Volker Spengler

Scene of the Crime

Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries...

Berlin Alexanderplatz

In late 1920s Berlin, Franz Biberkopf is released from prison and vows to go straight. However, he soon finds h...

Veronika Voss

In Munich 1955, German film star Veronika Voss becomes a drug addict at the mercy of corrupt Dr. Marianne Katz,...

The Ogre

Frenchman Abel Tiffauges is a naive man who lives a simple life working as a mechanic. Falsely accused of being...

The Marriage of Maria Braun

Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. She must...

In a Year with 13 Moons

Elvira Weishaupt, once a burly working-class butcher, has made an enormous sacrifice for love. She has undergon...

Chinese Roulette

Ariane and Gerhard Christ, a wealthy Munich couple, plan for the weekend on separate trips, lying to the other...

Despair

Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufacturer, marrie...

The Stationmaster’s Wife

The lackluster and plodding Bolweiser has the (mis)fortune to be married to the town’s siren; his trusting natu...

Everything's a Lie

Erich Kasulke and Rudolf Portmann are comedian stars of the former GDR. When the Wall falls, so does their succ...

The German Chainsaw Massacre

Taking place around the German reunification of 1990, a group of East Germans cross the border to visit West Ge...

The Third Generation

A wildly anarchic satire of guerrilla terrorism in which a band of leftist radicals inadvertently become puppet...

Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven

Frau Emma Küsters prepares dinner late one seemingly-ordinary afternoon in her seemingly-ordinary Frankfurt kit...

Satan’s Brew

A famous poet who hasn't written a word in two years unconsciously plagiarizes the work of Stefan George, while...

Off Beat

Traumatised paramedic looks for the woman of his dreams.

Obscene: The Case of Peter Herzl

A West German man, mistaken by the police for a left wing terrorist, hides in Vienna with a prostitute and her...

Peng! Du bist tot!

American German teacher Andrea Flanegan and computer game developer Kai Westerburg become entangled in the myst...

100 Years Of Adolf Hitler: The Last Hour In The Führerbunker

On 30 April 1945, dictator Adolf Hitler, his wife Eva Braun, and prominent members of the Third Reich live out...

Fandango - Members Only

Small-time dealers make moves in the German club scene.

Kein schöner Land

Adolf and Marlene

When Hitler watches Marlene Dietrich in a movie, he falls in love with her. He persuades her to come back to Ge...

The 120 Days of Bottrop

An eccentric homage to the Rainer Werner Fassbinder days of German filmmaking.

Today We're Playing Boss

Film extras take possession of a bogus film production company and acting as ideal world of film to persuade on...

Vier Stunden von Elbe 1

Four hours by boat from the lightship Elbe 1 is the southern entrance and lock of the Kiel Canal. There, in Bru...

Dirty Sky

"Dirty Sky" tells a gruesome tale of our time with a double finale: once the eternally classic love story of Ro...

Ticket of No Return

A sartorially resplendent woman of few words arrives in Berlin with plans to live out the rest of her days as a...

Marmor, Stein und Eisen bricht

Biopic of tragic Schlager singer Drafi Deutscher.

Der Kampf um den Reigen

Sheep in Wales

“Perpetrators and victims in the generational conflict, wolves in Berlin and sheep in Wales. Contrary to popula...

Polnischer Sommer

Highfalutin

A bar full of people talking about Volker Spengler. HIGHFALUTIN is an attempt to create such a utopia, a simple...

The Fat Rebel

Though a relatively conventional documentary portrait, compared to HIGHFALUTIN, this film by Claude-Oliver Rudo...

Die zwei Herren aus Verona

Hinzelmeier

Der Sturm