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see all genres ›Robust from the earliest days, German's film industry was one of the world's major exporters during the silent era. That largely shut down (and much of the top talent fled) as the Nazis came to power and postwar German cinema fell into a trap of stale, repetitive escapism. But the "New German Cinema" movement that arrived with the 1960s brought game-changing names (like Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Wim Wenders and Werner Herzog) with a resurgent energy that still hasn't fully abated.
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About Jenny Holzer
An artist whose medium is language. For more than thirty years, Jenny Holzer’s name has stood for a conceptual art that questions our perceptions and the way we are influenced by media and politics. Holzer has made LED signs (typically identified with advertising) her trademark. These blinking, flickering...Start your free trial to watch
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Accomplice
An artist-criminal far from home asks his assistant to pirate a rare videotape before the German Post Office Authorities come to confiscate it. Featuring Jordana Maurer and an ersatz appearance by Jean-Luc Godard along with the voices of DJ Mendel, Professor David Poeppel and David Bordwell.Start your free trial to watch
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Acholiland
Northern Uganda, 1999. War has raged for thirteen years. Thousands are killed, millions are displaced and everyone is starving. Set in the heart of this turmoil, four UN workers must embark on a frantic food delivery to a mass of desperate villagers. But when the militia strike and the situation explodes, these men will face...Start your free trial to watch
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Alfred Eisenstaedt: Photographer
This is the behind-the-scenes look at the character and the style of one of the most important photojournalists of the 20th century, the premier LIFE magazine photographer, Alfred Eisenstaedt. This film reveals a rare view of "Eisey" as he returns to Germany to photograph his homeland for his book,...Start your free trial to watch
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Anna Boleyn
The tragic story of the second wife of England’s Henry VIII is given a first-class treatment by Lubitsch, complete with opulent sets and some beautifully-shot exterior sequences. Henny Porten (KOHLHIESEL’S DAUGHTER, BACKSTAIRS) gives a memorable performance as Boleyn, but the film really belongs to Emil Jannings (THE LAST...Start your free trial to watch
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Anne Perry: Interiors
Anne Perry is one of the leading authors of our time. She specializes in crime novels and is famous worldwide but her books hide a very real tale of murder and everlasting regret. Since she was 15 years old, Anne has carried an awful secret, a story of a young murderer forever trying to get beyond her...Start your free trial to watch
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The Artists
Director Susanne Ullerich had often asked herself, “How will I earn money [as an artist]?” Because she couldn’t easily answer this and many other questions, she decided to interview other like-minded people. The interviews all take place in a studio, where the goal was to place the interviewees in a sort of job interview...Start your free trial to watch
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Asphalt
Gustav Froelich, best known as the young protagonist of METROPOLIS, stars as Holk, a strait-laced traffic cop who has the simple task of escorting a diamond thief to the police station. However, the thief is the exotic and beautiful Else (played by Betty Amann), which makes the task far from simple. The stage is thus set for...Start your free trial to watch
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The Blue Angel
Emil Jannings, the quintessential German expressionist actor, stars as Professor Rath, the sexually-repressed instructor of a boys' prep school. After learning of the pupils' infatuation with French postcards depicting a local nightclub songstress, he decides to personally investigate the source of such indecency. But as soon...Start your free trial to watch
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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
The most brilliant example of that dark and twisted film movement known as German expressionism, THE CABINET OF DR CALIGARI is a plunge into the mind of insanity that severs all ties with the rational world. Director Robert Wiene and a team of designers crafted a nightmare realm in which light, shadow and...Start your free trial to watch
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Cave of the Living Dead
The police cannot solve the mystery of seven murders which have alarmed the inhabitants of a small village. They call in Inspector Doren (Adrian Hoven) of Interpol but the only clue the town's chief constable can give his young and famous colleague is the fact that each time a murder was committed, the...Start your free trial to watch
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The Color Out of Space
Arkham, 1975: Jonathan Davis' father has disappeared. His tracks lead to Germany, to the Swabian-Franconian Forest where he was stationed after the Second World War. Jonathan sets out to find him and bring him home, but deep in the woods he discovers a dark mystery from the past. Based on H.P. Lovecraft's...Start your free trial to watch
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Commissioner of Sewers
COMMISSIONER OF SEWERS combines interview and archival material, paintings and clips of William S. Burroughs' film appearances (including DECODER and Gus Van Sant's DRUGSTORE COWBOYS and THANKSGIVING PRAYER) with footage from Burroughs' last European reading in Berlin on May 9th, 1986 to create a witty and...Start your free trial to watch
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The Copper
Though many audiences are initially familiar with the extraordinary German actor Hans Albers from his role in Josef von Sternberg's THE BLUE ANGEL, his reputation was enhanced (and his fame soared) after his starring role in DER GREIFER (THE COPPER) released the following year. Nearly three decades later, Albers again starred...Start your free trial to watch
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Daydreams
Film as daydream. A daydream on film. "Tagträume sind die bittersüße Fähigkeit, die Dinge so zu sehen, wie sie wären, wenn man statt zu phantasieren etwas unternehmen würde." ["Daydreams are the bittersweet ability to see how things would be if, rather than fantasizing, you actually did something.“] Made in collaboration...Start your free trial to watch
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Dead Man's Memories
Along a stretch of the Portuguese coast, a man's body is found. Police detective Pinto (Miguel Guilherme) then finds a tantalizing clue: a video camera in a car parked nearby with a tape of a young woman (Sylvie Testud) who was unaware she was being filmed. Pinto tracks down the woman and questions her but...Start your free trial to watch
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Diary of a Lost Girl
Louise Brooks, in a delicately restrained performance, plays the naïve daughter of a prosperous pharmacist. Shy and fawnlike, the wide-eyed innocent is made pregnant by her father's young assistant. To preserve family honor, she is sent to a repressive reform school from which she eventually escapes....Start your free trial to watch