Movies: Hedwig Schlichter

A couple of thieves with a worldwide reputation start a dispute over a valuable necklace in a transalpine train....

Hearing the summons from an elderly man, a volunteer troop of middle-aged men gather to defend their country from dark foreign invaders....

Released three days after Adolf Hitler became Reichskanzler, it was the first film to have its screening in Nazi Germany. It became a symbol of the new times touted by the Nazi regime. The title (literally "morning-red") is the German term for the r...

Eight Girls concerns an all-female rowing team with its own club-house. One of the team announces she pregnant and finds herself torn between men (father and fiancé) who want the child aborted and the women who want her to keep it and bring it up at ...

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The life of "El Pibe Cabeza", a real-life Argentine gangster in the '30s....

A sensitive girl is sent to an all-girls boarding school and develops a romantic attachment to one of her teachers....

Several individual stories converge in the imposing setting of the southernmost tip of the continent, all of them involving a crisis of faith. Most of the important situations in the film are based on real episodes, such as the massacre of indigenous...

Paloma and Marcelo are in love, but only dare meet once a month- see, she doesn't know that he is only pretending to be the son of rich ranchers, and he doesn't know that she is only pretending to be the daughter of the great business tycoon B. Quint...

Thymian Henning, an innocent young girl, is raped by the clerk of her father's pharmacy. She becomes pregnant, is rejected by her family, and must fend for herself in a harsh, cruel world....

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In order to succeed, a bolero singer fakes his death....

To avoid imprisonment, a woman pretends to be crazy after killing the man who blackmailed her sister....