Released Date:
1980-06-11
Languages:
German
Countries:
West Germany
Runtime:
124 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.7 (2397 Reviews)
Director:
Rainer Werner FassbinderGenres:
DramaRainer Werner Fassbinder
This drama follows the last few days in the life of Elvira (formerly Erwin) Weisshaupt. Years before, Erwin told a co-worker, Anton, that he loved him. "Too bad, you aren't a woman," he replied. Erwin took Anton at his word. Trying to salvage something from the wreckage love has made of his life, he now hopes that Anton will not reject him again.
Released Date:
1986-03-01
Languages:
German
Countries:
West Germany
Runtime:
101 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (556 Reviews)
Director:
Agnieszka HollandHermann H. Field (novel)
Stanislaw Mierzenski (novel)
Agnieszka Holland
Paul Hengge
In the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separated in the woods, and Leon, a local peasant who's now a farmer of some wealth, discovers the woman, Rosa, and hides her in his cellar. Leon's a middle-aged Catholic bachelor, tormented by his sexual drive. He doesn't tell Rosa he's seen signs her husband is alive, and he begs her to love him. Rosa offers herself to Leon if he'll help a local Jew in hiding who needs money. Leon pays, and love between Rosa and him does develop, but then Leon's peasant subservience and his limited empathy lead to tragedy. At the war's end, a ray of sunshine comes from an unexpected place.
Released Date:
1995-01-12
Languages:
German
Countries:
Germany
Runtime:
104 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (941 Reviews)
Director:
Doris DèrrieDoris Dèrrie (screenplay)
Doris Dèrrie (short story)
On the brink of her 30th birthday, Fanny feels the door to marital happiness closing up on her. She is obsessed with death, even visits evening classes on dying and so it seems fitting, that she encounters a skeleton in the malfunctioning elevator of her apartment building. The skeleton is her neighbour Orfeo, a black, gay self-declared psychic, who convinces her that she is about to meet "him". But is it really Lothar, the new yuppie apartment manager ...?
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