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German cinema: Romance
Abwege (1928)
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Thomas Beck may be a successful lawyer but he is also a chronic workaholic and rarely does he find the time to offer his wife Irene the tenderness she pines for...
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Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Angst essen Seele auf (1974)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
One rainy evening, Emmi Kurowski, a 60-year-old cleaning lady, ducks into an Arab bar to avoid being soaked. She immediately notices a Moroccan worker, twenty years her junior, and invites him to dance with her...
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Asphalt (1929)
Joe May
The son of a respected police chief, Albert Holk is a young police constable who takes his duties seriously - until the fateful day when Else Kramer enters his life...
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Joe May
Die Austernprinzessin (1919)
Ernst Lubitsch
Mr Quaker is America's Oyster King, a millionaire businessman whose seafood empire is unsurpassed. But his daughter Ossi is unimpressed by his status and spends most of her time wrecking his house in her frequent temper tantrums...
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Ernst Lubitsch
Die Bergkatze (1921)
Ernst Lubitsch
In the mountain town of Piffkaneiro, hundreds of desolate women gather to bid a sad farewell to Lieutenant Alexis, the popular military man who has touched all their hearts and left each one of them with a permanent reminder of their liaison, in the form of a child...
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Ernst Lubitsch
Der Blaue Engel (1930)
Josef von Sternberg
Immanuel Rath, professor of a provincial German school, is incensed when he learns that his pupils are frequenting a cabaret venue known as The Blue Angel... [More...]
Josef von Sternberg
Immanuel Rath, professor of a provincial German school, is incensed when he learns that his pupils are frequenting a cabaret venue known as The Blue Angel... [More...]
Cagliostro (1929)
Richard Oswald
In the late 18th century, Joseph Balsamo, alias the Count of Cagliostro, finds fame throughout Europe as a magician, alchemist and fortune teller... [More...]
Richard Oswald
In the late 18th century, Joseph Balsamo, alias the Count of Cagliostro, finds fame throughout Europe as a magician, alchemist and fortune teller... [More...]
Die Drei von der Tankstelle (1930)
Wilhelm Thiele
Returning home from a holiday, three friends - Willy, Kurt and Hans - learn they are bankrupt. Their fortune has evaporated and their possessions are being seized by the bailiffs... [More...]
Wilhelm Thiele
Returning home from a holiday, three friends - Willy, Kurt and Hans - learn they are bankrupt. Their fortune has evaporated and their possessions are being seized by the bailiffs... [More...]
Faustrecht der Freiheit (1975)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Franz Biberkopf is a good-natured but guileless young man who earns a modest living as an act in a travelling circus. When his employer is arrested for tax evasion, Franz loses both his job and his boyfriend... [More...]
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Franz Biberkopf is a good-natured but guileless young man who earns a modest living as an act in a travelling circus. When his employer is arrested for tax evasion, Franz loses both his job and his boyfriend... [More...]
Frantz (2016)
François Ozon
It is 1919 and the human cost of the First World War is still being counted across Europe. In a small German town, a young woman named Anna attends the grave of her fiancée Franz, one of the hundreds of thousands of casualties of the Somme... [More...]
François Ozon
It is 1919 and the human cost of the First World War is still being counted across Europe. In a small German town, a young woman named Anna attends the grave of her fiancée Franz, one of the hundreds of thousands of casualties of the Somme... [More...]
Katzelmacher (1969)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
A group of disaffected young people hang out in their modern Munich apartment block, struggling to fill their empty days with tedious conversation and meaningless sex... [More...]
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
A group of disaffected young people hang out in their modern Munich apartment block, struggling to fill their empty days with tedious conversation and meaningless sex... [More...]
Kohlhiesels Töchter (1920)
Ernst Lubitsch
Bavarian innkeeper Mathias Kohlhiesel has two daughters who could not be more different. Whereas Gretl is attractive, good-natured and cheerful, her sister Liesel is dowdy, irritable and moody... [More...]
Ernst Lubitsch
Bavarian innkeeper Mathias Kohlhiesel has two daughters who could not be more different. Whereas Gretl is attractive, good-natured and cheerful, her sister Liesel is dowdy, irritable and moody... [More...]
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... [More...]
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... [More...]
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... [More...]
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... [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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
Der Student von Prag (1913)
Stellan Rye
Prague, 1820. Balduin enjoys the reputation of the wildest student and best swordsman in the city but his poverty makes him a miserable soul... [More...]
Stellan Rye
Prague, 1820. Balduin enjoys the reputation of the wildest student and best swordsman in the city but his poverty makes him a miserable soul... [More...]
Sumurun (1920)
Ernst Lubitsch
The Sheik of an Oriental province is incensed when he discovers that one of his wives, Sumurun, has been making overtures to a cloth merchant, Nur-Al-Din... [More...]
Ernst Lubitsch
The Sheik of an Oriental province is incensed when he discovers that one of his wives, Sumurun, has been making overtures to a cloth merchant, Nur-Al-Din... [More...]
Un amour de jeunesse (2011)
Mia Hansen-Løve
You never forget your first love, and when it ends - as surely it must - you feel you will never get over it. This is something that Camille, a fifteen-year-old girl, knows to be true after separating from the boy she has lost her heart to... [More...]
Mia Hansen-Løve
You never forget your first love, and when it ends - as surely it must - you feel you will never get over it. This is something that Camille, a fifteen-year-old girl, knows to be true after separating from the boy she has lost her heart to... [More...]
Le Vieux fusil (1975)
Robert Enrico
It is 1944 and Germany is losing the war in Europe. The allied forces have broken through on the Normandy front and the occupying troops have begun their retreat... [More...]
Robert Enrico
It is 1944 and Germany is losing the war in Europe. The allied forces have broken through on the Normandy front and the occupying troops have begun their retreat... [More...]
Die Wunderbare Lüge der Nina Petrowna (1929)
Hanns Schwarz
Nina, the beautiful wife of the wealthy Colonel Beranoff, is surrounded by luxury in her St Petersburg apartments, but the one thing she lacks is love... [More...]
Hanns Schwarz
Nina, the beautiful wife of the wealthy Colonel Beranoff, is surrounded by luxury in her St Petersburg apartments, but the one thing she lacks is love... [More...]
Zur Chronik von Grieshuus (1925)
Arthur von Gerlach
In 17th century Germany, the elderly rich landowner Grieshuus of Holstein has decided that his eldest son Hinrich will inherit his entire estate... [More...]
Arthur von Gerlach
In 17th century Germany, the elderly rich landowner Grieshuus of Holstein has decided that his eldest son Hinrich will inherit his entire estate... [More...]