Der skete noget i Travis og Janes forhold, så de forsvandt og efterlod sønnen hos broderen Walt. Nu dukker Travis op, livstræt og med hukommelsestab, og vil genskabe sin familie. Han kæmper for at opbygge et venskab med sønnen, så de kan få Jane tilbage.
Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his mother, Agnes, Oskar is reluctant to enter a world he sees as filled with hypocrisy and injustice, and vows on his third birthday to never grow up. Miraculously, he gets his wish. As the Nazis rise to power in Danzig, Oskar wills himself to remain a child, beating his tin drum incessantly and screaming in protest at the chaos surrounding him.
Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. She must rely on her beauty and ambition to navigate the difficult post-war years alone.
I 1500-tallet begiver Aguirre sig på jagt efter det mystiske El Dorado. Sammen med en spansk ekspedition drager han ud for at finde det sagnomspundne guldrige i Amazonas urskov. Den tyranniske Aguirre begår mytteri mod gruppens leder og overtager kommandoen i sin besatte søgen efter guld i rigelige mængder. Hans virkelighed bliver mere og mere sindssyg, og i en magtgal vision bestemmer han sig for at grundlægge et nyt kejserligt imperium.
Den ensomme, midaldrende rengøringskone Emmi Kurowski forelsker sig i Ali, en væsentligt yngre marokkansk gæstearbejder. Da de to indleder et forhold, udløser det kolde skuldre fra omgivelserne. Emmis fordomsfulde kollegaer begynder at ignorere hende, og børnene vil slet ikke kendes ved deres mor. Emmi og Alis forhold må stå sin prøve overfor den moderne verdens intolerance.
Katharina Blum foreslsker sig i en ung mand, der viser sig at være deserteret fra hæren. Det bliver starten på et mareridt for den unge kvinde. Katharina anholdes af politiet og får tabloidpressen på nakken. Journalisten Tötges stempler hende som terrorist og bringer dagligt nye løgnehistorier, der sværter hende til på det groveste. Katharinas reaktion på forfølgelsen får dødelige konsekvenser.
Goalkeeper Josef Bloch is sent off after committing a foul during an away game. This causes him to lose his bearings, and he wanders aimlessly through the city streets and spends the night with the box-office attendant of a movie theatre.
When 17-year-old Effi Briest marries the elderly Baron von Instetten, she moves to a small, isolated Baltic town and a house that she fears is haunted. Starved for companionship, Effi begins a friendship with Major Crampas, a charismatic womanizer.
A young German woman searches for happiness, liberation, and independence in the illusive wake of a transformative national recovery.
When Jonas loses his job at a Hamburg startup company, he doesn’t have the heart to tell his girlfriend Katharina, as her nerves are already on the edge with her final law exams coming up. Every morning he leaves their flat and drift aimless through the metropole on endless underground rides. After a chance meeting with his former boss Marc, Jonas starts to observe the young manager. His curiosity gradually turns into obsession, small and bigger everyday lies become a kind of survival strategy for Jonas. While Katharina notices his increasingly odd behavior, Jonas is losing control over events more and more. Flood deals with feelings of powerlessness of the individual facing a growing competitive and performance pressure. The fear of failing in a perceived competition of life kicks off a spiral of wrong decisions, with no apparent way out. Georg Pelzer’s debut was shot basing on a 20-page plot description, dialogues and actions where improvised with the actors on location.
A tramp finds a gun lying in the street.
A documentary about the life and work of director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
This anti-coming-of-age film follows Generation Y characters as they chase the desire for radical self-realisation.
Interview film with the protagonists of the New German Cinema in 1966.
"End of the Commune"/"Ende einer kommune" is a great 49 min. long movie made in 1969 about Fassbinder and the early years of the legendary Antiteater he was a member/leader of. You can here see and hear some of the actors he was going to use in his movies for the next years. The movie shows rehearsals for his play "The Coffehouse" which also became a television-movie, and you can watch unique footage from the 19th Film-Festival in Berlin (1969) where "Love is Colder Than Death" were shown. As told in this documentary, his first feature-movie were given a cold shoulder by many of the journalists and visitors at the festival. You can in "End of the Commune" watch Fassbinder and actor Ulli Lommel walk out on stage after the opening of "Love is Colder than Death", while a man in the audience is shouting "Out with the director!". In this interesting documentary Fassbinder also talks a lot about his father which was a respectable doctor.
One night, bedridden Bianca finds herself in a terrible scenario. As it plays out, she must venture through the catastrophe that once was her home in search of a way to escape. In the different rooms she each will be faced with a different obstacle in front of her. May it be mysterious figures, lunatic faucets, or this heat which seems to come from somewhere...
Fictional film with documentary elements about a jazz musician in Berlin.