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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…
Black Market: Slamdance Short Film Compilation
$15.00 | 123 minutes
Slamdance continues to permeate the international film stage with their 9th short film compilation DVD, with an emphasis on Germand and Spanish films…
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
$9.95 | 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…
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…
