Purgatory / 1971

Daniel accidentally witnesses a kidnapping on the street. After his report to the police didn't get the attention he had hoped for, he looks for an explanation himself and gets more and more entangled in doubts about his surroundings and his own actions. Through his commitment, he finds himself increasingly exposed to violence and eventually kills a person. During the interrogation by the public prosecutor, he experiences the purgatory of his awakening.

Fegefeuer / 1988

The story of Austrian, Johann "Jack" Unterweger, who wrote a book about his criminal past while serving a life term in prison for assault. In 1974, Unterweger murdered 18-year-old German citizen Margaret Schäfer by strangling her with her own bra, and in 1976 was arrested and sentenced to life in prison.

Fegefeuer / 2019

Fegefeuer der Leidenschaft / 1998

Im Fegefeuer der Lust / 1998

Engel im Fegefeuer / 1965

The Ruhr area in November of 1918. 13-year old Achim Wolters and his friends get their hands on some potatoes on the market. They want to surprise Achim′s father, who works on a mine sweeper boat, with a decent meal. But Achim′s father does not show up – an informer at the train station has betrayed him for his left-wing beliefs and has turned him over to the police. The priest tells Achim the sad news and advises him to pray for the release of his father. But when carpenter Stelzebein stresses that everybody has to take actions for himself, the devout boy at first does not believe in Stelzebein′s words. But then Achim witnesses in the prison how brutally the imperial police treat his father and the other inmates. Together with his loyal friends, Achim takes Stelzebein′s side. When the revolution starts, they stand together on the barricades.

Il falò delle vanità / 19906.043 voti

La brillante carriera di un operatore di borsa crolla quando è arrestato per aver investito con l'auto un giovane nero senza soccorrerlo. L'incidente è amplificato da un giornalista alcolizzato e strumentalizzato da un fanatico predicatore.

Purge / 20127.02 voti

Aliide experienced The Great Terror under Stalin’s regime, and decades after her hometown people were deported to Siberia, she lives alone in an isolated house. One night, she finds a young woman in her yard – Zara has just escaped from the claws of the Russian mafia that held her as a sex slave. Survivors both, Aliide and Zara engage in unearthing each other’s motives and gradually, and their stories merge into one, revealing the tragedy of a family during the cruelest years in Estonian history.

L'ombra del peccato / 1988

Una donna Messicana chiede aiuto ad un prete dopo che una banda di sicari ha ucciso il suo fidanzato.

Pioggia / 19537.01 voti

Una ballerina in sosta forzata su un'isola oceanica si innamora, ricambiata, di un ufficiale. Un corteggiatore geloso e respinto fa di tutto per distruggere la loro unione, fino a rivelare all'uomo il passato turbolento dell'amata. Dopo una momentanea lontananza turbata da un tragico avvenimento (il suicidio del corteggiatore) i due si riconciliano.

Nacht am Mont-Blanc / 1951