Bruno Ganz
Author
Language
Français
Description
One woman's journey of rebirth is chronicled in this drama, starring legendary actor Bruno Ganz ("Wings of Desire"). Gracieuse is a lost woman, troubled by the horse racing life, who leaves it behind. When she meets legendary horse trainer Franz Mann, though, Grace finds a horse that brings love alive - and the hopes of racing glory.
2) Downfall
Author
Language
German
Description
Featuring an indelible performance by Bruno Ganz (Nosferatu The Vampyre) as history's most notorious despot, Downfall gives a gripping insight into the madness and desperation of a tyrant's final hours.
3) Heidi
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
German
Description
Based on the biggest Swiss bestseller (written by Johanna Spyri) of all time. Young orphan girl Heidi lives in the Swiss Alps with her goat herding grandfather. Forced to move into the home of an upper-class Frankfurt family, the energetic child struggles to fit in, longing for the simplicity of her life in the mountains.
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Norwegian
Description
Nils (Stellan Skarsgård), uncovers his son’s murderer, he begins to unravel. He embarks on a quest for revenge. Reminiscent of Tarantino and The Coen Brothers, Nils finds himself in a different world in order to bring his son’s murderers to justice.
5) Downfall
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Soviet Armies closing in from the west and south. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still achieve victory and orders his Generals and advisers to fight to the last man. "DOWNFALL" explores these final days of the Reich, where senior German leaders (such as Himmler and Goring) began defecting from their beloved Fuhrer, in an effort to save...
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Eric Rohmer’s classic film is set in 1799 during the Russian invasion of Italy. A young widow, The Marquise (Edith Clever) lives with her parents in the fort her father commands. In the midst of battle, the Marquise is abducted by a group of rowdy soldiers and nearly taken advantage of when the Russian commander Count F (Bruno Ganz) rescues her. Later, the Marquise realizes she is pregnant, though she cannot decipher how the circumstance came to...
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
German
Description
Seventeen-year-old Franz journeys to Vienna to apprentice at a tobacco shop. There he meets Sigmund Freud, a regular customer, and over time the two very different men form a singular friendship. When Franz falls desperately in love with the music-hall dancer Anezka, he seeks advice from the renowned psychoanalyst, who admits that the female sex is as big a mystery to him as it is to Franz. As political and social conditions in Austria dramatically...
10) The Reader
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A man reunites with an older woman with whom he had a brief romance with when he was fifteen, only to discover, to his horror, that she is a defendant in a Nazi war crimes case.
13) Amnesia
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ibiza, the early nineties, Jo is a 25-year-old music composer. He has come over from Berlin and wants to be part of the nascent electronic music revolution, ideally by getting a job first as a DJ in the new nightclub on the island. 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...
14) The party
Publisher
Lionsgate
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
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Jonathan Harker is sent away to Count Dracula's castle to sell him a house in Wismar where Jonathan lives. But Count Dracula is a vampire, an undead ghoul living off of men's blood. Inspired by a photograph of Lucy Harker, Jonathan's wife, Dracula moves to Wismar, bringing with him death and plague... An unusually contemplative version of Dracula, in which the vampire bears the curse of not being able to get old and die.
16) 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.
17) Downfall
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
German
Description
Takes you into Hitler's bunker, in 1945, during the brutal and harrowing last days of the Third Reich. Seen through the eyes of Hitler's infamous secretary Traudl Junge, optimism crumbles into grim realization and terror as it becomes clear that Germany's defeat is inevitable. As the Russian army circles the city, the dimly lit halls of the underground refuge become an execution chamber for the Fuhrer and his closest advisors.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Français
Description
With the age of feudalism in decline, Europe rests at a tense crossroads between the old world and the new. Respected, well-to-do horse merchant Michael Kohlhaas is a loving husband and family man leading a peaceful existence, until a ruthless nobleman steals his horses, setting off a chain of irreversible events. Kohlhaas resorts to extremes after these crimes destroy his livelihood and trust in the law, igniting a rampage through the countryside...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2004
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...
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.