Werner Herzog
61) Stroszek
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Deutsch
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After being released from prison, Berlin street musician Bruno Stroszek finds himself lost in a world where he simply doesn't belong. So along with his prostitute girlfriend and an eccentric neighbor, Stroszek moves to America, where he's told, everyone is rich. It doesn't take long, however, after moving into a mobile home and taking a job as a mechanic, for Stroszek to realize that the streets of Railroad, Wisconsin aren't paved with gold.
62) Fitzcarraldo
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Deutsch
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Story of a man obsessed with a dream to build his own personal opera house in a remote Peruvian town.
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English
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Oscar®-nominated documentarian Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man, Cave of Forgotten Dreams) chronicles the virtual world. Herzog leads viewers on a journey through a series of provocative conversations that reveal the ways in which the online world has transformed how virtually everything in the real world works.
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Deutsch
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"The inmates have taken over an institution in a bleak and savage world in which everyone's a dwarf. As one of the institution's directors holds a rebel hostage while issuing orders for calm, the other inmates run amok, smashing equipment, setting fires, fighting for power and tormenting two blind prisoners. In this land of reversed proportions, these revolutionary outcasts not only destroy the symbols of civilization-- cars, typewriters and dinner...
66) Woyzeck
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Deutsch
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"Franz Woyzeck is a hapless, hopeless soldier, alone and powerless in society, assaulted from all sides by forces he cannot control. Abused and tortured, both physically and psychologically by commanding officers, doctors and his unfaithful wife, Marie, Woyzeck struggles to hold on to his humanity and his fragile sanity. In the film's shattering climax, he is finally driven over the brink into madness and murder."--Container.
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English
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A true story of a trailblazing woman who found freedom in the faraway world of the Middle East. Gertrude Bell chafes against the stifling rigidity of life in turn-of-the-century England, leaving it behind for a chance to travel to Tehran. So begins her lifelong adventure across the Arab world, a journey marked by danger, a passionate affair with a British officer, and an encounter with the legendary T.E. Lawrence.
68) Fitzcarraldo
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Deutsch
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The story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an extremely determined man who intends to build an opera house in the middle of a jungle.
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English
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Lessons of darkenss: This film shows the disaster of the Kuwaiti oil fields in flames, with few interviews. Hell itself is presented in such beautiful sights and music that one has to be fascinated by it.
Little Dieter needs to fly: German-American Dieter Dengler discusses his service as an American naval pilot in the Vietnam War. Dengler also revisits the sites of his capture and eventual escape from the hands of the Vietcong, recreating many events...
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Deutsch
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Land of silence and darkness: Through examining Fini Straubinger, an old woman who has been deaf and blind since adolescence, and her work on behalf of other deaf and blind people, this film shows how the deaf and blind struggle to understand and accept a world from which they are almost wholly isolated.
Fata Morgana: footage shot in and around the Sahara desert accompanied by a spoken creation myth and music by Blind Faith, Third Ear Band and Leonard...
72) Life Itself
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English
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A documentary that recounts the inspiring and entertaining life of world-renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert. It's personal, funny, painful, and transcendent. Based on his bestselling memoir of the same name, LIFE ITSELF, explores his life, from his Pulitzer Prize-winning film criticism at the Chicago Sun-Times to becoming one of the most influential cultural voices in America.
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English
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Lance Hackett is a sympathetic geologist working in Australia for an uranium mining company who must confront the passive resistance of the aborigine tribes. The spot where the deposits are the richest is considered sacred ground. For the aborigine people, the place where the deposits lay is considered the place "where the green ants dream", for them this place is considered the origin of all life. In the clash between white imperialism and a more...
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English
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Terence McDonagh is a drug- and gambling-addled detective in post-Katrina New Orleans investigating the killing of five Senegalese immigrants. Also starring Oscar nominee Brad Dourif ("One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"), Eva Mendes ("Training Day") and Val Kilmer ("Top Gun").
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Cinedigm volume no. 14
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Indonesian
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The filmmakers examine a country where death squad leaders are celebrated as heroes, challenging them to reenact their real-life mass-killings in the style of the American movies they love.
77) Cobra verde
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Deutsch
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Bandit Cobra Verde is hired by a plantation owner to supervise his slaves but when the owner suspects him of consorting with his young daughters, the owner wishes him gone. Rather than kill him, the owner sends Cobra Verde to Africa. As the only white man in the area, Cobra Verde finds himself the victim of torture and humiliation. Driven by loneliness and isolation, he is driven to insanity.
78) Burden of dreams
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Criterion collection volume 287
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English
Description
Goes behind the scenes in the making of Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo, the story of one man's attempt to build an opera house deep in the Amazon jungle. Filmmaker Les Blank captured the production, made perilous by Herzog's determination not to use models or special effects.