Hildegard Knef

Using unpublished and newly digitalised archive footage and film material, Bettina Böhler has brilliantly assembled this film about the life and work of the exceptional artist Christoph Schlingensief, who died in 2010.

A biography of Hildegard Knef, one of Germany's biggest post-war stars.

The films, affairs and struggles of the iconic star of The Blue Angel as told by Rosemary Clooney, Roger Corman, Deanna Durbin and many more.

Hildegard Knef: legendary German film diva. An actress whose personality is as complex as the characters she has played. She is by turns irritable, impatient, charming, humorous, fascinating and enchanting. But behind the many masks is the temperamental woman, the Hildegard Knef who has weathered many of life′s blows: failure in Hollywood, cancer, lost loves, the enmity of the press and, finally, the horror of aging. A Woman and a Half - Hildegard Knef is the portrait of a Knef who has become cynical and unpredictable in order to protect herself, but also a Knef full of warmth, humor and spirit.

After Henny's father loses his job at her ex-fiancee's shipyard because of Henny's affair with Sigi, he begins to panic about how to make a living and tries to find new quarters. His sister, Henny's aunt Marlene, suffers as a result of his chaotic efforts. The path to his new life requires that Henny get married, as the aunt is a strict puritan. But whoever knows Henny can be sure that things will take a few unexpected turns...

A documentary about the 75th birhday of the UFA film studios directed by Hans-Christoph Blumenberg.

Helke Sander interviews multiple German women who were raped in Berlin by Soviet soldiers in May 1945. Most women never spoke of their experience to anyone, due largely to the shame attached to rape in German culture at that time.

The deserted island hotel hides a dark and sinister secret. Hundreds of years ago a witch held sway there, dominating her coven and spreading an evil that has seeped deep into the earth. Two centuries later, a photographer and his virginal fiance sneak onto the island to research its gruesome history. Soon all will find themselves falling victim to a horror that has survived the ages....

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?

A biologist has succeeded in growing a particularly energy-rich lettuce and now the whole world wants to get hold of the product.

O produtor decadente Barry “Dutch” Detweiler tenta convencer a emblemática Fedora, aposentada e reclusa, a voltar a atuar para relançar a carreira de ambos. Mas a privacidade dela é difícil de conquistar, e com boas razões. Quando ela comete suicídio, Detweiler fica desconfiado e decide investigar.

When they start losing family members and neighbors due to WWII and the Nazi government's policies, a quiet married couple becomes disillusioned and begins spreading leaflets against the government - a crime punishable by death.

An eclectic group of characters set sail on Captain Lansen’s leaky cargo ship in an attempt to escape their various troubles. When a violent storm strikes, the ship is swept into the Sargasso Sea and the passengers find themselves trapped on an island populated by man-eating seaweed, giant crabs and Spanish conquistadors who believe it’s still the 16th century.

Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, um comandante do exército norte-americano tem a missão de treinar e liderar um grupo de doze condenados pela corte marcial em uma missão que envolve a morte de oficiais alemães. Se eles sobreviverem à missão suicida, terão suas penas relaxadas.

An American pilot assists the Portuguese colonial police who are battling a gang of criminals involved in drug smuggling from Lisbon to Mozambique to Zanzibar.

After World War II, a lot of people, who lived in the eastern parts of the Third Reich had to be relocated. One of them is Hugo Starosta (Martin Held) with his family. They live in a fortress. Hugo is unemployed, his children don't seem to like school, but somehow they managa to get through.

English millionaire Sir Cyrus Bradley is being blackmailed by “The Tortoise” Crime Syndicate. He is to pay £ 100,000.00 Pounds to stay alive and not be murdered. After his refusal to pay the money, he is quickly killed. Cyrus‘ nephew, Don Micklem, plans to avenge the death of his uncle and sets out on a quest to expose “The Tortoise“…

Twelve different episodes of erotic relationships are described as examples of modern love substitute.

Vincent Vivant agrees to Stephan the spy's proposal: he is to cross the border with a mysterious suitcase.

The Gangster Macheath secretly marries the daughter of beggar king Peachum. When Peachum finds out, he instructs the police chief Brown to arrest and hang Macheath. If not, all the beggars of Soho will disturb the upcoming coronation.

France, WWI. Landru, the father of four Children, contacts Parisian women through newspapers, seduces and eventually kills them in order to feed his little family.

Caterina finds out that her husband Peter Tzar of Russia, is plotting to kill her. She sets Count Orlov free from prison, Peter's sworn enemy, becomes empress of Russia and leads the Cossacks army against him.

The detective investigating Laura Hunt's murder finds himself becoming obsessed with the dead woman only to find out she's actually still alive.

A 14-year-old girl is caught while trying to pick a doctor's pocket. The doctor ends up taking her in and turning her into a sophisticated lady, whom he marries off to a wealthy man.

A TV adaptation of Jean Cocteau's play La voix humaine about a woman talking to her lover over the phone.

1860, the great Duchess of Parma, Maria Luisa, wants to provide her little state with train tracks, in spite of the opposition she gets from certain noble people.

Berlin provides the backdrop for this crime drama that centers on a military doctor falsely accused of dealing illegal drugs. Determined to prove his innocence, he escapes from the MPs and ends up holing up in the apartment his wife rented. He doesn't know that she has sublet the flat to a nightclub singer. When he finds out, he begs the singer to assist him. She is attracted to him and agrees. The doctor believes that his wife is behind the black-market dealings, but in the end, they find the real culprit.

Meant to be a diatribe against yellow journalism and current social ills, this weakly limned drama by Josef von Baky features a reporter who works for one of the tabloid papers. The reporter digs up dirt on the past life of a local hotel owner, and wanting to take full advantage of the muck, he strings out his revelations in a series of perjorative, damning articles on the man. The result of this campaign turns out to be much worse than simply ruining the hotel owner's reputation.

While perusing a police photo, Hilde - an investigative reporter - recognizes a bracelet that she once owned while living in her native Romania. She seeks out the current owner of the bracelet, hoping that he can provide information concerning her long-lost father. Thus begins a curious chain of events...

A man hypnotizes a young woman into being an opera singer.

Uma mulher britânica em uma visita à Berlim do pós-guerra é envolvida numa trama de contrabando de segredo de espionagem para dentro e para fora do Bloco Oriental.

Two scriptwriters argue about the fate of Henrietta, a charming and gamine shopgirl. One favors a comical path for their heroine, who is overcome with sentimental love for a young photographer on Bastille Day. The other has a more thrilling and dastardly fate in mind for her. Among the film's irresistible conceits is Hildegarde Neff as an oversexed circus bareback rider.

A scientist creates a murderess when he artificially inseminates a prostitute with the seed of an executed killer.

O escritor Harry Street (Gregory Peck), ferido gravemente durante um safári na África, aguarda a chegada de ajuda médica aos pés da montanha de Kilimanjaro, na África. Enquanto o auxílio não vem, ele relembra à esposa Helen (Susan Hayward) suas frustradas aventuras amorosas e seus fracassos como escritor. Em estado delirante, ele revive seu único romance verdadeiro, com Cynthia Green (Ava Gardner), cuja paixão ele deixou escapar devido à obsessão em viajar pelo mundo em busca de temas para seus livros.

Upon awaking in the morning, a man finds his thoughts clouded by the possibility that he committed a murder.

Um mensageiro do Departamento de Estado, Mike Kells, vai para a Trieste do pós-guerra, depois de falharem na coleta da encomenda de um colega. A Polícia Militar está feliz por ele se envolver, mas as coisas ficam um pouco difíceis. Afinal, ele é apenas um carteiro.

An aging truck driver finds smuggled money and becomes involved with a hijacking crowd.

À medida que o exército dos EUA se aproxima da Alemanha nazista, prisioneiros alemães são recrutados para espionar atrás das linhas alemãs. A Segunda Guerra Mundial está entrando em sua última fase: a Alemanha está em ruínas, mas não cede. O exército dos EUA não tem conhecimento crucial sobre as unidades alemãs que operam no lado oposto do Reno e decide enviar dois prisioneiros alemães para coletar informações. O esquema é arriscado: a Gestapo mantém uma rede terrivelmente eficiente para identificar e capturar espiões e desertores. Além disso, não está claro se o "Tiger", que topa qualquer trabalho sujo desde que o preço seja bom, e o "Happy" cansado de guerra, que pode ser facilmente traído por seus sentimentos, são agentes confiáveis. Depois que Tiger e outro agente americano são infiltrados com sucesso, Happy é lançado de para-quedas na Baviera. Seu dever: descobrir o paradeiro de uma poderosa unidade blindada alemã que se move em direção à frente ocidental.

It is a love story between a prostitute and an artist. It was one of the first German films to break several taboos: nudity, suicide and euthanasia. In the Germany of the '50s, this caused a lot of negative reactions by the politicians and the Roman Catholic Church. The opposition reached the degree of banning the film and scandalizing it which paradoxically made it one of the landmarks in the history of film.

A screenwriter comes up with a story about an affair between a maid and her employer.

A group of people gathers back in the post-war ruins of a luxurious Munich hotel they inhabited at one point or another years before; each trying to cope with the tragic consequences of the war and their own actions.

After returning from a concentration camp, Susanne finds an ex-soldier living in her apartment. Together the two try to move past their experiences during WWII.

Two barge skippers fall in love with the same woman.

Wolf Noltenius is a real globetrotter. Early on, this talented young man travelled far and wide, where he earned fame as a construction planner. He moved to Brazil; but one day, homesickness got the best of him. He spontaneously travelled back to his hometown to visit his brother Werner and his family. Wolf and Werner, who both went into the same profession, couldn't be any more different: the one is worldly and an experienced man-about-town; the other a small bourgeois.