Kurt Raab
Kurt Raab (July 20, 1941 – June 28, 1988) was a German stage and film actor, as well as a screenwriter and playwright. Raab is best remembered for his work with German film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, with whom he collaborated on 31 film projects.
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Escape from Sobibor
Based on a true story, this is the gripping account of the largest prisoner escape from a Nazi death camp during World War II. Sobibor is one of three death camps located in eastern Poland. Reminded of their inhumane fate each day, the prisoners plan to perform the impossible- escape from Sobibor.
Bittere Ernte
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.
Abwärts
Two former lovers, an embezzler, and a messenger boy become trapped on a Friday in a stalled office elevator.
Bildnis einer Trinkerin
A sartorially resplendent woman of few words arrives in Berlin with plans to live out the rest of her days as a drunkard.
Gruppenbild mit Dame
The story follows the life of a regular German women Leni Gruyten during 1930ies and 1940ies. Through her interactions with friends, family and other people she knows, the regular folks' perception of the Nazi era is shown. (IMDb)
Satansbraten
A famous poet who hasn't written a word in two years unconsciously plagiarizes the work of Stefan George, while dealing with several mistresses, his dim-witted brother, and a murder investigation.
Mutter Küsters' Fahrt zum Himmel
After her husband kills his boss and himself, Mother Kusters becomes drawn into the activities of the German Communist party and then a group of anarchists.
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.
Angst vor der Angst
After having her second child, a German housewife suffers from postpartum depression before inexplicably falling into a continually misdiagnosed mental state, befuddling her relatives.
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.
Die Verrohung des Franz Blum
A young bourgeois man takes part in a hold-up, is arrested and sentenced. In prison, he discovers a world where only the strongest survive. He will come out transformed.
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
Cybernetics engineer Fred Stiller uncovers a massive corporate conspiracy involving a virtual reality computer project.
Die Zärtlichkeit der Wölfe
Story of a gay serial killer who murders young boys so he can serve them as dinner to his circle of fellow cannibals.
Händler der vier Jahreszeiten
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 recovering from a debilitating heart attack, his business finally begins to take off. However the more he becomes a credit to his family, the more depressed he becomes.
Whity
Whity is the mulatto butler of the dysfunctional Nicholson family in the south-west U.S. in 1878. The father, Ben Nicholson, has an attractive young wife, Katherine, and two sons by a previous marriage; the homosexual Frank and the disabled Davy.
Warnung vor einer heiligen Nutte
Tensions between members of a film crew build while they wait for the arrival of the director and star to arrive on location.
Warum läuft Herr R. Amok
Herr Raab is a technical draftsman. His wife pushes him to seek a promotion, which may be a long shot after he gives a dull and tipsy toast at an office dinner. But why would Herr Raab run amok?
Der amerikanische Soldat
Ricky returns to Munich from Vietnam and is promptly hired as a contract killer in Fassbinder’s subversive and experimental gangster movie.
Liebe ist kälter als der Tod
A small-time pimp is torn between his lover and Bruno the gangster.