Hanna Schygulla Movies

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...

Can a small group of people start a proletarian revolution, asks the "Black Monk" in a leather jacket. The medieval shepherd, Hans Boehm, claims to...

A meditation on the first 100 years of German cinema, featuring an assembly of German filmmakers.

Based on the best-selling novel by Nobel-laureate Heinrich Böll, this drama is a passionate indictment of Catholicism. Hans Schnier (Helmut...

A parade of well-known actors and directors from Germany

Nineteen people with differing degrees of visual impairment – from mild nearsightedness to total blindness – discuss how they see...

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

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

The film intertwines historical events and intimate memories. I observe how architecture represents the transformations of society and those who give...

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

Berta, a naive young maid, searches for love when the army engineers come to town to build a bridge.

An allegory of the Golem, a Jewish mythical creature personifying displacement and exile, this film tells the story of a woman (similar to the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Anna is a psychologist undertaking research about famous suicidal women. She takes a specific interest in the case of Antonieta Rivas Mercado, who...

An actor and poet falls in love with a former mortuary photographer turned waitress. They find themselves caught up way over their heads in a dirty...

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