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 drunkard.
Despair
Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufacturer, married to the capricious Lydia, loses his temper more and more every day when dealing…
Satan’s Brew
This fast-paced black comedy by wunderkind director Rainer Werner Fassbinder follows the frantic efforts of a starving and confused writer, Walter Kranz to beg, borrow or steal enough money to…
The Third Generation
A mogul merrily funds terrorists to boost his computer sales, by panicking West German government and industry c. 1980, as the third generation of Western European left-wing activists forms, after…
In a Year with 13 Moons
Elvira Weishaupt, once a burly working-class butcher named Erwin, has made an enormous sacrifice for love. She has undergone a sex change for a romantic interest who has abandoned her,…
Chinese Roulette
A husband and wife lie to each other about their weekend travel plans, only to both show up at the family’s country house with their lovers.