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German cinema: All genres
Der Letzte Mann (1924)
F.W. Murnau
For the old porter at the Hotel Atlantis, his job is the main pleasure in his life. It brings him into contact with the highest in high society and his smart uniform affords him status, the respect of his family and neighbours...
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F.W. Murnau
Lola Montès (1955)
Max Ophüls
By the 1850s, Lola Montès is one of most notorious women of her time. Her love affairs with composers, kings and other men of distinction are legendary...
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Max Ophüls
Love Is Colder Than Death (1969)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Franz, a small time pimp, finds himself in the offices of a powerful German crime syndicate. The gangsters offer him a regular income for easy work but he refuses to join them, since he prefers the freedom he gains by working on his own account...
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Ludwig (1972)
Luchino Visconti
Ludwig II is a mere youth of nineteen when he ascends to the throne of Bavaria in 1864. A sensitive and idealistic young man, he shows far more interest in the arts and architecture than he does in matters of state...
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Luchino Visconti
M (1931)
Fritz Lang
Berlin is in a state of terror as a serial killer roams the streets after dark, abducting and killing young children. Public opinion compels the police to intensify their search for the killer, and in the process they round up scores of criminals who have nothing to do with the murders...
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Fritz Lang
Madame Du Barry (1919)
Ernst Lubitsch
In France, around the middle of the 18th century, Jeanne Bécu is happy in her life as a milliner's assistant at a haberdashery in Paris... [More...]
Ernst Lubitsch
In France, around the middle of the 18th century, Jeanne Bécu is happy in her life as a milliner's assistant at a haberdashery in Paris... [More...]
Marianne, meine Jugendliebe (1955)
Julien Duvivier
Vincent Loringer's arrival at a private school in Bavaria creates an immediate stir. The strangely charismatic adolescent who can draw wild animals towards him casts a spell over the other boys, who are enthralled by the stories he tells of his former life on a farm in Argentina... [More...]
Julien Duvivier
Vincent Loringer's arrival at a private school in Bavaria creates an immediate stir. The strangely charismatic adolescent who can draw wild animals towards him casts a spell over the other boys, who are enthralled by the stories he tells of his former life on a farm in Argentina... [More...]
Die Marquise von O... (1976)
Eric Rohmer
In the 18th century, in a town in northern Italy, the widowed Marquise von O lives with her father, a Colonel, and mother... [More...]
Eric Rohmer
In the 18th century, in a town in northern Italy, the widowed Marquise von O lives with her father, a Colonel, and mother... [More...]
Menschen am Sonntag (1930)
Curt Siodmak
One Saturday evening, a young Berliner, Wolfgang, meets an attractive young woman, Christi, and invites her to spend Sunday with him by the lake... [More...]
Curt Siodmak
One Saturday evening, a young Berliner, Wolfgang, meets an attractive young woman, Christi, and invites her to spend Sunday with him by the lake... [More...]
The Merchant of Four Seasons (1972)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Hans Epp is a man in his early thirties who makes a modest living by selling fruit from a barrow in the back streets of Munich... [More...]
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Hans Epp is a man in his early thirties who makes a modest living by selling fruit from a barrow in the back streets of Munich... [More...]
Metropolis (1927)
Fritz Lang
In the twenty-first century city of Metropolis, the wealthy elite live in luxury in sprawling tower complexes whilst millions of workers toil away in subterranean vaults, constantly serving the machines which keep the city alive... [More...]
Fritz Lang
In the twenty-first century city of Metropolis, the wealthy elite live in luxury in sprawling tower complexes whilst millions of workers toil away in subterranean vaults, constantly serving the machines which keep the city alive... [More...]
Michel Strogoff (1926)
Viktor Tourjansky
As a revolt by the Tartars threatens to tear the Russian Empire in two, the soldier Michel Strogoff is sent to the Siberian town of Irkutsk with a vital message from the Tsar... [More...]
Viktor Tourjansky
As a revolt by the Tartars threatens to tear the Russian Empire in two, the soldier Michel Strogoff is sent to the Siberian town of Irkutsk with a vital message from the Tsar... [More...]
Mikaël (1924)
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Claude Zoret is one of the greatest and wealthiest artists of his day. His success derives from the source of his inspiration: a young man named Mikaël, who is both his model and his protégé... [More...]
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Claude Zoret is one of the greatest and wealthiest artists of his day. His success derives from the source of his inspiration: a young man named Mikaël, who is both his model and his protégé... [More...]
Der Mörder Dimitri Karamasoff (1931)
Fyodor Otsep
In Russia during the mid-1800s, Dimitri Karamazov takes his leave of the woman he intends to marry, Katya, so that he can return to his home town and extort money from his father, Fyodor... [More...]
Fyodor Otsep
In Russia during the mid-1800s, Dimitri Karamazov takes his leave of the woman he intends to marry, Katya, so that he can return to his home town and extort money from his father, Fyodor... [More...]
La Mort en direct (1980)
Bertrand Tavernier
Mindful of the need to drive up his network's viewing figures, television producer Vincent Ferriman has devised a new reality TV show named Death Watch in which he will beam into people's homes the last days of a terminally ill person... [More...]
Bertrand Tavernier
Mindful of the need to drive up his network's viewing figures, television producer Vincent Ferriman has devised a new reality TV show named Death Watch in which he will beam into people's homes the last days of a terminally ill person... [More...]
Der Müde Tod (1921)
Fritz Lang
Shortly after their arrival in a provincial German town a young woman learns that her fiancé has been taken from her by a mysterious stranger dressed in back... [More...]
Fritz Lang
Shortly after their arrival in a provincial German town a young woman learns that her fiancé has been taken from her by a mysterious stranger dressed in back... [More...]
Die Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache (1924)
Fritz Lang
After the death of her husband Siegfried, Kriemhild appeals to her brother Gunther to have his killer, Hagen, executed. When Gunther refuses, Kriemhild allows herself to be married to Etzel, the king of the Huns... [More...]
Fritz Lang
After the death of her husband Siegfried, Kriemhild appeals to her brother Gunther to have his killer, Hagen, executed. When Gunther refuses, Kriemhild allows herself to be married to Etzel, the king of the Huns... [More...]
Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924)
Fritz Lang
Having completed his apprenticeship to a blacksmith, Siegfried, son of Siegmund, king of the Netherlands, sets out for the court of King Gunther of Burgundy at Worms... [More...]
Fritz Lang
Having completed his apprenticeship to a blacksmith, Siegfried, son of Siegmund, king of the Netherlands, sets out for the court of King Gunther of Burgundy at Worms... [More...]
The Niklashausen Journey (1970)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
On 3rd March 1476, a shepherd named Hans Böhm makes a public declaration in the town of Niklashausen that he has been visited by the Virgin Mary... [More...]
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
On 3rd March 1476, a shepherd named Hans Böhm makes a public declaration in the town of Niklashausen that he has been visited by the Virgin Mary... [More...]
Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922)
F.W. Murnau
Real estate agent Herr Hutter lives with his young wife Ellen in the German town of Wisborg. At the request of his employer, the mysterious Herr Knock, Hutter travels to the Carpathian Mountains to conclude the purchase of a property with a certain Count Orlok... [More...]
F.W. Murnau
Real estate agent Herr Hutter lives with his young wife Ellen in the German town of Wisborg. At the request of his employer, the mysterious Herr Knock, Hutter travels to the Carpathian Mountains to conclude the purchase of a property with a certain Count Orlok... [More...]
The Odessa File (1974)
Ronald Neame
Munich, November 1963. Whilst the world is still reeling from the news of President Kennedy's assassination, journalist Peter Miller allows himself to be distracted by the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, Solomon Tauber... [More...]
Ronald Neame
Munich, November 1963. Whilst the world is still reeling from the news of President Kennedy's assassination, journalist Peter Miller allows himself to be distracted by the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, Solomon Tauber... [More...]
Orlacs Hände (1924)
Robert Wiene
The world famous pianist Paul Orlac survives a horrific railway accident but his hands are damaged beyond repair. Goaded by his wife Yvonne, a surgeon performs a remarkable transplant operation, giving Orlac a pair of hands taken from a corpse... [More...]
Robert Wiene
The world famous pianist Paul Orlac survives a horrific railway accident but his hands are damaged beyond repair. Goaded by his wife Yvonne, a surgeon performs a remarkable transplant operation, giving Orlac a pair of hands taken from a corpse... [More...]
Pandora's Box (1929)
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
No one can resist the appeal of Lulu. The beautiful young dancer is cursed with a raw sensual allure that no man can resist... [More...]
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
No one can resist the appeal of Lulu. The beautiful young dancer is cursed with a raw sensual allure that no man can resist... [More...]
Le Passage du Rhin (1960)
André Cayatte
Paris, 1939. War is about to be declared any day. Roger works in a bakery and Jean is a reporter for the magazine L'Espoir... [More...]
André Cayatte
Paris, 1939. War is about to be declared any day. Roger works in a bakery and Jean is a reporter for the magazine L'Espoir... [More...]
Phantom (1922)
F.W. Murnau
Haunted by his past, Lorenz Lubota agrees to his wife's suggestion to write the tragic story of his life. Some years before, he was a humble clerk, earning barely enough to keep himself and his elderly mother... [More...]
F.W. Murnau
Haunted by his past, Lorenz Lubota agrees to his wife's suggestion to write the tragic story of his life. Some years before, he was a humble clerk, earning barely enough to keep himself and his elderly mother... [More...]
The Pianist (2002)
Roman Polanski
Warsaw, September 1939. Wladyslaw Szpilman is making a comfortable living as a virtuoso pianist in Poland when the Nazis invade his country and begin their systematic persecution of its Jewish population... [More...]
Roman Polanski
Warsaw, September 1939. Wladyslaw Szpilman is making a comfortable living as a virtuoso pianist in Poland when the Nazis invade his country and begin their systematic persecution of its Jewish population... [More...]
La Pianiste (2001)
Michael Haneke
Erika Kohut is a brilliant pianist who gives master class piano lessons in Vienna. Although in her forties, she still lives with her dominating mother and apparently has no interest in men... [More...]
Michael Haneke
Erika Kohut is a brilliant pianist who gives master class piano lessons in Vienna. Although in her forties, she still lives with her dominating mother and apparently has no interest in men... [More...]
Plus tard tu comprendras (2008)
Amos Gitai
France, 1987. The news is dominated by the trial of Klaus Barbie, a former Gestapo chief who was directly responsible for the deportation and murder of thousands of French Jews during the Second World War... [More...]
Amos Gitai
France, 1987. The news is dominated by the trial of Klaus Barbie, a former Gestapo chief who was directly responsible for the deportation and murder of thousands of French Jews during the Second World War... [More...]
Die Puppe (1919)
Ernst Lubitsch
Lancelot is a sensitive young man who enjoys the carefree life of a bachelor. Imagine then his undiluted horror when he is summoned to his uncle, the wealthy Baron of Chanterelle, and told that he must marry in order to preserve the family line... [More...]
Ernst Lubitsch
Lancelot is a sensitive young man who enjoys the carefree life of a bachelor. Imagine then his undiluted horror when he is summoned to his uncle, the wealthy Baron of Chanterelle, and told that he must marry in order to preserve the family line... [More...]
La Rafle (2010)
Rose Bosch
In 1942, Joseph is 11. A Jew, he must go to school with a yellow star sewn onto his chest. Although he is mocked by some, others treat him kindly and he feels that he and his family have found a safe refuge in Paris... [More...]
Rose Bosch
In 1942, Joseph is 11. A Jew, he must go to school with a yellow star sewn onto his chest. Although he is mocked by some, others treat him kindly and he feels that he and his family have found a safe refuge in Paris... [More...]