Absurdistan
Welcome to Absurdistan, a small village just on the outskirts of reality. The village is facing a water shortage, but the men are too lazy to fix the pipeline and the women are getting fed up. Led by Aya, the women make a vow: “No water, no sex.”

Adventures of Juan Quin Quin, The
Juan Quin Quin, a poor but shrewd farmer, lives on his wits in pre-revolutionary Cuba - as a circus performer, a bull-fighter, a coffee planter, even playing the part of Christ with a traveling theatre company. Then he joins the Revolution....

Adventures of Werner Holt, The
In this political and artistic masterpiece, two 17 year-olds are pulled out of school and into Hitler’s army. While one becomes a fanatical soldier, the other begins to understand the senselessness of war.

Agnes and His Brothers
Agnes and his brothers have little in common except an eccentric father, relationship problems that are screwing up their lives, and a suspicion that there is a distinct possibility those two things are connected.

Alice in Wondertown
Inspired by Lewis Carroll’s classic tale, Alice in Wondertown is both an absurdist comedy and an allegory with a dark political undercurrent. One of the most controversial films in the history of Cuba, it was banned by authorities after its release.

Almost Brothers: Global Lens Collection
This searing look at the class struggle of Brazil over a period of four decades is told through the closely linked yet fatally divided lives of Miguel, a middle-class white rebel, and Jorge, his black childhood friend.

Almost Peaceful
Set during the largely unexplored period immediately following World War II, the film follows a group of mostly Jewish Parisians who attempt to restart their lives and rekindle their capacity for happiness in the shadow of unspeakable horrors.

Altiplano
High in the Andes of Peru, silent but deadly traces of mercury, remnants of long-ago mining, bring illness and death to a local village. Seeking retribution, the villagers mistakenly attribute the outbreak to Western doctors who work in the nearby mountains.

Amada
This classic from the director of Lucía is set in 1914 Havana. Privileged but unhappily married, Amada falls in love with her cousin Marcial, a young man with revolutionary designs. Will she follow her passion and escape her unfaithful husband?

Angel on the Right: Global Lens Collection
Ten years after leaving Tajikistan, the gangster Hamro is tricked into returning to his home village, where he must confront old foes, debts, his tradition bound mother and a son that he didn’t know he had.

Another Man's Garden: Global Lens Collection
Sofia, a young girl in Mozambique who is studying to be a doctor, finds that her professor wants more from her than hard work. This acclaimed feature debut brings to light the terrible struggle women in many African countries face.

Anti-Nazi Classics Box Set
This special edition box set features four films about Nazi Germany: The Murderers are Among Us, I Was Nineteen, The Gleiwitz Case and Naked Among Wolves which stars Oscar Nominee Armin Mueller-Stahl.

Anti-Nazi Classics Box Set Vol. 2
This DVD box set features four films about Nazi Germany: Rotation (Wolfgang Staudte), Council of the Gods (Kurt Maetzig), The Axe of Wandsbek (Falk Harnack) and The Adventures of Werner Holt (Joachim Kunert).

Apaches: DEFA Collection
In this Western created by Communist East Germany’s legendary DEFA Film Studios, a young Apache warrior sets out to avenge the extermination of his tribe on the eve of the Mexican-American war.

Architects, The: DEFA Collection
Filmed as East Germany crumbled, this somber, finely drawn portrait of life in East Berlin is one of the first fiction films to deal both with both East Germany and the reunification period.

Axe of Wandsbek, The: DEFA Collection
The Nazis need a hangman to put a group of political prisoners to death, and the town butcher agrees to do the deed. Adapted from the novel by German-Jewish author Arnold Zweig, this classic was directed by a former anti-Nazi resistance fighter.

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Based on the best-selling novel set during China's cultural revolution, this acclaimed film is about two young men who are sent to a remote mountain village for a Maoist re-education.

Berlin Schönhauser Corner: DEFA Collection
In this landmark film about rebellious youth, a group of teenagers meet daily on Schönhauser Street in East Berlin to dance to rock n’ roll, swap Western goods and escape the control of their parents and the State.

Best of Global Lens: Africa
This Special Edition Box Set includes four daring films from the Global Lens Collection: Hollow City (Angola), The Night of Truth (Burkina Faso), Another Man's Garden (Mozambique), and Bunny Chow (South Africa).

Best of Global Lens: Brazil
This special edition box set includes the following four films from the Global Lens Collection: Almost Brothers, Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures, Mango Yellow and Margarette's Feast.

Best of Global Lens: China
This Special Edition Box Set includes the following four films from the Global Lens Collection: Dam Street, the Cannes award-winning Luxury Car, Stolen Life and Uniform.

Bliss
Based on the internationally acclaimed novel by Zülfü Livaneli and set against the backdrop of Turkey’s natural wonders, Bliss is an eye-opening story about the taboo subject of honor killings.

Border Cafe: Global Lens Collection
A young widow takes over her late husband's truck stop café, staying in the kitchen so as not to cause a scandal in Iran's conservative society. But her brother-in-law, out of familial obligation, wants to take her as a wife and also take over the café.

Born in '45: DEFA Collection
Banned in 1966, this sexually frank film, bursting with the stylistic energy of Neo-Realism and the French New Wave, centers on two newlyweds who are going crazy living together in their tiny flat and decide to divorce.

Bridesmaid, The
Directed by Claude Chabrol and based on the novel by Ruth Rendell. It's love at first sight when Senta falls into the life of handsome young Philippe, but Philippe soon discovers that Senta's life is shrouded in mystery.

Buffalo Boy: Global Lens Collection
In 1940s Vietnam, a young man takes up with a band of nomadic buffalo herders and discovers freedom, violence and love - but also secrets about his past that will change his life forever.

Bunny Chow: Global Lens Collection
Three up-and-coming comedians make it clear that life in the ‘new’ Johannesburg is not just about hardship and townships, but also about humor, friends, and celebrating life on a raucous road trip to South Africa’s largest music festival.

Butterfly, The
Eight-year-old Elsa and her mother move in next to Julien, an ornery old entomologist with a lavish butterfly collection in his apartment.

Carbide and Sorrel: DEFA Collection
A hilarious and rare classic of German cinema, CARBIDE AND SORREL is a road trip adventure set in the last days of World War II.

Carmo, Hit the Road
In this Sundance dazzler, Carmo agrees to help a lonesome, wheelchair-bound low-life transport a shipment of smuggled goods. An unlikely romance unfolds as the two are chased through a lush and jagged South American landscape.

Caterina in the Big City
In this coming of age drama from Italy, Caterina moves from a provincial seaside town to politically-charged, class-conscious Rome. As her parent’s marriage disintegrates, Caterina finds comfort in her extended family and a budding romance.

Cecilia
Considered one of Cuba’s most controversial films ever, this award-winning classic from Humberto Solás tells the story of the son of a rich colonial family who falls in love with a proud, beautiful but poor mulatto girl in 1830s Cuba.

Chabrol: Two Classic Thrillers
Two classic films from Claude Chabrol: The Bridesmaid, a thriller starring Benoît Magimel and Laura Smet, and Merci Pour le Chocolate, a delectable mystery starring Isabelle Huppert.

Chingachgook:The Great Snake: DEFA Collection
In this Western created by Communist East Germany’s legendary DEFA Film Studios, French colonists are fighting the English, and each use Indian tribes as their allies.

Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures: Global Lens Collection
Johann, a young German opposed to Hitler’s war, travels the roads of Brazil where he meets Ranulpho, a sharp-tongued hitchhiker. But as Brazil enters the war against Germany and Johann is ordered home, each man must decide his own fate.

Clandestinos
One of the most commercially successful of all Cuban films, this action-packed political thriller chronicles the romance between two young revolutionaries in 1950s Havana as they fight for their lives against Batista’s secret service.

Council of the Gods: DEFA Collection
Based on testimony from the Nuremberg Trial of chemical giant I.G. Farben, this is the story of the collaboration between international corporations and Nazi scientists, whose research contributed to the death of millions.

Cow, The
In a small village in Iran, Hassan cherishes his cow more than anything in the world. The Cow won great acclaim at the Venice Film Festival after being smuggled out of Iran in 1971.

Cuban Masterworks Collection, The
Five masterworks from revolutionary Cuba. Beautifully restored and directed by three legendary filmmakers, they reveal a unique perspective of their country – one which Americans are unaccustomed to seeing.

Cup Final
A Film by Eran Riklis. When an Israeli soldier is captured by a band of PLO fighters en route to Beirut, a passion for soccer leads to a tale of shared humanity.

Dad on the Run
A Film by Dante Desarthe. Fueled by klezmer and set in the Paris night world, Dad On The Run is an intelligent & hilarious screwball comedy involving Bar Mitzvahs, frozen fish and a misplaced foreskin.

Dam Street: Global Lens Collection
During a time of rigid moral code in China, a sixteen year old girl living in small town discovers she is pregnant, and is forced to put her child up for adoption. Ten years later, a marriage proposal probes the depth of her unresolved past.

Daniella By Night
A Film by Max Pecas. Original sex kitten Elke Sommer is Daniella, a beautiful model who arrives in Rome and becomes involved in a murderous spy plot.

Daughter of Keltoum: Global Lens Collection
A 19 year-old Swiss woman travels to her birthplace - an isolated Berber settlement in the mountainous desert landscape of Algeria - to find her biological mother, who she has never met.

DEFA Sci-Fi Collection
Newly remastered and packed with fascinating bonus materials, this collection features three seminal works from the legendary DEFA film studio: The Silent Star, Eolomea and In the Dust of the Stars.

Deserted Station
In this lyrical and intimately nuanced story conceived by Abbas Kiarostami and starring Leila Hatami, a photographer and his young wife are stranded in a remote Iranian village after their car breaks down.

Disenchanted , The
A Film by Benoit Jacquot. A beautiful 17 year old school girl (Judith Godreche) who lives with her younger brother and ailing mother in Paris must come to terms with three different men in her life.

Divided Heaven: DEFA Collection
Strongly influenced by French Nouvelle Vague cinema, this classic film directed by the legendary Konrad Wolf was praised by critics as one of Germany’s 100 Most Important Films.

Don't Let Me Die on a Sunday
A Film By Didier Le Pecheur. Starring Elodie Bouchez (Dreamlife of Angels) and Jean-Marc Barr (Dancer in the Dark) this provocative, disturbing film takes you on a dangerous sexual odyssey.

Dreaming Lhasa
Karma, a Tibetan filmmaker from New York, goes to India to make a documentary about former political prisoners who have escaped from Tibet. There she embarks on a journey into Tibet's fractured past and a voyage of self-discovery.

Electric Shadows
From one of China's newest cinematic voices comes a charming tale about the days when the cinema enchanted China's masses, and audiences breathed and dreamed as one.

Enough!: Global Lens Collection
Set amidst the civil war of Algeria in the 1990s, Enough! is the story of two women, Emel and Khadija, who embark on a dangerous search for Emel’s missing husband, braving the beautiful but lawless countryside.

Eolomea: DEFA Collection
A sci-fi classic from the legendary DEFA studio. A mysterious message - “Eolomea” - is received on Earth from space. Within days, eight ships disappear, and a space station goes silent. What is Eolomea- and who on Earth knows about it?

Eyes Wide Open
Aaron is a dedicated husband and father in Jerusalem’s ultra-orthodox community. But when he meets Ezri, a handsome student, he soon falls in love with him, until guilt, torment and community pressure lead him to make a radical decision.

Fine Dead Girls: Global Lens Collection
A lesbian couple rent an apartment in a seemingly quiet building, but what initially appears as a safe love haven quickly turns into a nightmare. Fine Dead Girls has been named one of the best Croatian movies of the last decade.

First Love and Other Pains & One of Them
Delighting gay festival-goers around the world, these two audience favorites explore the phenomenon of first love - the discovery, the thrill, the fear, and the heartache.

Fish Fall in Love: Global Lens Collection
Loosely based on the Persian fable of Shahrazad and A Thousand and One Nights, director Ali Raffi uses the language of food to paint a richly textured portrait of life and love in Iran.

French Art of Seduction, The
This box set features four gems from the land of Ooh La La: La Vie Promise (Isabelle Huppert), La Petite Lili (Ludivine Sagnier), La Désenchantée (Judith Godreche), and Seaside (Winner of the Camera d'Or at Cannes).

Fuse: Global Lens Collection
In this bitingly funny story set in Bosnia two years after the civil war, a small town is turned upside down trying to create a squeaky clean image of itself as it prepares for a visit by President Bill Clinton.

GFI Africa Collection
Seven films from the Global Lens Collection. Titles included: Another Man's Garden, Enough!, Daughter of Keltoum, Hollow City, The Night of Truth, Rachida and Max and Mona.

GFI Latin America Collection
Nine films from the Global Lens Collection. Titles included : Almost Brothers, Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures, Lili's Apron, Mango Yellow, Margarette's Feast, Nada +, The Sacred Family, Today and Tomorrow and Whisky.

Ghosted
A mysterious love story about a German artist trying to come to terms with the unsolved murder of her Taiwanese lover. From director Monika Treut (Seduction: The Cruel Woman, Female Misbehavior and Gendernauts).

Gleiwitz Case, The: DEFA Collection
This one-of-kind masterpiece brings to life an unforgettable true story: to justify their invasion of Poland at the beginning of World War II, the Nazi high command hatches a secret plan.

Go For Zucker
Dani Levy's controversial and hilarious contemporary farce about pool shark and all-around hustler Jaeckie Zucker is the first German-Jewish comedy to come out of Germany since World War II.

Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg
A Film by Kjell Grede. The story of Swedish businessman Raoul Wallenberg who helped Jews in Budapest, Hungary in 1944 obtain Swedish passports to get them out of Adolph Eichmann's deadly path.

Goya: DEFA Collection
In the court of King Carlos IV, the brilliant painter Don Francisco deo Goya Lucientes has attained wealth and reputation but finds himself becoming more and more remote from the daily life and suffering of the Spanish people.

Grand Role, The
Thinking he has been cast in a Yiddish version of The Merchant of Venice, struggling Parisian actor Maurice tells his beloved wife Perla. But when the part goes to an American star, Maurice must play the role of his life to be sure Perla doesn’t find out.

Hamoun
Hamoun is a psychological comedy/drama about a bumbling Iranian intellectual, Hamid Hamoun, trying and failing to complete a philosophical tract on love.

Hamsun
In this epic story of love and treason, Max von Sydow gives a career-crowning performance as Knut Hamsun, Norway’s controversial Nobel Laureate who embraced Hitler .

Hello, Hemingway
Havana in the 1950s: Larita hopes to study in the United States, but quickly discovers that her origins and poverty work against her. Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea becomes her own story of striving for a better future.

Her Third: DEFA Collection
A humorous and touching story of an independent woman’s willingness to break with social conventions in order to find happiness. Starring Academy Award Nominee Armin Mueller-Stahl in one of his first film roles.

Hollow City: Global Lens Collection
One of the few films to have been made in Angola since it was torn apart by civil war, this eye-opening drama is set in Luanda, the capital of Angola, in the aftermath of the war.

Hot Summer: DEFA Collection
The East German Grease! Resurrected in the '90's as a cult item, this beach blanket is being pitched on the Baltic Sea and East German pop stars are singin' and dancin', lovin' and fightin'.

House of the Sleeping Beauties
Based on the beautifully strange novella by Yasunari Kawabata, acclaimed writer-director-actor Vadim Glowna's film is a mysterious thriller about loneliness, sex, eroticism and mortality.

I Was Nineteen
A landmark of postwar German cinema, I Was Nineteen is ranked by film critics among the top 100 Most Significant German Films of all time. Set during the last days of World War II, the film is based on the director Konrad Wolf’s actual experiences.

I, The Worst of All
A Film by Maria Luisa Bemberg. In 17th century Mexico, the brilliant and beautiful poet Sister Juana Ines de la Cruz (Assumpta Serna) enters a convent, and the local vicereine (Dominique Sanda) becomes her protectress and erotic muse.

In the Dust of the Stars: DEFA Collection
This groovy 70’s sci-fi classic, replete with space age costumes, liberal social mores, and a socialist utopian undercurrent, is an enjoyable gem from the legendary DEFA East German film studio.

Isle, The
A Film by Kim Ki-Duk. The Isle tells tale of a beautiful woman who lives on an eerie, remote lake selling food to fisherman by day, and her body by night.

Jacob the Liar: DEFA Collection
Nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Film, Jacob the Liar is the story of a man who invents news stories about impending Nazi defeat to return hope to the lives of the other Jews living in his Polish ghetto.

Kaiser's Lackey, The
Der Untertan, which casts Germany's penchant for ultra-nationalism and authoritarianism in a satirical light, this scathingly funny classic is now ranked as one of the most significant German films of all time.

Kept and Dreamless: Global Lens Collection
During Argentina’s economic crisis, 9-year-old Eugenia and her mother live a seemingly colorful life, but Eugenia has to grow up fast to take care of her drug-addicted mother, now pregnant (again) by an unknown father.

Kilometre Zero: Global Lens Collection
The first Iraqi film to be chosen to compete in the prestigious Palme d'Or competition at Cannes, Kilometre Zero is a darkly funny story about a Kurdish soldier and an Iraqi taxi driver who join together to return the body of a soldier to his family.

Kira's Reason
A film by Ole Christian Madsen. Enjoying life in their mid-thirties, Kira and her husband Mads have a large house and two wonderful children. Their world is perfectly secure and comfortable until Kira develops a psychiatric disorder. A Dogme Film

Kite, The: Global Lens Collection
In this enchanting drama, 16-year-old Lamia must cross a border checkpoint between Lebanon and Israel to marry a man she has never met– a matter complicated by her surprising admission that she is in love with the Israeli soldier guarding the border.

L'Iceberg
After Fiona, the manager of a fast-food restaurant, gets accidentally locked into a walk-in freezer, she develops an obsession for everything cold and icy. One day she drops everything and leaves home- for a real iceberg.

La Petite Lili
Ludivine Sagnier, the sexy siren from Swimming Pool, stars as Lili, the love and muse of an idealistic young filmmaker in this modern adaptation of Chekov’s classic play The Seagull, directed by French master Claude Miller (Alias Betty).

La Vie Promise: Empire Collection
Isabelle Huppert stars as Sylvia, a prostitute who suddenly makes contact with her estranged teenage daughter. Desperate not to see her daughter repeat her own mistakes, Sylvia tries to re-discover her once promising past.

Legend of Paul and Paula, The: DEFA Collection
A Film by Heiner Carow. One of the most popular of all East German films, The Legend of Paul and Paula is both a romantic and an ironic view of love, with music by the German cult band The Puhdys.

Leila
A Film by Dariush Mehrjui. From one of Iran's greatest directors comes Leila, a beautiful and mesmerizing story of love, conflict and tradition.

Lili's Apron: Global Lens Collection
After Ramón loses his job, his wife Lili suffers a nervous breakdown; they will lose their house unless something drastic is done. Desperate, Ramón accepts a job in Lili’s name - and clothes – to serve as a maid to a rich family.

Little Girl
In a run-down park on the outskirts of Rome, a two year-old girl is discovered and taken in by a family of hard-luck circus performers. A note in the child's pocket from a desperate mother reveals little about who she is or why she was left.

Luxury Car: Global Lens Collection
In this suspenseful award-winning drama, an old schoolteacher travels from his small village to the city of Wuhan in search of his missing son, who his dying wife wants to see one last time.

Maluala
In 19th century Cuba, African slaves known as “cimarrons” overpower their Spanish masters and hide in settlements in the eastern mountains. But discord among the cimarrons is sown by traitors working secretly for the Spanish.

Mango Yellow: Global Lens Collection
The hothouse atmosphere of Brazil comes alive in Mango Yellow, where lust and economic desperation combine in a volatile brew of provocative cinema.

Margarette's Feast: Global Lens Collection
A modern silent masterpiece, Margarette’s Feast tells an allegory of Brazil’s social struggles without words while making dazzling use of exhilarating Brazilian music.

Max and Mona: Global Lens Collection
In this funny and engaging film from South Africa, young Max leaves his small village to become a doctor in the big city. But things start to go wrong right away as Max is mistakenly sent on his journey with the sacred village goat.

Merci Pour Le Chocolat
With his accomplice Isabelle Huppert, one of the world's greatest living screen actresses, French master Claude Chabrol weaves a tangled, nervy web of circumstance, mischief and malevolence.

Midnight Dancers
A Film by Mel Chionglo. The erotic yet compassionate story of three brothers who work as exotic dancers in a Manila gay club.

Mongolian Ping Pong
A ping pong ball, found floating in a stream, becomes the source of wonderment for three young boys who live in the magnificent and remote grasslands of Mongolia.

Monsieur N. : Empire Collection
After his defeat at Waterloo, Napoleon Bonaparte was exiled to the south Atlantic island of St. Helena, where he died a few years later. Or did he? This intricate thriller posits an amazing secret: Napoleon escaped from St. Helena.

Murderers Are Among Us, The: DEFA Collection
A Film by Wolfgang Staudte. A man and a woman return to war-torn Berlin to face the harsh realities of post-war Germany. Ranked by critics in the top ten German films of all time.

My Fuhrer
The bastard love child of Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator and Mel Brooks’ The Producers , My Führer is a wildly provocative and laugh-out-loud satire about Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich.

Nada+ : Global Lens Collection
Carla, a postal worker in Havana, fulfills her romantic longings by opening letters and rewriting them into passionate prose before sending them out again. Cuba’s 2003 Oscar entry combines visual humor, poetry, satire and a lighthearted love story.

Naked Among Wolves: DEFA Collection
Jankowski, a Polish prisoner from Auschwitz, arrives at Buchenwald concentration camp hiding a little boy inside a suitcase. When the prisoners discover the boy, his innocence moves many, yet his possible discovery by the guards threatens them all.

Night of Truth, The: Global Lens Collection
This award-winning debut feature by one of Africa’s most talented female directors takes place in an unnamed country, where two peoples have finally embarked on a path to peace after a decade of atrocities.

Of Love and Eggs: Global Lens Collection
Set in and around a mosque in sprawling Jakarta, Indonesia, during the Muslim holiday of Lebaran, the interwoven stories of family, faith and romantic love in this humorous yet poignant film are revealed through the eyes of three Jakarta children.

On Each Side: Global Lens Collection
Evocative and lyrical, On Each Side follows the interconnected lives of several characters who are affected by the building of the Rosario-Victoria Bridge – a gargantuan, modern undertaking that links two Argentinean cities.

Opera Jawa: Global Lens Collection
Inspired by the famous story “The Abduction of Sita” from the ancient great classic the Ramayana, Opera Jawa, about a passionate love triangle, is a musical like no other in cinema.

Personals, The
A Film by Chen Kuo-fu. Honored at Cannes, The Personals presents "funny, beautifully observed modern day sexual relationships...recalls Hal Hartley!" (Variety)

Petits Freres
A wonderful follow-up from Jacques Doillon, director of Ponette, Petits Freres is the gritty and lyrical story of a young girl who finds real friendship in a Paris housing project.

Quarry, The
A Film by Marion Hansel. Acclaimed Irish actor John Lynch stars as the strangely sympathetic fugitive who battles inner demons in this 'provocative, mysterious thriller!' (New York Times)

Rabbit is Me, The
A young woman, tainted after her brother's arrest for subversive political activities, has an affair with an older man - who turns out to be the judge that put her brother in jail.

Rachida: Global Lens Collection
This acclaimed debut feature offers a unique glimpse into Algeria, where terrorism was commonplace during the 90s. Rachida, a young and self-assured teacher at an elementary school, becomes the target of terrorists when she refuses to place a bomb in her classroom.

Red Cartoons
East Germany’s DEFA Studios produced more than 800 animated films. Included here are sixteen of the best – an astonishing array of animation filled with social and political satire that would have never been allowed in live action films.

Rotation: DEFA Collection
Ranked as one of Germany’s most important films ever, Rotation is the story of a German family that becomes divided over supporting the Nazis. Rotation was censored by the Soviets because of its pacifist message.

Sacred Family, The: Global Lens Collection
In this comedy drama from Chile, Marco brings his beautiful new girlfriend to meet his parents at their beach house, but her manipulative ways soon expose latent frictions, sexual tensions, and the unspoken rules that tie the family together.

Seaside
In a small beach town in France, beautiful young Marie works at a pebble processing plant. Her boyfriend, Paul, a warehouse employee in winter and a lifeguard in summer, doesn’t understand Marie’s dreamy temperament and stifles her with his clumsy love.

Second Track, The
In this rare noir classic from the legendary DEFA Film Studios, a train station inspector witnesses a robbery, setting in motion an explosive unearthing of dark secrets from the Nazi era.

Secret Pleasures
This scintillating box set features four Asian films about love, longing and fishhooks: Kim Ki-Duk's The Isle, Xiao Jiang's Electric Shadows, Chen Kuo-fu's The Personals, and Monika Treut's Ghosted.

Secret Things
Two young women discover the power of sex to get what they want in the male-dominated business world. Starring Sabrina Seyvecou, and told in voiceover by her character Sandrine.

Seduction: The Cruel Woman
A Film by Elfi Mikesch & Monika Treut. Wanda, a dominatrix who runs an S&M gallery on the Hamburg waterfront, must choose between her lesbian lover and an American trainee.

September 11
Eleven acclaimed directors each make an 11 minute short film in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The result is a daring and moving global cinematic reply that "forces us to look at the entire event afresh." (The New York Times).

Shadow Kill: Global Lens Collection
In 1940s southern India, a hangman named Kaliyappan struggles with the guilt and implications of the executions he obediently carries out.

Silent Star, The: DEFA Collection
The first sci-fi film made in East Germany by the legendary DEFA film studio, The Silent Star is a masterpiece in story, art and set design, and technology.

Silent Waters
Silent Waters is set in 1979 in Pakistan, when General Zia-ul-Haq took control of the country and stoked the fires of Islamic nationalism.

So Close To Paradise
A Film by Wang Xiaoshuai. A striking noir gangster film reminiscent of Hollywood 's classic B movies from the 1940s and 50s.

Solo Sunny: DEFA Collection
Directed by Konrad Wolf, this mesmerizing portrait of the longings and frustrations of East German’s youth also captures the gritty-glitzy Berlin of the 70s in its visuals and its catchy soundtrack.

Sons of Great Bear, The: DEFA Collection
In this Western created by Communist East Germany’s legendary DEFA Film Studios, Gojko Mitic stars as the fearless chief Tokei-ihto, whose Dakota tribe is being driven from the land of their ancestors.

Special Treatment
In this darkly erotic drama, Isabelle Huppert stars as a prostitute who serves up sexual fantasies for her clientele. When she crosses paths with a neurotic psychoanalyst, the two quickly realize their professions share a thing or two in common.

Steamy Art House Hits
This scintillating box set includes the following four films: Secret Things, House of the Sleeping Beauties (Maximilian Schell), Torremolinos 73 (Javier Cámara) and Don't Let Me Die on a Sunday (Elodie Bouchez).

Stolen Life: Global Lens Collection
A young girl, Yanni, is taken to live with her aunt and grandmother in Beijing. Surprising everyone, she is accepted to college. But as she prepares to begin her new life, an encounter with a delivery man triggers a series of unexpected events.

Successful Man, A
Cuba’s history before the Revolution is chronicled through the story of two brothers, one a revolutionary man of action, the other an unscrupulous politician trying to steer a treacherous middle path between opposing political ideas.

Suddenly: Empire Collection
A sexy road movie with a raw freshness reminiscent of early Godard or Jarmusch, Suddenly is the story of Marcia, a lonely salesclerk in Buenos Aries who dreams of escaping her dreary life.

Suitors, The
A well-to-do Iranian arrives in Manhattan from Teheran with his reluctant new bride, but a bizarre series of events follows.

Sun Seekers: DEFA Collection
East Germany, 1950: two young people are arrested after the police raid a barroom brawl. Instead of a prison sentence they are forced to work in a uranium mine in Wismut. Emotions collide, as well as fists.

Sweet Ecstasy
A Film by Max Pecas. Elke Sommer plays a voluptuous vixen in this steamy beach romance filmed on the exotic French Riviera!

Three Marias, The: The Empire Collection
A Brazilian tale of vengeance soaked in gothic imagery and biblical allusions, this cult classic is about a woman who uses her three daughters to enact a bloody revenge on the men who murdered her husband and sons.

To Die For (aka Heaven's a Drag)
The hit British gay comedy about cruising...in the afterlife! Simon and Mark are lovers who live together in a sexually open arrangement. When Mark dies, Simon represses his grief. But shrugging off the past isn't so easy.

Today and Tomorrow: Global Lens Collection
Paula, an aspiring actress in Buenos Aires, is trapped in a cycle of unpaid bills and debts. Reluctantly, she calls a friend who mentors her in a new way to make money - streetwalking.

Torremolinos 73
Spain, 1973. Alfredo is a struggling encyclopedia salesman and his wife is obsessed with becoming a mother. Alfredo’s boss gives him a choice: make 'educational' sex films at home, or get fired.

Trace of Stones
Originally banned for its perceived anti-establishment message, this DEFA masterpiece about the swaggering, self-proclaimed king of a massive construction site, was re-released to great acclaim after the reunification of Germany.

Twelve Chairs, The
On her deathbed, a rich woman reveals the hiding place of a fortune in jewels: inside one of twelve identical parlor chairs, newly confiscated by revolutionary authorities. The hunt for the twelve chairs is on!

Twilight Girls, The
A film by Andre Hunebelle. Seeking to escape a family scandal, a young woman enters an exclusive boarding school for girls, and is immediately absorbed into a clique of attractive and wealthy young vixens. Catherine Deneuve's first film role!

Twilight Samurai, The : Empire Collection
This Academy Award nominated film is the story of a low-ranking samurai living in the fading days of the Shogun period in Japan. When news of his sword-fighting prowess gets out, his superiors order him on a dangerous mission.

Two Films by Peter Fischli and David Weiss
From the artists who created the amazing chain reaction film The Way Things Go come the earlier adventures of Rat and Bear: two films following the artists, in rat and bear costumes, through their adventures from an LA freeway to the Swiss Alps.

Uniform: Global Lens Collection
A young tailor discovers a solution for his problems: a policeman’s uniform, left in the family shop. A humorous but realistic portrait of the clashing values of modern-day China.

Vibration
A Film by Torbjorn Axelman. Essy Persson, Sweden's hippest sex kitten and star of the best-selling I, A Woman and Therese and Isabelle, vibrates throughout this sexy, playful, gem of Swedish erotica.

Virgin Machine
A Film by Monika Treut. A young journalist, foiled in her attempts to find romantic love in her native Hamburg, moves to San Francisco and discovers the rich lesbian scene.

Westerns with a Twist: DEFA Collection
In these three Westerns created by Communist East Germany’s legendary DEFA Film Studios, the Native Americans are the heroes while the American Army and white settlers are the villians.

Whisky: Global Lens Collection
When Jacobo, a lonely factory owner in Uruguay, hears about the impending visit of his irritatingly cheerful brother who he hasn't seen in years, he enlists his faithful assistant Marta to pretend to be his wife.

Wolves of Kromer, The
Directed by Will Gould. Narrated by Boy George and with tongue firmly in cheek, The Wolves of Kromer is both a modern gay parable and a playful, romantic comedy.

Women's Prison: Global Lens Collection
Banned in Iran, this taboo-breaking film uses the claustrophobic life of women behind bars as a metaphor for Iranian society since the Revolution. Mitra, in prison for killing her violent stepfather, confronts the new warden and challenges her dogmatic views.

Wonderful Night in Split, A: Global Lens Collection
Set in the dark, eerie streets of medieval Split, Croatia, during the two hours before midnight on New Year's eve, this stylish film noir spins three tales of desire, treachery and murder.

Yana's Friends
A Film by Arik Kaplun. "Sweet, sexy and unexpectedly enchanting, Yana's Friends is the feel-good comedy that could...an intimate delight molded from heart and humanity." - Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Your Unknown Brother: DEFA Collection
This landmark film exploring the role of the individual in confronting anti-fascism was invited to the Cannes Film Festival, but ironically, was withdrawn by the East German authorities.