Max
Hermann Zuber
Lara was severely traumatised as a child and every day this trauma catches up with her. During a photo session, she falls in love with Conrad, a writer who has just been released from prison. What Conrad doesn't know is that everyone around her knows the burden Lara lives with. Her uncle Markus resorts to drastic means to save Lara and risks losing her forever.
Siegfried Brecht
Knoch / Hannes Frisch
Fate has taken its toll on the aging cabaret singer Ruth and the young but terminally ill Jonas. Yet despite their great age difference and their entirely opposite experiences in life, they form an intense bond and give each other a reason and purpose to live.
Peter Hansen
Paris, December. A conductor of a choir is found mysteriously murdered, with burst eardrums. Lionel Kasdan, a police inspertor the verge of retirement, and Frank Salek, an official of Interpol, embark together on a hunt for the killer, and also to a secret organization specializing in kidnapping children.
Vater
Tao es un niño chino de ocho años que presencia el asesinato de su familia en el restaurante que regentan en Viena. Los asesinos descubren a Tao, pero él se las ingenia para escapar de sus captores.
Robert Masse
Drawing some intriguing parallels between the work of the prostitute and that of the psychiatrist-both have clients, both charge for sessions, both take on roles that serve the needs, psychological or otherwise, of those they serve, Jeanne Labrune's drama stars Isabelle Huppert and Bouli Lanners as, respectively, Alice, a disaffected call girl and Xavier, a shrink with a crumbling domestic situation.
Dr. Baldus
Captain
Set in the 1800s when Napoleon’s French ruled Europe, the film follows young Austrian carpenter Franz and his Bavarian wife, Katharina as an unforeseen event forces them to flee from Augsburg, Bavaria for Franz’s family home in Tyrol, Austria. Tyrolian sentiment is rising strongly against Napoleon and trouble is stirring. In no time it sweeps up Franz and his brothers along with the whole town.
Gerhardt Rott
Jacob tries to hide the suicide of his father because he is afraid to have to live in an orphanage.
Regisseur
Master painter Hans Moll and his wife, the television announcer Ms. Wellinek and her husband, and the German-Russian Jew Yevgenia have many things to live on: food, drink, an apartment. What they do not have is work. They all discover the yearning for a chance to start all over again and bring themselves back to life.
Gunter
While living with her grandmother in Poland, a young woman falls in love. Her boyfriend is charming and suggests they travel around Europe and work here and there to pay for their trip. Unfortunately, the boyfriend isn't as he seems and the young woman is sold as a prostitute when they cross over to Germany. We follow her ordeal as she tries to free herself and stay sane as time goes by and her captors try to break and condition her to a new life of servitude.
Dino and Franco, two mechanics in Rome, unrepentant bachelor and friends to the skin, leave for Las Vegas to attend the international gathering of Harley-Davidson, one of the great passions they have in common ...
le duc d'Orléans
Arsene Lupin es un ladrón sin preocupaciones, robando a la aristocracia parisina a través de su encanto formidable. Su encuentro con una aventurera hechizante, la condesa de Cagliostro, transformará el ratero novato en un ladrón de altos vuelos. Lanzado en el rastro del tesoro perdido de los reyes de Francia, que ambiciona una hermandad oscura realista, el joven virtuoso multiplica golpes de brillantez: un ataque a un tren que va a toda velocidad, persecución en las catacumbas parisinas, espectacular vuelo en la catedral de Rouen... Pero su misión se verá afectada por su pasión ciega por la condesa venenosa...
Cardinal Jacob Cajetan
Alemania, principios del XVI. Martín Lutero fue un monje agustino que provocó un cisma dentro de la Cristiandad. En el monasterio, una detenida y reflexiva lectura de la Biblia, lo lleva replantearse algunas cuestiones. En 1517, cuelga en la puerta de la iglesia de Wittenberg sus 95 tesis, que, además de negar algunos dogmas, condenaban las bulas de indulgencia que la Iglesia vendía para recaudar fondos para la construcción de la Basílica de San Pedro del Vaticano. Llevado ante la Dieta Imperial de Wörms, Lutero se niega a retractarse, a menos que puedan probar, basándose en la Biblia, que sus tesis son falsas. A continuación es acusado de herejía y excomulgado por el Papa León X. En esta situación se ve obligado a escapar y vive como un proscrito mientras traduce el Nuevo Testamento del latín al alemán. La postura desafiante de Lutero anima a los campesinos a rebelarse contra los señores y a quemar iglesias. (FILMAFFINITY)
Stefan Schürmann
Arndt Graf Solm-Weltingen
With a pounding heart, the horse madman Martina Kilian awaits the wedding with the glamorous jumping rider Arndt Graf Solm-Weltingen. When the Count hangs up the cavalry just before the marriage to enter the catering business of his future parents-in-law, Martina painfully notes that Arndt is not the man of their dreams. While the wedding preparations are in full swing, Martina falls in love with sympathetic veterinarian Erik.
A man writes a play, hoping that it will help him understand the dramatic events his son lived in Greece.
Pilato
Un hombre de temperamento impulsivo, pasó a la historia por ser el apóstol más escéptico. Atormentado por sus dudas, y desconfiado de todo mundo, camino a Betania se ofrece a morir al lado de Jesús. Más tarde se encuentra con María Magdalena y los apóstoles que aseguran haber visto a Jesús. Tomas difundió la palabra de Cristo después de reencontrarlo en la resurrección.
Pilatus
La película muestra el impacto de Jesucristo a través de otra mirada en la que comprobamos el miedo de los apóstoles, sus conflictos y luchas bajo el yugo de la ocupación romana y sus vidas después de la ida del Mesías. La revelación del nacimiento de Cristo, y el milagro de su resurrección marcó el principio de una nueva era, pero son los discípulos de Jesucristo, los que extienden su mensaje a todos los confines del mundo. (FILMAFFINITY)
Pontius Pilatus
Habiendo renunciado a los bienes materiales de su familia para seguir a Jesús, Judas se entusiasma con la idea de volver a Jerusalén, donde espera que Cristo sea glorificado como Rey de los Judíos. Pero, cuando ve que Jesús no tiene ningún interés por el poder, Judas empieza a tener dudas. (FILMAFFINITY)
Arzt
Two young girls who live in a small town in Lower Austria dream of America, men and love. They live in Ternitz, they dream of Tennessee.
Eberhard
After a failed marriage, a professionally successful optician committed to non-binding affairs with married men. When her initially charming lovers turn out to be a flop one by one, she remembers her ex-husband.
Michael
Dr.Sigl
Johann Rudde
Finales del siglo XIX. Jarma es un pequeño reino asiático que se erige entre el verde de los arrozales del Samuthprakarn tailandés y la corona de diamante del maravilloso mar tropical de la Indochina francesa. Para la Maia, la joven princesa de Jarma, y Gabriel Barthes, el hijo de un asesor francés de su Rey. las diferencias de raza y clase no cuentan. Instigados por la dulce sabiduría del monje Li, ambos jóvenes se prometen eterna fidelidad. Pero el remolino de la historia colonial los separará de la forma más cruel, cuando un siniestro personaje asesine al hermano de Maia.
Re Hamil
El buen rey Hamil no puede concebir un heredero hasta que el niño mago Gamesh use sus mágicos poderes para conseguirlo. Sin embargo, el viejo mago Epos se opone a ello y crea una niña llamada Mirabella. A cambio, el verdadero heredero es dado en adopción a unos campesinos, los cuales cuidan al niño como si fuera un hijo suyo. Mirabella se enamora de Leonardo, que es nombrado como heredero del reino gracias a las influencias mágicas de Epos. Pero gracias a la ayuda de Gamesh, Mirabella y Leonardo lucharán contra Epos para que todo vuelva a su cauce. Telefim emitido por Tele 5 en su 'serie' "Grandes relatos". (FILMAFFINITY)
François Legrand
Un helicóptero se estrella en el Valle de las Lágrimas de Alá. El emir Tafud recoge a un bebé que ha sobrevivido al accidente y, como no tiene herederos, decide adoptarlo. Cuando crece, Ben se enamora de su hermana Amina y entonces su madre le cuenta la verdad. El muchacho, decidido a buscar a su verdadera familia, averigua que su nombre verdadero es René Duvivier, pero también que tras su nombre se oculta una trama de traición.
Robert
Katja Flint, Hannelore Elsner and Heiner Lauterbach star in this German film about a woman who climbs the social ladder by sleeping with those she encounters on her way to the top. When she's discovered dead in her apartment in 1957, the police try to piece together the clues to find out who murdered her … but to no avail.
Reuter
Wolfgang (13) lives on the street. One night, by chance, he finds the head of a statue for which a large reward is being offered. To collect the reward, he goes to the specified address - a beautiful, old house on the outskirts of the city - and meets with an elderly woman. Because of the unexpected beauty and tranquillity of his surroundings, Wolfgang keeps quiet about the statue head, and stays. But things soon start to change, because the old woman, although mute and tied to a wheelchair as a result of a stroke, suddenly begins to behave strangely, she wants something from him ...
Anchire
This French tale, set in the 17th century, chronicles the marriage between an errant knight and a beautiful spinster. The tale begins in 1629, and the knight is Nathan Le Cerf who joins the regiments of Count Anchire after he loses his entire family to the plague. Nathan's first assignment is to kill the gambling rival of the count in a duel; Nathan obeys, but gets wounded in the process. Still he makes it back to his master and is expecting a generous reward. Instead, the count reviles the knight, invokes Louis XIII's ban on dueling, and orders Nathan beheaded. Nathan will have none of that. Despite his bleeding abdominal wound, he escapes into the countryside. Initially he finds shelter with his lifelong friend, a chalk maker; he then goes on to one of his patrons, an artist. Nathan is relegated to living in a humble hut in the wilds. Eventually he meets an impoverished noblewoman, Marhte de Lairac.
Following the failure of the marriage of the influential publisher Helmreich and his wife, Helmreich wins the suit for the custody of their 6-year old son. His former wife, Uschi, robbed of the meaning of her life, commits an act of desperation.
Philip
Stefano
He
An economics expert from the West is contracted by a large firm to assist in the reorganization of a debt-ridden steel plant in the former Eastern Bloc. Believing himself to be eagerly awaited, he finds that his position has already been taken: Another man has already begun the job in his name, obviously with official approval. What first appears to be a strange mix-up soon turns into a threat to his existence when he discovers that not only his professional, but also his private identity has been assumed by the stranger.
Kurt Heyzmann
Daniel
Anne divides her time between her children, a 16-year-old son and twins Lili and Lolotte and her work as an editor. Her life is turned upside down by the reappearance on the scene of Arthur, one of her first loves, whom she never wanted to see again. He doesn't know that he is the father of the twins but he is determined to win Anne over. The trouble is, she is surrounded by men desperate for her hand and thinks she is in love with one of them.
Ueli Lehmbruck
Von Haefler
1940, Linda Voss (Melanie Griffith) es una mujer irlandesa, de origen judío-alemana que ama las películas, especialmente las películas sobre guerra y espías. Consigue un trabajo en un bufete de abogados de Nueva York, después de demostrar que puede hablar alemán con fluidez. Como secretaria y traductora de Ed Leland (Michael Douglas), comienza a sospechar que su jefe está involucrado en trabajos de espionaje.
Erich Bornhaak
For fans of history, this glimpse of Munich society in the 1920s will be a much-treasured event. The story revolves around an art-gallery manager who puts on a show featuring the scandalous works of a woman artist who committed suicide. He is unjustly accused of having committed adultery with her, and for some reason the authorities decide to make an example of him. He is imprisoned at about the same time that Hitler and the nascent Nazi party attempt the infamous Beer Hall Putsch, and the gallery manager's girlfriend and a Swiss writer valiantly (and unsuccessfully) attempt to get better justice for him. Nobody in authority, it seems, has the courage to take up the challenge of righting this particular injustice.
Malina
Película basada en una novela de Ingeborg Bachmann, con guión de la Premio Nobel de Literatura Elfriede Jelinek. Cuenta la historia de Malina (Isabelle Huppert), una mujer que encierra una doble personalidad.
1958. In the cell of the condemned, seven men await the signs of an approaching execution. All of them recall their pasts and envision their wish-dreams.
Oskar
French Doctor
Biography of actor Rock Hudson focuses on his struggle with his homosexuality. Based on the book by his ex-wife, Phyllis Gates, and on the court records from the civil suit brought by his former lover, Marc Christian.
Matthieu Carriere, who once starred in German director Volkor Schlondorff's breakthrough film Young Torless, turns director himself for Fool's Mate. Michael Marwitz plays a once-famous concert pianist and chess whiz. He compromises his talents by casting his lot with a group of self-destructive druggies and gamblers. Marwitz' new circle of friends effectively ruins his marriage to Victoria Tennant, an English architect. Fool's Mate makes no effort to cheer up its audience, but this sort of fare apparently is what the European film-festival circuit thrives on.
Director
Matthieu Carriere, who once starred in German director Volkor Schlondorff's breakthrough film Young Torless, turns director himself for Fool's Mate. Michael Marwitz plays a once-famous concert pianist and chess whiz. He compromises his talents by casting his lot with a group of self-destructive druggies and gamblers. Marwitz' new circle of friends effectively ruins his marriage to Victoria Tennant, an English architect. Fool's Mate makes no effort to cheer up its audience, but this sort of fare apparently is what the European film-festival circuit thrives on.
Von Clausewitz
After the essay "On Marionette theatre" by Heinrich von Kleist.
Un joven profesor de matemáticas, soltero y de clase acomodada y un camello de poca monta, seductor y pendenciero, se conocen casualmente y descubren que tienen algo en común: el placer de matar. (FILMAFFINITY)
Johann
A new gardener arrives at the superb property of a French cultural attaché in Portugal. This frail young man does not have the head nor the figure for the job. And for good reason: Johann is a painter who, after a recent break-up, has fled to find the calm necessary for his work. This intrusion causes disturbances, admitted or not, in this small protected world.
Pierre
Siglo XVI. Una vez que el duque de Alba aplastó la rebelión de Flandes contra España, Felipe II (1559-1598) restringió la libertad religiosa, aplicó los decretos del Concilio de Trento y reforzó el poder de la Inquisición en esas tierras. En este contexto, llega a Brujas con documentación falsa el venerable escritor y filósofo Zenón Ligre. Tras fundar una clínica y unas termas, se dispone a trabajar como médico y alquimista para los más pobres. El pensamiento y los métodos de Zenón, que se apartan de la ortodoxia oficial, tienen un gran éxito entre la población flamenca, pero corren el riesgo de ser condenados por la Inquisición. (FILMAFFINITY)
Pierre de Hamaere
Siglo XVI. Una vez que el duque de Alba aplastó la rebelión de Flandes contra España, Felipe II (1559-1598) restringió la libertad religiosa, aplicó los decretos del Concilio de Trento y reforzó el poder de la Inquisición en esas tierras. En este contexto, llega a Brujas con documentación falsa el venerable escritor y filósofo Zenón Ligre. Tras fundar una clínica y unas termas, se dispone a trabajar como médico y alquimista para los más pobres. El pensamiento y los métodos de Zenón, que se apartan de la ortodoxia oficial, tienen un gran éxito entre la población flamenca, pero corren el riesgo de ser condenados por la Inquisición. (FILMAFFINITY)
Hugo Arnold
Hugo, a vain clothing buyer, meets Myriam on a train and pursues a relationship with her. He is delighted to learn she is a prostitute and has no idea she has more in mind than Hugo bargained for.
Eduard Strauss
A biopic about Austrian composer Johann Strauß.
Doctor / Le docteur (voice) (French version)
Terminus es una especie de Mad Max, una aventura futurística en la que varias personas se enfrentan en un deporte internacional en la que un conductor de un camión computarizado deberá atravesar el país sin que nadie le detenga...
von Bleicher
Complex and more cerebral than a wartime action-thriller, this espionage drama focuses on the relationship of two former buddies who were fencing masters before the war and in love with the same woman. Now Delancourt (Bernard Giraudeau) is apparently living a good life managing a gym in a Paris hotel under Nazi control, where he meets his former friend Pierre (Christophe Malavoy), who is on a secret assignment to mislead the Nazis on the date of the Normandie invasion. Pierre, alias Augustin, cannot figure out if Delancourt is a real resistance fighter or if he is a double agent. Circumstances create a larger and larger gap between the former friends while the plot goes through several twists and turns before Pierre's doubts are resolved.
Archduke Rodolphe
The plot centers around old Beethoven's fixation on the welfare of his nephew, for whom he fought a lengthy custody battle against his brother's former wife. Beethoven thought she was a bad influence on the boy. Sadly, the nephew isn't receptive to Beethoven's "overtures", and resents his boorish uncle's efforts on his behalf. The nephew is a complete nonentity, lacking in both interest and talent. He seems to wish only to be left alone.
Writer
The plot centers around old Beethoven's fixation on the welfare of his nephew, for whom he fought a lengthy custody battle against his brother's former wife. Beethoven thought she was a bad influence on the boy. Sadly, the nephew isn't receptive to Beethoven's "overtures", and resents his boorish uncle's efforts on his behalf. The nephew is a complete nonentity, lacking in both interest and talent. He seems to wish only to be left alone.
Carl
Marc engaña felizmente a su esposa hasta que él descubre que ella hace lo mismo. Toman la decisión de vivir con sus respectivos amantes en el mismo apartamento.
Emily, a child, stays with her bourgeois grandparents during frequent periods when her mother makes films. Isabelle wraps a picture, flies to her childhood home to pick up Emily, and plans to leave for her place in France. Old wounds between Isabelle and her parents open around Isabelle's life style. It's also apparent that Isabelle's mother, Paula, is unhappy - with her husband and with her youthful hopes dashed when she became pregnant with Isabelle. Unbeknownst to Isabelle, the co-star of the film she's just made has followed her, checked into a nearby hotel, and wants to begin an affair, even though he's married. Can Isabelle sort it out? What's best for Emily?
Reiter
Víctor
Hungary's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1984
Le lieutenant Träger
Thomas Schmidt
In this melodrama about love in wartime, Angela (Ida-Lotta Backman) is a Finnish nurse in Lapland who begins a torrid affair with Thomas Schmidt (Mathieu Carriere), a wounded German army captain. Their love for each other is verboten in Finland, where the Germans occupy northern Lapland until the end of the war. Finland had formed a brief alliance with Germany to fight an invading Russia in the winter of 1939, but when the Russians won that battle and took more than 16,000 square miles of land away from Finland, it was too late to successfully rout the Germans from Finnish soil. So for the entire war, the Finns were fighting Germany on their own national territory -- which makes the love affair between a Finnish nurse and German soldier a very complex issue. While Angela receives different reactions from her friends, acquaintances, and relatives, she continues on with her love for the German, against odds which are greater as time goes by.
Father Chaisson
Donald Campbell (Kiefer Sutherland) vive en un remoto pueblecito pesquero canadiense. Está en un momento vital decisivo, en plena adolescencia, y deberá enfrentarse a la dura realidad: la muerte de su hermano, un primer y traumático encuentro con el sexo, la hipocresía y la violencia de los adultos...
oberstumfuhrer Walter Knoch
As the Germans invade Poland Jewish Ruth and her mother are trapped by the oncoming Nazis. When they are loaded onto a truck for transportation to a ghetto, Ruth is told by her mother to jump from the truck at the first chance and to make her way to relatives in Warsaw. While the war progresses Ruth tries to survive and grow up.
Francois
Un apasionado romance en contraste con el intenso encuentro entre un cineasta y una novelista. La historia comienza con el joven guionista François tratando de localizar al autor de la de una vez escandalosa novela.
Chris
Una chica aspira a la normalidad de una vida burguesa mientras se entrega a los placeres sado-masoquistas.
Ruppert von Leggaert / Federico Logo
Max Baumstein, Presidente del Movimiento Internacional de Solidaridad, un organismo con sede en París, se reúne con el embajador de Paraguay en Francia para conseguir la liberación de una joven británica. Pero, después de un breve intercambio de palabras, Max mata a tiros al embajador. Durante su arresto, le confiesa a su esposa los motivos de su acción: en 1933, cuando Hitler asciende al poder, uno de sus secuaces mató al padre de Max. Acogido por Elsa, una cantante de opereta, y por el editor Michel Wiener, Max pasó su infancia y adolescencia escondido hasta que consiguió refugiarse en París.
Psychiater
bachelor
A young man, the soldier and bachelor type, is looking for Anima - the eternal unattainable female who alternately appears as a virgin, harlot, mother, saint but also as a witch. In his illusions and visions made up of images which are multi-layered and ambiguous, Anima changes from a romantic ideal to a technically two dimensional duplicate which can be reproduced and is half woman, half sewing machine.
Sir Roderick Usher
After a long journey, Alain arrives at the Usher mansion to visit his old friend, Roderick Usher. Upon arriving, however, he discovers that Roderick and his sister, Madeline, have been afflicted with a mysterious malady: Roderick's senses have become painfully acute, while Madeline has become nearly catatonic.
Christian
François, un joven estudiante que trabaja de noche, sospecha que su novia, Anne, se está viendo con otro hombre. A partir de ese momento empieza a seguir al "supuesto" amante, un aviador al que encuentra con otra mujer. Durante su espionaje, François conoce a una joven que le ayudará a encontrar una explicación a esta confusa situación. Amor y celos de juventud dominan esta primera película de la serie de "Comedias y proverbios" de Rohmer.
Saint-Just
Le Docteur
Three friends — Paul, a conservative intellectual: Selena, a dancer who specialises in African dance: and Gabriel, an artist who manages to move with ease between the centres of their different worlds Paul maintains an ambiguous friendship with Gabriel, who goes through a series of homosexual affairs. For Selena, emotions become difficult to handle when she finds herself involved with both men. in the contradictory position of being in the centre and on the outside.
Egon Schiele
El film describe la atormentada vida del pintor austríaco Egon Schiele -uno de los fundadores del expresionismo-, su adicción al sexo y al alcohol y la sucesión de tragedias sentimentales y humillaciones públicas cuando es acusado y detenido por pornografía. Después de la Primera Guerra Mundial, sus pinturas serán testimonio de su furia, pero la vida le tiene reservadas aún más desventuras... Los últimos años de la corta vida de Egon Schiele, el pintor expresionista austríaco, están descritos en el contexto de los últimos años del gobierno de los Habsburgo. La historia comienza en torno a 1912 cuando Schiele (Mathieu Carriere) y su amante y musa artística Wally (Jane Birkin) se hicieron amigos de una adolescente obsesionada (Nina Fallenstein) que se ha escapado de su hogar para encontrarse con Schiele. Posteriormente Schiele es encarcelado por considerarse que se había comportado de una manera sexual inapropiada con mujeres menores.
Lieutenant Anton Hofmiller
Set in a garrison town in Austria before 1914, is the story of the unfortunate love between simple lieutenant Anton Hofmiller and Edith, the paralyzed daughter of the count, who is the richest man in the region.
Friedrich
Friedrich is a wealthy, handsome German soldier fighting in World War II. His unit is stationed in Poland and occupies the estate of Countess Elzbieta. Forced to remain in her presence, Friedrich begins to pursue Elzbieta out of boredom.
Louis
Un joven está convencido de tener vista para los negocios, pero su comportamiento no inspira confianza. Por eso, y bajo seudónimo, inventa una sociedad que poco a poco le hará rico.
Lieve is a Belgian woman who marries just as World War II is beginning. When the Germans invade, her husband goes off to fight them, but he swiftly returns home after the invasion succeeds. Later, he decides that the Germans are on the right side of things, and goes off to fight for them on the Eastern Front. Soon afterward, a resistance fighter is stranded on her doorway, and she hides him. The two of them fall in love, and the conflicts and joys of this relationship cause Lieve continued grief well after the end of the war.
Cada noche en París, centenares de hombres y mujeres utilizan el anonimato de líneas telefónicas ilegales que datan de la ocupación alemana, para hablarse, para quererse. Estas gentes son náufragos del amor, del deseo, se mueren por salir del abismo de la soledad.
Matthias
A 17-year-old high school student, Jenny Kern, is found dead from cold and exhaustion in the suburbs of Lausanne, Switzerland.
Nikias
David Hamilton es un prestigioso fotógrafo que llevaba varias décadas dedicado a un tipo de fotografía sensual, calmada y luminosa. En "Bilitis" lleva su estilo al cine contando una historia sobre unas adolescentes que descubren la sexualidad durante un verano en la playa. La banda sonora de Frances Lai consiguió el César de la Academia Francesa a la mejor música del año.
Volkmar von Plessen
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)
Partner
A young Viennese policeman can not free himself from his mistress and is also extorted over his illegal arms business.
L'inspecteur Ménard
El comisario jefe de la policía de Orleáns (Périer) debe su privilegiada posición social a su rica e influyente esposa (Signoret), que lleva años postrada en una silla de ruedas. El comisario, con el conocimiento de su esposa, tiene una joven amante con antecedentes penales.
Cain Adamson
Inspirado en hechos reales ocurridos en los años sesenta, cuenta la historia de Richard Speck. Un grupo de 8 enfermeras comparten casa cuando entra en sus vidas un veterano del Vietnam que les hace padecer su misoginia. Las tortura y asesina fríamente una a una, evitando la persecución policial.
Tauling
Rod Taylor plays a United Nations bio-warfare disarmament expert whose lonely wife (Catherine Jourdan) has a steamy affair while she's away in France. But soon she finds out the hard way that her lover is not quite the charming and stable guy she thought he was, and starts to fear him and wonder about his true motives.
A filmed essay about the painter Bouts.
L'Attaché d'Ambassade Allemand
Recreación de la India de los años 30 a través de la historia de Anne-Marie, la esposa del vice-cónsul francés en el país. Harta del tedio cotidiano en que se ha convertido su vida, la mujer inicia una serie de aventuras amorosas que su marido conoce, pero pretende ignorar.
Película que nos presenta tres sketches diferentes; desde una autopsia en directo, hasta unas imágenes de televisión que pueden provocar serios problemas telepáticos.
Eric von Schellenberg
Huyendo de sus padres burgueses, una joven cae en manos de un guapo, rico y neurótico joven alemán. (FILMAFFINITY)
Andrej
Edgar Marc
Orsini
Crónica de los últimos ocho años de la vida del filósofo italiano Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), desde su captura en Venecia hasta su muerte en la hoguera, tras ser juzgado por la Inquisición, que consideró heréticas sus ideas acerca de la distinción entre las verdades de fe y las de la ciencia.
Ulrich Berl
Una campaña electoral se vuelve más interesante cuando aparecen fotografías publicadas de forma anónima que muestran a la esposa de un candidato, el Dr. Peyrac, asistiendo a una fiesta sexual.
Paul
Jeanne, una joven parisina, cree que es la reencarnación de Don Juan. Visita a un sacerdote y le confiesa que ha matado a un hombre; le habla, además, de sus aventuras y de sus dotes para la seducción. (FILMAFFINITY)
The Violinist
Adaptación del famoso relato de Perrault sobre un cruel asesino en serie de mujeres. El Barón Von Sepper (Burton) es un excéntrico y frustrado aristócrata que vive recluido en un siniestro castillo. Acaba de contraer matrimonio por octava vez, con Anne, de la que parece estar muy enamorado. Un día, ella descubre casualmente el espeluznante final que tuvieron las siete esposas que la precedieron.
Franz Eckerman
Professor Marcilly is a famed brain specialist who, following in-depth and extended research work, is now able to perform brain transplant surgery. One day, he finds himself in the presence of a young car accident victim for whom the only hope of survival would be a brain transplant. Marcilly, who has a heart condition and is terminally ill, decides to become the "donor". The operation is a success. But who is actually the patient discharged from the hospital: a young fellow with the brain of a young man or an old man in the body of a young one?
Julien Eschenbach
Una tarjeta invita a Julien, (Mathieu Carrière) pianista luxemburgués, bloqueado en París en mitad de la Gran Guerra, (1917), a pasar dos días en La Fougeraie, una villa en los suburbios de París. Julien no duda ni un momento de que esta provenga de Jaques de Nouil, (Roger Van Hool) su único amigo, ahora oficial de aviación en la Guerra. A Julien le recibe en cambio la hermosa y misteriosa Elle, (Anna Karina) el ama de La Fougeraie. La espera le hace pasar la tarde recordando algunas vivencias del pasado compartidas con su amigo solo o en compañía de la amiga de Jaques, Odile, (Bulle Ogier), bonita aunque algo vulgar, a la que también se la llevó el viento…
Karl
Nina lives with her family in a superb property in the French region of Landes. She loves her cousin Jean who is overprotected by his possessive mother, Eva. There is war and, after the French defeat, Jean wants to reach London.
Jan
Cassavio (Orson Welles) es un extraño personaje que, al borde de su muerte, lega a sus descendientes su fortuna y su mansión “Malpertius”. Un caserón que esconde un oscuro secreto y del que es muy difícil escapar.
Carl-Stéphane Kursdedt
Julien, a renowned geologist, lives with his wife Isabelle and their two children in a country house. But his sullen, uncompromising attitude leaves tensions high. The arrival of Carl-Stephane, a young German student, brings a breath of fresh air and lightness to the household.
Lorenzo
El joven Lorenzo inicia una relación con una viuda de 40 años. Durante unas breves vacaciones en Yugoslavia, su relación empieza a resquebrajarse, pero al volver a casa todo continúa igual que antes.
Alexis Melissen
In 1212, a Children's Crusade is launched after a young shepherd, Jacques de Cloyes, claims to have had a vision in which it is said that the innocence of children would be able to liberate Jerusalem. A monk, returning from Holy Land, joins the crusade and hears the children's confessions, gradually realizing that most of them are taking part not for religious, but for more worldly reasons, like rejected love and hopes for freedom.
Thomas Törleß
Indagación acerca de los males que generaron el nazismo, a través de unos jóvenes en un internado. Narra cómo a través de sus vivencias en un instituto militar del Imperio Austro-Húngaro, el adolescente Törless se ve confrontado a la sexualidad, la homosexualidad, la crueldad, el sadismo y el victimismo, la moralidad y la conciencia, y cómo intenta un análisis racional de los hechos.
El director Volker Schlöndorff realizó en 1966 El joven Törless, adaptación de la novela. Era su primera película, tras haber sido asistente de directores como Alain Resnais, Louis Malle y Melville. Esta película recibió el premio FIPRESCI en el Festival de Cannes así como los Premios del Cine Alemán de mejor película, guion y director y convirtiéndose en uno de los puntales, junto a Fassbinder o Herzog, del nuevo cine alemán.
Tonio Kröger als Junge
This drama is taken from Thomas Mann's 1903 semi-autobiographical novel. Tonio (Jean Claude Brialy) is an aspiring writer and the son of a rigid aristocratic father and a music-loving mother. Wandering throughout Germany and Italy to "find himself," Tonio frequently remembers his childhood experiences in a series of flashbacks. The highlight of the film is the expert lensing by cinematographer Wolf Wirth. Erika Mann, the daughter of the late poet and author, collaborated with Ennio Flaiano on the screenplay.
