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Documents the lives of infamous fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving. De Hory, who later committed suicide to avoid more prison time, made his...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Orson Welles

Based on the plot of Euripides' Medea. Medea centers on the barbarian protagonist as she finds her position in the Greek world threatened, and the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: María Callas

'Dalla nube alla resistenza (From the Cloud to the Resistance ) (1978), based on two works by Cesare Pavese, falls into the category of History...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Olimpia Carlisi

Mark Demski discovers his girlfriend is cheating on him and thinks it has happened because of his small penis. Sad, he dumps the girl and promises...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jan Sosniok

Screen adapatation of Mozart's greatest opera. Don Giovanni, the infamous womanizer, makes one conquest after another until the ghost of Donna Anna's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruggero Raimondi

In occupied France during the WWII, a German officer is murdered. The collaborationist Vichy government decides to pin the murder on six petty...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Louis Seigner

Straub-Huillet’s first color film, adapts a lesser-known Corneille tragedy from 1664, which in turn was based on an episode of imperial court...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Adriano Aprà

A young man, recently arrived in New York from Europe, becomes swept up in a series of events that are beyond his knowledge or control.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Christian Heinisch

Michel and Guenther, working in dead-end jobs, are obsessed with going to Peru to find buried treasure, using a map of the Rio das Mortes. Michel's...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hanna Schygulla

Berta, a naive young maid, searches for love when the army engineers come to town to build a bridge.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hanna Schygulla

Set in contemporary Rome, the film shows through a series of encounters with “ancient” Romans, how the economic and political...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gottfried Bold

Can a small group of people start a proletarian revolution, asks the "Black Monk" in a leather jacket. The medieval shepherd, Hans Boehm, claims to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michael König

Film adaptation by Straub and Huillet of Hölderlin’s 1798 tragedy on the symbolic death of Empedocles, the legislator in Ancient Greece.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Andreas von Rauch

Three sequences are linked together in this short film by Straub; the first sequence is a long tracking shot from a car of prostitutes plying their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Irm Hermann

Music teacher Carlo, an easygoing old rock'n'roller, meets doctor Ellen in hospital. She is completely stressed out, so that even son Franz often...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Uwe Ochsenknecht