Eva Mattes

A richly rewarding close-up of the woman director who, along with Margarethe von Trotta and Helke Sander, helped launch New German Cinema on ...

East-Berlin, 1961, shortly after the erection of the Wall. Konrad, Sophie and three of their friends plan a daring escape to Western Germany. The ...

Molly, Elisabeth and Maria, three good friends, are dissatisfied with their married life. Molly, a good-hearted and lovely housewife and mother, ...

Germany 1939. Hans and Lene marry the day before the war breaks out, and Hans is sent to the Eastern front. During a bombing raid their daughter ...

Willi is 18 years old and lives on the street. Without a goal in his life he walks around the city and meets several people, helping but also ...

The gritty, kinetic, visionary cinema of Roland Klick is ripe for rediscovery. After shooting with international stars, such as Mario Adorf and ...

“Feelings always suck.” Lower-Bavarian village police officer Franz Eberhofer internalized this deeply-felt wisdom long ago. That is ...

Laura sees a shooting star falling to earth and finds it in a park, down on the floor and with a broken point. The star is a living being, and ...

By the time director Katja Raganelli arrived in California to make a film about Dorothy Arzner in 1980, Arzner had passed away in a car accident. ...

Interview film with German director Werner Herzog revisiting the films he made up to ca. 1977. Release: I Am My Films A Portrait of Werner Herzog ...

Alma Mahler’s affair with the young architect Walter Gropius sets in motion a marital drama that forces her husband Gustav Mahler to seek ...

This cinematic adaptation of the autobiography of Anna Wimschneider depicts her life’s experiences and workaday routines as a woman born on ...

David (Mario Fischel), the son of a local rabbi (Walter Taub), sees the rise in anti-Semitism in 1930s Germany, but it isn’t until his ...

In Friedliche Tage, we enter a totalitarian and inhuman society, in which daily life is a series of nightmares and the protagonists search for a ...

More of a film essay – of the type pioneered by Orson Welles and Chris Marker – than a standard documentary, German filmmaker Lutz ...

When 22-year-old Rainer Werner Fassbinder storms the stage of a small, progressive theatre in Munich 1967, and seizes the production without ...

A film that describes the love-hate relationship between Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski, the deep trust between the director and the actor, and ...

Petra von Kant is a successful fashion designer — arrogant, caustic, and self-satisfied. She mistreats Marlene (her secretary, maid, and ...

A four man US fireteam on patrol seizes a passing young Vietnamnese girl and continue to torture, rape and kill her. Only one soldier refuses to ...

In Echigo in Japan the snow often lies several feet deep well into May covering landscape and villages. Over the centuries the inhabitants have ...