Lili Marleen

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

The Marriage of Maria Braun

Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the wa

Effi Briest

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

Gods of the Plague

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

A Love in Germany

In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that

Douglas Sirk – Hope as in Despair

An investigative portrait of the master of cinematic melodrama, Douglas Sirk. His life was the ultim

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

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

Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?

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

The Merchant of Four Seasons

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

The Edge of Heaven

The lives of six German-Turkish immigrants are drawn together by circumstance: An old man and a pros

Wrong Move

Six days in the life of Wilhelm: a detached man without qualities. He wants to write, so his mother

Hanna Schygulla – quel que soit le songe

A deeply felt personal story of Hanna Schygulla filmed in 2012 at a moment when she was moving back

Werckmeister Harmonies

A naive young man witnesses an escalation of violence in his small hometown following the arrival of

Katzelmacher

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

Dead Again

In 1949, composer Roman Strauss is executed for the murder of his wife. In 1990s Los Angeles, a dete

Beware of a Holy Whore

Tensions between members of a film crew build while they wait for the arrival of the director and st

Godard's Passion

While shooting a film, the director becomes interested in the unfolding struggle of a young factory

Love Is Colder Than Death

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

Hanna Schygulla - Ikone des deutschen Autorenfilms

Sheer Madness

Two women–a literature professor and a painter–start to rely upon their friendship as an alternative

The Night of Varennes

During the French Revolution, a surprising company shares a coach, trying to catch up something - th

Antonieta

Anna is a psychologist undertaking research about famous suicidal women. She takes a specific intere

Ophelia

Verging on Alzheimer’s, an aging actress (played by Hanna Schygulla) finds that the power of memory

The Delta Force

A 707 aircraft jetliner, en route from Athens to Rome and then to New York City, is hijacked by Leba

Janela da Alma

Nineteen people with differing degrees of visual impairment – from mild nearsightedness to total bli

Circle of Deceit

Georg Laschen leaves his family in West Germany to go work as a war correspondent in Beirut during t

Promised Land

"Promised Land" tells the story of a group of young unwitting Estonian girls smuggled through Egypt

Peter von Kant

Peter von Kant, a successful, famous director, lives with his assistant Karl, whom he likes to mistr

The Future Is Woman

In this improbable, ponderous story about a couple who do not want to have children of their own, an

Marcello Mastroianni, latin lover

A documentary about Marcello Mastroianni.

The Story of Piera

Piera is a young woman who grows up under the parentage of two extremely original overseers: both he

The Quiet Love

Two very different love stories cross each other in warm and magical way. A humanistic and yet myste

Winter Journey

Despite advancing age, rural businessman Franz has remained fit and energetic, but serious mental il

Life's Little Treasures

This movie is about love affairs, simple pleasures of a few men and women who will gather for a few

One Hundred and One Nights

Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he en

Faust

A doctor in early 19th-century Germany becomes infatuated with the sister of a man he unintentionall

Whity

"Whity" is the mulatto butler of the dysfunctional Nicholson family in the American Southwest in 187

Cinémania : Rainer Werner Fassbinder

A documentary about the director Fassbinder but edited as if it were a film of the master himself, w

The Niklashausen Journey

Can a small group of people start a proletarian revolution, asks the "Black Monk" in a leather jacke

The Third Generation

A wildly anarchic satire of guerrilla terrorism in which a band of leftist radicals inadvertently be

I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me

A documentary about the life and work of director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

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

Poor Things

Brought back to life by an unorthodox scientist, a young woman runs off with a lawyer on a whirlwind

Hunting Scenes from Bavaria

Abram returns to his small village and although his repairing skills are needed, people's suspicion

The Night of the Filmmakers

A meditation on the first 100 years of German cinema, featuring an assembly of German filmmakers.

Warsaw: Year 5703

In the winter of 1943 two young Jews, Alek and Fryda, escape, via sewer tunnels, from the atrocities

Life, Love & Celluloid

Documentary musing upon the work of German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Pioneers in Ingolstadt

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

The Culture Industry Needs Something Like Me

An attempt at a psychological profile of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who answers the author's question

Bremen Freedom

A very stylized TV version of the Fassbinder play. The set consists of a few pieces of furniture in

The Blue Exile

Mavi Sürgün is a fictionalized account of one period of the life of a Turkish journalist who was con

Rio das Mortes

Michel and Guenther, working in dead-end jobs, are obsessed with going to Peru to find buried treasu

The Coffee House

Avant-garde adaptation of a Carlo Goldoni play. Well-to-do Venetians congregate in a coffeehouse and

The Clown

Based on the best-selling novel by Nobel-laureate Heinrich Böll, this drama is a passionate indictme

Alicia Bustamante

Von Sex bis Simmel

A documentary by Hans Günther Pflaum and Peter H. Schröder.

The Quiet Roar

MARIANNE (Evabritt Strandberg) is a 68-year old woman diagnosed with a terminal disease. Left with a

Fassbinder in Hollywood

Though he never actually worked in Hollywood, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who died in 1982 at the age

Grüße von Rosita aus Peru

Rosita Hernandez, a nine-year-old Indio girl, tells about the everyday life of her family living in

Das ABC ist subversiv

Documentary directed by Hans Rolf Strobel

Yunan

Munir travels to a remote island to contemplate a drastic action. He is haunted by a cryptic parable

Fassbinder Produces: Film No. 8

About the making of "Der amerikanische Soldat/The American Soldier" in 1970.

Kuckucksei im Gangsternest

Jail Bait

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

Mathias Kneißl

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

The Sunset Boys

Ernest, Ted and August fulfill their friend Carl's dying wish and take him to Heidelberg, where they

The Girl of Your Dreams

A company of Spanish movie makers leaves Franco's Spain and moves to Hitler's Germany to make a film

Die Revolte

Baal

Baal explores the cult of the genius, an antiheroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and li

Golem: The Petrified Garden

Danny Cornish, a sort of stateless man who arranges art exhibits, is called from Tel Aviv to Paris w

Madame Bäurin

On the Schiermoser farm tense expectation prevails. The 'Urban', the Schaubleins, surprisingly annou

Das unreine Mal

Abraham's Gold

In this tragic melodrama, a man who has been hiding his Nazi past has it come back to haunt him when

Golem, the Spirit of Exile

An allegory of the Golem, a Jewish mythical creature personifying displacement and exile, this film

Hey Stranger

An actor and poet falls in love with a former mortuary photographer turned waitress. They find thems

Fassbinder

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

New Year's Eve

A short film made by Sirk at the end of his life with one of his students. An adaptation of Schnitzl

Intermezzo für fünf Hände

Lea

51-year-old Herbert Strehlow, a furniture restorer, falls in love with 21-year-old Lea, who has not

Casanova

The life story of an 18th century womanizer who's arrested, not so much for his crimes, but because

Godard Cinema

Jean-Luc Godard is synonymous with cinema. With the release of Breathless in 1960, he established hi

Forever, Lulu

When Elaine, an adventurous young woman from Germany, arrives in New York City, she sets out to be a

Magdalena Hausen : Frozen in Time

Magdalena Hausen was a German photographer who became known for successfully capturing a photograph

The Crossing

In a small town plunged into darkness, two children, Kyona and Adriel, are separated from their pare

Jakob von Gunten

Adaptation of Robert Walser's novel about a young man who enters an oppressive servant school.

The Summer of Miss Forbes

Mrs. Forbes, a German governess, is hired for six weeks to take care of two children, while their pa

Barnum

The amazing biography of legendary circus impresario and unparalleled showman, P.T. Barnum.

Der Stumme

Fassbinder's Women

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

Unless

A writer struggles with her daughter's decision to drop out of college and live on the streets.

Avanti

What does ‘normal’ actually mean? And what is ‘crazy’? Everybody attempts to convince Léa that her m

Adventure of Catherine C.

In Paris, unhappy movie actress Catherine Crachat becomes infatuated with the mathematician Pierre I

Hotel Bogota - Eine einmalige Geschichte

Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz: A Mega Movie and Its Story

A documentary about the making of the television mini-series by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, including

Lucky

The story of a young mother with a failed marriage behind her, who fights daily for her dream to ope

Der Katzensteg

Once Upon a Time… The Marriage of Maria Braun

A documentary that focuses on the making of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "The Marriage of Maria Braun"

The Prayer

Thomas is a drug addict. In an effort to put an end to his habit, he joins a community of former add

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

Angelo Nero

Jack Altieri, a young Italian-American restaurant owner, arrives at Vesta awaits him a painting of t

Heiligendamm

Short film based on Thomas Mann's short story "Der Kleiderschrank".

Miss Arizona

Story of the owners (Mastroianni and Schygulla) of a fancy nightclub in Budapest before and during W

Po-lin. Shards of Memory

Unique archives show a world that no longer exists: pre-war Poland in which two cultures: Jewish and

Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful

Women were clearly at the core of legendary photographer Helmut Newton's work. The stars of his icon

Clara, une passion française

The Mystery of Henri Pick

In a bizarre Breton library that collects rejected, never published manuscripts, a young editor disc

Irmi

The story of Irmi Selver, who lost her family while fleeing Germany in 1939 and overcame tragedy and

End of the Commune?

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

Scénario du film Passion

Godard constructs a lyrical study of the cinematic and creative process by deconstructing the story

Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary

Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary is a trip through the auteur's singular cosmos - at once supe

Everything Went Fine

When her elderly father has a stroke, Emmanuelle rushes to his bedside. Sick and half-paralysed in h

Lusitanian Illusion

Images and sounds expose the duality of Portugal during the days of WW2: a peaceful, god-loving, rur

The Wonderful Journey of Selma Lagerlöf

The extraordinary story of Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf (1858-1940), creator of Nils Holgersson, a

Lullaby to my Father

The film intertwines historical events and intimate memories. I observe how architecture represents

L'aide-mémoire

Passion, le travail et l'amour: Introduction à un scénario

Notes on the movie Passion

Der große Zusammenbruch

The story of André, a bohemian and loser of the reunification era, who gets by with small odd jobs i

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