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.

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 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 story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with ...

A criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of...

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

A Canadian artist turned diamond merchant in Vienna, Austria risks his life to smuggle Jews out of t...

A Jewish family leaves Germany after surviving the Holocaust and heads to Norway. Mendel, their youn...

A young pilot in the German air force of 1918, disliked as lower-class and unchivalrous, tries ambit...

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

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...

Embarrassed about his identity and culture, a meek Indian high-schooler decides to attend an America...

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

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

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