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Matthias Glasner – Der Freie Wille AKA The Free Will (2006)
AMG: Theo (Jürgen Vogel) has raped several women and is, after several years of committing acts of sexual violence, caught. He is committed to a psychiatric prison and, after 12 years in prison, he is...
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Werner Herzog – Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes AKA Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972)...
Quote: For much of the time, the location consisted of three differently-sized rafts slowly gliding down the head-waters of the mighty Amazon river: one for the action proper, a second to set up the...
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Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck – Das Leben der Anderen AKA The Lives of...
Quote: “I’m your audience,” Ulrich Mühe confesses to an actress in a bar somewhere in the middle of The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen), and he means it in two ways: one, he has seen her...
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Dennis Gansel – Die Welle aka The Wave (2008) (HD)
Quote: When Rainer Wegner, a popular high school teacher, finds himself relegated to teaching autocracy as part of the schools project week, hes less than enthusiastic. So are his students, who greet...
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Doris Dörrie – Kirschblüten – Hanami aka Cherry Blossoms (2008)
Quote: A beautiful tissue-paper piece of art that falls to shreds should you so much as blow upon it, Dorris Dörrie’s Cherry Blossoms is the kind of film that dares you to laugh at it. There are...
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Veit Helmer – Absurdistan (2008)
Quote: “No water, no sex.” Whereas the women in Aristophanes’ classic Greek comedy Lysistrata withheld sex from their men to end a war, the women in the village of Absurdistan concoct a similar plan...
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Various director / artists – Kunst im Exil AKA Arts in Exile (1962-1989)
Nine short stories that together amount to a play time of 3h20m. Presented here are nine short films that feature: film director Slatan Dudow; actor Martin Brandt; authors Erich Fried, Erich Weinert,...
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Baran bo Odar – Who Am I – Kein System ist sicher AKA Who Am I – No System Is...
Synopsis: The outsider Benjamin and the charismatic Max share one mutual interest: hacking. Together with Max‘s friends, they form the subversive hacker group CLAY. CLAY provokes with hilarious hacks...
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David Wnendt – Er ist wieder da (2015) (HD)
Quote: Adolf Hitler wakes up in present-day Berlin, with no memory of anything that happened after 1945, and interprets modern situations and things from a Nazi perspective. He is mistaken for a...
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Volker Schlöndorff – Die Blechtrommel AKA The Tin Drum [Director’s Cut] (1979)
Quote: “A country unable to mourn,” Volker Schlöndorff wrote in his journal as he adapted Günter Grass’ novel, The Tin Drum. “Germany, to this day, is the poisoned heart of Europe.” When the film...
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Rolf Schübel – Gloomy Sunday – Ein Lied von Liebe und Tod (1999)
Budapest in the thirties. The restaurant owner Laszlo hires the pianist András to play in his restaurant. Both men fall in love with the beautiful waitress Ilona who inspires András to his only...
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Arnold Fanck & Georg Wilhelm Pabst – Die Weiße Hölle vom Piz Palü AKA The...
Plot Synopsis While enjoying a romantic stay in a remote mountain cabin, Maria and Hans (Leni Riefenstahl and Ernst Petersen) discover a logbook revealing the tragic tale of Dr. Johannes Krafft...
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Wolfgang Becker – Good Bye Lenin! (2003)
Quote: If not as dense as Godard’s Masculin Féminin, Wolfgang Becker’s Good Bye, Lenin! is an equally playful look at the effects of American globalization abroad. Christiane Kerner (Katrin Saß) is a...
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Hans Weingartner – Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei aka The Edukators [+extras]...
The Edukators (German: Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei) is a German-Austrian film made by the Austrian director Hans Weingartner and released in 2004. Nominated for the Palme d’Or at the 2004 Cannes Film...
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Robert Reinert – Nerven aka Nerves (1919)
Quote: In Nerven, writer-director-producer Robert Reinert tried to capture the “nervous epidemic” caused by war and misery which “drives people mad”. This unique portrait of the life in 1919 Germany,...
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Klaus Wyborny – Die Geburt der Nation AKA The Birth of a Nation (1973)
Quote: Authentically ‘New’ German Cinema, and, simultaneously, an archaeology of narrative film itself, Wyborny’s avant-garde landmark defines cinema as a ‘nation’ that has perversely acquired rulers,...
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Klaus Wyborny – Bilder vom verlorenen Wort AKA Pictures of the Lost World...
Quote: For 50 minutes or so Pictures presents a series of static, or gently swaying images which are sometimes bucolic landscapes but more often industrial ones (sludgy harbours, power lines,...
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Angela Schanelec – Orly (2010)
Amidst the impersonal hubbub of Paris’ Orly Airport, strangers meet, secrets are revealed, and sudden intimacies develop in this beautifully observed mosaic of lives in transit. Quote: Loosely-linked...
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Henry Koster – Das häßliche Mädchen AKA The Ugly Girl (1933)
Quote: “Das hässliche Mädchen” (The ugly girl) of the title is young Lotte (Dolly Haas), who is hired as a secretary by an insurance company precisely for her supposed ugliness, as the director (Otto...
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Fontane Effi Briest (1974)
Quote: It’s a non-traditional black and white film based on the 1894 novel by Theodor Fontane. It’s for an audience that is more aware and welcomes something addressed to the intellect, rather than...
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