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 blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woma...

After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement....

David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strang...

When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play...

Der Stolz der Firma, meaning The Pride of the Business, is a classic German silent film from 1914. T...

The attractive Oberleutnant Paul Wendlandt is stationed in North Africa as a fighter pilot. While in...

After returning from a concentration camp, Susanne finds a traumatized ex-soldier living in her apar...

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...

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

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

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

A couple of thirtysomething best friends unwittingly become entangled in an international conspiracy...

A state prison is threatened by approaching floods, an epidemic of typhoid fever breaks out among th...

Valeh, a member of a leftist organization, is arrested by the SAVAK and sentenced to death. In priso...

An American priest working in Mexico is considered a saint by many local parishioners. However, due ...

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...

Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native German...

Tough contract killers and secret organizations operating worldwide in a murderous battle for a reli...