Ila von Hasperg

In 1970s Atlanta, a diminutive gay man tries to find succor from the small-town religion that filled him with self-loathing. He meets Miss Make-Do, who teaches him the fun of reckless behavior and emotional management via getting higher than a kite. The film features a host of cameos from John Ritter, Marilu Henner, Kathy Kinney and others.

Nick Stark acaba de conocer la noticia de que tiene perdida la batalla contra el virus del sida y decide afrontar su próxima muerte con dignidad. En vez de derrumbarse, decide acabar su vida tal y como la vivió, pletórico de alegría y vitalidad, rodeado de su familia y amigos, que le acompañarán en una última fiesta de dos días de duración. (FILMAFFINITY)

Nick Milev es encarcelado por un crimen que no cometió: el asesinato de su padre. El verdadero autor es Jonathan Griffith, cabecilla de la mafia local y padre de una hermosa chica de la que se enamora al salir de la cárcel. Griffith se opone a esta relación, lo que motiva algún cambio en los planes de venganza de Nick, ya que la pareja decide fingir que la chica ha sido secuestrada y pedir a su padre un rescate de un millón de dólares.

In this black and white independent melodrama, Joe Belinsky (Eric Mitchell) doesn't know how to cope with his wife's pregnancy and his loss of an insurance agency job, and feels adrift. As a consequence of that, he takes a job working the counter of a low-cost, somewhat hip eatery, and meets a French girl with whom he has a brief affair. Though the affair ends, it has created an obsession in him - first with the French girl, and later with slim young women in general. All of them reject him, and he leaves his waiting job to prowl around for these inaccessible beauties. Meanwhile, his wife is having their baby.

Por las noches, Laura (Uma Thurman) se disfraza de vampiro y deja aleatoriamente que cualquier chico del bar la conquiste, únicamente para drogarlos y entonces robarles. Pero luego alguien comienza a acecharla, y un personaje cercano a ella es asesinado.

Agatha is an international lawyer, Jo a filmmaker. The two women are lovers. While Jo is on the road showing her films, Agatha discovers and reads her diaries. Problems ensue as Agatha's transgressions lead to jealousy and a spiraling cycle of sexual obsession.

Una joven reprimida desarrolla una fascinación por la pornografía y el voyeurismo mientras vende entradas para películas para adultos.

A small carnival is in dire financial straits. Their show is attracting fewer and fewer paying customers, as their "attractions" are ageing, out of shape and beset by internal feuds and bickering. One day a beautiful young woman shows up and suggests a way of attracting customers: put on a strip show, with her as the main attraction. Her act attracts customers in droves, but it turns out that the girl has her own agenda, and it isn't to help out the carnival.

A small carnival is in dire financial straits. Their show is attracting fewer and fewer paying customers, as their "attractions" are ageing, out of shape and beset by internal feuds and bickering. One day a beautiful young woman shows up and suggests a way of attracting customers: put on a strip show, with her as the main attraction. Her act attracts customers in droves, but it turns out that the girl has her own agenda, and it isn't to help out the carnival.

A sartorially resplendent woman of few words arrives in Berlin with plans to live out the rest of her days as a drunkard.

A sartorially resplendent woman of few words arrives in Berlin with plans to live out the rest of her days as a drunkard.

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When Peter Huber the proprietor of a Bavarian corner newsstand, wins a free trip to New York City in a magazine contest, he is overjoyed. Filled with romantic ideas from the movies, his actual encounter with the gritty realities of the Big Apple are sobering. Nonetheless, he is in for the adventure of his life. First, he meets Karola Faber, the German wife of a U.S. G.I. who has found life in the States not all it's cracked up to be: she has left her husband and makes her living through prostitution. Peter and Karola visit the local German emigré community's Oktoberfest, and win the festival's King and Queen crown. Their prize is a cow, which accompanies them on their further journeys in New York City.

When Peter Huber the proprietor of a Bavarian corner newsstand, wins a free trip to New York City in a magazine contest, he is overjoyed. Filled with romantic ideas from the movies, his actual encounter with the gritty realities of the Big Apple are sobering. Nonetheless, he is in for the adventure of his life. First, he meets Karola Faber, the German wife of a U.S. G.I. who has found life in the States not all it's cracked up to be: she has left her husband and makes her living through prostitution. Peter and Karola visit the local German emigré community's Oktoberfest, and win the festival's King and Queen crown. Their prize is a cow, which accompanies them on their further journeys in New York City.

Durante los años 20, antes del ascenso de Hitler al poder, en Baviera vive un matrimonio formado por Hanni y Xavier Bolwieser. Él es el jefe de la estación del tren y está enamoradísimo de su mujer; ella, en cambio, se siente infeliz en su matrimonio y es infiel a su marido. Ésta es la tragedia de un hombre capaz de llegar a una degradación absoluta con tal de mantener a su mujer a su lado.

When Hitler watches Marlene Dietrich in a movie, he falls in love with her. He persuades her to come back to Germany to be with him, but upon her arrival she constantly insults and provokes him until he eventually, on her command, bites the carpet to bits.

Ruleta China es una parábola acerca del mundo burgués, sus ritos y sus mentiras. Ángela es una adolescente inválida, hija de padres ricos y liberales; pero su odio hacia ellos la lleva a tenderles una trampa para que un fin de semana coincidan en su casa de campo con sus respectivos amantes.

Beautiful, detached, laconic, consumptive Lily Brest is a streetwalker with few clients. She loves her idle boyfriend Raoul who gambles away what little she earns. The town's power broker, called the rich Jew, discovers she is a good listener, so she's soon busy. Raoul imagines grotesque sex scenes between Lily and the Jew; he leaves her for a man. Her parents, a bitter Fascist who is a cabaret singer in drag and her wheelchair-bound mother, offer no refuge. Even though all have a philosophical bent, the other whores reject Lily because she tolerates everyone, including men. She tires of her lonely life and looks for a way out. Even that act serves the local corrupt powers.

Beautiful, detached, laconic, consumptive Lily Brest is a streetwalker with few clients. She loves her idle boyfriend Raoul who gambles away what little she earns. The town's power broker, called the rich Jew, discovers she is a good listener, so she's soon busy. Raoul imagines grotesque sex scenes between Lily and the Jew; he leaves her for a man. Her parents, a bitter Fascist who is a cabaret singer in drag and her wheelchair-bound mother, offer no refuge. Even though all have a philosophical bent, the other whores reject Lily because she tolerates everyone, including men. She tires of her lonely life and looks for a way out. Even that act serves the local corrupt powers.

Cuatro relatos, «Cuba», «Drame du rail», «Cœur brisé» y «La trahison», enmarcados por un prólogo y un epílogo, exaltan la sensualidad de los cuerpos y la belleza de los rostros

Cuatro relatos, «Cuba», «Drame du rail», «Cœur brisé» y «La trahison», enmarcados por un prólogo y un epílogo, exaltan la sensualidad de los cuerpos y la belleza de los rostros

Nightclub singer La Paloma succumbs to the persistent courting of a chubby rich admirer and marries him. Before the marriage, she was thought to be dying, but soon she is well. She believes her husband's love has cured her, but her efforts to love him begin to fade as she discovers true love with her husband's old school friend.

Three women retreat to a hacienda in the Mojave Desert and vengefully lure men to their deaths to the siren song of the Andrews Sisters' "Rum And Coca-Cola," in Werner Schroeter's sublimely strange fever dream of a film.

Three women retreat to a hacienda in the Mojave Desert and vengefully lure men to their deaths to the siren song of the Andrews Sisters' "Rum And Coca-Cola," in Werner Schroeter's sublimely strange fever dream of a film.

Satire on 19th-century class relations and thinly veiled commentary on the failure of the 1968 political revolution.

Un drama que tiene como fondo a la célebre prima donna española del siglo XIX María Malibrán, muerta a los veintiocho años mientras cantaba en una velada musical. Un film que está más cerca de Murnau o Stiller que de los contemporáneos de Schroeter.... Los actores parecen caminar o gesticular conforme a las leyes de otro planeta y avanza a una velocidad que no sabríamos reconocer como lenta ni rápida y es una especie de emoción pura y limpia del gesto, de la mirada, del caminar.

Schroeter's virtuosic staging of the Oscar Wilde tragedy is a complex montage of image and sound, filmed on the grand steps of Baalbeck, the ancient Roman temple in Lebanon, and interweaving Lebanese and German folk songs with the music of Verdi, Wagner, Strauss, Mozart, Bellini, and Donizetti. Elfi Mikesch, the cinematographer of Schroeter’s later films, designed the film’s sumptuous costumes. A contemporary critic for Le Monde wrote admiringly of Schroeter’s depiction of "the deadly struggle between dark Christian morality and luminous paganism.“

A wacky coup d'etat masterminded by a Russian call girl, in of all places, staid Switzerland, is the subject of Daniel Schmid's black humorous satire on power and its misuses.