Hanns Zischler

1917 – Der wahre Oktober
7.3

1917 – Der wahre Oktober

St. Petersburg 1917. The frontline of the global war is coming closer everyday; people are hungry, wor-ried, angry. In February the tsar is ...
Axolotl Overkill
5.3

Axolotl Overkill

Jun. 29, 2017

Axolotl Overkill

Mifti, age 16, lives in Berlin with a cast of characters including her half-siblings; their rich, self-involved father; and her junkie friend ...
Masaryk
6.7

Masaryk

Mar. 09, 2017

Masaryk

It is 1939. Flamboyant Czech diplomat Jan Masaryk has fled to America to escape his recent past. Germany has invaded Czechoslovakia and Masaryk ...
Ein Mann unter Verdacht
6.8

Ein Mann unter Verdacht

Anja Altmann disappears after a birthday party. When the police ask husband Thomas about her , family attorney and friend Lavinia Bertok manage ...
All of a Sudden
6.5

All of a Sudden

Apr. 21, 2016

All of a Sudden

Karsten apparently has it settled. However, in this provincial German town, a moment of weakness turns to disaster, disappointment soon fuels ...
Clouds of Sils Maria
6.7

Clouds of Sils Maria

Aug. 20, 2014

Clouds of Sils Maria

A veteran actress comes face-to-face with an uncomfortable reflection of herself when she agrees to take part in a revival of the play that ...
Munich
7.5

Munich

Dec. 23, 2005

Munich

During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black ...
The Edukators
7.5

The Edukators

Oct. 25, 2004

The Edukators

Three activists cobble together a kidnapping plot after they encounter a businessman in his home.
Ripley’s Game
6.6

Ripley’s Game

Sep. 02, 2002

Ripley’s Game

Tom Ripley – cool, urbane, wealthy, and murderous – lives in a villa in the Veneto with Luisa, his harpsichord-playing girlfriend. A ...
Amen.
7.2

Amen.

Feb. 13, 2002

Amen.

The film “Amen.” examines the links between the Vatican and Nazi Germany. The central character is Kurt Gerstein, a member of the ...
Sunshine
7.5

Sunshine

Sep. 13, 1999

Sunshine

The film follows a Jewish family living in Hungary through three generations, rising from humble beginnings to positions of wealth and power in ...
Charlie & Louise – Das doppelte Lottchen
5.6

Charlie & Louise – Das doppelte Lottchen

Charlie & Louise – Das doppelte Lottchen is a German children’s film directed by Joseph Vilsmaier in 1994, starring Corinna Harfouch. ...
The Cement Garden
7.1

The Cement Garden

Feb. 20, 1993

The Cement Garden

After the death of her husband, the mother of Julie, Jack, Sue and Tom begins to suffer from a mysterious illness. Aware that she is going to ...
Germany Year 90 Nine Zero
7.0

Germany Year 90 Nine Zero

The supremely world-weary Lemmy Caution, last seen in Godard’s “Alphaville” (France/1965), has several strange encounters while ...
Europa Europa
7.6

Europa Europa

Nov. 14, 1990

Europa Europa

A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a ...
Francesco
6.4

Francesco

Mar. 22, 1989

Francesco

The life of St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) as related by followers who gather after his death to tell stories so that Leone can record them: a ...
A Woman in Flames
6.1

A Woman in Flames

Jun. 10, 1983

A Woman in Flames

Eva, an upper-class housewife, frustratedly leaves her arrogant husband and decides to enter the call girl business. She lets Yvonne, a ...
Doctor Faustus
6.7

Doctor Faustus

Sep. 16, 1982

Doctor Faustus

A musician beds down a prostitute he knows is diseased in order to gain inspiration, an act he later believes to have been a tacit pact with Satan
Malevil
6.7

Malevil

May. 13, 1981

Malevil

In southern France, in a quite little town, the mayor, who also owns a castle with some cattle, is in the wine cellar with some other people: the ...
The Meetings of Anna
7.4

The Meetings of Anna

Oct. 08, 1978

The Meetings of Anna

Anna is a film director whose job takes her all over western Europe. In each place she either already has some intimate connection, or readily ...
Kings of the Road
7.8

Kings of the Road

Mar. 04, 1976

Kings of the Road

Itinerant projection-equipment repairman Bruno Winter (Rüdiger Vogler) and depressed hitchhiker Robert Lander (Hanns Zischler)–a doctor who ...