Tenderness of the Wolves

Tenderness of the Wolves

A German serial killer preys on boys and young men during the so-called years of crisis between the wars. Based on the true story of Fritz Haarmann...

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Beware of a Holy Whore

Beware of a Holy Whore

Tensions between members of a film crew build while they wait for the arrival of the director and star to arrive on location.

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The American Soldier

The American Soldier

Ricky returns to Munich from Vietnam and is promptly hired as a contract killer.

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Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven

Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven

After a worker kills a superior and commits suicide, each of his family members attempts to forge a path forward in life.

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Love Is Colder Than Death

Love Is Colder Than Death

Small-time pimp Franz is torn between his mistress and Bruno, the gangster sent after him by a shady crime syndicate he's refused to join.

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Whity

Whity

"Whity" is the mulatto butler of the dysfunctional Nicholson family in the American southwest in 1878. The father, Ben Nicholson, has an attractive...

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I Only Want You to Love Me

I Only Want You to Love Me

Peter grew up during the economic miracle, bereft of parental care and love. Learning early on that interpersonal relationships are based on the...

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Satan’s Brew

Satan’s Brew

A famous poet who hasn't written a word in two years unconsciously plagiarizes the work of Stefan George, while dealing with several mistresses...

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Shadow of Angels

Shadow of Angels

Beautiful, detached, laconic, consumptive Lily Brest is a streetwalker with few clients. She loves her idle boyfriend Raoul who gambles away what...

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Katzelmacher

Katzelmacher

A group of young slackers spend most of their time hanging out in front of a Munich apartment building. When a Greek immigrant named Jorgos moves...

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The Coffee House

The Coffee House

Avant-garde adaptation of a Carlo Goldoni play. Well-to-do Venetians congregate in a coffee house and discuss their problems.

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Fear of Fear

Fear of Fear

After having her second child, a German housewife suffers from post-partum depression before inexplicably falling into a continually misdiagnosed...

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Rio das Mortes

Rio das Mortes

Michel and Guenther, working in dead-end jobs, are obsessed with going to Peru to find buried treasure, using a map of the Rio das Mortes. Michel's...

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The Little Chaos

The Little Chaos

Theo, Marite, and Franz cannot make any money selling magazines door to door, so they try a little robbery.

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The Stationmaster’s Wife

The Stationmaster’s Wife

The lackluster and plodding Bolweiser has the (mis)fortune to be married to the town’s siren; his trusting nature leads him into serious trouble...

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The Niklashausen Journey

The Niklashausen Journey

Can a small group of people start a proletarian revolution, asks the "Black Monk" in a leather jacket. The medieval shepherd, Hans Boehm, claims to...

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Jail Bait

Jail Bait

Based on Franz Xaver Kroetz's play, which is in turn based on a true story, this film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder tells the story of a very young...

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La Paloma

La Paloma

Nightclub singer La Paloma succumbs to the persistent courting of a chubby rich admirer and marries him. Before the marriage, she was thought to be...

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Bremen Freedom

Bremen Freedom

A very stylized TV version of the Fassbinder play. The set consists of a few pieces of furniture in front of a large screen on which coastal...

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Like a Bird on a Wire

Like a Bird on a Wire

A pseudo variety show about the Aufbau-Era, the time of the German 'economic miracle'. Brigitte Mira recounts her four husbands through song and...

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