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All eight episodes of the German apocalyptic thriller series. An asteroid is set to hit Europe in eight days putting the entire western side of the continent in immediate danger. With time running out, most people attempt to flee for safety, but for those that cannot make it out, chaos rapidly descends as hedonism, repentance and crime take hold before the inevitable cataclysm unfolds...
Wim Wenders co-writes and directs this German drama.After failing to finish an assignment in the United States, German journalist Philip Winter (Rüdiger Vogler) leaves New York to return to Germany.At the airport he meets fellow German Lisa (Lisa Kreuzer) and agrees to watch her nine-year-old daughter Alice (Yella Rottländer) for her.But when Lisa fails to return as planned, Philip finds himself reluctantly escorting the independe..
Drama which relates the real life tale of a community of German farmers who helped shelter a Jewish family during the dark days of World War II. Based on the memoirs of Marga Spiegel, the film brings to life the experience of Marga (Veronica Ferres), her husband, Siegmund (Armin Rohde), and their young daughter, Karin (Luisa Mix), while they lived out of sight in Munsterland, a region in the north of Germany. As German Jews, the family ..
High-end, Award-Winning German noir, BABYLON BERLIN is one of the most Ambitious international dramas to be shown on British screens. Based on the crime novels of Volker Kutscher this brilliantly intoxicating series is set in pre-World War II Berlin. This DVD collection includes all three series.SERIES ONE: A shell-shocked Inspector Gereon Rath uncovers a tangled web of corruption when investigating 1929 Berlin's seedy underbelly. SER..
Historical sports drama. Threatened with a boycott of their 1936 Olympic Games unless they allow Jewish athletes to take part, Nazi Germany are forced to let international high jump champion and German Jew Gretel Bergmann (Karoline Herfurth) represent them in the games. Fearful that any achievement by her might undermine the German ideology of the time, they conspire to replace her with another woman, Marie Ketteler (Sebastian Urzendows..
German coming-of-age drama based on the novel by Andreas Steinhöfel. After three weeks away at summer camp, teenager Phil (Louis Hofmann) returns to his home, called Visible, which he shares with his nonconformist mother Glass (Sabine Timoteo) and twin sister Dianne (Ada Philine Stappenbeck), who seems less enthusiastic about his return. After spending the last remaining days of his vacation with best friend Kat (Svenja Jung), Phil retu..
Chiko has wits and charm and only one aim in mind: to make it to the top. Money, power and respect is all that counts for him and his best friend Tibet. Together, they ruthlessly work their way up from small time crooks to major drug dealers and soon catch the attention of Brownie, the drug lord who holds the keys to everything the two friends dream of. Ambitious Chiko soon becomes his right hand man, but when Tibet crosses the violent ..
German gay-themed crime drama written and directed by Rosa von Praunheim. The film follows bartender Lars (Bozidar Kocevski) as he meets and falls in love with performer Roland (Heiner Bomhard). They move to Berlin together and enjoy an open relationship. When Lars discovers liquid ecstasy, he begins using the drug to poison his unsuspecting suitors, culminating in a sensational murder trial...
One of the most iconic masterpieces in cinema history, Robert Wiene's Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.) shook filmgoers worldwide and changed the direction of the art form. Now presented in a definitive restoration, the film’s chilling, radically expressionist vision is set to grip viewers again. At a local carnival in a small German town, hypnotist Dr. Caligari presents the somnambulist Cesare, who can purport..
With the etching onto glass of a single word - "Mabuse" - Berlin reawakens into a nightmare. Fritz Lang’s electrifying Das Testament Des Dr. Mabuse (The Testament Of Dr. Mabuse) is the astonishing second instalment in the German master’s legendary Dr. Mabuse series, a film that puts image and sound into an hypnotic arrangement unlike anything seen or heard in the cinema ever before - or since. It’s been eleven years since the downfall o..
An iconic early horror masterpiece, Der Golem was Paul Wegener’s third attempt at adapting the Golem character for the big screen. Starring and co-directing with Carl Boese, Wegener crafted one of silent cinema’s most enduring masterpieces. In the Jewish ghetto in 16th century Prague, Rabbi Low (Albert Streinruck, Asphalt) creates a forbidding clay Golem (played by director Paul Wegener) to protect his people from the tyrannical Empe..
In the Jewish ghetto in 16th century Prague, the community leader and astrologer Rabbi Low (Albert Streinruck) foresees doom for his people written in the stars. A short time later, the Emperor Luhois (Otto Gebuhr) issues an expulsion order to the people, Low creates a forbidding clay golem (Paul Wegener) that he brings to life with the assistance of a demon spirit and an amulet placed in the centre of the creature's chest, Subsequently..
Before directing numerous genre defining masterpieces such as Metropolis, M, and Spione, Fritz Lang was already defying cinematic conventions with Der mude Tod (literally, The Weary Death). A young woman (Lil Dagover) confronts the personification of Death (Bernhard Goetzke), in an effort to save the life of her fiance (Walter Janssen). Death weaves three romantic tragedies and offers to unite the girl with her lover, if she can prevent..
All eight episodes from the German-Austrian drama which follows a police investigation into the discovery of a body lying on the German-Austrian border. German commissioner Ellie Stocker (Julia Jentsch) and Austrian inspector Gedeon Winter (Nicholas Ofczarek) are sent to carry out their investigation, but soon discover that the brutal murder appears to have been ritualistic in nature and may lead to findings of more bizarre and ruthless..
All eight episodes of the German TV drama set during the height of the Cold War. In a paranoid and divided Germany in 1983, 24-year-old East German border patrol guard Martin Rauch (Jonas Nay) is recruited by the East Germany Secret Service to go undercover as a West German soldier. In his role as an oberleutnant, Martin assumes the identity of Moritz Stamm and, while serving under Major General Wolfgang Edel (Ulrich Noethen), gathers i..
The ground-breaking television series set in 1980s Cold War Germany. The Cold War is heating up. Russian SS20 Missiles in East Germany are pointed West, American Pershing II Missiles will soon be placed in West Germany, to point East. The very real threat of nuclear conflict looms.DEUTSCHLAND 83: Martin Rauch, a 24 year old East German native, is thrust from the world he knows and sent over the wall to the West as an undercover spy fo..
1986: East Germany is broke, Perestroika is real, terrorism plagues Europe, the AIDS crisis intensifies and the struggle against apartheid rages on. Banished for his sins in 1983, Martin Rauch wallows in limbo until his Aunt Lenora conscripts him into her plan to drum up hard currency abroad. They set off on an adventure through Africa, Western Europe and finally home to East Germany. Can mafioso-style Capitalism save Communism just in ..
When the 'anti-fascist' Berlin Wall falls on November 9th, 1989, superspy Martin Rauch (Jonas Nay) gets involved and must deal with the consequences.The peaceful revolution has thrown his world into turmoil. He and his fellow agents at the HVA (East German Foreign Intelligence) are reeling. Their government has collapsed, their organization is in chaos and their futures are uncertain, at best. How to play the next hand? Join Big Broth..
A masterwork of the German silent cinema whose reputation has only increased over time, Diary of a Lost Girl (Tagebuch einer Verlorenen) traces the journey of a young woman from the pit of despair to the moment of personal awakening. Directed with virtuoso flair by the great G. W. Pabst, Diary of a Lost Girl represents the final pairing of the filmmaker with screen icon Louise Brooks, mere months after their first collaboration in the n..
Perhaps the most stately of Fritz Lang's two-part epics, the five-hour Die Nibelungen (The Nibelungen) is a courageous and hallucinatory work, a film in which every single shot might alone endure as an exemplar of visual art. Its extraordinary set-pieces, archetypal themes, and unrestrained ambition have proved an inspiration for nearly every fantasy cycle that has emerged on-screen since - from Star Wars to The Lord of the Rings. In Pa..
Set in Berlin, 1945, this powerful and provocative war drama retells the final days of the Second World War as recorded in the diaries of Adolf Hitler's private secretary, Traudi Junge, while barricaded with Hitler and his closest confidants in the Fuhrer's secret bunker. Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel (The Experiment) with an astonighing performance by Bruno Ganz (The Manchurian Candidate) as history's most notorious figure, this unpr..
One of the legendary epics of the silent cinema - and the first part of a trilogy that Fritz Lang developed up to the very end of his career - Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler. (Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler) is a masterpiece of conspiracy that, even as it precedes the mind-blowing Spione from the close of Lang's silent cycle, constructs its own dark labyrinth from the base materials of human fear and paranoia. Rudolf Klein-Rogge plays Dr. Mabuse, the..
An audience award winner at the Rotterdam Film Festival, Michael Hofmann's Eden is a sensual and romantic film about the art of cooking and of love.Gregor (Josef Ostendorf), an eccentric chef, runs a small restaurant on the outskirts of town. In his spare time, he often sits by a street cafe where he is served by Eden (Charlotte Roche). Eden is married to Xaver (Devid Striesow) and has a young daughter, Leonie (Leonie Stepp), who has Do..
Murnau's last German film features astonishing photography, magnificent art direction, and special effects which retain the power to amaze. Freed from the constraints of psychological narrative, Murnau's mastery of cinematic technique places Faust, eine deutsche Volkssage (Faust: A German Folktale) at the pinnacle of the silent era, its barrage of visceral and apocryphal imagery contrasting with the simplicity and directness of its spir..
German gay-themed drama. Marc Borgman (Hanno Koffler) has begun lagging behind his peers at the police academy due to his poor fitness levels.An altercation with his roommate Kay Engel (Max Riemelt) during a training exercise leads him to reconsider his position within the force, and while feeling ashamed of his behaviour he approaches the man to apologise.Kay is quick to forgive him for his aggression towards him and soon the pair ..
German psychological thriller centred on a troubled musician. After receiving an invitation to represent her country in a prestigious international contest, talented cellist Jessica Klug (Esther Maria Pietsch) practices relentlessly in her Berlin flat but begins to feel the weight of pressure placed upon her and her health starts to deteriorate as a result. As fear and paranoia take hold of her mind, Jessica becomes convinced that one o..
Felix Randau writes and directs this German drama starring Jürgen Vogel as a Neolithic clan leader seeking vengeance. When he is out hunting, Kaleb (Vogel)'s tribe is attacked by a rival trio and he returns to find his wife and son killed and the holy shrine Tineka destroyed. Overcome by grief and rage, Kaleb embarks on a quest for revenge against the murdering marauders but finds himself up against the elements and questioning the mora..
Felix Randau writes and directs this German drama starring Jürgen Vogel as a Neolithic clan leader seeking vengeance. When he is out hunting, Kaleb (Vogel)'s tribe is attacked by a rival trio and he returns to find his wife and son killed and the holy shrine Tineka destroyed. Overcome by grief and rage, Kaleb embarks on a quest for revenge against the murdering marauders but finds himself up against the elements and questioning the mora..
Made-for-TV German thriller. After moving to London in 1888, German photographer Anna Kosminski (Sonja Gerhardt) discovers the Whitechapel area is being terrorised by a notorious serial killer known as Jack the Ripper, who has been murdering and mutilating female prostitutes in increasingly gruesome ways. While the police struggle to identify a suspect, Whitechapel remains in a constant state of fear in anticipation of Jack's next crime..
German-Israeli documentary from film-maker Tomer Heymann which follows the life and career of popular gay adult actor Jonathan Agassi. The film explores the star's private life and career in the sex industry and how the two both conflict and blend with each other...
German gay-themed drama. Jannis Niewöhner stars in the title role, as a young man caring for his dying father (André Hennicke) whilst running the family farm. Tension and distance has characterised the two men's relationship ever since Jonathan's mother died when he was a boy, with his dad refusing to open up on the subject. However, Jonathan finds out more than he expected about his father's past when his former lover Ron (Thomas Sarba..
The final part of Wim Wenders' loose trilogy of road movies (following on from Alice in the Cities and Wrong Move), Kings Of The Road has been hailed as one of the best films of the 1970s and remains Wenders' most remarkable portrait of his own country. After driving his car at high speed off road and into a river, losing all his worldly possessions, Robert Lander (Hanns Zischler) hitches a ride with Bruno Winter (Rudiger Vogler), who t..
Attempting to leave the ghosts of the past behind him, Antek Liebmann travels to summery northern France. But the past is never easy to leave behind, and soon the nightmares begin to catch up with him. A chance encounter with a handsome local guy offers him a chance to finally banish the darkness once and for all- but first he has to let him in. Sweet and romantic, 'Liebmann' is also truly incisive and very moving...
Gay-interest German drama. When petty criminal Dennis (Marcel Schlutt) is caught using stolen credit cards, he is sentenced to a brutal prison, where he is forced to deal with the violent low-lifes in his cell block. But when he meets Mike (Mike Sale) things begin to look up, as the two men become lovers and try to help each other through their brutal experiences...
Set in a small West German town in 1957, where, with the help of the Economic Miracle, a booming economy is generating a new sense of optimism. In the town brothel, "Villa Fink", Lola (Barbara Sukowa), a young high-class prostitute with a zest for life, is the star of the show. Her favorite client is the influential developer Schuckert (Mario Adorf), who enjoys spending time at Villa Fink with city officials important to his constructio..
German gay-themed psychological thriller. The film follows Luis (Fernando Tielve), a young Spanish gay man as he travels to Berlin to get over a recent break up. During his time there, he meets and falls in love with the much older Viktor (Marko Mandic), a mysteriously alluring Ukrainian man. The two begin an intensely passionate relationship, but Luis begins to worry when he finds out Viktor's previous boyfriend has gone missing withou..
Jessica Hausner directs this German coming-of-age drama. Barbara Osika stars as Rita, a moody, insolent teenager on the verge of womanhood whose confused sexual awakening leads her to seduce both a much younger schoolboy (Christoph Bauer), and a bus driver (Peter Fiala). As her efforts to break out of her solitude and the claustrophobic atmosphere of her bourgeois Catholic family life isolate her more and more, her state of mind veers i..
Before he arrived in Hollywood to leave his indelible (and inimitable) mark on timeless comedies like Trouble in Paradise and The Shop Around The Corner, Ernst Lubitsch created an expansive body of work in Germany that proved to be as varied in tone as it was sophisticated in its measure of man and woman. This set collects six restored works from the silent phase of Lubitsch's career, and casts new light on the director both as a fully-..
Of all Fritz Lang's creations, none have been more innovative or influential than M, the film that launched German cinema into the sound era with stunning sophistication and mesmerising artistry. A spate of child killings has stricken a terrified Berlin. Peter Lorre gives a legendary performance as the murderer Hans Beckert, who soon finds himself chased by all levels of society. From cinema's first serial killer hunt, Lang pulls back t..
Dorothea Wieck and Hertha Thiele star in this German cult classic from the 1930s, directed by Leontine Sagan.Following her enrolment at an all-girl Prussian boarding school, Manuela (Thiele) responds to the harsh regime by developing a deep attachment to one of the more affable teachers, Fräulein von Bernburg (Wieck).As she finds herself growing increasingly attached to her teacher she struggles to concentrate on her studies.Howev..
One of the biggest film events of the century, a “Holy Grail” among film finds, Fritz Lang’s 1927 sci-fi epic can finally be seen — for the first time in 83 years — as the director originally intended and as seen by German cinema-goers in 1927. Shortly after that 1927 release, an entire quarter of Lang’s original version was cut by Paramount for the US release, and by Ufa in Germany, an act of butchery very much against the director’s w..
One of the biggest film events of the century, a “Holy Grail” among film finds, Fritz Lang’s 1927 sci-fi epic can finally be seen – for the first time in 83 years – as the director originally intended and as seen by German cinema-goers in 1927. Shortly after that 1927 release, an entire quarter of Lang's original version was cut by Paramount for the US release, and by Ufa in Germany, an act of butchery very much against the director's w..
Based on Herman Bang's 1902 novel of the same name, Dreyer's film is a fascinating fin-de-siecle study of a "decadent" elderly artist (Benjamin Christensen) driven to despair by his relationship with his young protege and former model, Michael (Walter Slezak). With suffocatingly sumptuous production design by renowned architect Hugo Haring (his only film work), this Kammerspiel, or "intimate theatre", foreshadows Dreyer's magnificent fi..
A protege of Michael Haneke, Markus Schleinzer's 'Michael' is a triumph of uneasy cinema. With an unorthodox level of restraint, the director tells the story of a dull office drone who keeps a kidnapped young boy locked in his house. Despite its subversive edge, 'Michael' successfully drains the shock out of a frightening premise and instead delivers a keen observational thriller. From its opening minutes, 'Michael' reveals its alarming..
German comedy drama series of short episodes centred around the life of Ren (Alana Lake), a lesbian Londoner who moves to Berlin to explore its vibrant gay scene. Ren meets a whole host of characters during her time speed dating, attending meditation classes and being trapped in a hammock with someone who had more interest in her Tinder profile than in Ren's company...
He knew Catherine the Great, Count Cagliostro, Casanova and the man in the Moon's daughter. He rode on a cannonball and lived on the moon. He was the legendary Baron Munchausen, and his exploits are celebrated in the most lavish colour film extravaganza made during the Third Reich. Commissioned in 1941 by Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels to commemorate the twentyfifth anniversary of Germany's greatest film studio, Ufa, Munchausen bec..
German coming-of age drama directed by Faraz Shariat.Following a minor violation of the law, confident 20-something Parvis (Benny Radjaipour) must serve 120 hours of community service at a local refugee detention centre.Despite some of the newly arrived immigrants mocking Parvis about his sexuality he finds himself connecting with many of the people there, as the son of Iranian exiles, Parvis recognises their struggles.In particul..
An iconic film of the German expressionist cinema, and one of the most famous of all silent movies, F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu. A Symphony of Horror continues to haunt - and, indeed, terrify - modern audiences with the unshakable power of its images. By teasing a host of occult atmospherics out of dilapidated set-pieces and innocuous real-world locations alike, Murnau captured on celluloid the deeply-rooted elements of a waking nightmare, ..
Monika Treut writes and directs this German drama. Worried by their 16-year-old daughter's rebellious behaviour, Alex (Ceci Schmitz-Chuh)'s adoptive parents send her to work on a rural horse ranch for the summer. Detesting the hard work and yearning for the city, Alex learns the ropes from riding instructor Nina (Vanida Karun) and gradually warms to both her and the animals. When shy new arrival Kathy (Alissa Wilms) brings her horse to ..
The early films of Wim Wenders are now regarded as landmarks of European film. Alice in the Cities, Wrong Move and Kings of the Road became foundations of the German New Wave and cemented the reputation of their director. In One Who Set Fourth: Wim Wenders' Early Years Marcel Wehn explores the background to these films. Though personal recollection and rare home movie footage, it documents the director's early life, from experiments wit..
German gay-themed drama written and directed by Tor Iben. The film follows friends Philipp and Enis (Sascha Weingarten and Julien Lickert) as they embark on a trip to Greece. While exploring the countryside, they get lost in the woods and encounter a mysterious man called Hercules (Henry Morales) who takes them back to his cave. There, the pair begin a magical odyssey in which they explore their sexuality...
German gay-themed drama. The film follows the lives of furniture designer Andreas Haller (Mike Hoffmann) and florist Martin Winter (Mathis Reinhardt) as they fall in love and move in together and take in Andreas' young son Max (Cai Cohrs/Tom Böttcher) after the sudden death of his mother. Over the course of the next 15 years, their love for one another slowly diminishes as financial and employment issues force them apart, leading the co..
German children's animation. After crash-landing in a strange field, young, rebellious rabbit Max (voice of Noah Levi) finds himself enrolled at the Easter Rabbit Training School. There, he meets Emmi (Jenny Melina Witez) and together they are caught up in a quest to protect a precious golden egg from a pack of wolves...
LIMITED EDITION SLIPCASE, BOOKLET + POSTER (FIRST PRINT RUN) - IF LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS (SLIPCASE, BOOKLET + POSTER) ARE REQUIRED PLEASE CHECK WITH CUSTOMER SERVICES THAT THIS IS STILL AVAILABLE BEFORE ORDERINGWHO PROTECTS YOU WHEN YOU SLEEP?Nightmare and trauma. Fear and repression. Guilt and atonement. Weaving together the emotional violence of horror with the cryptic motifs of German folk and fairy tales, Arrow Video is proud ..
Fritz Lang's penultimate silent film, Spione (Spies) is a flawlessly constructed labyrinthine spy thriller. Hugely influential, Lang's famous passion for meticulous detail combines with masterful story-telling and editing skills to form a relentless tale of intrigue, espionage, and blackmail. An international spy ring, headed by Haghi (Rudolf Klein-Rogge), uses technology, threats and murder to obtain government secrets. As master spy, ..
On the surface it is beautiful hot summer and things appear as usual for five teenager friends hanging out at the public pool. The sun burns down from the sky and the boys show off and stare longingly at the pretty girls. However as all of them are looking to cool off in the water the events of WWII are closing in rapidly which will impact on all of their lives. In the summer of 1944, the tide has turned for Nazi Germany: their army is ..
The Blue Angel (Der blaue Engel) is one of the first German language sound films (filmed simultaneously in an English-language version), and the picture that represents the initial collaboration between Josef von Sternberg and his immortal muse, Marlene Dietrich. Following up his role in Sternberg's great silent The Last Command, Emil Jannings portrays a schoolteacher named Immanuel Rath, whose fateful expedition to catch his students f..
Franka Potente stars in this made-for-TV remake of the classic 1959 German war film, which in turn is based on the autobiographical novel by Manfred Gregor. 16-year-old Walter (Lars Steinhofel) is having a secret affair with his widowed 29-year-old teacher Elfie (Potente). When Hitler's army begins mobilising its last troops, Walter and his friends are recruited to help defend a strategically important bridge near their town. What begin..
Gay-themed docudrama directed by Stefan Haupt. The film tells the story of Ernst Ostertag (Matthias Hungerbühler), a young gay schoolteacher working in laissez-faire Zurich, who, with the help of underground publication 'The Circle', meets and falls in love with Robi Rapp (Sven Schelker), a young drag artist, while exploring the city's gay social scene.However, when several gay men are murdered in the city, the normally liberal-minded..
An incredible true story of survival from WWII, based on an international bestseller and published in over 20 countries and directed by Golden Globe nominee Max Färberböck.April 1945. The Red Army have encircled Berlin. The final battle for the city is a bitter struggle for both the soldiers and the inhabitants of Berlin. As the city begins to fall the women become victim to rape from the invading soldiers who are hell bent on seekin..
Historical drama written and directed by Lucia Puenzo. Set in 1960s Argentina, the film follows ex-Nazi SS officer and experimental physician Josef Mengele (Alex Brendemühl) during his exile in Patagonia. Forced to hide his true identity, Mengele adopts a new name and lives incognito to avoid detection. After winning the trust of local German-speaking couple Eva and Enzo (Natalia Oreiro and Diego Peretti), the former doctor grows more a..
German filmmaker Arnold Fanck made this beautifully photographed Bergfilm, or ‘mountain film’, in 1926. Written in three days and nights – especially for Leni Riefenstahl – The Holy Mountain took over a year to film in the Alps with an entourage of expert skiers and climbers. Ostensibly a love triangle romance – between Riefenstahl’s young dancer and the two explorers she encounters – Fanck relishes the glorious Alpine landscape by film..
LIMITED EDITION BOOKLET (FIRST PRINT RUN) - IF LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS (BOOKLET) ARE REQUIRED PLEASE CHECK WITH CUSTOMER SERVICES THAT THIS IS STILL AVAILABLE BEFORE ORDERINGEureka Entertainment to release THE INDIAN TOMB, Joe May’s lavish adventure thriller written by Thea von Harbou and Fritz Lang, on Blu-ray to mark the 100th Anniversary of the film. Presented from a 2K restoration available for the first time ever in the UK, and ..
Albert, a young and successful Polish investigation judge, is appointed to interrogate Hoss and get a perfect confession out of him. The encounter between the two men will unveil the frightening routine and banalization of evil that took place in the camp. By introducing the use of Zyklon B in Auschwitz, Rudolf Hoss carried out the most efficient mass killing process ever known, which claimed the lives of approximately 1.1 million peopl..
German children's fantasy. A ghost who lives in a castle awakens for one hour each night just after midnight but all he wants is to see the day for once. When Karl (Jonas Holdenrieder) discovers the ghost he befriends him and tries to help him grant his wish. While his friend's Marie (Emily Kusche) and Hannes (Nico Hartung) refuse to believe his stories, Karl tries to help the little ghost see the light of day but it doesn't quite go ac..
German drama written and directed by Bruce La Bruce. When anti-capitalist Volker (Til Schindler) flees the police he is secretly taken in by two pupils at Big Mother (Susanne Sachße)'s school for wayward girls in the German countryside and hidden in their basement. However, while he recovers from his injuries, Volker discovers that the school is merely a front for a terrorist organisation known as the Female Liberation Army, or FLA, who..
German thriller in which a young police officer called Jakob (Michel Diercks) tries to uncover the truth behind recent events plaguing his small, remote village. When he finally traces who he believes to be responsible, Jakob is confronted by a maniac wearing a dress and wielding a katana samurai sword, wreaking havoc on the town's citizens for their perceived ignorance. The samurai (Pit Bukowski) tries unsuccessfully to recruit Jakob t..
On a hot summer day, a bicycle is found in a wheat field and, nearby, the body of a young girl. The killer is never found. 23 years later. Same date. Same place. Another bicycle. Another girl. This time around, an ageing detective convinced that history is repeating itself, comes out of retirement to track down the perpetrator with the help of his young colleague. Spanning a week in the investigation, both of them will begin a journey t..
After enjoying fantastic success with Fritz Lang’s two-part “Indian Epic” in 1959, German producer Artur Brauner signed the great director to direct one more film. The result would be the picture that, in closing the saga he began nearly forty years earlier, brought Lang’s career full-circle, and would come to represent his final celluloid testament—by extension: his final film masterpiece.The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse [Die 1000 Aug..
An adaption of the best-selling novel by the Austrian author Marlen Haushofer, the films stars Martina Gedeck who, in the course of a shoot that lasted over several seasons, gives a solo performance of enormous strength, both mental and physical. An invisible wall cuts off a woman alone in the alps but for a dog, a cow, a cat and her determination to survive, even when the rest of the world has possible perished. The DVD offers both the..
From writer-director Maren Ade, Toni Erdmann is a touching an dremarkably funny portrait of an offbeat father-daughter relationship. Sandra Huller plays Ines, a highly-strung career woman whose life in corporate Bucharest takes a turn for the bizarre with the arrival of her estranged father Winfried (Peter Simonischek). An incessant practical joker, Winfried attempts to reconnect with Ines by introducing the titular eccentric alter ego ..
German comedy written and directed by Maren Ade. In an attempt to reconnect with his career-driven daughter Ines (Sandra Hüller), divorced music teacher Winfried Conradi (Peter Simonischek) decides to visit her in Bucharest, where she works as a business consultant. Worried Ines is unhappy with her hectic lifestyle, Winfried takes it upon himself to dress up as his practical joke-loving alter ego 'Toni Erdmann' and integrate himself int..
German lesbian-themed drama. Katja and Isabella (Sabine Wolf and Karina Plachetka) are a happily married lesbian couple who have reached a point in their relationship where they wish to start a family. However, as they begin proceedings to find a sperm donor, they find that the process is much more difficult than initially expected. Months pass by and as they are faced with a number of beauraucratic hurdles, great strain is placed upon ..
Exhilarating and astonishingly ambitious, Victoria is an adrenaline-fuelled heist thriller set on the streets of nighttime Berlin that features the staggering technical feat of being shot in a single, unbroken take. Victoria, a young woman from Madrid, meets four local guys outside a nightclub in the early hours of the morning. Sonne and his friends are Berliners who promise to show her the real side of the city. But when the group are ..
Standard Edition.Waxworks [Das Wachsfigurenkabinett] was the final film Paul Leni directed in Germany before striking out for Hollywood and making such classic works of genre filmmaking as The Cat and the Canary, The Man Who Laughs, and The Last Warning. Its sophisticated melding of genres was in fact what inspired Universal’s Carl Laemmle to invite Leni to come to Hollywood in the first place, as Laemmle was hoping to capitalis..
Limited Edition O-Card Slipcase for first print run of 2000 copies only.Waxworks [Das Wachsfigurenkabinett] was the final film Paul Leni directed in Germany before striking out for Hollywood and making such classic works of genre filmmaking as The Cat and the Canary, The Man Who Laughs, and The Last Warning. Its sophisticated melding of genres was in fact what inspired Universal’s Carl Laemmle to invite Leni to come to Hollywood..
Christian Schwochow directs this German drama based on the novel 'Lagerfeuer' by Julia Franck. Nelly Senff (Jördis Triebel) lives in East Germany with her son Alexej (Tristan Göbel). When her boyfriend Wassilij (Carlo Ljubek) is killed in a car accident, Nelly decides to make the biggest decision of her life and cross the wall to West Germany. Determined to start a new life in the West, Nelly and Alexej try their hardest to adjust, but ..
European drama written and directed by Valeska Grisebach. The film revolves around a group of German construction workers who are building a new water power station in the Bulgarian countryside. Their presence prompts hostility from some of the locals and tensions escalate further when former legionnaire Meinhard (Meinhard Neumann) attempts to ingratiate himself with the local community rather than joining his colleagues in their after-..
Georg Wilhelm Pabst (Pandora's Box, Diary of a Lost Girl) made a flawless transition from silent to sound filmmaking with Westfront 1918 and Kameradschaft, a pair of strongly anti-war titles (Pabst himself was a prisoner of war for the duration of WWI) that combined elements of Expressionism and New Objectivity to stunning effect. In Westfront 1918, four infantrymen on the Western Front suffer the everyday hardships and insanity of tren..
German children's feature. Despondent and unruly teenager Mika (Hannah Binke) is sent to stay with her grandmother, who was an Olympic show jumper, for the summer to try and learn some discipline and improve her behaviour. Although she's unable to ride a horse, Mika develops a special bond with her grandmother's supposedly dangerous stallion Windstorm. With help from stable boy Sam (Marvin Linke) and his grandfather, Mika is encouraged ..
In Wings Of Desire, director Wim Wenders' (Paris, Texas, Alice in the Cities) most metaphysical work, a guardian angel desires nothing more than to be human. Every day, Dammiel (Bruno Ganz, The American Friend, Downfall) listens to the thoughts of mortals who play their lives out on the streets of West Berlin. He finds himself entranced by a trapeze artist (Solveig Dommartin, Until the End of the World) whose eloquent expression of her ..
Frau im Mond. (Woman in the Moon.) is: (a) The first feature-length film to portray space-exploration in a serious manner, paying close attention to the science involved in launching a vessel from the surface of the earth to the valleys of the moon. (b) A tri-polar potboiler of a picture that manages to combine espionage tale, serial melodrama, and comic-book sci-fi into a storyline that is by turns delirious, hushed, and deranged. (c) ..
Summer in Berlin. Jonas is planning a trip through the little know area of the uckermark in preparation for a photography project. He invites his best friend, Phillip, to come along. They've only seen each other a few times since their time together in London. So they pack up their Mercedes Camper and take off across Uncharted territory, stopping when they see something nice, taking pictures and generally enjoying a laid-back road trip...
