Writer/director Steve Hudson patterned his debut feature, True North, after classic Greek tragedy. This bleak and despairing...
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2006
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Werner Herzog returned to dramatic filmmaking for the first time in a decade with this historical drama, based on a true...
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2002
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Janek Rieke wrote, directed, and stars in this German romantic comedy about loser Jonas ($Rieke), a 26-year-old with...
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1998
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Two terminal patients leave their hospital beds for the open highway in this German road movie, a popular success in Germany....
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1997
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A U.S. historian gets the chilling opportunity of a lifetime to interview one of Western Civilization's greatest villains...
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1996
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An unpredictable black comedy with an epic scope, Emir Kusturica's highly acclaimed Underground takes a look at the modern...
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1995
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Two star-crossed lovers, separated by the Berlin wall for thirty years are reunited. The major events in their separate...
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1994
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Quite a few years ago, Isaak Kohler (Maximillian Schell) cooly walked up to a man everyone assumed was his friend and shot...
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1993
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In this slapstick satire, Fritz is a life-long forger of Nazi memorabilia. He got his start as a boy, selling items of...
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1992
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1992
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Friedrich (Uwe Bohm) manages to escape from East Germany to the West in the 1950s. On his arrival, he is greeted with the...
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Director, Direktor
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1990
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1989
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Hanna Frey is the director of a mental institution, and so much of her time is spent with the seriously deranged residents...
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Head doctor
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1989
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In this German and Turkish romance, a cocky young man joins a judo class and bets his male classmates that he can get any...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1988
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1988
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Konig is a very minor cog in a huge piece of legal machinery, a low-level state prosecutor. He would like to be a bigger cog,...
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Director, Screenwriter, Konig
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1987
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Ferdinand (Thierry Lhermitte) is a 30-year-old blind virgin who hopes to have sex in this black comedy. He lives in a...
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1987
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In a low-budget stream-of-consciousness approach to people and scenery, director Pia Frankenberg as Martha and Klaus Bueb as...
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1985
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The unfortunate Traugot (Lou Castel) suddenly finds himself sandwiched between his former lover Freya (director Helke Sander)...
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1984
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This docudrama by director Hark Bohm is about a famous murder case in West Germany during the early 1980s (the Marie...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1984
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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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1981
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This low-budget, thought-provoking drama uses both laughter and a slowly dawning symbolism to nudge social and political...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1980
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1980
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Several hilarious scenes are interspersed throughout this comedy featuring director and singer Udo Lindenberg as a pop singer...
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1980
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The script for this true-life crime film by New German Cinema director Reinhard Hauff was written by the criminal,...
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1980
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German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder both directed and photographed The Third Generation (Die Dritte Generation)....
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1979
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A thin tale of romance, pregnancy, and single motherhood (the numbers in the title add up only after the baby is born), this...
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1979
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The film that elevated German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder from domestic approbation to international acclaim, The...
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Senkenberg
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1979
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Moritz Stuckmann (Micheal Kebschultt) is a strange young man, very much a loner, who confides his troubles to his pet rat and...
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Director, Screenwriter
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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 this comedy, Bomber and Paganini are two small-time hoods who have teamed up to pull off a robbery which is not...
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1977
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Politics within the community of small and independent German filmmakers is the subject of this wry spoof. It chronicles the...
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First Director
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1976
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Two wildly different children from the slums of Hamburg become friends and attempt to find freedom in a raft out on the...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1975
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder not only directed Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Angst essen Seele auf), but also scripted the film,...
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1974
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder's adaptation of a late 19th-century novel by Theodor Fontane is an austere period piece that may be...
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1974
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Surprisingly, this German western is an original drama which takes considerable pains to ensure authenticity about the...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1973
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Der Händler der vier Jahreszeiten (The Merchant of Four Seasons) is about the deterioration of a man's soul. Fruit vendor...
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1971
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American Soldier (originally Der Amerikanische Soldat) was the third of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "gangster trilogy." The...
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Doc
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1970
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1969
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