Die Nacht der Regisseure
1995
Utilizing computer-generated effects and creative splicing to place Germany's most famous living directors in a fantasy movie house, filmmaker Edgar Reitz takes an innovative...
Blauaugig
1989
In this suspense story, the main character, Johann Neudorff (Gotz George), immigrated to Argentina from Germany after World War Two, and has become a successful businessman...
Linie 1
1988
This musical is combined with a belated (by over four decades) condemnation of Nazi sympathizers. The travelers of a main Berlin subway line are profiled as they go through the...
Stammheim
1986
The powerful depiction of a story that split a country, the movie was equally controversial. Based on the well-publicized Baader-Meinhof terrorists, it is the tale of five...
Morgen In Alabama
1984
Man under Suspicion begins at a German political assembly reduced to chaos by neo-fascist activists. Someone has to defend the principal instigator in court, and that...
10 Tage In Calcutta
1984
German director Reinhard Hauff traveled to Calcutta to film this captivating interview with famed Bengali director Mrinal Sen, as they walked along the streets, mixed with...
Der Mann Auf Der Mauer
1982
Kabe (Marius Mueller-Westernhagen) lives with his wife Andrea (Patricia von Miseroni) in East Germany in an apartment that backs right up to the Berlin Wall. The Wall is...
Endstation Freiheit
1980
The script for this true-life crime film by New German Cinema director Reinhard Hauff was written by the criminal, Burkhard Driest and is based on his autobiography of the...
Messer im Kopf
1978
Despite the film's English title Knife in the Head, Hoffman (Bruno Ganz), a scientist, is shot in the head by the police while he is trying to pick up his wife from a...
Zuendschnuere
1977
Told through the eyes of children, this wartime film tells the story of anti-Nazi resistance actions within Germany in the Ruhr valley during the Second World War. Some of the...
Der Hauptdarsteller
1977
Essentially, Der Hauptdarstellar tells the story of Pepe, a lower-class boy (Michael Schweiger) who is exploited by an experimental filmmaker for his own purposes, giving...
Paule Paulaender
1976
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Die Verrohung des Franz Blum
1975
In this prison drama, Franz Blum (Jurgen Prochnow) goes from being a fairly ordinary middle-class man to a hardened convict. Sent to prison for participating in a bank robbery,...

The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
1975
German director Werner Herzog's internationally acclaimed "breakthrough" film is based on the famous story of mysterious 19th-century child genius Kasper Hauser. As played...
Fuses
1974
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Desaster
1973
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Haus Am Meer
1972
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Mathias Kneissl
1971
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Jakob Von Gunten
1971
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Der Plotzliche Reichtum der Armen Leute von Kombach
1971
Village life in the 1820s, whether in Germany or France, was much the same as it was in the Middle Ages. The peasantry was seen as a cash-cow for the landowning aristocracy, or...