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  • 2025
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    Sentimental Value

    Sentimental Value

    7.56 2025 HD

    Sisters Nora and Agnes reunite with their estranged father, the charismatic Gustav, a once-renowned director who offers stage actress Nora a role in...

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  • 2021
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    A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner

    A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner

    8.50 2021 HD

    Born in Berlin in 1896, Lotte Eisner became famous for her passionate involvement in the world of both German and French cinema. In 1936, together...

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  • 2021
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    Christoph Waltz - The Charm of Evil

    Christoph Waltz - The Charm of Evil

    8.00 2021 HD

    Christoph Waltz, the villain with the friendly face, has become an integral part of the international cinema landscape. His breakthrough came with...

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  • 2015
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    The People vs. Fritz Bauer

    The People vs. Fritz Bauer

    6.82 2015 HD

    It is the late 1950s. Flourishing under the economic miracle, Germany grows increasingly apathetic about confronting the horrors of its recent past....

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  • 2014
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    Caligari: When Horror Came to Cinema

    Caligari: When Horror Came to Cinema

    6.70 2014 HD

    On February 26, 1920, Robert Wiene's world-famous film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari premiered at the Marmorhaus in Berlin. To this day, it is...

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  • 2022
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    Electronic Vibrations: A Sound Changes the World

    Electronic Vibrations: A Sound Changes the World

    7.00 2022 HD

    The amazing story of electronic music: its epic journey from its origins in Europe, at the hands of the great artists of the post-war classical...

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  • 2019
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    The American Dream: Europeans in the New World

    The American Dream: Europeans in the New World

    4.00 2019 HD

    The history of Europeans in North America, from the arrival of Columbus in 1492 to the business success of German immigrants such as Heinz, Strauss...

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  • 2024
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    Portugal: Carnations Against Dictatorship

    Portugal: Carnations Against Dictatorship

    6.50 2024 HD

    In Portugal, during the night of April 24-25, 1974, a peaceful uprising put an end to the last government of the Estado Novo, the authoritarian...

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  • 2004
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    Head-On

    Head-On

    7.49 2004 HD

    With the intention to break free from the strict familial restrictions, a suicidal young woman sets up a marriage of convenience with a...

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  • 2022
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    Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire

    Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire

    4.80 2022 HD

    From Murnau to Herzog, and until modern incarnations, a mischievous exploration of a cinematographic legendary character, with Nosferatu himself as a...

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  • 2021
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    Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde - Festival d'Aix-en-Provence 2021

    Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde - Festival d'Aix-en-Provence 2021

    1 2021 HD

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  • 2023
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    Till the End of the Night

    Till the End of the Night

    3.80 2023 HD

    The undercover investigator Robert is supposed to win the trust of a criminal through a fictitious relationship with Leni. However, the feelings are...

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  • 2022
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    Spain: A Country Divided

    Spain: A Country Divided

    3.00 2022 HD

    Obsessively referring to the traumas and wounds that the Spanish civil war (1936-39) and Franco's dictatorship (1939-75) caused in their day no...

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  • 2024
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    Andreas Dresen - Ein Leben für den Film

    Andreas Dresen - Ein Leben für den Film

    6.50 2024 HD

    Andreas Dresen is one of the most successful German directors. The documentary accompanies him through the year 2023 until the opening evening at the...

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  • 2014
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    Afghanistan 1979: The War That Changed the World

    Afghanistan 1979: The War That Changed the World

    7.20 2014 HD

    'Afghanistan 1979: the war that changed the world', is a French documentary about the Sovjet invasion in Afghanistan in 1979. It was one of the most...

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  • 2019
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    How I Taught Myself to Be a Child

    How I Taught Myself to Be a Child

    6.60 2019 HD

    Paul Silberstein, youngest son of an urbane but deeply strange old Austrian dynasty of confectionery millionaires, discovers the power of love and...

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  • 2012
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    Truly Miss Marple: The Curious Case of Margaret Rutherford

    Truly Miss Marple: The Curious Case of Margaret Rutherford

    6.40 2012 HD

    The true life story of Margaret Rutherford (1892-1972) is in fact much more eccentric than the most famous fictional role she ever played: Miss Jane...

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  • 1996
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    The Transformation of the World Into Music

    The Transformation of the World Into Music

    8.50 1996 HD

    This film was prepared as a introduction to a series of opera broadcasts on German television. It depicts the behind-the-scenes manoeuvrings in...

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  • 2024
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    Disintegration: An Album, a Band, a Generation

    Disintegration: An Album, a Band, a Generation

    7.00 2024 HD

    Over the course of a fifty-year career, the British band The Cure has released fourteen highly successful studio albums; but it was their 1989 album...

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  • 2024
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    Lyonel Feininger – Ein Künstler zwischen den Welten

    Lyonel Feininger – Ein Künstler zwischen den Welten

    10.00 2024 HD

    Lyonel Feininger's work is as individual and unmistakable as he is himself. As a classical modernist artist, he is difficult to categorize. He lived...

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