Wings Of Desire
(1987) [PG]

One of Wim Wenders' biggest commercial successes and arguably his most accessible film to date, Wings Of Desire (Der Himmel uber Berlin) centres around two trench-coated angels, Damiel (Bruno Ganz) and Cassiel (Otto Sander), wandering the streets of post-war, pre-unification Berlin. Invisible to...  More

Until The End Of The World
(1991) [M]

Paris 1999, a woman has a car accident with bank robbers, who befriend and enlist her help to take the money to a drop. On the way she runs into an American who is being chased by the CIA. He states they want to confiscate his fathers invention, which allows you to capture images that blind...  More

Paris, Texas
(1984) [M]

Travis (Harry Dean Stanton), a seemingly mute, semi-catatonic, amnesiac man wanders out of the desert and into a small, rural Texan town, his sole possession a piece of paper bearing the Los Angeles telephone number of his younger brother, Walt (Dean Stockwell). Returning to LA with Walt,...  More

The American Friend
(1977) [M]

In Wim Wenders' adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel 'Ripley's Game', Dennis Hopper stars as American sociopath Tom Ripley, making a living as the middle-man selling the works of painter Derwatt, who has feigned his own death in order to increase the value of his works. At an auction in...  More

The End Of Violence
(1997) [M]

Two hit-men have been hired to kill Mike Max, a producer of gore movies... on the very day that his wife, Paige Stockard, walks out on him. The hoods abduct Mike, but the following day their decapitated bodies are discovered under a freeway junction – and there's no sign of their victim....  More

The Marriage Of Maria Braun (The BRD Trilogy)
(1978) [M]

A portrait of a sensuous beauty who sells herself for wealth, and the husband who sacrifices his freedom for her. War-time drama. German dialogue with English subtitles.  More

Effi Briest (Fassbinder on Melodrama)
(1974) [M]

Rainer Werner Fassbinder, the enfant terrible of the New German Cinema, drew much of his inspiration from the work of his idol, the German-born king of Hollywood melodrama, Douglas Sirk. Each of these three films is centred on a woman who is under pressure from those around her to conform, and...  More

The Bitter Tears Of Petra Von Kant (Fassbinder on Sex)
(1972) [M]

Fassbinder on Sex combines three of Fassbinder's most risque and self-reflexive films, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, Fox and his Friends and In a Year with 13 Moons, which offer the maverick filmmaker's unique views about sex and the nature of sexuality.

The Bitter Tear of Petra...  More

The Enigma Of Kaspar Hauser
(1974) [M]

Herzog's film is based upon the true and mysterious story of Kaspar Hauser, a young man who suddenly appeared in Nuremberg in 1828, barely able to speak or walk, and bearing a strange note; he later explained that he had been held captive in a dungeon of some sort for his entire life that he...  More

Fitzcarraldo
(1982) [PG]

Fitzcarraldo is a legendary film for many reasons - the background to the making of it, the battles between star Klaus Kinski and director Werner Herzog, the resulting masterwork. These factors combined to bring a vision to the screen unlike anything seen before (or since). A driven Irish...  More