Drama
Amrum
Director Fatih Akin (In the Fade) reunites with frequent collaborator Diane Kruger in this tender coming-of-age tale about the loss of innocence in the waning days of WWII. On the windswept island of Amrum in northern Germany, a young farmboy sets out on a quest in an attempt to bring solace to his …
Angry Harvest
Set in 1943 Poland, a wealthy farmer hides and nurses a married Jewish woman who is fleeing the Nazis. As they form a forbidden romance amidst the dangers of the occupation, they face constant threats and moral dilemmas.
Anna Boleyn
The tragic story of the second wife of England's Henry VIII, whose marriage to the Henry led to momentous political and religious turmoil in England.
Babylon Berlin: Season 4
Season 4 of the international hit series Babylon Berlin is set in 1930s Germany, just after the global stock market crash and the Great Depression, and with the Nazis' march to power in full swing.
Bad Banks
Bad Banks follows Jana Liekam, an up-and-coming investment banker in Luxembourg. After firing her from her previous job, Jana's conniving boss Christelle Leblanc continues to manipulate Jana for her own obscure plans, tipping her off to an attractive deal. Now indebted, Jana is expected to deliver s…
Barbara
A doctor working in 1980s East Germany finds herself banished to a small country hospital.
Berlin Alexanderplatz
An African immigrant struggles to make a new life for himself in the big city in director-co-writer Burhan Qurbani's audacious, neon-lit reinterpretation of Alfred Döblin's 1929 novel.
Black Gravel
In this gripping Cold War noir, tensions simmer between residents of a small German village and the soldiers of a U.S. military base.
The Blue Angel (Deluxe Blu-ray)
This landmark early sound film, directed by Josef von Sternberg, stars Marelene Dietrich and the great Emil Jannings. THE BLUE ANGEL is an exquisite parable of one man's fall from respectability, and the film that catapulted Marlene Dietrich to international stardom. It is presented here in both the…
The Blue Angel
The crowning achievement of the Weimar cinema, The Blue Angel is an exquisite parable of one man's fall from respectability.
The Blue Light
An eccentric mountain girl whom the villagers believe to be a witch, befriends a painter and leads him to a forbidden grotto, not realizing the tragic repercussions of having disturbed a cache of ethereal crystals.
Bukow and König: Set 2
A veteran cop and his straight-laced partner fight crime as often as they do each other in this modern iteration of a classic German series.
Der Bunker
A funny, bizarre fairy tale about a graduate student who becomes the tutor to a strange child.
Carmen (1918)
Carmen retells Prosper Merimée’s classic tale of a Romani woman who seduces a military officer and sends each of them on a trajectory of dramatic self-destruction.
Crescendo
When world-famous conductor Eduard Sporck accepts the job to create an Israeli-Palestinian youth orchestra, he is quickly drawn into a tempest of sheer unsolvable problems.
Death Packs a Suitcase
A black-gloved killer stalks London, packing the suitcases of their victims before murdering them with an exotic dagger.
Deutschland 83
Emmy Award Winner - Best International Drama: Deutschland 83 is a groundbreaking new series from the producers of the international Emmy award-winning Generation War. It's 1983. The Cold War is hot. Russian SS20 Missiles in East Germany are already pointed West. American Pershing II Missiles will so…
The Devil Strikes at Night
The murder of a Hamburg barmaid seems an open-and-shut case until a recently demobilized Nazi soldier, reassigned to the police force, suspects it’s the work of a serial killer.
Donna Leon's Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries: Episodes 1 & 2
From the mind of world-famous crime novelist Donna Leon comes a blend of drama, romance and suspense fit for the idyllic city of Venice.
Donna Leon's Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries: Episodes 11 & 12
From the mind of world-famous crime novelist Donna Leon comes a blend of drama, romance and suspense fit for the idyllic city of Venice.
Donna Leon's Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries: Episodes 7 & 8
From the mind of world-famous crime novelist Donna Leon comes a blend of drama, romance and suspense fit for the idyllic city of Venice.
Fabian: Going to the Dogs
In this dazzling adaptation of Erich Kästner’s classic of Weimar literature, a young ad-man spends his days working for a cigarette company and his nights wandering the streets of Berlin, where he meets and falls in love with a beautiful actress. As her career begins to blossom, prospects…
Farewell (Abschied)
In a return to the realistic “Street films” of the German silent era, Robert Siodmak directed this comedy drama of intersecting lives within the rooms of a working-class boarding house.
Fritz Lang's Destiny
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 the death of the lovers in at least one of the ep…
Fritz Lang: The Early Works (3-DVD Collection)
Before he gained worldwide renown for such films as METROPOLIS, and M, Fritz Lang crafted a series of feature films that embody many of the thematic and stylistic trademarks that would come to define his work. Virtually unseen in the United States until this release, the three films in this collecti…
The Girl From the Marsh Croft / The Final Chord (Douglas Sirk Double Feature)
Prior to fleeing Germany in the 1930s, Douglas Sirk was already exploring the boundaries of the American melodrama, and ref
Homicide Hills: The Complete Series
Sophie Haas, an aspiring criminal investigator from Cologne, is relegated to a very small police outpost in the Eifel mountains.
Immensee/The Great Sacrifice
Immensee stars Kristina Söderbaum as Elisabeth, a woman in love with Reinhardt, a brillian
Islands
In this twisty thriller, a tennis coach at a tropical resort finds himself at the center of amissing persons mystery.
The Kaiser of California
Based on the story of German-born John Sutter, gold rush pioneer and founder of what would become the city of Sacramento.
A Knife in the Head
An innocent bystander survives a gunshot to the head by the police during a raid on a group of revolutionaries. In order to justify the shooting, the police claim he is a dangerous radical who attacked a policeman. The leftist revolutionaries in turn claim him as a hero and victim of police brutalit…
The Last Supper
'The last supper' is a very personal and intimate chamber play - but also a warning letter to a world in which populists and demagogues are on the rise.
The Love of Jeanne Ney
The Love of Jeanne Ney follows a young French woman’s struggle for happiness amid the political turbulence and corruption of post-World War I Europe.
Madame DuBarry
Mesmerizing silent film icon Pola Negri stars as Jeanne Bécu, Countess of Barry, who rises from humble origins to become a plaything of the rich and powerful during the firestorm of the French Revolution.
Maedchen in Uniform (1958)
A sensitive pupil forms an attachment to a compassionate instructor while at a militaristic boarding school.
Michael
Danish film master Carl Theodor Dreyer's homoerotic classic Michael is a mature and visually elegant period romance decades ahead of its time.
Munchhausen
Starring hypnotic, blond superstar Hans Albers, this lavish, impudent, adult fairy tale takes the viewer from 18th-century Braunschweig to St. Petersburg, Constantinople, Venice, and then to the moon using ingenious special effects, stunning location shooting, and a rich color palette.
Mädchen in Uniform
As a new student at an all-girls boarding school, Manuela falls in love with the compassionate teacher Fräulein von Bernburg, and her feelings are requited. Experiencing her first love, lonely Manuela also discovers the complexities that come with an illicit romance. This artfully composed land…
Paracelsus
A physician, alchemist, and spiritual guru, Paracelsus (1493-1541) was one of the most enigmatic figures in the history of science. And, like its subject, this 1943 film is shrouded in mystery, even though it was directed by one of the supreme stylists of the German cinema: G.W. Pabst.
The People vs. Fritz Bauer
The story of the man who brought high-ranking German Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann to justice.
Port of Freedom
Under the direction of Helmut Käutner (Black Gravel), German heartthrob Hans Albers stars as Hannes, a former sailor who now works as an entertainer, playing his accordion in the streets and cabarets of the garish red light district of Hamburg.
Skin Deep
Winner of the Queer Lion at the Venice Film Festival and directed by Student Academy Award® winner Alex Schaad. Subverting genre and gender as it toggles from body swap thriller to intimate relationship drama, Skin Deep tells a story that transcends bodies, embracing the endless fluid possibilit…
Sophie Scholl -The Final Days
The true story of Germany’s most famous anti-Nazi heroine is brought to thrilling life in the multi-award winning drama SOPHIE SCHOLL-THE FINAL DAYS. Academy Award Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, SOPHIE SCHOLL stars Julia Jentsch in a luminous performance as the young coed-turned-fearl…
The Summer House
A psycho-sexual drama in which middle-aged father becomes attracted to his daughter’s male friend.
Sumurun
A rebellious harem girl rejects the old sheikh and instead falls for a charming clothing merchant in this exotic spectacle that is one of the key early works of the celebrated director. The cast includes Pola Negri as a traveling dancer and Lubitsch himself as a hunchbacked clown.
Tartuffe
Restoring censored images and filling in forgotten facts, Jia Zhangke provides an alternative version of 20th-century China’s fraught history as reflected through life in the Yangtze city.
The Invisibles
While Nazi propaganda minister Josef Goebbels infamously declared Berlin “free of Jews” in 1943, 1,700 Jewish Berliners managed to survive in the Nazi capital. Claus Räfle’s gripping docudrama traces the stories of four real-life survivors who learned to hide in plain sight.
Three Peaks
Fatherhood, suspicion and resentment are a combustible formula in Jan Zabeil’s elegant, unnerving domestic thriller Three Peaks, in which a family vacation becomes a harrowing fight for survival.
Tiefland
Don Sebastian becomes smitten with Martha, an exotic Spanish dancer, and schemes to add her to his menagerie. Martha tries to broker a peace between the cattle baron and the shepherds, but Don Sebastian’s greed is insatiable, and a violent confrontation seems inevitable.
To New Shores/La Habanera (The Douglas Sirk Collection)
<span data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Douglas Sirk (All That Heaven Allows) would become synonymous with the 1950s American melodrama, but he was already reinventing the genre while working in Germany in the 1930s. This disc collects two of these rarely-seen, innovative films, both showcasing the …
The Tobacconist
Seventeen-year-old Franz journeys to Vienna to apprentice at a tobacco shop. There he meets Sigmund Freud, a regular customer, and over time the two very different men form a singular friendship.
Variete
Now available in a newly-restored 2K DCP version! Former trapeze artist “Boss” Huller leaves his wife and child to go to Berlin with the younger, seductive Berta-Marie. They become the lead attraction at Berlin’s famed Wintergarten, where they perform as a trio with trapezist Artin…
Victoria
Shot in a single, uninterrupted take, Victoria, a runaway party girl, is asked by three friendly men to join them as they hit the town. Their wild night of partying turns into a bank robbery.
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
The story of a Jewish family's escape from 1933 Berlin to Europe tackles prejudice, exile, displacement and adaptation, as told from the perspective of the author’s alter ego, nine year-old Anna Kemper.
The Woman One Longs For
The true screen debut of Marlene Dietrich sees her play a haunting adulteress in the story of a young businessman waylaid from his plans for marriage by her charms. Restored in 2012 with an original orchestral score by Pascal Schumacher.