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 American journalist arrives in Berlin just after the end of World War Two. He becomes involved in...

A woman convicted of fraud aims to take her revenge on the man who put her inside after being releas...

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...

An American priest working in Mexico is considered a saint by many local parishioners. However, due ...

A quiet man is abruptly arrested without explanation, thrust into a surreal legal nightmare where tr...

A rebellious youth, sentenced to a boy’s reformatory for robbing a bakery, rises through the ranks o...

After serving a jail sentence, Hasan gets a job driving a hearse for the protestant church, and beco...

The true story of Charlotte Salomon, a young German-Jewish painter who comes of age in Berlin on the...

Pandy and Retro awaken naked on Earth with no recollection of their past. They embark on a crime spr...

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...

A Finnish man goes to the city to find a job after the mine where he worked is closed and his father...

Mick O'Brien is a young Chicago street thug torn between a life of petty crime and the love of his g...