Buddenbrooks (1979)

The Second Awakening Of Christina Klages (1977)

Category: Foreign | Director: Margarethe von Trotta | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Tina Engel, Katharina Thalbach, Peter Schneider

For her first solo directorial effort, German filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta creates a compelling mix of action and social polemic. Tina Engel stars as Christa, a young woman forced into robbing a ... more

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Sisters, Or The Balance Of Happiness (1979)

Category: Foreign | Director: Margarethe von Trotta | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Jutta Lampe, Gudrun Gabriel, Jessica Fruh

The emotional and psychological bonds that keep two women--a successful, controlling secretary and her insecure younger sister, a college student--tied to one another are explored in Margarethe von Trotta's ... more

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Sheer Madness (1983)

Category: Foreign | Director: Margarethe von Trotta | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Hanna Schygulla, Franz Buchrieser, Helga Ballhaus

Two disparate German women, one a staid college professor (Hanna Schygulla), the other an eccentric artist (Angela Winkler), strike up a friendship that is tested by the world around them in this acclaimed ... more

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The Films Of Margarethe von Trotta Three Pack

Category: Foreign | Director: Margarethe von Trotta | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Jessica Fruh, Agnes Fink, Fritz Lichtenhahn

Three-disc set includes "Sisters, Or the Balance of Happiness," "The Second Awakening of Christina Klages" and "Sheer Madness."

$49.99

Germany In Autumn (1978)

Category: Foreign | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White / Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Hannelore Hoger, Katja Rupe, Hans Peter Cloos

A number of Germany's major filmmakers, including Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Alexander Kluge, and Volker Schlondorff, contributed to this meditation on political terrorism in their country ... more

$29.99

Doktor Faustus (1982)

Category: Foreign | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Joe Finch, Hanns Zischler, Siemen Ruehaak

The Faust legend is reimagined in this adaptation of the Thomas Mann novel, as a struggling composer (Jon Finch) makes an unwise deal with the devil (Andre Heller). As it typically goes in the ... more

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The Thomas Mann Collection

Category: Foreign | Director: Franz Peter Wirth | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Gunter Strack, Kurt Raab, Carl Raddatz

Seven-disc set includes "Buddenbrooks," "Doktor Faustus," and "The Magic Mountain."

$69.99

Palermo Or Wolfsburg (Palermo Oder Wolfsburg) (1980)

Category: Foreign | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Nicola Narbo, Calogero Arancio, Padre Pace

Nicola (Nicola Zarbo) may have found a decent job at an automobile plant in Germany, but the Sicilian young man has difficulty blending into his new community. A new love affair at first shows promise, ... more

$39.99

Solo Sunny (1980)

Category: Foreign | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Renate Kroessner, Alexander Lang, Dieter Montag

East Berliner Sunny (Renate Krossner) only wants to be a singing star. Like most show business aspirants, however, Sunny has her heart broken often, her life a rollercoaster of ups and ... more

$24.99