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Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2006
Language
Deutsch
Description
Pool shark and hustler Jaeckie Zucker is up to his ears in debt. In a stroke of luck, his mother dies and leaves an inheritance. Before he can cash in, his mother has requested the difficult task of reconciling with his estranged Orthodox brother Samuel.
Publisher
Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
Multiple
Description
Based on poems by Rainer Maria Rilke.
A romantic fantasy about an angel who wishes he were mortal and is willing to fall from the sky if it means a chance to fall in love. Set in modern day Berlin, the film follows angel Damiel's path from heavenly flight to earthly delight in a manner that's comical, touching and entertaining.
4) M
Publisher
Home Vision Cinema
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
Deutsch
Description
Suspense based on the exploits of the Dusseldorf child-murderer. Lorre stars as a psychopathic murderer who is hunted by both the police and the criminal underworld.
Publisher
Kino Lorber Edu
Pub. Date
1930.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Emil Jannings (The Last Laugh, Faust, Othello), the quintessential German expressionist actor, stars as Professor Rath, the sexually-repressed instructor of a boys' prep school. After learning of the pupils' infatuation with French postcards depicting a local nightclub songstress, he decides to personally investigate the source of such indecency. But as soon as he enters the shadowy Blue Angel nightclub and steals one glimpse of the smoldering Lola-Lola...
6) Fata Morgana
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
1971.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Footage shot in and around the Sahara Desert, accompanied only by a spoken creation myth and the songs of Leonard Cohen.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Deutsch
Description
An affecting and bittersweet glimpse into the shared connections of a motley group of nightshift workers at a big box store, including the reclusive newbie Christian (Franz Rogowski) and the charming but mysterious Marion (Sandra Hüller). Official Selection at the **Berlin International Film Festival** and **BFI London Film Festival**.
Publisher
Flicker Alley
Pub. Date
1963.
Language
English
Description
FLYING CLIPPER, directed by Hermann Leitner and featuring narration from Burl Ives, follows the untold adventures of a Swedish sailing ship and its young crew as they navigate the Mediterranean Sea in the early 1960s. This documentary is a stunning travelogue that takes you to the dreamiest destinations of the old world. Under the stewardship of Captain Skoglund, a group of 20 Merchant Marine cadets venture through historical landmarks, such as Tutankhamen's...
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Filmmaker Rüdiger Stein wants to produce his first meaningful documentary. By chance, he meets Klaus and Manuela, two young teenagers who grew up in difficult social circumstances. They are expecting a child and plan to move in together. It’s a perfect, socially important topic for Rüdiger’s first film. But Manuela changes her mind and the project threatens to fall apart. Rüdiger feels obliged to intervene so he can save his film, but it seems...
10) Birdstrike
Publisher
Filmakademie Baden-Wurttemberg
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
If an airplane encounters birds, the birds are normally on the losing end. But what if the airplane is smaller than the bird?
11) Bagdad Cafe
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A lonely German woman ends up in the most desolate motel on Earth and decides to make it brighter.
12) Wallflower Tango
Publisher
Filmakademie Baden-Wurttemberg
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Kalle, a thief who is just about to steel a valuable diamond is caught by the lonely Charlotte. Kalle tries to escape with his haul but Charlotte is not willing to let him go...
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Deutsch
Description
The year is 1826. Ludwig van Beethoven (Tobias Moretti) faces the final stanza of his storied career. Deaf and defiant, he recalls memories of his youth, when as an eight-year-old prodigy he comes under the tutelage of the Bonn court organist, Christian Gottlob Neefe. Years later after an encounter with Mozart, the young “Louis” begins to study under Joseph Haydn in Vienna, but family tragedies and unfulfilled love leave a lasting mark that haunts...
14) Cobra Verde
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Portuguese
Description
The feared bandit COBRA VERDE (Klaus Kinski) is hired by a plantation owner to supervise his slaves. After the owner suspects Cobra Verde of consorting with his young daughters, the owner wishes him gone. Rather than kill him,the owner sends Cobra Verde to Africa. The only white man in the area, Cobra Verde finds himself the victim of torture and humiliation. Later, he trains soldiers in a rebel army. Far from home, Cobra Verde is on the edge of madness....
15) A6/A9
Publisher
Filmakademie Baden-Wurttemberg
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Concrete reptiles are chasing you and it's 100 metres until the last exit...
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1983.
Language
Deutsch
Description
After Dammbeck’s original film project Herakles (Hercules) was rejected by the East German DEFA Studios in 1983-84, the artist was still fascinated by the Hercules story. He started experimenting with different media combinations, including overpainting, photography, film clips, collage, painting and movement. These experiments resulted in groundbreaking multi-media collaborations and in the film THE CAVE OF HERCULES, in which Dammbeck explores...
17) REALFilm
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
Deutsch
Description
This multimedia collage, which includes performances by pantomime artist and dancer Fine Kwiatkowski, painter and filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck and musician Robert Linke, is a reflection on the medium of film and its elements: sound, light and movement. Dammbeck’s goal is to cleanse these elements of ideology and then commerce and compose a new film out of them. The process is played out in the space in real time. Recorded in Leipzig on May 14, 1986,...
Publisher
Michael Blackwood Productions
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The distinguished German writer Uwe Johnson (1934-1984) lived for several years in the 1960s on Manhattan’s Upper Westside. His publisher, Harcourt Brace, had hired him as a textbook editor for their German-language school book editions, which allowed him to stay in New York and also tend to his own writing. In his spare time he got to know his neighborhood very well, observing the goings on in the streets, cafeterias, and parks. In 1968 German...
19) Children’s Home
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Deutsch
Description
A film about children and teenagers living in an East German CHILDREN'S HOME in Mentin, Mecklenburg in the late 1970s. They talk openly about their past experiences, how they affected their lives and why they ended up in the home, describing unstable home situations, domestic violence and their parents’ alcohol abuse. But these young people also share their hopes for the future. This documentary was produced as an opening film for Roland Gräf’s...
20) Three Peaks
Publisher
Greenwich Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Fatherhood, suspicion and resentment are a combustible formula in this elegant, unnerving domestic thriller. Aaron (Alexander Fehling) has found the woman of his life in his girlfriend Lea (Bérénice Bejo) but her young son Tristan still imagines his mother reconciling with his father. On what should be an idyllic vacation in the soaring Italian Dolomites, Aaron fights to win over Tristan and cement his place in this family, while Lea wrestles with...
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