Verses of Love 2

Based on Michel Houellebecq's controversial novel, Atomised (aka The Elementary Particles) focuses on Michael and Bruno, two very different half-brothers and their disturbed sexuality. After a chaotic childhood with a hippie mother only caring for her affairs, Michael, a molecular biologist, is more interested in genes than women, whi...

Runtime

1h 45m

Director

Oskar Roehler

Cast

Christian Ulmen, Moritz Bleibtreu, Martina Gedeck

Semi-retired Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler takes the case of Army Lt. Manion, who murdered a local innkeeper after his wife claimed that he raped her. Over the course of an extensive trial, Biegler parries with District Attorney Lodwick and out-of-town prosecutor Claude Dancer to set his client free, but his case rests on the victim's m...

Runtime

2h 41m

Director

Otto Preminger

Cast

James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara

Polish immigrant Karol Karol finds himself out of a marriage, a job and a country when his French wife, Dominique, divorces him after six months due to his impotence. Forced to leave France after losing the business they jointly owned, Karol enlists fellow Polish expatriate Mikołaj to smuggle him back to their homeland.

Runtime

1h 32m

Director

Krzysztof Kieślowski

Cast

Zbigniew Zamachowski, Julie Delpy, Janusz Gajos

When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.

Runtime

2h 13m

Director

Lewis Milestone

Cast

Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres, John Wray

Two warriors in pursuit of a stolen sword and a notorious fugitive are led to an impetuous, physically-skilled, teenage nobleman's daughter, who is at a crossroads in her life.

Runtime

2h

Director

Ang Lee

Cast

Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi