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Robert Fischer – The Cinema and its Double – Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s...
Quote: This absolutely top-notch documentary by Robert Fischer is a fascinating look back at not just the film in question, but Fassbinder’s meteoric career which ended all too soon with his untimely...
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Werner Herzog – Herz aus Glas AKA Heart of Glass (1976)
Quote: If Werner Herzog’s The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser is, as I contend, an exegesis on the human tendency to contextualize life through custom – not to mention, of course, the inculcative parallels...
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Johannes Schmid – Agnes (2016)
The non-fiction author Walter falls for the physics student Agnes. He is fascinated by her extreme attitude towards life and her reserved appearance, which is quite the opposite of his quiet and...
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Angst vor der Angst AKA Fear of Fear (1975)
Margot, who lives in a comfortable middle class apartment, fears that she is losing her mind after having had her second child. Her husband Kurt, who is busy studying for an exam, does not understand...
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Maren Ade – Toni Erdmann (2016) (HD)
Maren Ade’s third feature (after The Forest For The Trees and Everyone Else) is an exuberant exploration of the dynamics of relationships which mostly sustains its marathon running time. Under...
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Thomas Arslan – Der schöne Tag aka A Fine Day (2001)
Synopsis: A Fine Day is, after the films Geschwister and Dealer, the third part in a trilogy about the living conditions of Turkish youth growing up in Germany. Deniz is 21-years-old, lives in Berlin,...
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Arthur Maria Rabenalt – Am Abend nach der Oper AKA In the Evening After the...
Quote: This totally forgotten film is adapted from a story by Franz Nabl who also provided the basis for Der verzauberte Tag. The story is about a rich murderer (Siegfried Breuer) who killed his wife...
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Dominik Graf – Die Freunde der Freunde AKA The Friend of Friends (2002)
Synopsis: Set in the boarding school milieu, the film depicts the meeting of shy Gregor and mysterious Billie. Billie has a son, her husband is in jail. Arthur, Gregor’s friend, is a serial Lothario,...
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Volker Schlöndorff – Michael Kohlhaas – Der Rebell AKA Man on Horseback...
Quote: Man on Horseback (German: Michael Kohlhaas – der Rebell) is a 1969 German drama film directed by Volker Schlöndorff based on the novel Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich Von Kleist. It was entered...
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Julius Schultheiß – Lotte (2016)
Lotte is impulsive, rough around the edges and leads a colourful life on the streets of Berlin, stumbling from man to man and flat to flat. One night in her local bar she bumps into Marcel, an almost...
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Ralf Kirsten – Käthe Kollwitz (1986)
One dramatic event marked the life of the great German artist in particular. At the beginning of the First World War she was already world famous for her etchings, lithographs, carvings and drawings....
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Joe May – Asphalt (1929)
Synopsis wrote: One of the last great German Expressionist films of the silent era, Joe May’s Asphalt is a love story set in the traffic-strewn Berlin of the late 1920s. Starring the delectable Betty...
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Sergey Loznitsa – Austerlitz (2016)
Quote: There are places in Europe that have remained as painful memories of the past – factories where humans were turned into ash. These places are now memorial sites that are open to the public and...
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Veit Helmer – Tuvalu (1999)
Silent movies require a unique visual storytelling grammar, a rhythm of clear, economical medium shots, punctuated by close-ups of pertinent objects and human faces reacting. Veit Helmer’s debut...
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Hans-Jürgen Syberberg – Hitler, ein Film aus Deutschland AKA Hitler: A Film...
Director Hans-Jurgen Syberberg examines the rise and fall of the Third Reich in this brooding seven-hour masterpiece, which incorporates puppetry, rear-screen projection, and a Wagnerian score into a...
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Hans-Jürgen Syberberg – Parsifal (1982)
Synopsis: 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...
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Hans-Jürgen Syberberg – Ludwig – Requiem für einen jungfräulichen König AKA...
Synopsis: The story of the legendary King Ludwig II of Bavaria (1845-1886), his opera interest and friendship with theatre personalities such as Richard Wagner and Joseph Kainz, and at the same time a...
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Helke Sander – Dazlak – Skinhead (1997)
road movie in which a racist skinhead is stuck in a car with a black guy by german feminist film maker Helke Sander “Schwarz, weiß, doof!” – Mit diesem Spruch sagt die vorlaute Göre Jenny, was sie...
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Marc Rothemund – Sophie Scholl – Die letzten Tage AKA Sophie Scholl: The...
Sophia Magdalena Scholl (May 9, 1921 – February 22, 1943) was a prominent member of the White Rose non-violent resistance movement in Nazi Germany. She was convicted of treason after having been found...
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Oliver Hirschbiegel – Das Experiment (2001)
Plot: The movie is based on the infamous “Stanford Prison Experiment” conducted in 1971. A makeshift prison is set up in a research lab, complete with cells, bars and surveillance cameras. For two...
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