Having fathered an illegitimate child with his lover, Marie, feckless soldier Franz Woyzeck takes odd jobs around his small town to provide some...

Petra von Kant is a successful fashion designer -- arrogant, caustic, and self-satisfied. She mistreats Marlene (her secretary, maid, and...

Bank robber turned teacher Zeki Müller tries to get his class of misfits through the A-Levels but the usual escalations plus lack of future...

A man is released from prison and finds the society on the outside less than appealing. With several women as well as the police on his tail, he...

Hans is a street fruit peddler and born-loser. His choice of career upsets his bourgeois family, causing him to turn to drinking and violence...

The life of a married Munich technical draftsman with a son.

Lilly was a normal girl with a healthy sense of adventure. That is, until she finds a magical book, complete with a funny little dragon, "Hector"...

Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown children offer little companionship. One night...

A woman tries to survive the invasion of Berlin by the Soviet troops during the last days of World War II.

The story of a German singer named Willie who while working in Switzerland falls in love with a Jewish composer named Robert whose family is...

After ordering enough typewriting paper for 40 years, just to get discount, Heinrich Lohse is forced to retire.

When 17-year-old Effi Briest marries the elderly Baron von Instetten, she moves to a small, isolated Baltic town and a house that she fears is...

Fox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and things that he has always wanted. While he wants to...

Married couple Martin and Jackie meet an unconventional Frenchman named Serge, who both are attracted to. But will their marriage survive it?

Hans Castorp, fresh from university and about to become a civil engineer, comes to the Sanatorium Berghof in the Swiss Alps to visit his cousin...

A German serial killer preys on boys and young men during the so-called years of crisis between the wars. Based on the true story of Fritz Haarmann...

Ricky returns to Munich from Vietnam and is promptly hired as a contract killer.

The work-shy, lazy Germanicus is taken to Rome by slave traders and sold straight to the nouveau riche Roman Tusnelda. He manages to escape, but...

After a worker kills a superior and commits suicide, each of his family members attempts to forge a path forward in life.

Small-time pimp Franz is torn between his mistress and Bruno, the gangster sent after him by a shady crime syndicate he's refused to join.