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Orpheus

  Jean Cocteau’s update of the Orpheus myth depicts a famous poet (Jean Marais), scorned by the Left Bank youth, and his love for both his wife, Eurydice (Marie Déa), Read More

Antigone

  Writer-director Sophie Deraspe’s incisive liberal adaptation of the Greek tragedy by Sophocles is the daring story of one young woman’s commitment to her family, even if it means sacrificing Read More

The Empress

  Sixteen-year-old Bavarian Duchess, Elisabeth “Sisi” von Wittelsbach, falls in love with Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria, the intended fiancé of her older sister, Duchess Helene, and they marry. Arriving Read More

Metropolis

  This influential German science-fiction film presents a highly stylized futuristic city where a beautiful and cultured utopia exists above a bleak underworld populated by mistreated workers. When the privileged Read More

Undine

  Undine works as a historian lecturing on Berlin’s urban development. But when the man she loves leaves her, the ancient myth catches up with her. Undine has to kill Read More

Afire

  Emotions run high for a group of friends in a holiday home by the Baltic Sea as the parched forest around them catches fire.  A forest fire gives the Read More

The Little Witch

  With the help of her trusty raven, a little witch sets out to become the best witch in the forest but is quickly met with opposition.  The story of Read More

Quo Vadis, Baby?

  After receiving a package containing the video diaries of her sister who died tragically sixteen years previously, Georgia is compelled to re-investigate her sibling’s death. As the mystery deepens, Read More

Mostly Martha

  The head chef at swish Hamburg restaurant The Lido, Martha Klein’s (Martina Gedeck) perfectionism and obsession with good cooking leaves little free time for romantic entanglements. However, when her Read More

The Divine Order

  Switzerland, 1971: Nora is a young housewife and mother who lives with her husband, their two sons and her father-in-law in a little village. Here, in the Swiss countryside, Read More