Country: Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Werner Schroeter

Cast Gisela Trowe · Carla Egerer · Rosemarie Heinikel · Magdalena Montezuma

Plot Collage of dramatic scenes, some exaggerated to comic effect, with asynchronous sound from well known classic, operatic, and rock and roll music - with different approaches to love, suffering, and...

Direction Wolfgang Petersen

Cast Jürgen Prochnow · Herbert Grönemeyer · Klaus Wennemann · Hubertus Bengsch

Plot TV Miniserie (1985-1987). 3 episodes. A World War II German U-Boat crew have a terrifying patrol mission in the early days of the war.

Direction Edgar Reitz

Cast Marita Breuer · Dieter Schaad · Michael Lesch · Eva Maria Bayerswaltes

Plot It follows Maria Simon (Marita Breuer), a woman living in the fictional village of Schabbach. The film covers the years 1919 to 1982, depicting how the events of German history...

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Gottfried John · Hanna Schygulla · Luise Ullrich · Werner Finck

Plot TV Miniseries (1972-1973). Five episodes. "Eight Hours are Not a Day" describes the problems and reality of the german society in the 70's, through the lives of a young man,...

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Ingrid Bergman · Liv Ullmann · Lena Nyman · Halvar Björk

Plot Charlotte (Ingrid Bergman) is an acclaimed concert pianist who is visiting her daughter Eva (Liv Ullmann) for the first time in seven years. While Charlotte and Eva struggle to be...

Direction Harun Farocki

Cast Ulrike Grote

Plot This "high-compression collage" by Harun Farocki delves into an unsettling incident in history. In 1944, U.S. planes flew over and photographed Auschwitz, but the pictures remained undiscovered until the 1970s....

Direction Helmut Käutner

Cast Horst Buchholz · Erik Schumann · Eva Kotthaus · Georg Thomalla

Direction Peter Nestler

Plot Shot a few years after the first mining pits were closed in the Ruhr area, Nestler takes his audience on a journey through mining pits, coal heaps, cold stores and...

Direction Wim Wenders

Cast Harry Dean Stanton · Nastassja Kinski · Dean Stockwell · Aurore Clément

Plot A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he...

Direction Werner Nekes

Cast Rosmarie Liesen · Ludi Armbruster · Ursula Winzentsen · Geeske Hof-Helmers

Plot Diwan, a lyrical anthology, is an outdoor movie with people. With people who are neither more nor less than a part of the precious and exquisitely photographed nature surrounding them....

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Günter Lamprecht · Karlheinz Braun · Hanna Schygulla · Claus Holm

Plot TV Series (1980). 14 episodes. This film is a 15-1/2 hour episodic exploration of the character of Franz Biberkopf, "hero" of Alfred Döblin's acclaimed novel, as well as the Alexanderplatz...

Direction Jean-Jacques Annaud

Cast Sean Connery · Christian Slater · F. Murray Abraham · Michael Lonsdale

Plot Based on the best-selling book by Italian author Umberto Eco. In the 14th Century, during a meeting of the papacy in a remote italian Abbey, a brilliant English monk, William...

Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub

Cast Adriano Aprà · Anne Brumagne · Ennio Lauricella · Olimpia Carlisi

Plot This feature is based on the story Othon by Pierre Corneille. The expressionless actors deliver their lines dressed in ancient Roman costumes while the traffic of modern-day Rome roars by...

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Brigitte Mira · El Hedi ben Salem · Barbara Valentin · Irm Hermann

Plot Emmi, a woman truly in the second half of life, falls in love with Ali, a Berber guest worker more than ten years younger. When they both decide to marry,...

Direction Bernhard Wicki

Cast Folker Bohnet · Fritz Wepper · Michael Hinz · Frank Glaubrecht

Plot A group of German boys is ordered to protect a small bridge in their home village during the waning months of the second world war. Truckloads of defeated, cynical Wehrmacht...

Direction Wim Wenders

Cast Rüdiger Vogler · Yella Rottländer · Lisa Kreuzer · Edda Köchl

Plot Felix, a German journalist travels around United States trying to find inspiration for his next book. The trip, paid for by his editor, proves fruitles: not one idea, not one...

Direction Wolfgang Petersen

Cast Jürgen Prochnow · Herbert Grönemeyer · Klaus Wennemann · Hubertus Bengsch

Plot With the once-feared wolfpacks reduced to 12 lone U-boats, Captain Lehmann-Willenbrock (Jürgen Prochnow) sets out once more to hunt allied shipping. Now it's a different story - German air support...

Direction Werner Herzog

Cast Fini Straubinger

Plot Through examining Fini Straubinger, an old woman who has been deaf and blind since adolescence, and her work on behalf of other deaf and blind people, this film shows how...

Direction Werner Herzog

Cast Klaus Kinski · Claudia Cardinale · Paul Hittscher · Miguel Ángel Fuentes

Plot The story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an extremely determined man who intends to build an opera house in the middle of a jungle.

Direction Hans-Jürgen Syberberg

Cast André Heller · Harry Baer · Heinz Schubert · Peter Kern