Irm Hermann
Irmgard Hermann (4 October 1942 – 26 May 2020) was a German actress. She worked in film, television, and the stage, appearing in over 160 film and television productions. She was discovered, without formal training, by Rainer Werner Fassbinder who cast her in many of his films.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.8933 |
| Birthday | 1942-10-04 |
| Place of Birth | Munich, Germany |
| Also Known As |
1974
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
7.74/452
Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown children offer little companionship. One night she...
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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
1974
Effi Briest
6.602/49
When 17-year-old Effi Briest marries the elderly Baron von Instetten, she moves to a small, isolated Baltic town and a house that she fears is haunted...
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Effi Briest
1976
Shadow of Angels
4.444/9
Beautiful, detached, laconic, consumptive Lily Brest is a streetwalker with few clients. She loves her idle boyfriend, Raoul, who gambles away what li...
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Shadow of Angels
1970
Gods of the Plague
5.65/30
After his release from prison, ex-convict Franz Walsch finds his way back into the Munich criminal underworld. His attentions focus upon two women, Jo...
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Gods of the Plague
1972
The Merchant of Four Seasons
6.7/81
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 r...
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The Merchant of Four Seasons
1972
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
7.389/235
Petra von Kant is a successful fashion designer -- arrogant, caustic, and self-satisfied. She mistreats Marlene (her secretary, maid, and co-designer)...
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The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
1979
Woyzeck
6.618/200
Having fathered an illegitimate child with his lover, Marie, feckless soldier Franz Woyzeck takes odd jobs around his small town to provide some extra...
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Woyzeck
1982
The Magic Mountain
6.231/13
Hans Castorp, fresh from university and about to become a civil engineer, comes to the Sanatorium Berghof in the Swiss Alps to visit his cousin Joachi...
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The Magic Mountain
1991
Pappa ante Portas
7.641/145
Heinrich Lohse, a strict and highly efficient purchasing manager at a company bulk-orders 40 tons of mustard and enough typewriting paper for 40 years...
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Pappa ante Portas
2007
The Man from the Embassy
6.333/3
The unusual friendship between a German embassy employee and a twelve-year-old refugee girl helps both of them rediscover their joy in life, but also...
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The Man from the Embassy
2004
Germanikus
3.938/8
The work-shy, lazy Germanicus is taken to Rome by slave traders and sold straight to the nouveau riche Roman Tusnelda. He manages to escape, but only...
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Germanikus
2008
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
6.7/3
Documentary about filmmakers of the New German Cinema who were members of the legendary Filmverlag für Autoren (Film Publishing House for Authors). Am...
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Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
1969
Katzelmacher
6.445/55
A group of young slackers spend most of their time hanging out in front of a Munich apartment building. When a Greek immigrant named Jorgos moves in,...
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Katzelmacher
2008
A Woman in Berlin
6.588/68
A woman tries to survive the invasion of Berlin by the Soviet troops during the last days of World War II.
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A Woman in Berlin
2007
Fashion Victims
5.9/29
At 52, traveling salesman Wolfgang Zenker (Edgar Selge) is in old school territory: he peddles the company's classic clothing line to boutiques that c...
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Fashion Victims
1997
The 120 Days of Bottrop
5.275/20
An eccentric homage to the Rainer Werner Fassbinder days of German filmmaking.
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The 120 Days of Bottrop
2004
Verführung in 6 Gängen
5/5
Frank Drannemann, a passionate star chef and single father, is in a professional and private crisis. Since the tragic accidental death of his beloved...
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Verführung in 6 Gängen
1975
Fear of Fear
6.3/30
After having her second child, a German housewife suffers from postpartum depression before inexplicably falling into a continually misdiagnosed menta...
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Fear of Fear
1996
Willi und die Windzors
5.5/6
The British parliament has decided to get rid of the royal family. All of them have to leave the county and so they move to Germany, where they want t...
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Willi und die Windzors
1990
The German Chainsaw Massacre
3.982/28
Taking place around the German reunification of 1990, a group of East Germans cross the border to visit West Germany and get slaughtered by a psychopa...
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The German Chainsaw Massacre
1971
Mathias Kneißl
6.5/2
Inspired by the real-life events of Mathias Kneißl, a marginal man, son of poor farmers from Bavaria, in the late XIX century. Mathias stole from the...
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Mathias Kneißl
2009
Krauses Kur
8.1/4
On a summer evening the circuit of the village policeman Krause suddenly went crazy. His doctor immediately prescribed a cure on the Baltic Sea for hi...
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Krauses Kur
1966
The City Tramp
6.115/26
A tramp finds a gun lying in the street.
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The City Tramp
1968
The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp
4.5/14
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 tr...
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The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp
2011
Playoff
4.5/11
In the 1980s, an Israeli refugee, deemed a traitor, coaches West Germany's basketball team.
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Playoff
2012
Die Libelle und das Nashorn
4/2
Ada Hänselmann presents her debut novel. However, the numerous guests are only interested in the 82-year-old legendary actor Nino Winter and his autob...
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Die Libelle und das Nashorn
1971
Pioneers in Ingolstadt
5.357/14
Berta, a naive young maid, searches for love when the army engineers come to town to build a bridge.
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Pioneers in Ingolstadt
1976
The American Soldier
6.292/24
Ricky returns to Munich from Vietnam and is promptly hired as a contract killer.
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The American Soldier
1988
The Case of Mr. Spalt
9/4
The filmmaker René Perraudin made five comedic short films with Otto Sander in the leading role and knits them into a feature film.
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The Case of Mr. Spalt
1996
Gnadenlos - Zur Prostitution gezwungen
10/1
A Czech woman is kidnapped in Berlin and forced into prostitution. The man behind the kidnapping is a respected businessman. He is on the wanted list,...
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Gnadenlos - Zur Prostitution gezwungen
2004
Mein Bruder ist ein Hund
5.357/7
With the help of a magic stone, Marietta transforms her little brother Tobias into a little dog - but the situation threatens to get out of control.
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Mein Bruder ist ein Hund
1971
The Ancestress
9/1
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The Ancestress
2008
Schokolade für den Chef
5.4/6
The wealthy industrialist Ernst Schmitt has to take a step back for health reasons. But first he wants to arrange his succession, as he doesn't trust...
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Schokolade für den Chef
2008
10 Sekunden
4.6/8
Air traffic controller Markus Hofer is partly to blame for a collision between two airplanes in which 83 people lost their lives. Although the inciden...
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10 Sekunden
2007
TRUST.Wohltat
6/3
Germany in 2020: the state social security systems have been dissolved and will be regulated purely by the private sector from now on. The insurance g...
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TRUST.Wohltat
1983
Eisenhans
7.5/2
A film by german playwright Tankred Dorst about a case of incest in a rural community.
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Eisenhans
1970
Love Is Colder Than Death
6.198/58
Small-time pimp Franz is torn between his mistress and Bruno, the gangster sent after him by a shady crime syndicate he has refused to join.
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Love Is Colder Than Death
1991
Lippels Traum
9/1
When his parents go away and he has to stay behind alone with an unloved housekeeper, a boy retreats into a dream—into a fairy-tale adventure story li...
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Lippels Traum
1999
Männer und andere Katastrophen
7.5/2
The somewhat awkward student Judith is pursued by bankruptcies, bad luck and mishaps. The failed baby sitting with her sister Rebecca ends with a ruin...
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Männer und andere Katastrophen
2000
Three Wishes
7/1
Before Martin dies, he asks Jan to carry out three wishes. Will Jan be up to making them happen? Sometimes, one can also be faced with other, unforese...
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Three Wishes
1988
The Passenger – Welcome to Germany
6.25/4
An American filmmaker travels to modern day Berlin to make a film based on a real-life incident from 1942 in which 13 Jewish prisoners from a concentr...
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The Passenger – Welcome to Germany
1976
The Sternstein Manor
7/2
At the top of the mountain stands the beautiful Sternsteinhof farm. Leni, a girl from a poor background, admires this farm and wants to become a farme...
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The Sternstein Manor
1970
Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?
7.368/91
Technical draftsman Herr R. is a dependable guy. He gets along with his colleagues although his boss wants him to go beyond technical cleanliness to p...
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Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?
2001
Hamlet: This Is Your Family
8/1
A provocative and ironic pamphleteering documentary about the making of Christoph Schlingensief’s Nazi-'Hamlet’ (2001). Both a media event and a form...
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Hamlet: This Is Your Family
1973
Jail Bait
6.143/14
In a small German town, a 14-year-old girl's relationship with an older man draws scrutiny and leads to legal consequences, reflecting the constraints...
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Jail Bait
1992
Everything's a Lie
4.333/7
Erich Kasulke and Rudolf Portmann are comedian stars of the former GDR. When the Wall falls, so does their success. Portmann becomes a successful busi...
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Everything's a Lie
1982
Last Five Days
6/4
At Gestapo head quarters a young woman establishes a relationship with another inmate. This young woman is Sophie Scholl who tells the story of her li...
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Last Five Days
1994
Fünf Millionen und ein paar Zerquetschte
9/1
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Fünf Millionen und ein paar Zerquetschte
1995
Zu treuen Händen
8/1
The satirical film is about the liquidation of a sewing machine combine by the Treuhandanstalt (THA) in the town of Altenburg in Thuringia. The compan...
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Zu treuen Händen
2012
Vatertage - Opa über Nacht
5.1/14
The 37-year-old Munich survivor and rickshaw driver Basti struck by lightning than one day unexpectedly the 17-year-old Dina from Bitterfeld turns up...
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Vatertage - Opa über Nacht
2000
Paradiso: Seven Days with Seven Women
5/6
What would happen if you gathered all the lovers you have had in your life in a single room and let them interact for a week? For his 60th birthday, a...
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Paradiso: Seven Days with Seven Women
1977
Women in New York
6/4
In 1930s New York, a group of bored wealthy women convene in social situations and converse about their husbands and/or lovers.
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Women in New York
1975
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
7.671/35
Frau Emma Küsters prepares dinner late one seemingly-ordinary afternoon in her seemingly-ordinary Frankfurt kitchen. She wants to add canned sausages...
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Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
1969
Die Revolte
9/1
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Die Revolte
1999
Zum Sterben schön
9/1
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Zum Sterben schön
1970
Baal
5.525/20
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.
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Baal
1985
Marie Ward - Zwischen Galgen und Glorie
9/1
The story of Marie Ward, a religious woman from a devout, aristocratic Yorkshire Catholic family who lived between 1585 and 1645 and moved to St. Omer...
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Marie Ward - Zwischen Galgen und Glorie
1995
Deutschlandlied
10/1
This three-part film tells how people in the fictional town of Königsbruck experience the end of the war in 1945. For some it is salvation, for others...
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Deutschlandlied
1978
Die Ängste des Dr. Schenk
10/1
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Die Ängste des Dr. Schenk
1993
Grüß Gott, Genosse
6.5/2
In 1989, teacher Wendler and his wife leave the GDR to join his Bavarian uncle. In the West, the line-loyal educator with a whitewashed CV is immediat...
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Grüß Gott, Genosse
1989
Spider's Web
6.182/11
Ulrich Mühe plays a German businessman who was born completely without scruples. This makes him an eminently suitable candidate for success in the cha...
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Spider's Web
2015
Fassbinder: Love Without Demands
6.4/7
Rainer Werner Fassbinder was probably Germany’s most significant post-war director. His swift and dramatic demise at the early age of 37 in 1982 left...
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Fassbinder: Love Without Demands
2002
Ten Minutes Older: The Cello
6.641/32
Collection of short films the summaries of which include; a foreign man moving to Italy, getting married and having a child; a four split scene short...
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Ten Minutes Older: The Cello
1973
Ein unheimlich starker Abgang
5.5/2
Young Sonja is accused of murdering her boyfriend Manfred. The film reveals her background, which remains hidden in court: the half-orphan girl become...
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Ein unheimlich starker Abgang
2015
Fassbinder
6.2/9
A film portrait of the influential Bavarian actor, director, and screenwriter who publicly confessed his homosexuality, which chronologically covers a...
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Fassbinder
1989
Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia
6.688/8
A group of cosmopolitan women passengers aboard the Trans-Siberian/Mongolian Railway are taken prisoner by Ulan Iga, a warrior princess.
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Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia
2005
In einem anderen Leben
7/1
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In einem anderen Leben
2002
Die Novizin
8/1
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Die Novizin
2007
Fjorde der Sehnsucht
0/0
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Fjorde der Sehnsucht
1998
Walli, die Eisfrau
3.667/3
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Walli, die Eisfrau
1999
Gefährliche Hochzeit
7/1
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Gefährliche Hochzeit
1998
Schalom, meine Liebe
7/1
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Schalom, meine Liebe
1974
Nora Helmer
7.125/8
A childish wife reveals surprising strength when faced with blackmail. Based on A Doll's House by Ibsen, this is a video recording made for German tel...
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Nora Helmer
1982
Bananen-Paul
9/1
A bear escapes from the circus and befriends a girl.
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Bananen-Paul
1978
Mittags auf dem Roten Platz
7/1
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Mittags auf dem Roten Platz
1983
The Swing
5.5/6
Based on Annette Kolb’s autobiographical novel of the same name, THE SWING is a lavish, breathless reconstruction of life in Munich towards the end of...
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The Swing
2001
Gnadenlose Bräute
3.667/3
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Gnadenlose Bräute
2013
The Invention of Love
2.3/5
A young woman has the idea of setting up her boyfriend with a very wealthy but sickly lady to claim her inheritance.
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The Invention of Love
1996
Babuschka
7/1
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Babuschka
1975
Fox and His Friends
7.2/151
Fox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and things that he has always wanted. He enters an abusive r...
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Fox and His Friends
2012
Say Goodbye to the Story (ATT 1/11)
0/0
A pure nightmare: outtakes of a film that consists of nothing but outtakes. Its truest moment is a dream sequence in which the torturous initial seque...
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Say Goodbye to the Story (ATT 1/11)
1981
Lili Marleen
6.449/88
The story of a German singer named Willie, who while working in Switzerland, falls in love with a Jewish composer named Robert, whose family is helpin...
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Lili Marleen
1995
Die Fremde
0/0
TV-movie by Diethard Klante
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Die Fremde
2005
Die letzte Schlacht
7/1
The 13 days from April 20th to May 2nd, 1945, are unique in the history of Germany: They are the final act in the history of the Third Reich, which wa...
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Die letzte Schlacht
1980
Slow Attack
6.5/1
Nik, a released prisoner who started writing in prison, wants to leave his past behind him, but refuses to contact his former girlfriend and her famil...
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Slow Attack
1988
Innocence Unknown
10/1
After the essay "On Marionette theatre" by Heinrich von Kleist.
The film focuses on Kleist himself, torn apart, searching for knowledge, for identity...
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Innocence Unknown
2009
Lilly the Witch: The Dragon and the Magic Book
5.311/90
Lilly was a normal girl with a healthy sense of adventure. That is, until she finds a magical book, complete with a funny little dragon, "Hector". Wit...
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Lilly the Witch: The Dragon and the Magic Book
1995
Hades
10/1
This German political drama from iconoclastic filmmaker Herbert Achternbusch takes a slightly askew look at neo-Nazis and the Holocaust. His non-story...
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Hades
1989
Adrian und die Römer
8/1
Adrian is a single man living in the big city, on the verge of a midlife crisis. So far, he hasn't managed to build a proper family, a fat bank accoun...
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Adrian und die Römer
2016
A French Summer
3.6/5
Married couple Martin and Jackie meet an unconventional Frenchman named Serge, who both are attracted to. But will their marriage survive it?
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A French Summer
2016
Der Bulle und das Landei - Goldrausch
6.2/4
Shortly before the celebration of his 95th birthday, Karl Wolter is murdered. Instead of ending their accidental marriage for good on the long-awaited...
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Der Bulle und das Landei - Goldrausch
2000
Fassbinder's Women
5.333/9
An essay film in which filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim interviews "the willing victims of Rainer Werner Fassbinder."
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Fassbinder's Women
2012
Ulrike Ottinger: Nomad from the Lake
6/1
Ulrike Ottinger is an exceptional filmmaker and artist. Her cinematic universe has influenced entire generations. As a young woman, she brought the in...
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Ulrike Ottinger: Nomad from the Lake
1979
Dreams Don't Make Noise When They Die
9.5/2
It has hardly been seen before that a 83-year-old actor has starred in a Danish film, but it is the case here, where Kai Holm says goodbye to a long l...
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Dreams Don't Make Noise When They Die
1973
Tenderness of the Wolves
5.663/46
A German serial killer preys on boys and young men during the so-called years of crisis between the wars. Based on the true story of Fritz Haarmann, a...
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Tenderness of the Wolves
2017
Suck Me Shakespeer 3
6.1/493
A bank robber becomes a teacher after being released from prison and finds himself at the center of a number of crazy adventures.
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Suck Me Shakespeer 3
1984
Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press
5.6/11
The final installment in Ulrike Ottinger’s Berlin Trilogy (following TICKET OF NO RETURN and FREAK ORLANDO) casts Delphine Seyrig as the nefarious Fri...
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Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press
1981
Today We're Playing Boss
4.5/4
Film extras take possession of a bogus film production company and acting as ideal world of film to persuade one associates mother-in-law of marriage.
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Today We're Playing Boss
1990
Letztes aus der DaDaeR
0/0
In a loose set of cabaret pieces, Steffen Mensching and Hans-Eckardt Wenzel - highly acclaimed East German poets, songwriters and clowns - satirize Ea...
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Letztes aus der DaDaeR
2011
Faust Sonnengesang
7.5/2
In no less than 180 minutes the film showed frenzied dashes of wild colors and idyllic natural images, of wonderful music and powerful lyricism, which...
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Faust Sonnengesang
1983
Edith's Diary
6/4
When Edith Howland's husband abandons her for a younger woman, leaving her with their alcoholic son and his senile uncle, she begins recording details...
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Edith's Diary
2005
Herzlichen Glückwunsch
5.667/3
A situational family comedy, wordplay and a whole host of idiosyncratic characters are the ingredients for this both cheerful and emotional film about...
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Herzlichen Glückwunsch
2018
Zwei Herren im Anzug
6.1/8
In the Bavaria of the 1980s, a father and his son compare their respective views on a family past heavy with resentment and unsaid.
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Zwei Herren im Anzug
1986
Das Totenreich
9/1
Denmark, by the end of the 19th century. Gov. Dihmer gives his resignation because of his illness. Two friends, a pastor and a physician, try to awake...
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Das Totenreich
1983
Der Zappler
10/1
Stefan is 12 years old, spastically paralyzed and has moved to a new town with his mother. His illness is met with hostility and rejection by the chil...
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Der Zappler
1981
Kater Lampe
10/1
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Kater Lampe
1969
Die Revolte
9/1
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Die Revolte
1989
Waller's Last Trip
6.25/4
For many years the old Waller worked as a railwayman. After Waller is informed that "his" track will be closed down and that he will be retired, he wa...
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Waller's Last Trip
2011
My Name Is Not Ali
6.3/6
Travelling between Germany, France, and Tunisia, Viola Shafik reconstructs and deconstructs the unknown life story of El Hedi Ben Salem through interv...
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My Name Is Not Ali
2017
Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day: A Series Becomes a Family Reunion
0/0
Documentary about the making of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1972 German television series EIGHT HOURS DON'T MAKE A DAY, featuring interviews with actor...
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Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day: A Series Becomes a Family Reunion
1986
Seven Women, Seven Sins
5.455/11
Seven Women, Seven Sins (1986) represents a quintessential moment in film history. The women filmmakers invited to direct for the seven sins were amon...
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Seven Women, Seven Sins
1970
End of the Commune?
8/1
A documentary about Fassbinder and the early years of the legendary Antiteater, the group he was a member/leader of. You can here see and hear some of...
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End of the Commune?
1988
Superbia – The Pride
5.7/3
Pride is the first of the seven deadly sins. The introduction is made through early allegorical forms and figures (triumphal procession, dance of deat...
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Superbia – The Pride
1998
Tigerstripe Baby Is Waiting for Tarzan
3.417/6
Time traveler Frank is picked up by Luise and Theo while on their way to Berlin. Frank wants to find author Laura Luna and take her to the future with...
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Tigerstripe Baby Is Waiting for Tarzan
2020
Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence
6/7
Using unpublished and newly digitalised archive footage and film material, Bettina Böhler has brilliantly assembled this film about the life and work...
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Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence
2009
Mea Culpa – A ReadyMadeOpera
0/0
In Mea Culpa, Christoph Schlingensief blurs a delicate line: he ignores the threshold that separates the healthy from the sick. By making his cancer t...
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Mea Culpa – A ReadyMadeOpera
1988
Sheep in Wales
0/0
“Perpetrators and victims in the generational conflict, wolves in Berlin and sheep in Wales. Contrary to popular expectations, but in keeping with Sch...
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Sheep in Wales
1991
The Party: Nature Morte
10/1
The eponymous party is hosted by Queenie and Burrs, long-term lovers who are rapidly growing apart.
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The Party: Nature Morte
1987
Close Up
0/0
Secret agents from the East and the West scheme to obtain an ingenious invention.
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Close Up
2003
Freakstars 3000
7/7
As stated in the opening titles and at the end Freakstars 3000 is supposed to be a commentary on the problems of the non-disabled people. The more I w...
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Freakstars 3000
2015
Fassbinder's Funeral
0/0
Irm Hermann recalls the funeral of Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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