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Publisher
Strand Releasing LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Lola manages her personal life with the same ruthless efficiency she uses to succeed in the business world. But when she receives the news that her older sister Conny has attempted suicide, Lola's secrets begin to unravel into the workplace. As she tries to do what's best for her sister without jeopardizing all she's worked hard for, Lola slowly finds her own grip on reality slipping away.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
Deutsch
Formats
Description
Marriage of Maria Braun: A World War II widow seeks to adjust to life in postwar Germany.
Veronika Voss: Veronika Voss is a once prominent UFA actress who meets a sports reporter writing a story about her.
Lola: In post-war West Germany, the charming Von Bohm is appointed a city's new Building Commissioner. His morality is tested when he unknowingly falls in love with a brothel worker, Lola, the paid mistress of a corrupt property developer.
Series
Criterion collection volume 198
Language
Deutsch
Formats
Description
Lonely widow Emmi Kurowski meets Arab worker Ali in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love--to their own surprise, and to the shock of family, colleagues, and drinking buddies. An emotional power that reflects the ethnic tensions within German society.
Series
Criterion collection volume 758
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 minutes) : sound, color ; 12 cm + 1 folded-out insert.
Language
Deutsch
Description
This despairing yet mordantly funny film charts the decline of a self-destructive former policeman and war veteran struggling to make ends meet for his family by working as a fruit vendor.
85) Hagazussa
Publisher
Doppelgänger Releasing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
A young fifteenth-century goatherd slowly begins to discover an ancient presence deep in the dark woods years after her mother's horrifying demise. In a time when pagan beliefs or witches spread fear into the minds of rural folk, the film aims to explore the thin line between ancient beliefs, magic, and delusional psychosis.
86) Baal
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Director-approved DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (10 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
Deutsch
Description
"Volker Schlöndorff transported Bertolt Brecht's 1918 debut play to contemporary West Germany for this vicious experiment in adaptation, seldom seen for nearly half a century. Oozing with brutish charisma, Rainer Werner Fassbinder embodies the eponymous anarchist poet, who feels that bourgeois society has rejected him and sets off on a schnapps-soaked rampage. Hewing faithfully to Brecht's text, Schlöndorff juxtaposes the theatricality of the prose...
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Director-approved special edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (folded and inserted in container).
Language
Deutsch
Description
Young Törless is to go to boarding school. His experiences there, the merciless torments of the pupils among themselves and the unsatisfactory answers of his teachers make it clear to Törless that good and bad cannot be differentiated in life. The boy leaves the boarding school at his own request after a short while. The incipient social and personal deformation in Musil's novel is skillfully implemented by Schlöndorff in close correspondence with...
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
The film tells the story of Astrid, a forty-something mother of two, struggling to regain her balance in the wake of her husband's death. Her adolescent son Phillip disappeared for a week and now that he has returned, he faces disciplinary action at school and his toe requires amputation. As new questions confront Astrid from every angle, even simple activities like buying a bicycle or engaging with a work of art, are fraught with unexpected challenges....
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
While Nazi propaganda minister Josef Goebbels infamously declared Berlin 'free of Jews' in 1943, 1,700 Jewish Berliners managed to survive in the Nazi capital. Claus Rafle's gripping docudrama traces the stories of four real-life survivors who learned to hide in plain sight, mixing reenactments of their stories with interviews in which they discuss their experiences.
Publisher
Rock N Learn Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (210 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Discover a new language or build vocabulary in your child's native language. From the Main Menu, select Spanish, French, Mandarin Chinese, Italian, German, or English. All six languages on one DVD! Kids explore the outdoor world of playful activities and common animals. They learn the names of familiar foods during a fun picnic. Colorful animation, real images, and adorable characters create an engaging experience that's easy to follow.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
A delightful satire of the haves and the have-nots set against the backdrop of a gorgeous lakeside villa in Switzerland. At the story's center is Wanda, a Polish caretaker who has left her own small children in Poland to look after Josef, the stroke-ridden patriarch of the wealthy Wegmeister-Gloor dynasty. Wanda is adept in navigating the tricky family dynamics between the two grown offspring and the elegant if controlling matriarch Elsa, along with...
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Portuguese
Description
In this audacious debut feature, Joao Paulo Miranda Maria conjures a surreal image of the racial and social rifts in modern day Brazil. Cristovam, an Indigenous Black man from the rural North, moves to an industrialized Southern town populated by the descendants of Austrian ex-pats to work in a milk factory. Immediately confronted with their virulent racism, he becomes more and more estranged from the white world. Upon discovering an abandoned house...
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out insert (12 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 17 cm).
Language
Deutsch
Description
This despairing yet mordantly funny film charts the decline of a self-destructive former policeman and war veteran struggling to make ends meet for his family by working as a fruit vendor.
94) Transit
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (unpaged : color illustrations ; 18 cm)
Language
Deutsch
Description
Georg, a German refugee, flees to Marseille assuming the identity of a recently deceased writer whose papers he is carrying. There he delves into the delicate and complex culture of the refugee community, becoming enmeshed in the lives of a young mother and son and falling for a mysterious woman named Marie.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (133 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
When shy, beautiful Sissi is the victim of a horrible car accident, a handsome small-time criminal comes to the rescue and saves her life. Once she recovers, she sets out to find him and discovers that he is a violent man with a conflicted past and dangerous future. It doesn't take long for the two to meet again - during a deadly bank robbery. Now it is her turn to save his life.
96) Granny nanny
Publisher
Distrib Films US
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
This isn't how Karin, Gerhard, and Philippa imagined their retirement: instead of enjoying their free time they feel bored, useless and, old. In the search for a new perspective, they become "Granny-Nannies," and each gets a family with children to take care of. But instead of harmony and gratitude, they are soon confronted with overprotective parents, hyperactive children, and all sorts of family problems. Although facing turbulent times, they will...
97) Faust
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Heinrich Faust desires enlightenment. He seeks to understand the very nature of life and how the world goes round. Driven by his thirst for knowledge, he unearths corpses and rummages in their guts in search of the soul. He soon meets the racketeer Mauricius, who takes him to the twilight zones of their small town. In a bath house, his attention is caught by the young Margarete, also known as "Gretchen". Later, the two new friends are entangled in...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (185 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Berlin, 1931. Jakob Fabian works in the advertising department of a cigarette factory by day and drifts through bars, brothels and artist studios with his wealthy and debauched friend Labude by night. When Fabian meets the beautiful and confident Cornelia, he manages to shed his pessimistic attitude for a brief moment and falls in love. Not long after, he falls victim to the great wave of layoffs sweeping the city, plunging him back into a depression,...
99) Farewell
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (72 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Peter Winkler's new job offer is about to take him away from his lover Hella, but he has been keeping it a secret from her. Mutual lack of trust and vicious gossip threatens their relationship as they plan to make their farewells.
Publisher
Capital Motion Picture Group
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
"It is 1974, and in the Cold War paranoia of East and West Germany, it can be dangerous to know too much. But time is running out for Sophie Zimmermann. She is being hunted and the only way to survive is to find out the identity of the man on the other side!"--Container.
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