Hanna Schygulla

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 ...

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 ...

In a bizarre Breton library that collects rejected, never published manuscripts, a young editor discovers a novel that she considers a ...

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 ...

Though he never actually worked in Hollywood, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who died in 1982 at the age of 36, was influenced greatly by Amercian ...

A beautiful novelist gets involved with the violent underworld crime elements in New York City and becomes a target. Alec Baldwin plays the cop ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Despite advancing age, rural businessman Franz has remained fit and energetic, but serious mental illness and financial problems mean that this ...

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 ...

“Whity” is the mulatto butler of the dysfunctional Nicholson family in the American southwest in 1878. The father, Ben Nicholson, has ...

A mogul merrily funds terrorists to boost his computer sales, by panicking West German government and industry c. 1980, as the third generation ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A German-made film based on one of the most famous German novels by Theodor Fontane. Effi Briest (Hanna Schygulla) is a socially ambitious, ...

Georg Laschen leaves his family in West Germany to go work as a war correspondent in Beirut during the fights between Christians and ...

This sometimes confusing erotic drama about the incestuous relationship of a mother and daughter is based on the autobiography of Italian theater ...

“Promised Land” tells the story of a group of young unwitting Estonian girls smuggled through Egypt to be auctioned off as ...