Rudolf Waldemar Brem

In Matringen, a small Swabian village, everybody knows Uwe, an outsider and notorious barfly. When Uwe witnesses the murder of the local beauty queen Susi Berger, nobody really takes him seriously. Left alone with his suspicion, Uwe starts investigating on his own. Step by step he starts to uncover the dark truths underneath the small-town idyll.

The ensemble film THE GENITAL WARRIORS takes a look at the common past of the three main characters as their memories meet and overlap. The 70-year-old Frank sits in a geronto-psychiatric ward and types a screenplay about his relationship with Lena and Barbara. These two embittered women come together with a magic wand and a shotgun to travel to the past and commit an act of revenge on him.

Five toilets - five stories! This pitch black comedy relentlessly illuminates the darkest corners of society, thereby revealing a colorful potpourri of human perfidy. The five intertwined episodes are staged in the manner of an intimate play, occasionally testing the audiences moral judgment.

Travelling between Germany, France and Morocco, Viola Shafik reconstructs and deconstructs the unknown life story of El Hedi Ben Salem through interviews with his companions and family members as well as archive material. With openness and slight naivety the interviewees explain how “Ali” became an oriental object of projection for the Fassbinder group, while El Hedi Ben Salem, the human being, was overlooked in order to establish the foreigner as “other.” A no-frills examination of a piece of German and Munich film history.

Film by Mayerhofer.

The 12-year-old Toni, known as "Toni Goldwascher", is an outsider. He lives with his mother Maria in a disreputable house outside the community by the river. The son of a large farmer, Hans Beil, harasses him because he is after Gold Bay. Herbert, the mute Elfie and the chaplain are on his side, but when Toni actually finds gold, the situation comes to a head.

Evil assassins want to kill Daniel Küblböck, the third runner up for the German Idols.

Evil assassins want to kill Daniel Küblböck, the third runner up for the German Idols.

The German composer Valentin Reiner receives a letter from his ex-wife Anna, who now lives in Los Angeles with their 18-year-old son Stefan. In her letter, Anna asks Valentin to come and help her with their son. Stefan is engaged to Leila, a young Muslim woman from Palestine, who is three months pregnant with his baby. They live with Anna and Judge Boccia, who hates black Muslims. Stefan and Leila hate Jews. Together with his buddy Riff Mason, Stefan terrorizes the Jewish community with home invasions, where they paint swastikas on the houses and leave fake anthrax letters. Reiner is determined to expose the fascist group and regain the trust of his son.

A crime comedy directed by Thomas Engel.

This TV-Movie is based on real events that took place in southern Germany in the mid 80's. A policeman tries to build a house for his family while he experiences financial troubles; everything goes tragically wrong from then on.

Los soviéticos han desarrollado un revolucionario caza, nombre en clave "Firefox". Naturalmente, los ingleses están preocupados por la capacidad del avión para lanzar ataques sorpresa, puesto que se rumorea que es indetectable al radar. Por ello, envían al piloto Mitchell Grant, ex-combatiente de la Guerra de Viertnam, en misión secreta para robar el Firefox.

The Political drama shows the denunciation and persecution of the 19-year-old Sanne in the Nazi state. After she falls in love with her cousin, Sanne is betrayed by her jealous aunt to the Gestapo.

A comedy directed by Ulli Lommel.

La bibliotecaria Martha se encuentra de vacaciones en Roma con su padre, quien muere en plena calle víctima de un infarto. En la embajada de Alemania, queda fascinada por Helmut, al que volverá a ver más adelante en la boda de unos amigos, donde surge el amor. Una vez casados, Helmut se impone la tarea de educar a su mujer, a la que ve muy mimada e inmadura.

En 1925, en Alemania, Fritz Haarmann, es un ladrón homosexual y furtivo, con una licencia especial de la policía. Vende carne en el mercado negro. También mata a los niños y jóvenes, bebe su sangre, cose sus cuerpos y tira sus partes en un río. Ciertamente, lo que vende en el mercado negro es carne humana... Nueva reedición de la historia de "El Vampiro de Düsseldorf", acentuando en este caso su trasfondo de crítica social y explicitando sus elementos sádicos, homosexuales y canibalescos.

Película que gira en torno a la historia intelectual alemana de los últimos cien años. En este caso se centra en la figura de Luis II de Baviera. Primera parte de una trilogía a la que pertenecen las películas "Karl May" (1974) y "Hitler, una película sobre Alemania" (1977).

Un equipo de rodaje, y el reparto de la película, incluido Eddie Constantine, está sentado alrededor de un hotel de playa cutre en España esperando al director de la película para empezar el rodaje. Mientras tanto, el director de producción intimida a todo el mundo, y se desarrollan intrigas en el bar del hotel.

German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder directs the made-for-TV melodrama Pioneers in Ingolstadt, based on the play by Marieluise Fleisser. The film opens as a parade of soldiers are marching through a town square singing patriotic songs. Alma (Irm Hermann) and Berta (Hanna Schygulla) are watching them and musing about their ideas on men and relationships. The soldiers (often referred to as pioneers) have been given the task of building a bridge in the town. Alma seems to understand that the soldiers only want her for short sexual encounters, so she's prepared to live her life accordingly. Meanwhile, romantic Berta falls in love with self-centered soldier Karl (Harry Baer), who all but tells her to get lost. The soldiers get drunk and beat up a random passerby. The women grow to hate Alma for her acceptance of life as a sex object. Naïve Berta is ultimately humiliated.

Michel y Guenther trabajan en sus respectivos trabajos obsesionados por conseguir el dinero suficiente para poder ir a Perú en busca de un tesoro, usando el mapa del Río Das Mortes. A Hanna, la novia de Michel, le disgusta este nuevo plan de su novio, puesto lo que ella quiere en realidad en casarse con él y formar una familia.

A Franz (Fassbinder), un chulo de poca monta cuya novia es una prostituta (Hanna Schygulla), se le plantea un problema. Acostumbrado a "trabajar" por cuenta y riesgo propios, un sindicato de gánsteres le pide que actúe para ellos, pero él se niega a ingresar en la organización criminal. Ésta lo hace vigilar por un confidente para doblegar su voluntad. Mientras la organización lo tiene secuestrado, entre él y el espía Bruno (Ulli Lommel) surge espontáneamente una relación de amistad. Franz se siente fascinado por la belleza angelical de Bruno...

Volker Schlöndorff transposes Bertolt Brecht’s late-expressionist work to latter-day 1969. Poet and anarchist Baal lives in an attic and reads his poems to cab drivers. At first feted and later rejected by bourgeois society, Baal roams through forests and along motorways, greedy for schnapps, cigarettes, women and men: ‘You have to let out the beast, let him out into the sunlight.’ After impregnating a young actress he soon comes to regard her as a millstone round his neck. He stabs a friend to death and dies alone. ‘You are useless, mangy and wild, you beast, you crawl through the lowest boughs of the tree.’

Jorgos, un inmigrante griego, se une a un grupo de jóvenes que por lo general pierden el tiempo. Este extranjero despierta la hostilidad y los celos entre ellos, y es insultado como "un Comunista" y "el perro griego". Después de haber sido atacado, Jorgos le confiesa a María su deseo de volver a casa.

Three sequences are linked together in this short film by Straub; the first sequence is a long tracking shot from a car of prostitutes plying their trade on the night-time streets of Germany; the second is a staged play, cut down to 10 minutes by Straub and photographed in a single take; the final sequence covers the marriage of James and Lilith, and Lilith’s subsequent execution of her pimp, played by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. "The film is a look entirely at Western decadence" - Jean-Marie Straub.