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- DirectorSteve BarronStarsLenny von DohlenVirginia MadsenMaxwell CaulfieldAn artificially intelligent PC and his human owner find themselves in a romantic rivalry over a woman.
- DirectorFred BarzykDavid R. LoxtonStarsBruce DavisonPeyton E. ParkNiki FlacksIn a highly controlled and overpopulated society, a man who has terrifying dreams that affect reality is assigned a psychiatrist who takes advantage of the situation.
- DirectorRichard C. SarafianArthur MarksStarsTim MathesonCharlton HestonPeter BoyleA huge solar flare is predicted to fry the Earth. Astronauts must fly toward the sun to drop a talking bomb at the right time for the flare to be aimed elsewhere.
- DirectorKjersti SteinsbøStarsTrond Espen SeimAnders BaasmoHelene BergsholmIn Western Norway, Rebekka is looking for retribution. Under false identity, she seeks out her deceased sister's violator and embeds herself into his idyllic family to now destroy his life.
- DirectorJan HrebejkStarsJirí CernýStefan ChovanecMartin FingerThe screenplay (Der Müll, die Stadt und der Tod) by Rainer Werner Fassbinder inspired a theatre production by Dusan David Parízek. The screenplay and the production in turn inspired the film ODPAD MESTO SMRT (Waste, City, and Death) by Jan Hrebejk. Romi (Gabriela Mícová), a prostitute, is anything but successful at her job: she is of far too gentle a nature for her clients. The more obstinately she is pushed to the streets by her pimp Franz (Stanislav Majer), the closer she is to a complete breakdown. One day Romi is addressed by a property speculator referring to himself as a "wealthy Jew" (Martin Finger). He does not demand any sexual services of her. He satisfies himself with Romi telling him stories, for which he lavishly rewards her. However, no one shares the sudden happiness with Romi. Her work-mates and current clients turn their backs on her, as does Franz, with whom Romi is in love. The whole story takes place in the setting of a dilapidated city, during the clean-up of which politicians openly split their profit with speculators and lobbyists, all under protection from the police.
- DirectorWilbert BankStarsHugo KoolschijnGiam KweeChris NietveltA playwright with writers block travels to Italy for inspiration and variety. There he run into a band of gypsies. A script is born.
- DirectorRainer Werner FassbinderStarsPina BauschThe Kipper KidsYoshi OidaRWF visits the "Theater der Welt" festival 1981 in Cologne. 30 groups contributed with over 100 performances. Framed by Fassbinders reading of Antonin Artauds "The Theater and its double".
- DirectorDaniel SchmidStarsIngrid CavenRainer Werner FassbinderAnnemarie DüringerBeautiful, detached, laconic, consumptive Lily Brest is a streetwalker with few clients. She loves her idle boyfriend Raoul who gambles away what little she earns. The town's power broker, called the rich Jew, discovers she is a good listener, so she's soon busy. Raoul imagines grotesque sex scenes between Lily and the Jew; he leaves her for a man. Her parents, a bitter Fascist who is a cabaret singer in drag and her wheelchair-bound mother, offer no refuge. Even though all have a philosophical bent, the other whores reject Lily because she tolerates everyone, including men. She tires of her lonely life and looks for a way out. Even that act serves the local corrupt powers.
- DirectorRainer Werner FassbinderStarsEl Hedi ben SalemIngfried HoffmannEvelyn KünnekeStaged as a TV show, in a TV studio, set up like Brigitte Mira living room. She recounts her four husbands. Inspired by Leonard Cohen's "Bird on a wire".
- StarsGottfried JohnWolfrid LierAnita BucherThe young toolmaker Jochen fights with his colleagues to a performance bonus. He gets to know the girl Marion. For both, it is love at first sight.
- DirectorPalle Kjærulff-SchmidtStarsBirgitte FederspielIngolf DavidPreben Lerdorff RyeMrs. Geesche is from a crude northern German environment in the early 19th century. As a woman she has no rights - and her urge for freedom leads her to killing 15 people, among them her mother, her father, her children, two husbands and other persons from her immediate environs. She does not want to be one of the men's "pets" and "death is a blessing for someone," she says after murdering her own mother. TV adaptation of Fassbinder's 16th play from 1971.
- DirectorRainer Werner FassbinderStarsMargit CarstensenWolfgang SchenckWolfgang KielingA very stylized TV version of the Fassbinder play. The set consists of a few pieces of furniture in front of a large screen on which coastal scenery is back projected. Geesche is a nineteenth century woman who wants to have a mind of her own. She defies convention and will do anything to achieve her freedom from oppression by her family and friends.
- DirectorRainer Werner FassbinderStarsHanna SchygullaMichael KönigGünther KaufmannMichel 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 girlfriend, Hanna, humors their plan, but really just wants to get married.
- DirectorRainer Werner FassbinderStarsMargit CarstensenIngrid CavenHanna SchygullaPeople meet and chat at Ridolfo's Coffeehouse. The conversations are mostly about money. But also about feelings, ideals, friendship, love, fidelity and respectability.
- DirectorRainer Werner FassbinderMichael FenglerStarsMichael KönigHanna SchygullaMargit CarstensenCan a small group of people start a proletarian revolution, asks the "Black Monk" in a leather jacket. The medieval shepherd, Hans Boehm, claims to have been called by the Virgin Mary to create a revolt against the church and the landowners. The "Black Monk" suggests that he would have more success if he dressed up Johanna and had her appear as the Virgin Mary.
- DirectorPeter MolandStarsIngrid CavenHannes GromballUlli LommelThe film summarized the wishes of the student generation: In a beautiful, distant land everyone is free: their whole purpose in life is dance, love, joy in the beauty of nature. The utopia.
- DirectorRainer Werner Fassbinder
- DirectorBernd BrummbärUdo KierEdward LachmanStarsUdo KierRainer Werner FassbinderSheldon AncelA soldier and a beautiful blonde on a train to Harrisburg.
- DirectorRainer Werner FassbinderAlf BrustellinHans Peter CloosStarsWolfgang BächlerHeinz BennentWolf BiermannGermany in Autumn has no typical plot; it mixes documentary footage with standard movie scenes to present the mood of Germany during the late 1970s. The film covers 2 months in 1977 when a businessman was kidnapped and murdered by the left-wing terrorists known as the RAF-Rote Armee Fraktion (Red Army Faction). The businessman was kidnapped in an effort to secure the release of the original leaders of the RAF, also known as the Baader-Meinhof gang. When the kidnapping effort and a plane hijacking effort failed, the three most prominent leaders of the RAF, Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, and Jan-Carl Raspe, all committed suicide in prison. It has become an article of faith within the left-wing community that these three were actually murdered by the state. The film has several vignettes, including an extended set of scenes with famous director Rainer Werner Fassbinder discussing his feelings about Germany's political situation at the time. Fassbinder's scenes almost seem to be candid documentary footage, but they aren't. Other scenes include documentary footage of the joint funeral of Baader, Enslin, and Raspe.
- DirectorVolker SchlöndorffStarsRainer Werner FassbinderSigi GraueMargarethe von TrottaBaal explores the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality.
- DirectorCarlos AtanesStarsXavier TortAnne Céline AucheManel SolásFrance. A near and probable future. The Sisterhood of Metacontrol governs Europe. Angeline, an exemplary and irreproachable citizen has just joined the order... But her relationship with a special man, Nono, will make her question profoundly the principles of the Doctrine.
- DirectorDerek JarmanStarsTilda SwintonJohnny MillsPhilip MacDonaldA nearly wordless visual narrative inter cuts two main stories and a couple of minor ones.
- DirectorDerek JarmanStarsNathaniel ParkerTilda SwintonLaurence OlivierA movie with no spoken dialogue, it is set against the music and lyrics of Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem" which includes poetry by World War I soldier Wilfred Owen reflecting the horrors of war. There is no linear story or dialogue. It's imagery reflects Owen's story, that of other soldiers, and a nurse during World War I. It also includes actual footage of contemporary wars, including World War II, Vietnam, and Angola.
- DirectorDerek JarmanStarsKarl BowenGraham DowieChristopher HobbsA collection of Super 8 films shot by Derek Jarman between 1972 and 1975, edited to the music of Throbbing Gristle.