Armin Mueller-Stahl
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Deutsch
Description
After having two children with two different men, a newly single and liberated Margit discovers herself. Her entertaining amorous pursuit of a colleague is a testament to the evolving independence of East German women in the early 1970s. Starring Jutta Hoffmann, who received the Best Actress award for this role at the 1972 Venice Film Festival. Margit Fliesser is a mathematician in her mid-30s who works in a medium-sized company; she has two children...
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Deutsch
Description
In the final days of WWII Michael and Jürgen are on a Russian military plane to Moscow. In flashbacks, they remember… Michael, Magdalena and Jürgen were children together in 1930s Berlin, and Michael and Magdalena became lovers. When the Nazis came to power, they went their different ways: Jürgen joined the SA; Michael rebelled and was imprisoned; Magdalena, who had worried about his political activities, took Michael’s place. In 1943, Michael...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Deutsch
Description
In his bittersweet comedy loaded with human quirks and nuance, Jacob invents news reports to bolster the spirits of the other Jews living in his Polish ghetto under Nazi occupation. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 1977, the story was remade in Hollywood starring Robin Williams in 1999. In a Polish ghetto in 1944, Jacob Heym is summoned to the police station. While there, Jacob overhears on the radio that "the Russians are twenty...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Adapted from the novel by Bruno Apitz and filmed on location at Buchenwald concentration camp, this film features many who were themselves prisoners of the Nazis, as well as younger actor Armin Mueller-Stahl. Based on a true story of inmates who risked their lives to hide a small Jewish boy shortly before the liberation of the camp. Jankowski, a Polish prisoner from Auschwitz, arrives at the Buchenwald concentration camp carrying a suitcase. Inside...
Publisher
Universal Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Russian-born Nikolai Luzhin is a driver for one of London's most notorious organized crime families of Eastern European origin. The family itself is part of the Vory V Zakone criminal brotherhood. Semyon heads the syndicate and is the proprietor of a plush Trans-Siberian restaurant. But his friendliness at the restaurant masks a cold and brutal core. Fortunes are tested by Semyon's volatile son and enforcer, Kirill. But Nikolai's carefully maintained...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon discovers evidence of the resurgence of the most powerful underground organization in history, the Illuminati. Upon learning of an unstoppable terrorist act against the Vatican, Langdon travels to Rome and joins forces with Italian scientist Vittoria Vetra, and together they will follow the 400-year-old Path of Illumination that leads to the Vatican's only chance for survival.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999], c1998
Language
English
Description
When a terrorist bomb destroys a building in Dallas, FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully are drawn into another dangerous conspiracy, this time with the assistance of a paranoid doctor. Together, they risk their careers and their lives to hunt down a deadly virus which may be exterrestrial in origin -- and could destroy all life on earth.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Interpol Agent Louis Salinger and Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Eleanor Whitman are determined to bring to justice one of the world's most powerful banks. The two uncover illegal activities including money laundering, arms trading, and the destabilization of governments, Salinger and Whitman's investigation takes them around the world. Finding themselves in a high-stakes chase across the globe, their relentless tenacity puts their own lives...
12) Night on earth
Series
Criterion collection volume 401
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Five cities, five taxis, and a group of strangers make for an interesting night. A collection of 5 stories that span continents, time zones, and languages.
13) Shine
Language
English
Description
The story of Australian pianist David Helfgott. Driven by his father and his teachers he experiences a nervous breakdown and is hospitalized, but later returns to the concert hall.
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
Deutsch
Description
"In the early part of the 20th Century, Alfred Redl ruthlessly rises from his peasant background to become a high-ranking member of the Imperial Austrian military. But when Redl is sent to spy on the Russian Empire, his espionage is compromised by his secret double life as a homosexual. As the world perches on the brink of was, Redl finds himself trapped in a web of deception where honor, grandeur and greed can only be betrayed by one final shocking...
15) Music box
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
In this courtroom thriller, Chicago attorney Ann Talbot (Jessica Lange) agrees to defend her Hungarian immigrant father Mike Laszlo (Armin Mueller-Stahl) against accusations of heinous war crimes committed 50 years earlier. As the trial unfolds, Ann probes for evidence that will not only establish his innocence but also lay to rest her own agonizing doubts about his past.
16) Midnight cop
Series
Publisher
BCI Eclipse LLC [distributor]
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Police Commissioner Alex Glass and his new assistant, Shirly Mai, have been assigned to solve a series of gruesome murders that have been taking place in Berlin's drug and prostitution circles. The prime suspect is George Miskowski, a drug dealer who supplies Berlin's brothels and prostitutes with cocaine and heroin.
17) The peacemaker
Language
English
Formats
Description
An Army officer and a White House nuclear weapons expert work together to ward off a renegade Russian colonel who places some nuclear missiles into the hands of a Bosnian diplomat who has a grudge against the West.
18) The power of one
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
A young English boy, orphaned in a foreign land and terrorized for his political belief, turns to boxing. As he grows up fighting with his fists and leading with his heart, he takes on the system and the social injustices around him--finding that one person really can make a difference.
Publisher
National Center for Jewish Film
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
Deutsch
Description
Part one of a trilogy Wohin und Zurück (Where to and back). Chronicles the effect of World War II and the Nazi regime on Austria. Story of a Viennese Jewish refuge, a Nazi army deserter, and a Czech relief worker and their attempts to find a route to a safe port in 1938.
20) The ogre
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Abel Tiffauges, a French mechanic and recluse who feels children are his only friends, is falsely accused of molestation by a young girl and thrown into prison. He is allowed to join the army on the eve of the Second World War, and quickly becomes a POW who is first given a job on Hermann Goering's estate and then is sent to a castle to work for a German officer. Once again, he gets to be with children-- only this time, it is as a recruiter of German...