Direction: Jean-Marie Straub
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Jean-Marie Straub. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Othon
1970 · Movie · 88 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub
Cast Adriano Aprà · Anne Brumagne · Ennio Lauricella · Olimpia Carlisi
Plot This feature is based on the story Othon by Pierre Corneille. The expressionless actors deliver their lines dressed in ancient Roman costumes while the traffic of modern-day Rome roars by...
7.7
158 votes
7.7
158 votes
From the Clouds to the Resistance
1979 · Movie · 104 min. · Italy
Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub
Cast Olimpia Carlisi · Guido Lombardi · Gino Felici · Lori Pelosini
7.5
204 votes
7.5
204 votes
Humiliated
2003 · Movie · 35 min. · Italy
Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub
Cast Martina Gionfriddo · Andrea Balducci · Gabriella Taddei · Vittorio Vigneri
Plot In Italy, immediately subsequent to the war, a group of people who lost all they possessed during the conflict, settle in a village in ruins. They intend to restore the...
7.5
76 votes
7.5
76 votes
Itinéraire de Jean Bricard
2008 · Documentary · 40 min. · France
Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub
Cast Jean Bricard
Plot The film is a commemoration of the lost livelihood of the earth, the lost lives of the War and to the work of two of the cinema’s greatest artists.
7.5
23 votes
7.5
23 votes
The Death of Empedocles
1987 · Movie · 132 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
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...
7.5
78 votes
7.5
78 votes
Moses and Aaron
1975 · Movie · 107 min. · Austria
Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub
Cast Günter Reich · Louis Devos · Eva Csapo · Roger Lucas
Plot Moses und Aron is a 1973 film by the French filmmaking duo of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet based on the unfinished opera of the same title by Arnold Schoenberg....
7.4
218 votes
7.4
218 votes
Black Sin
1990 · Movie · 42 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub
Cast Andreas von Rauch · Vladimir Baratta · Howard Vernon
Plot Adaptation from the play by Friedrich Hölderlin.
7.4
49 votes
7.4
49 votes
Too Early, Too Late
1982 · Documentary · 100 min. · France
Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub
7.4
146 votes
7.4
146 votes
Fortini/Cani
1977 · Documentary · 83 min. · Italy
Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub
Plot The film is a sort of presentation of Franco Fortini's book 'I Cani del Sinai'. Fortini, an Italian Jew, reads excerpts from the book about his alienation from Judaism and...
7.4
84 votes
7.4
84 votes
Antigone
1992 · Movie · 100 min. · Germany
Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub
Cast Astrid Ofner · Ursula Ofner · Albert Hetterle · Stephan Wolf-Schönburg
Plot Based on a translate to german by Friedrich Hölderlin of texts by Sofokles and Bertold Brecht. Antigone, daughter to Oedipus, opposes tyrant of Thebes, Creon's edict that her brother Polynice's...
7.4
171 votes
7.4
171 votes
From Today to Tomorrow
1997 · Movie · 62 min. · Germany
Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub
Cast Richard Salter · Christine Whittlesey · Annabelle Hahn · Claudia Barainsky
7.3
68 votes
7.3
68 votes
Une visite au Louvre
2003 · Documentary · 44 min. · France
Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub
Cast Julie Koltaï
Plot Une Visite au Louvre is a companion film to Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet’s Cézanne from a decade earlier. The opening title of that later work indicates that it was...
7.3
131 votes
7.3
131 votes
L'Aquarium et la Nation
2015 · Movie · 31 min. · Switzerland
Direction Jean-Marie Straub
Cast Aimé Agnel · Christiane Veschambre
7.3
42 votes
7.3
42 votes
Workers, Peasants
2001 · Movie · 123 min. · Italy
Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub
Cast Angela Nugara · Giacinto Di Pascoli · Gianpaolo Cassarino · Enrico Achilli
Plot A group of World War II survivors from all over Italy come together to form a sort of “commune”. They want to forget the hardships of the conflict they have...
7.2
46 votes
7.2
46 votes
The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach
1968 · Movie · 94 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub
Cast Gustav Leonhardt · Christiane Lang · Paolo Carlini · Joachim Wolff
Plot First full-length feature film by the French filmmaking duo of Straub and Huillet. The film presents biography as the rewriting and juxtaposition of prior documents with a prominent importance of...
7.2
487 votes
7.2
487 votes
Sicilia!
1999 · Movie · 76 min. · Italy
Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub
Cast Gianni Buscarino · Angela Nugara · Vittorio Vigneri · Carmelo Maddio
Plot A man returns to visit his native Sicily after living in New York for a long time. He learns about the Sicilian way of life from stylized conversations with an...
7.2
444 votes
7.2
444 votes
Class Relations
1984 · Movie · 126 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub
Cast Christian Neinisch · Nazzareno Bianconi · Mario Adorf · Harun Farocki
Plot Based on Franz Kafka’s unfinished first novel, AMERIKA, the story follows the bizarre wanderings of 17-year-old Karl Rossmann, a serious-minded German bourgeois, sent to America by his parents to avoid...
7.2
188 votes
7.2
188 votes
Lorraine! (S)
1994 · Movie · 20 min. · France
Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub
Cast Emmanuelle Straub · Dominique Dostat · André Varynski · Jean-Marie Straub
Plot In this 20-minute film, Jean Marie-Straub, who was born in Metz, Lorraine, unfolds the changing history of his homeland, a country torn by different wars and states. Victories are defeats...
7.1
107 votes
7.1
107 votes
Artemis' Knee
2008 · Movie · 26 min. · Italy
Direction Jean-Marie Straub
Cast Andrea Bacci · Dario Marconcini
Plot For "Le Genou d'Artemide", Jean-Marie Straub once again chose a dialogue by Cesare Pavese. And not just any dialogue, but one that tears open a painful, mystical abyss between love...
7.1
82 votes
7.1
82 votes
The Bridegroom, the Actress and the Pimp
1968 · Movie · 23 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Jean-Marie Straub
Cast Rainer Werner Fassbinder · Irm Hermann · Kristin Peterson · Hanna Schygulla
Plot Three sequences are linked together in this short film by Straub; the first sequence is a long tracking shot from a car of prostitutes playing their trade on the night-time...
7.0
61 votes
7.0
61 votes