Werner Herzog – Herakles (1962)
“Herakles” is a 1962 short film and the first film by the German director Werner Herzog, then 20 years old. The film relates to six of the twelve labors of Heracles. The film starts with shots of...
View ArticleHelmut Käutner – Unter den Brücken AKA Under the Bridges (1946) (HD)
Two barge skippers fall in love with the same woman. “Under the Bridges”, made in the last year of the Third Reich, proves that artistic genius can flourish even under the most difficult...
View ArticleFritz Lang – Der Tiger von Eschnapur AKA The Tiger of Eschnapur (1959)
Quote:In Eschnapur, a German architect saves the life of the Maharajah’s favorite temple dancer and becomes Maharajah’s friend but their friendship is tested when the architect and the dancer fall...
View ArticleWolf Gremm – Fabian (1980)
Quote:The destructive nature of a rising Nazi menace is the subtext in this drama about a young man in Germany in the late ’20s. While he enjoys a certain immunity from hard times because of a rich...
View ArticleHelmut Käutner – Wir machen Musik (1942)
Quote:Karl Zimmermann plays piano at the Café Rigoletto because he needs the money, but actually his whole passion is classical music, and work on his own opera is in progress. Then he meets the pop...
View ArticleWerner Herzog – Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle AKA The Enigma of Kaspar...
Quote:Herzog’s film is based upon the true and mysterious story of Kaspar Hauser, a young man who suddenly appeared in Nuremberg in 1828, barely able to talk or walk, and bearing a strange note; he...
View ArticleUlrike Koch – Die Salzmänner von Tibet aka The Saltmen of Tibet (1997)
For this Swiss-German documentary, filmmaker/Sinologist Ulrike Koch sneaked cameras into Tibet in order to film four men and 160 yak in a 2,000-year-old ritual — the annual spring pilgrimage to gather...
View ArticleChristian Petzold – Die innere Sicherheit AKA The State I Am In (2000)
Former left-wing terrorists Clara and Hans have been on the run for 20 years, and have raised a 15-year-old daughter, Jeanne, in hiding. The couple are planning to leave Europe permanently for Brazil,...
View ArticleWerner Herzog – Huie’s Predigt AKA Huie’s Sermon (1981)
Quote:The reverend Huie L. Rogers delivers an intense and impassioned sermon at his church in Brooklyn. 824MB | 41 min 48 s | 790×576 | mkv...
View ArticleWerner Herzog – How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck… (1976)
Quote:Herzog examines the world championships for cattle auctioneers, his fascination with a language created by an economic system, and compares it to the lifestyle of the Amish, who live nearby....
View ArticleWerner Herzog – Behinderte Zukunft AKA Handicapped Future (1971)
Quote:Handicapped Future is a 1971 documentary film by Werner Herzog about physically disabled children in Munich. The film was made at the request of a disabled friend of Herzog’s, specifically in...
View ArticleCorinna Belz – Peter Handke: Bin im Wald. Kann sein, dass ich mich verspäte…...
Explores the life and work of the Austrian novelist, playwright and political activist, Peter Handke. 1.91GB | 1h 29mn | 1920×1080 | mkv...
View ArticleRainer Werner Fassbinder – Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)
Quote:Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s controversial, fifteen-hour Berlin Alexanderplatz, based on Alfred Döblin’s great modernist novel, was the crowning achievement of a prolific director who, at age...
View ArticleDouglas Sirk – Das Hofkonzert AKA The Court Concert (1936)
From All Move Guide:Before he became cult director Douglas Sirk, Detlef Sierck cut his teeth on such lavish European star vehicles as Hofkonzert (Court Concert). Marta Eggerth is cast as Christine, a...
View ArticleRobert Siodmak & Edgar G. Ulmer & Billy Wilder – Menschen am Sonntag (1930)
Criterion wrote:Years before they became major players in Hollywood, a group of young German filmmakers—including eventual noir masters Robert Siodmak and Edgar G. Ulmer and future Oscar winners Billy...
View ArticleWerner Herzog – Die Große Ekstase des Bildschnitzers Steiner aka The Great...
Quote:Werner Herzog’s The Great Ecstacy of Woodcarver Steiner is a glimpse of a man who is quite amazing at his gift of ski-jumping- he’s the world record holder at the time of filming (and a record...
View ArticleRainer Werner Fassbinder – Martha (1974) (HD)
A single woman in her early thirties, Martha (Margit Carstensen) is on vacation with her father in Rome when he has a heart attack and falls down dead. She reacts rather indifferently and returns home...
View ArticleGéza von Bolváry – Ein Tango für Dich (1930)
This is Willi Forst’s second collaboration with director Géza von Bolvary, made shortly after the far better known “Zwei Herzen im Dreivierteltakt” (in which he didn’t have first billing, though)....
View ArticleKurt Maetzig – Ernst Thälmann – Führer seiner Klasse AKA Ernst Thälmann –...
The second part of the Ernst Thaelmann films encompasses the time period between 1930 and Thaelmann’s murder in 1944. It shows Thaelmann’s battle to achieve a united front with all German workers...
View ArticleKurt Maetzig – Ernst Thälmann – Sohn seiner Klasse AKA Ernst Thälmann – Son...
This historical-biographical film begins in the first days of November 1918 on the western front. News comes to the soldiers of a revolutionary uprising in Kiel. Young Thälmann, a soldier against his...
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