Hedy Lamarr, Aribert Mog, Zvonimir Rogoz. Lamarr bares all in a story about a child bride's unquenchable sexual appetite that erupts when she leaves a loveless marriage to have a fufilling and... more
Peter Lorre, Otto Wernicke. Lorre made his powerful screen debut as a child murderer hunted by the authorities and the underworld. Directed by Fritz Lang. In German with English subtitles.... more
An incredible film! Wegener plays a mad scientist who murders his wife when her black cat knocks over a piece of strange equipment in his dungeon laboratory, and like a true mad doctor he walls her... more
PEOPLE ON SUNDAY (MENSCHEN AM SONNTAG) represents an astonishing confluence of talent an early collaboration by a group of German filmmakers who would all go on to become major Hollywood players,... more
In 1930, following their short film triumph UN CHIEN ANDALOU, Bunuel and Dali created an hour long avant-garde tour de force that's both an aesthetic avalanche of boldness and a withering attack on a... more
Peter Lorre, Otto Wernicke. Lorre made his powerful screen debut as a child murderer hunted by the authorities and the underworld. Bonus features include audio commentary by German film scholars... more
Albert Prejean, Pola Illery, Edmond T. Greville. Legendary director Rene Clair's famed classic about two Parisian street performers and the powerful love they share. In French with English subtitles.... more
Jean Gabin, Mireille Balin. Later remade as Algiers, this French classic tells the tale of a gangster who hides from the police in the Casbah section of Algiers—only to be lured out of safety by a... more
Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Otto Wernicke. A criminal mastermind controls his underworld empire while residing in an asylum, plotting ways of destroying the world. In German with English subtitles. Includes... more
Having holed up in a seedy Paris boardinghouse, frustrated young lovers Renée (Annabella) and Pierre (Jean-Pierre Aumont) botch their suicide pact-and pimp resident Edmond (Louis Jouvet) advises... more
Rudolph Forster, Lotte Lenya, Carola Neher. The Bertolt Brecht-Kurt Weill musical about the debonair gangster Mack the Knife and his cohorts takes viewers on a journey to the dark corners of... more
Marcel Dalio, Nora Gregor. This famous comedy/drama contrasting affaires d'amour of aristocrats and servants during a weekend outing in the country, is thought by many critics to be the best movie... more
From French director Rene Clair, a satire on the age of automation. Two friends working on a prison assembly line execute a daring escape. Years later, their paths cross again when one has become a... more
After well-to-do bookseller Edouard Lestingois (Charles Granval) rescues a tramp from a suicidal plunge into the Seine, his family adopts the bum and dedicates itself to reforming him.
The spirits of those who die at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve are condemned to drive the Death Cart for an entire year. This horse-drawn cart is what takes human souls to meet their maker,... more
A musical comedy from director Rene Clair. A pair of penniless artists win a fortune in a lottery only to discover that the ticket was left in an old jacket inadvertently given away to a beggar. In... more
Renate Muller, Hermann Thimig. In this electric musical romance, an aspiring young actress who can't find meaningful work teams up with a down-on-his-luck thespian and dresses in drag to find success... more
The warmth and wit of celebrated playwright turned cinema auteur Marcel Pagnol shine in this enchanting slice-of-life comedy. Returning to the Provencal countryside he knew intimately, Pagnol draws a... more
Danielle Darrieux, Pierre Mingand, Raymond Galle. The son of a wealthy Parisian doctor is cut off from the family money, and falls in with a gang of car thieves after tracking down his newly-sold... more
Dorothea Wieck, Emilia Unda, Hedy Krilla, Hertha Thiele. In this historic film for queer cinema, an introverted girl falls for her sympathetic teacher at a very strict boarding school. Directed by... more
The game is afoot when two unemployed sleuths dress themselves up as Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary detective and Dr. Watson in order to gain some publicity. When the pair stumbles upon an actual... more
Pierre Renoir, Lisa Delamare, Louis Jouvet. From the master director of Rules of the Game comes this rediscovered historical epic that views the French revolution from the perspective of the King,... more
Jean Gabin, Michele Morgan, Michel Simon. Jean, an army deserter, decides finally to turn his life around after somone shows him an act of kindess and also one of revenge in this screen adaptation of... more
This heartrending masterpiece by Kenji Mizoguchi (Ugetsu) about the give-and-take between life and art marked the director's first use of the hypnotic long takes and eloquent camera movements that... more