Karl Scheydt

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 professor Michael falls in love with one of his students and is confronted with his pupil's father, with whom he had an affair over 15 years ago. This unexpected meeting abruptly overturns the lives of all the characters. When the tutor decides to undertake a planned trip to London, not with the son but with the father, he is once again forced to choose; this time between his wife and his friend.

O marujo francês Querelle chega a Brest e frequenta um estranho bordel. Logo descobre que seu irmão Robert é amante da dona do lugar, Lysiane. "Aqui você pode jogar dados com Nono, o marido de Lysiane: se você ganhar, pode fazer amor com ela; se perder terá que fazer amor com Nono..." Querelle perde de propósito.

Episode movie about the no-future generation of the early 1980s.

Film extras take possession of a bogus film production company and acting as ideal world of film to persuade one associates mother-in-law of marriage.

Elvira Weishaupt, once a burly working-class butcher, has made an enormous sacrifice for love. She has undergone a sex change for a romantic interest who has abandoned her, and she now must struggle to reconcile her past life with her present identity.

Elvira Weishaupt, once a burly working-class butcher, has made an enormous sacrifice for love. She has undergone a sex change for a romantic interest who has abandoned her, and she now must struggle to reconcile her past life with her present identity.

The lackluster and plodding Bolweiser has the (mis)fortune to be married to the town’s siren; his trusting nature leads him into serious trouble when she beds nearly every available guy.

Franz Biberkopf é um gay pobre, que viaja com um circo. Consegue ganhar na loteria um milhão de marcos e atrai a atenção de um rapaz que está apenas interessado em seu dinheiro. Será que eles continuarão juntos após acabar a grana?

A comedy directed by Ulli Lommel.

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.

Emmi, uma viúva de 60 anos entra em um bar de Munique para escapar da chuva.É convidada por Ali, um negro muçulmano e 20 anos mais novo que ela, para dançar.O que leva Emmi a convidar Ali para passar a noite em seu apartamento e depois os dois começam a namorar.Mas todos a sua volta questionam e desprezam o relacionamento de ambos.

After the death of her abusive father, lonely librarian Martha is caught in a strange, sadomasochistic relationship with a monstrous husband whom she begins to suspect may be trying to murder her.

A German serial killer preys on boys and young men during the so-called years of crisis between the wars. Based on the true story of Fritz Haarmann, aka the Butcher of Hanover and the Vampire of Hanover.

Adaptado da peça homônima do próprio Fassbinder, Petra von Kant é uma estilista de sucesso extremamente arrogante e egocêntrica, que tem como única pessoa próxima sua secretária. Num dia, ela se apaixona por uma jovem aspirante à modelo chamada Karin, que vai morar em sua casa e usá-la até não precisar mais.

Hans is a street fruit peddler and born-loser. His choice of career upsets his bourgeois family, causing him to turn to drinking and violence. After recovering from a debilitating heart attack, his business finally begins to take off. However the more he becomes a credit to his family, the more depressed he becomes.

Hans is a street fruit peddler and born-loser. His choice of career upsets his bourgeois family, causing him to turn to drinking and violence. After recovering from a debilitating heart attack, his business finally begins to take off. However the more he becomes a credit to his family, the more depressed he becomes.

Tensions between members of a film crew build while they wait for the arrival of the director and star to arrive on location.

Pode um pequeno grupo de pessoas iniciar uma revolução proletária, pergunta o "Monge Negro" numa jaqueta de couro. O pastor medieval, Hans Boehm, afirma ter sido chamado pela Virgem Maria para criar uma revolta contra a Igreja e os latifundiários. O "Monge Negro" sugere que ele teria mais sucesso se vestisse Johanna e mandasse aparecer como a Virgem Maria.

Ricky returns to Munich from Vietnam and is promptly hired as a contract killer.