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A Woman in Flames

  Eva, an upper-class housewife, frustratedly leaves her arrogant husband and decides to enter the call girl business. She lets Yvonne, a prostitute, teach her the basics and both set Read More

The Joyless Street

  Vienna in the biggest depression, directly after WW1. In a slum, Lila Leid, the wife of lawyer Leid is murdered, Egon, secretary of one of Leid’s clients is arrested. Read More

Virgin Machine

  Dorothee, a would-be writer and journalist, leaves Germany for the Oz of San Francisco, searching for her long-lost mother and a cure for the malady of love. Installed in Read More

Heart of Glass

  The setting is an 18th-century Bavarian town with a glassblowing factory that produces a brilliant ruby glass. When the master glass blower dies, the secret of producing it is Read More

Jacob the Liar

  Based on the lauded novel by Jurek Becker, this dark comedy focuses on Jakob Heym (Vlastimil Brodský), a Jew living in a Polish ghetto. When Jakob is temporarily detained Read More

Journey of Hope

  The movie tells of a family that leaves its secure life in a hill village of Turkey, and travels by rail, ship, car, truck, and finally on foot toward Read More

Marianne & Juliane

  Sisters Marianne (Barbara Sukowa) and Juliane (Jutta Lampe) are as similar, and as different, as can be. Marianne is a journalist who believes the only way to enact meaningful Read More

Suck Me Shakespeer

  A comedy that follows an ex-con who lands a position at a school that sits over the spot where money from one of his earlier robberies was stashed. Bank Read More

Triumph of the Will

  A legendary propaganda/documentary of the Third Reich’s 1934 Nuremberg Party Rally. Featuring a cast of thousands as well as, of course, Hitler, Himmler, Goebbels, Hess, Goering and other top Read More

Olympia

  Made by Riefenstahl to document the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, this film was the first Olympics documentary ever made. Often viewed as propaganda, much like Triumph of the Will, Read More