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Raucously funny and sweetly romantic, Adam & Steve is a twisted, tender comedy that would surely make “John Waters cackle with glee” (L.A. Weekly). In the 1980s, Adam (writer/director Craig...

Berlin, 1943-44. Two young women form an deep and intense relationship against the backdrop of the double threat of bombing raids and persecution. For one of them, married and a mother of four...

In the triump of British classic comedies The Full Monty, Billy Elliot and Bend It Like Beckham comes a tremendous feel good movie. Winner of numerous festival audience awards including Outfest...

To fill the void of his middle class existence, 14-year-old Benny immerses himself in the world of home video recordings, and becomes increasingly distant from his family and the world around...

As a boy, Philipp was strongly attracted to his best friend, but he's put all that behind him in order to live a 'normal' life. He meets a shy girl who falls for him, and soon the two of them are...

Dramatic West German-made film highlighting all the tensions and dangers that befall a U-Boat's crew during World War II.

Not since G.W. Pabst's 1956 effort, 'Letste Akt' (The Last Act) has a German film attempted to tackle the subject of their most famous leader, Adolf Hitler. Breaking a long-standing taboo, the...

When Jule is evicted from her flat because she can't pay the insurance for a car accident, she moves in with boyfriend Peter and his friend Jan. She soon discovers that the two youths have the...

The true story of a young Jewish boy, Salomon Perel, who flees East at the start of Word War II and falls into the hands of the Germans where he pretends he is of Aryan German origin.

Funny Games is a thriller that will take you beyond terror, beyond suspense, beyond evil... Anna, George and their son are about to begin a holiday that they will never forget. Two young...

The year is 1989 and East and West Germany are still divided. Alex (Daniel Brühl) and his sister Ariane (Maria Simon) live in East Germany with their single mother, Christiane (Katrin Sass) who...

Cahit, bedraggled and in a neck brace after driving his car into a wall, is more than a little surprised when beautiful, scarred Sibel proposes marriage - especially considering they met through...

One of the most celebrated and admired TV series of all time, Edgar Reitz's epic Heimat - A Chronicle of Germany was originally broadcast on UK TV in 1984 and remains a landmark in filmmaking...

Edgar Reitz's epic tale of family life focuses on the exploits of the young Hermann during the 1960s as he leaves his village life for Munich and focuses on the student revolts of the times... ...

In Heimat: a Chronicle of Endings and Beginnings, Edgar Reitz's epic series finally reaches it's monumental conclusion, following the dramatic events of the century's tumultuous final decade,...

It is Halloween night, and the famed West Hollywood Halloween Carnival is in full swing. Despite the news of a grisly double beheading in the area, four gay friends prepare for a wild night at...

Steff is left the entire estate of his ex-partner, Martin Hilde, son of a wealthy family.

Hounded, the new film by Unveiled director Angelina Maccarone, explores the unexpected sadomasochistic relationship that emerges between Jan,an unruly, disaffected teen, and his youth worker,...

In this outstanding Oscar winning, psychological and political thriller, we get a fascinating insight into the lengths and depths that the East European government went to in order to keep tabs...

In this outstanding Oscar winning, psychological and political thriller, we get a fascinating insight into the lengths and depths that the East European government went to in order to keep tabs...

Shot almost entirely in an abandoned jail, this German "Oz" is a fiery story of desperate love behind bars featuring intense drama, steamy romance and attractive men. After he is caught using...

Kutlug Ataman's highly-charged thriller takes us into the shadowy world of Berlin's gay Turkish emigres, who live lives of double jeopardy, from extreme homophobia within their own ethnic culture...

"There are two events in German postwar history that people still remember exactly where they were on this day: the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and Germany's surprising victory at the...

A rites of passage coming of age story of two boys sent to an elite Nazi all boys school. Berlin 1942. Two different boys. Two different backgrounds.

Based on the autobiographical novel by Stefanie Zweig, this is the story of Walter Redlich, a Jewish lawyer living in Germany during the Third Reich. He takes his family away from Germany to live...

Midnight Express star Brad Davis excels in Fassbinder's mind-blowing and trouser-tightening version of Genet's classic tale of a sailor's lusts.

Shocking proof that the words "German" and "comedy" aren't always mutually exclusive... Christoph is a typical macho Frankfurt detective who is dumped by his two-timing fiancée and thrown out...

Lola has just twenty minutes to find the money for Manni, the love of her life, who will be killed immediately should he fail. Unfortunately there are many different ways of getting it so Lola...

What happens when a bunch of talentless media whores get their hands on some cameras, a script so thin it could masquerade as pantyhose and a budget so tiny you'd need tweezers to pick it up? You...

When the police raid an underground rave, newly graduated police officer Marc has to make himself (and his drugs) scarce. However, his stash is uncovered by Detective Minks who presents Marc with...

The prime directive clearly states: "No exchanging of bodily fluids within the team" - but has anyone ever taken any notice of the prime directive? Professional con-artist couple Zorbel and Karl,...

his is a gritty and beautifully told story of integration, separation, love and identity, with extremely powerful performances from the two leads. Persecuted in Iran for her love of another...

Soledad Miranda plays the countess Nadine who lures people back to her island for vampire enslavement and a bit of necro-nookie. Naughty Nadine also has a liking for female flesh and blood as...

1986. The Berlin Wall divides not only a city, but symbolises the division of the entire European continent. For twenty-five years it has separated families, friends and lovers - and caused the...