Martin Schäfer

This first film by choreographer Pina Bausch reflects her method of working as developed with the Wuppertal Theatre of Dance during the 1973/74 season. The film does not tell a story, but is made up of various scenes put together as a collage with scenes set in different locations. The futility of human activity and the search for love make up the film's central theme set against the strains of a Silician funeral march. Filmed on location in Wuppertal, Germany, between October 1987 and April 1989.

Dos hermanos, Nino y Vincente, han aprendido a desenvolverse muy bien juntos durante las inexplicadas ausencias de su padre. El día que aparentemente desaparece para siempre, no tienen ningún problema en seguir como antes. Sin embargo, un día unos criminales que habían tenido negocios con el padre, intentan sacarles información a la fuerza...

At the start of the 20th century, a man lives in solitude on an island. One day on the mainland, he saves a young woman from some nasty folk and takes her with him to his island. Her former captors soon find the island as well.

A director (Hanns Zischler), his fiancee (Vera Tschechowa), a scriptwriter (Rudiger Vogler) and a student interact and discuss their emotions, at length.

Seven Women, Seven Sins (1986) represents a quintessential moment in film history. The women filmmakers invited to direct for the seven sins were amongst the world's most renown: Helke Sander (Gluttony), Bette Gordon (Greed), Maxi Cohen (Anger), Chantal Akerman (Sloth), Valie Export (Lust), Laurence Gavron (Envy), and Ulrike Ottinger (Pride). Each filmmaker had the liberty of choosing a sin to interpret as they wished. The final film reflected this diversity, including traditional narrative fiction, experimental video, a musical, a radical documentary, and was delivered in multiple formats from 16, super 16, video and 35mm.

Nine Manhattanites receive a chain letter. Depending on their decision to either pass the letter on or to break the chain, the various characters can encounter romance, fulfillment -- and sudden death.

An old man and a teenage boy, both neo-nazis are travelling across Germany to take funds to the party headquarters. On the way they encounter a young woman and things become difficult.

Un hombre aparece andando en el desierto de Texas sin recordar quién es. Su hermano va en su busca, intentando que recuerde su vida cuatro años atrás, cuando abandonó a su mujer y a su hijo. Mientras la memoria va volviendo a él y recupera el contacto con personas de su pasado, descubre la oportunidad de rehacer su vida.

Short film part of Paris Vu Par... 20 Years After

A woman is being taken from her German hotel to be interrogated by police agents.

Story concerns two friends, Freya and Irmtraut and their relationships with the same man, Traugott, who finds it impossible to choose between the two women.

Computer operator Faber works on securing computers for big companies and banks. His private life is rather dull until he meets a strange women, Juliet and falls in love. Her friend convinces Faber to exploit his knowledge to rob a bank.

After finding her boss, a private detective, has committed suicide and has left her his agency, Cordelia Gray is asked to investigate the suicide of the man's son. During the course of her investigation, Cordelia becomes obsessed with the young man's memory and his increasingly suspicious death.

On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman's The Day the World Ended (1956) . The producer is nowhere to be found and director Munro attempts to find him in hopes of being able to finish the film.

Two girls go to Berlin, one to find a German girl who lived at home in the 50s when her parents divorced, the other to look for a role in German cinema.

Gilbert & George are renowned for presenting themselves as ‘living sculptures,’ fusing their art and identity with the external world. Their exploration of the bleak urban surrounds of 1980’s London, powerfully evoke the desires and tensions of its disillusioned youth alongside their own eccentricities. Poetic narration combines with vivid imagery that moves between the startlingly beautiful, the humorous, and the absurd. Church spires and city streets, youth and drunks, dancing and tea-drinking all take on an affecting symbolism when viewed from the unique perspective of Gilbert & George.

At the end of the 1960s a young woman lays the foundation of the women's movement. As well as political initiatives against male dominance, a detailed picture is drawn of society, which establishes the women’s motivation.

A man, alone in Berlin. He sleeps and watches TV, walks through the city. A woman approaches him. Does he feel like having coffee with her? No.

An architect is assigned to modernize a squatted house in the Kreuzberg district of Berlin. But then he meets a young student who is member of a grassroots initiative trying to preserve the quarter. He falls in love with her, although this puts him into conflict with his job. Following his heart, the architect soon changes sides and supports the inhabitants in their struggle against the real estate speculators.

Documental sobre los últimos días del gran director de cine americano Nicholas Ray, conocido director de cine con películas de culto como Rebelde sin Causa o Johnny Guitar. Cuando a finales de los setenta ya se estaba muriendo de cáncer, Ray se negó a ir a a un hospital y prefirió permanecer en su loft de Nueva York, rodeado de sus mejores amigos.

Set in 1970s Britain, a man drives from London to Bristol to investigate his brother's death. The purpose of his trip is offset by his encounters with a series of odd people.

Documental biográfico sobre Werner Herzog, donde se explora la conexión entre el director y sus obras.

El marchante americano Tom Ripley (Hopper) intenta poner a prueba la integridad de Jonatham Zimmermann, un humilde fabricante de marcos (Bruno Ganz) que padece una enfermedad terminal. Ripley le presenta a un gánster que le ofrece mucho dinero a cambio de que trabaje para él como asesino a sueldo. En un principio rechaza la oferta, pero, al pensar en el precario futuro que espera a su mujer y a su hijo después de su muerte, acaba aceptando el trato.

Paradigma del viaje como liberación y encuentro entre los seres humanos, la hermosa relación que se establece entre dos hombres (un reparador de proyectores de cine y un hombre deprimido tras el colapso de su matrimonio), a lo largo de un nostálgico viaje por la frontera que separa las dos alemanias, se convierte, en manos del singular director 889856, no sólo en el film que vuelve a implantar el cine alemán en el panorama internacional (junto a la obra de Fassbinder), sino en la mejor road movie alemana de todos los tiempos. Una obra clave del cine europeo moderno.

Paradigma del viaje como liberación y encuentro entre los seres humanos, la hermosa relación que se establece entre dos hombres (un reparador de proyectores de cine y un hombre deprimido tras el colapso de su matrimonio), a lo largo de un nostálgico viaje por la frontera que separa las dos alemanias, se convierte, en manos del singular director 889856, no sólo en el film que vuelve a implantar el cine alemán en el panorama internacional (junto a la obra de Fassbinder), sino en la mejor road movie alemana de todos los tiempos. Una obra clave del cine europeo moderno.

Loosely adapted from Goethe's novel on the social conventions of marriage raised to level of symbolic parable.

Six days in the life of Wilhelm: a detached man without qualities. He wants to write, so his mother gives him a ticket to Bonn, telling him to live. On the train he meets an older man, an athlete in the 1936 Olympics, and his mute teen companion, Mignon. She's an acrobat in market squares for spare change.

Six days in the life of Wilhelm: a detached man without qualities. He wants to write, so his mother gives him a ticket to Bonn, telling him to live. On the train he meets an older man, an athlete in the 1936 Olympics, and his mute teen companion, Mignon. She's an acrobat in market squares for spare change.

A couple (Karin Thome and Eberhard Klasse), whose relationship can't hold up to the pressure of their financial and career problems, only have their child left as the remaining connecting link. But even their child becomes a pawn in their egoistic power games and possessiveness. The crisis reaches a peak first then, when the husband finds out about an affair that the wife is having and sets out to claim the same rights for himself. This takes him to New York, where he settles. The wife gets her hands on all the cash reserves and follows him there. In spite of the new location, they still remain a couple with a disturbed and insensitive miscommunication, that instinctively cling even more to each other in the new and alienating environment.

El periodista alemán Felix Winter recorre los Estados Unidos buscando temas para escribir un libro, pero como ni siquiera consigue empezarlo, su editor cancela el contrato. Cuando Félix decide regresar a Alemania, en el aeropuerto conoce a una mujer, y como no hay vuelos hasta el día siguiente pasa la noche con ella. La mujer desaparece, pero le deja un recado: que vaya con su hija Alicia, de nueve años, a Amsterdam para reunirse con ella.

El periodista alemán Felix Winter recorre los Estados Unidos buscando temas para escribir un libro, pero como ni siquiera consigue empezarlo, su editor cancela el contrato. Cuando Félix decide regresar a Alemania, en el aeropuerto conoce a una mujer, y como no hay vuelos hasta el día siguiente pasa la noche con ella. La mujer desaparece, pero le deja un recado: que vaya con su hija Alicia, de nueve años, a Amsterdam para reunirse con ella.

Ann, a ten-year-old girl, becomes the sole heir of millions from her grandmother. Ann's parents, who are short of money and have lost all hope of a bright future try to manipulate Ann's imagination in such a way that she loses her mind.

The experimental German krautrockers CAN's legendary "Free Concert," recorded in Cologne's Sporthalle, Germany, on February 3, 1972. The circumstances of this Cologne show were unusual. Rather improbably for such an experimental band, Can actually scored a chart success in Germany with "Spoon," which would later be tacked onto the end of Ege Bamyasi.

A former bank clerk conceives a one-man robbery at the bank he works. He had before established an alibi for himself pretending and declaring him legally dead. Further complications ensue when he rejoins his estranged wife.