In Volker Schlöndorff's award-winning adaptation of Nobel Prize winner Günter Grass' allegorical novel, David Bennent plays Oskar, the young son of a German rural family, circa 1925. On his third ... Read more
German journalist Philip Winter has a case of writer's block when trying to write an article about the United States. He decides to return to Germany, and while trying to book a flight, encounters a ... Read more
Lucien is a rough-and-ready peasant from the south-west of France, with little awareness of the war and its issues, who essentially becomes a collaborator by accident, after being rejected by the ... Read more
Can anything be bleaker than the shabby slums of Berlin? Yes, argues director Werner Herzog in Stroszek: try Wisconsin sometime. Bruno S.. stars as an ex-mental patient who dreams of the so-called ... Read more
A travelling projection-equipment mechanic travels in Western Germany along the East-German border, visiting worn-out film-theatres meets up with a depressed young man whose marriage has just broken ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Featuring a cast composed entirely of little people, Even Dwarfs Started Small is a brutal, uncompromising allegory about the consequences of imprisonment and rebellion.
Originally broadcast in 1973, Rainer Werner Fassbinder's two-part science-fiction mini series set in a computer-generated 'other world' pre-dates the similarly themed THE MATRIX by more than a ... Read more
French director Eric Rohmer's 1976 tale of the MARQUISE OF O, a young widow in 18th century Italy, during the battle against the Russians. She is rescued unconscious from a violation by Count F, a ... Read more