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...

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

When Gelsomina, a naïve young woman, is purchased from her impoverished mother by brutish circus str...

An intimate study of two women friends who come to each other because of troubles with everyday life...

Director helmut Dietls and Patric Susskinds illustrate a legendary story of two lovers who cant keep...

C.R. MacNamara is a managing director for Coca-Cola in West Berlin during the Cold War, just before ...

From the youth directed novel of the same name by Greogor Tressnow comes a film by Detlev Buck that ...

Germany director Dani Levy filmed this comedy about Jewish life in today’s Germany along side the fa...

Shipped off to a Romanian orphanage to finish his sentence, a British criminal finds romance but als...

A career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kindly doctor and parol...

Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts his old band back together to save the Catholic home whe...

Wallace's whirlwind romance with the proprietor of the local wool shop puts his head in a spin, and ...

A young, inexperienced public defender is assigned to defend an inmate accused of committing murder ...

When a doctor decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America’s largest prison:...

Dealing with a sociopathic school bully, three high school freshmen hire a low-budget bodyguard to p...

My Beautiful Jinjiimaa is an emotional romantic drama in a setting few in the U.S. have ever seen. A...

One day in Europe shows stories set in four European countries. All of them involve thievery in some...

When a young boy comes in to see a doctor abourt a red mark on his face, the doctor's wife welcomes ...