La historia relata gradualmente los problemas de una granja colectiva durante unos pocos días de otoño en los años de la Hungría post-comunista, observada desde la perspectiva de distintos personajes. (FILMAFFINITY)
Un circo llega a un pequeño pueblo en el que todos sus habitantes se conocen. La llegada de este circo, que promete el espectáculo de ver a un Príncipe y una ballena gigante despierta recelos en los habitantes, que comienzan a manifestarse contra los signos de violencia callejera que encuentran y que atribuyen al circo. El protagonista asistirá atónito y perplejo a todos estos acontecimientos que se desencadenan de forma precipitada.
Maloin es un vigilante de una estación de tren que, de forma casual, es testigo de un asesinato, y acaba haciéndose cargo de una maleta llena de dinero que trastocará para siempre su vida, acarreándole muchos problemas. Inspirada en la novela de Georges Simenon "El hombre de Londres".
The bandoneon player Daniel and the boxer Toni arrive independently from each other in a provincial town in Latin America where they are booked to perform at a folk festival. Both of them are completely apolitical but are forced by external circumstances to take a political position. Toni falls in love with the daughter of an influential attorney but has to keep his love a secret. Meanwhile, Daniel learns about the atrocities committed by the Junta from the town’s residents.
Extensive dialogue and the tight focus of a single apartment setting marks this romantic and politically symbolic drama about Malgorzata, a Polish photographer (Krystyna Janda) and her married French lover Paul (Sami Frey). The two rendezvous in West Berlin to spend some time together before Malgorzata has to go back to Warsaw and Paul returns to his wife and daughter.
Una periodista alemana viaja a Yugoslavia con la intención de documentar las condiciones que encuentran los hijos de los trabajadores yugoslavos en Alemania cuando vuelven a su tierra natal. Ahí conoce a un hombre que ha viajado a ese país para conocer más sobre el pasado nazi de su padre. Ambos viajan al pueblo de la madre de ella haciéndose pasar por novios. (FILMAFFINITY)
In the late 1970s the German secret service fights against RAF terrorism and searches for constitutional enemies in the public service. Teacher Brasch implicates secret service agent Körner and the government in the suicide of a young teen. As a result Brasch and the exposed Körner are fired.
This film of a glitzy showbiz world by director Peter Keglevic in his first feature-length effort recounts the saga of a married torch singer whose numerous lovers are meant to steady her nerves and a saxophone player who loves her but cannot get his own act together. Singing and cinematography are pluses.
Ruby Dennis is an middle-aged man with an unfulfilled ambition as a singer. As he begins to pursue that ambition, his family falls apart.
It is 1988. Jacob (Gottfried John), from Hamburg in West Germany, falls in love with Elisabeth (Angelica Domröse) in East Germany. When they secretly meet in East Berlin, it seems the Stasi (secret police) knows about it. When Jacob visits her village, someone informs on him and he is deported. Elisabeth knows who begrudges her this love and takes her revenge. Critics note that in this film, director Heiner Carow revisits the themes of his 1972 smash hit, The Legend of Paul and Paula, which became a cult film throughout Germany.
Three young men kill two policemen after a chaotic bank raid; a problem which forces the trio to make a desperate escape across the border to Poland.
Although members of the Hitler Youth chant anti-Semitic paroles in front of his house during the Purim festival, Rabbi Singer is still profoundly convinced that Germany will stay a safe country for him, his family, and his fellow believers. But several years later, his son David is banned from going to school because he is a Jew. Shortly after, Rabbi Singer and his wife are deported. Now, young David also fears for his life. In constant fear of being detected, he tries to find a way to leave Germany.
Elias, born at the end of the war, receives an anonymous phone call on his 47th birthday: his parents are dead. He is now a successful politician, but thirty years ago he had fled from his home and parents in the East to seek a new life in the West. The return to his parental home causes Elias a sense of unease and disturbs the rigid order and complacency of his life.
Set in the greek island Milos, this action comedy follows a group of people searching for the actual Venus de Milo
After 15 years spent working in Germany, forty-something-year-old Nada is getting divorced. Her husband is returning to the home country, opens the mechanic shop and starts a new life with his new young wife. To prevent Nada from returning home, he starts spreading the word about her misconducts. But Nada also knows the ways of the old community, therefore she comes back in a brand new Mercedes, accompanied by a young German.
La lucha de liberación por parte del ejército sandinista contra el régimen de Anastasio Somoza en Nicaragua. La película recoge algunos de los puntos culminantes de esa lucha en León, ciudad próxima a Managua, la capital del país, y primer territorio liberado. En su rodaje participaron algunos miembros del ejército sandinista, así como numerosos habitantes de León que colaboraron estrechamente con la guerrilla.
The subject of this historical drama is a splintering Berlin in the years of 1948 and 1949. Played against the backdrop of social upheaval, the characters in the drama come to epitomize the best and worst of each pole of the political sphere. A 17-year-old hoodlum by the name of Gladow works hand-in-glove with a local white-collar criminal to rob and pillage every day and night, defying capture. While he and his gang of thugs are terrorizing the people of Berlin, the Soviets are trying to make the blockade of their region of control impermeable. The future casts long shadows over the drama, as Berlin's problems take the shape of times to come.
A medical doctor who is regarded as a specialist in retort research has been found dead. Science journalist Vera Pukall investigates the alleged suicide and uncovers the ruthless activities of a large pharmaceutical company. She receives help from Dr. Svoboda, of all people, the group's main stockholder.
An American filmmaker travels to modern day Berlin to make a film based on a real-life incident from 1942 in which 13 Jewish prisoners from a concentration camp were promised freedom if they appeared in a German propaganda film. Unfortunately, the Germans lied. The psychological process undergone by the modern filmmaker while shooting the story provides the basis of this arty and challenging film.
A Red Army major caught between East and West Berlin finds his wife gone and somebody else moved into his apartment.