When 22-year-old Rainer Werner Fassbinder storms the stage of a small, progressive theatre in Munich 1967, and seizes the production without further ado, nobody suspects this brazen young rebel to become one of the most important post-war German filmmakers. Despite early setbacks, many of his films breakout at the most renowned films festivals and polarise audience, critics and filmmakers alike. His radical views and self-exploitation, as well as his longing for love, have made him one of the most fascinating film directors of this time.

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

Michaela, an epileptic, enrolls in college to study education. She goes off her medication and soon ...

Niki wants to leave his family and work illegally in Germany. The voyage with his friend Cretu prove...

A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton fa...

When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to...

The real Great Escape didn't feature Steve McQueen racing through the Third Reich on a motorcycle li...

Clara and Hans are left-wing terrorists who have been sought by police for almost fifteen years. The...

Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown ...

A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieute...

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

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

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

A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within t...

The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. Aft...

Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his m...

For Lieutenant Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell and his friend and co-pilot Nick 'Goose' Bradshaw, being acc...

An Army lawyer defends a World War II hero and his men accused of desertion.

In 1960, a hardy group of prep school students boards an old-fashioned sailing ship. With Capt. Chri...

The lives of six German-Turkish immigrants are drawn together by circumstance: An old man and a pros...

In the early years of the 20th Century, two British yachtsmen (Michael York and Simon MacCorkindale)...