Country: Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Wim Wenders

Cast Rüdiger Vogler · Hanns Zischler · Lisa Kreuzer · Rudolf Schündler

Plot In this road movie drama, Vogler and Zischler travel along the desolate towns of the east-west German border.

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Margit Carstensen · Karlheinz Böhm · Gisela Fackeldey · Ingrid Caven

Plot A single woman in her early thirties, Martha (Margit Carstensen) is on vacation with her father in Europe when he has a heart attack and falls down dead. She reacts...

Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub

Cast Andreas von Rauch · Vladimir Baratta · Martina Baratta · Ute Cremer

Plot German romantic playwright Friedrich Hölderlin's unfinished play Empedokles tells the story of the titular Greek philosopher and poet's exile and death by casting himself into an active volcano. Straub and...

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Robert Atzorn · Martin Benrath · Rita Russek · Christine Buchegger

Plot From the Life of the Marionettes is an unusually raw and explicit Ingmar Bergman drama, featuring two supporting characters from Scenes from a Marriage. Peter Egermann (Robert Atzorn), outwardly stable...

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Margit Carstensen · Hanna Schygulla · Irm Hermann · Eva Mattes

Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub

Cast Andreas von Rauch · Vladimir Baratta · Howard Vernon

Plot Adaptation from the play by Friedrich Hölderlin.

Direction Jean-Pierre Ponnelle

Cast Ingvar Wixell · Edita Gruberova · Luciano Pavarotti · Ferruccio Furlanetto

Plot This summary contains the complete plot of the opera Rigoletto by Guiseppi Verdi. Rigoletto is a jester in the court of the Duke of Mantua. He has a hunch-back and...

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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

Plot 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...

Direction Wim Wenders

Cast Bruno Ganz · Peter Falk · Solveig Dommartin · Otto Sander

Plot The sky over Wenders' war-scarred Berlin is full of gentle, trenchcoated angels who listen to the tortured thoughts of mortals and try to comfort them. One, Damiel (Bruno Ganz), wishes...

Direction Werner Herzog

Cast Bruno S. · Eva Mattes · Clemens Scheitz · Burkhard Driest

Plot Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and ekes out a living as a street musician. He befriends Eva, a prostitute down on her luck. After they are harried and beaten...

Direction Uli Edel

Cast Natja Brunckhorst · Thomas Haustein · Jens Kuphal · Rainer Woelk

Plot This movie portrays the drug scene in Berlin in the 70s, following tape recordings of Christiane F. 14 years old Christiane lives with her mother and little sister in a...

Direction Peter Nestler

Plot A cheerful take on the lives of school children in a Swiss rural environment. Young pupils recite short essays they have written on subjects ranging from the long walk to...

Direction Werner Herzog

Cast Werner Herzog

Plot La Soufrière is, as Herzog explains, a documentary of an unavoidable catastrophe that didn’t happen. When Herzog learned in 1977 that the volcano, La Soufrière, on the small Caribbean island...

Direction Werner Herzog

Cast Bruno S. · Walter Ladengast · Brigitte Mira · Willy Semmelrogge

Plot Herzog's film is based upon the true and mysterious story of Kaspar Hauser, a young man who suddenly appeared in Nuremberg in 1828, barely able to speak or walk, and...

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Rainer Werner Fassbinder · Peter Chatel · Karlheinz Böhm · Rudolf Lenz

Plot Franz "Fox" Biberkopf is a working-class guy, at loose ends when his lover is arrested and the police shutter their carnival booth. In need of cash for his weekly lottery...

Direction Werner Herzog

Cast Walter Steiner · Werner Herzog

Plot A study of the psychology of a champion ski-jumper, whose full-time occupation is carpentry.

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Brigitte Mira · Margit Carstensen · Ingrid Caven · Karlheinz Böhm

Plot Frau Kusters is preparing dinner late one seemingly ordinary afternoon in her seemingly ordinary kitchen in Frankfurt, Germany. Mrs. Kusters wants to add canned sausages to the stew, her annoying...

Direction Werner Schroeter

Cast Magdalena Montezuma · Christine Kaufmann · Candy Darling · Manuela Riva

Plot A series of tableaux illustrating the life and death of a celebrated 19th century German opera singer. Each tableau has a different motif, and each comes across with a decadent...

Direction Alexander Kluge

Cast Jutta Hoffmann · Armin Mueller-Stahl · Hans-Michael Rehberg · Peter Roggisch

Plot The last films for cinema by Alexander Kluge. Both tell about a dozen stories which complement one another by creating a context. The Blind Director: A young doctor feels that...

Direction Werner Herzog

Cast Klaus Kinski · Helena Rojo · Del Negro · Ruy Guerra

Plot Herzog always said that right from their first encounter, he knew he would end up taking advantage of Kinski's turbulent personality. He was chosen to play choleric Aguirre, a character...