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Directed by: Christoph Schlingensief
Stars: Udo Kier, Kitten Natividad, Joachim Tomaschewsky, Jonny Pfeifer
Africa – Land of the ever-shining sun, German soldiers fulfilling a U.N. mission. For General Brenner a dream comes true: Here, where the people are simple, the German can prove his abilities. But then the virgin wife of Brenner gives birth to her first child. Is it the…
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Directed by: Georg Tressler
Stars: Peter Simonischek, Giovanni Früh, Andy Voß, Pamela Prati
Sometime during the 19th century in Switzerland: After a delirious night of drinking, three herdsmen who are all alone in the alps with their kettle, create a female doll from cloth and a strangely formed wooden root. When their creation comes to life in form of an evil…
Directed by: Ula Stöckl
Stars: Liane Hielscher, Kristine de Loup, Jürgen Arndt, Elke Kummer, Heidi Stroh
Ula Stöckl is a pioneer of women’s film. At a time when in the old Republic there was neither a women’s movement nor women’s film she made the film The Cat Has Nine Lives (1968). This was her graduation film from the Institute for Film at the School…
Directed by: Eriprando Visconti
Stars: Rena Niehaus, Gabriele Ferzetti, Flavio Bucci, Michele Placido, Bruno Corazzari
A teenage girl is kidnapped by 3 guys and taken to an abandoned house in the country, and make her write her own ransom letter. She soon discovers that one of her captors is infatuated with her and she will use those feelings to stay alive.
Directed by: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Margit Carstensen, Hanna Schygulla, Katrin Schaake, Eva Mattes, Gisela Fackeldey , Irm Hermann
A successful fashion designer abandons a sado-masochistic relationship with her female assistant in favor of a love affair with a beautiful young woman. In the early 1970s, Rainer Werner Fassbinder discovered the American melodramas of Douglas Sirk and was inspired by them to begin working in a new,…
Directed by: Uli Edel
Stars: Natja Brunckhorst, Eberhard Auriga, Peggy Bussieck, Lothar Chamski
This movie portrays the drug scene in Berlin in the 1970s, following tape recordings of Christiane F. 14-year-old Christiane lives with her mother and little sister in a typical multi-story apartment building in Berlin. She's fascinated by 'The Sound', a new disco with the most modern equipment. Although…
Directed by: Werner Schroeter
Stars: Carole Bouquet, Ingrid Caven, Christine Kaufmann
In this non-story of the mentally and emotionally impaired inhabitants of a clinic for the insane, the medical profession along with humanity is distorted into a long, filmic exhibition of sado-masochism, urination, and ample nudity for its own sake.
Directed by: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Barbara Sukowa, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Mario Adorf
Ten years after the war, West Germany's market economy is booming. Into an unnamed city that's rife with corruption comes a new building commissioner, Herr von Bohm, committed to progress but also upright. He's smitten by Marie-Louise, a single mother who's his landlady's daughter. Von Bohm does not…
Directed by: Peter Fleischmann
Stars: Helmut Griem, Fernando Arrabal, Carline Seiser
The BRD is haunted by a mysterious, deadly plague. In Hamburg, a group of people head for an odyssey through the country to search for survivors and a rescue. The journey evolves into a hopeless flight into the mountains of Bavaria, whose idyll, however, is a fallacy.
Directed by: Eddy Saller
Stars: Thomas Astor, Gino Baldini, Rolf Eden, Udo Kier, Marina Paal, Inge Toifl
Schamlos (Shameless) is an exceptional Austrian movie by an exceptional director. While Austrian movies in the 60s mainly were Heimatfilme - colorful pictures about the better days back in the monarchy - Saller did not care too much about this mainstream and started with b/w exploitation cinema. His…
Directed by: Fredi M. Murer
Stars: Thomas Nock, Johanna Lier, Dorothea Moritz
A year on an Alpine farm: an older couple have two children, Belli, who wanted to be a teacher, and the younger Franzi, deaf, and although he works like a man, child-like. Belli teaches him. In his work, he can become frustrated, so when he throws an expensive…
Directed by: Cyl Farney, Géza von Cziffra
Stars: Anton Diffring, Catherine Schell, Christian Wolff
A scientist and his nephew are hosts of Lana, queen of the Amazons. Meanwhile, other white men penetrate the Brezilean jungle, wishing to find and take hold of the legendary Amazons’ treasure.
Directed by: Sohrab Shahid Saless
Stars: Manfred Zapatka, Imke Barnstedt, Gundula Petrovska, Gabriele Fischer, Johanna Sophia, Birgit Anders
A treatise on love and desire tainted by harsh reality of capitalism, in which submission to the laws of lust-as-commerce is played out by five prostitutes and their pimp, who pits them against one another so that they are incapable of standing up to him collectively.
Directed by: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Hanna Schygulla, Klaus Löwitsch, Ivan Desny
The Marriage of Maria Braun (MMB) is about a German girl (Maria) getting married to a German soldier (Herman Braun) just at the ending of the war. After being married for half a day and a night, Herman is send to the front again. To make ends meet,…
Directed by: Herbert Vesely
Stars: Mathieu Carrière, Jane Birkin, Christine Kaufmann, Kristina van Eyck, Karina Fallenstein
In 1912, in Austria, the painter Egon Schiele is sent to jail accused of pornography with the nymphet Tatjana in his erotic paints. His mate, the model Vally, gets help from a famous lawyer to release him. Then he leaves Vally, marries with another woman and goes to…
Directed by: Joseph W. Sarno
Stars: Angelique Pettyjohn, Melissa Ford, Alan Hoff, Nadine Stark, Gretchen Rudolph (as Ginger Stevens)
Young Wendy Fletcher accepts an invitation to a love-in from some artists who participate in group sex. The partygoers are infatuated by her innocence, and the entire group takes her to bed. She returns for more parties, but she rejects Hank, a sadistic poet; Hank then turns his…
Directed by: Peter Baumgartner
Stars: Rosemarie Heinikel, Helen Vita, Peter Capra
Rosy isn’t 16 yet, but has already experienced much in life. The precocious 15 year old escapes the protectory and finds shelter at Helens, a singer. But her care is just temporary. An older man who pretends to be a bank director, causes her new sorrow. He forces…
Directed by: Robert van Ackeren
Stars: Gudrun Landgrebe, Mathieu Carrière, Hanns Zischler
Eva, an upper-class housewife, frustratedly leaves her arrogant husband and decides to enter the call girl business. She lets Yvonne, a prostitute, teach her the basics and both set out for prey together, until Eva starts an affair with Chris, who turns out to be a call boy,…
Directed by: Ulrike Ottinger
Stars: Magdalena Montezuma, Delphine Seyrig, Albert Heins
In the form of a "small theater of the world", a history of the world from its beginnings to our day, including the errors, the incompetence, the thirst for power, the fear, the madness, the cruelty and the commonplace, in a story of five episodes.
