Hanna Schygulla

The story of a German singer named Willie who while working in Switzerland falls in love with a Jewish composer named Robert whose family is helping...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hanna Schygulla

Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. She must rely on her beauty and ambition to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hanna Schygulla

When 17-year-old Effi Briest marries the elderly Baron von Instetten, she moves to a small, isolated Baltic town and a house that she fears is...

Genre: History

Cast: Hanna Schygulla

The lives of six German-Turkish immigrants are drawn together by circumstance: An old man and a prostitute forging a partnership, a young scholar...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nurgül Yeşilçay

A man is released from prison and finds the society on the outside less than appealing. With several women as well as the police on his tail, he sets...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Harry Baer

In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that he left 40 years before. He wants to discover...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hanna Schygulla

Hans is a street fruit peddler and born-loser. His choice of career upsets his bourgeois family, causing him to turn to drinking and violence. After...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hans Hirschmüller

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kurt Raab

Petra von Kant is a successful fashion designer -- arrogant, caustic, and self-satisfied. She mistreats Marlene (her secretary, maid, and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Margit Carstensen

Six days in the life of Wilhelm: a detached man without qualities. He wants to write, so his mother gives him a ticket to Bonn, telling him to live....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rüdiger Vogler

In 1949, composer Roman Strauss is executed for the murder of his wife. In 1990s Los Angeles, a detective comes across a mute amnesiac woman who is...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Kenneth Branagh

A mysterious circus excites a small Hungarian town into a rebellion when a promised act doesn't perform.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lars Rudolph

A group of young slackers spend most of their time hanging out in front of a Munich apartment building. When a Greek immigrant named Jorgos moves in,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hanna Schygulla

Tensions between members of a film crew build while they wait for the arrival of the director and star to arrive on location.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lou Castel

While shooting a film, the director becomes interested in the unfolding struggle of a young factory worker that has been laid off by a boss who did...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isabelle Huppert

Small-time pimp Franz is torn between his mistress and Bruno, the gangster sent after him by a shady crime syndicate he's refused to join.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ulli Lommel

During the French Revolution, a surprising company shares a coach, trying to catch up something - the time itself, perhaps.

Genre: History

Cast: Jean-Louis Barrault

Anna is a psychologist undertaking research about famous suicidal women. She takes a specific interest in the case of Antonieta Rivas Mercado, who...

Genre: War

Cast: Hanna Schygulla

A 707 aircraft jetliner, en route from Athens to Rome and then to New York City, is hijacked by Lebanese terrorists, who demand that the pilot take...

Genre: Action

Cast: Chuck Norris

Nineteen people with differing degrees of visual impairment – from mild nearsightedness to total blindness – discuss how they see...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: José Saramago

Georg Laschen leaves his family in West Germany to go work as a war correspondent in Beirut during the fights between Christians and Palestinians.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bruno Ganz

Though he never actually worked in Hollywood, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who died in 1982 at the age of 36, was influenced greatly by Amercian studio...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

"Promised Land" tells the story of a group of young unwitting Estonian girls smuggled through Egypt to be auctioned off as prostitutes in Israel, and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rosamund Pike

In this improbable, ponderous story about a couple who do not want to have children of their own, and a pregnant, single woman who needs a home for...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ornella Muti

Piera is a young woman who grows up under the parentage of two extremely original overseers: both her mother and father have incestuous relations...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isabelle Huppert

Two very different love stories cross each other in warm and magical way. A humanistic and yet mysterious film about love and death near the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Antoine Monot Jr.

Despite advancing age, rural businessman Franz has remained fit and energetic, but serious mental illness and financial problems mean that this...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Josef Bierbichler

This movie is about love affairs, simple pleasures of a few men and women who will gather for a few days in a villa, around a piano and the music of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Anémone

Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he engages a young woman to tell him stories about all...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Michel Piccoli

A doctor in early 19th-century Germany becomes infatuated with the sister of a man he unintentionally killed and bargains with the Devil incarnate to...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Johannes Zeiler

"Whity" is the mulatto butler of the dysfunctional Nicholson family in the American southwest in 1878. The father, Ben Nicholson, has an attractive...

Genre: Western

Cast: Günther Kaufmann

Can a small group of people start a proletarian revolution, asks the "Black Monk" in a leather jacket. The medieval shepherd, Hans Boehm, claims to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michael König

A wildly anarchic satire of guerrilla terrorism in which a band of leftist radicals inadvertently become puppets of the West German government, which...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Harry Baer

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Harry Baer

Three sequences are linked together in this short film by Straub; the first sequence is a long tracking shot from a car of prostitutes plying their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Irm Hermann

Abram returns to his small village and although his repairing skills are needed, people's suspicion about his sexual preferences make his life hard.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Martin Sperr

In the winter of 1943 two young Jews, Alek and Fryda, escape, via sewer tunnels, from the atrocities underway in Warsaw ghetto. Alek, entrusted with...

Genre: War

Cast: Lambert Wilson

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Henry Arnold

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Hanna Schygulla

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hanna Schygulla

A very stylized TV version of the Fassbinder play. The set consists of a few pieces of furniture in front of a large screen on which coastal scenery...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Margit Carstensen

Mavi Sürgün is a fictionalized account of one period of the life of a Turkish journalist who was condemned to exile for an article he wrote...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Can Togay

Michel and Guenther, working in dead-end jobs, are obsessed with going to Peru to find buried treasure, using a map of the Rio das Mortes. Michel's...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hanna Schygulla

Avant-garde adaptation of a Carlo Goldoni play. Well-to-do Venetians congregate in a coffee house and discuss their problems.

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Margit Carstensen

Based on the best-selling novel by Nobel-laureate Heinrich Böll, this drama is a passionate indictment of Catholicism. Hans Schnier (Helmut...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Helmut Griem

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Hanna Schygulla

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Wolf C. Hartwig

MARIANNE (Evabritt Strandberg) is a 68-year old woman diagnosed with a terminal disease. Left with angst, she seeks therapy at a clinic where she is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Evabritt Strandberg

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Cast: Herbert Fux

Based on Franz Xaver Kroetz's play, which is in turn based on a true story, this film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder tells the story of a very young...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Harry Baer

Inspired by the real life events of Mathias Kneißl, a marginal man, son of poor farmers from Bavaria, in the late XIX Century. Mathias stole...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hans Brenner

Ernest, Ted and August fulfill their friend Carl's dying wish and take him to Heidelberg, where they all first met 45 years ago, to see his old...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Mitchum

Baal explores the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Danny Cornish, a sort of stateless man who arranges art exhibits, is called from Tel Aviv to Paris with the news that a great uncle has died, in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jerome Koenig

Genre: Action

Cast: Hans Brenner

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Franziska Petri

On the Schiermoser farm tense expectation prevails. The 'Urban', the Schaubleins, surprisingly announced their arrival. In the past, they were...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Julia Stemberger

In this tragic melodrama, a man who has been hiding his Nazi past has it come back to haunt him when his hippie daughter, whom he disapproves of,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hanna Schygulla

An allegory of the Golem, a Jewish mythical creature personifying displacement and exile, this film tells the story of a woman (similar to the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hanna Schygulla

Encouraged by Fassbinder, with whom he became friendly after the then-enfant terrible of the German cinema visited him in Lugano, Sirk also did some...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Christian Berkel

Olga and Ruth become friends. Olga is independent, separated from her husband, living with an immigrant pianist, and teaching feminist literature....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hanna Schygulla

Genre: Romance

Cast: Klaus Schwarzkopf

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

51-year-old Herbert Strehlow, a furniture restorer, falls in love with 21-year-old Lea, who has not spoken a word since childhood when her father...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Lenka Vlasáková

The life story of an 18th century womanizer who's arrested, not so much for his crimes, but because he's viewed as an undesirable by the husbands and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Richard Chamberlain

When Elaine, an adventurous young woman from Germany, arrives in New York City, she sets out to be a famous writer. After a brief stint at a mundane...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hanna Schygulla

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hanna Schygulla

Mrs. Forbes, a German governess, is hired for six weeks to take care of two children, while their parents are away. She is authoritarian and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hanna Schygulla

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Burt Lancaster

Genre: Drama

Cast: Günter Lamprecht

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Irm Hermann

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Catherine Keener

What does ‘normal’ actually mean? And what is ‘crazy’? Everybody attempts to convince Léa that her mother, Suzanne, is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hanna Schygulla

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Hanna Schygulla

In Paris, unhappy movie actress Catherine Crachat becomes infatuated with the mathematician Pierre Indemini, but then breaks up with him. After a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fanny Ardant

A documentary about the making of the television mini-series by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, including interviewees with the principal actors.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Günter Lamprecht

The story of a young mother with a failed marriage behind her, who fights daily for her dream to open a hair salon, challenging her fate in an effort...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jasmine Trinca

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jan Niklas

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Thomas is a drug addict. In an effort to put an end to his habit, he joins a community of former addicts who live isolated in the mountains and use...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anthony Bajon

Documentary about the making of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1972 German television series EIGHT HOURS DON'T MAKE A DAY, featuring interviews with...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Hanna Schygulla

Jack Altieri, a young Italian-American restaurant owner, arrives at Vesta awaits him a painting of the sixteenth century that depicts the veiled face...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Gabriel Garko

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hanna Schygulla

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marcello Mastroianni

Unique archives show a world that no longer exists: pre-war Poland in which two cultures: Jewish and Polish, coexisted wall-in-wall; cottage in a...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jan Borysiak

Women were clearly at the core of legendary photographer Helmut Newton's work. The stars of his iconic portraits and fashion editorials – from...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Helmut Newton

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hanna Schygulla

In a bizarre Breton library that collects rejected, never published manuscripts, a young editor discovers a novel that she considers a masterpiece....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fabrice Luchini

The story of Irmi Selver, who lost her family while fleeing Germany in 1939 and overcame tragedy and upheavals to establish a new life in New York.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Hanna Schygulla

"End of the Commune"/"Ende einer kommune" is a great 49 min. long movie made in 1969 about Fassbinder and the early years of the legendary Antiteater...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Hanna Schygulla

Godard constructs a lyrical study of the cinematic and creative process by deconstructing the story of his 1982 film Passion. “I didn’t...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jean-Luc Godard

Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary is a trip through the auteur's singular cosmos - at once supernatural and earthbound. He dropped out of his...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Marco Ferreri

When her elderly father has a stroke, Emmanuelle rushes to his bedside. Sick and half-paralysed in his hospital bed, he asks Emmanuelle to help him...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sophie Marceau

Images and sounds expose the duality of Portugal during the days of WW2: a peaceful, god-loving, rural country, providing an escape route for over...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: António de Oliveira Salazar

The extraordinary story of Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf (1858-1940), creator of Nils Holgersson, a memorable and legendary literary character,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Hanna Schygulla

The film intertwines historical events and intimate memories. I observe how architecture represents the transformations of society and those who give...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jeanne Moreau

A deeply felt personal story of Hanna Schygulla filmed in 2012 at a moment when she was moving back to Germany, to Berlin, having lived for twenty...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Hanna Schygulla

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Hanna Schygulla

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

Genre:

Cast: Hanna Schygulla

Peter von Kant, a successful, famous director, lives with his assistant Karl, whom he likes to mistreat and humiliate. Through the great actress...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Denis Ménochet

A documentary about Marcello Mastroianni.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Marcello Mastroianni

A documentary about the Director Fassbinder but edited as if it was a film of the Master himself, with some sequences of his own movies.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Jean-Luc Godard is synonymous with cinema. With the release of Breathless in 1960, he established himself overnight as a cinematic rebel and symbol...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jean-Luc Godard

An investigative portrait of the master of cinematic melodrama, Douglas Sirk. His life was the ultimate melodrama, from which all his films were...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Hanna Schygulla

A parade of well-known actors and directors from Germany

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Artur Brauner

Brought back to life by an unorthodox scientist, a young woman runs off with a lawyer on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Emma Stone

Rosita Hernandez, a nine-year-old Indio girl, tells about the everyday life of her family living in the the desert plain between the Andes and the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Rosita Hernandez

Documentary directed by Hans Rolf Strobel

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Hanna Schygulla

After being granted asylum in Germany, a renowned Arab author is not allowed to return home. Tired and embittered by his life in exile, Munir sets...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Georges Khabbaz

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Marius Aicher

A company of Spanish movie makers leaves Franco's Spain and moves to Hitler's Germany to make a film in co-production. Soon some problems start to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Penélope Cruz

An actor and poet falls in love with a former mortuary photographer turned waitress. They find themselves caught up way over their heads in a dirty...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Vincent Rouche

Magdalena Hausen, a German artist, tried to capture the wind on camera. Her life story, from early years to mysterious disappearance 15 years ago.

Genre:

Cast: Hanna Schygulla

In a small town plunged into darkness, two children, Kyona and Adriel, are separated from their parents and, facing the path of exile alone, embark...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Emilie Lan Dürr

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Hanna Schygulla