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...

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

When illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine gets out of prison, he decides...

20 volunteers agree to take part in a seemingly well-paid experiment advertised by the university. I...

In 1984 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and h...

An Eastern European tourist unexpectedly finds himself stranded in JFK airport, and must take up tem...

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...

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

Hamza, a powerful county landowner killed a hardworking villager named Ahmet. Soon after this incide...

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

Sought by police and criminals, a small-time huckster makes a deal with a TV newsman for protection.

A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter pri...

The true and infamous story of Australia's notorious criminal Mark 'Chopper' Read and his years of c...

Comedian Harmonists tells the story of a famous, German male sextet, five vocals and piano, the "Com...

When recently single Steven moves into his new apartment, cable guy Chip comes to hook him up—and do...

The mafia's Paul Vitti is back in prison and will need some serious counseling when he gets out. Nat...

Frank Leone is nearing the end of his prison term for a relatively minor crime. Just before he is pa...

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