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Peter Lilienthal – Dear Mr. Wonderful AKA Ruby’s Dream (1982)
Plot: Joe Pesci is a small man looking for a big break. Owner of a bowling alley and nightclub in Jersey, Ruby Dennis (Pesci) sets his sites on making it big in Vegas. But Ruby finds more than he...
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Dominik Graf – Bittere Unschuld AKA Bitter Innocence (1999)
Bittere Unschuld AKA Bitter InnocenceAndreas Brandt is the head of the research department in a pharmaceutical company. He earns enough to build a future with his wife Monica and his daughter Eva. But...
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Michael Armstrong & Adrian Hoven – Hexen bis aufs Blut gequält AKA Mark of...
Synopsis:Udo Kier is a witch hunter apprentice to Herbert Lom. He believes strongly in his mentor and the ways of the church but loses faith when he catches Lom committing a crime. Kier slowly begins...
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Peter Lilienthal – David (1979)
David is a 1979 West German film by director Peter Lilienthal. It tells the story of a rabbi’s son in Germany during the Holocaust, who tries to raise money to escape to Mandate Palestine. David...
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Mario Bonnard – Der goldene Abgrund (1927)
Plot:An eccentric millionaire brings together four men who, under different circumstances, wanted to commit suicide. The proposal made to them is the following: they will travel to an islet that,...
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Georg Jacoby – Der feldgraue Groschen AKA A Coin the Colour of Battle Field...
Promotional film for war loans and bonds. Mother Froehlich sells her clock and sends the money to her son fighting in war. Then they get attacked and someone else finds the lucky coin…...
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Peter Schamoni – Niki De Sant Phalle (1996)
In the sixties the painter and sculptor Niki de Saint Phalle started her career with shooting paintings, reliefs that were fired at with paint bags. She became famous and popular for her Nanas,...
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Werner Herzog – Die große Ekstase des Bildschnitzers Steiner AKA The Great...
Quote:This is not really a documentary about Steiner, the Swiss woodcarver and ski-flyer, nor the sport in general, nor the competition and breaking off the world record, but something more intense...
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Josef von Báky – Robinson soll nicht sterben AKA The Legend of Robinson...
London, in 1730. Charly, Jim and Ben work hard, with the brave Maud, in a cotton mill to earn a few shillings. They all dream of the wonderful island told by Daniel Defoe. The latter lives in a...
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Ulrich Seidl – Models (1999)
Quote:An insistent cataloguer of the innumerable manifestations of everyday insanity and the absurdity of “normal,” mundane existence, Ulrich Seidl blends the techniques of documentary and narrative…...
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Werner Herzog – Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit AKA Land of Silence...
Quote:Through examining Fini Straubinger, an old woman who has been deaf and blind since adolescence, and her work on behalf of other deaf and blind people, this film shows how the deaf and blind...
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Peter Nestler – Aufsätze AKA Essays (1963)
Quote:A cheerful take on the lives of school children in a Swiss rural environment. Young pupils recite short essays they have written on subjects ranging from the long walk to school, the...
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Frank Wisbar – Durchbruch Lok 234 (1963)
IMDB Says:Based on the real story of an East German machinist, disenchanted by the building of the Wall, who plans to use a train to cross the border with family members and other disaffected...
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Peter Fleischmann – Das Unheil AKA Havoc (1972)
Based on Martin Walser’s modern classic novel Das Unhell, this German film is much shorter than director Peter Fleischmann’s original six-hour version. The book was notable for its complexity,...
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Susanne Ofteringer – Nico Icon (1995)
A documentary about the model, actress and singer, Nico. She is probably best known for her association with Andy Warhol and the Velvet Underground – and for her heroin addiction. However, this film...
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Georg Wilhelm Pabst – Der Prozeß (1948)
Quote:In the tradition of Eötvös, to whom the film is dedicated as a “pioneer for truth and justice”, Pabst portrays the reality of Jewish life in hauntingly designed scenes and explains both...
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Frank Wisbar – Die Unbekannte AKA The Unknown (1936)
Here’s a film that’s very rare and had no commercial exposure after the war due to the sad fact that the last 8 minutes have only survived without any sound. The copy isn’t perfectly sharp and has a...
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Jesús Franco – Sie tötete in Ekstase AKA She Killed In Ecstasy [Uncut] (1971)
Synopsis:A young doctor kills himself after a medical committee terminates his research into human embryos, considering it too inhumane. His wife then seeks revenge on those who drove her husband to...
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Egon Günther – Wenn du groß bist, lieber Adam AKA When You’re Older, Dear...
Adam receives a flashlight with special powers: every liar it shines on flies into the air. Production was cancelled in 1965 due to the film’s political content. Only in 1989/90 could the director...
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Frank Beyer – Spur der Steine AKA Trace of Stones (1966)
Synopsis:‘Hannes Balla is the foreman of a group of building construction workers at the large construction site “Schkona” in the GDR. They spend most of their time working hard and drinking harder –...
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