USA 1957 | Director: Sidney Lumet | Running time: 96 minutes Twelve jurors with profoundly different personalities and backgrounds must decide the fate of a juvenile defendant in a criminal trial. While most of the jurors want to convict the defendant quickly, one of them advocates a careful examination of the evidence and begins to […]
USA 1960 | Director: Stanley Kramer | Running time: 123 minutes Tennessee, 1925: At a small-town school, the young teacher Cates dares to teach the theory of evolution according to Charles Darwin and is immediately arrested as a result. In the ensuing trial, which goes down in US history as the "monkey trial", the fundamentalist […]
BRD 1981 | Director: Margarethe von Trotta | Running time: 106 minutes In 1970s Germany, the two sisters Juliane and Marianne fight for social change. While Juliane campaigns for women's rights as a journalist, her sister Marianne chooses to fight as an underground terrorist. When Marianne is finally arrested, the sisters' conflict between ideological differences, […]
USA 1944 | Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Running time: 96 minutes After a German U-boat sinks a US passenger ship during World War II, some American survivors find themselves on a lifeboat. They manage to pull another castaway on board, who turns out to be a crew member of the German submarine. Faced with storms, […]
D/F 2014 | Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Running time: 84 minutes Paris, 1944: German General Dietrich von Choltitz is on the verge of giving the order to destroy Paris before the Allies can liberate the city. Swedish diplomat Raoul Nordling manages to get into the general's hotel room to dissuade him from his decision. In […]
GB 2017 | Director: Sally Potter | Running time: 71 minutes To celebrate her appointment as Health Minister in the British shadow cabinet, Janet invites her friends to a party. But when her husband Bill makes a serious confession to the guests, the situation tips over. The moral certainties and ideological convictions of the left-liberal, […]