Oscar-winning director Florian Gallenberger explores the crucial role that foreigners played in helping countless Chinese...
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2009
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The Brothers Quay return for their first film in a decade with this live-action story of an 19th-century opera singer who is...
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Dr. Droz
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2006
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A woman whose marriage is in trouble finds herself falling for a new man as her husband's life hangs in the balance in this...
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2000
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1999
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Based on a novel by French author Michel Tournier, this drama chronicles the redemption of Abel, a French POW responsible...
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1999
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One of Germany's most important female directors, Doris Dörrie chose the subject of the universal quest for happiness for the...
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Herbert
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1998
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Pierce Brosnan made his first appearance as James Bond in this action thriller, the 17th in the series (excluding the 1967...
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1995
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From the directing team of identical twin brothers Timothy Quay and Stephen Quay, Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People...
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Johannes Benjamenta
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1995
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Set in England and Europe, Death Has a Bad Reputation stars Alan Howard as a crack British espionage agent. Howard breaks and...
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1991
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Using two parallel stories, this drama explores the reconstruction of Germany after the Second World war. To what extend did...
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Franz Bauer
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1989
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Based on a novel by Jack Higgins, this WW-II thriller chronicles the daring rescue of a captured American officer who has...
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1989
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When a secretary comes up missing after she witnessed a murder taking place, an unlikely couple of "relative-sleuths" (a duke...
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1988
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Berlin-born filmmaker Erwin Leiser cemented his reputation with the low-key 1959 documentary Mein Kampf. Combining newsreel...
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1986
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In this drama, Franza (Elisabeth Trissenaar) leads an unhappy life after she has an affair with a British officer at the end...
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British Officer
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1986
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Four decades have passed since the end of WW II, and a woman returns to Germany, her birthplace, in an effort to discover...
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1986
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Director Hans Neuenfels adapted this rather theatrical version of a 1920s play by Robert Musil on the angst of reaching 40+,...
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1985
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Sylvia Kristel adds her sexual allure to the story of Mata Hari (Margaretha Geertruida Zelle), executed by the French in 1917...
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Herr Wolff
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1985
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1985
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Per its title, Chinese Boxes plays the riddle-wrapped-in-a-mystery-wrapped-in-an-enigma angle to the hilt. Will Patton plays...
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Zwemmer
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1984
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1983
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Combining a part-documentary, part-fiction approach to the March, 1921 uprising of sailors at the port of Kronstadt (an...
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Petrichenko
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1983
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Glentz (Gottfried John) is a strongman who was once a member of the Foreign Legion. He is trying to fulfill his job as a...
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Glentz
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1983
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Inspired a song that was extremely popular with the German soldiers during WW II, this fictional story begins in 1938 while...
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1981
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Reinhold
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1980
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The film that elevated German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder from domestic approbation to international acclaim, The...
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Willi
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1979
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This Rainer Werner Fassbinder drama centers around the lonely quest for love of Elvira Weishaupt, a man who became a woman to...
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Anton Saitz
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1978
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Having made as many films as he had years, at 31, Rainer Werner Fassbinder essayed a slightly different approach for his 32nd...
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1978
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In Fedora, Billy Wilder approaches Hollywood stardom in the same fashion as he did in Sunset Boulevard--with cynicism,...
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1978
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Mother Kusters (Brigette Kira) is the wife of a factory worker who goes beserk one day, killing himself and the boss' son....
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1975
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1973
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1971
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1961
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