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Even Dwarfs Started Small (1969)

Director: Werner Herzog
Starring: Helmut Doring, Gerd Gickel, Paul Glauer

Strange, disturbing and truly unsettling parable about dwarfs and midgets confined to a barren correctional institution who literally take over the as... Read more

Fiorile (1993)

Director: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
Starring: Claudio Bigagli, Galatea Ranzi, Michael Vartan

U.S. title; 'Wild Flower'. This film of immense elegance set in Tuscany focuses on the Benedetti family who preserve their time-honoured ways, includ... Read more

Flesh for Frankenstein (1973)

Director: Paul Morrissey
Starring: Joe Dallesandro, Monique Van Vooren, Udo Kier

A.k.a. 'Andy Warhol's Frankenstein'. One of the goriest cult comedies ever with Udo Kier as the mad baron with a perverse longing for perfect (if unde... Read more

Germany, Year Zero (1947)

Director: Roberto Rossellini
Starring: Edmund Moeschke, Werner Pittschau, Barbara Hintz

With a lineup of non-professional actors and made in the neo-realist style, this lyrical view of Germany in the immediate postwar period has some magn... Read more

Heart of Glass (1976)

Director: Werner Herzog
Starring: Josef Bierbichler, Stefan Guttler, Clemens Scheitz

Werner Herzog each day put the cast into a hypnotic trance in an attempt to achieve an effect of collective hysteria in this tale of a glassblower who... Read more

Just A Gigolo (1979)

Director: David Hemmings
Starring: David Bowie, Marlene Dietrich, Sydne Rome, Kim Novak

A Prussian war veteran tries to make a living in Berlin of the 1920s finding his niche before the inevitable tragic ending. David Bowie and Marlene Di... Read more

Last Exit To Brooklyn (1989)

Director: Uli Edel
Starring: Stephen Lang, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Burt Young

A powerful and disturbing adaptation of Hubert Selby's controversial novel. Set in Brooklyn in 1952, the story centres around a massive strike by fact... Read more

Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus (1972)

Director: Ian MacNaughton
Starring: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jone...

A Python treasure that has been lost since it was first released in 1972 on German television. Now available on video with the most hilariously wacky... Read more

Nelly and Mr Arnaud (1995)

Director: Claude Sautet
Starring: Emmanuelle Beart, Michel Serrault, Claire Nadeau

Almost a follow-up to director Claude Sautet's 'A Heart in Winter'. A subtle, beautifully acted story of a 25 year old woman in debt and stuck in a n... Read more

The Promise (1995)

Director: Margarethe von Trotta
Starring: Corinna Harfouch, Meret Becker, Anian Zollner

A pointed account of star-crossed German lovers, covering a 30 year timespan, beginning with their separation while trying to escape from East to West... Read more