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- Under a dystopian religious tyranny, most women cannot conceive children. Those young women who can live in a form of sexual slavery to provide children for influential families.
- A young boy with a distant father enters a world of make-believe and magic through a portal within an antique book.
- A boy in Nazi Germany, trying to conceal that he is Jewish, joins the Hitler Youth.
- Henri is depressed after losing his job, but finds himself too afraid to go through with suicide. He hires a contract killer to do the job for him instead - but what happens if he changes his mind?
- Expatriate Henry Miller indulges in a variety of sexual escapades while struggling to establish himself as a serious writer in Paris.
- The familiar tragic story of Vincent van Gogh is broadened by focusing as well on his brother Theodore, who helped support Vincent. The movie also provides a nice view of the locations which Vincent painted.
- A tycoon's children and creditors compete for his money in an athletic contest.
- Broesel has to make a Werner animation film but right now he has no real ideas for new stories. Thus he simply draws some stories from Werner's youth.
- Zany subversion of the 1001 Nights myth that skips all of the stories and simply focuses on the lovely Scheherazade's escape from the lustful king with the help of a magic lamp and a time traveling astrologist.
- The last days of life of the legendary Polish pedagogue Dr. Janusz Korczak and his heroic dedication to protecting Jewish orphans in the Warsaw Ghetto.
- Young nobleman Baron Sergio Giuramondo, after discovering that his bride-to-be was the king's mistress, leaves Naples in disgust to become a monk. But his quest for perfect solitude is constantly interrupted by visitors hearing rumours that Sergio possesses miraculous powers, and by women who bet each other that they can successfully seduce him...
- A nearly wordless visual narrative inter cuts two main stories and a couple of minor ones.
- Gianni's career threatened when his wife Angela fakes assault. With lover Eva, they plan Angela's murder. Blackmailed by witness, Angela has loyal maid Rosy and a mysterious man around.
- Investigating a series of suicides, police detective reveals a sinister plot.
- Documentary examining Bokassa's rule in the Central African Republic using the testimony of witnesses and visits to key sites.
- Widowed and broke Finnish businessman Kari takes his two teenage daughters with him to Brazil. A bush pilot introduces him to the idea of gold mining in the jungle, but a beautiful and educated local woman warns him about the possible consequences to the rain forest. Kari has mixed feelings about the project, until an accident puts him in the care of a local Indian tribe.
- Prague, 1920. Milena's father wants her to follow in his footsteps and be one of the first female doctors in Czechoslovakia, but she is determined to be a writer. She elopes to Vienna with the Jewish music critic Ernst Pollak, and starts a correspondence with Franz Kafka. She leaves Pollak and returns to Prague with her father, where she befriends and translates Kafka. As a journalist, Milena covers the 1923 Ruhr worker's strike and meets the communist architect Jaromir. They marry and have a daughter. Milena writes for a Marxist paper till her husband leaves for the Soviet Union. She then confronts the rise of Nazism in the years leading up to the Second World War, and ends up in a concentration camp.
- 1849 - Ciceruacchio declares the Independent Republic of Rome, but the French and the Austrians try to bring back the Pope to Rome.
- In "German Chainsaw Massacre" people meet up with a household of butchers. They detect low cost meat in the East Germans moving over the old boundary into the West and start turning them into sausage. Clara flees the slaying of her sleazy spouse and the rotting East, and lands in the arms of butchers. She is held alive simply because the daughter of the family falls in love with her. This German movie is a satirical massacre splatter flick that provides lots of inexpensive gore. It's full of political overtones and has a lot to Tobe Hooper's terror classic "The Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers". If you're a lover of German gore and absurdness, check it out!. 16 million East Germans on their way to the golden West. 4% never got there: were they turned into Wuerste (sausages)? If you knew Christoph Schlingensief's other movies like "United Trash" you will know what this is all about - some call it art, some trash. Shot in 14 days after October the 3rd 1990. With Udo Kier in a small role.
- In a futuristic society, an old man tells the legend of a strange medal to two children. In flashback, we learn that after a nuclear catastrophe, two teenagers were living in an artificial paradise, maintained by electronic means, and once decide to leave that shelter and escape using that same medal - a mini video-disc - in search of outer-space freedom.
- Angelo (Dexter Fletcher) and two of his buddies set out to rob a Swiss bank, and from the start things don't go well. The man driving the getaway car packed up and left before anyone could connect him with the crime, and Angelo's other partner got shot and killed. The best he can do is grab someone's cash-filled briefcase and take a car and its driver hostage. It turns out that the driver is the daughter (Fabienne Babe) of the bank director, so he figures that she's good for ransom money and begins negotiations for that. Meanwhile, the briefcase he took at the bank turns out to have belonged to a man who is willing to hire killers to get it back for him. The situation grows increasingly perilous for him, and he decides to flee the scene but not before he has won the heart of his lovely hostage.
- Harriet is a middle-aged woman who just does not succeed. It does not work in the job and it does not really work for the men either.
- The story of Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571), a soldier and one of the most important craftsmen and artists of Renaissance Italy, whose life was marked by many achievements and adventures, but also crimes.
- Set in a pre-colonial African past, Tilai is about an illicit love affair and its consequences. Saga returns to his village after an extended absence to discover that his father has taken Nogma, Saga's promised bride, for himself. Still in love with each other, the two begin an affair, although it would be considered incestuous. When the liaison is discovered, Saga's brother, Koudri, pretends to kill Saga for the honor of the family and village. Saga and Nogma flee to another village, but when Nogma's birth mother dies, he returns home. Having brought ruin on the family, Saga is shot by Koudri, who walks off into exile and probable death.
- Sharon McDonnel receives a letter from a Catholic school saying that her daughter had fallen ill and that she would need help from her mother. Sharon arrives at the catholic school and realizes that something very wrong has happened there
- A pair of mismatched cops stumble onto a major protection racket involving a seedy restaurant.
- A child meets his uncle, a Czech Jew living in the south of Germany in the days before the 2nd world war. Without taking care of social prejudices, the uncle marries Martha, his servant. When the Nazis come to the power the young and the couple move to Prague. Then is Martha who defends her marriage to a Jew against the society. Finally, the man manages to force the separation to save Martha from finishing in a concentration camp with him.
- The long friendship between Martha and Anna breaks when Victor leaves the first for the second. Martha, desperate, goes to Africa in search of an old love.
- In 1914 Sarajevo, a student radical touches off World War I by assassinating Austria's archduke.
- Drama set in Manchester see's the star striker of the City's one & only football team, Manchester City, meets a fan & lucky radio phone in winner that results in a Kidnapping nightmare involving an out of his depth, jealous admirer of the winner
- A drama between revolution and order, captured partly on film, partly on video adding to the gritty reality of the time, place and events as they unfolds in Eastern Europe as the "Iron Curtain" collapsed.
- A young girl, Yvonne takes her holiday on a farm. She meets Alexander and Rainer, two mates. They both fall in love with her...
- Late in the 1980s, two documentary film makers found six German men, all in their 60s and 70s, who had been soldiers in the German invasion of the USSR in 1942. Each carried an 8mm camera into battle and they still had their film. "Mein Kreig" alternates between interviews with these older men, now apologetic, philosophical, or defiant about their participation, and the footage they shot. It's chronological: basic training, the train trip East, roof-top vistas of war-torn Warsaw, peasants in Belarus, the downing with carbine volleys of a Russian plane, winter, a holiday at the Black Sea, mud, impassable roads, death, destruction and retreat. "Home, that was the front," one says.
- Erwin, a young man, who came to Vienna with a great ambition to be successful as an actor, has been unsuccessful so far. Even his relationship with a waitress Karin disappoints him. She runs her life by working in a miserable suburban cafe. Wolf is a poet who can't create any poet and whose life just goes hard. And Claudia from Germany, is tired in this decadent city.
- An adventurer (Dack Rambo) pursues a river of gems through caverns of mystery, murder and bone-chilling excitement. He encounters lives snakes, buried-alive nazis and brutal murderers. The prize is a river of diamonds but the price could be a violent sudden death.
- Documentary film about a crisis in Soviet society and causes, which led to this.
- Documentary of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' 1989 tour of America.
- Willi Kritz earns his living as a night watchman and body scrubber at the East-German Institute of Pathology at the University Hospital Berlin. He has opened another source of income: He steals pathological exhibits and smuggles them as Bear dressed to West Berlin. Its purchaser Frundsberg, the transfer always takes place in the American cars. Lilo Berger, head of the credit department of the bank Hippo is addicted to gambling and are worried it at their bank money by approved credit for a non-existent Dr. Tetzlaff Tassilo. Your boss, Dr. Reinhart, notice that this Dr. Tetzlaff has not repaid any rate, and he wants to look at the practice of Dr. Tetzlaff. This brings Lilo course in dire straits. As you come to the aid of the accident: She drives disguised just as bears and biking with contraband Willi Kritz by car to. In the doctor's office to her sister, she discovers that Willy is a smuggler. You blackmailed Willi, he must now Dr. Tetzlaff play to calm Lilo's boss.
- In 1958 five men, condemned to death for their roles in the 1956 Hungarian revolt against Soviet rule, relive their recollections and now no-longer realizable aspirations.
- Filmmaker Sibylle Schoenemann, imprisoned by the GDR in 1984, was released to the FRG after having West Germany literally buy her freedom. In 1990 she went back and questioned those responsible.
- The most comprehensive documentation of events surrounding the 1989 Monday demonstrations in Leipzig, East Germany. The film team finally got the permission of the state-owned film studio to document these historic events on October 16, 1989 and filmed until the fall of the Berlin Wall. With their heavy 35mm camera equipment, they were the only professional team filming in Leipzig. The film includes interviews with demonstrators, members of the citizens' rights movement, officials and bystanders in East Germany's peaceful revolution.
- Lauria goes back in time to meet the Almogavars on a journey through Catalanism mythology and symbolism.
- After a ten year long stay in West Germany, Max returns to the Soviet Union to visit his deadly ill father in Leningrad. There he finds a friend in a man who calls himself Igor and he begins a love-affair with the deaf-mute Lena.