The retired Chief superintendent Jakob Franck who often had to inform relatives as a “death messenger”, now hopes to lead a life beyond the dead.

Volker Schlöndorff transposes Bertolt Brecht’s late-expressionist work to latter-day 1969. Poet and anarchist Baal lives in an attic and reads his poems to cab drivers. At first feted and later…

Walter Faber has survived a crash with an airplane. His next trip is by ship. On board this ship he meets the enchanting Sabeth and they have a passionate love…

A regular day in a Louisiana sugarcane plantation changes course when a local white farmer is shot in self defense. A group of old, black men takes a courageous step…

A recently released ex-con gets involved in a fake kidnapping scheme that turns very real.

In World War II, the widow Barny sees the Italian soldiers arriving in occupied Saint Bernard while walking to her job. Barny lives with her daughter and works correcting tests…

Alain Leroy is a suicidal recovering alcoholic who decides to visit his friends in Paris one last time in an attempt to find a reason to continue living.

When a young woman accidentally kills her ex-lover during a fight, she decides to conceal the body. Unfortunately, however, our anti-hero is less than honorable and becomes involved with not…

After a chance encounter with a wanted man, a woman is harassed by the police and press until she takes violent action.

Germany in Autumn does not have a plot per se; it mixes documentary footage, along with standard movie scenes, to give the audience the mood of Germany during the late…

Made with an eye to the autumn of 1980 when the German parliamentary elections took place, The Candidate examines Germany’s history past and present and Franz Josef Strauß, the man…

Salesman Willy Loman is in a crisis. He’s about to lose his job, he can’t pay his bills, and his sons Biff and Happy don’t respect him and can’t seem…

Enigmatic gangster Silien, who may or may not be responsible for squealing on Faugel, is released from the slammer and already involved in what should have been a simple heist….

Oskar has been created in Germany in 1924 having an advanced wisdom. Repulsed from the hypocrisy of the irresponsibility of society, he won’t grow old following his birthday.

In a dystopicly polluted rightwing spiritual tyranny, a younger girl is put in sexual slavery on account of her now uncommon fertility.

The nights August 24, 1944. The fate of Paris is at the control of General von Choltitz, governor of Grand Paris, who’s organizing, on Hitler’s ordersto blow off the French…

Throughout a book tour in the USA, Max meets and falls deeply in love with a new woman. Many decades after, Max yields to that the United States, trusting to…