Peter Kern
Iconoclastic Austrian indie director and former New German Cinema actor Peter Kern isn't just the subject of Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala's "Kern," but also the low-fi film's strongest creative force. He appeared in more than 70 feature films and directed a further 25. At... Read full bio →
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Terror 2000 - Intensivstation Deutschland
Germany, right after the re-unification. The people are out of control, blind hatred towards immigrants is common sense. In this time, a social-worker, with the mission to bring a Polish family to their destination (an immigration camp in a little provincial town called Rassau), gets kidnapped just as the family. Chief inspector Koern and his gi...
Malina
An unusual story of a triangular relationship in Vienna. A woman shares an apartment with a man named Malina. The woman meets Ivan and falls under his spell. It will be her last great passion. Her feelings are so strong and all-encompassing that Ivan can neither understand nor return them.
Johanna D'Arc of Mongolia
A group of cosmopolitan women passengers aboard the Trans-Siberian/Mongolian Railway are taken prisoner by Ulan Iga, a warrior princess.
Die Jungfrauenmaschine
A German woman travels to San Francisco to find her mother, but winds up distracted by the sexually flamboyant culture of the city.
Neues vom Räuber Hotzenplotz
The clever Hotzenplotz has managed to escape from the village prison and is holding his grandmother for a ransom of five hundred and fifty marks. Will they be able to free the grandmother again and arrest the rascal?
Despair
In early-1930s Berlin, an elegant Russian émigré and eccentric chocolatier convinces himself that he has seen his doppelgänger, and hatches a murderous plan to trade his existence for an entirely new one. Will he get over the deep despair?
Hitler - ein Film aus Deutschland
Hitler's rise and Nazism are depicted in a theatrical, experimental style, using actors, puppets, and projections to explore his historical role and enduring myth in German culture.
Gruppenbild mit Dame
The story follows the life of a regular German women Leni Gruyten during 1930ies and 1940ies. Through her interactions with friends, family and other people she knows, the regular folks' perception of the Nazi era is shown. (IMDb)
Mutter Küsters' Fahrt zum Himmel
After her husband kills his boss and himself, Mother Kusters becomes drawn into the activities of the German Communist party and then a group of anarchists.
Faustrecht der Freiheit
A suggestible working-class innocent wins the lottery but lets himself be taken advantage of by his bourgeois new boyfriend and his circle of materialistic friends.
Falsche Bewegung
Six days in the life of Wilhelm: a detached man without qualities. He wants to write, so his mother gives him a ticket to Bonn, telling him to live. On the train he meets an older man, an athlete in the 1936 Olympics, and his mute teen companion, Mignon. She's an acrobat in market squares for spare change.
La Paloma
Nightclub singer La Paloma succumbs to the persistent courting of a chubby, rich admirer and marries him. Before the marriage, she was thought to be dying, but soon she is well. She believes her husband's love has cured her, but her efforts to love him begin to fade as she discovers true love with her husband's old school friend.
Welt am Draht
Cybernetics engineer Fred Stiller uncovers a massive corporate conspiracy involving a virtual reality computer project.