The Sculpture

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 contractor against the new straight-arrow building commissioner, Lola launches an outrageous plan to elevate herself in a world where eve...

Runtime

1h 53m

Director

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast

Barbara Sukowa, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Mario Adorf

The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by the Church and bourgeois society in general.

Runtime

1h 3m

Director

Luis Buñuel

Cast

Gaston Modot, Lya Lys, Max Ernst

As the city of Paris and the French people grow in consumer culture, a housewife living in a high-rise apartment with her husband and two children takes to prostitution to help pay the bills.

Runtime

1h 27m

Director

Jean-Luc Godard

Cast

Joseph Gehrard, Marina Vlady, Anny Duperey

In 1921, we follow two women - Marie and Grete - from the same poor Viennese neighborhood, as they try to better the lives of themselves and their families during the period of Austrian postwar hyperinflation.

Runtime

2h 35m

Director

G.W. Pabst

Cast

Werner Krauss, Jaro Fürth, Greta Garbo

In a struggling post-Soviet community, Lilya a teenage girl is abandoned when her mother moves to the United States with her boyfriend. Facing neglect and poverty, she meets Andrei, who offers her a job in Sweden, giving her hope for a better life — and a journey that will change everything.

Runtime

1h 49m

Director

Lukas Moodysson

Cast

Oksana Akinshina, Artyom Bogucharsky, Ljubov Agapova