Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown

Effi Briest

When 17-year-old Effi Briest marries the elderly Baron von Instetten, she moves to a small, isolated

Shadow of Angels

Beautiful, detached, laconic, consumptive Lily Brest is a streetwalker with few clients. She loves h

Gods of the Plague

A man is released from prison and finds society on the outside less than appealing. With several wom

The Merchant of Four Seasons

Hans is a street fruit peddler and born loser. His choice of career upsets his bourgeois family, cau

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

Petra von Kant is a successful fashion designer -- arrogant, caustic, and self-satisfied. She mistre

Woyzeck

Having fathered an illegitimate child with his lover, Marie, feckless soldier Franz Woyzeck takes od

The Magic Mountain

Hans Castorp, fresh from university and about to become a civil engineer, comes to the Sanatorium Be

Pappa ante Portas

Heinrich Lohse, a strict and highly efficient purchasing manager at a company bulk-orders 40 tons of

The Man from the Embassy

The unusual friendship between a German embassy employee and a twelve-year-old refugee girl helps bo

Germanikus

The work-shy, lazy Germanicus is taken to Rome by slave traders and sold straight to the nouveau ric

Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers

Documentary about filmmakers of the New German Cinema who were members of the legendary Filmverlag f

Katzelmacher

A group of young slackers spend most of their time hanging out in front of a Munich apartment buildi

A Woman in Berlin

A woman tries to survive the invasion of Berlin by the Soviet troops during the last days of World W

Fashion Victims

At 52, traveling salesman Wolfgang Zenker (Edgar Selge) is in old school territory: he peddles the c

The 120 Days of Bottrop

An eccentric homage to the Rainer Werner Fassbinder days of German filmmaking.

Verführung in 6 Gängen

Frank Drannemann, a passionate star chef and single father, is in a professional and private crisis.

Fear of Fear

After having her second child, a German housewife suffers from postpartum depression before inexplic

Willi und die Windzors

The British parliament has decided to get rid of the royal family. All of them have to leave the cou

The German Chainsaw Massacre

Taking place around the German reunification of 1990, a group of East Germans cross the border to vi

Mathias Kneißl

Inspired by the real-life events of Mathias Kneißl, a marginal man, son of poor farmers from Bavaria

Krauses Kur

On a summer evening the circuit of the village policeman Krause suddenly went crazy. His doctor imme

The City Tramp

A tramp finds a gun lying in the street.

The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp

Three sequences are linked together in this short film by Straub; the first sequence is a long track

Playoff

In the 1980s, an Israeli refugee, deemed a traitor, coaches West Germany's basketball team.

Die Libelle und das Nashorn

Ada Hänselmann presents her debut novel. However, the numerous guests are only interested in the 82-

Pioneers in Ingolstadt

Berta, a naive young maid, searches for love when the army engineers come to town to build a bridge.

The American Soldier

Ricky returns to Munich from Vietnam and is promptly hired as a contract killer.

The Case of Mr. Spalt

The filmmaker René Perraudin made five comedic short films with Otto Sander in the leading role and

Gnadenlos - Zur Prostitution gezwungen

A Czech woman is kidnapped in Berlin and forced into prostitution. The man behind the kidnapping is

Mein Bruder ist ein Hund

With the help of a magic stone, Marietta transforms her little brother Tobias into a little dog - bu

The Ancestress

Schokolade für den Chef

The wealthy industrialist Ernst Schmitt has to take a step back for health reasons. But first he wan

10 Sekunden

Air traffic controller Markus Hofer is partly to blame for a collision between two airplanes in whic

TRUST.Wohltat

Germany in 2020: the state social security systems have been dissolved and will be regulated purely

Eisenhans

A film by german playwright Tankred Dorst about a case of incest in a rural community.

Love Is Colder Than Death

Small-time pimp Franz is torn between his mistress and Bruno, the gangster sent after him by a shady

Lippels Traum

Männer und andere Katastrophen

The somewhat awkward student Judith is pursued by bankruptcies, bad luck and mishaps. The failed bab

Three Wishes

Before Martin dies, he asks Jan to carry out three wishes. Will Jan be up to making them happen? Som

The Passenger – Welcome to Germany

An American filmmaker travels to modern day Berlin to make a film based on a real-life incident from

The Sternstein Manor

At the top of the mountain stands the beautiful Sternsteinhof farm. Leni, a girl from a poor backgro

Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?

The life of a married Munich technical draftsman with a son.

Hamlet: This Is Your Family

A provocative and ironic pamphleteering documentary about the making of Christoph Schlingensief’s Na

Jail Bait

Based on Franz Xaver Kroetz's play, which is in turn based on a true story, this film by Rainer Wern

Everything's a Lie

Erich Kasulke and Rudolf Portmann are comedian stars of the former GDR. When the Wall falls, so does

Last Five Days

At Gestapo head quarters a young woman establishes a relationship with another inmate. This young wo

Fünf Millionen und ein paar Zerquetschte

Zu treuen Händen

The satirical film is about the liquidation of a sewing machine combine by the Treuhandanstalt (THA)

Vatertage - Opa über Nacht

The 37-year-old Munich survivor and rickshaw driver Basti struck by lightning than one day unexpecte

Paradiso: Seven Days with Seven Women

What would happen if you gathered all the lovers you have had in your life in a single room and let

Women in New York

Wives of rich men have nothing to do because they have staff – like the cook, the maid, the hairdres

Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven

After a worker kills a superior and commits suicide, each of his family members attempts to forge a

Die Revolte

Zum Sterben schön

Baal

An exploration of the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast a

Marie Ward - Zwischen Galgen und Glorie

The story of Marie Ward, a religious woman from a devout, aristocratic Yorkshire Catholic family who

Deutschlandlied

This three-part film tells how people in the fictional town of Königsbruck experience the end of the

Die Ängste des Dr. Schenk

Grüß Gott, Genosse

In 1989, teacher Wendler and his wife leave the GDR to join his Bavarian uncle. In the West, the lin

Spider's Web

Ulrich Mühe plays a German businessman who was born completely without scruples. This makes him an e

Fassbinder: Love Without Demands

Rainer Werner Fassbinder was probably Germany’s most significant post-war director. His swift and dr

Ten Minutes Older: The Cello

Collection of short films the summaries of which include; a foreign man moving to Italy, getting mar

Ein unheimlich starker Abgang

Fassbinder

A film portrait of the influential Bavarian actor, director, and screenwriter who publicly confessed

Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia

A group of cosmopolitan women passengers aboard the Trans-Siberian/Mongolian Railway are taken priso

In einem anderen Leben

Die Novizin

Fjorde der Sehnsucht

Walli, die Eisfrau

Gefährliche Hochzeit

Schalom, meine Liebe

Nora Helmer

A childish wife reveals surprising strength when faced with blackmail. Based on A Doll's House by Ib

Bananen-Paul

A bear escapes from the circus and befriends a girl.

Mittags auf dem Roten Platz

The Swing

Based on Annette Kolb’s autobiographical novel of the same name, THE SWING is a lavish, breathless r

Gnadenlose Bräute

The Invention of Love

A young woman has the idea of setting up her boyfriend with a very wealthy but sickly lady to claim

Babuschka

Fox and His Friends

Fox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and things

Say Goodbye to the Story (ATT 1/11)

A pure nightmare: outtakes of a film that consists of nothing but outtakes. Its truest moment is a d

Lili Marleen

The story of a German singer named Willie, who while working in Switzerland, falls in love with a Je

Die Fremde

TV-movie by Diethard Klante

Die letzte Schlacht

The 13 days from April 20th to May 2nd, 1945, are unique in the history of Germany: They are the fin

Slow Attack

Nik, a released prisoner who started writing in prison, wants to leave his past behind him, but refu

Innocence Unknown

After the essay "On Marionette theatre" by Heinrich von Kleist.

Lilly the Witch: The Dragon and the Magic Book

Lilly was a normal girl with a healthy sense of adventure. That is, until she finds a magical book,

Hades

This German political drama from iconoclastic filmmaker Herbert Achternbusch takes a slightly askew

Adrian und die Römer

A French Summer

Married couple Martin and Jackie meet an unconventional Frenchman named Serge, who both are attracte

Der Bulle und das Landei - Goldrausch

Shortly before the celebration of his 95th birthday, Karl Wolter is murdered. Instead of ending thei

Fassbinder's Women

An essay film in which filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim interviews "the willing victims of Rainer Werner

Ulrike Ottinger: Nomad from the Lake

Ulrike Ottinger is an exceptional filmmaker and artist. Her cinematic universe has influenced entire

Dreams Don't Make Noise When They Die

It has hardly been seen before that a 83-year-old actor has starred in a Danish film, but it is the

Tenderness of the Wolves

A German serial killer preys on boys and young men during the so-called years of crisis between the

Suck Me Shakespeer 3

A bank robber becomes a teacher after being released from prison and finds himself at the center of

Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press

The final installment in Ulrike Ottinger’s Berlin Trilogy (following TICKET OF NO RETURN and FREAK O

Today We're Playing Boss

Film extras take possession of a bogus film production company and acting as ideal world of film to

Letztes aus der DaDaeR

In a loose set of cabaret pieces, Steffen Mensching and Hans-Eckardt Wenzel - highly acclaimed East

Faust Sonnengesang

In no less than 180 minutes the film showed frenzied dashes of wild colors and idyllic natural image

Edith's Diary

When Edith Howland's husband abandons her for a younger woman, leaving her with their alcoholic son

Herzlichen Glückwunsch

A situational family comedy, wordplay and a whole host of idiosyncratic characters are the ingredien

Zwei Herren im Anzug

In the Bavaria of the 1980s, a father and his son compare their respective views on a family past he

Das Totenreich

Denmark, by the end of the 19th century. Gov. Dihmer gives his resignation because of his illness. T

Der Zappler

Stefan is 12 years old, spastically paralyzed and has moved to a new town with his mother. His illne

Kater Lampe

Die Revolte

Waller's Last Trip

For many years the old Waller worked as a railwayman. After Waller is informed that "his" track will

My Name Is Not Ali

Travelling between Germany, France, and Tunisia, Viola Shafik reconstructs and deconstructs the unkn

Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day: A Series Becomes a Family Reunion

Documentary about the making of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1972 German television series EIGHT HOURS

Seven Women, Seven Sins

Seven Women, Seven Sins (1986) represents a quintessential moment in film history. The women filmmak

End of the Commune?

A documentary about Fassbinder and the early years of the legendary Antiteater, the group he was a m

Superbia – The Pride

Pride is the first of the seven deadly sins. The introduction is made through early allegorical form

Tigerstripe Baby Is Waiting for Tarzan

Time traveler Frank is picked up by Luise and Theo while on their way to Berlin. Frank wants to find

Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence

Using unpublished and newly digitalised archive footage and film material, Bettina Böhler has brilli

Mea Culpa – A ReadyMadeOpera

In Mea Culpa, Christoph Schlingensief blurs a delicate line: he ignores the threshold that separates

Sheep in Wales

“Perpetrators and victims in the generational conflict, wolves in Berlin and sheep in Wales. Contrar

The Party: Nature Morte

The eponymous party is hosted by Queenie and Burrs, long-term lovers who are rapidly growing apart.

Close Up

Secret agents from the East and the West scheme to obtain an ingenious invention.

Freakstars 3000

As stated in the opening titles and at the end Freakstars 3000 is supposed to be a commentary on the