The Clown and the Führer

A parable of art and power, cruelty and resistance, responsibility and fear

The Golden Coach

The enamored regent gives a lusty prima donna his official golden coach to win her affections – almost starting a war.

Ina Kahr's Confession

The Indian Tomb

After fleeing, two runaway lovers are recaptured by the furious Maharajah, who plans a terrible revenge. The sequel to "The Tiger of Es...

Lili Marleen

One of Fassbinder's greatest commercial successes

The Lives of Others

Oscar®-awarded feature film by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. A gripping thriller and moving love story from the heart of the East ...

Ludwig II

Helmut Käutner's gradiose portait of Bavaria's fairy-tale monarch

Niklashausen Journey

"The film shows how and why a revolution fails." (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

Pioneers in Ingolstadt

In a style reminiscent of Brecht's "epic theater", Fassbinder compellingly shows the rift between the capitalist and the worker.

The River

On the banks of the Ganges in the early 1950s, a young US soldier suddenly enters the lives of a British family and turns their world u...

Salvador

In competition at the Cannes Film Festival - Winner of the Spanish Goya Award for Best Screenplay

Seven Years Hard Luck

Shattered Glass

Two brothers go on a painful journey to the past in which they must face the demons they have ignored for so long.

La Strada

Fellini's Oscar®-winning masterpiece and the film that started Beta's vast library.

Whity

"...a filmic ritual of downfall...the expression of an entirely detached pessimism..." (Süddeutsche Zeitung)