A young shoemaker is arrested for stealing a small amount of money, and is jailed for fifteen years. Upon his release, he wants to get a permit to get a job and start anew, but finds that without a job he can't get a permit, and without a permit he can't get a job. Ensnared in the absurd net of Prussian bureaucracy, he can't see any way out. That is, until he enters a thrift shop and spots a Prussian officer's uniform that fits him like a second skin...

An epic meditation on psychoanalysis, the Baader-Meinhof, feminism, and pre-revolutionary Russia.

In post-war Germany, liberation by the Allies does not mean freedom for everyone. Hans Hoffmann is r...

Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting,...

The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially...

In Berlin in 1961, an American soldier and a German engineer join forces to build a tunnel under the...

A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hi...

The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's...

Sunny is the singer of band trying to establish itself in the music-scene of East-Berlin. They play ...

Frustrated, because he is forced to produce bad TV-shows, a manager of a TV-station, enters the stat...

Anna is persuaded by her boyfriend Paul to move from Berlin to his home town of Imma. What the notor...

A posthumous look at the last days of Guenther's life as he, his best friend, and his sister let loo...

The lives of six German-Turkish immigrants are drawn together by circumstance: An old man and a pros...

Karen McCoy is released from prison with nothing but the clothes on her back. Before being incarcera...

One late night in June 1942, Sakuma Seitaro dangles from the frame of a skylight in an isolation cel...

Eyal, an Israeli Mossad agent, is given the mission to track down and kill the very old Alfred Himme...

A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton fa...

Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two African-American men. Thro...

Based on Michel Houellebecq's controversial novel, Atomised (aka The Elementary Particles) focuses o...

Lola receives a phone call from her boyfriend Manni. He lost 100,000 DM in a subway train that belon...

Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling populati...