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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

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Film Age rating: 12 Year: 1974 IMDB Rating: 8

Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown children offer little companionship. One night she goes to a bar frequented by Arab immigrants and s...

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The Marriage of Maria Braun

The Marriage of Maria Braun

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Film Age rating: 14 Year: 1979 IMDB Rating: 7.7

Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. She must rely on her beauty and ambition to navigate the difficult post-war years alone.

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The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

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Film Age rating: 13 Year: 1972 IMDB Rating: 7.6

Petra von Kant is a successful fashion designer -- arrogant, caustic, and self-satisfied. She mistreats Marlene (her secretary, maid, and co-designer). Enter Karin, a 23-year-old beauty who wants to b...

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Fox and His Friends

Fox and His Friends

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Film Age rating: 16 Year: 1975 IMDB Rating: 7.6

Fox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and things that he has always wanted. While he wants to climb up the social ladder, it isn't without turmoil, a...

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In a Year with 13 Moons

In a Year with 13 Moons

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Film Age rating: 16 Year: 1978 IMDB Rating: 7.4

Elvira Weishaupt, once a burly working-class butcher, has made an enormous sacrifice for love. She has undergone a sex change for a romantic interest who has abandoned her, and she now must struggle t...

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Lola

Lola

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Film Age rating: 13 Year: 1981 IMDB Rating: 7.4

Germany in the autumn of 1957: Lola, a seductive cabaret singer-prostitute exults in her power as a temptress of men, but she wants out—she wants money, property, and love. Pitting a corrupt building...

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The Merchant of Four Seasons

The Merchant of Four Seasons

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Film Age rating: 15 Year: 1972 IMDB Rating: 7.3

Hans is a street fruit peddler and born-loser. His choice of career upsets his bourgeois family, causing him to turn to drinking and violence. After recovering from a debilitating heart attack, his bu...

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Chinese Roulette

Chinese Roulette

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Film Age rating: 13 Year: 1976 IMDB Rating: 7.2

A husband and wife lie to each other about their weekend travel plans, only to both show up at the family's country house with their lovers.

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Effi Briest

Effi Briest

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Film Age rating: 6 Year: 1974 IMDB Rating: 6.9

When 17-year-old Effi Briest marries the elderly Baron von Instetten, she moves to a small, isolated Baltic town and a house that she fears is haunted. Starved for companionship, Effi begins a friends...

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Satan’s Brew

Satan’s Brew

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Film Age rating: 18 Year: 1976 IMDB Rating: 6.7

This fast-paced black comedy by wunderkind director Rainer Werner Fassbinder follows the frantic efforts of a starving and confused writer, Walter Kranz to beg, borrow or steal enough money to survive...

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