Sophie Scholl: The Final Days

$23.95 | 117 minutes

German Film of the Year, Audience Award
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role, Gold
Outstanding Feature Film, Silver
Best Cinematography, Gold(Nominee)
Best Screenplay, Gold(Nominee)
Outstanding Feature Film, Gold(Nominee)

Julia Jentsch (THE EDUKATORS) stars as Sophie Scholl in this retelling of&hellip…

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The Ninth Day

$23.95 | 93 minutes

Best Production Design
Best Director(Nominee) – Volker Schlöndorff
Best Editing(Nominee) – Peter R. Adam
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role(Nominee) – Ulrich Matthes
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading&hellip…

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The Story of the Weeping Camel

$24.95 | 87 minutes

Gold Award-Best Documentary Film(Nominee)

Effortlessly blending drama, nature documentary, and ethnographic film, THE STORY OF THE WEEPING CAMEL weaves a magical tale about a nomadic Mongolian family who reunite a rejected baby camel with its mother. When a mother camel refuses to sustain her child, the keepers of the camels often&hellip…

Andy Goldsworthy - Rivers and Tides: Working With Time

$21.95 | 90 minutes

Gold Award-Outstanding Cinematography
Gold Award-Best Documentary

In RIVERS AND TIDES, German documentarian Thomas Riedelshiemer attempts to capture the essence of Scottish artist Andy Goldsworthy, who uses natural materials to create site-specific pieces which he then leaves to be carried away--or destroyed altogether--by&hellip…

Nowhere in Africa

$26.95 | 140 minutes

Outstanding Actress(Nominee) – Juliane Köhler
Outstanding Supporting Actor – Matthias Habich
Outstanding Score – Niki Reiser
Outstanding Direction – Caroline Link
Outstanding Cinematography&hellip…

In the Mood for Love

$34.95 | 98 minutes

Best Foreign Film

IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE centers around Chow Mo-Wan (Tony Leung) and Su Li-Zhen (Maggie Cheung), neighbors living in a crowded apartment building in 1962 Hong Kong. Both married to people who are always away, they spend many nights home alone. The two make each other's acquaintance and soon find that they have a&hellip…

In July

$17.95 | 96 minutes

Film Award in Gold, Outstanding Individual Achievement - Actor

Daniel (Moritz Bleibtreu, DAS EXPERIMENT, RUN LOLA RUN) is a shy and lovelorn science teacher in Hamburg, Germany. Juli (Christiane Paul) is a dread-locked, free-spirited Hamburg street vendor. They cross paths when Juli sells Daniel a sun-inscribed ring and tells&hellip…

All About My Mother

$16.95 | 101 minutes

Best Foreign Film

Spanish director Pedro Almodvar's tender, intelligent drama follows the emotional journey of Manuela, an organ transplant coordinator who scours the back alleys and gutters of Barcelona in search of her errant ex-husband (a half-transsexual prostitute named Lola), saddled with the devastating news that their&hellip…

The Legend of Rita

$23.95 | 101 minutes

Outstanding Supporting Actress(Nominee)

West Germany; the early 1990s. A terrorist gang bursts into a bank. "Hi guys, we're the robbers," says Rita Vogt (Bibiana Beglau), "We're nationalizing the economy." As they flee, Rita stops to give money to a street-person. These are not your average bank robbers. In THE LEGEND OF RITA&hellip…

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Tuvalu

$21.95 | 86 minutes

Film Award in Gold(Nominee)

A small town indoor pool and the limitless mind of one of the pool employees make the setting for this stunning comedic fantasy. The pool is where local residents go to escape the daily grind and enter a fantastical dream world. Adrift in these daydreams, the Anton (Denis Lavant) finds Eva (Chulpan&hellip…

Aimee & Jaguar

$23.95 | 125 minutes

Gold Film Award, Outstanding Feature Film(Nominee)
Gold Film Award, Outstanding Individual Achievement

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)&hellip…

Heart of Glass

$15.95 | 94 minutes

Film Award in Gold, Outstanding Individual Achievement Cinematography

In director Werner Herzog's most conceptual and perhaps most challenging film, HEART OF GLASS, a small Bavarian town is plunged into a mysterious and haunted despair when the owner of the town's preindustrial glass factory dies, failing to pass on the secret&hellip…

Lea

$23.95 | 96 minutes

Film Award in Gold, Outstanding Feature Film(Nominee)

This powerful romance proves that true love can emerge from the most unlikely of places. Lea (Lenka Vlasakova) is a mute 21-year-old who is still affected by a major childhood trauma, while Herbert (Christian Redl) is a sad 51-year-old who continues to mourn the death of his&hellip…

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Katzelmacher

$17.95 | 88 minutes

Special Film Award(Nominee)

Rainer Werner Fassbinder directs and stars in this movie as Jorgos, a Greek man who has emigrated to a small German town for work. However, when he arrives, he soon finds that the locals resent him not only for being a foreigner, but for being a communist as well. As Jorgos tries to ingratiate himself&hellip…

Colonel Redl

$25.95 | 142 minutes

Film Award in Gold, Outstanding Feature Film
Film Award in Gold, Outstanding Individual Achievement, Actor

At an Austrian military academy, Alfred Redl (Klaus Maria Brandauer), a Catholic with Jewish roots, forms a friendship with aristocrat Kristof von Kubinyi (Jan Niklas) and his sister, Katalin (Gudrun Landgrebe). She falls&hellip…

Circle of Deceit

$23.95 | 108 minutes

Outstanding Actor

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&hellip…

Fitzcarraldo

$15.95 | 157 minutes

Film Award in Silver, Outstanding Feature Film

Director Werner Herzog returns to the exotic locales and obsessive themes of previous works in his Amazon masterpiece, FITZCARRALDO. Klaus Kinski gives a terrifying and determined portrayal of mad genius Fitzcarraldo, whose twin goals of making a fortune off the Amazon rubber trade&hellip…

The Tin Drum

$34.95 | 142 minutes

Outstanding Feature Film

Novelist Günter Grass assisted in this brilliant film adaptation of his groundbreaking novel, which depicts the significant events in German history since the turn of the century as seen through the eyes of a bizarre child. In this allegorical film, a three-year-old boy observes the hypocrisy of the adult&hellip…

Le Coup De Grace

$25.95 | 98 minutes

Outstanding Direction
Outstanding Cinematography

Set in Russia in 1919, shortly after the fall of the Czar, this allegorical love story tells the tale of an affair against the backdrop of a civil war. Magarethe von Trotta stars as a young woman who becomes involved with a sexually repressed Prussian soldier. When the soldier&hellip…

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The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

$15.95 | 109 minutes

Film Award in Gold, Outstanding Individual Achievement in Editing
Film Award in Silver, Shaping of a Feature Film

Director Werner Herzog (AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD; FITZCARRALDO) approaches the true story of famous wild child Kaspar Hauser as a metaphor, continuing his cinematic investigations into human consciousness and&hellip…

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

$34.95 | 93 minutes

Best Actress

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&hellip…

The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant

$16.95 | minutes

Outstanding Cinematography
Outstanding Actress

THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT is a scathing chamber piece that could have only sprung from the mind of German cinema's enfant terrible, Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Based on a play by the maniacally prolific writer-director, the film is a hyper-contained tale of obsession and&hellip…

The Merchant of Four Seasons

$21.95 | 0 minutes

Shaping of a Feature Film
Outstanding Actress
Outstanding Actor

Famed German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder typically portrays aspects of the human struggle using an unwavering style that is often difficult to watch but provides a refreshingly raw and honest narrative perspective. MERCHANT OF FOUR SEASONS is an engaging&hellip…

Whity

$15.95 | 95 minutes

Outstanding Production Design(Nominee)
Outstanding Actress(Nominee)

Long unavailable to American audiences, director R.W. Fassbinder's fifth feature about an illegitimate mulatto son of a rich white man who acts as butler to his father's dysfunctional family in the American southwest. As time passes he becomes more than just&hellip…

Love is Colder Than Death

$17.95 | 85 minutes

Outstanding Cinematography
Outstanding Actress

THIS TITLE IS ON MORATORIUM AND IS CURRENTLY NOT AVAILABLE. Rainer Werner Fassbinder directs and stars in this, his first film, as Franz, a pimp who has refused to join a local crime syndicate. When a representative from the syndicate named Bruno comes to persuade Franz into&hellip…

Gods of the Plague

$17.95 | 88 minutes

Outstanding Cinematography
Outstanding Actress

This early, unconventional Fassbinder melodrama centers on Munich's directionless, grim youth culture, including a flashy nightclub singer who allows herself to be seduced by a handsome cop, then sells out her former boyfriend - a petty crook - to him&hellip&hellip…

Signs of Life

$23.95 | 95 minutes

Film Award in Silver, Outstanding Feature Film

Werner Herzog made his directing debut with this meditation on war and madness. During World War II, three German soldiers--one of them wounded--take refuge on a small Greek island that remains relatively untouched by the fighting. The boredom of their isolated post and meaningless&hellip…

Young Torless

$25.95 | 87 minutes

Outstanding Screenplay
Outstanding Direction
Outstanding Feature Film

Toerless (Matthieu Carriere) attends school at an early 20th Century Austrian military boarding school. He is distracted from the school's attempts to educate and train the young boys by the brutality of a few select students. As the school bullies terrorize&hellip…

Murderers Are Among Us

$21.95 | 81 minutes

Baden-Baden Days of Teleplay

This landmark German film examines an entire nation's attempts at atonement for the atrocities carried out prior to and during the Second World War. Amid the rubble of Berlin a young doctor lives a tortured existence. He suffers from hallucinations due to the time he spent in a death camp, witnessing&hellip…