Hitler: A Career
A keen chronicle of the unlikely rise to power of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and a dissection of the Third Reich (1933-1945), but also an analysis of mass psychology and how…
Invitation to the Dance
Theo Gromberg is a bon vivant, apparently with built-in guarantee to failure. Faithful to his side is his friend Enno, an Italian guest workers. Both have a dream: to which…
Der Schnüffler
Heart of Glass
A small Bavarian village is renowned for its “Ruby Glass” glass blowing works. When the foreman of the works dies suddenly without revealing the secret of the Ruby Glass, the…
Schoolgirl Report Part 9: Mature Before Graduation…
With them every class is sex education
Fox and His Friends
Fox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and things that he has always wanted. While he wants to climb up…
Julia
A young woman discovers that there’s more to do than ski when in the Swiss Alps.
Sun-A-Mul
Martha
After the death of her abusive father, the lonely librarian Martha marries an equally vile businessman – Helmut.
Alice in the Cities
German journalist Philip Winter has a case of writer’s block when trying to write an article about the United States. He decides to return to Germany, and while trying to…
Deadly Jaws
Two divers find a treasure map, which apparently points to a sunken treasure below the ocean. They hire a professional to help them get the gold but this guy turns…
Supermarket
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 cheating him….
Schoolgirl Report Part 3: What Parents Find Unthinkable
A group of teenage girls at camp discuss their various sexual escapades while they read a new journal about sex has been published to help teenagers understand the consequences of…
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 recovering from a debilitating heart…
Ready, Willing and Able
A wealthy middle-aged man tries to seduce younger women at an oceanfront resort.
Sex in the Office
Deadlock
After pulling off a bank robbery two bandits meet in a deserted mining town to divide their loot but an old miner tries to steal it from them.
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 out…
The Coffee House
Avant-garde adaptation of a Carlo Goldoni play. Well-to-do Venetians congregate in a coffee house and discuss their problems.
Love Is Colder Than Death
Unusual gangster story, in which a small-time pimp Franz, who is torn between his mistress and Bruno the gangster sent after him by the syndicate that he has refused to…
Silver City Revisited
A series of street views filmed in Munich throughout 1968.
Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed
A young circus director ends up going into television after her father, a trapeze performer, dies in a circus accident.
Last Words
Early short by Werner Herzog shot while being on location in Greece shooting “Lebenszeichen”.
The Snake Pit and the Pendulum
In the Olden Tymes, Count Regula is drawn and quartered for killing twelve virgins in his dungeon torture chamber. Thirty-five years later, he comes back to seek revenge on the…
The Words of the Chairman
I was on a ship – this sounds like a novel: I had just embarked for Venezuela on June 2, 1967 as the Shah of Iran was arriving in West…
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
While the Civil War rages between the Union and the Confederacy, three men – a quiet loner, a ruthless hit man and a Mexican bandit – comb the American Southwest…
It
Manfred and Hilke live a live perfectly complied with each other in West Berlin. They managed to elude from the bourgeois conformity, which they loath. But when Hilke finds out…
…und dann bye bye
“Not with that mane!” A fictional portrait of a young Mersey beat fan, who is deemed a “sissy” because of his long hair, so he can’t find a vocational training…
Die zwölf Geschworenen
Speed
Life of Adolf Hitler
Carefully chronicling in great detail the early years of Hitler’s political life until his fall as the leader of Germany, this archive-footage documentary offers a sharply critical insight into the…
Brutality in Stone
In his experimental short film “Brutalität in Stein” (Brutality in Stone), Alexander Kluge demonstrates how Nazi architecture used dimensions of inhuman and super-human scale to bolster the regime’s politics of…
Conny und Peter machen Musik
The Bridge
A group of German boys are ordered to protect a small bridge in their home village during the waning months of the second world war. Truckloads of defeated, cynical Wehrmacht…
Wenn die Conny mit dem Peter
The Wolf and the Seven Little Goats
Eine Ziege hatte sieben junge Geißlein, die sie liebte, wie eine Mutter ihre Kinder nur lieben kann. Als sie eines Tages ein paar Besorgungen zu machen hatte, mussten die Kleinen…