Classics

DEADLOCK hints at what German film could have become without all the state subsidized funding of navel-gazing and art for art's sake.

A group of disillusioned young Parisians look for satisfaction in political activism, religion, romance, music, and drugs.

This totally crazy cult musical about 80s boy-band mania from Japan teams up stars from the music and manga scene.

An intense trip into the gay bondage and leather scene: We meet contestants, bondage film actors, uniform fetishists and long-term slaves.

In Luc Besson's directorial debut, a nameless hero must face off against Jean Reno as a villain in a post-apocalyptic world.

A trio of marriage swindlers played by Romy Schneider, Michel Piccoli and Mascha Gonska, roam post-war France cheating and murdering.

After completing MAELSTRÖM, Denis Villeneuve (Dune, THE 32nd AUGUST ON EARTH) retired for nearly a decade.

Semi-documentary feature film about "Kaiser" Franz Beckenbauer.

Romantic drama with Romy Schneider, Klaus Kinski and Jacques Dutronc, directed by Andrzej Żuławski.

To convince an investor to build a factory in their remote village in northern Canada, the villagers first have to find a company doctor.

This Oscar-nominated drama about a reinterpretation of the Passion of Christ shines in new splendor after being restored and digitized.

Jean-Claude Lauzon's feature debut is a gritty crime thriller which won a record 13 Genie Awards in every single category where it was nominated.

Green Party icon Petra Kelly is shot in her sleep by her partner Gert Bastian, an ex-Federal Armed Forces general, before he kills himself.

In Denis Villeneuve's feature film debut, a young model narrowly escapes death and endeavors to give her life new meaning by becoming a mother.

Six more or less ordinary lives in Montréal, connected by a Greek immigrant cab driver named Cosmos - with Denis Villeneuve.

Joanna Crane lives a double life. During the day she works as fashion designer but during the night she is the high class sex worker China Blue.

A wild story set in 18th century Prussia: by chance, dare devil Alexander arrives at the court of Augustus the Strong.

While the GDR government tries to collectivize agriculture, the appearance of mysterious gentlemen in West German cars triggers wild speculation.

Werner Herzog explores the myth surrounding Carlo Gesualdo, a 16th-century nobleman, murderer and composer who was musically far ahead of his time. Carlo ...

Neue Deutsche Welle music film starring Nena and Markus, Karl Dall in no less than five supporting roles and a soundtrack by Extrabreit and Morgenrot.

An eye-opening experience about deep engrained behaviour we barley are aware of in our every day life.

After an insurance fraud, Jimmy flees to Cambodia, where his partner and mentor Marvin has also gone into hiding - and still owes him his share.

A brutal sex crime reveals the monstrous nature of humans, while a police officer must preserve his humanity.

Törless is a pupil in a secluded boarding school. He is a loner who resents the cruelty of his fellow pupils.

Cult director Sam Peckinpah (The Wild Bunch, Steiner) created a swan song to a dying genre with his debut. Starring Brian Keith and Maureen O'Hara.

With a budget of 1.2 million marks, Roland Emmerich's graduation film holds the record for the most expensive German student film of all time.

The Wehrmacht massacre at Oradour in 1944, filmed with Philppe Noiret and Romy Schneider in 1975. Hated by the German critics, loved by the French.

1968: During the vacations, university students occupy a vacant apartment and discuss the Marxist ideas of Mao Zedong and their revolutionary ideas.

In Paris in May 1968, this documentary examines the social upheavals of the time and compares them to the anti-globalization movement of today.

Eight space cargo-ships disappear without a trace within three days. And the orbit station "Margot" has suddenly fallen silent.

April 1945: Gregor Hecker, 19 years of age, reaches the outskirts of Berlin as part of the Red Army's scouting team.

Bad planning and shortages prevail on an East German construction site. Foreman Hannes Balla uses unconventional methods to overcome the problems.

Tour guide Hurtig has to take over a Black Sea trip head over heels. In addition to a lack of foreign language skills, there is also Sybille.

A man who loses a very personal part of his body to cancer, decides that he wants it back in this weird black comedy.

Alfred and Lisa, called Al and Li, a young couple from Prenzlauer Berg, have decided to part ways. Their small room fells like a prison to Al.

Set during the rise of the Nazi regime, Elisabeth Maurer and Hans Wieland enjoy successful careers as actors in Berlin.

Based on the novella "Der Russenpelz" by Friedrich Wolf, Roland Gräf's feature film was made by the artistic working group "Roter Kreis".

Otto Scheidel, captain of the last coal-powered paddle steamer Jenissei on the Elbe, is facing a turning point in his life.

The wrenching story of a woman sentenced in 1934 to ten years in prison for antifascist activities.

Karl Erp is a middle-aged man whoes bored in his marriage. After starting an affair with his intern, he moves in with his lover.

Roland Gräf's film P.S. paints a critical counter-image to the workers' and peasants' state of the GDR, which earned him massive criticism.

During the Napoleanic Wars, members of the Prussian Lützow Free Corps steal a French war chest from the house of collaborator Kerstinn, but their captain ...

1964 DEFA, East German Film by Konrad Wolf based on the novel by Christa Wolf. Tale of star-crossed lovers divided by worldviews in a divided Berlin.

The story of the steel melter Martin Hoff, whose factory delegates him to a drama school, corresponds to the real life of the actor Manfred Krug.

Five men of an NVA flying squadron are at the center of interest in this DEFA classic about love, tragedy and saying goodbye. Commander Milan has reached ...

The story about the singer Sunny, co-directed by Konrad Wolf and Wolfgang Kohlhaase, is considered one of the most important contemporary DEFA films.

A touching documentary about the everyday life of Zurich's forgotten youth.

During the French Revolution, in the village of Travers ensconced in neutral Switzerland, Prussian aesthete Herman Beyer is on the verge of divorcing wife ...

Christoph Schlingensief's interpretation of German reunification resembles a cannibalistic slaughter house.

After meeting the woman on the train Erwin Retzmann kills her in the forest.

A party secretary in a village in Mecklenburg is said to be clairvoyant.

Murder in the artist's boarding house: the artist Jan Gruyter is dead, Captain Brückner leads the investigation and all residents are suspects.

Toto is a orphan from humble beginnings. In a Milan slum, he meets the unemployed and marginalized people of all kinds.

The world we have just entered resembles a futurist machine. It is a colossus of concrete and glass, with a computer heart heart deep inside.

Ken Russell, Oscar winner and at the same time one of the most controversial British directors of the 70/80s follows Godfrey Reggio's 'Koyaanisqatsi' with ...

The testimonies of former Wehrmacht soldiers collected by Ruth Beckermann are still horrifying today.

A stroll through the bizarre tapestry of what was once West Berlin - a city riddled with empty lots and free space and surrounded by a wall.

Karin Jurschick examins the reasons for her late mother's suicide.

ZOE perfectly encapsulated the lives of drifters in Berlin at the turn of the millennium.

Acclaimed Austrian documentary director Ruth Beckermann portrays a dying culture of Viennese urban history.

A film about the historical uprising of the seamen in Kiel: During the Russian October Revolution of 1917, German and Russian soldiers start to solidarize ...

The filmmaker René Perraudin made five comedic short films with Otto Sander in the leading role and combines them into feature film story.

Beckermann's subjects offer a dramatic range of candid opinions about Arab-Jewish relations, immigration, the intifada, religion, and the economy.

A journey through Austrian filmmaker Ruth Beckermann's own family's history and at the same time, the story of Central Europe's Jews and of a region.

Franz West (1909-85) remembers his youth in Vienna: the diverse Jewish population the Red Vienna labor movement and the rise of Austrofascism.

This captivating film shows the less-knon sides of the Elisabeth, Empress of Austria, aka Empress Sissi on her travels to Egypt in 1885 and 1891.

Winter 1968. Historian Dr. Dallow is released from prison. He is still trying to cope with and understand why he was put behind bars for 21 months.

In a small town, everyone has tried to forget what happened shortly after WWII.

Shamans of the Blind Country is an epic 2-part documentary on faith healing in a remote region of North West Nepal.

Shamans of the Blind Country is an epic 2-part documentary on faith healing in a remote region of North West Nepal.

The entertainer Ralf Keul has to cultivate his property, otherwise it will be given away. He throws himself, inexperienced but courageous, into the new ...

Screen adaptation of Eichendorff's famous novella.

A masterpiece of GDR cinema: The Legend of Paul and Paula combines romance and social criticism.

In November of 1939, the British consulate in Norway receives documents saying that the Nazis are conducting secret rocket research in Peenemünde. But ...

A surrealistic adaptation of Wagner's opera by Joachim Herz.

A simple errand trip from Dresden to Wittenberge develops into an exciting contemporary document about the GDR.

Vittorio De Sica 1948's classic social drama.

After returning from a concentration camp, Susanne finds an ex-soldier living in her apartment. Together the two try to move past their experiences.

A play about the Holocaust is being staged in Israel. The actors are descendants of Holocaust survivors and Palestinian. A documentation about the coexistance ...

Berlin of the 1990s - somewhere between squatters and the indie scene. Starring and protagonist Yvonne Ducksworth, is the real singer of the cult band ...

This stylistic, legendary icon of NYC punk underground film is the starting point of Abel Ferrara's disturbing cinematic universe.

Douglas Wolfsperger presents the perils of small town life in black and white in his debut feature film HITHER AND THITHER.

The satire project TEST DRIVE TO PARADISE by Douglas Wolfsperger presents a pastor and his pilgrims with a severe test of faith.

A journey back in time to the early 2000s: In this quirky comedy starring Verona Pooth, a gravedigger searches for true love in Poland.

An award-winning, authentic film about the Holocaust. "It’s a well done, very moving documentary." (Roman Polanski)

Naima, a doctor, Amina, a graduate, and Leila, a young student, are pursuing their individual routes to an independent life when their paths cross.

Will Tremper's view on daily life in East Germany is not free of cliches, but he doesn't' portray the West in a particularly positive light, either.

An intense two-person drama about a dysfunctional love relationship featuring cult actor and musician Lars Rudolph ("Run Lola Run").

Gwen makes herself invisible to search for her own life form and to be able to study those of the others secretly. With an unpredictable outcome...