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Soldiers of Salamina

  When the professor and writer Lola Sánchez is assigned to write a column in the newspaper about the Spanish Civil War, she researches and finds for the first time Read More

Bitter Rice

  Francesca and Walter are two-bit criminals in Northern Italy, and, in an effort to avoid the police, Francesca joins a group of women rice workers. She meets the voluptuous Read More

Go Trabi Go

  Udo Struutz (Wolfgang Stumph), a teacher in the East German town of Bitterfeld, Saxony-Anhalt, is a great fan of Goethe and wants to visit all the places described in Read More

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

Sarahsarà

  A handicapped Sudanese girl (Kim Engelbrecht) becomes a champion swimmer with the help of a burnt-out sportswriter (Giulio Brogi). The film, inspired by the true story of Sarah Gadalla Read More