Jane Seitz

Celebrated West German director Alexander Kluge presents this drama that strings together vignettes of events taken from everyday newspaper headlines. Germans are shown in their reactions to World War II, minorities, and the elderly. A side plot follows a meeting between former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and East German leader Erich Honecker.

Siglo XIV. Todo comienza una hermosa mañana de finales de noviembre de 1327, cuando un monje franciscano y antiguo inquisidor, acompañado de su novicio discípulo –quien relata la historia– acuden a una abadía benedictina situada en el norte de Italia para intentar resolver un crimen. Durante su estancia van desapareciendo misteriosamente más religiosos, a quienes después hallan muertos. Poco a poco, gracias a la información aportada por algunos monjes, Guillermo va esclareciendo los hechos. El móvil de los crímenes parecen ser unos antiguos tratados que se custodian en la biblioteca del complejo, de la cual se dice que es la mayor del mundo cristiano. ¿Quién es el asesino? ¿Qué motivó la muerte de sus víctimas? Nadie lo sabe…

A poignant film essay about 'superfluous people' facing up to a moment of crisis in their lives.

Bastián Baltasar Bux es un niño de once años que descubre en una antigua librería un libro titulado “La historia interminable”, el cual posee poderes mágicos. Esa magia hace que el mismo Bastián se convierta en un héroe de esa historia que parece no terminarse nunca, en la que se unirá a Atreyu, otro niño, con el objetivo de salvar al mundo de fantasía.Escondido en el desván de su colegio, Bastián devora durante las horas de clase este enigmático libro, que relata la destrucción de todo un mundo lleno de fantasía. Una especie de "Nada" misteriosa destruye todo el país y a todas las criaturas que lo habitan. A medida que avanza en su lectura, Bastián se da cuenta de que la salvación de Fantasía depende de él; de que consiga entrar en el libro.

Cristina es una adolescente de apenas 14 años que poco a poco se va enganchando a la heroína, hasta el extremo de tener que prostituirse para pagarse su dependencia. Durísimo relato sobre el efecto de las drogas en la juventud, basado en la historia real de Christiane Vera Felscherinow, una exadicta alemana que describió su lucha contra las drogas en la adolescencia en el libro "Los niños de la estación del Zoo". Dirigido por Uli Edel ("El cuerpo del delito", "RAF Facción del ejército rojo"), el filme fue protagonizado por una jovencísima y debutante Natja Brunckhorst ("La princesa y el guerrero"), que tenía solo 13 años cuando se rodó el largometraje. Como curiosidad, David Bowie realizó un 'cameo' en la cinta, pues justamente fue en un concierto que dio el cantante en Berlín donde la protagonista probó por primera vez la heroína.

In the winter of 1891 a stranger arrives in a small coastal town on the Isle of Man. His presence soon disturbs the lives of the local inhabitants, especially the beautiful daughter of the parson.

Las vidas de Erik Lanshof y cinco de sus amigos más cercanos toman rumbos diferentes cuando el ejército alemán invade los Países Bajos en 1940: lucha y resistencia, miedo y resignación, colaboración y alta traición.

Las vidas de Erik Lanshof y cinco de sus amigos más cercanos toman rumbos diferentes cuando el ejército alemán invade los Países Bajos en 1940: lucha y resistencia, miedo y resignación, colaboración y alta traición.

While on an automobile tour of Italy with his mother, the German publisher in this story has an accident which results in her death. He decides to stay and look for work in Italy, rather than return to his responsibilities, and takes a job working on a construction site. His co-workers are similarly displaced men: one is a Greek exile, the other a Basque terrorist. The elaborate house they are working on is to be the home of a wealthy local man.

Latvia, 1919: final de la guerra civil rusa. Una joven aristócrata se enamora de un oficial prusiano sexualmente reprimido. Al ser rechazada, la joven se hunde en la depresión, la promiscuidad y la colaboración revolucionaria. (FILMAFFINITY)

Finales del siglo XIX. Katty, huyendo de la pobreza, abandona su pueblo y se traslada a Ámsterdam, donde ejerce la prostitución para mejorar el nivel de vida de su familia. En la capital conocerá el poder de corrupción del dinero y el sórdido mundo de la explotación sexual.

Born into a well-off family, Franz Blum had led a carefree youth until, some time after graduating from high school, he was arrested by the police. For, involved by a gang of bad boys, the young man had taken part in a bank robbery. A "heroic deed" which earned him six years in prison. Once behind bars, he was treated with ruthless inhumanity by the guards. And little by little - but inexorably - Franz turned into an insurgent...

Willi is 18 years old and lives on the street. Without a goal in his life he walks around the city and meets several people, helping but also cheating him. When he meets a girl, Monica, he realizes that there are people out there whose lives are even more desperate than his. So he's trying to help her (and him) by planning a great robbery on a supermarket's money transporter.

Willi is 18 years old and lives on the street. Without a goal in his life he walks around the city and meets several people, helping but also cheating him. When he meets a girl, Monica, he realizes that there are people out there whose lives are even more desperate than his. So he's trying to help her (and him) by planning a great robbery on a supermarket's money transporter.

In this comedy, Iris Berben plays a mysterious, supernaturally beautiful girl from another planet, who confuses and flusters the men on earth, where she has landed. The men follow her wherever she goes. Marquard Bohm is no exception here - he leaves his wife in a lurch and travels with the Supergirl to Spain. The girl doesn't tell much about herself; she reports, though, about an impending threat from outer space.

Un hombre vaga por el desierto, malherido y agotado, portando un maletín lleno de dinero. Hasta que otro hombre (Mario Adorf) lo encuentra y lo lleva a su casa. Allí el primero le contará que un tercero vendrá a por el dinero. Y así comienza el juego entre el ratón y el gato...

The title refers to the Feuerzangenbowle punch consumed by a group of gentlemen in the opening scene. While they exchange nostalgic stories about their schooldays, the successful young writer Dr. Johannes Pfeiffer realizes he missed out on something because he was taught at home and never attended school. He decides to make up for it by masquerading as a student at a small-town high school. At the school, he quickly gains a reputation as a prankster. Together with his classmates, he torments his professors Crey, Bömmel, and Headmaster Knauer with adolescent mischief. His girlfriend Marion unsuccessfully tries to persuade him to give up his foolish charade. Eventually, he falls in love with the headmaster's daughter and discloses his identity after provoking the teachers into expelling him from school.

Bruno Stiegler, a boxing promoter with a disreputable past, returns from America to Berlin to make some big things again with his friends. Fatally, he is always preceded by some gentlemen from better circles who are developing amazing criminal activity in their old days. They are led by Oberlandesgerichtsrat a. D. Herbert Zänker, whom it still hisses, that he could bring in his term Bruno never behind bars.

Abram returns to his small village and although his repairing skills are needed, people's suspicion about his sexual preferences make his life hard.

A strange case baffles the police and the citizens of a German small town. A two-year old girl has disappeared. There are suspects, innocents, guilty ones and a web of lies. It's saturday afternoon, and Achim's parents are invited for a topping-out ceremony. The neighbour's daughter, Monika (Renate Roland), is the babysitter for Achim (Sascha Urchs) and his little sister Kathrin, but Monika doesn't take the job too serious. She'd rather go for a ride with her boyfriend. Through a unforeseen row of circumstances, Achim becomes the murderer of his sister, and hides the body in a wrecked car on the scrapyard. When the parents return home, a frantic search for the little child begins. Only the father (Sieghardt Rupp) seems to know the truth…