Bruno Ganz
Publisher
Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Multiple
Description
A romantic fantasy about an angel who wishes he were mortal and is willing to fall from the sky if it means a chance to fall in love. Set in modern day Berlin, the film follows angel Damiel's path from heavenly flight to earthly delight in a manner that's comical, touching and entertaining.
Based on poems by Rainer Maria Rilke.
Publisher
Pacific Arts Video
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
Story about a Hamburg picture framer who is perfectly ordinary except that he is suffering from a rare and fatal blood disease. His peace and sanity are upset when an insistent Frenchman offers him money to assassinate a Mafia figure in Paris.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
Deutsch
Description
A remake of the German silent classic by F.W. Murnau, closely based on the novel Dracula, by Bram Stoker.
Jonathan Harber, against the wishes of his wife, departs on a journey over the Carpathian Mountains to finalize a real estate deal. When he arrives at his destination, he encounters Count Dracula and a series of tragic events.
6) Amnesia
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"On Ibiza in the early nineties, Jo is a twenty-five-year-old music composer from Berlin, who wants to be part of the nascent electronic music revolution. Martha has been living alone in her house facing the sea for forty years. One night Jo knocks on her door. Her solitude intrigues him. They become friends even as the mysteries around her accumulate: that cello in the corner she refuses to play, the German language she refuses to speak... As Jo...
7) Strapless
Publisher
Granada Film Productions in association with Film Four International
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
An American doctor living in London is visited by her wild-at-heart sister. The doctor has always devoted her life to her work, but her sister and a mysterious man teach her to experience life and love, and that a life without passion is not worth living- even if it carries a price.
8) The reader
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Post-WWII, Germany. Michael Berg is a teenager who becomes ill and is helped home by Hanna, a stranger twice his age. Michael recovers from scarlet fever and seeks out Hanna to thank her. The two are quickly drawn into a passionate but secretive affair. Michael discovers that Hanna loves being read to and their physical relationship deepens. Hanna is enthralled as Michael reads to her from different works of literature. Despite their intense bond,...
9) The reader
Publisher
The Weinstein Company Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"What have we learned (and what might we have forgotten) from history's bloody backwash? Guilt, love, and history are three skeins, woven together to create human beings or, alternately, human monsters. The question of wartime culpability undergirds the May-December romance in postwar Berlin between Hanna, a weary-looking, sexually rapacious streetcar ticket-taker and Michael, a young schoolboy whom she seduces, ravenously and to his great delight....
10) The party
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Janet is hosting an intimate gathering of friends in her London home to celebrate her political ascension, while her husband, Bill, seems preoccupied. Janet₂s acerbic best friend, April, arrives and others follow, some with their own dramatic news to share, but an announcement by Bill provokes a series of revelations that gradually unravel the sophisticated soiree, and a night that began with champagne may end with gunplay.
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Norwegian
Description
The honorable citizen Nils plows snow in the wild winter mountains of Norway, but when his son is mistakenly murdered, Nils takes action, which ignites a war between the vegan gangster "the Count" and the Serbian mafia boss Papa.
12) Luther
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Regional princes and the powerful Catholic Church wield a fast, firm and merciless grip over 16th-century Germany. But when Martin Luther issues a shocking challenge to their authority, the people declare him their new leader - and hero. Even when threatened with violent death, Luther refused to back down, sparking a bloody religious revolution that shakes the entire continent to its core.
Language
English
Description
When his army unit is ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saves his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, Major Ben Marco, is knocked unconscious. Using the incident for political gain, Shaw eventually becomes a vice-presidential nominee, but Marco is haunted by dreams of what really happened in Iraq. As Marco investigates, the story begins to unravel. He begins to figure that the entire unit was kidnapped and brainwashed...
14) A hidden life
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on real events, this is the story of an unsung hero, Franz Jägerstätter, who refused to fight for the Nazis in World War II. When the Austrian peasant farmer is faced with the threat of execution for treason, it is his unwavering faith and his love for his wife Fani and children that keep his spirit alive.
15) Heidi
Publisher
Studio Canal
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Orphan Girl Heidi spends the happiest days of her childhood together with her eccentric grandfather, cut off from the outside world in a simple cabin in the Swiss mountains. But these carefree times come to an abrupt end when Heidi is taken to Frankfurt by her Aunt Dete to stay with the family of the wealthy Mr. Sesemann and be a playmate for his wheelchair-bound daughter Klara
Series
Criterion collection volume 793
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A young picture framer thinks that he has terminal disease and is set up to become a hired assassin in West Germany because of the lure of quick money.
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Germany 1967: murderous bomb attacks, the threat of terrorism, and the fear of the enemy inside are rocking the very foundations of the still-fragile German democracy. The radicalized children of the Nazi generation, led by Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof, and Gudrun Ensslin, are fighting a violent war against what they perceive as the new face of fascism. The man who understands them is also their hunter, the head of the German police force, Horst...
18) Bread & tulips
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], ©2000.
Language
Italiano
Description
When a harried housewife is accidentally left behind while on vacation with her family, she decides to take a holiday of her own in Venice. She becomes charmed by the city and her newfound freedom. She decides to extend her stay, finding a job in a flower shop, renting a room from a wistful waiter, and rediscovers her love for playing the accordion. But her solo journey does not sit well with her tyrannical husband, who hires an amateur detective...