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A young Austrian girl is kidnapped and held in captivity for eight years. Based on the real-life case of Natascha Kampusch.
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Since the invention of cinema, the standard format for recording moving images has been film. Over the past two decades, a new form of digital filmmaking has emerged, creating a groundbreaking evolution in the medium. Keanu Reeves explores the development of cinema and the impact of digital filmmaking via in-depth interviews with Hollywood masters, such as James Cameron, David Fincher, David Lynch, Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese, George Lucas, Steven Soderbergh, and many more.
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This absolutely top-notch documentary by Robert Fischer is a fascinating look back at not just the film in question, but Fassbinder's meteoric career which ended all too soon with his untimely death. Archival footage of Fassbinder is utilized (including several fascinating snippets culled from interviews he did at the disastrous Cannes premiere of Despair), as well as many others involved in the film and its release. Even if you're not a particular fan of Despair, or even in fact of Fassbinder, this is stellar documentary film making and is an intriguing look at one of the most enigmatic masters of the New German Cinema.
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A retrospective look at the making of "World on a Wire".
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A retrospective look at the making of "World on a Wire".
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Faultlessly fitting tuxedo, hair slicked back, a cheeky look and Max Raabe sings the best of the 20s and early 30s with amusing nostalgia. The ironic lyrics suit the times today as much they did eighty years ago. The movie features a February 2009 performance from Max Raabe & The Palast Orchester in Berlin, Germany’s Admiralpalast.
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By accompanying 20 very different individuals in today's Berlin, cinematographer Michael Ballhaus and filmmaker Ciro Cappellari sketch a portrait of a modern, stimulating metropolis.
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By accompanying 20 very different individuals in today's Berlin, cinematographer Michael Ballhaus and filmmaker Ciro Cappellari sketch a portrait of a modern, stimulating metropolis.
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By accompanying 20 very different individuals in today's Berlin, cinematographer Michael Ballhaus and filmmaker Ciro Cappellari sketch a portrait of a modern, stimulating metropolis.
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Vera Tschechowa, actress and filmmaker and a close friend of Michael Ballhaus. One of Germany's stars of cinematography, embarks on the journey through my life. The film begins in the US and Hollywood - where Ballhaus established his international fame,
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This is not merely another film about cinema history; it is a film about the love of cinema, a journey of discovery through over a century of German film history. Ten people working in film today remember their favourite films of yesteryear.
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A documentary about the life of Karlheinz Böhm from his film career to his charity activities in Ethiopia.
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Filmmaker Jonas Mekas follows his friend, film director Martin Scorsese, and his cast and crew, through various locations during the shooting of his film The Departed, released in 2006.
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香港映画「インファナル・アフェア」をマーティン・スコセッシがボストンに舞台を変えハリウッドでリメイクしたアクションサスペンス。レオナルド・ディカプリオとマット・デイモンが主人公の警察官とマフィアをそれぞれ熱演。名優ジャック・ニコルソンがマフィアのボス役で脇を固める。犯罪者の一族に生まれたビリー（レオナルド・ディカプリオ）は、自らの生い立ちと決別するため警察官を志し、優秀な成績で警察学校を卒業。しかし、警察に入るなり、彼はマフィアへの潜入捜査を命じられる。一方、マフィアのボス、コステロ（ジャック・ニコルソン）にかわいがられて育ったコリン（マット・デイモン）は、内通者となるためコステロの指示で警察官になる。
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110 of the world's top cinematographers discuss the art of how and why films look the way they do.
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63歳で独身の富豪ハリー。彼は決まって30歳以下の美女とばかりと付き合っていた。ある日、ガールフレンドの別荘で彼女の母親エリカと遭遇。その夜心臓発作で倒れたハリーは、エリカの別荘で静養することになるのだが……。
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子どものような大人と大人のような子ども。まるで気の合わないようにみえたふたりが、いつしか心を通わせ友情を育んでいく、ほのぼのコメディー。天真らんまんな女のコを演じるのは、『8Mile』や『ジャスト・マリッジ』など幅広い役作りで人気急上昇中のブリタニー・マーフィ。対する子ども役は大人顔負けの演技で、出演作めじろ押しのダコタ・ファニング。撮影は全編ニューヨークで行なわれ、随所にエッセンスを加えている。
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舞台は19世紀半ばのニューヨーク。移民同士の抗争で父を殺され、自身も投獄された少年アムステルダム。15年後、復讐のために素性を隠して、父を殺したギャング団に入り込む。しかし、そこで謎めいた女ジェニーと出会い、許されない恋に落ちてしまう……。
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Though he never actually worked in Hollywood, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who died in 1982 at the age of 36, was influenced greatly by Amercian studio films of the 1950s and the convention of melodrama (the link most often mentioned is Douglas Sirk).
Twenty-five years after the death of Holger Meins, filmmaker and former student friend of the deceased, Gerd Conradt takes an in-depth look at the helmsman of the Baader-Meinhof gang. Who was Holger Meins? What led him into the underground? What circumstances resulted in his death, a death which made him the declared symbol of the radical opposition in Germany? What remains of his legacy?
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自殺した大富豪を父に持つ娘。戦場から戻って以来、酒浸りの生活を続けている彼女の恋人。そんな2人の前にバガー・ヴァンスと名乗る男が現われた。ロバート・レッドフォード監督の感動作。
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Anywhere in the world, 20 years from now. Underground. Watch out for the signs...
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A highly-evolved planet, whose denizens feel no emotion and reproduce by cloning, plans to take over Earth from the inside by sending an operative, fashioned with a humming, mechanical penis, to impregnate an earthling and stay until the birth. The alien, Harold Anderson, goes to Phoenix as a banker and sets to work finding a mate. His approaches to women are inept, and the humming phallus doesn't help, but on the advice of a banking colleague, he cruises an AA meeting, meets Susan, and somehow convinces her to marry. The clock starts to tick: will she conceive, have a baby, and lose Harold (and the child) to his planet before he discovers emotion and starts to care?
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1869年のルイジアナ。陸軍軍人のジム・ウエストは、”ニューオリンズの殺人鬼”と言われたマグラス将軍を追っていた。ある酒場で将軍を追いつめたウエストは、同じくマグラスを追っていた連邦保安官のゴードンと出会う。グラント大統領からの命で、2人はコンビを組むことになったのだが、性格も価値観も違う2人は反発し合うばかり…。
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コンピュータ・ソフトの開発者ホールは、ヴァーチャル・リアリティの技術を使ってコンピュータ内に1937年のロサンゼルスを再現しようとしていた。だが上司が何者かに殺される事件が起こり、ホールが容疑者となってしまった。アリバイが無いどころか、犯行時間の記憶自体失っているホールは、突然の事態にパニックとなる。やがて彼は、研究の過程で1937年の仮想世界と現実世界を行き来していたことを知る。その鍵を握るのは“13階”……。制作は「インデペンデンス・デイ」のローランド・エメリッヒ。
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In this adaptation of the best-selling roman à clef about Bill Clinton's 1992 run for the White House, the young and gifted Henry Burton is tapped to oversee the presidential campaign of Governor Jack Stanton. Burton is pulled into the politician's colorful world and looks on as Stanton -- who has a wandering eye that could be his downfall -- contends with his ambitious wife, Susan, and an outspoken adviser, Richard Jemmons.
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70～80年代のポルノ業界を舞台にした作品。ディスコで皿洗いをしていたエディは股間のモノの大きさを買われポルノ男優としてデビュー、成功を収める。しかし次第に彼は傲慢になり……。
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アメリカとロシアの協力によってカザフスタンの独裁者ラデクがついに逮捕された。命令を下した合衆国大統領マーシャルは、モスクワでの会見でテロには決して屈しないことを宣言し大統領専用機（エアフォース・ワン）で帰途についた。だが、その機内にはロシアのTVクルーを装っていた6人のテロリストが潜入していた。テロリストのリーダー、コルシュノフは乗客乗員を人質に取り、アメリカ政府にラデク釈放を要求する。
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1967年、マンハッタン。仲良しだった四人組は、いたずらをきっかけに少年院に送られてしまった。そこで看守から受ける、想像を越えた虐待の数々。そして、出所してから十年後。四人のうちのジョンとトミーは、偶然出会った看守のノークスを銃殺した......。
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アフリカ奥地で発生した未知の伝染病がアメリカに接近。厳戒の防護措置が取られるもウィルスはとある地方都市に侵入！街は完全に隔離され、米陸軍伝染病研究所はウィルスの謎を懸命に解き明かそうとするが…。エボラ出血熱を遥かに凌ぐ致死性を持つウィルスの恐怖と、それに立ち向かう人々の姿を描いたパニック・スリラー。
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ハーヴィーは、人気クイズ番組『21』の勝ち抜きチャンピオン。しかし視聴率を気にするスポンサーによって、名門出身の若くハンサムな挑戦者と交代させられて……。アメリカで実際に起きたTV界のスキャンダルを基に、メディアの内実を描くサスペンス・ドラマ。
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Matt Hobbs is a talented but unsuccessful actor. When estranged (and strange) ex-wife Beth dumps their daughter Jeannie on Matt, father and daughter have a lot of adjusting to do. His budding relationship with attractive production assistant Cathy Breslow is made complicated, while the precocious child is overly accustomed to getting her own way. Matt eventually faces the choice of family vs career in a particularly difficult way.
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19世紀後半のNY社交界を舞台に繰り広げられる、貴族階級からはみ出た伯爵夫人と、その幼なじみの弁護士の静かな恋愛を描く。イーディス・ウォートンの原作に基づいたM・スコセッシによる、“斜陽”の物語。オペラ観賞に訪れた弁護士のニューランドは、幼なじみの伯爵夫人エレンに再会する。彼女には離婚を認めようとしない夫がいて、彼にも婚約者がいた。そんな状況の中で、奔放な彼女に心惹かれていくニューランド。しかし、上流階級の掟は二人を許そうとはしなかった……。アカデミー衣装デザイン賞を受賞した絢爛豪華な舞台の中で、D・D＝ルイス、M・ファイファー、W・ライダーなど、魅力的な顔合わせで描かれる禁じられた大人の愛を、スコセッシは切なく、感動的に再現。抑圧された世界でこそ生じる葛藤と胸の高なりを与えてくれる。
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A documentary about the life and work of director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
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最愛の妻の死から数百年。時を越えてさまようドラクル伯爵と、その妻に生き写しの美しい女性ミナ。宿命的に出会った2人は互いに惹かれあうが……。ブラム・ストーカーの原作をフランシス・フォード・コッポラが忠実に映画化。
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Cameramen and women discuss the craft and art of cinematography and of the "DP" (the director of photography), illustrating their points with clips from 100 films, from Birth of a Nation to Do the Right Thing. Themes: the DP tells people where to look; changes in movies (the arrival of sound, color, and wide screens) required creative responses from DPs; and, these artisans constantly invent new equipment and try new things, with wonderful results. The narration takes us through the identifiable studio styles of the 30s, the emergence of noir, the New York look, and the impact of Europeans. Citizen Kane, The Conformist, and Gordon Willis get special attention.
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A documentary about the making of director Martin Scorsese's 1993 film adaptation of Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Age of Innocence. It features a conversation between Scorsese and the star of the film, Daniel Day Lewis, as well as rare behind-the-scenes footage.
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ミュージシャンとしての成功を夢見てキューバからNYへやてきたカスティーヨ兄弟。彼らが組んだバンド、マンボ・キングスは大きな成功を収めていった。妻子をもうけ、私生活も充実する彼らだが、かつての恋人の面影に苦しんでいた。ラテン・サウンドに乗せて綴られる青春ドラマ作。
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Short documentary on the making of Francis Ford Coppola's "Dracula" (1992).
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Before going on vacation, self-involved psychiatrist Dr. Leo Marvin has the misfortune of taking on a new patient: Bob Wiley. An exemplar of neediness and a compendium of phobias, Bob follows Marvin to his family's country house. Dr. Marvin tries to get him to leave; the trouble is, everyone loves Bob. As his oblivious patient makes himself at home, Dr. Marvin loses his professional composure and, before long, may be ready for the loony bin himself.
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This compelling story vividly recreates Hollywood's infamous 'Blacklist Era'. The witch-hunt has begun and director David Merrill can revive his stalled career by testifying against friends who are suspected communists. Merrill's ex wife shares a whirlpool of scandals that draws them closer together while his chances for ever making movies again slips further away...
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The Immaculate Collection is the first commercially released greatest videos compilation by singer Madonna. Released on November 13, 1990 to accompany the audio CD, it contained hits spanning 1983-1990. The collection won "Best Long Form Video" category at the 1991 MTV Video Music Awards. Includes the following videos: 1. Lucky Star 2. Borderline 3. Like a Virgin 4. Material Girl 5. Papa Don't Preach 6. Open Your Heart 7. La Isla Bonita 8. Like a Prayer 9. Express Yourself 10. Cherish 11. Oh Father 12. Vogue 13. Vogue (1990 MTV Awards Show Performance)
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Substance-addicted Hollywood actress, Suzanne Vale is on the skids. After a spell at a detox centre her film company insists as a condition of continuing to employ her that she live with her mother, herself once a star and now a champion drinker. Such a set-up is bad news for Suzanne who has struggled for years to get out of her mother's shadow, and who still treats her like a child. Despite these and other problems, Suzanne begins to see the funny side of her situation, and also realises that not only do daughters have mothers—mothers do too.
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ヘンリー・ヒル、1943年ブルックリン生まれ。大物ギャング、ポーリーのアジトで育った彼は、物心ついた頃からマフィアに憧れていた。やがて念願の"グッドフェローズ"の仲間となり、"強奪"専門のジミー、野心旺盛なチンピラ、トミーと共に犯罪に犯罪を重ねていく。が、麻薬に手を出したことから育ての親、ポーリーに見放され、さらにジミーたちが起こした600万ドル強奪事件を追うCIAの捜査の手もヘンリーに迫る。
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Providing behind the scenes footage of the director on set with clips from his own films, Martin Scorsese Directs depicts to riveting effect the way Scorsese brings the written story to life on the big screen. Additional interviews with the likes of Joe Pesci, Harvey Keitel, Thelma Schoonmaker, the director’s own parents, and others build a perception of Scorsese that not everybody knows.
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風采の上がらないジャズ・ピアニスト・コンビが、起死回生にと雇った美人ヴォーカリスト、スージー。彼女の人気でトリオは一躍脚光を浴びるが、やがて彼らは三者三様の苦い経験をする破目に……。＜監督が撮影当時弱冠29歳とはとても思えない、男女の心の機微を繊細につづった秀作。M・ファイファーが吹替え無しで挑んだ素晴らしいボーカル、ボーとジェフのブリッジズ兄弟の共演と話題は多かったが、何よりも、単なる恋愛劇を越え、アーティストと芸人の狭間で揺れるジャズメンたちの人間ドラマとして、実に格調高い仕上がりになった。＞
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大会社で働く平凡なOLが、新任女性重役になりすまして……。メラニー・グリフィス出演によるコメディ・タッチの爽快なサクセス・ストーリー。シガニー・ウィーバーの悪役ぶりや、ハリソン・フォードの演技も見どころ。
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Two con men try to settle their rivalry by betting on who can be the first to swindle a young American heiress out of $50,000.
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ニューヨークを代表する映画作家、マーティン・スコセッシ監督が新約聖書を独自の解釈でとらえた問題作。救世主イエス・キリストを、苦悩する1人の人間として描いていく。デヴィッド・ボウイの出演にも注目。
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Emily Crane is fired after refusing to give names to a 1951 House Un-American Activities Committee, and takes a part-time job as companion to an old lady. One day her attention is drawn to a noisy argument being conducted largely in German in a neighbouring house, the more so since one of those involved is her main senator prosecutor. Starting to look into things, she gradually enlists the help of FBI officer Cochran who was initially detailed to check her out. Just as well when things turn nasty
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Juanita Hutchins works at Texas bar, but she aspires to be a country songwriter. When she's not looking after her impulsive daughter, Candy, or vouching for her promiscuous friend, Doris Steadman, she's trying to maintain some semblance of a romantic life. As Juanita prepares to make the leap to Nashville, her former boyfriend, Slick Henderson, returns to town, further complicating her situation.
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舞台はワシントンTV局。敏腕女性プロデューサー・ジェーンと、強力コンビを組むリポーターのアーロン、そして地方局から転属してきたアンカーマンのトムが織り成す三角関係を描いた人間ドラマ。
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A son longs to escape from his stifling home, where his genteel mother worries about the future prospects of his lame, shy sister.
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Documentary about the shooting of BOURBON STREET BLUES.
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P・ニューマン主演による「ハスラー」の続編。かつてのハスラー、エディは、あのミネソタ・ファッツとの死闘から25年が経ち、今はもう50代。現在は現役を離れ、シカゴを根城に気ままな生活を送っていた。そんな彼の目に、顔に似合わぬ鋭いキューさばきで容赦なく相手を打ち負かしているビンセントという若いハスラーの姿が止まった。彼の姿に若い頃の自分を重ねるエディ。彼はこの若者を、自分の手で最高のハスラーに育て上げようと決心する。
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フランスのリヴィエラで金持ち娘をモノにして結婚しようとやってきたピアニストのクリストファーは、造船王の娘マリーに目を付ける。アプローチにも成功した彼だったが次第に彼女に対する気持ちが本物である事に気付き始める。しかしそんな二人の仲を引き裂こうとするマリーの父やクリストファーの恋敵、トレッキーの嫌がらせはますます度を増す…。
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Playwright Arthur Miller, director Volker Schlöndorff and actor Dustin Hoffman are seen creating the Roxbury Productions and Punch Productions teleplay Death of a Salesman (1985).
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An ordinary word processor has the worst night of his life after he agrees to visit a girl in Soho whom he met that evening at a coffee shop.
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Salesman Willy Loman is in a crisis. He's about to lose his job, he can't pay his bills, and his sons Biff and Happy don't respect him and can't seem to live up to their potential. He wonders what went wrong and how he can make things up to his family.
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Blue, a yet-to-be discovered painter, is left by his longtime girlfriend because she considers him too immature for a lasting relationship. Eli, Blue's best friend, works for his father's garment business and is still searching for a woman who's interesting enough to spend more than one night with. Blue and Eli's friendship is put to the test when they both fall for Liliane, Blue's exotic gallerist.
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The 12 years old well-bred Lonnie meets the impudent Karen on the street. They spend some time together and Karen teaches Lonnie some of her favorite occupancies, like make-up, shoplifting, skipping school and lying to the parent about it, but confessing to the priest later. But Karen also learns some honesty from Lonnie. A film about social differences and growing up.
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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.
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Rebellious footballer Johnny, falls for cheerleader Tracy. They come from opposite backgrounds; she's from a comfortable well off family, he is poor and broken. Tracy already has a boyfriend but he acts like a jerk, so Johnny has to win Tracy's heart - something she seems reluctant to let him do.
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Edith runs a left-wing journal and when her marriage starts to fall apart (her husband is unfaithful), she can find no solace in her son who is more of a problem than an asset. On top of heading toward a divorce and being unable to handle her son's asocial tendencies, her neurotic uncle moves in, demanding personalized care. Just to keep her sanity intact, Edith starts writing in her diary to vent her own feelings and ambitions. As her son goes from bad to worse over a five-year period, it turns out that Edith's diary may be of more benefit than she could have ever imagined. In this adaptation of Edith's Diary by Patricia Highsmith, director and writer Hans W. Geissendoerfer has maintained Highsmith's psychologically tormented characters while changing the location and time of her story from the U.S. of the 1960s to Germany in the early 1980s.
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In a 1966 New Jersey high school, Jill and new student Sheik from the other side of the tracks make their way in a first love romance.
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Olga and Ruth become friends. Olga is independent, separated from her husband, living with an immigrant pianist, and teaching feminist literature. Ruth is withdrawn, a painter, possibly mentally ill. Ruth dreams in black and white, sometimes of her suicide. Olga lectures on a 19th-century writer, von Günderrode, a suicide after the breakup of her intense friendship with Bettina Brentano. Ruth's husband Franz encourages the women's friendship, then, as Olga draws Ruth out and the friendship deepens, he becomes jealous. After the women travel to Egypt, Franz has a tirade. Ruth seems crushed between her husband and her friend, and how she responds is the film's climax.
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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.
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Hans Castorp, fresh from university and about to become a civil engineer, comes to the Sanatorium Berghof in the Swiss Alps to visit his cousin Joachim, an army officer, who is recovering there from tuberculosis. Intending to remain at the Berghof for three weeks, Hans is gradually contaminated by the morbid atmosphere pervading the place. Wishing very much to be considered a patient like the others, he achieves his ends and stays in the sanatorium for ...seven years. During this time, he has enough time to take part in the furious philosophical debates pitting against each other Settembrini, a secular humanist, and Naphta, a totalitarian Jesuit. And to fall in love with the beautiful but enigmatic Clawdia Chauchat. When he is finally discharged in 1914 - along with all the other patients - it is only to plunge into the horrors of World War I.
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Film extras take possession of a bogus film production company and acting as ideal world of film to persuade one associates mother-in-law of marriage.
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Two life stories. That of Malou, a French woman, married to a German Jew, a refugee stranded in South America: a picture of the pre-war generation reflected in the unusual destiny of an individual woman. And that of Hannah, an alert, independent, modern woman, seeking after freedom and her own identity, and trying in present-day Berlin to save her shaky marriage.
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The story of a German singer named Willie who while working in Switzerland falls in love with a Jewish composer named Robert whose family is helping people to flee from the Nazis. Robert’s family is skeptical of Willie, thinking she could be a Nazi as she becomes famous for singing the song “Lili Marleen”.
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A small carnival is in dire financial straits. Their show is attracting fewer and fewer paying customers, as their "attractions" are ageing, out of shape and beset by internal feuds and bickering. One day a beautiful young woman shows up and suggests a way of attracting customers: put on a strip show, with her as the main attraction. Her act attracts customers in droves, but it turns out that the girl has her own agenda, and it isn't to help out the carnival.
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This movie is about the liberation by the Sandinistas of the Anastasio Somoza regime in NIcaragua. The movie covers some of te key points in the fight for León, a city close to the capital Managua, and the first liberated territory. Many of the inhabitants of León who participated in the guerrilla and members of the sandinista army participated in the film.
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Follows a woman, Lotte, who travels through Germany and seeks human connections, but is unsuccessful as every person she encounters is locked into his own world. Based on the play by Botho Strauß.
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Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. She must rely on her beauty and ambition to navigate the difficult post-war years alone.
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Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. She must rely on her beauty and ambition to navigate the difficult post-war years alone.
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The intertwined lives of people of both Polish and German extraction who live on the pre-World War II border between the two countries are explored in this drama. Valeska is the Polish/German matriarch of a family living on the German side of the border. Her son is involved with the Hitler youth, but nonetheless keeps secret the presence on family land of a Jew who is hiding from the authorities. When the son inadvertently kills a soldier to prevent his sister from being raped, he runs away after borrowing money from the Jewish man. When soldiers come to the family's door looking for the missing soldier who had been billeted there, the Jewish man commits suicide. In another episode, one of the family's daughters marries a German soldier in a ceremony presided over by a Polish priest.
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An adaptation of Tennessee Williams' "The Lady Larkspur Lotion" created by Douglas Sirk with the assistance of his film students and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. It depicts the conflict between a dreamy, delusional heroine and her brusque, practical landlady, who wants to kick her out of her apartment.
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Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufacturer, married to the capricious Lydia, loses his temper more and more every day when dealing with his workers and other businessmen; until he meets Felix, a vagrant, who seems to be physically identical to him; a disconcerting fact that leads Hermann Hermann to plot a particular way out of a fake world he actually hates.
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Germany in Autumn does not have a plot per se; it mixes documentary footage, along with standard movie scenes, to give the audience the mood of Germany during the late 1970s. The movie covers the two month time period during 1977 when a businessman was kidnapped, and later murdered, by the left-wing terrorists known as the RAF-Rote Armee Fraktion (Red Army Fraction). The businessman had been kidnapped in an effort to secure the release of the orginal leaders of the RAF, also known as the Baader-Meinhof gang. When the kidnapping effort and a plane hijacking effort failed, the three most prominent leaders of the RAF, Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, and Jan-Carl Raspe, all committed suicide in prison. It has become an article of faith within the left-wing community that these three were actually murdered by the state.
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The lackluster and plodding Bolweiser has the (mis)fortune to be married to the town’s siren; his trusting nature leads him into serious trouble when she beds nearly every available guy.
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The main characters in this film are wives of rich men who have nothing to do because they have staff – like the cook, the maid, the hairdresser, the manicurist, the governess, the teacher, the tailor etc. – who work for them. Naturally, the wives themselves do not pursue careers, they depend on their husbands’ money. This is why most of their thoughts revolve around the husband. And because the husband only appears as “the” man, there is no man in this film. All women fight for the same man. Those who have one, want to keep him no matter what. And those who do not have one yet only have one goal: To take away somebody else’s husband.
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When Hitler watches Marlene Dietrich in a movie, he falls in love with her. He persuades her to come back to Germany to be with him, but upon her arrival she constantly insults and provokes him until he eventually, on her command, bites the carpet to bits.
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A husband and wife lie to each other about their weekend travel plans, only to both show up at the family's country house with their lovers.
This fast-paced black comedy by wunderkind director Rainer Werner Fassbinder follows the frantic efforts of a starving and confused writer, Walter Kranz to beg, borrow or steal enough money to survive on, and at the same time make some sense of his confusing life. Unable to write enough to keep his publisher's royalty advances coming, he seeks out a woman he imagines is a prostitute and interviews her for material. He is also inspired to utter some poetry, which his brassy, outspoken wife identifies as coming from the famous homosexuality-advocating mystical German poet, Stefan George. This inspires Walter to take a closer look at the gay scene, and he quickly becomes a sort of celebrity there.
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This fast-paced black comedy by wunderkind director Rainer Werner Fassbinder follows the frantic efforts of a starving and confused writer, Walter Kranz to beg, borrow or steal enough money to survive on, and at the same time make some sense of his confusing life. Unable to write enough to keep his publisher's royalty advances coming, he seeks out a woman he imagines is a prostitute and interviews her for material. He is also inspired to utter some poetry, which his brassy, outspoken wife identifies as coming from the famous homosexuality-advocating mystical German poet, Stefan George. This inspires Walter to take a closer look at the gay scene, and he quickly becomes a sort of celebrity there.
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The story of the young man Peter, who grew up during the economic miracle, bereft of parental care and love. Learning early on that interpersonal relationships are based on the principles of exchange or purchase, he abides by these rules and gives generous presents to his family and his wife Erika. But when he is unable to keep up this life-style, his story takes a horrendous turn ...
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The western film that was filmed in Bavaria is located in the Montana Mountains. At the end of the 19th century, an Indian Boy called Tschetan meets the shepherd Alaska in the Montana Mountains. Alaska prevents him from being hanged as a cattle thief but from then on engages him as a deputy shepherd and forces him to do hard work. But when they have to fight against a powerful stock farmer together, they eventually become friends.
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A group of people from the wealthy middle class in engage in quasi intellectual quarrels and discussions trying to find some meaning in their comfortable and indolent life. Adaptation of the play by Maxim Gorky.
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Corinna witnesses how three guys chase and shoot a man in front of her lonesome house. As only witness, they force her to come with them and care for the guy's wound. But she manages to flee shortly after and takes Blondi to a doctor. He tells her his story, how he used to smuggle drugs, but one day fled with a suitcase full of money. Corinna inexplicably falls in love with him and decides to accompany him on his further flight. But the villains are close behind them.
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After a worker kills a superior and commits suicide, each of his family members attempts to forge a path forward in life.
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Fox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and things that he has always wanted. While he wants to climb up the social ladder, it isn't without turmoil, and being torn between his old working class roots, and the shiny new facade of middle class consciousness.
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A commissioned work for a television series on WDR, A House for Us. FROM THE FAMILY OF REPTILES and THE ISLAND are a complete program in two episodes. After all with Michael Ballhaus as the cinematographer.
Ute (Katja Wulff), an 8 year old girl, constantly runs away from home and the youth center to escape into her own world. She spends many hours at the zoo and especially in front of the crocodil compound. Monika Brehm (Lisa Kreuzer), the kindergarten teacher, tries to find an entrance into Ute’s world. She realizes that her escapes are a form of withdrawal from her parents and the grown up world.
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A commissioned work for a television series on WDR, A House for Us. FROM THE FAMILY OF REPTILES and THE ISLAND are a complete program in two episodes.
Monika manages to convince Mr. and Mrs. Hagedorn that their daughter is not mischievous or insidious but that her parents should consult a Psychotherapist with her. But as usual all the therapists are booked out and have a long waiting list for patients. So Ute is left alone once more with her helpless parents and she is more and more drawn to the zoo and her beloved crocodiles. Thanks to Monika’s sense of responsibility and her commitment, Ute manages to break free from her isolation.
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A couple (Karin Thome and Eberhard Klasse), whose relationship can't hold up to the pressure of their financial and career problems, only have their child left as the remaining connecting link. But even their child becomes a pawn in their egoistic power games and possessiveness. The crisis reaches a peak first then, when the husband finds out about an affair that the wife is having and sets out to claim the same rights for himself. This takes him to New York, where he settles. The wife gets her hands on all the cash reserves and follows him there. In spite of the new location, they still remain a couple with a disturbed and insensitive miscommunication, that instinctively cling even more to each other in the new and alienating environment.
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After the death of her abusive father, lonely librarian Martha is caught in a strange, sadomasochistic relationship with a monstrous husband whom she begins to suspect may be trying to murder her.
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After the death of her abusive father, lonely librarian Martha is caught in a strange, sadomasochistic relationship with a monstrous husband whom she begins to suspect may be trying to murder her.
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An antique bed relates passionate stories about various people who have made love on it throughout the decades of the 20th century. Said folks include a sweet young virgin, a sly prostitute who helps a jilted woman get revenge on her unfaithful husband, a German soldier fighting in World War II who's on leave for two hours, and a carefree modern couple.
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Petra von Kant is a successful fashion designer -- arrogant, caustic, and self-satisfied. She mistreats Marlene (her secretary, maid, and co-designer). Enter Karin, a 23-year-old beauty who wants to be a model. Petra falls in love with Karin and invites her to move in.
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The true story of Adele Spitzeder, who started her own private bank in 1870s Bavaria by promising everyone that gave her money high interest rates. Initially dubbed the "Angel of the poor", she was arrested for fraud after the whole scheme collapsed.
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Tensions between members of a film crew build while they wait for the arrival of the director and star to arrive on location.
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"Whity" is the mulatto butler of the dysfunctional Nicholson family in the American southwest in 1878. The father, Ben Nicholson, has an attractive young wife Katherine, and two sons by a previous marriage; the homosexual Frank, and the retarded Davy. Whity tries to carry out all their orders, however demeaning, until various of the family members ask him to kill some of the others.
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Two former lovers start a new relationship.
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Brother and sister meet again after 15 years and fall in love with each other.
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A student of chinese languages tries to find a wife.
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The burial of an old woman leads to several complications among family and friends.
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Essentially an extensive travelogue through Greece and its islands, this 103-minute documentary was written, directed, and shot over a two-year period by Wolfgang Mueller-Sehn. Aside from a tour of the scenic and historical wonders of the country, Mueller-Sehn spends a lot of time in Athens examining its famous attractions like the Acropolis. Perhaps over-long at its current running time, this docu introduction to Greece would certainly be ideal for anyone planning a first visit to the country.
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Lola Montes, previously a great adventuress, is reduced to being the attraction of a circus after having been the lover of various important men.
