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...
Eli is an Israeli soldier who manages to escape from a notorious Arab prison. He makes it back to Is...
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 1983 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...
After a botched bank robbery lands his younger brother in prison, Connie Nikas embarks on a twisted ...
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...
A gently humorous look at otherness and xenophobia in modern day German with this tale of a black Be...
Inspired by true events, Olympic swimmer Harry Melchior defects from East Germany in the 1960s and h...
Squadron Leader Veer Pratap Singh, a pilot in the Indian Air Force, rescues the stranded Zaara, a wo...
After being released from prison, Billy Skinner returns to his low-income neighbourhood feeling like...
Two queer Brazilians go skinny dipping in a lake where they talk about love, sex, colonialism and mi...
Lisa and Julien are married and lead a happy uneventful life with their son Oscar. But their life ra...