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Aimee & Jaguar
$23.95 | 125 minutes
In 1943, as World War II's Battle of Berlin rages, with air raids forcing families into their cellars for shelter and bombs exploding all over the city, Felice Schragenheim (Juliane Köhler) and Lilly Wust (Maria Schrader), fall in love. Director Max Färberböck's AIMEE & JAGUAR tells the true story of this passionate, forbidden love…
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
$34.95 | 93 minutes
A deceivingly simple film about the uncomfortable romantic relationship between a 60-year-old German cleaning woman named Emmi and a 40-year-old Moroccan immigrant named Ali, ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL is one of director R.W. Fassbinder's most powerful pictures. Brought together by a jeering barmaid, Emmi and Ali are surprised to find that&hellip…
Berlin Alexanderplatz
$107.95 | 941 minutes
An ex-convict, when released into the day's cruel and indifferent society slowly loses his mind. Set in Berlin in the 1920's and based on Alfred Doblin's epic novel&hellip…
Bonhoeffer
$21.95 | 90 minutes
One of the few clear voices of resistance to Hitler in 1930s Germany was also a rare dissenter from the tacit collaborators of the era's Christian churches: theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, whose efforts are chronicled in this film from director Martin Doblmeier. A pacifist, author, and leader of the Confessing Church, Bonhoeffer wrote&hellip…
Burden of Dreams
$34.95 | 95 minutes
An extraordinary journey into the mind and passions of director Werner Herzog during the filming of "Fitzcarraldo." Director Les Blank, with Maureen Gosling, has successfully captured on film the events and emotions surrounding the making of an exceptional motion picture. … &hellip
Circle of Deceit
$23.95 | 108 minutes
Volker Schlondorff's CIRCLE OF DECEIT eloquently captures the chaos of war through the eyes of German journalist Georg (Bruno Ganz). As his marriage quickly degrades, Georg decides to escape to war-torn Beirut, where he hopes to document the country's civil war in an essay for his newspaper. Along with his photographer friend Hoffman&hellip…
Diary of a Lost Girl
$23.95 | 116 minutes
The final collaboration, following PANDORA'S BOX, between G.W. Pabst and Louise Brooks, the American silent film star whose look defined the Jazz Age, DIARY OF A LOST GIRL is a similarly lurid tale of a young woman's life. Brooks stars as Thymiane, a young girl life whose life collapses when she is raped and made pregnant by her father's&hellip…
Eleven Eleven - DOWNLOAD
$7.99 | 20 minutes
Sometimes love plays better in reverse... Anna and Otto, the narcissistic lovers in 11:11, glide around a gravity free universe erasing their collective past with every step they take. Anna's pregnancy is a turning point in their relationship. When Otto exploits Anna's experience and turns it into parody, Anna takes her revenge&hellip…
Free Radicals
$23.95 | 120 minutes
A car crash causes the random intersection of various lives in this Austrian film by Barbara Albert. Manu (Kathrin Resetarits) survives a plane crash only to die eight years later on impact with a carload of teenagers. She leaves behind a spooky little daughter Yvonne (Deborah Ten Brink), a grieving husband (Georg Friedrich) who was having&hellip…
Funny Games
$23.95 | 104 minutes
A powerfully graphic film (even though no violence is ever shown on the screen itself) about an Austrian family who goes on a country vacation and become the victims of two cold-blooded psychopaths who are out to torture them with their "funny games." Haneke's point, that fictional violence is as real as the real world's, is presented&hellip…