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...

Kuhle Wampe takes place in early-1930s Berlin. The film begins with a montage of newspaper headlines...

Despite their social differences Luise, called Pünktchen, a girl from rich parentage befriends Anton...

Shrek, Fiona, and Donkey set off to Far, Far Away to meet Fiona's mother and father, the Queen and K...

In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the fo...

An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the Sout...

The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike during The Troubles in which...

Two carefree pals from Brooklyn traveling through rural Alabama on their way back to college are mis...

The Limey follows Wilson, a tough English ex-con who travels to Los Angeles to avenge his daughter's...

An old gangster is advised that Freddie Mays would leave jail after thirty years in prison. His mood...

The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aid...

In this biopic, Marlene Dietrich leaves Berlin for Hollywood, where she establishes herself as an in...

In the heat of a shimmering Berlin summer, Nora spends her days as a third wheel to her older sister...

Nikita loves to listen to techno music and dreams to go to Berlin and visit the famous club “Berghai...

The Pope is in town and the night of his stay is anything but heavenly for some of Berlin′s inhabita...

Despite her parents' misgivings, Brianne marries Clay, and the couple soon have a daughter. It's the...

The men in prison are frustrated and in agony. It's difficult because the desires of these men are c...