Cast: Barbara Sukowa

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 Lars von Trier

Cast Jean-Marc Barr · Barbara Sukowa · Udo Kier · Ernst-Hugo Järegård

Synopsis In Zentropa (Europa) (1991), a young American of German descent arrives in post-WWII Germany to work as a railroad conductor. He becomes entangled in a web of intrigue, romance, and political turmoil while navigating the morally ambiguous landscape of a...

Direction Filippo Meneghetti

Cast Barbara Sukowa · Martine Chevallier · Léa Drucker · Jérôme Varanfrain

Synopsis Nina and Madeleine, two retired women, are secretly deeply in love for decades. From everybody's point of view, including Madeleine's family, they are simply neighbors living on the top floor of their building. They come and go between their two...

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Barbara Sukowa · Armin Mueller-Stahl · Mario Adorf · Mathias Fuchs

Synopsis Germany in the autumn of 1957: Lola, a seductive cabaret singer-prostitute (Barbara Sukowa) exults in her power as a temptress of men, but she wants out—she wants money, property, and love. Pitting a corrupt building contractor (Mario Adorf) against the...

Direction Margarethe von Trotta

Cast Jutta Lampe · Barbara Sukowa · Rüdiger Vogler · Doris Schade

Synopsis Germany, 1968: The priest's daughters Marianna and Juliane both fight for changes in society, like making abortion legal. However their means are totally different: while Juliane's committed as a reporter, her sister joins a terroristic organization. After she's caught by...

Direction Margarethe von Trotta

Cast Barbara Sukowa · Daniel Olbrychski · Otto Sander · Adelheid Arndt

Synopsis After years of political agitation, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, and Leo Jogiches form a revolutionary German party, the Spartacists.

Direction Tim Robbins

Cast Hank Azaria · Rubén Blades · Joan Cusack · John Cusack

Synopsis "Based on a (mostly) true story," according to the opening titles, Tim Robbins's dazzling dramatization of one of the great stories in American theater indeed takes a few liberties with history. Ostensibly the story of the mayhem surrounding Marc Blitzstein's...

Direction Ben Affleck

Cast Matt Damon · Ben Affleck · Viola Davis · Jason Bateman

Synopsis Follows the history of shoe salesman Sonny Vaccaro, and how he led Nike in its pursuit of the greatest athlete in the history of sports: Michael Jordan.

Direction David Cronenberg

Cast Jeremy Irons · John Lone · Barbara Sukowa · Ian Richardson

Synopsis In 1960s China, French diplomat Rene Gallimard falls in love with an opera singer, Song Liling - but Song is not at all who Gallimard thinks.

Direction Jill Sprecher

Cast Matthew McConaughey · John Turturro · Clea Duvall · Amy Irving

Synopsis A man approaching middle age decides to change his life. A rising young attorney's plans are thrown into disarray as the result of a single act. A woman faces her husband's infidelity. An envious businessman seeks revenge on a cheerful...

Direction Margarethe von Trotta

Cast Barbara Sukowa · Axel Milberg · Janet McTeer · Julia Jentsch

Synopsis A look at the life of philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt, who reported for The New Yorker on the war crimes trial of the Nazi Adolf Eichmann. In the award-winning Hannah Arendt, director Barbara Sukowa reteams with director Margarethe...

Direction Katja Benrath

Cast Luna Maxeiner · Caspar Fischer-Ortmann · Luise Richter · Leo Knizka

Synopsis Rocca is an 11 year old girl whose mother died in childbirth. She has been living with her father, an astronaut on the ISS, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, where instead of regular schooling she has been experiencing much of the...

Direction Volker Schlöndorff

Cast Sam Shepard · Julie Delpy · Barbara Sukowa · Dieter Kirchlechner

Synopsis Walter Faber has survived a crash with an airplane. His next trip is by ship. On board this ship he meets the enchanting Sabeth and they have a passionate love affair. Together they travel to her home in Greece, but...

Direction John Turturro

Cast James Gandolfini · Susan Sarandon · Kate Winslet · Christopher Walken

Synopsis This big-screen musical is being described as Pennies From Heaven meets The Honeymooners, as set in Bensonhurst, N.Y. In it, a two-timing husband must choose between his mistress and his beleaguered wife.

Direction Emily Young

Cast Sarah Michelle Gellar · David Thewlis · Erika Christensen · Jonathan Tucker

Synopsis The story centers on Veronika (Sarah Michelle Gellar), a 28 years old woman who appears to have everything: good looks, good job and a great life ahead of her. Yet she decides to end her own life. She is unsuccessful...

Direction Peter Harness · Michelle MacLaren · Oliver Hirschbiegel · Joseph Cedar

Cast Noomi Rapace · Jonathan Banks · James D'Arcy · Davina Coleman

Synopsis TV Series (2024). 1 Season. 8 Episodes. When a fatal accident occurs on board the International Space Station, a lone astronaut makes the heroic journey back to Earth, only to discover key pieces of her life—including her young daughter—have changed....

Direction Maria Schrader

Cast Josef Hader · Aenne Schwarz · Tómas Lemarquis · Barbara Sukowa

Synopsis Before Dawn charts the years of exile in the life of famous Jewish Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, his inner struggle for the "right attitude" towards the events in war torn Europe and his search for a new home.

Direction Travis Fickett · Terry Matalas · David Grossman · Magnus Martens

Cast Aaron Stanford · Amanda Schull · Kirk Acevedo · Barbara Sukowa

Synopsis TV Series (2015-2018). 4 Seasons. 47 Episodes. Follows the journey of a time traveler from the post-apocalyptic future who appears in present day on a mission to locate and eradicate the source of a deadly plague that will eventually decimate...

Direction David Leitch

Cast Charlize Theron · James McAvoy · Eddie Marsan · John Goodman

Synopsis An action-thriller that follows MI6’s most lethal assassin through a ticking time bomb of a city simmering with revolution and double-crossing hives of traitors.

Direction Agnieszka Holland

Cast Ed Harris · Anne Heche · Armin Mueller-Stahl · Ken James

Synopsis The Vatican sends a priest to verify some miracles, performed by a woman who has been nominated for sainthood. During his investigation, the priest, who is experiencing a crisis of faith, re-discovers his own purpose in life.