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Directed by: Orson Welles, Gary Graver(uncredited), Oja Kodar(uncredited)
Stars: Orson Welles, Oja Kodar
Orson Welles' free-form documentary about fakery focusses on the notorious art forger Elmyr de Hory and Elmyr's biographer, Clifford Irving, who also wrote the celebrated fraudulent Howard Hughes autobiography, then touches on the reclusive Hughes and Welles' own career (which started with a faked resume and a phony…
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: Aleksander Ford
Stars: Tadeusz Lomnicki, René Deltgen, Margot Trooger, Sabine Bethmann, Margret Neuhaus, Beate Tschudi, Vera Jesse
The life inside a women's clinic. Somehow, this West German movie originally called The Doctor Speaks Out (Der Arzt stellt fest...) played to American audiences as The Wages of Sin and The Price of Sin. Sure, in its native country it was a mediation on abortion, but over…
Directed by: Rainer Erler
Stars: Jutta Speidel, Wolf Roth, Herbert Herrmann, Charlotte Kerr
A honeymooning couple stay at a hotel in New Mexico. It all seems normal until an ambulance pulls up and takes the husband away. The wife, with the help of a truck driver, finds the awful secret to the hotel and the ambulance service.
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: 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: David Hemmings
Stars: David Bowie, Sydne Rome, Kim Novak, David Hemmings, Marlene Dietrich
After World War I, a war hero returns to Berlin to find that there's no place for him--he has no skills other than what he learned in the army, and can only find menial, low-paying jobs. He decides to become a gigolo to lonely rich women.
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: Fritz Böttger
Stars: Harald Maresch, Helga Franck, Alexander D’Arcy, Helga Neuner, Dorothee Parker, Eva Schauland, Helma Vandenberg, Elfie Wagner, Barbara Valentin
En route to a show in Singapore, a troupe of beautiful dancers are stranded on a deserted island by a plane crash. Their routine of skinny-dipping and devising new skimpy outfits is interrupted when a radioactive spider bites their manager and turns him into a wild-eyed, furry-faced monster…
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: Liliana Cavani
Stars: Gudrun Landgrebe, Kevin McNally, Mio Takaki, William Berger
Set in 1938 Berlin, Louise Von Hollendorf is the wife of a young Nazi diplomat who meets and falls in love with a certain Mitsuko Matsugae, an artist and the daughter of the Japanese ambassador to Germany. Louise's husband Heinz soon finds out and tries to break up…
Directed by: Bruce La Bruce
Stars: Susanne Sachße, Daniel Bätscher, Andreas Stich, Dean Monroe, Anton Z. Risan, Daniel Fettig, Keith Levy
A left-wing terrorist group, consisting of several homosexual men and a female leader, kidnaps the son of a wealthy industrialist.
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: Géza von Cziffra
Stars: Barbara Capell, Karl Lieffen, Rolf Eden
Schoolgirl Josefine learns from an early age to use sex to gain advantages. The school’s gym teacher is arrested and accused of indecent behavior but the court dismisses the case when Josefine uses her female charm on the jurors.
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: Tinto Brass
Stars: Helmut Berger, Ingrid Thulin, Teresa Ann Savoy
Kitty runs a brothel in Nazi Germany where the soldiers come to "relax. Recording devices have been installed in each room by a power hungry army official who plans to use the information to blackmail Hitler and gain power himself. A girl named Margherita discovers the little ploy…
