In einer Winternacht kreuzen sich die Wege zweier Männer, deren Leben unterschiedlicher kaum sein könnte. Der Pakistani Haroon lebt seit drei Jahren illegal in Deutschland und versucht, sich mit kle...
Dokumentarfilm über den italienischen Schriftsteller und Literaturwissenschaftler Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, der 1957 mittellos starb und so den Welterfolg seines einzigen und erst posthum veröff...
Nachdem der Familienvater Michael seinen Job als Bauingenieur verloren hat, zieht er mit seiner Frau Friederike und der achtjährigen Tochter Selma in eine heruntergekommene Wohnung in Hamburg-St. Pau...
Der junge Türke Yusuf lebt mit seiner Mutter Zehra am Rande einer anatolischen Kleinstadt. Mit dem Verkauf selbst hergestellter Milchprodukte halten die beiden sich mehr schlecht als recht über Wass...
Ein so genannter "Omnibusfilm", in dem elf namhafte deutsche Regisseure versuchen, die Stimmung in der krisengeschüttelten Bundesrepublik nach der Entführung und Ermordung Hans Martin Schleyers sowi...
VICTORY - GOD BLESS THE BRITISH ARMY THAT HAS SAVED OUR HOMES AND OUR ALL!: Stock footage of mortar launcher, bi-plane, and tanks. AND OUR INDOMITABLE SONS OF THE SEA WHO HAVE SAVED US AND OUR ALLIES ...
The Danish film journal FILMEN was published in the period 1912-1919 (24 issues per year). First published under the name "A/S Kinografen", then from 1913 under the name "Association of Cinema Theatre...
Just outside the old city walls of Rome, we find a mass of washed-out houses and bumpy streets arranged in a geometrical pattern that makes them anonymous and depersonalized. The documentary fil...
The first Norwegian film with international ambitions, Thin Ice is a story of young love, corporate ambition, and a daring nighttime caper. Tom, a strapping young student, gets his dream job as an adv...
British and Belgian troops on dockside at Ostend. "Trekking To Safety - British and Belgian troops watch the departure of the refugees from Ostend" - one shot only after this title.
Documentary about gold extraction methods in the Aruwimi River area. All the various stages are illustrated. Rivers and rocks are first explored and then drilled. Once raw materials are sorted accordi...
An unidentified (and unfortunately incomplete) exotic melodrama, tends towards De Mille's The Cheat. Considered by specialists as a German film.
I. Spanish language version of a newsreel item on the city and cathedral at Amiens after the German failure to capture the city, 5th-7th April 1918. II. Spanish language version of a newsreel item on ...
As producer, actor and filmmaker, Richard Massingham managed to combine his passion for film and medical science.
A cartoon combining drawings and live footage, in which a drawing comes to life while its author isn't there. The film's director began as a political cartoonist and in 1914 founded Bray Studios, amon...
Film used against itself, in an essay on the entanglement of mistery and religious merchandising where the kino-spirit rules instead of the kino-eye.
Russian melodrama about the heroic deeds of a woman during the First World War.