A man is released from prison and finds the society on the outside less than appealing. With several women as well as the police on his tail, he...

The life of a married Munich technical draftsman with a son.

One night when seeking his estranged wife, Hoffmann goes to the youth center where she works. The police are there rounding up radicals who...

Baal explores the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality.

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...

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...

Berta, a naive young maid, searches for love when the army engineers come to town to build a bridge.

Olga and Ruth become friends. Olga is independent, separated from her husband, living with an immigrant pianist, and teaching feminist literature...

Nik, a released prisoner who started writing in prison, wants to leave his past behind him, but refuses to contact his former girlfriend and her...

Schroeter’s film is a chronicle of Germany from the Nazi era until the economic boom of the 1950s and 1960s, centering on three women who search...

In this movie, director Volker Koch wants to reveal "petty-bourgeois fixations of consciousness and late capitalist myths of happiness". The...

Werner Schroeter's stunning split-screen short deals with what the director called "archaic, fundamental themes" of love and mourning.

In a dark and spare theatrical space, four characters use gesture, language, and movement to explore themes of desire and mortality.

Early Rosa von Praunheim short film. Originally intended to be the ending of "Die Bettwurst".

This surrealistic experimental film finds the son of a young nobleman staying with hash-smoking hippies in a seamy section of Munich. He falls for...

Feminist short film set in West Berlin.

Directional debut by Germany's most famous queer filmmaker.

Collage of dramatic scenes, some exaggerated to comic effect, with asynchronous sound from well known classic, operatic, and rock and roll music – ...

Short film about queer left-wing people in West Berlin.