El Hedi ben Salem
El Hedi ben Salem was a Moroccan actor. He is best known as the lover and collaborator of provocative German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. He died while in prison. Fassbinder dedicated his last film, Querelle (1982), to Salem. In 2012, a documentary on Salem's life... Read full bio →
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Faustrecht der Freiheit
A suggestible working-class innocent wins the lottery but lets himself be taken advantage of by his bourgeois new boyfriend and his circle of materialistic friends.
Martha
After the death of her abusive father, the lonely librarian Martha marries an equally vile businessman - Helmut. The cruel and torturous nature of their relationship leads Martha to believe Helmut might be trying to kill her.
Angst essen Seele auf
A simple, delicate, melodramatic German film about a loneliness. With a double moral story about the tainted love between an old woman and a younger dark-colored immigrant worker.
Welt am Draht
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Die Zärtlichkeit der Wölfe
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