Hanna Schygulla

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

A documentary about Marcello Mastroianni.

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

“Promised Land” tells the story of a group of young unwitting Estonian girls smuggled through Egypt to be auctioned off as ...

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

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

A naive young man witnesses an escalation of violence in his small hometown following the arrival of a mysterious circus attraction.

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

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

Documentary musing upon the work of German filmmaker 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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...