A German stage actor finds unexpected success and mixed blessings in the popularity of his performance in a Faustian play as the Nazis take power in pre-WWII Germany. As his associates and friends flee or are ground under by the Nazi terror, the popularity of his character supercedes his own existence until he finds that his best performance is keeping up appearances for his Nazi patrons.

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of...

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

After his father is murdered by the Nazis in 1938, a young Viennese Jew named Ferry Tobler flees to ...

This story starts in 1980 in Paris as the memories of Andrei Borodin, a Soviet agent, take the actio...

At the end of WWII the Dutch resistance kills a German officer in front of the house of a Dutch fami...

Four estranged friends reunite and spend the night in a remote country house that was once home to a...

God and Satan wager on the soul of a learned and prayerful alchemist as part of their eternal war ov...

A group of 12 teenagers from various backgrounds enroll at the American Ballet Academy in New York t...

At the dawn of the Second World War, Nazism was extending its grip over South America. The Golden A...

Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound th...

It's five years later and Tony Manero's Saturday Night Fever is still burning. Now he's strutting to...

Starting in late May 1944, during the German retreat on the Eastern Front, Captain Stransky (Helmut ...

Upon hearing his wife was killed in the Iraq war, a father takes his two daughters on a road trip, a...

A biography of Hildegard Knef, one of Germany's biggest post-war stars.

When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a cou...

The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for thei...

The career and personal life of writer Lee are at a standstill, so he divorces his bashful wife, Rob...

Comedian Harmonists tells the story of a famous, German male sextet, five vocals and piano, the "Com...

In WWII Western Germany, Private David Manning reluctantly leaves behind a mortally wounded fellow s...