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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
1974 • 93 minutes • 1.37:1 • Germany
Spine: #198 Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray, iTunes

The wildly prolific German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder paid homage to his cinematic hero Douglas Sirk with this update of that filmmaker’s 1955 All That Heaven Allows.

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The American Friend

Wim Wenders
1977 • 126 minutes • 1.66:1 • Germany
Spine: #793 Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray, iTunes

Wim Wenders pays loving homage to rough-and-tumble Hollywood film noir with The American Friend, a loose adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel Ripley’s Game.

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The American Soldier

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
1970 • 80 minutes • 1.33:1 • Germany
Edition: Collector’s Sets

Fassbinder’s experimental noir is a subversive, self-reflexive gangster movie full of unexpected asides and stylistic flourishes, and features an audaciously bonkers final shot and memorable turns from many of the director’s rotating gallery of players.

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Berlin Alexanderplatz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
1980 • 940 minutes • 1.33:1 • Germany
Spine: #411 Edition: DVD

Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s controversial, fifteen-hour-plus epic follows the hulking, childlike ex-convict Franz Biberkopf (Günter Lamprecht) as he attempts to “become an honest soul” amid the corrosive urban landscape of Weimar-era Germany.

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Beware of a Holy Whore

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
1970 • 104 minutes • 1.33:1 • Germany
Edition: Collector’s Sets

In Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s brazen depiction of the alternating currents of lethargy and mayhem inherent in moviemaking, a film crew deals with an aloof star (Eddie Constantine), an abusive director (Lou Castel), and a financially troubled production.

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The Bridge

Bernhard Wicki
1959 • 103 minutes • 1.37:1 • Germany
Spine: #763 Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray, iTunes

Bernhard Wicki’s astonishing The Bridge was the first major antiwar film to come out of Germany after World War II, as well as the nation’s first postwar film to be widely shown internationally, even securing an Oscar nomination.

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Coup de grâce

Volker Schlöndorff
1976 • 98 minutes • 1.66:1 • Germany
Spine: #192 Edition: DVD

A startling tale of heartbreak and violence set against the backdrop of bloody revolution, Volker Schlöndorff’s Coup de grâce is a powerful film that explores the interrelation of private passion and political commitment.

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Eclipse Series 39: Early Fassbinder

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Germany
Edition: DVD

From the very beginning of his incandescent career, the New German Cinema enfant terrible Rainer Werner Fassbinder refused to play by the rules.

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Fox and His Friends

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
1975 • 124 minutes • 1.37:1 • Germany
Spine: #851 Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray, iTunes

A lottery win leads not to financial and emotional freedom but to social captivity, in this wildly cynical classic about love and exploitation by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

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Germany Year Zero

Roberto Rossellini
1948 • 73 minutes • 1.33:1 • Germany
Spine: #499 Edition: Collector’s Sets

The concluding chapter of Roberto Rossellini’s War Trilogy is the most devastating, a portrait of an obliterated Berlin shown through the eyes of a twelve-year-old boy.

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Gods of the Plague

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
1969 • 92 minutes • 1.33:1 • Germany
Edition: Collector’s Sets

Harry Baer plays a newly released ex-convict who slowly but surely finds his way back into the Munich criminal underworld. This sensual, artfully composed film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder is a study of romantic and professional futility.

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Kameradschaft

G. W. Pabst
1931 • 88 minutes • 1.19:1 • Germany
Spine: #908 Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray, iTunes

An arresting disaster film and a stirring plea for international cooperation, Kameradschaft cemented G. W. Pabst’s status as one of the most morally engaged and formally dexterous filmmakers of his time.

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Katzelmacher

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
1969 • 89 minutes • 1.33:1 • Germany
Edition: Collector’s Sets

Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s second feature depicts the intolerance of a circle of financially and sexually frustrated friends when an immigrant laborer (Fassbinder) moves to their Munich neighborhood.

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Lola

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
1981 • 113 minutes • 1.66:1 • Germany
Spine: #206 Edition: Collector’s Sets

In Fassbinder’s satiric tribute to capitalism, Lola, a seductive cabaret singer-prostitute, launches an outrageous plan to elevate herself in a world where everything, and everyone, is for sale.

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The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum

Volker Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta
1975 • 106 minutes • 1.77:1 • Germany
Spine: #177 Edition: DVD

When Katharina Blum spends the night with an alleged terrorist, her quiet, ordered life falls into ruins. Suddenly a suspect, Katharina is subject to a vicious smear campaign by the police and a ruthless tabloid journalist, testing the limits of her dignity and her sanity.

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Love Is Colder Than Death

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
1969 • 89 minutes • 1.78:1 • Germany
Edition: Collector’s Sets

For his feature debut, Rainer Werner Fassbinder fashioned an acerbic, unorthodox crime drama about a love triangle involving the small-time pimp Franz (Fassbinder), his prostitute girlfriend, Joanna (future Fassbinder mainstay Hanna Schygulla), and his gangster friend Bruno (Ulli Lommel).

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M

Fritz Lang
1931 • 110 minutes • 1.19:1 • Germany
Spine: #30 Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray, Collector’s Sets, iTunes

Peter Lorre stars as serial killer Hans Beckert in Fritz Lang’s harrowing masterwork M, a suspenseful panorama of private madness and public hysteria that to this day remains the blueprint for the psychological thriller.

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The Merchant of Four Seasons

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
1971 • 88 minutes • 1.37:1 • Germany
Spine: #758 Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray, iTunes

In this anguished yet mordantly funny film, Fassbinder charts the decline of a self-destructive former policeman and war veteran struggling to make ends meet for his family by working as a fruit vendor.

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Pandora’s Box

Georg Wilhelm Pabst
1929 • 133 minutes • 1.33:1 • Germany
Spine: #358 Editions: DVD, Collector’s Sets

Sensationally modern, G. W. Pabst’s lurid, controversial melodrama follows the downward spiral of the fiery, brash, yet innocent showgirl Lulu (Louise Brooks), whose sexual vivacity has a devastating effect on everyone she comes in contact with.

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Paris, Texas

Wim Wenders
1984 • 147 minutes • 1.78:1 • Germany
Spine: #501 Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray, iTunes

New German Cinema pioneer Wim Wenders (Wings of Desire) brings his keen eye for landscape to the American Southwest in Paris, Texas, a profoundly moving character study written by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Sam Shepard.

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People on Sunday

Robert Siodmak and Edgar G. Ulmer
1930 • 73 minutes • 1.33:1 • Germany
Spine: #569 Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray

People on Sunday, an effervescent, sunlit silent, about a handful of city dwellers (a charming cast of nonprofessionals) enjoying a weekend outing, offers a rare glimpse of Weimar-era Berlin, would influence generations of film artists around the world.

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Phoenix

Christian Petzold
2014 • 98 minutes • 2.35:1 • Germany
Spine: #809 Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray

After surviving Auschwitz, a former cabaret singer (Nina Hoss, in a dazzling, multilayered performance) has her disfigured face reconstructed and returns to her war-ravaged hometown to seek out her gentile husband, who may or may not have betrayed her to the Nazis.

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Pina

Wim Wenders
2011 • 103 minutes • 1.85:1 • Germany
Spine: #644 Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray

The boundless imagination and physical marvels of the work of the German modern-dance pioneer Pina Bausch leap off the screen in this exuberant tribute by Wim Wenders.

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