Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: September 14, 1950
Deathday: February 25, 1994
Popularity:
1979-05-30
Overview: A wildly anarchic satire of guerrilla terrorism in which a band of leftist radicals inadvertently become puppets of the West German government, which uses them to justify its authoritarian policies.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-05-30
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1985-07-10
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-07-10
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1983-02-23
Overview: Directors Jean-Henri Roger and Juliet Berto begin this thriller with sequences on the contemporary politics of southern France and the infiltration of organised crime into real estate development there: crime bosses were torching forest tracts to make way for their development schemes in the early 1980s. In the fictionalised story, Paula Barretto is caught in this underworld because her father was involved in the drug business, her brother is in the real estate scam, and her lover is an armed thief. Although she tries to get out of her corrupt and dangerous environment, it is not an easy task when even the police officers cannot be trusted, and the underworld has informants everywhere.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-02-23
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1981-01-14
Overview: The story of a German singer named Willie who while working in Switzerland falls in love with a Jewish composer named Robert whose family is helping people to flee from the Nazis. Robert’s family is skeptical of Willie, thinking she could be a Nazi as she becomes famous for singing the song “Lili Marleen”.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-01-14
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1978-02-22
Overview: A young man raises the dead in a high valley where the power is held by Violanta.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-02-22
Popularity:
1977-09-28
Overview: A thriller in which the characters are Latin-American exiles living in Paris. It is also a comedy about artists who play at revolution rather than actually participate in one
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-09-28
Popularity:
1986-04-15
Overview: A diverse group of guests gather in a small hotel in Paris to contemplate the state of their lives in this pretentious drama. Joseph Goldman (Fernando Rey) is a washed-up Hollywood actor making a living in the dinner-theater circuit. Accompanied by his wife Sarah (Carole Regnier), Goldman meets Frederique (Berangere Bonvoisin), who is hiding from her former lover. French financier Arthur (Fabrice Luchini) hopes to get into the film industry and bends the ear of a British director (Michael Medwin). The talkative film has little action, and none of the characters evoke much interest or resolve their dilemma.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-04-15
Popularity:
1978-05-25
Overview: Thirty years of Neapolitan history (from 1942 to 1972) through the ups and downs of the Cavioli and Pagano families.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-05-25
Popularity:
1979-10-27
Overview: A sartorially resplendent woman of few words arrives in Berlin with plans to live out the rest of her days as a drunkard.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-10-27
Popularity:
1976-09-03
Overview: Beautiful, detached, laconic, consumptive Lily Brest is a streetwalker with few clients. She loves her idle boyfriend Raoul who gambles away what little she earns. The town's power broker, called the rich Jew, discovers she is a good listener, so she's soon busy. Raoul imagines grotesque sex scenes between Lily and the Jew; he leaves her for a man. Her parents, a bitter Fascist who is a cabaret singer in drag and her wheelchair-bound mother, offer no refuge. Even though all have a philosophical bent, the other whores reject Lily because she tolerates everyone, including men. She tires of her lonely life and looks for a way out. Even that act serves the local corrupt powers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-09-03
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1981-08-20
Overview: Germany in the autumn of 1957: Lola, a seductive cabaret singer-prostitute exults in her power as a temptress of men, but she wants out—she wants money, property, and love. Pitting a corrupt building contractor against the new straight-arrow building commissioner, Lola launches an outrageous plan to elevate herself in a world where everything, and everyone, is for sale. Shot in childlike candy colors, Fassbinder’s homage to Josef von Sternberg’s classic The Blue Angel stands as a satiric tribute to capitalism.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-08-20
Popularity:
2010-09-02
Overview: When director Daniel Schmid grew up, his parents ran a hotel in the Alps, and this singular setting was to influence his film. Rather by coincidence he came to Berlin in the early 1960s and became part of the new German wave. Schmid worked with, among others, Wenders and Fassbinder, for example as an actor in Wender’s The American Friend. He met Ingrid Caven, who was to play a diva in several of his films. This is a documentation of a part of modern European film history and a good analysis of artistry and how it corresponds to the individual behind the camera. A wealth of archival footage brings us close to many directors and actors in Schmid’s circle. If you’ve never seen a Daniel Schmid film, you are sure to want to after watching this portrait of his life.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-09-02
Popularity:
1987-06-01
Overview: A journalist is assigned to interview an eccentric anthropologist who has exhumed the skeleton of Jörg Jenatsch, a revered freedom fighter who was mysteriously murdered in 1639. Initially disinterested, the journalist begins to uncover unflattering truths about the national hero and experiences visions in which he seems to be witnessing events that transpired over 300 years ago. As he obsessively pursues the investigation, his personal life and his grip on reality disintegrate, drawing him relentlessly toward the fatal carnival at which Jenatsch was killed.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1987-06-01
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