Hanna Schygulla

A jovem Bella Baxter é trazida de volta à vida pelo cientista Dr. Godwin Baxter. Querendo ver mais do mundo, ela foge com um advogado e viaja pelos continentes. Livre dos preconceitos de sua época, Bella exige igualdade e libertação.

Jean-Luc Godard is cinema, its quintessence. Just turned 91, he has made more than 140 films. We hate him as much as we worship him. Where does his aura come from? From legendary films of course, but also from Godard himself. He is a public figure as much as a man shrouded in mystery. Everything and its opposite, he has taken all possible paths. It is not easy to seize such a legendary, enigmatic giant. Godard’s itinerary follows one direction only: a constant renewal of his art. He sees the creative act as a necessary act of criticism and deconstruction.” I always start from the negative. I am a positive man who starts from the negative”. The artist reinvents himself tirelessly, and inevitably destroys himself. This portrait wants to take us beyond the clichés of a myth that has sometimes become caricatural, to meet a man more sentimental than it seems, a man inhabited, sometimes surpassed, by his art. Because yes, Godard is human. Not just a machine who thinks and creates images.

An investigative portrait of the master of cinematic melodrama, Douglas Sirk. His life was the ultimate melodrama, from which all his films were inspired. Through the testimonies of those closest to him and the unpublished accounts in his wife's diary, we get closer to this man surrounded by mystery.

Peter é um diretor de cinema de sucesso e mora com seu assistente Karl, a quem gosta de maltratar e humilhar. Sidonie, uma grande atriz que foi sua musa por muitos anos, o apresenta a Amir, um belo e modesto jovem. Peter se apaixona por Amir e se oferece para dividir seu apartamento com ele e ajudá-lo a entrar na indústria cinematográfica. O plano funciona, mas assim que ganha fama, Amir termina com Peter, deixando-o sozinho para enfrentar seus demônios.

The extraordinary story of Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf (1858-1940), creator of Nils Holgersson, a memorable and legendary literary character, and the first female storyteller to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1909); a woman as pioneering in her life as in her remarkable work.

Um documentário sobre a controversa carreira de Helmut Newton, fotógrafo pioneiro que teve impacto decisivo nos mundos da moda e da arte.

The story of Irmi Selver, who lost her family while fleeing Germany in 1939 and overcame tragedy and upheavals to establish a new life in New York.

Daphné Despero (Alice Isaaz) é uma ambiciosa editora em busca de novos romances para publicar. Um dia, enquanto visita seu pai, ela conhece uma livraria de manuscritos rejeitados. Lá, ela se encanta com uma história nunca antes publicada, escrita por um pizzaiolo bretão chamado Henri Pick. Admirada com o talento encontrado, ela começa a pesquisar sobre o autor e acaba descobrindo que ele faleceu há dois anos.

Thomas é viciado em drogas. Para dar um fim à esse hábito, ele decide participar de uma comunidade de ex-usuários que vivem isolados nas montanhas e usam a oração como uma forma de se curarem. Inicialmente relutante, Thomas aos poucos aceita se submeter a uma vida espartana de disciplina, abstinência, trabalho árduo e orações frequentes. Ele descobre a fé, mas também o amor, e um novo tipo de tormento.

Fortunata é uma mãe adolescente vivendo numa situação extremamente complicada e assombrada por um casamento fracassado. Como forma de mudar de vida, precisa lutar diariamente por seu sonho: abrir um salão de cabeleireiro desafiando seu próprio destino, numa tentativa de emancipar-se e adquirir sua independência e o direito à felicidade.

Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary is a trip through the auteur's singular cosmos - at once supernatural and earthbound. He dropped out of his studies to become a veterinarian, choosing instead to concern himself principally with the human animal, in our corporeal and yearning essence.

Documentary about the making of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1972 German television series EIGHT HOURS DON'T MAKE A DAY, featuring interviews with actors Hanna Schygulla, Irm Hermann, Wolfgang Schenck, and Hans Hirschmüller.

A writer struggles with her daughter's decision to drop out of college and live on the streets.

A film portrait of the influential Bavarian actor, director and screenwriter who publicly confessed his homosexuality.

A documentary about Marcello Mastroianni.

Verging on Alzheimer’s, an aging actress (played by Hanna Schygulla) finds that the power of memory is stronger than ever.

MARIANNE (Evabritt Strandberg) is a 68-year old woman diagnosed with a terminal disease. Left with angst, she seeks therapy at a clinic where she is treated with Psilocybin (LSD) and meditation by a counselor, Eva (Hanna Schygulla). Through this she is transferred to her subconscious, where she meets and confronts her 25-year old self and her former husband.

The film intertwines historical events and intimate memories. I observe how architecture represents the transformations of society and those who give form to this architecture. We follow the journey of Munio, my father, born in 1909 in Silesia, Poland, the son of a tenant farmer of a Prussian junker. At the age of 18, Munio goes to Berlin and Dessau to meet Walter Gropius, Kandinsky and Paul Klee at the Bauhaus. In 1933, the Bauhaus was closed by the Nazis, who accused Munio of treason against the German people. Munio was imprisoned, then deported to Basel. He left for Palestine. Upon his arrival in Haifa, he began a career as an architect and adapted European modernist principles to the Middle East.

What does ‘normal’ actually mean? And what is ‘crazy’? Everybody attempts to convince Léa that her mother, Suzanne, is mentally ill. Her father wants to see her returned to the psychiatric clinic, but Léa refuses to see her mother in the same light: Suzanne is happy – even if she doesn’t act like others expect her to. She appears to live a joyfully infantile existence after calmly letting go of life’s pressures. Léa captures her mother’s life on film and focuses her attention on examining the old super-8 films from the family archives. When she is left to drive her mother back to the clinic after a weekend at home, Léa grabs her opportunity: She turns the car around and whisks Suzanne off on a journey; a road trip without the judgements of others. AVANTI follows a mother-daughter relationship with an ease and depth that highlights the complexity of the emotional ties within a family.

A documentary that focuses on the making of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "The Marriage of Maria Braun".

Um retrato de Hanna Schygulla, a mais notável atriz do Novo Cinema Alemão. O documentário conta a história da artista relacionando-a com o poema Qualquer que seja o sonho, escrito por Jean-Claude Carrière para Hanna Schygulla.

Séc. XIX. Heinrich Faust é um filósofo e alquimista que vive frustrado pelas limitações do conhecimento humano. Tudo o que mais anseia é conhecer a natureza do mundo e o verdadeiro sentido da vida. Até que conhece Moneylender, que lhe dá a conhecer um lado mais obscuro e sórdido da realidade. É então que o seu novo amigo lhe propõe algo irrecusável: a sua alma em troca do amor de Margarete, a mulher que Faust deseja. E, claro, o conhecimento supremo.

Portugal viveu a Segunda Guerra Mundial dentro de um mundo de fantasia. A propaganda criou nos portugueses um nível de irrealidade fantasista em que a realidade violenta e terrível da guerra era uma coisa muito longínqua e de outro mundo.

Short film based on Thomas Mann's short story "Der Kleiderschrank".

Um retrato cinematográfico, rodado em Paris e Havana, que inclui trechos de filmes e apresentações teatrais de Alicia Bustamante, assim como encontros com amigos pessoais e colegas de trabalho, desta artista cubana.

Um retrato cinematográfico, rodado em Paris e Havana, que inclui trechos de filmes e apresentações teatrais de Alicia Bustamante, assim como encontros com amigos pessoais e colegas de trabalho, desta artista cubana.

Unique archives show a world that no longer exists: pre-war Poland in which two cultures: Jewish and Polish, coexisted wall-in-wall; cottage in a cottage; town next to town. "Po-lin" - meaning "we will stop here" in Yiddish - does not deny the painful past. It only shows that there was something more next to them. Worth remembering and - perhaps - reconstruction.

A documentary about the making of the television mini-series by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, including interviewees with the principal actors.

Do outro lado, novo filme do diretor alemão Fathi Akin, nos mostra como os destinos podem mudar dependendo de pequenos momentos, de pequenos acontecimentos. São três famílias, duas turcas e uma alemã. Seus membros estão espalhados entre os dois países. Yeter é uma prostituta quarentona turca que vive na Alemanha. Ela envia dinheiro para sua filha, Ayten, uma ativista política que vive em Istambul, na Turquia. Nejat é um professor numa universidade Alemã, seu pai, Ali, é um turco aposentado que inicia um romance com a prostituta Yeter. Lotte é uma jovem estudante universitária que vive com sua mãe, Susanne, na Alemanha. Os destinos dessas três famílias se cruzam de uma forma dramática e inesperada.

Despite advancing age, rural businessman Franz has remained fit and energetic, but serious mental illness and financial problems mean that this hitherto ordinary man one day finds himself on a journey to Nairobi to get his money back, and perhaps his human dignity as well.

Two very different love stories cross each other in warm and magical way. A humanistic and yet mysterious film about love and death near the German/Danish border.

A documentary by Hans Günther Pflaum and Peter H. Schröder.

O filme de Amos Gitai analisa o mundo da prostituição no Oriente Médio. Forçadas a viver em um cenário de tráfico sexual, as mulheres se unem e formam laços de amizade, apesar de serem tratadas como propriedade.

Though he never actually worked in Hollywood, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who died in 1982 at the age of 36, was influenced greatly by Amercian studio films of the 1950s and the convention of melodrama (the link most often mentioned is Douglas Sirk).

Dezenove pessoas com diferentes graus de deficiência visual, da miopia discreta à cegueira total, falam como se veem, como veem os outros e como percebem o mundo. O escritor José Saramago, o músico Hermeto Paschoal, o cineasta Wim Wenders, entre outros, fazem revelações pessoais e inesperadas sobre vários aspectos relativos à visão.

Esta história se passa em uma pequena cidade na planície húngara. Em uma cidade provincial, que é cercada com nada mais do que gelo. É tempo muito frio - sem neve. Mesmo neste confuso frio centenas de pessoas estão em pé ao redor da tenda de circo, que é colocar-se na praça principal, para ver - como o resultado de sua espera - a principal atração, a carcaça empalhada de uma baleia verdadeira. As pessoas estão vindo de todos os lugares. A partir dos assentamentos vizinhos, mesmo de muito longe as partes do país. Eles estão seguindo esse monstro desajeitado como um mudo, sem rosto, pano vestindo multidão. Este estranho estado de coisas - o surgimento dos estrangeiros, a geada extremo - perturba a ordem da pequena cidade. Ambiciosos personagens da história acham que podem tirar proveito desta situação. A tensão crescente com o insuportável é trazido a explosão, a figura do príncipe, que está fingindo ausência de face.

An essay film in which filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim interviews "the willing victims of Rainer Werner Fassbinder."

Jack Altieri, a young Italian-American restaurant owner, arrives at Vesta awaits him a painting of the sixteenth century that depicts the veiled face of Medea of Carpi, noble woman processed to witchcraft. Shortly after the arrival of Jack, a country girl is killed in a mysterious way, dropping the suspicions of the Commissioner Gianzi on the young restorer, who is soon advised to not complete the work on the opera, because it would hide an ancient curse.

Documentary musing upon the work of German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

51-year-old Herbert Strehlow, a furniture restorer, falls in love with 21-year-old Lea, who has not spoken a word since childhood when her father killed her mother. She bears a striking resemblance to Herbert's dead wife. They get married, but their relationship seems doomed, until gradually each one manages to penetrate the mysterious world of the other, and they begin to realize that they are bound by a kind of spiritual relationship. For Lea it is the death of her mother, for Herbert it is the death of his first wife. His hard exterior slowly beings to thaw, and he starts to show feelings and responses that soften Lea's initial hatred and fear of him, and which put their relationship in a more positive light.

Ernest, Ted and August fulfill their friend Carl's dying wish and take him to Heidelberg, where they all first met 45 years ago, to see his old girlfriend one last time. However, the locals won't talk about her, due to a WW2 secret.

A meditation on the first 100 years of German cinema, featuring some of its greatest directors.

Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he engages a young woman to tell him stories about all the movies ever made. Also a line of movie stars comes to visit him giving him back the pleasure of life - but amongst them there are also some young students only striving after his money for the realization of their film projects. The two stories - Monsieur Cinema's and the young people's life - are told in parallel until they come together in the end when the old man plays a role in the film made by the students.

This movie is about love affairs, simple pleasures of a few men and women who will gather for a few days in a villa, around a piano and the music of Gottschalk who is perhaps the main actor.

Mavi Sürgün is a fictionalized account of one period of the life of a Turkish journalist who was condemned to exile for an article he wrote in 1925. He turned his punishment into a reward by creating a little paradise in what is today the holiday resort, Bodrum. In fact he is considered by some to be the first ecologist. The film concentrates on this latter aspect of his character and through flashbacks portrays the inner turmoil of a man who is trying to come to terms with his past. The slow pace is somewhat of a drawback, the flashbacks are often confusing and the protagonist is not always very convincing. But the photography of the country side is exceptional Kenan Ormanlar and the short appearance by a very theatrical Hanna Schygulla of Fassbinder fame adds a little spice to the drama.

On the Schiermoser farm tense expectation prevails. The 'Urban', the Schaubleins, surprisingly announced their arrival. In the past, they were welcome as generous summer visitors. But now the shortage years of the First World War prevail. And the farmer's wife suspects lazy parasites in the townsfolk. The city family is indeed facing ruin. Especially since the defiant daughter Rosalie has just knocked out a promising money marriage without regard to scandal. The Rosalie is attracted to the Schiermoser heir Franz. His mother already drives the thought of a 'Madame Bäurin' to madness. Everyone experiences a turbulent time of upheaval. The end of the First World War will shake the social fronts as well as the new machine age.

Danny Cornish, a sort of stateless man who arranges art exhibits, is called from Tel Aviv to Paris with the news that a great uncle has died, in Birobidjan, the autonomous Jewish zone in Russia, leaving him a valuable art collection and the hand of a huge sculpture of a Golem. The uncle's will instructs Danny to find the rest of the statue, so Danny, who speaks no Russian, embarks on a trip that takes him (and the Golem's hand) to Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Siberia, fumbling with hotel clerks, taxi drivers, and bureaucrats, following leads, and making discoveries about myth, story telling, art, and hope.

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

An allegory of the Golem, a Jewish mythical creature personifying displacement and exile, this film tells the story of a woman (similar to the biblical Ruth) and her sisters, who are forced into exile after the death of their husbands. It is set in 1990s Paris, where the director was living in self-imposed exile following the ban on his 1982 documentary in Israel. The recurring theme of the film is migrations and unrooting, like the legendary Golem.

In the winter of 1943 two young Jews, Alek and Fryda, escape, via sewer tunnels, from the atrocities underway in Warsaw ghetto. Alek, entrusted with undeveloped photos of the horrors within, makes his way to a supposedly safe apartment only to find it occupied by Germans. Another tenant, a pole Stephania, abruptly offers to shelter him in her spacious apartment. She comforts him and they make love that very night. Stefania is uncommonly generous and willing to jeopardize her own safety by hiding a Jew. She even goes to a nearby church and rescues Fryda. But Fryda is ungrateful and proceeds to sabotage the trio's safety in insidious ways.

Mike Church é um detetive de LA, com talento para piadas e para achar pessoas desaparecidas. Mas Church não tem pista nenhuma quando é contratado para ajudar uma bela vítima com amnésia, atormentada por pesadelos apavorantes. É então que um excêntrico antiquário e hipnotizador leva Church a uma surpreendente descoberta: a origem dos pesadelos é uma conexão com a vida passada de Margaret Strauss, uma famosa pianista supostamente assassinada por seu marido compositor… em 1948. Na clássica tradição de Quando Fala o Coração e Rebecca, Voltar a Morrer “traz de volta um excitante tipo de filme” (Tom Jacobs, Los Angeles Daily News). Coestrelado por Andy Garcia.

In Paris, unhappy movie actress Catherine Crachat becomes infatuated with the mathematician Pierre Indemini, but then breaks up with him. After a film shoot in Vienna, Catherine stays with a rich admirer, Fanny Hohenstein. Fanny has a history of many lovers of both sexes, two of whom killed themselves over her.

In this tragic melodrama, a man who has been hiding his Nazi past has it come back to haunt him when his hippie daughter, whom he disapproves of, comes back to bond with her daughter, whom he's been raising. Meanwhile, he and his drinking buddy, a beer-truck driver, go on a jaunt to Poland to recover some gold fillings he had hidden years ago during the time when he worked in a concentration camp. The truck driver inadvertently leaves a filling lying around at home, and his mother immediately recognizes it for what it is. When she confronts him, he claims that "Jews don't mean anything to me" and she must then reveal his Jewish heritage to him: she was a housekeeper in a Jewish household and he was a child there whom she adopted during the Holocaust in order to save his life. The driver then confronts the wily old Nazi, who conceives a brutal scheme which will save his cozy life at the expense of the reputations of the driver and his granddaughter.

Mrs. Forbes, a German governess, is hired for six weeks to take care of two children, while their parents are away. She is authoritarian and repressive, so the children plan to murder her. But when they spy on her during the night, they discover Mrs. Forbes' secret.

Story of the owners (Mastroianni and Schygulla) of a fancy nightclub in Budapest before and during WWII.

TV Movie version of the story of Giacomo Casanova, the famous eighteenth century womanizer.

The amazing biography of legendary circus impresario and unparalleled showman, P.T. Barnum.

When Elaine, an adventurous young woman from Germany, arrives in New York City, she sets out to be a famous writer. After a brief stint at a mundane job, Elaine falls on hard times and also becomes intrigued by a mysterious stranger named Lulu. Before long, Elaine gets roped into situations involving theft, murder and the mob. Can the beleaguered expatriate with big dreams turn her life around and steer clear of crime and chaos?

Cinco anos depois de o major Scott McCoy demitir-se da Força Delta devido a questões burocráticas, ele retorna com o coronel Alexander para prender terroristas libaneses que sequestraram um Boeing 707. O líder terrorista Abdul Rifi faz de refém a tripulação e redireciona o avião para Beirute. Quando McCoy e Alexander tentam salvar os reféns, eles são forçados a combater um grupo de terroristas que é maior do que o esperado.

In this improbable, ponderous story about a couple who do not want to have children of their own, and a pregnant, single woman who needs a home for awhile, the relationship between the three is strange, at the very least.

In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that he left 40 years before. He wants to discover what happened then, the truth about an affair his mother had with a young Polish prisoner of war, how the authorities came to learn of it, the lovers' arrest, and the aftermath. While his son takes Polaroid photographs, he retraces the steps of his childhood and interviews those who should remember. The story is disclosed in flashbacks that focus on the lovers (Paulina and Stanislaus), on a jealous and conniving neighbor, and on Mayer, the local SS commander who wants to find a way out of inevitable consequences.

Olga and Ruth become friends. Olga is independent, separated from her husband, living with an immigrant pianist, and teaching feminist literature. Ruth is withdrawn, a painter, possibly mentally ill. Ruth dreams in black and white, sometimes of her suicide. Olga lectures on a 19th-century writer, von Günderrode, a suicide after the breakup of her intense friendship with Bettina Brentano. Ruth's husband Franz encourages the women's friendship, then, as Olga draws Ruth out and the friendship deepens, he becomes jealous. After the women travel to Egypt, Franz has a tirade. Ruth seems crushed between her husband and her friend, and how she responds is the film's climax.

Piera is a young woman who grows up under the parentage of two extremely original overseers: both her mother and father have incestuous relations with her before they are committed to insane asylums. A special connection, between a mother and her daughter, full of sensuality and complicity, has allowed to portray a family full of fears, rather unbalanced, but nevertheless searching infinite love.

Anna is a psychologist undertaking research about famous suicidal women. She takes a specific interest in the case of Antonieta Rivas Mercado, who killed herself in 1931 in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris.

Diretor polonês lida com produtores e obstáculos para fazer um documentário sobre luz e imagem.

Em 1791, durante a Revolução Francesa, uma carruagem tenta sair da França, levando passageiros que querem fugir da situação enquanto enfrentam seus dramas. Entre eles, um patriota americano, um escritor e o famoso conquistador Casanova.

Godard constructs a lyrical study of the cinematic and creative process by deconstructing the story of his 1982 film Passion. “I didn’t want to write the script,” he states, “I wanted to see it.” Positioning himself in a video editing suite in front of a white film screen that evokes for him the “famous blank page of Mallarmé,” Godard uses video as a sketchbook with which to reconceive the film. The result is a philosophical, often humorous rumination on the desire and labor that inform the conceptual and image making process of the cinema.

Georg Laschen leaves his family in West Germany to go work as a war correspondent in Beirut during the fights between Christians and Palestinians.

A documentary about the Director Fassbinder but edited as if it was a film of the Master himself, with some sequences of his own movies.

Ao gravar a canção "Lili Marlene", Wilkie (Hanna Schygulla) se torna a cantora mais popular da Alemanha de Hitler. Mas mesmo no auge da fama, não encontra a felicidade por viver um amor proibido com Robert (Giancarlo Giannini), um músico judeu que participa da resistência contra os nazistas. Baseado na autobiografia da cantora Lale Andersen.

Inverno de 1978, Berlim Ocidental. Um grupo de radicais alemães desajeitados (unidos mais pelo comportamento sigiloso do que pelas convicções políticas) sai do radar quando Paul é morto pela polícia. Os jovens terroristas sequestram Peter Lurz, representante de uma empresa informática americana.

Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, Maria e Hermann Braun se casam apressadamente, mas ficam juntos menos de 24 horas porque Hermann precisa voltar à frente de batalha. Ao final da guerra, ele é dado como desaparecido. Maria se emprega em um bar, conhece um soldado americano e fica grávida. Certa noite, Hermann volta para a casa e a surpreende com o soldado. Enfurecido, ele os agride e acaba sendo preso. Pouco depois, Maria vai trabalhar para um homem de negócios, sendo sua secretária e confidente. Ao sair da prisão, Hermann decide tentar a sorte em outro país. Alguns anos mais tarde, ele e Maria se reencontram e procuram esclarecer seu trágico passado.

Encouraged by Fassbinder, with whom he became friendly after the then-enfant terrible of the German cinema visited him in Lugano, Sirk also did some teaching during the late 1970s at the film school in Munich, where he made three short films with his students.

Based on the best-selling novel by Nobel-laureate Heinrich Böll, this drama is a passionate indictment of Catholicism. Hans Schnier (Helmut Griem) has earned his living as a clown, though he is in fact a very covert sort of social critic. After enduring a difficult childhood in Bonn during the Second World War, including his mother's fanatic Nazism, he is appalled to discover many of the people he knows and loves swept deeply into involvement in the Catholic Church.

Baseado em Goethe, o filme descreve seis dias na vida de Wilhelm. No vagão de um trem ele encontra desde um atleta que participou das Olimpíadas de 1936, uma atriz, até interromper o suicídio de um passageiro. Estréia no cinema de Nastassja Kinski.

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.

Based on Franz Xaver Kroetz's play, which is in turn based on a true story, this film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder tells the story of a very young girl who, after persuading a local boy to become her lover, induces the anger of her father, whose incestuous sexual attentions to her have grown unbearable.

A very stylized TV version of the Fassbinder play. The set consists of a few pieces of furniture in front of a large screen on which coastal scenery is back projected. Geesche is a nineteenth century woman who wants to have a mind of her own. She defies convention and will do anything to achieve her freedom from oppression by her family and friends. (synopsis written by Will Gilbert)

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.

Adaptation of Robert Walser's novel about a young man who enters an oppressive servant school.

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

"Whity" é o mordomo mulato da família Nicholson disfuncional no sudoeste americano em 1878. O pai, Ben Nicholson, tem uma atraente jovem esposa Katherine e dois filhos de um casamento anterior; o homossexual Frank e o retardado Davy. Whity tenta cumprir todas as suas ordens, ainda que humilhantes, até que vários membros da família lhe pedem para matar alguns dos outros.

Inspired by the real life events of Mathias Kneißl, a marginal man, son of poor farmers from Bavaria, in the late XIX Century. Mathias stole from the riches to give to the poor, becoming a hero for the rural people, and a popular social rebel. He was chased by the police until his unfortunate sentence.

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 and Guenther, working in dead-end jobs, are obsessed with going to Peru to find buried treasure, using a map of the Rio das Mortes. Michel's girlfriend, Hanna, humors their plan, but really just wants to get married.

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.

A man is released from prison and finds the society on the outside less than appealing. With several women as well as the police on his tail, he sets out to find an old friend.

Sr. Raab, designer industrial e pai de família, leva uma vida pacífica e confortável. Pode levar algum tempo até que ele seja promovido, principalmente depois de fazer um brinde embriagado em um jantar entre colegas. Mas por que deu a louca no Sr. R.?

"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.

Avant-garde adaptation of a Carlo Goldoni play. Well-to-do Venetians congregate in a coffee house and discuss their problems.

Small-time pimp Franz is torn between his mistress and Bruno, the gangster sent after him by a shady crime syndicate he's refused to join.

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.’

A group of young slackers spend most of their time hanging out in front of a Munich apartment building. When a Greek immigrant named Jorgos moves in, however, their aimless lives are shaken up. Soon new tensions arise both within the group and with Jorgos.

Abram returns to his small village and although his repairing skills are needed, people's suspicion about his sexual preferences make his life hard.

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.