Cinematography: Dietrich Lohmann

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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

Plot 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,...

Direction Hans-Jürgen Syberberg

Cast André Heller · Harry Baer · Heinz Schubert · Peter Kern

Direction Hans-Jürgen Syberberg

Cast Harry Baer · Ingrid Caven · Balthasar Thomass · Oskar von Schab

Direction Hans-Jürgen Syberberg

Cast Helmut Käutner · Kristina Söderbaum · Käthe Gold · Attila Hörbiger

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Hanna Schygulla · Wolfgang Schenck · Ulli Lommel · Karlheinz Böhm

Plot Hanna Schygulla stars in this bleak Fassbinder drama as Effi Briest, a tomboyish seventeen year-old German girl living with her parents. Though simple, Effi still has some social ambition, ambition...

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Hans Hirschmüller · Irm Hermann · Hanna Schygulla · Gusti Kreisal

Plot Der Händler der vier Jahreszeiten (The Merchant of Four Seasons) is one of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's several "bourgeois films" that depict and critique middle-class society. The film deceptively unfolds like...

Direction Herman Wouk · Dan Curtis

Cast Robert Mitchum · John Gielgud · Jane Seymour · Hart Bochner

Plot The saga of the Henry family, begun in "The Winds of War" continues as America is attacked by Japan and enters World War II. For Victor Henry, an upwardly mobile...

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Hanna Schygulla · Lilith Ungerer · Rudolf Waldemar Brem · Elga Sorbas

Plot Jorgos is a young Greek guest worker in Germany, known pejoratively as a “Katzelmacher,” Bavarian slang for “cat screwer,” referring to the supposed sexual habits of foreigners. He rents a...

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder · Michael Fengler

Cast Lilith Ungerer · Kurt Raab · Lilo Pempeit · Franz Maron

Plot With slicked-down hair and three-piece suits, dependable Herr Raab is a technical draftsman. He gets along with his colleagues although his boss wants him to go beyond technical cleanliness to...

Direction Alf Brustellin · Hans Peter Cloos · Rainer Werner Fassbinder · Alexander Kluge

Cast Heinz Bennent · Wolf Biermann · Caroline Chaniolleau · Hildegard Friese

Plot Through documentary and fiction footage, the body of work of the New German Cinema offers a general view of Germany in the late 70's. A time marked by the left-wing...

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Ulli Lommel · Hanna Schygulla · Rainer Werner Fassbinder · Hans Hirschmüller

Plot Franz (Fassbinder), a punky pimp who bonds with noted criminal Bruno (Ulli Lommel) thanks to their mutual recruitment by a crime syndicate. Shunning their offer, Franz opts to team with...

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Karl Scheydt · Elga Sorbas · Jan George · Margarethe von Trotta

Plot After his return from Vietnam war, an American with German origins comes to Germany for a visit - not as a tourist but as a hit-man. Policemen from Munich have...

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Hanna Schygulla · Margarethe von Trotta · Harry Baer · Günther Kaufmann

Plot Franz Walsch, a small-time hood, is released from jail and searches for his old acquaintances. He finds his girlfriend Johanna and visits his mother with his brother Marian. Women are...

Direction Volker Schlöndorff

Cast Rainer Werner Fassbinder · Sigi Graue · Margarethe von Trotta · Günther Neutze

Plot The film follows Baal, a young, ingenious, and unstable poet-balladeer with a scandalous zest for life, love, and liquor, through multiple sexual encounters and cruel, shocking personal adventures that end...

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Hanna Schygulla · Michael König · Günther Kaufmann · Katrin Schaake

Plot 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 girlfriend, Hanna, humors their...

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Hanna Schygulla · Harry Baer · Irm Hermann · Rudolf Waldemar Brem

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

Direction Ula Stöckl

Cast Liane Hielscher · Christine de Loup · Jürgen Arndt · Elke Kummer

Plot In the summer of 1967, journalist Katharina is visited in Munich by her French friend, Anne. They take day trips and visit cafés, acquaintances and parties. In a series of...

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder · Michael Fengler

Cast Michael König · Hanna Schygulla · Margit Carstensen · Michael Gordon

Plot Can a small group of people start a proletarian revolution, asks the "Black Monk" in a leather jacket. The medieval shepherd, Hans Boehm, claims to have been called by the...

Direction Alexander Kluge

Cast Alfred Edel · Helga Skalla · Hark Bohm · Kurt Jürgens

Plot Willi endeavours to survive in a world where annihilistic galactic battles rage, by taking a job at the centre of power. But it's the wrong side that he takes in...

Direction John Schlesinger

Cast Anthony Hopkins · Isabella Rossellini · Campbell Scott · Ronald Nitschke

Plot A young engineer is sent to post-WWII Berlin to help the Americans in spying on the Russians. In a time and place where discretion is still a man's best friend,...