When 22-year-old Rainer Werner Fassbinder storms the stage of a small, progressive theatre in Munich 1967, and seizes the production without further ado, nobody suspects this brazen young rebel to become one of the most important post-war German filmmakers. Despite early setbacks, many of his films breakout at the most renowned films festivals and polarise audience, critics and filmmakers alike. His radical views and self-exploitation, as well as his longing for love, have made him one of the most fascinating film directors of this time.
In 1984 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and h...
A group of late 19th century German teenagers – silenced and controlled by a censorious society – di...
Clara and Hans are left-wing terrorists who have been sought by police for almost fifteen years. The...
Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown ...
A motorcycle gang in post-war Germany wreaks havok on a town, until one of their members begins to h...
Michaela, an epileptic, enrolls in college to study education. She goes off her medication and soon ...
Bernd, an insurance broker trainee, flees his mundane life in Germany to set a new World record in h...
The ennui of a filmmaker, trapped between aspiration and reality, frames Lana Jing’s quirky, sarcast...
A criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of...
A 9th century woman of English extraction born in the German city of Ingelheim disguises herself as ...
In 1960, a hardy group of prep school students boards an old-fashioned sailing ship. With Capt. Chri...
Young Bundeswehr soldiers Tom and Charly are stationed in Kosovo with the KFOR peacekeeping force. T...
The lives of six German-Turkish immigrants are drawn together by circumstance: An old man and a pros...
The events in Sarajevo in June 1914 are the backdrop for a thriller directed by Andreas Prochaska an...
The real Great Escape didn't feature Steve McQueen racing through the Third Reich on a motorcycle li...
The adaptation of the eponymous play by Carl Zuckmayer tells the story of renegade general Harras of...
A documentation about the reconstruction and destruction of german cities after the 2nd World War.
At the start of World War I, Paul Baumer is a young German patriot, eager to fight. Indoctrinated wi...
Sarawak, in the northeast of the island of Borneo, 1839. Almost by chance, the British adventurer Ja...