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...

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...

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...

Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting,...

The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially...

Nina, an end-of-teenage orphan with mental problems, starts a new job as a garden cleaner when she m...

Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society wh...

A drifter lives in people's houses while they are away and repays them by doing chores for them. His...

Jenny is young. Her life is over. She killed someone. And she would do it again. When an 80-year-old...

Outcast by his co-workers and living alone, Koistinen is a security guard who works the night shift ...

In Berlin in 1961, an American soldier and a German engineer join forces to build a tunnel under the...

A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hi...

The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's...