An almost accidental romance is kindled between a German woman in her mid-sixties and a Moroccan migrant worker around twenty-five years younger. They abruptly decide to marry, appalling everyone around them.
With El Hedi Ben Salem, Lilo Pempeit, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Brigitte Mira, Barbara Valentin, Elma Karlowa, Anita Bucher, Walter Sedlmayr, Doris Mattes, Margit Symo, Katharina Herberg, Irm Hermann, Gusti Kreissl, Karl Scheydt
Recommended by Nadav Lapid, Lodge Kerrigan, Todd Haynes, François Ozon, Robert Guédiguian, João Pedro Rodrigues, Amat Escalante, Alice Rohrwacher, Alice Diop, Felix Van Groeningen
12h00
In late-1920s Berlin, Franz Biberkopf is released from prison and vows to go straight. However, he soon finds himself embroiled in the city's criminal underworld.
With Ivan Desny, Hanna Schygulla, Claus Holm, Gottfried John, Volker Spengler, Günther Kaufmann, Barbara Valentin, Günter Lamprecht, Franz Buchrieser
Recommended by Martin Scorsese, Leos Carax
0h59
In late-1920s Berlin, Franz Biberkopf is released from prison and vows to go straight. However, he soon finds himself embroiled in the city's criminal underworld.
With Hanna Schygulla, Claus Holm, Gottfried John, Barbara Valentin, Günter Lamprecht
Recommended by Martin Scorsese, Leos Carax
0h59
In late-1920s Berlin, Franz Biberkopf is released from prison and vows to go straight. However, he soon finds himself embroiled in the city's criminal underworld.
With Hanna Schygulla, Claus Holm, Gottfried John, Barbara Valentin, Günter Lamprecht
Recommended by Martin Scorsese, Leos Carax
1h00
In late-1920s Berlin, Franz Biberkopf is released from prison and vows to go straight. However, he soon finds himself embroiled in the city's criminal underworld.
With Hanna Schygulla, Claus Holm, Gottfried John, Barbara Valentin, Günter Lamprecht
Recommended by Martin Scorsese, Leos Carax
1h00
In late-1920s Berlin, Franz Biberkopf is released from prison and vows to go straight. However, he soon finds himself embroiled in the city's criminal underworld.
With Hanna Schygulla, Claus Holm, Gottfried John, Barbara Valentin, Günter Lamprecht
Recommended by Martin Scorsese, Leos Carax
1h00
In late-1920s Berlin, Franz Biberkopf is released from prison and vows to go straight. However, he soon finds himself embroiled in the city's criminal underworld.
With Hanna Schygulla, Claus Holm, Gottfried John, Barbara Valentin, Günter Lamprecht
Recommended by Martin Scorsese, Leos Carax
0h59
In late-1920s Berlin, Franz Biberkopf is released from prison and vows to go straight. However, he soon finds himself embroiled in the city's criminal underworld.
With Hanna Schygulla, Claus Holm, Gottfried John, Barbara Valentin, Günter Lamprecht
Recommended by Martin Scorsese, Leos Carax
0h59
In late-1920s Berlin, Franz Biberkopf is released from prison and vows to go straight. However, he soon finds himself embroiled in the city's criminal underworld.
With Hanna Schygulla, Claus Holm, Gottfried John, Barbara Valentin, Günter Lamprecht
Recommended by Martin Scorsese, Leos Carax
2h04
An arrogant fashion designer falls in love with an icy beauty who wants to be a model.
With Margit Cartensen, Katrin Schaake, Gisela Fackeldey, Hanna Schygulla, Irm Hermann, Eva Mattes
Recommended by Olivier Assayas, Ira Sachs, Lodge Kerrigan, Abel Ferrara
0h59
In late-1920s Berlin, Franz Biberkopf is released from prison and vows to go straight. However, he soon finds himself embroiled in the city's criminal underworld.
With Hanna Schygulla, Claus Holm, Gottfried John, Barbara Valentin, Günter Lamprecht
Recommended by Martin Scorsese, Leos Carax
0h59
In late-1920s Berlin, Franz Biberkopf is released from prison and vows to go straight. However, he soon finds himself embroiled in the city's criminal underworld.
With Hanna Schygulla, Claus Holm, Gottfried John, Barbara Valentin, Günter Lamprecht
Recommended by Martin Scorsese, Leos Carax
0h59
In late-1920s Berlin, Franz Biberkopf is released from prison and vows to go straight. However, he soon finds himself embroiled in the city's criminal underworld.
With Hanna Schygulla, Claus Holm, Gottfried John, Barbara Valentin, Günter Lamprecht
Recommended by Martin Scorsese, Leos Carax
0h40
In late-1920s Berlin, Franz Biberkopf is released from prison and vows to go straight. However, he soon finds himself embroiled in the city's criminal underworld.
With Hanna Schygulla, Claus Holm, Gottfried John, Barbara Valentin, Günter Lamprecht
Recommended by Martin Scorsese, Leos Carax
1h00
In late-1920s Berlin, Franz Biberkopf is released from prison and vows to go straight. However, he soon finds himself embroiled in the city's criminal underworld.
With Hanna Schygulla, Claus Holm, Gottfried John, Barbara Valentin, Günter Lamprecht
Recommended by Martin Scorsese, Leos Carax
0h59
In late-1920s Berlin, Franz Biberkopf is released from prison and vows to go straight. However, he soon finds himself embroiled in the city's criminal underworld.
With Hanna Schygulla, Claus Holm, Gottfried John, Barbara Valentin, Günter Lamprecht
Recommended by Martin Scorsese, Leos Carax
2h20
In the nineteenth century, seventeen year old Effi Briest is married to the older Baron von Instetten and moves into a house, that she believes has a ghost, in a small isolated Baltic town. She soon bears a daughter, Annie, and hires the lapsed Catholic Roswitha to look after her. Effi is lonely when her husband is away on business, so she spends time riding and walking along the shore with Major Crampas. Instetten is promoted to Ministerial Councillor and the family moves to Berlin, where Effi enjoys the social life. Six years later, the Baron is given letters from Crampas to Effi that convince him that they had an affair. He feels obliged to challenge Crampas to a duel and banish Effi from the house.
With Wolfgang Schenck, Ulli Lommel, Herbert Steinmetz, Lilo Pempeit, Hanna Schygulla
Recommended by Yolande Zauberman
2h03
A young West German working-class man wins the lottery and initiates a relationship with a man above his social standing.
With Peter Chatel, Kurt Raab, Karlheinz Böhm, Rudolf Lenz, Hans Zander, Ulla Jacobsson, Adrian Hoven, Harry Baer, Katharina Buchhammer, Ursula Strätz, Christiane Maybach, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Irm Hermann, Karl Scheydt
Recommended by Patricia Mazuy, Alain Guiraudie, Robert Guédiguian, Guillaume Brac
2h00
A transgender woman tries to salvage something from the wreckage love has made of her life by confronting her anguished past, hoping to find ultimate acceptance among quondam acquaintances and herself.
With Volker Spengler, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Gottfried John, Ingrid Caven, Karl Scheydt, Eva Mattes
Recommended by Chantal Akerman, Alain Guiraudie, Atom Egoyan, Maren Ade, Amat Escalante, Thomas Arslan
1h53
In post-war West Germany, the charming Von Bohm is appointed a city's new Building Commissioner. His morality is tested when he unknowingly falls in love with a brothel worker, Lola, the paid mistress of a corrupt property developer.
With Barbara Sukowa, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Matthias Fuchs, Ivan Desny, Helga Feddersen, Karin Baal
Recommended by Todd Haynes, Felix Van Groeningen
2h00
Alors que l’Allemagne est plongée dans les méandres de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Maria épouse le soldat Hermann Braun la veille de son départ pour le front russe. Disparu sur le champ de bataille, Hermann est présumé mort. Maria, de son côté, travaille dans un bar à soldats et se console dans les bras de Bill, un soldat afro-américain...
Notes : suivi par Lola, une Femme allemande en 1981 et Le Secret de Veronika Voss en 1982, Le Mariage de Maria Braun est le premier volet de la trilogie Allemande de Rainer Werner Fassbinder. A travers les destinés tourmentées de ses trois personnages féminins, le réalisateur y livre sa vision pessimiste d’une Allemagne reconstruite sur les ruines de la guerre et toujours hantée par les spectres du nazisme.
With Hark Bohm, Peter Berling, George Byrd, Gisela Uhlen, Lilo Pempeit, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Ivan Desny, Klaus Löwitsch, Hanna Schygulla, Volker Spengler, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Gottfried John
A wealthy landowner haunted by the spectre of his dead mother has a fling with a beautiful fugitive who bears a striking resemblance to his missing wife, who may have been murdered.
With Ingrid Caven, Peter Chatel, Karlheinz Böhm, Adrian Hoven, Gisela Fackeldey, Barbara Valentin, Günter Lamprecht, Margit Carstensen, Ortrud Beginnen, Wolfgang Schenck
Recommended by Catherine Corsini
1h28
Hans Epp is a self-destructive man who lives a dissatisfied life. He tries to find meaning as a fruit vendor, but a heart attack impedes his ability to work, which turns his dissatisfaction into despair.
With Hans Hirschmüller, Klaus Löwitsch, Hanna Schygulla, Irm Hermann, Gusti Kreissl, Andrea Schober, Karl Scheydt
Recommended by Martin Scorsese, Jutta Brückner, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Wim Wenders
1h46
In a heavy atmosphere, the young and charming sailor Querelle lands in Brest. The harbor becomes the stage for a morbidly fascinating game where love-hate relationships thrive, with Querelle as both game-master and pawn. Inspired by Jean Genet's work, "Querelle de Brest", the film is as bizarre and spell-binding as the novel.
With Jeanne Moreau, Günther Kaufmann, Brad Davis, Burkhard Driest, Franco Nero, Laurent Malet, Hanno Pöschl
Recommended by Christophe Honoré, François Ozon
1h44
Partially based upon the life of Sybille Schmitz, WI found fame under the Nazi regime, but woods career was destroyed afterwards, Veronika Voss is a once prominent UFA actress, kept by her doctor, raises suspicion in a sports journalist.
With Rosel Zech, Hilmar Thate, Cornelia Froboess, Annemarie Düringer, Doris Schade, Erik Schumann, Johanna Hofer, Rudolf Platte, Günther Kaufmann, Sonja Neudorfer, Peter Berling, Lilo Pempeit, Armin Mueller-Stahl
Recommended by Bertrand Bonello, Ira Sachs, Lucile Hadzihalilovic
1h35
Whity is the mulatto butler of the dysfunctional Nicholson family in the south-west U.S. in 1878. The father, Ben Nicholson, has an attractive young wife, Katherine, and two sons by a previous marriage; the homosexual Frank and the disabled Davy. Whity tries to carry out all their orders, however demeaning, until various of the family members ask him to kill some of the others.
With Hanna Schygulla, Günther Kaufmann, Harry Baer, Katrin Schaake, Ron Randell, Ulli Lommel
Recommended by Bruce LaBruce
1h28
With slicked-down hair and three-piece suits, dependable Herr Raab is a technical draftsman. He gets along with his colleagues although his boss wants him to go beyond technical cleanliness to problem solving. He's a dutiful husband; his wife's a social climber and pushes him to seek a promotion, but they also share sweet moments. He's a caring father, helping his son with homework. His parents visit; his mother criticizes his wife. Old School friends drop by, as do neighbors. Some comment on Raab's wife's expensive tastes. His promotion may be a long shot, especially after he gives a dull and tipsy toast at an office dinner. But why would Herr Raab run amok?
With Lilo Pempeit, Ingrid Caven, Kurt Raab, Harry Baer, Peter Moland, Lilith Ungerer, Franz Maron