Cinematography: Igor Luther

Direction Hans-Jürgen Syberberg

Cast Armin Jordan · Robert Lloyd · Martin Sperr · Michael Kutter

Plot Richard Wagner's last opera has remained controversial since its first performance for its unique, and, for some, unsavory blending of religious and erotic themes and imagery. Based on one of...

Direction Volker Schlöndorff

Cast David Bennent · Mario Adorf · Angela Winkler · Daniel Olbrychski

Plot Danzig in the 1920s/1930s. Oskar Matzerath, son of a local dealer, is a most unusual boy. Equipped with full intellect right from his birth he decides at his third birthday...

Direction Andrzej Wajda

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Wojciech Pszoniak · Anne Alvaro · Roland Blanche

Plot Wajda directs his camera toward the social upheaval and political treachery of the French Revolution, and by doing so, draws an obvious allegory to the political situation in his native...

Direction Stefan Aust · Axel Engstfeld · Alexander Kluge · Volker Schlöndorff

Cast Hans-Michael Rehberg · Axel-Torg Gros · Jürgen Prochnow · Bruno Ganz

Plot At the peak of the Cold War, the short-range missile crisis, neutron bombs could have potentially annihilated Central Europe. 300,000 protesters in Bonn. German Chancellor Schmidt resigns. Why make a...

Direction Juraj Jakubisko

Cast Philippe Avron · Jirí Sýkora · Magda Vásáryová · Míla Beran

Plot The story is about three orphans who have lost their families in war. Although the two men Andrej and Yurick and the lady Marta are adults, they act foolish like...

Direction Volker Schlöndorff

Cast Margarethe von Trotta · Matthias Habich · Rüdiger Kirschstein · Marc Eyraud

Plot A countess' unrequited love for an army officer leads to disaster.

Direction Alain Robbe-Grillet

Cast Jean-Louis Trintignant · Ivan Mistrík · Zuzana Kocúriková · Sylvie Turbová

Plot This enigmatic, plodding story concerns a man who may or may not have betrayed a resistance fighter in his hometown during World War II. He has supposedly been shot down...

Direction Andrzej Wajda

Cast Hanna Schygulla · Piotr Lysak · Armin Mueller-Stahl · Ralf Wolter

Plot 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...

Direction Volker Schlöndorff

Cast Bruno Ganz · Hanna Schygulla · Jean Carmet · Jerzy Skolimowski

Plot Laschen, a German journalist, travels to the city of Beirut during the fights between Christians and Palestinians to produce an essay about the situation. Together with his photographer, he meets...

Direction Alain Robbe-Grillet

Cast Sylvain Corthay · Catherine Jourdan · Richard Leduc · Lorraine Rainer

Direction Alain Robbe-Grillet

Cast Catherine Jourdan · Lorraine Rainer · Sylvain Corthay · Richard Leduc

Plot A group of disaffected students are shown a way out of their ennui (via a concoction he offers) by a man they meet at a café (the Eden of the...

Direction Volker Schlöndorff

Cast Natasha Richardson · Faye Dunaway · Aidan Quinn · Elizabeth McGovern

Plot In a dystopicly polluted rightwing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on account of her now rare fertility.

Direction Chatrichalerm Yukol

Cast M.L. Piyapas Bhirombhakdi · Sarunyu Wongkrachang · Chatchai Plengpanich · Johnny Anfone

Plot Siam. 1528. A woman warrior changed the course of history... During the 16th century, as Thailand contends with both a civil war and Burmese invasion, a beautiful princess rises up...

Direction Michael Verhoeven

Cast Senta Berger · Marianne Blomquist · Hartmut Becker

Plot Igor has a good job as an advertising manager, a nice house, his wife Hanna, and a mistress. He has invited Christine, the mistress, over to his house while his...

Direction Jürgen Goslar

Cast Trevor Howard · Britt Ekland · Ron Ely · Jürgen Goslar

Direction Richard Michaels

Cast Richard Thomas · Horst Buchholz · José Ferrer · Jacques Breuer

Plot In Berlin in 1961, an American soldier and a German engineer join forces to build a tunnel under the Berlin Wall in order to smuggle out refugees, including the soldier's...

Direction Michael Verhoeven

Cast Senta Berger · Mario Adorf · Ron Ely · Elisabeth Flickenschildt

Plot Edgar Burgman, after collaborating to assassinate the elder senator husband of Alice Young, the wife remarried. The woman, after a short period, doubts of love Edgar and convinces more and...

Direction Ulrich Schamoni

Cast Ulrich Schamoni · Anna Henkel · Jürgen Barz · Alix Buchen

Direction Tom Toelle

Cast Mario Adorf · Maruschka Detmers · Milena Vukotic · Dominique Pinon

Plot A family who lives in the Swiss Alpes at the end of the 1920s is abused by a tyrannical drunkard.

Direction Aleksandar Petrovic

Cast Avtandil Makharadze · Isabelle Huppert · Richard Berry · Bernard Blier

Plot A fictionalized dramatisation of the eighteenth century emigration of Serbs to the Austrian Empire.