Alfred Edel

After having her second child, a German housewife suffers from post-partum depression before inexplicably falling into a continually misdiagnosed...

Taking place around the German reunification of 1990, a group of East Germans cross the border to visit West Germany and get slaughtered by a...

Roswitha runs an illegal abortion clinic in Frankfurt to support her student husband and children. When she is forced to close her practice she...

This inventive, exhaustive seven-hour film looks at the rise, reign and demise of Adolf Hitler. German director Hans Jürgen Syberberg, who was a...

On 30 April 1945, dictator Adolf Hitler, his wife Eva Braun, and prominent members of the Third Reich live out their final hour in the...

A German-born director of an American television station travels through Bavaria with a folk music impresario to do research for a show to be...

Germany, right after the re-unification. The people are out of control, blind hatred towards immigrants is common sense. In this time, a...

A young circus director ends up going into television after her father, a trapeze performer, dies in a circus accident.

Vicky, an out-of-work actress, struggling waitress and lesbian has her whole life thrown into turmoil when her father comes from Germany to visit....

A traumatized young man, abused by his father, imagines himself as Adolf Hitler when dreaming of revenge. Schlingensief released this film, which...

The filmmaker René Perraudin made five comedic short films with Otto Sander in the leading role and knits them into a feature film.

A thriller-comedy by Torsten Emrich.

A mockumentary directed by Christoph Schlingensief.

Willi endeavors to survive in a world where annihilistic galactic battles rage, by taking a job at the centre of power. But it's the wrong side that...

Hartmann, a first-time film director is trying to find an actor for the Role of Casanova. Wenn he meets Alfred Edel, the actor's colourful...

An early declaration of war on narrative cinema, using a barrage of visual and acoustic elements while at the same time juggling ironically - as he...

Günther, Michael, Barny and Franz, real Munich boys, want to make their own music: Rock 'n' Roll Bavarian-style. Will they go under or make it...

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...

Martha and Alfred exchange experiences about life and events in Hamburg.

Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expectations: with a glockenspiel and an accordion,...

The film follows Kaspar Hauser (Bruno S.), who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny cellar with only a toy horse to occupy...

Combining fictional and documentary modes, the film takes a critical stance toward Frankfurt's public sphere and urban redevelopment. Despite the...

A poignant film essay about 'superfluous people' facing up to a moment of crisis in their lives.

German TV-Film

Gabi Teichert, a history teacher, is unhappy with the way history is portrayed in textbooks and is looking for an alternative, more practical...

Jennifer, Tom and Maria like to have sex together and to rob banks when necessary. Action takes place in typical Bavaria.

The somewhat indolent father Traugott Wurster looks after his six sons while his wife works in a butcher's shop. One day, when Traugott falls into a...

Germany in the 50ies: A love story between an eastern spy and a western secretary who detects him (and her love) ...

The movie "Earthbound" is based on an authentic story: Franz Seeliger, a 75 year old psychiatric patient wants to steer a self-built, muscle...

Mix Wix tells the story of the owner of the Mix Wix department store, who has successfully done business with underwear and socks and even has the...

A young man, recently arrived in New York from Europe, becomes swept up in a series of events that are beyond his knowledge or control.

Using unpublished and newly digitalised archive footage and film material, Bettina Böhler has brilliantly assembled this film about the life and...

This black and white silent film with music by Helge Schneider, starring Udo Kier as a vampire and Alfred Edel as an Indian chief was commissioned by...

A short film by Alexander Kluge.

Fashion designer Rüdiger falls in love with Italian countess Vera, who was injured by him in a car accident. Just before their wedding they find...

A 30-year-old returns to his hometown after several years away, where he is confronted with childhood memories, especially feelings of hatred towards...

An eccentric homage to the Rainer Werner Fassbinder days of German filmmaking.