A story about a family after the Second World War. The petty bourgeois cashier Karl Weber of Berlin observes from a distance how his son Ernst participates in the building of a new socialist society. Karl does not understand Ernst's visions, instead he confides in his other son Harry. However, Harry becomes involved in illicit business and Karl quickly realizes that it would be best to join his son Ernst in the citizen-owned factory.

When 17-year-old Effi Briest marries the elderly Baron von Instetten, she moves to a small, isolated...

A musical film based on biographical facts about Clara Wieck's love for composer Robert Schumann (18...

In 1984 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and h...

Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due t...

An American journalist arrives in Berlin just after the end of World War Two. He becomes involved in...

In a run-down South American town, four men are paid to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin into ...

Smilja is a little girl living in Dalmatian Zagora. One day, her mother dies under a small oak tree ...

What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitle...

As Tobias, a young director, supposes that his girl-friend Ellen had an affair with his brother Mark...

18-year-old school boy Helmut falls in love with fellow pupil Britta. He starts working for a Peace ...

After he loses his job, his father, and his girlfriend, Jan's life is a shambles. Then suddenly he m...

Professor Sonnenbruck is a scientist who is not particularly interested in politics. Even the meetin...

Lifelong hard work for the count makes the servant Anton a cripple. Everybody calls him Crooked Anto...

In 1912, the Titanic embarks on its inevitable collision course with history. In the wake of the ove...

Eyal, an Israeli Mossad agent, is given the mission to track down and kill the very old Alfred Himme...

Based on Michel Houellebecq's controversial novel, Atomised (aka The Elementary Particles) focuses o...

Lola receives a phone call from her boyfriend Manni. He lost 100,000 DM in a subway train that belon...

Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling populati...

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...