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Fritz Lang – Die 1000 Augen des Dr. Mabuse AKA The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse...
Quote:In 1960s Germany, criminal mastermind Dr. Mabuse uses hypnotized victims and the surveillance equipment of a Nazi-era bugged hotel to steal nuclear technology from a visiting American...
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Ramon Zürcher – Reinhardtstraße (2009)
“Janine and Nadine have a close and symbiotic friendship. They share a flat together with their friends Mark and Andreas. The flat share is a universe with its own rules, languages, manners and...
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Eduard Tisse – Frauennot – Frauenglück AKA Women’s Misery – Women’s Happiness...
Quote:First feature produced in Switzerland. Film deals with abortion, in two parts: first, fictional part addresses the social aspects; second, documentary part addresses the dangers of clandestine...
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Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub – Klassenverhältnisse AKA Class Relations...
The Lincoln Center wrote:Straub and Huillet were frequently drawn to unfinished texts—Hölderlin’s The Death of Empedocles, Schoenberg’s Moses and Aaron—and for Class Relations, one of their supreme...
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Harun Farocki – Jean-Marie Straub und Daniéle Huillet bei der Arbeit an einem...
Quote:Harun Farocki films Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at work during the shooting of Klassenverhältnisse (Class Relations), a film based on Kafka’s unfinished novel, Amerika, in which...
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Manfred Blank – Wie will ich lustig lachen: Danièle Huillet und Jean-Marie...
Filmmaker Manfred Blank (director of the excellent Pharos of Chaos) interviews Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub at some length about their then-current production, Klassenverhältnisse (Class...
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Robert Wiene – Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari AKA The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari...
Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recently went through. It is the annual fair in Holstenwall. Francis and his friend Alan visit The Cabinet...
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Oskar Fischinger – Studie Nr. 6 AKA Study No. 6 (1930)
Quote. The first Studies were synchronized with records (Fischinger made a total of 13 Studies all without sound). It was only with the introduction of sound, beginning with Study No 6 that the films...
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Oskar Fischinger – Studie Nr. 7 AKA Study No. 7 (1931)
Quote:Animated to the lively accompaniment of Brahms’ Hungarian Dance No. 5, and created using thousands of handmade black & white charcoal drawings, Fischinger’s delightfully dynamic short film...
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Pia Hellenthal – Searching Eva (2019)
SynopsisThis is the tale of a young woman, growing up in the age of the internet and turning the search for oneself into a public spectacle, allowing kids from all over the world to live their life...
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Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi – Uomini, anni, vita aka Menschen,...
Synopsis:Uomini, anni, vita (People, Years, Life) is an allegorical film about the subservience of the people of the Caucasus (both Christian and Muslim alike) in general and Armenians in particular...
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Ulrike Ottinger – Dorian Gray im Spiegel der Boulevardpresse AKA The Image of...
Quote:From the panoramic, historical revue of the many faces of social prejudice and ostracism, Ottinger turns her attention to the mechanism of exclusion invested with the necessary power to make or...
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Hellmuth Costard – Besonders wertvoll (1968)
Pornography in the service of politics. An outrageous provocation, this attack on reactionary German legislation discriminating against young film directors, features head-on, close-up shots of a...
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Harun Farocki – Einschlafgeschichten (Eisenbahn) AKA Bedtime stories...
One of the five episodes of Bedtime stories for children by Harun Farocki Quote: The five Einschlafgeschichten are bed-time stories for children, made 1976/77, in which Farocki uses simple objects to...
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Thomas Brasch – Engel aus Eisen AKA Angels of Iron (1981) (DVD)
Berlin, 1948/1949. The town is divided into two sectors. The world is close to World War III. West Berlin is kept alive by the biggest airlift in history. While the city is deadlocked, three teenagers...
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Andres Veiel – Black Box BRD (2001)
Quote:This documentary by German filmmaker Andres Veiel takes a look back at German politics of the ’70s and ’80s, a troubled era when the government was engaged in a war against the leftist movement...
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Jesús Franco – Downtown – Die nackten Puppen der Unterwelt AKA Downtown...
Synopsis:Somewhere in sunny Puerto Rico: private detective Al Pereira has seen far better days in his professional life. He would need more jobs, because his cash is almost empty. One day he meets the...
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Martin Hellberg – Thomas Müntzer [+Extras] (1956)
Thuringia, 1525: The south of Germany experienced one of the few great popular movements in German history – the Peasants’ War. This opulent historical film describes the fate of the priest Thomas...
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Curtis Bernhardt – Die letzte Kompagnie AKA The Last Company (1930)
13 German soldiers have to fight off a French regiment. 707MB | 1 h 9 min | 705×564 | mkv...
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Robert Reinert – Opium (1919)
Quote:English doctor Professor Gesellius is in China researching the effects of opium. He frees a young woman named Sin from a den of inequity run by Nung Chiang. When he sails for home with the girl,...
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