Yesterday Girl (1966)

ポーランドのダンチッヒを舞台に、3歳で自らの成長を止めた少年オスカルの視点で、1927年から1945年の激動の時代を描いた異色の大力作。ブリキの太鼓を叩き、奇声を発しガラスを割るという不思議な力も身につけたオスカル、従兄との不倫を続ける母、臆病者の父、画面は時代が産んだ奇異なキャラクターとグロテスクな描写に溢れ、その毒気たるや凄まじいばかりのものである。

テキサス州の町パリをめざす男。彼は失踪した妻を探し求めていた。男は、4年間置き去りにしていた幼い息子との間にも親子の情を取り戻す。そして、やがて巡り会った妻に、彼は愛するがゆえの苦悩を打ち明ける……。

Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown children offer little companionship. One night she goes to a bar frequented by Arab immigrants and strikes up a friendship with middle-aged mechanic Ali. Their relationship soon develops into something more, and Emmi's family and neighbors criticize their spontaneous marriage. Soon Emmi and Ali are forced to confront their own insecurities about their future.

A few decades after the destruction of the Inca Empire, a Spanish expedition led by the infamous Aguirre leaves the mountains of Peru and goes down the Amazon River in search of the lost city of El Dorado. When great difficulties arise, Aguirre’s men start to wonder whether their quest will lead them to prosperity or certain death.

Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. She must rely on her beauty and ambition to navigate the difficult post-war years alone.

After a chance encounter with a wanted man, a woman is harassed by the police and press until she takes violent action.

A German-made film based on one of the most famous German novels by Theodor Fontane. Effi Briest is a socially ambitious, 17-year-old German girl who accepts a proposal of marriage from Baron Geert Von Instetten, a much older diplomat. Unfortunately, neither the Baron's family nor anyone in the secluded town she now calls home accept Effi as an equal. Starved for companionship, Effi begins an innocent friendship with a well-known womanizer that may jeopardize her position as the Baron's wife.

A young German woman searches for happiness, liberation, and independence in the illusive wake of a transformative national recovery.

When Jonas loses his job at a Hamburg startup company, he doesn’t have the heart to tell his girlfriend Katharina, as her nerves are already on the edge with her final law exams coming up. Every morning he leaves their flat and drift aimless through the metropole on endless underground rides. After a chance meeting with his former boss Marc, Jonas starts to observe the young manager. His curiosity gradually turns into obsession, small and bigger everyday lies become a kind of survival strategy for Jonas. While Katharina notices his increasingly odd behavior, Jonas is losing control over events more and more. Flood deals with feelings of powerlessness of the individual facing a growing competitive and performance pressure. The fear of failing in a perceived competition of life kicks off a spiral of wrong decisions, with no apparent way out. Georg Pelzer’s debut was shot basing on a 20-page plot description, dialogues and actions where improvised with the actors on location.

A tramp finds a gun lying in the street.

A documentary about the life and work of director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

"End of the Commune"/"Ende einer kommune" is a great 49 min. long movie made in 1969 about Fassbinder and the early years of the legendary Antiteater he was a member/leader of. You can here see and hear some of the actors he was going to use in his movies for the next years. The movie shows rehearsals for his play "The Coffehouse" which also became a television-movie, and you can watch unique footage from the 19th Film-Festival in Berlin (1969) where "Love is Colder Than Death" were shown. As told in this documentary, his first feature-movie were given a cold shoulder by many of the journalists and visitors at the festival. You can in "End of the Commune" watch Fassbinder and actor Ulli Lommel walk out on stage after the opening of "Love is Colder than Death", while a man in the audience is shouting "Out with the director!". In this interesting documentary Fassbinder also talks a lot about his father which was a respectable doctor.

Interview film with the protagonists of the New German Cinema in 1966.

Fictional film with documentary elements about a jazz musician in Berlin.

One night, bedridden Bianca finds herself in a terrible scenario. As it plays out, she must venture through the catastrophe that once was her home in search of a way to escape. In the different rooms she each will be faced with a different obstacle in front of her. May it be mysterious figures, lunatic faucets, or this heat which seems to come from somewhere...

This anti-coming-of-age film follows Generation Y characters as they chase the desire for radical self-realisation.

1940年代、アラバマ州で生まれたフォレスト・ガンプは、知能指数こそ人に劣るが、母親にたっぷりの愛情を注がれて育ち、優しいハートと走る能力は誰にも負けない男性に成長していく。そんなフォレストは、ただひとり彼に理解を示してくれた幼なじみの女性ジェニーの愛を信じる一方、ベトナムの戦場に出征するなど、1950年代に始まるアメリカの歴史の大きな動きの中で、図らずも波瀾万丈の半生を送ることになる。

40歳を過ぎた広告マンのレスター・バーナムと上昇志向たっぷりの妻キャロリン。彼らの家庭生活に潜む歪んだ真実が徐々に暴かれていく。妻は夫を憎み、娘のジェーンは父親を軽蔑している。そして会社の上司はレスターにリストラによる解雇を告げる。そんな毎日に嫌気が差したレスターは、人生の方向転換を図る。しかし、自由と幸せを求めるレスターを待ち受けていたのは、あまりにも高価な代償だった。

新聞王ケーンが、“バラのつぼみ”という謎の言葉を残して死んだ。新聞記者のトンプソンは、その言葉の意味を求めて、生前のケーンを知る人物にあたるが……。様々な人物の証言から、新聞界に君臨した男の実像が浮かび上がる、斬新な構成と演出で評判を呼んだ、ウェルズ弱冠25歳の処女作。

代々海兵隊員を輩出してきた家系に生まれ、自身も父と同じ道を歩むべく、1988年に18歳で海兵隊に志願した青年、アンソニー・スウォフォード。過酷な訓練を耐え抜き、第7海兵連隊第2大隊司令部中隊付きSTAの前哨狙撃兵として1990年の夏、湾岸戦争の為サウジアラビアへと派遣された。使命感に燃える若き海兵隊員たちとアンソニーだったが、派遣先で待っていたのは果てしない砂漠と訓練、そしてひたすら待機する日々だった。＜1990年に中東へと派兵されたアメリカ海兵隊員、アンソニー・スウォフォードの湾岸戦争体験記『ジャーヘッド/アメリカ海兵隊員の告白』（2003年出版）を原作としている。監督は『アメリカン・ビューティー』のサム・メンデス。一兵士の視点を通し、これまでの戦争映画とは違い、戦闘シーンがほとんど無く、変わった切り口で現代の戦争を描いている。表題になっているジャーヘッドとは、海兵隊員の刈り上げた頭がジャー（蓋のついたガラス瓶）のように見える事からつけられた蔑称である。＞