Armin Mueller-Stahl

A touching and often wickedly funny portrayal of life on a late Victorian farm in South Africa. (Karoo Horizon Pictures)

An adventure about the love and friendship between two teenagers who help each other through a difficult time in their lives. (MGM)

Wealthy financier Nicholas Van Orton gets a strange birthday present from wayward brother Conrad: a live-action game that consumes his life.

A story about the astonishing things that happen when despair turns to hope among the residents of this small village in Nazi-occupied Poland. (Columbia Tristar)

A failed track coach finally finds someone who he believes has what it takes to win. (imdb)

When a train carrying atomic warheads mysteriously crashes in the former Soviet Union, Dr. Julia Kelly, a U.S. nuclear specialist, joins forces with Special Forces Colonel Thomas Devoe to track the last remaining warhead and save the world from nuclear destruction.

Inspired by the troubled but ultimately triumphant life of classical pianist David Helfgott, Shine focuses on Helfgott's painful retreat into a private world while still in his early 20's and on the brink of a glittering international career. Spanning the 1950's to the 1980's, Shine dramatizes the deeply moving way in which Helfgott, after a decade of obscurity, achieves both personal and professional fulfillment through the love and support of a remarkable woman. (Fine Line Features)

The Vatican sends a priest to verify some miracles, performed by a woman who has been nominated for sainthood. During his investigation, the priest, who is experiencing a crisis of faith, re-discovers his own purpose in life. (imdb)

With the dubious assistance of a paranoid doctor, Mulder and Scully risk their careers and their lives to hunt down a deadly virus which may be extraterrestrial in origin - and could destroy all life on earth! (Fox)

A sci-fi thriller that explores the ominous possibility of computer-simulated universes, where people only believe they are real. (Sony)

A collection of five stories involving cab drivers in five different cities.(imdb)

A Russian Jewish family comes to the USA at the beginning of the Twentieth Century. There, the family and their children try to make themselves a better future in the so-called promised land. (imdb)

South America before the second world war. The poor Esteban marries Clara and they get a daughter, Blanca... (imdb)

Ten years after the war, West Germany's market economy is booming. Into an unnamed city that's rife with corruption comes a new building commissioner, Herr von Bohm, committed to progress but also upright. He's smitten by Marie-Louise, a single mother who's his landlady's daughter. Von Bohm does not realize she is also Lola, a singer at a bordello and the mistress of Schuckert, a local builder whose profits depend on von Bohm's projects... (imdb)

Kafka, an insurance worker gets embroiled in an underground group after a co-worker is murdered. The underground group is responsible for bombings all over town, attempting to thwart a secret organization that controls the major events in society. He eventually penetrates the secret organization and must confront them.

In a future town a female police detective (Whoopi Goldberg) has to colaborate with Theodore Rex, a genetically generated Tyrannosaurus Rex... (imdb)

Twelve men must decide the fate of one when one juror objects to the jury's decision. (imdb)

In the village of Momo the pace of time goes very slowly. Nobody is bothering about stress but everyone has time to chat and rest - until the day the grey men arrive. With a great selling strategy they offer the people an account to collect time... (imdb)

Hungarian immigrant Mike Laszlo has done well for himself since arriving in the USA nearly 50 years ago. He is particularly proud of his daughter, Ann, a successful lawyer. Following the release of some secret WWII records by the Russians, Mike finds himself accused of being a notorious war criminal. He's convinced it's a communist plot to discredit him and insists that Ann defend him in court. (imdb)

The mysterious and charismatic Russian-born Nikolai Luzhin is a driver for one of London's most notorious organized crime families of Eastern European origin. The family is part of the Vory V Zakone criminal brotherhood. Headed by Semyon--whose courtly charm as the welcoming proprietor of the plush Trans-Siberian restaurant impeccably masks a cold, brutal core--the family is tested by Semyon's volatile son and enforcer, Kirill, who is more tightly bound to Nikolai than to his own father. (Focus Features)

Set during the fading glory of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the film tells of the rise and fall of Alfred Redl (Brandauer), an ambitious young officer who proceeds up the ladder to become head of the Secret Police only to become ensnared in political deception. (imdb)

In the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separated in the woods, and Leon, a local peasant who's now a farmer of some wealth, discovers the woman, Rosa, and hides her in his cellar... (imdb)

Frenchman Abel Tiffauges likes children, and wants to protect them against the grown-ups. Falsely suspected as child molester, he's recruited as a soldier in the 2nd World War, but very soon he is taken prisoner of war. After shortly serving in Goerings hunting lodge, he becomes the dogsbody in Kaltenborn Castle, an elite training camp for German boys. Completely happy to take care of these children, he becomes a servant of Nazism, catching boys from the area as supplies for the camp. (imdb)

Police Commissioner Alex Glass has been twisted into a sarcastic cynic by the hard luck story that is his life and by his daily contact with the criminals of Berlin's underground. His new assistant, Shirly Mai, is an attractive and conscientious woman who embodies a quality of virtue that her boss gave up a long time ago... (imdb)

As rumors reach them that the Allied armies are advancing on their concentration camp at Buchenwald, Polish prosoners renew their feeble hope for survival and freedom. When a group of prisoners is transferred from Auschwitz, a four-year-old child is smuggled into the camp in a valise. Threats and torture by SS men fail to turn up the boy who becomes a symbol of the struggle between captives and captors. (imdb)

An organic and fractured, yet humorous, intuitive, and poetic rumination on the integral - and correlative - nature of technology and (urban) identity, the intersection of film and new media in the creation of art, and the delusive quest to manipulate time. (filmref.com)

A young Hutterite boy must marry his late brother's wife who comes from outside the community.

A young man discovers his homosexuality and begins a relationship with a manipulative huster/petty criminal that he meets at a train station. (imdb)

Bridge designer falls in love with a woman that suffers from a personality disorder. When he meets her she's dressed up like a prostitute though she does not take his money, the next day he meets her again and she turns out to be his lawyer and is completely unaware of the night they spent together.

A successful artist looks back with loving memories on the summer of his defining year, 1974. A talented, but troubled eighteen year old art student befriends an elderly alcoholic genius painter who has turned his back on not only art, but life. The two form, what appears to be at first a tenuous relationship

Documentary about the paradoxal life of the American singer and actor Dean Reed, who ended his life in the GDR in 1986. (imdb)

The downfall of a German family during the 19th century.

A young prince is taken for tuition at a seaside hotel but there quickly bores and wanders off to visit a nearby lighthouse. Befriended by the keeper, he learns of a secret world he can see inside the light of the lamp - the world of Taxandria ruled by the dictatorship of the 'eternal present' where all machines, progress and time have been banned. (imdb)

Interpol Agent Louis Salinger and Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Eleanor Whitman are determined to bring to justice one of the world's most powerful banks. Uncovering illegal activities including money laundering, arms trading, and the destabilization of governments, Salinger and Whitman's investigation takes them from Berlin to Milan to New York and to Istanbul.

A Rabbi in the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland in 1942 fights to maintain his stance of peace and acceptance of his fellow man despite the growing turmoil and atrocities created by the Nazis. Meanwhile his son becomes more militaristic with each new offense and a young German soldier offended by the actions he sees decides to help the rabbi's daughter escape from the Ghetto after she is raped by an officer. (imdb)

Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon works to solve a murder and prevent a terrorist act against the Vatican.

A Jewish ghetto in the east of Europe, 1944. By coincidence, Jakob Heym eavesdrops on a German radio broadcast announcing the Soviet Army is making slow by steady progress towards central Europe. In order to keep his companion in misfortune, Mischa, from risking his life for a few potatoes, he tells him what he heard and announces that he is in possession of a radio - in the ghetto a crime punishable by death. It doesn't take long for word of Jakob's secret to spread - suddenly, there is new hop (imdb)

The movie starts just before Jesus began his ministry and taking the viewer through His baptism, ministry, death, resurrection, and ascension. (imdb)

After his father is murdered by the Nazis in 1938, a young Viennese Jew named Ferry Tobler flees to Prague, where he joins forces with another expatriate and a sympathetic Czech relief worker. Together with other Jewish refugees, the three make their way to Paris, and, after spending time in a French prison camp, eventually escape to Marseille, from where they hope to sail to a safe port. (National Center for Jewish Film)

In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that he left 40 years before. He wants to discover what happened then, the truth about an affair his mother had with a young Polish prisoner of war, how the authorities came to learn of it, the lovers' arrest, and the aftermath. While his son takes Polaroid photographs, he retraces the steps of his childhood and interviews those who should remember. (imdb)

It's 1973. The family Bronstein is a german jewish family who lives in East Berlin. Hans, the 18-year old son of Arno Bronstein, travels to the summer house of his parents with his girlfriend Martha. In the house they discover a prisoner, a man in chains. This man was a kapo at the same Nazi concentration camp where Arno and his friends were prisoned. Hans starts an argument with his father, because he's against this vigilantism.

Chronicle about Germany's most extraodinary literary family, including the brothers Thomas and Heinrich Mann. (imdb)

A beautiful artist (Gloria Reuben) helps an amnesiac (Ray Liotta) piece together his identity and evade a gangster (Armin Mueller-Stahl) on his trail. (imdb)

A dramatization of the events that lead to the demolition of the world's most famous train, the Orient Express. Sarazin plays the role of Sylvester Matushka, a mad Hungarian bent on destruction. (yahoo.com)

1918. The young lieutenant Theodor Lohse witnesesses the end of World War 1 and the downfall of the German monarchy. It is a time of politicial change and turmoil. After the war Theodor Lohse's military carreer comes to an end. Since mass unemployement and the different political movements of the time make it difficult for him to find a place in society, he joins a right extremist organization and betrays political dissidents to the police. (festival-cannes.fr)

Two lovers from a working-class Berlin background swear to marry each other, but after the Nazis rise to power, their Communist and resistance activities result in them becoming separated. As the war progresses, the possibility forms that the two may never see each other again...

During the Spanish Civil War in 1936, a group of International Brigadiers are cut off, lacking ammunition and water. Five men, plus a radio operator, are chosen by their commander to remain with him and hold off the enemy, whilst the others retreat. After a brief skirmish, the five men are each given part of a message that will only be decipherable in the event that all five return safely.

Several known criminals already have been murdered by a professional killer, leaving no trace but the "ace" game card. The police suspects a new mob is trying to take over the district. The investigating police officer Jan is victimized by a bomb himself, when he's at his girlfriend Daniela's father's Italian restaurant. Although paralyzed and suspended from work, the tuff cop continues to investigate and takes revenge on the gangsters who did this to him. (imdb)

Once there was a young prince whose father, the king of the East, sent him down into Egypt to find a pearl. But when the prince arrived, the people poured him a cup. Drinking it, he forgot he was the son of a king, forgot about the pearl and fell into a deep sleep. (imdb)

An art dealer goes to Prague after the death of a friend, Baron von Utz, to obtain the Baron's priceless Meissen porcelain collection. He meets an old friend, Orlik, who tells him about the Baron's past while he struggles to discover what happened to the collection. (Wikipedia)

A member of the British Government is sent to Brussels to become British Commissioner to the European Community. He is made aware of a web of political and industrial corruption through a series of anonymous letters. Despite his own history of political expediency, the Commissioner rises to the moral challenge and faces off with the evil forces responsible. (imdb)

A reclusive aging widower struggling with tax problems has a complete change in his views of life as he has a chance encounter with a young woman who moves in with him briefly. (imdb)

On August 13th, 1961-the night that the Berlin Wall goes up-three people must make a decision that will change their lives forever.... (DEFA Film Library)