely... more
PEOPLE ON SUNDAY (MENSCHEN AM SONNTAG) represents an astonishing confluence of talent an early collaboration by a group of German filmmakers who would all go on to become major Hollywood players,... more
A gripping thriller and a tragic drama of nearly Greek proportions, Revanche is the stunning, Oscar-nominated international breakthrough of Austrian filmmaker Götz Spielmann. In a ragged section of... 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
Max Hubacher, Frederick Lau, Milan Peschel. A German Army deserter tries to escape the madness of the Third Reich during the final days of WWII. When he finds an abandoned uniform of a Nazi captain,... 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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