"Herr Bello" tells the tale of 12-year-old Max, who is jealous of his widower father’s attempt to find new love with Frau Lichtblau. Max’s best friend is his dog, Bello, and than...
Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael KohlhaasGermany, the 16th century. Michael Kohlhaas, a respected horse trader, leads a content and happy life with his beloved family. Yet one day, he is stopped...
Melodrama about a simple woman from Amsterdam who is forced to choose between the depraved father of her children and the love of a kind-hearted sailor. Willem, an honest sailor, is head over heels ...
The life of a happy, close-knit French family from Aisne who must flee the German advance in 1914. The father and uncle must join the front. To keep the women and children safe, the American committee...
Mr van den Heuvel, a cobbler, lives with his wife and two small children in a one-room hovel in a dingy alley. He wants to work, but is usually too tired and is continuously coughing. He ignores the a...
Count De Grancé and his wife have two degenerate children. For their adolescent daughter there is still some hope, as her main vice appears to be that she devours the novels of Emile Zola. The son le...
Two sufficiently prosperous, mature friends, neighbors for many years, spend their time playing chess and grumbling about their age and health. At the same time, they both like a poor young woman, Rit...
Sex, Pity and Loneliness Adaptation of the eponymous novel by Helmut Krausser. The story focuses on an assorted group of urbanites, who all have to cope with different romantic problems. There's retir...
A serious argument erupts between father and son in the villa of the wealthy Kodeš; the son wants to marry a kind but poor girl. Mr. Kodeš does not want his son to carry on seeing her and he threate...