Movies

After his release from prison, ex-convict Franz Walsch finds his way back into the Munich criminal underworld. His attentions focus upon two women,...

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

Magdalena Hausen was a German photographer who became known for successfully capturing a photograph of the wind. Today, fifteen years after her...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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