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Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes
Klaus Kinski stars as the mad Aguirre who sets out with his daughter and a band of Pizarro's conquistadores down the Amazon in search of El Dorado.
Angst essen Seele auf
An older washerwoman falls in love with and marries a much younger Arab immigrant who works as a mechanic. First rejected by their neighbors and coworkers, they later seem to be accepted, but their relationship is tested by social pressures and illness. A moving romance, a perverse social comedy, and a biting drama.
Auf der anderen Seite
Six characters are drawn together by circumstances--an old man and a prostitute forging a partnership, a young scholar reconciling his past, two young women falling in love, and a mother putting the shattered pieces of her life back together.
Das Boot
Follows the daring patrol of the U-96, one of the famed German U-boats known as the "gray wolves." The crew is graphically portrayed in a life-and-death struggle, challenging the British Navy at every turn.
Der freie wille
After nine years in psychiatric detention Theo, who has brutally assaulted and raped three women, is released. Living in a supervised community, he connects well with his social worker Sascha, finds a job at a print shop and even a girlfriend, Nettie, his principal's brittle and estranged daughter. But even though superficially everything seems to work out Theo's seething rage remains ready to erupt.
Die Ehe der Maria Braun
Packaged as part of The BRD Trilogy. This movie follows the life of a young German woman, married to a soldier in the waning days of WWII. Fassbinder has tried to show the gritty life after the end of WWII and the turmoil of the people trapped in its wake.
Die Fälscher
Germany, 1936. Salomon "Sally" Sorowitsch is the king of counterfeiters. He lives a life of cards, booze, and women. Suddenly his luck runs dry when he is arrested by Superintendent Friedrich Herzog. He is immediately thrown into the Mauthausen concentration camp. There, Salomon exhibits exceptional skills and is soon transferred to the upgraded camp of Sachsenhausen. Upon his arrival, he once again comes face to face with Herzog, who is there on a secret mission. Hand-picked for his unique skill, Salomon and a group of professionals are forced to produce fake foreign currency under the program Operation Berhard. The team, which also includes detainee Adolf Burger, is given luxury barracks for their assistance. Salomon attempts to weaken the economy of Germany's opponents. But, Adolf refuses to use his skills for Nazi profit and would like to do something to stop the operation. Now faced with a moral dilemma, Salomon must decide whether his actions are ultimately the right ones.
Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss
Part fairy tale, part melodrama, part horror film, German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder's hypnotic Veronika Voss tells the story of a former movie star with questionable ties to the Nazi regime, whose addiction to morphine has drawn her into the hands of a controlling psychiatrist.
Die Zauberflöte
Following the death of Pamina's father, her mother, the Queen of the Night, has lost her powers. Her dying husband passed the sevenfold circle of the sun on to Sarastro, High Priest of the 'Temple of Wisdom'. However, she refuses to submit to the leadership of Sarastro and his followers and is determined to regain her power.
Die Zauberflöte
The internationally renowned Mozart interpreter Sir Colin Davis conducts the chorus and orchestra of the Royal Opera House in David McVicar's production of Mozart's last opera recorded live at Covent Garden with Simon Keenleyside and Dorthea Rochmman.
Faust
Classic tale of a man who sells his soul to the devil, based on Goethe's Faust and folk sagas.
Good bye Lenin!
Alex's proud, socialist mother falls into a coma for eight months. When she wakes, her heart is weak, so Alex has to keep the secret that the Berlin Wall has fallen and capitalism has triumphed. What begins as a little white lie turns into a major scam.
Kebab connection
A young Turkish hip-hopper dreams of making the first German kung-fu film, and he hones his craft by making an extremely successful commercial for his uncle's kebab stand. When his second commercial is a flop, his German girfirend tells him she is pregnant, and his parents kick him out of the house, he gives in to the temptations of the rival Greek restaurant owner across the street and agrees to make a commercial for his uncle's worst enemy. Based loosely on Shakespear's Romeo and Juliet.
Lola
Packaged as part of The BRD Trilogy. Lola is a cabaret singer and prostitute in a booming German city of the late 1950's. She becomes romantically involved with a straight-laced commissioner, who works to fight the shady capitalism and rampant corruption of the building industry.
Lola rennt
A thrilling post-MTV, roller-coaster ride about two star-crossed lovers who have only minutes to change the course of their lives. Time is running out: Lola has just received a frantic call from her boyfriend Manni, who's accidentally lost a small fortune he was to deliver to his mobster boss. If they cannot find a way to replace the money within twenty minutes, Manni will surely suffer severe consequences.
M
A psychopathic murderer of young girls terrorizes a German city causing public hysteria and intense police investigations, which in turn disrupts organized crime. The contrasting worlds of the police and the underworld are juxtaposed as they both resolve to hunt, capture, and try the murderer.
Oberst Redl
"In the early part of the 20th century, Alfred Redl ruthlessly rises from his peasant background to become a high-ranking member of the Imperial Austrian military. But when Redl is sent to spy on the Russian Empire, his espionage is compromised by his secret double life as a homosexual. As the world perches on the brink of war, Redl finds himself trapped in a web of deception where honor, grandeur and greed can only be betrayed by one final shocking act of fate."--Container
Rem Koolhaas
"Rarely has an architect caused as much sensation outside of the architecture community as Rem Koolhaas. His outstanding creations such as the Dutch Embassy in Berlin, the Seattle Library, the Casa da Musica concert hall in Porto, and the Guggenheim Heritage Museum in Las Vegas are working examples of the Dutchman's visionary theories about architecture and urban society ... an engaging portrait of a visionary man which takes us to the heart of his ideas."-- Container
Sophie Scholl
The true story of Germany's anti-Nazi heroine, Sophie Scholl, the activist of the underground student resistance group, The White Rose. The last six days of Sophie Scholl's life is dramatized, from arrest to interrogation, trial, and sentence in 1943 Munich.
Stalingrad
This film features the bloodiest battle in the history of warfare - the legendary battle of Stalingrad.
Stroszek
Bruno Stroszek can't keep from getting into trouble. Just released from his latest stay in jail, he takes up with Eva the streetwalker and gets beaten up. They emigrate to America where all his possessions are confiscated.
Tanzträume
In 2008, world-famous dancer and choreographer Pina Bausch selected forty teenagers who had never heard her name to be part of her dance piece Contact Zone. For ten months through opening night, the young dancers discover Bausch's genius and their own bodies.
The Blue angel
One of the early sound masterpieces of German cinema, this film made Marlene Dietrich an international star and helped assure director Joseph von Sternberg a place in cinematic history. The story is a gripping portrait of a middle-aged professor who is degraded by his obsession with a tawdry cafe entertainer.
Triumph des Willens
A pictorial record of the sixth Nazi congress at Nuremberg, and a controversial propaganda film on Nazi Germany. Shows troops of Hitler youth at play, ranks of laborers, parades of storm troopers, close-ups of Hitler, etc., creating a mystical, primitive union between the dictator and his followers and exalting Nazi unity in Germany. Major policy speeches by Goebbels, Goering, Streicher, Himmler and Hess.
Vampyr
A young traveler finds a remote castle, and starts seeing mysterious things, only to find that his own nightmares are coming true.
Wings of desire
Based on poems by Rainer Maria Rilke
Angst essen Seele auf
An older washerwoman falls in love with and marries a much younger Arab immigrant who works as a mechanic. First rejected by their neighbors and coworkers, they later seem to be accepted, but their relationship is tested by social pressures and illness. A moving romance, a perverse social comedy, and a biting drama.
Confessions of Felix Krull
Felix Krull, an opportunist, full of charm, and a "goodly amount of larceny in his soul," is at the helm of every adventure from imperial Germany at the turn of the century to a Paris hotel, and an eccentric Professor Cuckoo's household in Lisbon.
Das Fahrrad
In an attempt to receive insturance money, an unskilled worker who lives alone with her child claims that her bicycle has been stolen.
Das schreckliche Mädchen
Sonja, "The Nasty Girl," undertakes a school project to investigate her town's past. In this provocative comedy, she discovers many secrets -- secrets the town wants left that way.
Das versprechen
The story of two lovers trapped on opposite sides of the Berlin Wall after one successfully escapes to the West.
Das Zaubermännchen
The lazy miller spent all his money on wine and has nothing left to pay his taxes. So he lies to the tax-collector that his daughter can spin straw into gold. For three nights, she is locked in the castle tower and ordered to spin straw into gold. A little elf performs the task for her, and on the last night requests her firstborn child as payment. She marries the King and in one year the elf returns for payment. The elf does not want the baby raised by those who value gold above all else. The miller's hard working assistant saves the day.
Love story set during and after the Nazi era. Explores the private lives of a young bride and her Nazi soldier husband, and her parents, by-standers who tolerated Hitler. While not excusing the actions of its protagonists, it uses them to show how easily the unthinkable can happen.
Die blechtrommel
A boy resolves to stop growing at the age of three, the same year the Nazis come to power.
Die Brücke
As World War II approaches its end, eight sixteen-year-old German schoolboys are drafted into the army to defend a bridge to their town. Betrayed and urged on by unenlightened leaders, they come to believe that this small and meaningless bridge is worth any risk to their lives.
Effi Briest
Effi Briest is a radiant beauty, a vivacious blend of naivete and intelligence, forthrightness and willful self interest. She is married when very young to a much older Prussian diplomat and carried away to a remote Baltic port where she drifts into a brief, passionless affair with a local womanizer. The full effects are felt only later, in a chilling manifestation of the Prussian legal code.
Europa Europa
The true story of a Jewish teenager who survived World War II by living as a Nazi for 7 years.
Fokus Deutsch
Geschäftskontakte
Jenseits der Stille
Since the earliest days in her childhood, Lara has had a difficult but important task. Both her parents are deaf-mute, and Lara has to translate from sign-language to the spoken word and vice versa when her parents want to communicate with other people. Getting older and more mature, she becomes interested in music and starts to play the clarinet very successfully. Since her parents are deaf, they cannot share Lara's musical career. The day comes when Lara has to decide between her parents and her own ambitions.
Kleider machen Leute
A penniless tailor who dreams of riches, refinement and true love takes a journey dressed above his station, and is mistaken for a Polish aristocrat. After a bitter confrontation with the hard truth, his fantasies do however come to pass.
Streifzüge durch die deutsche Kulturgeschichte
The Wannsee Conference
Depicts the conference at Wannsee in Berlin January 2, 1942, attended by Nazi leaders to determine the fate of the Jewish people.
Triumph des Willens
A pictorial record of the sixth Nazi congress at Nuremberg, and a controversial propaganda film on Nazi Germany. Shows troops of Hitler youth at play, ranks of laborers, parades of storm troopers, close-ups of Hitler, etc., creating a mystical, primitive union between the dictator and his followers and exalting Nazi unity in Germany. Major policy speeches by Goebbels, Goering, Streicher, Himmler and Hess.
Vergesst Mozart
Mozart lies dead, and his friends and enemies are gathered around his deathbed. The Chief of the secret police is present, and Mozart's brief life is reviewed in a dramatic hearing. Mozart was an interesting man, but difficult to get along with. He offended his friends, but offered little resistance to his enemies. Everyone in the room had a motive and an opportunity to kill Mozart. Despite the police chief's interrogation, however, his death remains a mystery.
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