Volker Schlöndorff

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

Author Max Zorn, now in his early 60s, is on a promotional book tour in New York when he encounters the woman he could never forget. They spend a ...

On the night of August 24, 1944, the fate of Paris rests with General von Choltitz, who plans to destroy the city on Hitler’s orders. As ...

After being released from prison on a bum charge, Harry Barber is out for payback to regain his lost two years. He’s hired by Mrs. Malroux ...

April 1957: Rational engineer Faber’s plane crashes in Mexico, where he learns that he became a father in 1938. He takes a ship from NYC to ...

In a dystopian, polluted right-wing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on account of her now rare fertility.

A group of elderly Black men on a Louisiana plantation gather to claim responsibility for the murder of a violent white farmer to protect the ...

Willy Loman, an aging, failing salesman, struggles to accept reality and his failure to achieve the American Dream.

Made with an eye to the autumn of 1980 when the German parliamentary elections took place, The Candidate examines Germany’s history past and ...

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War ...

The film does not have a plot per se; it mixes documentary footage, along with standard movie scenes, to give the audience the mood of Germany ...

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

An exploration of the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality.

After accidentally killing her ex-lover during a fight, Marie enlists the help of a stranger and his friend to dispose of the body while becoming ...

1907 Central America: Maria II is the daughter of an Irish terrorist. After her father’s death, she meets Maria I, a performer, and decides ...

Depressed Alain Leroy leaves the clinic where he was detoxified. He meets friends, acquaintances and women, trying to find a reason to continue living.

Enigmatic gangster Silien may or may not be responsible for informing on Faugel, who was just released from prison and is already involved in ...

In a strange and isolated chateau, a man becomes acquainted with a woman and insists that they have met before.

Together with African small farmholders Tony Rinaudo, an Australian agronomist, has been fighting against the spread of the desert for 30 years ...

Radical West German terrorist Rita Vogt abandons the revolution and settles in East Germany with a new identity provided by the secret service. ...

In Belle Époque Paris, a 19th-century Parisian aristocrat falls in love with a lower-class prostitute who seduces him but never loves him.

At an Austrian boys’ boarding school in the early 1900s, shy, intelligent Törless observes the sadistic behavior of his fellow students, ...