Menashe

At the turn of the century, Lodz, Poland, was a quick-paced manufacturing center for textiles, replete with cutthroat industrialists and unsafe working conditions. Three young friends, a Pole, a Jew, and a German, pool their money together to build a factory.

Runtime

2h 59m

Director

Andrzej Wajda

Cast

Daniel Olbrychski, Wojciech Pszoniak, Andrzej Seweryn

Reluctantly, a sulky adolescent returns to her parents' house for yet another boring summer vacation, dabbling in desire and the art of desirability, eventually mixing reality with vision, caged fantasies with the fierce female sexuality.

Runtime

1h 34m

Director

Catherine Breillat

Cast

Charlotte Alexandra, Hiram Keller, Rita Maiden

What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitler’s, a leader of the notorious SA and the Third Reich’s minister in charge of Slovakia, including its Final Solution? Executed as a war criminal in 1947, Hanns Ludin left behind a grieving widow and six young children, the youngest of wh...

Runtime

1h 25m

Director

Malte Ludin

In occupied Paris, an actress wed to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs.

Runtime

2h 11m

Director

François Truffaut

Cast

Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Jean Poiret

Au revoir les enfants tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss concerning two boys living in Nazi-occupied France. At a provincial Catholic boarding school, the precocious youths enjoy true camaraderie—until a secret is revealed. Based on events from writer-director Malle’s own childhood, the film is a subtle, pre...

Runtime

1h 45m

Director

Louis Malle

Cast

Gaspard Manesse, Raphael Fejtö, Francine Racette