Hanna Schygulla
Hanna Schygulla (born 25 December 1943) is a German actress and chanson singer. She is generally considered the most prominent German actress of the New German Cinema. Over 12 years, Hanna Schygulla appeared in 23 Fassbinder movies (including his first feature film), the most-acclaimed being The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979) (for which she won the Silver Bear).
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.135 |
| Birthday | 1943-12-25 |
| Place of Birth | Chorzów, Polska |
| Also Known As |
1981
Lili Marleen
6.3/76
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 p...
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Lili Marleen
1979
The Marriage of Maria Braun
7.4/252
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 nav...
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The Marriage of Maria Braun
1974
Effi Briest
6.7/45
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...
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Effi Briest
1970
Gods of the Plague
5.6/26
A man is released from prison and finds the society on the outside less than appealing. With several women as well as the police on his tail, he sets...
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Gods of the Plague
1983
A Love in Germany
4.9/7
In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that he left 40 years before. He wants to discover what...
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A Love in Germany
2022
Douglas Sirk – Hope as in Despair
8/1
An investigative portrait of the master of cinematic melodrama, Douglas Sirk. His life was the ultimate melodrama, from which all his films were inspi...
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Douglas Sirk – Hope as in Despair
1970
Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?
7.4/87
The life of a married Munich technical draftsman with a son.
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Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?
1972
The Merchant of Four Seasons
6.7/70
Hans is a street fruit peddler and born-loser. His choice of career upsets his bourgeois family, causing him to turn to drinking and violence. After r...
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The Merchant of Four Seasons
1972
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
7.4/210
Petra von Kant is a successful fashion designer -- arrogant, caustic, and self-satisfied. She mistreats Marlene (her secretary, maid, and co-designer)...
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The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
2007
The Edge of Heaven
7.188/316
The lives of six German-Turkish immigrants are drawn together by circumstance: An old man and a prostitute forging a partnership, a young scholar reco...
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The Edge of Heaven
1975
Wrong Move
6.763/80
Six days in the life of Wilhelm: a detached man without qualities. He wants to write, so his mother gives him a ticket to Bonn, telling him to live. O...
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Wrong Move
2012
Hanna Schygulla – quel que soit le songe
0/0
A deeply felt personal story of Hanna Schygulla filmed in 2012 at a moment when she was moving back to Germany, to Berlin, having lived for twenty yea...
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Hanna Schygulla – quel que soit le songe
2001
Werckmeister Harmonies
7.864/331
A naive young man witnesses an escalation of violence in his small hometown following the arrival of a mysterious circus attraction.
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Werckmeister Harmonies
1969
Katzelmacher
6.5/50
A group of young slackers spend most of their time hanging out in front of a Munich apartment building. When a Greek immigrant named Jorgos moves in,...
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Katzelmacher
1991
Dead Again
6.4/380
In 1949, composer Roman Strauss is executed for the murder of his wife. In 1990s Los Angeles, a detective comes across a mute amnesiac woman who is so...
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Dead Again
1971
Beware of a Holy Whore
6.4/54
Tensions between members of a film crew build while they wait for the arrival of the director and star to arrive on location.
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Beware of a Holy Whore
1982
Godard's Passion
5.9/59
While shooting a film, the director becomes interested in the unfolding struggle of a young factory worker that has been laid off by a boss who did no...
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Godard's Passion
1970
Love Is Colder Than Death
6.2/53
Small-time pimp Franz is torn between his mistress and Bruno, the gangster sent after him by a shady crime syndicate he's refused to join.
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Love Is Colder Than Death
2021
Hanna Schygulla
0/0
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Hanna Schygulla
1983
Sheer Madness
6.8/7
Olga and Ruth become friends. Olga is independent, separated from her husband, living with an immigrant pianist, and teaching feminist literature. Rut...
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Sheer Madness
1982
The Night of Varennes
6.8/59
During the French Revolution, a surprising company shares a coach, trying to catch up something - the time itself, perhaps.
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The Night of Varennes
1982
Antonieta
5.2/10
Anna is a psychologist undertaking research about famous suicidal women. She takes a specific interest in the case of Antonieta Rivas Mercado, who kil...
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Antonieta
2014
Ophelia
0/0
Verging on Alzheimer’s, an aging actress (played by Hanna Schygulla) finds that the power of memory is stronger than ever.
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Ophelia
1986
The Delta Force
5.9/439
A 707 aircraft jetliner, en route from Athens to Rome and then to New York City, is hijacked by Lebanese terrorists, who demand that the pilot take th...
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The Delta Force
2001
Janela da Alma
6.9/20
Nineteen people with differing degrees of visual impairment – from mild nearsightedness to total blindness – discuss how they see themselves, how they...
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Janela da Alma
1981
Circle of Deceit
6.1/24
Georg Laschen leaves his family in West Germany to go work as a war correspondent in Beirut during the fights between Christians and Palestinians.
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Circle of Deceit
2004
Promised Land
5.2/16
"Promised Land" tells the story of a group of young unwitting Estonian girls smuggled through Egypt to be auctioned off as prostitutes in Israel, and...
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Promised Land
2022
Peter von Kant
5.7/95
Peter von Kant, a successful, famous director, lives with his assistant Karl, whom he likes to mistreat and humiliate. Through the great actress Sidon...
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Peter von Kant
1984
The Future Is Woman
5.8/17
In this improbable, ponderous story about a couple who do not want to have children of their own, and a pregnant, single woman who needs a home for aw...
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The Future Is Woman
2015
Marcello Mastroianni, latin lover
0/0
A documentary about Marcello Mastroianni.
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Marcello Mastroianni, latin lover
1983
The Story of Piera
5.8/22
Piera is a young woman who grows up under the parentage of two extremely original overseers: both her mother and father have incestuous relations with...
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The Story of Piera
2005
The Quiet Love
6/4
Two very different love stories cross each other in warm and magical way. A humanistic and yet mysterious film about love and death near the German/Da...
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The Quiet Love
2006
Winter Journey
6.7/9
Despite advancing age, rural businessman Franz has remained fit and energetic, but serious mental illness and financial problems mean that this hither...
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Winter Journey
1994
Life's Little Treasures
5.1/9
This movie is about love affairs, simple pleasures of a few men and women who will gather for a few days in a villa, around a piano and the music of G...
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Life's Little Treasures
1995
One Hundred and One Nights
6.2/48
Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he engages a young woman to tell him stories about all...
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One Hundred and One Nights
2011
Faust
6.6/198
A doctor in early 19th-century Germany becomes infatuated with the sister of a man he unintentionally killed and bargains with the Devil incarnate to...
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Faust
1971
Whity
5.2/18
"Whity" is the mulatto butler of the dysfunctional Nicholson family in the American southwest in 1878. The father, Ben Nicholson, has an attractive yo...
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Whity
1981
Cinémania : Rainer Werner Fassbinder
5/1
A documentary about the Director Fassbinder but edited as if it was a film of the Master himself, with some sequences of his own movies.
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Cinémania : Rainer Werner Fassbinder
1970
The Niklashausen Journey
6/7
Can a small group of people start a proletarian revolution, asks the "Black Monk" in a leather jacket. The medieval shepherd, Hans Boehm, claims to ha...
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The Niklashausen Journey
1979
The Third Generation
6.2/44
A wildly anarchic satire of guerrilla terrorism in which a band of leftist radicals inadvertently become puppets of the West German government, which...
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The Third Generation
1992
I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
6.4/10
A documentary about the life and work of director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
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I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
1968
The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp
4.6/12
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 tr...
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The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp
2023
Poor Things
7.703/4565
Brought back to life by an unorthodox scientist, a young woman runs off with a lawyer on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the pr...
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Poor Things
1969
Hunting Scenes from Bavaria
6.9/27
Abram returns to his small village and although his repairing skills are needed, people's suspicion about his sexual preferences make his life hard.
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Hunting Scenes from Bavaria
1992
Warsaw: Year 5703
5.2/5
In the winter of 1943 two young Jews, Alek and Fryda, escape, via sewer tunnels, from the atrocities underway in Warsaw ghetto. Alek, entrusted with u...
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Warsaw: Year 5703
1995
The Night of the Filmmakers
5/3
A meditation on the first 100 years of German cinema, featuring an assembly of German filmmakers.
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The Night of the Filmmakers
1998
Life, Love & Celluloid
5.8/4
Documentary musing upon the work of German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
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Life, Love & Celluloid
1971
Pioneers in Ingolstadt
5.3/12
Berta, a naive young maid, searches for love when the army engineers come to town to build a bridge.
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Pioneers in Ingolstadt
1976
The Culture Industry Needs Something Like Me
0/0
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The Culture Industry Needs Something Like Me
1972
Bremen Freedom
6/5
A very stylized TV version of the Fassbinder play. The set consists of a few pieces of furniture in front of a large screen on which coastal scenery i...
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Bremen Freedom
1993
The Blue Exile
4.6/6
Mavi Sürgün is a fictionalized account of one period of the life of a Turkish journalist who was condemned to exile for an article he wrote in 1925. H...
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The Blue Exile
1971
Rio das Mortes
5.4/14
Michel and Guenther, working in dead-end jobs, are obsessed with going to Peru to find buried treasure, using a map of the Rio das Mortes. Michel's gi...
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Rio das Mortes
1970
The Coffee House
5.3/3
Avant-garde adaptation of a Carlo Goldoni play. Well-to-do Venetians congregate in a coffee house and discuss their problems.
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The Coffee House
1976
The Clown
5.7/5
Based on the best-selling novel by Nobel-laureate Heinrich Böll, this drama is a passionate indictment of Catholicism. Hans Schnier (Helmut Griem) has...
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The Clown
2009
Alicia Bustamante
0/0
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Alicia Bustamante
2005
Von Sex bis Simmel
0/0
A documentary by Hans Günther Pflaum and Peter H. Schröder.
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Von Sex bis Simmel
2014
The Quiet Roar
4.8/4
MARIANNE (Evabritt Strandberg) is a 68-year old woman diagnosed with a terminal disease. Left with angst, she seeks therapy at a clinic where she is t...
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The Quiet Roar
2002
Fassbinder in Hollywood
5.9/8
Though he never actually worked in Hollywood, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who died in 1982 at the age of 36, was influenced greatly by Amercian studio f...
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Fassbinder in Hollywood
1976
Grüße von Rosita aus Peru
0/0
Rosita Hernandez, a nine-year-old Indio girl, tells about the everyday life of her family living in the the desert plain between the Andes and the Pac...
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Grüße von Rosita aus Peru
1981
Das ABC ist subversiv
0/0
Documentary directed by Hans Rolf Strobel
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Das ABC ist subversiv
2025
Yunan
0/0
Munir travels to a remote island to contemplate a drastic action. He is haunted by a cryptic parable passed down to him by his mother. In the silence...
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Yunan
1971
Fassbinder Produces: Film No. 8
0/0
About the making of "Der amerikanische Soldat/The American Soldier" in 1970.
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Fassbinder Produces: Film No. 8
1969
Kuckucksei im Gangsternest
1/1
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Kuckucksei im Gangsternest
1973
Jail Bait
6/11
Based on Franz Xaver Kroetz's play, which is in turn based on a true story, this film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder tells the story of a very young girl...
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Jail Bait
1971
Mathias Kneißl
5/1
Inspired by the real life events of Mathias Kneißl, a marginal man, son of poor farmers from Bavaria, in the late XIX Century. Mathias stole from the...
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Mathias Kneißl
1995
The Sunset Boys
6/1
Ernest, Ted and August fulfill their friend Carl's dying wish and take him to Heidelberg, where they all first met 45 years ago, to see his old girlfr...
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The Sunset Boys
1998
The Girl of Your Dreams
6.5/100
A company of Spanish movie makers leaves Franco's Spain and moves to Hitler's Germany to make a film in co-production. Soon some problems start to ari...
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The Girl of Your Dreams
1969
Die Revolte
0/0
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Die Revolte
1970
Baal
6/16
Baal explores the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality.
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Baal
1993
Golem: The Petrified Garden
4.2/4
Danny Cornish, a sort of stateless man who arranges art exhibits, is called from Tel Aviv to Paris with the news that a great uncle has died, in Birob...
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Golem: The Petrified Garden
1993
Madame Bäurin
4/1
On the Schiermoser farm tense expectation prevails. The 'Urban', the Schaubleins, surprisingly announced their arrival. In the past, they were welcome...
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Madame Bäurin
2006
Das unreine Mal
3/2
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Das unreine Mal
1990
Abraham's Gold
0/0
In this tragic melodrama, a man who has been hiding his Nazi past has it come back to haunt him when his hippie daughter, whom he disapproves of, come...
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Abraham's Gold
1992
Golem, the Spirit of Exile
4.7/7
An allegory of the Golem, a Jewish mythical creature personifying displacement and exile, this film tells the story of a woman (similar to the biblica...
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Golem, the Spirit of Exile
1994
Hey Stranger
5/1
An actor and poet falls in love with a former mortuary photographer turned waitress. They find themselves caught up way over their heads in a dirty po...
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Hey Stranger
2015
Fassbinder
6.2/8
A film portrait of the influential Bavarian actor, director and screenwriter who publicly confessed
his homosexuality.
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Fassbinder
1978
New Year's Eve
0/0
Encouraged by Fassbinder, with whom he became friendly after the then-enfant terrible of the German cinema visited him in Lugano, Sirk also did some t...
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New Year's Eve
1976
Intermezzo für fünf Hände
0/0
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Intermezzo für fünf Hände
1996
Lea
5.5/8
51-year-old Herbert Strehlow, a furniture restorer, falls in love with 21-year-old Lea, who has not spoken a word since childhood when her father kill...
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Lea
1987
Casanova
4.6/8
The life story of an 18th century womanizer who's arrested, not so much for his crimes, but because he's viewed as an undesirable by the husbands and...
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Casanova
2023
Godard Cinema
6.4/8
Jean-Luc Godard is synonymous with cinema. With the release of Breathless in 1960, he established himself overnight as a cinematic rebel and symbol fo...
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Godard Cinema
1986
Forever, Lulu
4.3/7
When Elaine, an adventurous young woman from Germany, arrives in New York City, she sets out to be a famous writer. After a brief stint at a mundane j...
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Forever, Lulu
Magdalena Hausen: Frozen Time
0/0
Magdalena Hausen, a German artist, tried to capture the wind on camera. Her life story, from early years to mysterious disappearance 15 years ago.
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Magdalena Hausen: Frozen Time
2021
The Crossing
7.4/31
In a small town plunged into darkness, two children, Kyona and Adriel, are separated from their parents and, facing the path of exile alone, embark on...
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The Crossing
1971
Jakob von Gunten
0/0
Adaptation of Robert Walser's novel about a young man who enters an oppressive servant school.
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Jakob von Gunten
1989
The Summer of Miss Forbes
3.5/2
Mrs. Forbes, a German governess, is hired for six weeks to take care of two children, while their parents are away. She is authoritarian and repressiv...
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The Summer of Miss Forbes
1986
Barnum
6.7/6
The amazing biography of legendary circus impresario and unparalleled showman, P.T. Barnum.
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Barnum
1976
Der Stumme
0/0
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Der Stumme
2000
Fassbinder’s Women
5.6/7
An essay film in which filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim interviews "the willing victims of Rainer Werner Fassbinder."
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Fassbinder’s Women
2016
Unless
4.8/14
A writer struggles with her daughter's decision to drop out of college and live on the streets.
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Unless
2012
Avanti
4.5/2
What does ‘normal’ actually mean? And what is ‘crazy’? Everybody attempts to convince Léa that her mother, Suzanne, is mentally ill. Her father wants...
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Avanti
1990
Adventure of Catherine C.
3.7/3
In Paris, unhappy movie actress Catherine Crachat becomes infatuated with the mathematician Pierre Indemini, but then breaks up with him. After a film...
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Adventure of Catherine C.
2015
Hotel Bogota - Eine einmalige Geschichte
0/0
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Hotel Bogota - Eine einmalige Geschichte
2007
Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz: A Mega Movie and Its Story
0/0
A documentary about the making of the television mini-series by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, including interviewees with the principal actors.
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Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz: A Mega Movie and Its Story
2017
Lucky
6.4/245
The story of a young mother with a failed marriage behind her, who fights daily for her dream to open a hair salon, challenging her fate in an effort...
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Lucky
1975
Der Katzensteg
0/0
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Der Katzensteg
2012
Once Upon a Time… The Marriage of Maria Braun
0/0
A documentary that focuses on the making of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "The Marriage of Maria Braun".
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Once Upon a Time… The Marriage of Maria Braun
2018
The Prayer
6.4/98
Thomas is a drug addict. In an effort to put an end to his habit, he joins a community of former addicts who live isolated in the mountains and use pr...
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The Prayer
2017
Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day: A Series Becomes a Family Reunion
0/0
Documentary about the making of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1972 German television series EIGHT HOURS DON'T MAKE A DAY, featuring interviews with actor...
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Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day: A Series Becomes a Family Reunion
1998
Angelo Nero
0/0
Jack Altieri, a young Italian-American restaurant owner, arrives at Vesta awaits him a painting of the sixteenth century that depicts the veiled face...
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Angelo Nero
2010
Heiligendamm
0/0
Short film based on Thomas Mann's short story "Der Kleiderschrank".
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Heiligendamm
1988
Miss Arizona
5.6/5
Story of the owners (Mastroianni and Schygulla) of a fancy nightclub in Budapest before and during WWII.
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Miss Arizona
2008
Po-lin. Shards of Memory
8.5/1
Unique archives show a world that no longer exists: pre-war Poland in which two cultures: Jewish and Polish, coexisted wall-in-wall; cottage in a cott...
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Po-lin. Shards of Memory
2020
Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful
6.5/14
Women were clearly at the core of legendary photographer Helmut Newton's work. The stars of his iconic portraits and fashion editorials – from Catheri...
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Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful
2009
Clara, une passion française
5/1
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Clara, une passion française
2019
The Mystery of Henri Pick
6.5/450
In a bizarre Breton library that collects rejected, never published manuscripts, a young editor discovers a novel that she considers a masterpiece. It...
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The Mystery of Henri Pick
2020
Irmi
0/0
The story of Irmi Selver, who lost her family while fleeing Germany in 1939 and overcame tragedy and upheavals to establish a new life in New York.
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Irmi
1970
End of the Commune?
0/0
"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...
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End of the Commune?
1982
Scénario du film Passion
5.6/9
Godard constructs a lyrical study of the cinematic and creative process by deconstructing the story of his 1982 film Passion. “I didn’t want to write...
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Scénario du film Passion
2017
Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary
7.5/2
Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary is a trip through the auteur's singular cosmos - at once supernatural and earthbound. He dropped out of his stu...
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Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary
2021
Everything Went Fine
6.7/153
When her elderly father has a stroke, Emmanuelle rushes to his bedside. Sick and half-paralysed in his hospital bed, he asks Emmanuelle to help him en...
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Everything Went Fine
2010
Lusitanian Illusion
6.4/7
Images and sounds expose the duality of Portugal during the days of WW2: a peaceful, god-loving, rural country, providing an escape route for over one...
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Lusitanian Illusion
2020
The Wonderful Journey of Selma Lagerlöf
4/1
The extraordinary story of Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf (1858-1940), creator of Nils Holgersson, a memorable and legendary literary character, and th...
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The Wonderful Journey of Selma Lagerlöf
2012
Lullaby to my Father
7.5/2
The film intertwines historical events and intimate memories. I observe how architecture represents the transformations of society and those who give...
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Lullaby to my Father
1984
L'aide-mémoire
0/0
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L'aide-mémoire
1982
Passion, le travail et l'amour: Introduction à un scénario
0/0
Notes on the movie Passion
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