Cast: Gottfried John

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Gottfried John · Hanna Schygulla · Luise Ullrich · Werner Finck

Synopsis TV Miniseries (1972-1973). Five episodes. "Eight Hours are Not a Day" describes the problems and reality of the german society in the 70's, through the lives of a young man, his parents, the grandma and the rest of a working...

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Günter Lamprecht · Karlheinz Braun · Hanna Schygulla · Claus Holm

Synopsis TV Series (1980). 14 episodes. This film is a 15-1/2 hour episodic exploration of the character of Franz Biberkopf, "hero" of Alfred Döblin's acclaimed novel, as well as the Alexanderplatz area of Berlin that he inhabits. Franz is an ex-convict...

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Hanna Schygulla · Klaus Löwitsch · Ivan Desny · Gisela Uhlen

Synopsis While bombs are fall ing all over the place during World War II , Hermann Braun and Maria get married. One night is all they have before Herrmann has to go to war again. After war has ended - her...

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Volker Spengler · Ingrid Caven · Gottfried John · Elisabeth Trissenaar

Synopsis When his wealthy male lover dumps him, Erwin Weishaupt makes a desperate attempt to win his man back by having a sex change operation. But the sacrifice is doomed to failure, and as time passes, the doubly-rejected Erwin, now Elvira,...

Direction Billy Wilder

Cast William Holden · Marthe Keller · Hildegard Knef · José Ferrer

Synopsis Billy Wilder's knowing, deliberately old-fashioned homage to a bygone age of filmmaking, it stars William Holden as producer Barry Detweiler. In flashbacks, the producer recalls his efforts to coax aging movie queen Fedora out of retirement, while attending her funeral....

Direction Doris Dörrie

Cast Franka Potente · Steffen Wink · Anica Dobra · Iris Berben

Synopsis Am I Beautiful? is about the dream of one's ability to be someone else. The film is a kind of a round, tells of people who want to make a change, come together and lose sight of each other again,...

Direction Timothy Quay · Stephen Quay

Cast Mark Rylance · Alice Krige · Gottfried John · Daniel Smith

Synopsis Brilliant English animators The Brothers Quay create their first feature-length live-action film in this tale of a dilapidated boarding school for the teaching of servants run by a brother and sister in which the curriculum is the repetition of one...

Direction Volker Schlöndorff

Cast John Malkovich · Armin Mueller-Stahl · Marianne Sägebrecht · Gottfried John

Synopsis From Volker Schlöndorff, the esteemed director of The Legend Of Rita, The Tin Drum, Swann In Love, and Death Of A Salesman, comes The Ogre, a startling view on fascism and its peculiar appeal. With his extraordinary eye for haunting...

Direction Timothy Quay · Stephen Quay

Cast Amira Casar · Gottfried John · Assumpta Serna · César Sarachu

Synopsis The story concerns Malvina (Amira Casar), a famous opera singer abducted on the eve of her wedding by the obsessive Dr. Droz (Gottfried John), who takes her away to the Carpathian Mountains. An innocent piano tuner (Cesar Sarachu) is summoned...

Direction Josée Dayan

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Jeanne Moreau · Fanny Ardant · Virna Lisi

Synopsis Honoré de Balzac was a man who lived to write. His life was a hard, permanent struggle, from his cold relationship with his mother who was unable to give him the love he needed, to his unsuccessful attempts to make...

Direction Martin Campbell

Cast Pierce Brosnan · Famke Janssen · Izabella Scorupco · Sean Bean

Synopsis Under the new female M, James Bond is assigned to track down a stolen Mirage fighter helicopter that was used in an attack to commandeer and then destroy the control installation of the top secret Russian Goldeneye electromagnetic pulse satellite....

Direction Roger Young

Cast Peter O'Toole · Charlotte Rampling · Vittoria Belvedere · Benjamin Sadler

Synopsis In 42 BC Rome is in the middle of a civil war. Together with his friend AGRIPPA, the young Augustus goes to Spain in order to help JULIUS CAESAR in his struggle against the troops of POMPEY. Even though they...

Direction Taylor Hackford

Cast Russell Crowe · Meg Ryan · David Morse · Pamela Reed

Synopsis In a mountainous South American country, drug-dealing rebels kidnap Peter Bowman, a US engineer who works for an oil company's subsidiary. The company calls in a negotiator, Terry Thorne, an Aussie ex-soldier based in London. When the subsidiary goes bankrupt,...

Direction Raffaele Mertes · Elisabetta Marchetti

Cast María Grazia Cucinotta · Massimo Ghini · Giuliana de Sio · Gottfried John

Synopsis When the marriage between Amos and Mary Magdalene turns out to be childless, he casts her out and gets a divorce. Mary has to leave Magdala. She befriends Silvano, a Roman prefect, who promises her a new life at his...

Direction Joseph Sargent

Cast Richard Harris · Barbara Hershey · Maximilian Schell · Vittorio Gassman

Synopsis The first chapter in the story of Salvation. Rather than choosing a great leader or king, God chooses Abraham, an elderly shepherd from Mesopotamia, as the way to establish his Covenant with mankind ... Abraham is a man of great...

Direction Charles Jarrott

Cast George Peppard · Michael York · Deborah Raffin · John Mills

Synopsis An American officer on a Landing Craft carrying plans for the Allied invasion of Europe in Normandy takes part on landing maneuvers, his craft was attacked and sunk by German EBoats. and he finds himself on German occupied Jersey Islands....

Direction Claude Zidi

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Christian Clavier · Roberto Benigni · Michel Galabru

Synopsis The well-known little village from the Asterix and Obelix-comic books is in trouble: It is the last place not controlled by Rome. When Tax collector Claudius Incorruptus does not get his money from the villagers, Julius Caesar himself comes to...

Direction Felix Fuchssteiner

Cast Maria Ehrich · Jannis Niewöhner · Veronica Ferres · Josefine Preuß

Synopsis Gwen must travel to the past and fortunately or unfortunately, she's not alone: ​​with the company of the eleventh time traveler, the arrogant, sexy and sarcastic Gideon, who will live more than a dangerous race through time ...

Direction Felix Fuchssteiner · Katharina Schöde

Cast Maria Ehrich · Jannis Niewöhner · Laura Berlin · Josefine Preuß

Synopsis After the events of Sapphire Blue Gwen is heartbroken and confused about who she is and what the real powers of the Raven are. Not knowing who they can trust anymore, Gwen and Leslie try to figure out what nefarious...

Direction David Carreras

Cast Tobias Moretti · Maximilian Schell · Eduard Fernández · Marta Etura