Search Results
Tip: You can use the 'y:' filter to narrow your results by year. Example: 'star wars y:1977'.
Dima, a petty criminal, is in constant fear of his imminent deportation from Germany.This fear he compensated by carelessness. As he meets one day Sarah, who is working on a documentary about young foreigners, he becomes the main subject of the film. Sarah offers him shelter in her loft, and the two of them get emotionally tied up.
It's Nadia's 15th birthday. Instead of celebrating with her friends she takes care of her drug addict mother. To earn their living Nadia is working in a chinese restaurant. Due to the clash of hope, fights and reconciliation the life with her drug addict mother becomes an intoxication for Nadia herself. Trapped between responsibility and the thoughts to escape Nadia's loving care is put to the test.
A boy who was once a perpetual outcast finds friends in a new boarding school. United with his new peers, he gets involved in a heated rivalry with a group of students from a neighboring school.
The third form of a boarding school and the students of a neighboring school do not get along. Each side dreams up the craziest pranks to defeat the other. And when one day the high school students go as far as stealing the Gymnasium students’ essays and even burning them, daily school life really gets out of hand.
Apothecary Eva had after the painful separation of her husband Christian life and emotions rearranged. A new relationship is out of the question for the 42-year-old, she just wants to be there for her two almost grown-up sons and one day to take over the pharmacy of her still-mother-in-law. Out of the blue, however, the more than ten years younger doctor Hendrik burst into her life and makes no secret that he has fallen in love with her. Eva suddenly struggles with feelings she never wanted to allow.
Fliegender Zirkus consisted of two 45-minute Monty Python television comedy specials produced by WDR for West German television. The two episodes were first broadcast in January and December 1972 respectively and were shot entirely on film, mostly on location in Bavaria. The first episode was recorded in German and the second was recorded in English and then dubbed into German.
When young Martina takes up a scholarship at the Johann-Sigismund Gymnasium boarding school, she finds herself caught in the rivalry between the boarders and the "externals" from the local village.
A boy who was once a perpetual outcast finds friends in a new boarding school, united with his new peers gets involved in a heated rivalry with a group of students from a neighboring school.
This documentary deals with the abduction of the "Landshut" in October 1977. Based on original recordings of reporting from Mogadishu at the time, as well as and interviews with the hostages from 1980, the events are portrayed to give a unique, personal perspective to the hijacking.
Two French spies, Baron d’Aubigny and Clemence de Montignon, blackmail German engineer Günther Ellinghaus with his gambling debts into handing over his construction plans for the new Ikarus engine. He flees to New York and works as a waiter. When World War I breaks, he signs on as a fireman on a Dutch ship and returns to Europe. He becomes a fighter pilot in Germany and faces the former spies as his enemies. After an emergency landing he is taken into their headquarters. He escapes an attempted murder and fights his enemies in an air battle. Both of them survive and after the war Ellinghaus offers them his hand in reconciliation.
A lonely therapist and her suicidal half-sister are on their way to Norway in a red fire-engine. Accompanied by a Spaniard who wants to go to Finland. Haunted by a bunch of stranded personalities. And two flies who suddenly start dreaming.
Lotte Reiniger's earliest preserved fairytale film based on a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen.
A single mother of three children lives a chaotic and not very wealthy life in which her oldest daughter tries to manage everything and wants to find a decent guy for her mum.
A surrealistic adaptation of Wagner's opera.
A young German boy meets his hero, a famous flying ace, and dreams of becoming a pilot. However, his mother--whose husband was a fighter pilot killed in battle during World War I--does not want to lose her son, too, and tries to persuade him to abandon his dreams of flying.
Luigi Cozzi's memories about the production of Dario Argento's "4 mosche di velluto grigio".