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A mature, rich and bored woman called Elisabeth is taking a ride with the “Rheingold”, a first-class high-speed train of the seventies along the river Rhine. In the train she is meeting her old school mate and lover who is working as a waiter and falls in love with him again. Her husband, a busy politician, realizes what’s going on and tries to catch the train to face his wife and her lover in a fatal showdown.
Two women meet in a train.
A woman decides that her boyfriend has to marry her.
A young couple in Munich, Tom and Sabine, play around all day. But the girl, a model, would rather travel the world. He, on the other hand, is the absolute gamer type.
Germany, 1981. State Security Service agent Harald Love is sent on a secret mission from the GDR to the Federal Republic, to verify an informant with the code name "Heinz" who is suspected to be a double agent. A job that may change his life forever...
Andy and Sebastian want to make a lot of money in a quick and easy way. Inspired by the movies, they become private investigators. Their first case happens to be about a beautiful girl called Annabella. But being a private investigator is a more demanding job then Andy and Sebastian had initially thought. Their female acquaintances Annabella, Christa, and Micky also have their share in Andy′s and Sebastian′s problems. The two wannabe detectives become more and more entangled in things that prove to be too much for them.
A young girl hitches a ride in a car with a man. In front of and in an abandoned house, the man tries to approach the girl...
Part satire, part drama, this movie tells the story of Anton Paulisch (Herb Andress), who has been living and working as an actor in Rome. When he hears that his mother is mortally ill, he returns to Munich to be at her bedside, but doesn't quite make it. He and sister Astrid (Elke Haltaufderheide) rediscover their friendship, though, as they go through a number of crises. Meanwhile, Anton makes an effort to find work in Munich, and runs headlong into the silliness and pretensions of the "New German Cinema" movement.
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 their trade on the night-time streets of Germany; the second is a staged play, cut down to 10 minutes by Straub and photographed in a single take; the final sequence covers the marriage of James and Lilith, and Lilith’s subsequent execution of her pimp, played by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. "The film is a look entirely at Western decadence" - Jean-Marie Straub.
A man wants to buy a house in Lower Saxony where he meets a mysterious woman.
In a future world devoid of men, three young women order two men to come to them and ask them which of them they would prefer.
A fictional "film diary" recounts the hunt for the "Blinde Kuh" (Blind Cow), a lost experimental setup by the Nazi "Fernseh-Gruppe" (Television Group), whose television technology was in the testing phase during World War II.
A young man gets caught up in criminal activities in order to fulfill his desire for an easy life.
The world was turned upside down on November 9, 1989. Not only does the Berlin Wall fall, but the German-German border in the Werra Valley is also rolled down...
In 1995, a young computer specialist is working on the development of "reality-based simulation programs," which he uses to "extrapolate" the face of a criminal who kidnapped him and his sister 20 years ago and killed his sister. When he meets a young makeup artist who is searching for her missing father, it becomes clear that they are both looking for the same man.
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John cheats on Jane with Ann. He claims Jane doesn't care about love, and is wrong: in the end Jane shoots John.
Documentary about an artist.
Life on the border to the GDR is as dreary as the "Werra-Post". To increase circulation, Willi Busch, reporter and heir to the local paper, takes action: sometimes he demolishes telephone boxes, sometimes he fantasizes a child into a prophetess who talks to sheep. Only when he fakes a dead man's past as an informer does Willi's paper corpses suddenly become real...
