Effi Briest (1974)

Summary: In the nineteenth century, seventeen year old Effi Briest is married to the older Baron von Instetten and moves into a house, that she believes has a ghost, in a small isolated Baltic town. She soon bears a daughter, Annie, and hi...

Release Date: June 16, 1977

Genres: Drama, History

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writers: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

, Theodor Fontane

Runtime: 2 h 15 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Tango Film

Distributor: New Yorker Films

Country: West Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 750,000

Domestic: $ 8,144

International: $ 4

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Der plötzliche Reichtum der armen Leute von Kombach (1971)

Summary: In an attempt to escape poverty in the 1800s, eight German farmers and day laborers attack a prince's money transport in the Hessian Hinterland.

Release Date: January 29, 1971

Genre: Drama

Director: Volker Schlöndorff

Writers: Volker Schlöndorff

, Margarethe von Trotta

Runtime: 1 h 34 min

Production: Hallelujah Film, Hessischer Rundfunk (HR)

Distributor: New Yorker Films, Flicksium

Country: West Germany

Language: German

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The End of Summer (1961)

Summary: The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old mistress from his youth.

Genre: Drama

Director: Yasujirô Ozu

Writers: Kôgo Noda

, Yasujirô Ozu

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

Production: Toho Company, Takarazuka Eiga Company Ltd.

Distributor: New Yorker Films, Toho Company, The Criterion Collection

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

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Flame of My Love (1949)

Summary: A woman's struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls in love with its leader Kentaro Omoi, just as the party is being disbanded by the...

Release Date: January 05, 1979

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Kenji Mizoguchi