Alice in the Cities

Alice in the Cities

German journalist Philip Winter has a case of writer’s block when trying to write an article about the United States. He decides to return to...

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The Merchant of Four Seasons

The Merchant of Four Seasons

Hans is a street fruit peddler and born-loser. His choice of career upsets his bourgeois family, causing him to turn to drinking and violence...

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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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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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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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Last Five Days

Last Five Days

At Gestapo head quarters a young woman establishes a relationship with another inmate. This young woman is Sophie Scholl who tells the story of her...

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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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Kleiner Mann, was nun?

Kleiner Mann, was nun?

Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day: A Series Becomes a Family Reunion

Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day: A Series Becomes a Family Reunion

Documentary about the making of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1972 German television series EIGHT HOURS DON'T MAKE A DAY, featuring interviews with...

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Das Baby der schwangeren Toten

Das Baby der schwangeren Toten

A pregnant woman suffers severe head trauma in a car accident. The doctors are unable to help her, but at the request of her fiancé, they decide to...

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My Name Is Not Ali

My Name Is Not Ali

Travelling between Germany, France and Tunisia, Viola Shafik reconstructs and deconstructs the unknown life story of El Hedi Ben Salem through...

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Fassbinder Produces: Film No. 8

Fassbinder Produces: Film No. 8

About the making of "Der amerikanische Soldat/The American Soldier" in 1970.

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Yearning for Sodom

Yearning for Sodom

Made during the last months of actor Kurt Raab, who died of AIDS in 1988. Raab, who had worked in both theatre and film, most notably with...

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Invitation to the Dance

Invitation to the Dance

Theo Gromberg is a bon vivant, apparently with built-in guarantee to failure. Faithful to his side is his friend Enno, an Italian guest workers...

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Die Versöhnung

Die Versöhnung

A man bored with his wife goes to the Munich Oktoberfest. He meets a pregnant student who discusses the problems of bourgeois marriage with him and...

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The Ancestress

The Ancestress