Querelle (1982)
Querelle (1982) French sailor Querelle arrives in Brest and starts frequenting a strange whorehouse. He discovers that his brother Robert is the lover of the lady owner, Lysiane. Here, you can play dice with Nono, Lysiane's husband : if you win, you are allowed to make love with Lysiane, if you lose
Lola (1981)
Lola (1981) Ten years after the war, West Germany's market economy is booming. Into an unnamed city that's rife with corruption comes a new building commissioner, Herr von Bohm, committed to progress but also upright. He's smitten by Marie-Louise, a single mother who's his landlady's daughter. Von B
Martha (1974)
Martha (1974) A single woman in her early thirties, Martha (Margit Carstensen) is on vacation with her father in Rome when he has a heart attack and falls down dead. She reacts rather indifferently and returns home to her highly-strung mother and begins to new era of her life taking care of a comple
Despair (1978)
Despair (1978) Germany in the early 1930s. Against the backdrop of the Nazis' rise, Hermann Hermann, a Russian émigré and chocolate magnate, goes slowly mad. It begins with his seating himself in a chair to observe himself making love to his wife, Lydia, a zaftig empty-headed siren who is also sle
Fear of Fear (1975)
Fear of Fear 1975 Margot, who lives in a comfortable middle class apartment, fears that she is losing her mind after having her second child Her husband Kurt, who is busy studying for an exam, does not understand her situation Her mother in law a
In a Year with 13 Moons (1978)
In a Year with 13 Moons (1978) This drama follows the last few days in the life of Elvira (formerly Erwin) Weisshaupt. Years before, Erwin told a co-worker, Anton, that he loved him. "Too bad, you aren't a woman," he replied. Erwin took Anton at his word. Trying to salvage something from the wreckag
Veronika Voss (1982)
Veronika Voss (1982) Munich, 1955: A sports journalist meets Veronika Voss, an UFA actress who supposedly had an affair with Goebbels. Now declining, Voss is kept by her "kind" doctor, Dr. Katz, supplying her house, food, clean clothes and her favourite: morphine. Voss, trying to come back
Fox and His Friends (1975)
Fox and His Friends (1975) Working class and middle-upper class worlds come together in this interesting look at class conflict within the gay world from the German director Reiner Werner Fassbinder. Fassbinder plays Fox, he is working class, a former circus performer who wins the lottery of DM 500,
Satans Brew (1976)
Satans Brew 1976 Walter, a German anarchist poet, is short of money after his publisher refuses to give him an advance He tries various ways of raising money, including shooting one of his mistresses and relying on the life savings of a woman from the country who is fanatically devoted to him He als
Love Is Colder Than Death (1969)
Love Is Colder Than Death (1969) Unusual gangster story, in which a small-time pimp Franz, who is torn between his mistress and Bruno the gangster sent after him by the syndicate that he has refused to join. Things are turned on their head when Franz and Bruno become friends, to the point that they
The Third Generation (1979)
The Third Generation (1979) Peter Lenz, a mogul merrily funds terrorists to boost his computer sales, by panicking West German government and industry c. 1980, as the third generation of Western European left-wing ...
Beware of a Holy Whore (1971)
Beware of a Holy Whore 1971 On a film set there are two things missing, the film material and the director So the actors and actresses as well as the crew try to make the best out of the situation When the director arrives the material is still missing and so they still wait and try to make the best
Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven (1975)
Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven 1975 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 daughter in law thinks otherwise The point, we soon find out, is moot M
Gods of the Plague (1970)
Gods of the Plague 1970 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 attracted to Franz, though he is a man of few words and remains emotionless throughout his enc
Pioneers in Ingolstadt (1971)
Pioneers in Ingolstadt 1971 Berta, a naive young maid, searches for love when the army engineers come to town to build a bridge
Whity (1971)
Whity 1971 Whity is the mulatto butler of the dysfunctional Nicholson family in the south west U S in 1878 The father, Ben Nicholson, has an attractive young wife, Katherine, and two sons by a previous marriage the homosexual Frank and the disabled Davy Whity tries to carry out all their orders, how
Katzelmacher (1969)
Katzelmacher 1969 Jorgos, a migrant worker from Greece, joins a group of young people in Munich usually hanging around This foreigner incites hostility and jealousy among them, and he is insulted as a Communist and Greek dog After having been attacked, Jorgos talks to Maria of his wish to return hom