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 death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his schedul...

Michel takes up pickpocketing on a lark and is arrested soon after. His mother dies shortly after hi...

When 17-year-old Effi Briest marries the elderly Baron von Instetten, she moves to a small, isolated...

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...

People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane lif...

A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, g...

The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourho...

From beautiful Bavaria to a backyard apartment in Berlin - Helga feels surrounded by all sorts of da...

"Bob" finds himself in “the zone“ by chance. At first - as a guard. But life in the zone on both sid...

A prim and proper schoolgirl goes against her society grandmother's wishes when she dates a motorcyc...

Uptight lawyer Peter Sanderson wants to dive back into dating after his divorce and has a hard time ...

Germany 1982: The country is divided into two parts. Nele, coming from West-Germany, travels to East...

San Francisco Bay, January 18, 1960. Frank Lee Morris is transferred to Alcatraz, a maximum security...

Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound th...