Hanna Schygulla
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1943-12-25
Locus Natus: Chorzów, Polska
Et ut:
Lili Marleen
The story of a German singer named Willie who while working in Switzerland falls in love with a Jewish composer named Robert whose family is helping...
release : 1981.01.14popularis : 6.075
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. She must rely on her beauty and ambition to...
release : 1979.03.23popularis : 7.788
Effi Briest
When 17-year-old Effi Briest marries the elderly Baron von Instetten, she moves to a small, isolated Baltic town and a house that she fears is...
release : 1974.06.20popularis : 2.681
Gods of the Plague
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...
release : 1970.07.24popularis : 4.929
A Love in Germany
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...
release : 1983.10.26popularis : 1.86
Douglas Sirk – Hope as in Despair
An investigative portrait of the master of cinematic melodrama, Douglas Sirk. His life was the ultimate melodrama, from which all his films were...
release : 2022.08.03popularis : 0.589
Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?
The life of a married Munich technical draftsman with a son.
release : 1970.06.28popularis : 7.158
The Merchant of Four Seasons
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...
release : 1972.02.10popularis : 6.479
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
Petra von Kant is a successful fashion designer -- arrogant, caustic, and self-satisfied. She mistreats Marlene (her secretary, maid, and...
release : 1972.10.05popularis : 11.355
The Edge of Heaven
The lives of six German-Turkish immigrants are drawn together by circumstance: An old man and a prostitute forging a partnership, a young scholar...
release : 2007.09.27popularis : 12.461
Wrong Move
Six days in the life of Wilhelm: a detached man without qualities. He wants to write, so his mother gives him a ticket to Bonn, telling him to live....
release : 1977.01.27popularis : 4.957
Hanna Schygulla – quel que soit le songe
A deeply felt personal story of Hanna Schygulla filmed in 2012 at a moment when she was moving back to Germany, to Berlin, having lived for twenty...
release : 2012.01.01popularis : 0.389
Werckmeister Harmonies
A naive young man witnesses an escalation of violence in his small hometown following the arrival of a mysterious circus attraction.
release : 2001.02.01popularis : 9.337
Katzelmacher
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,...
release : 1969.10.07popularis : 2.981
Dead Again
In 1949, composer Roman Strauss is executed for the murder of his wife. In 1990s Los Angeles, a detective comes across a mute amnesiac woman who is...
release : 1991.08.23popularis : 12.469
Beware of a Holy Whore
Tensions between members of a film crew build while they wait for the arrival of the director and star to arrive on location.
release : 1971.08.28popularis : 3.339
Godard's Passion
While shooting a film, the director becomes interested in the unfolding struggle of a young factory worker that has been laid off by a boss who did...
release : 1982.05.26popularis : 5.713
Love Is Colder Than Death
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.
release : 1970.01.16popularis : 3.214
Filmlegenden. Deutsch
A parade of well-known actors and directors from Germany
release : 2005.06.26popularis : 4.326
Sheer Madness
Olga and Ruth become friends. Olga is independent, separated from her husband, living with an immigrant pianist, and teaching feminist literature....
release : 1983.02.25popularis : 1.19
The Night of Varennes
During the French Revolution, a surprising company shares a coach, trying to catch up something - the time itself, perhaps.
release : 1982.05.15popularis : 8.099
Antonieta
Anna is a psychologist undertaking research about famous suicidal women. She takes a specific interest in the case of Antonieta Rivas Mercado, who...
release : 1982.10.21popularis : 1.697
Ophelia
Verging on Alzheimer’s, an aging actress (played by Hanna Schygulla) finds that the power of memory is stronger than ever.
release : 2014.09.28popularis : 0.729
The Delta Force
A 707 aircraft jetliner, en route from Athens to Rome and then to New York City, is hijacked by Lebanese terrorists, who demand that the pilot take...
release : 1986.02.14popularis : 28.554
Janela da Alma
Nineteen people with differing degrees of visual impairment – from mild nearsightedness to total blindness – discuss how they see...
release : 2001.10.20popularis : 4.674
Circle of Deceit
Georg Laschen leaves his family in West Germany to go work as a war correspondent in Beirut during the fights between Christians and Palestinians.
release : 1981.10.15popularis : 2.574
Promised Land
"Promised Land" tells the story of a group of young unwitting Estonian girls smuggled through Egypt to be auctioned off as prostitutes in Israel, and...
release : 2004.04.11popularis : 1.953
Peter von Kant
Peter von Kant, a successful, famous director, lives with his assistant Karl, whom he likes to mistreat and humiliate. Through the great actress...
release : 2022.07.06popularis : 10.489
The Future Is Woman
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...
release : 1984.09.05popularis : 3.914
Marcello Mastroianni, latin lover
A documentary about Marcello Mastroianni.
release : 2015.01.01popularis : 2.033
The Story of Piera
Piera is a young woman who grows up under the parentage of two extremely original overseers: both her mother and father have incestuous relations...
release : 1983.02.02popularis : 5.67
The Quiet Love
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...
release : 2005.11.22popularis : 1.288
Winter Journey
Despite advancing age, rural businessman Franz has remained fit and energetic, but serious mental illness and financial problems mean that this...
release : 2006.11.23popularis : 2.995
Life's Little Treasures
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...
release : 1994.01.12popularis : 1.211
One Hundred and One Nights
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...
release : 1995.01.25popularis : 7.564
Faust
A doctor in early 19th-century Germany becomes infatuated with the sister of a man he unintentionally killed and bargains with the Devil incarnate to...
release : 2011.09.08popularis : 7.603
Whity
"Whity" is the mulatto butler of the dysfunctional Nicholson family in the American southwest in 1878. The father, Ben Nicholson, has an attractive...
release : 1971.06.02popularis : 3.875
Cinémania : Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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.
release : 1981.04.27popularis : 0.579
The Niklashausen Journey
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...
release : 1970.10.26popularis : 1.175
The Third Generation
A wildly anarchic satire of guerrilla terrorism in which a band of leftist radicals inadvertently become puppets of the West German government, which...
release : 1979.05.30popularis : 5.217
I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
A documentary about the life and work of director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
release : 1992.06.11popularis : 5.076
The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp
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...
release : 1968.10.10popularis : 2.117
Poor Things
Brought back to life by an unorthodox scientist, a young woman runs off with a lawyer on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the...
release : 2023.12.07popularis : 80.632
Hunting Scenes from Bavaria
Abram returns to his small village and although his repairing skills are needed, people's suspicion about his sexual preferences make his life hard.
release : 1969.05.29popularis : 1.939
Warsaw: Year 5703
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...
release : 1992.08.26popularis : 2.425
The Night of the Filmmakers
A meditation on the first 100 years of German cinema, featuring an assembly of German filmmakers.
release : 1995.02.12popularis : 1.61
Life, Love & Celluloid
Documentary musing upon the work of German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
release : 1998.02.20popularis : 0.439
Pioneers in Ingolstadt
Berta, a naive young maid, searches for love when the army engineers come to town to build a bridge.
release : 1971.05.19popularis : 2.428
Bremen Freedom
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...
release : 1972.11.12popularis : 2.432
The Blue Exile
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...
release : 1993.05.27popularis : 1.194
Rio das Mortes
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...
release : 1971.02.15popularis : 1.712
The Coffee House
Avant-garde adaptation of a Carlo Goldoni play. Well-to-do Venetians congregate in a coffee house and discuss their problems.
release : 1970.05.18popularis : 2.045
The Clown
Based on the best-selling novel by Nobel-laureate Heinrich Böll, this drama is a passionate indictment of Catholicism. Hans Schnier (Helmut...
release : 1976.01.14popularis : 1.965
Von Sex bis Simmel
A documentary by Hans Günther Pflaum and Peter H. Schröder.
release : 2005.02.04popularis : 2.342
The Quiet Roar
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...
release : 2014.04.11popularis : 1.156
Fassbinder in Hollywood
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...
release : 2002.07.02popularis : 1.794
Grüße von Rosita aus Peru
Rosita Hernandez, a nine-year-old Indio girl, tells about the everyday life of her family living in the the desert plain between the Andes and the...
release : 1976.01.01popularis : 0.508
Das ABC ist subversiv
Documentary directed by Hans Rolf Strobel
release : 1981.04.19popularis : 1.229
Yunan
After being granted asylum in Germany, a renowned Arab author is not allowed to return home. Tired and embittered by his life in exile, Munir sets...
release : 1970.01.01popularis : 1.588
Fassbinder Produces: Film No. 8
About the making of "Der amerikanische Soldat/The American Soldier" in 1970.
release : 1971.01.27popularis : 1.69
Jail Bait
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...
release : 1973.01.09popularis : 2.284
Mathias Kneißl
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...
release : 1971.05.27popularis : 1.624
The Sunset Boys
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...
release : 1995.08.04popularis : 1.537
The Girl of Your Dreams
A company of Spanish movie makers leaves Franco's Spain and moves to Hitler's Germany to make a film in co-production. Soon some problems start to...
release : 1998.11.13popularis : 7.668
Baal
Baal explores the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality.
release : 1970.01.07popularis : 5.538
Golem: The Petrified Garden
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...
release : 1993.01.01popularis : 1.06
Madame Bäurin
On the Schiermoser farm tense expectation prevails. The 'Urban', the Schaubleins, surprisingly announced their arrival. In the past, they were...
release : 1993.01.01popularis : 1.972
Abraham's Gold
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,...
release : 1990.04.26popularis : 2.01
Golem, l'esprit de l'exil
An allegory of the Golem, a Jewish mythical creature personifying displacement and exile, this film tells the story of a woman (similar to the...
release : 1992.09.24popularis : 0.657
Hey Stranger
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...
release : 1994.01.01popularis : 0.606
Fassbinder
A film portrait of the influential Bavarian actor, director and screenwriter who publicly confessed his homosexuality.
release : 2015.04.30popularis : 1.223
New Year's Eve
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...
release : 1978.12.31popularis : 1.238
Lea
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...
release : 1996.12.12popularis : 1.11
Casanova
The life story of an 18th century womanizer who's arrested, not so much for his crimes, but because he's viewed as an undesirable by the husbands and...
release : 1987.03.01popularis : 3.143
Godard Cinema
Jean-Luc Godard is synonymous with cinema. With the release of Breathless in 1960, he established himself overnight as a cinematic rebel and symbol...
release : 2023.06.05popularis : 3.983
Forever, Lulu
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...
release : 1986.11.13popularis : 4.014
Magdalena Hausen: Frozen Time
Magdalena Hausen, a German artist, tried to capture the wind on camera. Her life story, from early years to mysterious disappearance 15 years ago.
release : 1970.01.01popularis : 1.138
The Crossing
In a small town plunged into darkness, two children, Kyona and Adriel, are separated from their parents and, facing the path of exile alone, embark...
release : 2021.09.29popularis : 5.724
Jakob von Gunten
Adaptation of Robert Walser's novel about a young man who enters an oppressive servant school.
release : 1971.10.06popularis : 1.155
The Summer of Miss Forbes
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...
release : 1989.03.03popularis : 1.398
Barnum
The amazing biography of legendary circus impresario and unparalleled showman, P.T. Barnum.
release : 1986.11.30popularis : 3.06
Fassbinder’s Women
An essay film in which filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim interviews "the willing victims of Rainer Werner Fassbinder."
release : 2000.11.10popularis : 1.456
Unless
A writer struggles with her daughter's decision to drop out of college and live on the streets.
release : 2016.10.14popularis : 4.03
Avanti
What does ‘normal’ actually mean? And what is ‘crazy’? Everybody attempts to convince Léa that her mother, Suzanne, is...
release : 2012.09.22popularis : 3.068
Adventure of Catherine C.
In Paris, unhappy movie actress Catherine Crachat becomes infatuated with the mathematician Pierre Indemini, but then breaks up with him. After a...
release : 1990.08.29popularis : 1.736
Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz: A Mega Movie and Its Story
A documentary about the making of the television mini-series by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, including interviewees with the principal actors.
release : 2007.11.13popularis : 1.739
Lucky
The story of a young mother with a failed marriage behind her, who fights daily for her dream to open a hair salon, challenging her fate in an effort...
release : 2017.05.20popularis : 6.387
Once Upon a Time… The Marriage of Maria Braun
A documentary that focuses on the making of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "The Marriage of Maria Braun".
release : 2012.06.12popularis : 1.236
The Prayer
Thomas is a drug addict. In an effort to put an end to his habit, he joins a community of former addicts who live isolated in the mountains and use...
release : 2018.03.21popularis : 7.233
Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day: A Series Becomes a Family Reunion
Documentary about the making of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1972 German television series EIGHT HOURS DON'T MAKE A DAY, featuring interviews with...
release : 2017.02.13popularis : 1.307
Angelo Nero
Jack Altieri, a young Italian-American restaurant owner, arrives at Vesta awaits him a painting of the sixteenth century that depicts the veiled face...
release : 1998.06.24popularis : 1.442
Heiligendamm
Short film based on Thomas Mann's short story "Der Kleiderschrank".
release : 2010.01.02popularis : 0.582
Miss Arizona
Story of the owners (Mastroianni and Schygulla) of a fancy nightclub in Budapest before and during WWII.
release : 1988.02.04popularis : 1.112
Po-lin. Shards of Memory
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...
release : 2008.10.09popularis : 0.61
Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful
Women were clearly at the core of legendary photographer Helmut Newton's work. The stars of his iconic portraits and fashion editorials – from...
release : 2020.08.02popularis : 4.714
The Mystery of Henri Pick
In a bizarre Breton library that collects rejected, never published manuscripts, a young editor discovers a novel that she considers a masterpiece....
release : 2019.03.06popularis : 7.364
Irmi
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.
release : 2020.07.17popularis : 0.785
End of the Commune?
"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...
release : 1970.06.05popularis : 0.987
Scénario du film Passion
Godard constructs a lyrical study of the cinematic and creative process by deconstructing the story of his 1982 film Passion. “I didn’t...
release : 1982.01.28popularis : 0.74
Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary
Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary is a trip through the auteur's singular cosmos - at once supernatural and earthbound. He dropped out of his...
release : 2017.05.09popularis : 1.499
Everything Went Fine
When her elderly father has a stroke, Emmanuelle rushes to his bedside. Sick and half-paralysed in his hospital bed, he asks Emmanuelle to help him...
release : 2021.07.18popularis : 15.566
Lusitanian Illusion
Images and sounds expose the duality of Portugal during the days of WW2: a peaceful, god-loving, rural country, providing an escape route for over...
release : 2010.04.22popularis : 3.344
The Wonderful Journey of Selma Lagerlöf
The extraordinary story of Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf (1858-1940), creator of Nils Holgersson, a memorable and legendary literary character,...
release : 2020.12.19popularis : 1.538
Lullaby to my Father
The film intertwines historical events and intimate memories. I observe how architecture represents the transformations of society and those who give...
release : 2012.10.30popularis : 4.507