Shout! Factory (Firm)
1) Fitzcarraldo
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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.
2) Woyzeck
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Everything in town appears calm, placid, lovely. But WOYZECK, a rifleman assigned as an orderly, hears voices -- the times are out of joint, at least in his cosmos. To his captain, WOYZECK is a comic marvel: ignorant but courageous, full of energy to little purpose. To a local doctor, WOYZECK is a curiosity, the object of cruel study. WOYZECK, 40, has a young wife, Marie, and a small child. He dotes on them, but Marie, even though she has periods...
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A group of inhabitants of a correctional colony for people of small stature raises a riot against the local order. Tired of adhering to the many rules that require good behavior from them, they decide to become bad. Their immediate leader (also a dwarf) is forced to take refuge in one of the premises while waiting for the police to arrive. Meanwhile, the rioters are having fun: they beat dishes and glasses, start a car and eventually break it, kill...
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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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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...
6) Cobra verde
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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.
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Ballad of the little soldier: The film focuses on a group of Miskito Indians in Nicaragua who used children soldiers in their resistance against the Sandinistas.
Where green ants dream: Geologist Lance Hackett is employed by an Australian mining company to map the subsoil of a desert area covered with ant hills prior to a possible uranium extraction. His work is impeded by aborigines who explain that this is the place where the green ants dream.
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Based on a real historical event, this is the story of Kaspar Hauser, a young man who appeared in a small German town in 1820 after having lived in total isolation from humans since birth. He is taught to speak, read, and write by townspeople, but is then mysteriously murdered.
10) Stroszek
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An alcoholic ex-convict joins a prostitute and a friend in their quest for a better life in Wisconsin.
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Set in 18th century Bavaria, this film tells of a village that loses the formula for making its famous unique ruby glass after the master glass blower of the glassworks dies, taking the secret to his grave. The owner of the factory becomes obsessed with the lost formula and hires a clairvoyant shepherd (based on the legendary Bavarian prophet Mühlhiasl) to unravel the mystery as the townspeople slide into a deep depression, growing increasingly unstable...
12) My best friend
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Herzog was transfixed by an early Kinski performance. From the chaos of sharing an apartment where Kinski completely destroyed a bathroom in a forty-eight hour rage, a volatile and creative partnership was born. Herzog documents the often violent ups and downs of their relationship, revisiting the various locations of their films and talking to the people they worked with.
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In Werner Herzogs Remake des Vampirklassikers von F.W. Murnau, Jonathan Harker erhält von Wismar den Auftrag, ins ferne Transsylvanien zu reisen. Dort interessiert sich Graf Dracula für den Kauf eines Hauses in der Hansestadt. Er ahnt nicht, welches Grauen ihn erwartet.
In Herzog's hommage to F.W. Murnau's 1922 silent classic, Jonathan Harker, against the wishes of his wife, departs on a journey over the Carpathian Mountains to Transylvania in...