THE ETERNAL MASK

This interesting but largely forgotten 1935 Swiss-German production was a landmark in the expressionist film cycle

HASHISH

Germany’s premiere example of “drug writing,” 1902’s HASHISH by Oscar A.H. Schmitz appears here in its first ever English translation

SAMALIO PARDULUS

A most fascinating excavation, this long-forgotten early twentieth century gothic novella by a German poet appears here in its first-ever English version

ABELARD — THE CASTRATION

From Germany, a failed attempt at artsploitation that was completed in 1975 but not released until two years later—and then promptly forgotten!

LOFT

Like director Eckhart Schmidt’s earlier film TRANCE, LOFT is steeped in 1980s new wave culture, which can be taken as a good or bad thing depending on one’s point of view