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...
A Finnish man goes to the city to find a job after the mine where he worked is closed and his father...
Eli is an Israeli soldier who manages to escape from a notorious Arab prison. He makes it back to Is...
A power-company troubleshooter has his brother get him out of prison by running high voltage to the ...
The cabaret artist Marc-Uwe and the kangaroo are faced with a problem: Lisbeth, the mother of Maria ...
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...
A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in o...
An American journalist arrives in Berlin just after the end of World War Two. He becomes involved in...
As every Sunday, in the Detention Center where she finds herself prisoner, Nathalie awaits her turn ...
A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful pris...
The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number...
Two escaped cons' only prayer to escape is to pass themselves off as priests and pass by the police ...
Three convicts escape from prison on Devil's Island just before Christmas and arrive at a nearby Fre...
In a German town, teacher Irene leads an inconspicuous, boring, lonely life. One day, a man rings at...
After hiding his loot and getting thrown in jail, brooding outlaw Ruby befriends Quentin, a dim-witt...
Nicholas is the eldest son of a wealthy suburban family, whose businesswoman mother makes deals from...