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Gottfried John
Series
Fassbinder collection volume 2
Publisher
Fantoma
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Deutsch
Formats
Description
Erwin Weishaupt gets a sex change operation to please the boyfriend who no longer loves him. Now, as Elvira, he/she resents the change.
Series
Criterion collection volume 204
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
Deutsch
Description
The first of a trilogy about women in post-World War II Germany, The marriage of Maria Braun, turns the melodramatic story of the titular heroine's climb up the economic ladder into a historical allegory about both the post-war German "economic miracle" and 1970s West Germany. During the allied siege of Germany in the last year of the war, Maria's new husband is shipped off to the Russian front before the marriage is consummated. As she struggles...
Series
Criterion collection volume 946
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Over the course of several hours, the sprawling story tracks the everyday triumphs and travails of the young toolmaker Jochen and many of the people populating his world, including the woman he loves, his eccentric nuclear family, and his fellow workers, with whom he bands together to improve conditions on the factory floor. The film rates as a true discovery, one of Fassbinder's earliest and most tender experiments with the possibilities of melodrama....
Publisher
Wellspring Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
Deutsch
Description
A factory worker goes berserk one day killing the boss' son and then throwing himself into the machinery. Trying to clear her husband's name, the murderer's widow journeys through ludicrous arenas of yellow journalism and left-wing politics.
Series
Criterion collection volume 946
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Deutsch
Formats
Description
Over the course of several hours, the sprawling story tracks the everyday triumphs and travails of the young toolmaker Jochen and many of the people populating his world, including the woman he loves, his eccentric nuclear family, and his fellow workers, with whom he bands together to improve conditions on the factory floor. The film rates as a true discovery, one of Fassbinder's earliest and most tender experiments with the possibilities of melodrama....
Series
Criterion collection volume 411
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Story of Franz Biberkof, a former transportation worker. Newly-released from prison where he has served four years for an irrational act of violence, he returns to his Berlin neighborhood resolved to go straight. However, the influences of local cronies, grinding poverty, and the apparent decay of society begin to overwhelm him.
Series
Criterion collection volume 204
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Maria married Hermann Braun in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. Alone, Maria puts to use her beauty and ambition in order to find prosperity during Germany's "economic miracle" of the 1950's.
9) Fedora
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A film producer travels to the Greek isles to coax a Garbo-like screen idol out of seclusion. But the deeper he infiltrates the remote villa, evading an overprotective countess and a mysterious plastic surgeon, the closer he comes to discovering the terrible secret behind the actress's timeless beauty.
10) Despair
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and successful chocolate magnate, starts to experience hallucinations. One day, he meets Felix and is sure that this man is his doppelganger. His delusional thinking leads him to hatch a plan to relieve him of his mental anguish.
11) GoldenEye
Series
[James Bond films] volume 19
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"When an MI6 agent ... turns rogue and plans world domination with a terrifying satellite-borne weapon, Bond must pursue his former ally to Cuba, Monte Carlo, Switzerland and even Russia, all whilst dodging a sexy, deadly femme fatale who will stop at nothing to put the 'squeeze' on the intrepid spy!"--Container insert.