Wolf-Eckart Bühler – Der Havarist AKA The Shipwrecker (1984)
Actor Sterling Hayden found himself cooperating with the House Un-American Activities Committee in 40s and 50s Hollywood. This film tracks the restless actor’s search for meaning, his discomfort with...
View ArticleFritz Lang – Das Indische Grabmal AKA The Indian Tomb (1959)
Synopsis:Harald Berger and his Indian lover, the temple dancer Seetha, desperately flee from the shikaris (cavalry) of Eschanapur’s maharajah Chandra, who burn a whole village just for letting them...
View ArticleHans Billian – Das Mädchen mit der heißen Masche AKA Loves of a French...
ImDB:Rolf (Michael Cromer), a sex-advice columnist and a lecher, has affairs with numerous women, but never a permanent relationship. Suzanne, one of his ex-lovers, offers to bet that no woman can get...
View ArticleRudolf Thome – Das Mikroskop (1988)
Quote:The first film in Rudolf Thome’s “Forms of Love” trilogy is the most incisive. It’s a comedy-drame chronicling the ups and downs in the relationship of an unmarried couple (Adriana Altaras,...
View ArticleHans-Jürgen Syberberg – Winifred Wagner und die Geschichte des Hauses...
In 1975, the West German filmmaker, Hans-Jurgen Syberberg directed an astounding documentary called The Confessions of Winifred Wagner (Winifred Wagner Und Die Geschichte Des Hauses Wahnfried Von...
View ArticleWolfgang Bartsch – Dass ihnen der arme Mann Feind wird (1975)
This documentary shows the German Peasants’ War between 1524 and 1525 and looks at the role of Thomas Müntzer in it. Müntzer, who was a follower and admirer of Martin Luther, directed his resistance...
View ArticleHans Billian – Zimmermädchen machen es gern aka Bienenstich im Liebesnest (1975)
From IMDB:Hannelore Reitzler elopes with her boyfriend to the Hotel Liebesnest but he leaves her during the night after failing to take her virginity. Not wanting to return home, Hannelore takes job...
View ArticleWalter Boos – Sex-Träume-Report (1973)
Psychologist Heinz Kahlbaum and his assistant Gisela deal with the dreams of their fellow human beings, analyzing the erotic and sexual experiences of the test persons from their unconscious dream...
View ArticleHermann Pfeiffer – Falschmünzer AKA Counterfeiters (1940)
Counterfeit money is discovered near the Bodensee. The investigators for the “Reichszentrale für Falschmünzerei” get wind of it and open up an investigation. When the band of counterfeiters try to...
View ArticleClaude Autant-Lara – Le meurtrier AKA Der Mörder AKA Enough Rope (1963)
Synopsis:‘It’s the story of two men whose fate links them together by accident – or is it by plan? Separate of each other and at this point without connection, two women are killed. Their husbands are...
View ArticleAngela Schanelec – Musik AKA Music (2023)
A boy grows up with his step-parents in Greece. At the age of 20, he unwittingly murders his father. While serving his sentence, he falls in love and has a child with a woman who works in the prison....
View ArticleMaggie Peren – Der Passfälscher AKA The Forger (2022) (HD)
Cioma Schönhaus, a 21-year-old Jewish man, escapes the Gestapo and saves lives thanks to his ability to forge passports. His other talent is forging his own identity...
View ArticleFranz Josef Gottlieb – Der schwarze Abt AKA The Black Abbot (1963)
Several employees on a nobleman’s estate show up at a former abbey, reputed to be haunted, to search for a hidden treasure. Howver, a mysterious hooded figure begins killing off those who may have...
View ArticleAlfred Vohrer – Der Gorilla von Soho AKA The Gorilla Gang (1968)
Scotland Yard goes after a gang that drowns its victims for their insurance money. Quote: The bodies of drowned men, all elderly, wealthy foreigners with no relatives in the UK, keep being hauled out...
View ArticleNatalia Sinelnikova – Wir könnten genauso gut tot sein AKA We Might As Well...
A tower block on the edge of a forest, people hoping to join the building’s community as it is one of the last bastions of civilization in a world that has fallen apart....
View ArticleAndreas Dresen – Rabiye AKA Rabiye Kurnaz gegen George W. Bush (2022)
Desperate to help her son, Rabiye Kurnaz, a housewife and loving mother from Bremen, goes to the police, notifies authorities and almost despairs at their impotence and in the end, against all the...
View ArticleLeo Mittler – Jenseits der Straße – Eine Tragödie des Alltags aka Harbor...
Quote:The film itself is a small wonder to behold. It’s cut in a blazing speed, but at the same time manages to integrate social realities in a documentary style, to mix satire, humor and some...
View ArticleWolfgang Petersen – Vier Gegen die Bank (1976)
One evening, the once successful architect Helmut is tired of the recession giving no jobs, he gets the idea of robbing a bank. He recruits members of his golf club that are not paying their fees....
View ArticleNicolette Krebitz – A E I O U – Das schnelle Alphabet der Liebe AKA A E I O...
“A E I O U is an unusual film, not only in the central pairing, but also because it dares to give an older woman an amour fou. It’s funny, and romantic in a fucked up way, but above all, it’s...
View ArticleNatalia Sinelnikova – Wir könnten genauso gut tot sein AKA We Might As Well...
A tower block on the edge of a forest, people hoping to join the building’s community as it is one of the last bastions of civilization in a world that has fallen apart....
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