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- The story follows a group of German soldiers, from their Italian R&R in the summer of 1942 to the frozen steppes of Soviet Russia and ending with the battle for Stalingrad.
- Giacomo Casanova uses his sexuality to find his place in life amid eccentric and strange characters.
- A young woman's life is scrutinized by police and tabloid press after she spends the night with a suspected terrorist.
- A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.
- In Belle Époque Paris, a 19th century Parisian aristocrat (Jeremy Irons) falls in love with a lower-class prostitute (Ornella Muti) who seduces him but never loves him.
- Upon finding a book that relates his grandfather's story, an officer ventures through Spain meeting a wide array of characters, most of whom have a story of their own to tell.
- Various tales in the lives of Tokyo slum dwellers, including a mentally deficient young man obsessed with driving his own commuter trolley.
- The story of the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing, based on Masuji Ibuse's novel.
- The story of the impossible love between a schoolgirl and a sixty-year-old painter.
- In a boarding school, a student observes in passive disgust as his two friends manipulate, humiliate and torture a fellow student, justifying their every act.
- In the beginning of the 19th century, Johannes Elias Alder is born in a small village in the Austrian mountains. While growing up he is considered strange by the other villagers and discovers his love of music, especially rebuilding and playing the organ at the village church. After experiencing an "acoustic wonder", his eye color changes and he can hear even the most subtle sounds. Elias falls in platonic love with Elsbeth, the sister of Peter, a neighbor's son, who has longstanding homosexual feelings towards Elias. After Elsbeth, out of frustration from Elias' not returning her love and instead being obsessed with music, chooses to be impregnated and marries someone else who lose love she had spurned for Elias. The village burns and most villagers, including Elsbeth, evacuate to the closest town. Elias remains behind. A music master with the official task to register all the organs in the country arrives at the burnt village. There he discovers Elias' prodigy and invites him to an organ challenge in the town where the villagers relocated. Elias performs there and amazes the audience which includes Elsbeth. She is unable to meet with Elias before he is rushed to a waiting carriage. She calls to him and he hears her, but it is too late. Elias is taken on a brief tour by his mentors but soon returns to his spiritual site near the burnt village where he takes his own life (with Peter by his side), having decided to not sleep anymore. Elsbeth later returns there, a widow with a young daughter, hoping to find Elias but instead discovers his spiritual site has disappeared.
- This cinematic adaptation of the autobiography of Anna Wimschneider depicts her life's experiences and workaday routines as a woman born on a farm in lower Bavaria, Germany in the 1920s. Anna's mother died young in childbirth and Anna had to take her place and work very hard. At a Nazi rally she meets young Albert, who owns a farm. They realize that they both don't believe in fascism and go to a coffee bar where he starts wooing her. Against her prior decision to leave farm life as soon as possible, she agrees to marry him, hoping that her life will become easier on Albert's farm.
- In expressive, melodic tones, the fraternal pair debate God's true message and intent for His creations, a conflict that leads their followers - in extravagantly choreographed song and dance - towards chaos and sin.
- An improvisational film depicting life in a boys' reform school.
- In a sterile building complex, a woman gains a sense of altruism after encountering a street beggar and his blind orphan, much to her husband's disapproval.
- A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed while she tours the country, even though the modern world imposes changes on people's behavior.
- Felix Zeiler doesn't return after the end of World War II. His wife - alone with 2 little children - meets Hans and they are slowly getting closer.
- The Film "Kinshasa Symphony" shows how people living in one of the most chaotic cities in the world have managed to forge one of the most complex systems of human cooperation ever invented: a symphony orchestra. It is a film about the Congo, about the people of Kinshasa and about music.
- Kenichi Horie is determined to challenge his family, the law and the nature crossing the Pacific to America in a small sailboat. Despite his careful planning many unforeseen events will test his determination.
- How far would you go for the ultimate sexual experience? What risk would be too great, what pursuit too unholy? In the comic adventure APHRODISIAC director Madeline Schwartzman takes a wry and irreverent glance at some New Yorkers who carry their quest for the ultimate turn-on to positively sinful extremes. True story: In 15th century Europe, no fewer than 12 churches claimed to have possession of the foreskin of Jesus Christ. The holy relic was believed to be an aphrodisiac: Henry V hung it above his marriage bed to help produce a son. But in 1983, the last of the 12 churches announced that the foreskin had been stolen. Parishioners suspected an inside job. APHRODISIAC picks up where the truth left off. What if the foreskin, with all its erotic powers, were to arrive in modern New York? In a madcap search for this holiest of grails, Schwartzmans film spins a web of sex and religion, samba and militia movements, fashion runways and deli counters. The Virgin Mary, floating by a Dont Walk sign, is the first to deliver the news: The Antichrist is in town, she says -- pausing to take a call on her cell phone -- and if he gets his hands on the relic, the Time of Times will come. For Ludmilla Gund, leader of the militia of the Immaculate Conception, this calls for action. For Al and Wendy, the oversexed, undersatisfied lovers at the center of APHRODISIAC, it means another icon that might come between them and true fulfillment -- unless Al can get if first. For the NYPD, it means a chance to crack a ring of criminal aphrodisiac traffickers. And for Bob and Sue, two sexy tabloid TV reporters on the case, this could be the story that brings them finally together. All roads lead inevitably, absurdly to a climactic showdown at the Adler bris (circumcision). The erotic heartbeat of The Upper West Side will never be the same. APHRODISIAC is Schwartzmans first feature film.
- Steve Martland's Street Songs realized in eerily beautiful animation.
- "Der Herr vom andern Stern" (The Man From Another Star) has the ability to travel the universe by concentration alone. But his concentration is disturbed as he passes earth. Once landed he is immediately targeted by the police and since he does not have a passport he has to go to the registration office. No one knows exactly how to deal with this strange and dangerous man, who can deform and double objects. So they give him an ID card, but at the same time have him followed by the secret service. At the registration office the traveler meets the beautiful Flora and they fall in love. Now he wants to stay on earth, but in his attempt to gain a foothold he quickly encounters the negative aspects of earthly society. In the end he even ends up in jail where he finally finds the concentration to leave earth.
- The story of a real 18th-century French actress, leading lady of the Comédie-Française in Paris, who was believed to have been poisoned by a love rival.
- In a tavern in Nuremberg, the young poet Hoffmann recounts his three unfortunate love stories to his friend Nicklausse. The Tales of Hoffmann, here in the fairy production of Giancarlo del Monaco, illustrates the Romantic quest of an idealized Love that should be transcended in the research of an artistic absolute. Aquilles Machado embodies brilliantly the main character of this fantastic opera.
- Already by 1453 the Ottomans were advancing towards the European continent. After vanquishing the Feudal Turkish Beys in Eastern Anatolia and the Serbs in Western Thrace, they laid siege to Constantinople. Totally helpless, Constantine XI, Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire turned to the Pope for help.
- It's the story of Yolande, a little girl (about 12) who wanted to become a princess. Bombastus, her old father, has created a marvelous and big clock crowded with little characters (animated puppets). On each hour ring, one of the twelve knights of the clock comes into motion. They're all in love with the princess but a strong black knight doesn't agree... It's not a happy end. So Yolande will dive deep into her dreams, maybe to change the story. It's the second part of the movie. Sylph, master of this imaginary earth and Ondin, master of the aquatic world are the main characters. Yolande and then the man of her dreams join this strange world...
- Cardillac is a master jeweler who cannot live without his creations, killing his clients to recuperate them and assert his authorship, and conferring the status of art upon the act of murder.
- A unique collaboration between acclaimed young British writer & director Greg Hall and critically renowned composer & musician Steve Martland. "KAPITAL" (2007) is a Gothic and uncompromising look at the darker crevasses of human nature and society. Following a cross section of characters lives, inter weaved in a mosaic form over the turbulent course of one day, as they all deal with the demons and angels that haunt their harsh realities. An apocalyptic vision of modern day existence. This highly anticipated film follows critical acclaim for Greg Hall's debut "THE PLAGUE" (2004), whose no-budget production and ensuing success was described by "VARIETY" as a "Cinderella Story", picking up three awards as it screened globally at Film Festivals and gained a trail blazing reputation - "One of the most explosive pieces of British cinema ever!" Notably he was the inaugural winner of the Katrin Cartlidge Foundation Prize awarded by Mike Leigh at the 10th Sarajevo Film Festival 2004. Originally commissioned as the only film piece by the biennial Manchester International Festival, created as the World's first original commissioning festival, "KAPITAL" was premiered on 4th July 2007 alongside work by some of the Worlds most respected artists in their fields including Ennio Morricone, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Philippe Parreno and Lou Reed.
- The opera takes place in a operetta-like milieu in Vienna in the 1860s. Protagonists are an impoverished noble family and their daughters of marriageable age, Arabella and Zdenka, as well as the rich Slavic nobles Mandryka and the young officer Matteo. After all sorts of amorous entanglements the drama comes to a happy end.
- Marianne Faithfull had a difficult relationship with her mother, Eva. In this film Marianne investigates Eva's early life, as a dancer in 1920s Berlin- the era immortalised in the film Cabaret.