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Solino

  In the sixties Romano Amato, his wife Rosa and their two sons Giancarlo and Gigi emigrate from Solino in Italy to Duisburg in the Ruhr area and establish the Read More

The Edukators

  Berlin student Jule is hoplessly indebted due to an accident she caused, uninsuredly hitting a rich businessman’s limousine. Evicted from her flat she moves in with her boyfrend Peter Read More

Fisimatenten

  Edward, a young painter, lives in the idyll of an old country inn. He loves art and Hanna, his model. Sponsored by the gallerist Poser, a discerning, witty man Read More

Gloomy Sunday

  Budapest in the thirties. The restaurant owner Laszlo hires the pianist András to play at his restaurant. Both men fall in love with the beautiful waitress Ilona who inspires Read More

The Lives of Others

  Gerd Wiesler is an officer with the Stasi, the East German secret police. The film begins in 1984 when Wiesler attends a play written by Georg Dreyman, who is Read More

Lisbon Story

  Movie director Friedrich Monroe has trouble finishing a silent black and white film about Lisbon. He calls his friend, Phillip Winter, a sound engineer, for help. When Winter arrives Read More

Nowhere in Africa

  Sensing the threat posed by Hitler, Jewish lawyer Walter Redlich (Merab Ninidze) relocates with his wife, Jettel (Juliane Köhler), and daughter, Regina (Lea Kurka), to a farm in Kenya. Read More

Run Lola Run

  In this visually and conceptually impressive film, two-bit Berlin criminal Manni (Moritz Bleibtreu) delivers some smuggled loot for his boss, Ronnie (Heino Ferch), but accidentally leaves the 100,000 mark Read More

Germany, Pale Mother

  Helma Sanders-Brahms’ Germany, Pale Mother is an emotionally powerful love story that has become a modern classic.  Germany 1939: Hans and Lene marry the day before the war breaks Read More

Rosenstrasse

  In the present day, a widow, Ruth, mourns the death of her husband. She covers up the TV set and all the mirrors in the house.  Her grown children Read More