October 1918: Karl Liebknecht is released from prison and Berlin workers celebrate his release. Although WWI is almost over, the German Kaiserreich in vain sends its last reserves to the slaughter. The working class is in a rebellious mood; the uprising of Kiel’s sailors against war and militarism sets off a call for revolution led by Liebknecht. On November 9, Liebknecht declares the Free Socialist Republic of Germany. But pro-Kaiser military and right wing Social Democrats oppose him.

Three activists cobble together a kidnapping plot after they encounter a businessman in his home.

Alex Kerner's mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell. When she wakes up he must try to keep...

A quintet of cabbies in five cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.

Elisabeth leaves her abusive and drunken husband Rolf, and goes to live with her brother, Göran. The...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

In this belated sequel to 'The Decline of the American Empire', middle-aged Montreal college profess...

Four lucid grandmothers tell their story forgotten by history: the militancy and resistance of the y...

A young man from an early age falls in love with a girl whose family is not in good standing with th...

Javier Navarro, a Falangist, is ordered to infiltrate Republican Madrid to deliver a message to a me...

A soldier recounts his relationship with a famous political prisoner attempting to overthrow their c...

Close to bankruptcy, Irena, the owner of a struggling pig farm in a tiny post-Communist town, finds ...

19-year-old NVA soldier, Alex Karow, is sent to the West German-East German border in May 1974, shor...

Forty-year-old Andreas arrives in a strange city with no memory of how he got there. He is presented...

During the ill-fated Hungarian revolution of 1956, Karcsi Szabo, star player on the water polo team,...

Three U.S. journalists get too close to one another and their work in 1979 Nicaragua.

Set in 1979, following a young Communist man's relationship with a gay Catholic writer, exploring to...

Based on the true story of a Russian serial killer who, over many years, claimed victim to over 50 p...

Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. How...

In an English boys' boarding school, social hierarchy reigns supreme and power remains in the hands ...

Kirill, a 19 year old boy whose father works as a construction director, wants to study filmmaking.