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In 2009 the West Coburg Football Club isn’t just fighting for success, it’s fighting for respect. The club is out to prove that a team rich with ethnic diversity belongs in a game called Australian Rules. But will West Coburg’s biggest challenge come from its well heeled opposition, or from within? Anyone’s Game is a documentary that follows the highs and lows of a season in Melbourne local football.

Germany in the autumn of 1957: Lola, a seductive cabaret singer-prostitute exults in her power as a temptress of men, but she wants out—she wants money, property, and love. Pitting a corrupt building contractor against the new straight-arrow building commissioner, Lola launches an outrageous plan to elevate herself in a world where everything, and everyone, is for sale. Shot in childlike candy colors, Fassbinder’s homage to Josef von Sternberg’s classic The Blue Angel stands as a satiric tribute to capitalism.

Several members of European Royalty, including the Duke and Duchess of York, and Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, seated round a tea-table in the grounds of Clarence House.

This is the story of Queen Victoria as never heard before; a psychological insight of the woman told through her own words, her experiences recounted solely through her personal diaries and letters.

In the late summer of 1942 Lieutenant Heinrich Sperling and the simple soldier Oskar Baumann meet and become good friends. Together they go through the hell of World War II

Former heads, senior officers and the rector of the MfS law school explain how the ministry functioned. The interviewees see themselves as legitimate actors with a clear mandate and political enemy image. They provide an insight into the techniques and routines of secret service work, psychological tricks during interrogations and the management of “unofficial collaborators”. What they all have in common is that they are not aware of any moral guilt. The directors contrast their footage of prisons and archives with the statements of former Stasi employees in an attempt to expose their evasions and efforts at suppression.

A witty comedy about Ramune, an aspiring Lithuanian actress in Luxembourg, enduring a series of humiliating encounters at the hands of an industry that benefits from making her feel insignificant.

Lost film from 1902, directed by Louis Lumière and starring King Edward VII.

Footage of Edward VII in the funeral procession of his mother, Queen Victoria.