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DVD-Label

Since Filmgalerie 451 was founded as a video library, DVDs play an important role for us. Since 1990 we have released over 300 films on video. Some films are still available exclusively on DVD.

GER 1992, 92 min

After a wedding party three friends from Hamburg strand in newly reunited Berlin. A restless odyssey through the wastelands of a big city...

GER 1988, 83 min

Harry (Ian Dury), a drummer and pyromaniac who likes to play with fire, and German car mechanic Gina (Pia Frankenberg) are forced to share...

GER 1985, 88 min

“Destiny put her on the wrong side. She is rich, but wants to be poor. She’s well on her way, she’s making movies.“ A revealing (social)...

GER 1984, 9 min

A city (Hamburg) is afflicted by a series of slaps in the face. Pia Frankenberg’s short film proves that cinema can strike back!

GER 1981, 13 min

A young woman strolls through the night, then boards a train. Seeking closeness to others she chooses an unusual method by searching...

GER 2022, 95 min

Photography and beyond – Part 35. The film shows numerous choletts of the Bolivian civil engineer, architect and founder of neo-Andean...

GER 2022, 80 min

The quasi-fascist architecture of Francisco Salamone's slaughterhouses in the Argentine pampas, the utopian buildings by Freddy...

GER 2019, 80 min

Max Linz’s satire on the university business, stuck into third-party funding and evaluation.  

DK 2015, 107 min

Documentation based on a rediscovered interview with Rainer Werner Fassbinder from the 70s.

GER 2001, 349 min

His staging of “Hamlet” at Schauspielhaus Zurich takes shots at the right-wing populist Swiss People’s Party (SVP).

USSR, EG, SUD, GDR 1964-1989, 174 min

Eight films by directors Suliman Elnour, Eltayeb Mahdi, Ibrahim Shaddad of the Sudanese Film Group (SFG).

NIG 1976, 137 min

SHAIHU UMAR by Adamu Halilu is one of the first feature films in Hausa. The film is based on the eponymous 1955 novella by Abubakar Tafawa...

GER 2018, 71 min

In a small German town near the edge of the Ruhr region, a farmboy tries to find his place in the world. Torn back and forth between city...

GSSR 1978, 95 min

As a journalist, Sopiko interviews a wide range of different women about their living conditions and desires.

GER 2019, 93 min

The renovation, demolition and reconstruction of different parts of the Kunsthalle Mannheim between 2013 and 2018. The before and the...

D 2016, 94 min

AND-EK GHES... means: ONE FINE DAY... A song, a promise to the beloved, to the children, to oneself. Members of the Velcu family from Faţa...

GER 2016, 106 min

A documentary turns into a cinematic REVISION. Like a puzzle, the film puts together the facts around the death of two men on a field at...

GER 2016, 93 min

On 14.09.2012 at 2:56pm, the cruise liner Adventure of the Seas reports to the Spanish Maritime Rescue Centre the sighting of a...

GER/Peru 2017, 92 min

A justice thriller of a different kind.

GER 2018, 36 min

The Grundtvigs Church (1913-1940) in Copenhagen, designed by Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint and built by six master bricklayer and...

GER 2017, 88 min

Documentation on the recordings of KREIDLERS LP “ABC” filmed at Kartuli Pilmis Studia Tbilisi and in the streets of Tbilisi,...

GER/ISR 2017, 92 min

22 buildings by the Kibbutz architect Samuel Bickels, filmed in Israel in 2015. As prologue, the Casa do Povo in São Paulo, as...

GER 2017, 95 min

A cinematic documentation of 29 buildings by the Uruguayan architect and shell-construction master Eladio Dieste (1917-2000). As prologue...

GER 2017, 132 min

There are streets, paths, motorways, alleys, boulevards and promenades. And there are life paths, intersections and dead ends.

GER/DEN 2015, 29 min

Two buildings and the ideologies of their creators in confrontation.

GER 2013, 18 min

A study of two museums: The Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, and its predecessor, the Museum of Art, Ein Harod,...

D 2008, 375 min

Whoever shows his wound will be healed.

GER 1995, 77 min

Christoph Schlingensiefs grotequely erotic, blasphemous, ultraviolent, incestuous,...

GER 2017, 81 min

“What is to be done?“ Three women, their demand for political action and the question of how to put it into a reality.

AL/MOZ/USA 1969-1982, 311 min

As a multi-layered contribution to an aesthetic of resistance to colonial violence, the edition is also of current interest. Six films by...

Org

I 1967–1978, 177 min

Fernando Birri‘s ORG is a monstrous, three-hour long film that has only been screened extremely rarely since it premiered at the Venice...

GER 2007, 429 min

The legendary opera performance at the Amazon in Manaus.

GER 1997, 60 min

The surviver of the Fassbinder family meet on Potsdamer Platz for the shooting of the Last New German Film – a remake of Pasolini’s THE...

F/Haiti/N 2015, 130 min

The exploration of the fundamental questions of citizenship, responsibility, and justice that have challenged Haitian society ever since...

Haiti/BEL/F/USA 2013, 100 min

Raoul Peck explores the situation after the earthquake in Haiti in January 2010.

Haiti/F 2009, 107 min

Peck’s searing critique of absolute power within the most elegant chamber drama.

GER 2009-2014, 239 min

state-theatre is a modular art project of Berlin theater and filmmaker Daniel Kötter and Constanze Fischbeck on the urban...

GER 1979-1995, 296 min

Klaus Telscher is one of the most important German experimental filmmakers of the 1980s and 90s. His sophisticated work is atmospherically...

GER 2010, 323 min

Christoph Schlingensiefs last play, performed with artists from Burkina Faso, where his “Opera Village Africa” lives on as his legacy to...

GER 2005, 87 min

Christoph Schlingensief's first ur-animatograph installation.

GER 2005, 399 min

Lost in Namibia – a documentary about Christoph Schlingensief’s last, unfinished film – commented by himself.

GER 2014, 84 min

A political manifesto in feature film format.

GER 2014, 87 min

A sophisticated duel between two strong female characters.

GER 2014, 95 min

Kreuzberg’s quicksand.

GER 2014, 108 min

An architectural journey from Berlin back to Berlin – into the abyss.

USA 2013, 90 min

„Best of Sundance, a true original!“ (Indiewire)

GER 2013, 172 min

A film about the virtue of love, the virtue of curiosity, the virtue of joy.

GER 2013, 80 min

At the age of 14 Roland Klick was certain: cinema was what his soul was longing for. Filmmaking as an adventure, existential experience...

A 2012, 90 min

After LA PIVELLINA another brilliant mix of documentary and fiction.

IND 1977, 107 min

Schemes, assassinations and espionage in the old Indian empire on the eve of colonialization

H/GER/FR 2011, 98 min

After a Romany family was killed in a Hungarian village, a neighbours family trys to manage the day after the crime. Based on an actual...

GER 2011, 90 min

A group of acting students fighting their angst and the school system.

GER 1988, 110 min

After the essay “On Marionette theatre” by Heinrich von Kleist.

GER 1984, 130 min

Based on the tragedy “The feud of the Schroffensteins” by Heinrich von Kleist.

GER 1983, 144 min

After the tragedy “Penthesilea” by Heinrich von Kleist.

GER 2010, 100 min

A political wildlife film that centres around a country where the border between war and peace fades.

GER 2007, 87 min

In the city of Wünsdorf near Berlin Scheffner follows the traces of the past. The starting point are voice recordings of colonial soldiers...

GER 1976-1998, 263 min

The DVD brings together for the first time the cinematic oeuvre by Riki Kalbe.

USA/BRD 1976–1987, 194 min

Movies of Sheila McLaughlin and Lynne Tillman released on DVD for the first time!

IND 1986, 95 min

The movie-political pioneered by Deepa Dhanraj, for the first time in the restored version on DVD.

GB 1977-1980, 125 min

One of the most important avant-garde films of the seventies, the first time available on DVD.

GER 2012, 81 min

CAUSE I HAVE THE LOOKS intertwines a vibrant coming-of-age story about a 13-year-old girl from Columbia with the exceptional situation of...

GER 2011, 83 min

A tour de force through the African Okavango swamp, blurring the boundaries between fiction and documentary.

GER 2012, 100 min

PARABETON presents 17 in Italy and France extant buildings by Italian master-builder Pier Luigi Nervi and ten examples of Ancient Roman...

GER 2012, 110 min

30 buildings and architectural ensembles of the French architects and construction engineers Auguste and Gustave Perret.

GER 1974, 84 min

Between THE FRENCH CONNECTION and REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE, SUPERMARKET is rightfully regarded as a cult classic of German cinema.

CH 2011, 107 min

A fictitious autobiography.

GER 2012, 106 min

An African Bayreuth? An Opera in Burkina Faso?

GER 2012, 86 min

On the search for his missing daughter, Lothar discovers that more and more children and adolescents disappear under inexplicable...

GER 2011, 83 min

Alexander represents a generation that set out into the new post-cold war world without ever stopping to look back.

GER 2011, 86 min

A family’s routine spinning out of control with the arrival of a stranger.

FR/GER 1982, 244 min

Syberberg’s film adaptation of Richard Wagner’s “Parsifal”.

GER 2010, 105 min

A very powerful and original documentary on youth.

A 2009, 95 min

„Peter Kern explores the tension between nationalistic phrases and latent homosexuality.“ (tip Berlin) With legendary actor Helmut Berger...

A 2002, 80 min

Peter Kern documents Schlingensief’s Hamlet.

USA 2010, 89 min

North America’s new generation X. Matt Porterfield’s celebrated festival-hit! 

USA 2006, 65 min

Two summer days in the suburbs of Baltimore. Matthew Porterfield’s debut and the puristic prequal of his celebrated PUTTY HILL.

GER 2011, 97 min

The life and work of this artist who was as acutely sensitive to beauty as to death, was determined by the forces of Eros and passion. Not...

GER 2010, 101 min

Camp meets art in Herbert Fritsch's take on Hamlet.

GER 2010, 97 min

John Cassavetes A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE in the 21st Century.

GER 2010, 82 min

The gangster film’s structures brought to light.

GER 2001, 75 min

The third part in Arslan’s trilogy about Turkish youth growing up in Germany, focusing on 21-year-old Deniz during one long, labyrinth-...

GER 1997, 84 min

The everyday live of three German-Turkish teenagers in their neighbourhood Berlin-Kreuzberg. The first part of Thomas Arslan's "Berlin...

CDN 2007, 79 min

A multilayered journey through the hometown in his head, Guy Maddin’s MY WINNIPEG is a vigorous caprice of fact and fiction.

GER 2010, 64 min

An outstanding German zombie film.

A/I 2009, 105 min

A foundling in the outskirts of Rome. A circus family. A new preliminary home.

GER 1990, 60 min

After the German reunification-syrup, here comes the film to wake you up! Loud and aggressive! Christoph Schlingensief’s unscrupulous...

GER 1999, 95 min

An eerily stunning and haunting film about the social and emotional demise of a man who is not able to adapt to life in post-...

GDR 1989, 66 min

Andreas Kleinert’s award-winning graduation film at the film school “Konrad Wolf”.

DDR 1985, 15 min

Andreas Kleinert’s short documentary about a cashier in Clärchen’s ballroom.

GER 1972-1975, 142 min

The project THE FORMATIVE YEARS makes visible and accessible seven early experimental works by Heinz Emigholz, which provided a crucial...

GER 2007, 75 min

A love story between art, capital and marketing.

GER 1980-93, 330 min

Rüdiger Neumann is a filmmaker and professor at the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg whose teaching has influenced two...

GER 1975-77, 56 min

The project THE FORMATIVE YEARS makes visible and accessible seven early experimental works by Heinz Emigholz, which provided a crucial...

GER 1975-1977, 56 min

The project THE FORMATIVE YEARS makes visible and accessible seven early experimental works by Heinz Emigholz, which provided a crucial...

GER 1972-75, 142 min

The project THE FORMATIVE YEARS makes visible and accessible seven early experimental works by Heinz Emigholz, which provided a crucial...

TND/MAD/F/GER 2006, 115 min

Nouri Bouzid's award-winning film about the making-of a terrorist.

FR/GER/Portugal 2008, 118 min

One night to find an ever-escaping truth fhe last film of Werner Schroeter.

GER/Morocco 2008, 95 min

Tangiers, Morocco. A complicate love triangle between a young Moroccan woman and a German couple. Money, dishonesty and prostitution occur...

GER 2009, 60 min

Reframing CYCLING THE FRAME. Cynthia Beatt and Tilda Swinton once again go on the trail of the Berlin Wall. 

GER 1988, 27 min

Berlin-based British filmmaker Cynthia Beatt and actress Tilda Swinton follow the Wall on the west side of Berlin.

GER 2007, 95 min

An ambivalent childhood ...

GER 2008, 42 min

Wild, risky, dangerous: German cinema needs more Torpedos!

GER 2003, 75 min

Christoph Schlingensief’s answer to the Talent Show frenzy!

F/D/I 1996, 105 min

A dark vision of comic star Enki Bilal.

GER/FR 1996, 125 min

Werner Schroeter’s exceptional documentation on the art of singing and how it is brought into existence.

GER 1980, 170 min

Germany is a foreign country where you have to make an effort.

GER 1970, 85 min

Klick’s psychedelic endgame in noman’s land.

GER 1989, 78 min

A documentary-like introspection into the low dives and low-lives of the marginals and petty criminals found in the dead-end parts of...

GER/FR/GB 1977, 442 min

Syberberg’s controversial film essay on Hitler as possible projection of the secret wishes of the German.

GER 2007, 120 min

The critically acclaimed follow-up of Maria Speth’s debut THE DAYS BETWEEN.

GER 2007, 95 min

Victory of the invisible the predecessor of ORLY.

GER 2001, 85 min

Cinema and reality coming close.

GER 2007, 91 min

Four generations meet in a summer mansion as past resentments are vented the idyllic atmosphere slowly starts to...

GER 2001, 24 min

14 works of the swiss artist, civil engineer and legendary bridge builder Robert Maillart designed between 1910 and 1935.

GER 1974-1983 / 1995-2000 / 1986-2004, 94 min

The films THE BASIS OF MAKE-UP (I-III) are the starting point of over 30 film works of the series “Photography and beyond”, which also...

GER 1972, 139 min

The last king of the old type, within the setting of his fantasies, at the beginning of the industrial age.

GER 1974, 187 min

The last ten years in Karl May’s life. A man fighting for his work, which lets him become an iconic figure of his time.

GER 2002, 82 min

Bottle-turning with undressing - The debut of Henner Winckler (LUCY).

GER 2006, 82 min

Henner Wincklers second feature film after his exceptional debut SCHOOL TRIP.

A 2007, 99 min

40 buildings by the Austro-American architect Rudolph Schindler from the years 1931 to 1952. Schindler’s pioneering work in Southern...

GER 2006, 88 min

Precise observation and bizarre comedy – Ulrich Köhler’s second feature film after his celebrated BUNGALOW.

GER 2005, 90 min

A love triangle.

GER 1983, 92 min

One of the most intense, ruthlessly unadulterated performances Hopper has ever put to screen!

GER 1986, 85 min

A bullet rained love story in Berlin.

GER 2005, 100 min

How must be a person who gives informations to the secret service? The much acclaimed debut of Benjamin Heisenberg hits a nerve.

L/IT/A 1989-2005, 45 min

Four experimental movies by the artist Bady Minck, located somewhere between Salzburg and Alfred Loos' spinal marrow, between dream and...

GER 1995, 93 min

Three episodes based on three short stories and commented by famouse American writer Paul Bowles.

GER 1993, 30 min

Based on the story "The Story of Lahcen and Idir" by the famous American writer Paul Bowles.

GER 1999, 82 min

A day in the life of a dead man.

GER 2003, 110 min

Heinz Emigholz’ congenial approach to Bruce Goff’s works.

GER 2005, 93 min

Three episodes between stage and life – exciting young German cinema and a true Berlin film!

GER 2004, 95 min

A slice of life in 75 shots.

GER 2003, 94 min

A woman abandons her two stepchildren in Poland. A modern adaption of the fairy tale “Hänsel and Gretel”.

GER 1989, 55 min

One light, one day, one leader. Five men, four women, dragged out of the darkness by a hand-held spotlight. We see the last hour in the...

GER 2003-2004

Hamlet in the labyrinth. 11 films by Herbert Fritsch in cooperation with the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz. After texts by William...

FR, ES, DE, PT 2022, 165 min

A thriller shot in Tahiti and set in the shadow of nuclear testing.

GER 2022, 62 min

Architecture as Autobiography. Photography and beyond – Part 34. Twenty-five buildings by Argentine architect Francisco Salamone (1897-...

GER 2022, 105 min

To concentrate on her ballet career, Nadja let her son, Mario, grow up with her mother and hardly ever saw him for years. When she meets...

GER 2020, 124 min

Christoph Schlingensief’s “Heimat” films, performance art, installations and provocative theatrical, television, operatic and artistic...

GER 1986-2010, 152 min

A series including seven films by Heinz Emigholz. It is the name Heinz Emigholz gave to films that have forced themselves upon him wanting...

GER/A 2009, 168 min

The description of a lifeline through architecture.

A 2008, 72 min

27 still-existing buildings and interiors by Austrian architect and pioneer of European Modernist architecture Adolf Loos in order of...

GER 2005, 52 min

15 rooms of the Villa Cargnacco in Gardone on Lake Garda, where Gabriele D’Annunzio moved in 1921 and lived until his death.

GER 2005, 232 min

“The Animatograph” is a conglomeration of various media: cinema, theater, performance, installation, painting and opera.

GER 2004, 283 min

Schlingensief’s attempt at self-therapy after the trauma of directing PARSIFAL in Bayreuth.

GER 2003, 962 min

Part one of Schlingensief’s Atta trilogy – set between his parents’ home, an amateur film club and studio.

GER 2003, 87 min

A delightfully offbeat black comedy about a guy who first loses a testicle to cancer and then has a ball trying to steal it back from the...

GER 2004, 77 min

An Interviewfilm-portrait from the first untill the last film!

A 2002, 90 min

Austria 2000: Right after the FPÖ under Jörg Haider had become part of the government, the first time an extreme right wing party became...

GER 2002, 372 min

Quiz 3000 presents what is for him the only acceptable form of serial dramatic art in this theatrical “televisionary” TV quiz...

GER 2001, 79 min

With inevitable intensity – the portrait of a young woman, wandering around in the urban setting of Berlin. 

GER 1993-2000, 38 min

Eight buildings designed and furnished by famous architect Louis H. Sullivan at the end of his career.

GER 2000-2001, 305 min

U3000 – the underground talk.

GER 2017, 131 min

For the 1998 general election Schlingensief organized an “election campaign circus” in Berlin and founded the party CHANCE 2000. An...

GER 1997, 177 min

Interviewfilm with Roland Klick from 1997 about all his films.

GER 1992, 45 min

A film portrait for the WDR! Perhaps one of the best films by Christoph Schlingensief? Unsparing, cheeky persiflage on all homestories and...

GER 1992, 79 min

They sought love and found only hatred the even more disgusting, more evil and more perverse peak of the German...

GER 1991, 81 min

After his success THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER Michael Klier once again deals with the situation of people during changing times after Fall...

GER 1991, 89 min

The death of a friend provokes a goup of artists to take a serious look at their own survival. THE HOLY BUNCH examines the manifold...

GER 1989, 92 min

From ugly duckling to swan. Roland Klick does not stick to clichés, but in recourse to the fairy tale once again formulates a declaration...

GER 1988, 85 min

Visconti meets “Dallas” in Schlingensief’s official remake of Veit Harlan’s OPFERGANG (1944)!

GER 1988, 100 min

Between gentle poetry and exciting narration the award-winning feature debut by Christian Wagner.

GER 1986, 84 min

Dr. Faustus in eternal ice: Udo Kier as the devil's aunt and Tilda Swinton as Brünhilde. A young couple trapped in eternal ice, bound to...

GER 1986, 21 min

Alfed Edel and Udo Kier in front of Schlingensief’s virtuoso handheld camera for the first time!

GER 1986, 81 min

Meat, Your Parents: A morbidly wicked parade of ghosts of the past, packed with black humour!

GER 1985, 13 min

Between Broadway act, classical music and operetta – cinema never came that close to the good old mixtape!

GER 1984, 71 min

Schlingensief’s way of getting even with German avant-garde film.

GER 1983, 9 min

Schlingensief shouts into the camera: Everything will be different now! The first film of the “Trilogy on Film Criticism”.

GER 1983, 82 min

An omnipresent giant who sees everything, but can’t be seen himself ... An 82-...

GER 1983, 13 min

The cinema takes off to new possibilities. Part two of the “Trilogy on Film Criticism”.

GER 1982, 2 min

Christoph Schlingensief, 22, on the state of the nation.

GER 1982, 4 min

One of Schlingensiefs first 16 mm short films.

GER 1977, 21 min

Watching filmmaking through the lens of the camera.

GER 1968, 10 min

Christoph Schlingensiefs first film.

GER 1966, 52 min

A stroll through St. Pauli at night – cult director Roland Klick lets a young love flare up between nouvelle vague, German beat and total...

Two

GER 1965, 24min

A day in the life of an office worker and an aging striptease dancer who both live in the same house. Normally they don’t notice each...

GER 1964, 16 min

Roland Klick chases young Otto Sander through the tristesse of a small farming village. A masterpice and short film...

GER 1963, 10 min

A little boy in pre-Christmas season. Roland Klicks first movie!

FR, ES, DE, PT 2022, 165 min

A thriller shot in Tahiti and set in the shadow of nuclear testing.

GER 2022, 80 min

The quasi-fascist architecture of Francisco Salamone's slaughterhouses in the Argentine pampas, the utopian buildings by Freddy Mamani Silvestre in El Alto, Bolivia, and the...

GER 2022, 62 min

Architecture as Autobiography. Photography and beyond – Part 34. Twenty-five buildings by Argentine architect Francisco Salamone (1897-1959).

GER 2022, 95 min

Photography and beyond – Part 35. The film shows numerous choletts of the Bolivian civil engineer, architect and founder of neo-Andean architecture Freddy Mamani Silvestre.

GER 2022, 105 min

To concentrate on her ballet career, Nadja let her son, Mario, grow up with her mother and hardly ever saw him for years. When she meets him again at a family party, an affection develops that...

GER 2020, 124 min

Christoph Schlingensief’s “Heimat” films, performance art, installations and provocative theatrical, television, operatic and artistic productions shaped the cultural and political discourse in...

GER 2019, 80 min

Max Linz’s satire on the university business, stuck into third-party funding and evaluation.  

GER 2018, 36 min

The Grundtvigs Church (1913-1940) in Copenhagen, designed by Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint and built by six master bricklayer and their assistants in the period of 27 years, and the ...

GER 2019, 93 min

The renovation, demolition and reconstruction of different parts of the Kunsthalle Mannheim between 2013 and 2018. The before and the after are brought together in 93 minutes, allowing their...

GER 2018, 71 min

In a small German town near the edge of the Ruhr region, a farmboy tries to find his place in the world. Torn back and forth between city and country-side, between best friend and older brother,...

GER 2017, 88 min

Documentation on the recordings of KREIDLERS LP “ABC” filmed at Kartuli Pilmis Studia Tbilisi and in the streets of Tbilisi, Georgia.

GER/ISR 2017, 92 min

22 buildings by the Kibbutz architect Samuel Bickels, filmed in Israel in 2015. As prologue, the Casa do Povo in São Paulo, as appendix, The Story of Vio Nova – accompanied by...

GER 2017, 95 min

A cinematic documentation of 29 buildings by the Uruguayan architect and shell-construction master Eladio Dieste (1917-2000). As prologue, three buildings by Julio Vilamajó in Montevideo. As...

GER/Peru 2017, 92 min

A justice thriller of a different kind.

GER 2017, 132 min

There are streets, paths, motorways, alleys, boulevards and promenades. And there are life paths, intersections and dead ends.

GER 2017, 81 min

“What is to be done?“ Three women, their demand for political action and the question of how to put it into a reality.

D 2016, 94 min

AND-EK GHES... means: ONE FINE DAY... A song, a promise to the beloved, to the children, to oneself. Members of the Velcu family from Faţa Luncii, Romania, move to Berlin and perform themselves...

GER 2016, 106 min

A documentary turns into a cinematic REVISION. Like a puzzle, the film puts together the facts around the death of two men on a field at the German‐Polish border in 1992. Scheffner composes an...

GER 2016, 93 min

On 14.09.2012 at 2:56pm, the cruise liner Adventure of the Seas reports to the Spanish Maritime Rescue Centre the sighting of a dinghy adrift with 13 persons on board. From a YouTube clip...

DK 2015, 107 min

Documentation based on a rediscovered interview with Rainer Werner Fassbinder from the 70s.

GER/DEN 2015, 29 min

Two buildings and the ideologies of their creators in confrontation.

F/Haiti/N 2015, 130 min

The exploration of the fundamental questions of citizenship, responsibility, and justice that have challenged Haitian society ever since it emerged from decades of dictatorship.

GER 2014, 84 min

A political manifesto in feature film format.

GER 2014, 87 min

A sophisticated duel between two strong female characters.

GER 2014, 95 min

Kreuzberg’s quicksand.

GER 2009-2014, 239 min

state-theatre is a modular art project of Berlin theater and filmmaker Daniel Kötter and Constanze Fischbeck on the urban conditions of the performative in the six cities: Lagos, Tehran,...

GER 2014, 108 min

An architectural journey from Berlin back to Berlin – into the abyss.

Haiti/BEL/F/USA 2013, 100 min

Raoul Peck explores the situation after the earthquake in Haiti in January 2010.

USA 2013, 90 min

„Best of Sundance, a true original!“ (Indiewire)

GER 2013, 80 min

At the age of 14 Roland Klick was certain: cinema was what his soul was longing for. Filmmaking as an adventure, existential experience and escape from overstructured German post-war reality. The...

GER 2013, 172 min

A film about the virtue of love, the virtue of curiosity, the virtue of joy.

GER 2013, 18 min

A study of two museums: The Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, and its predecessor, the Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel.

GER 2012, 81 min

CAUSE I HAVE THE LOOKS intertwines a vibrant coming-of-age story about a 13-year-old girl from Columbia with the exceptional situation of illegal immigration.

GER 2012, 106 min

An African Bayreuth? An Opera in Burkina Faso?

GER 2012, 100 min

PARABETON presents 17 in Italy and France extant buildings by Italian master-builder Pier Luigi Nervi and ten examples of Ancient Roman architecture made of Opus caementitium.

GER 2012, 110 min

30 buildings and architectural ensembles of the French architects and construction engineers Auguste and Gustave Perret.

GER 2012, 86 min

On the search for his missing daughter, Lothar discovers that more and more children and adolescents disappear under inexplicable circumstances.

A 2012, 90 min

After LA PIVELLINA another brilliant mix of documentary and fiction.

CH 2011, 107 min

A fictitious autobiography.

H/GER/FR 2011, 98 min

After a Romany family was killed in a Hungarian village, a neighbours family trys to manage the day after the crime. Based on an actual series of killings in Hungary.

GER 2011, 90 min

A group of acting students fighting their angst and the school system.

GER 2011, 97 min

The life and work of this artist who was as acutely sensitive to beauty as to death, was determined by the forces of Eros and passion. Not unfamiliar with the pitfalls of life, Werner Schroeter...

GER 2011, 83 min

Alexander represents a generation that set out into the new post-cold war world without ever stopping to look back.

GER 2011, 83 min

A tour de force through the African Okavango swamp, blurring the boundaries between fiction and documentary.

GER 2011, 86 min

A family’s routine spinning out of control with the arrival of a stranger.

GER 2010, 100 min

A political wildlife film that centres around a country where the border between war and peace fades.

GER 2010, 105 min

A very powerful and original documentary on youth.

GER 2010, 101 min

Camp meets art in Herbert Fritsch's take on Hamlet.

GER 2010, 82 min

The gangster film’s structures brought to light.

GER 1986-2010, 152 min

A series including seven films by Heinz Emigholz. It is the name Heinz Emigholz gave to films that have forced themselves upon him wanting to be made during the course of his work on other films...

USA 2010, 89 min

North America’s new generation X. Matt Porterfield’s celebrated festival-hit! 

GER 2010, 64 min

An outstanding German zombie film.

GER 2010, 97 min

John Cassavetes A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE in the 21st Century.

GER 2007, 87 min

In the city of Wünsdorf near Berlin Scheffner follows the traces of the past. The starting point are voice recordings of colonial soldiers that were recorded there during the First World War. A...

GER 2010, 323 min

Christoph Schlingensiefs last play, performed with artists from Burkina Faso, where his “Opera Village Africa” lives on as his legacy to this day.

A 2009, 95 min

„Peter Kern explores the tension between nationalistic phrases and latent homosexuality.“ (tip Berlin) With legendary actor Helmut Berger in the leading role!

A/I 2009, 105 min

A foundling in the outskirts of Rome. A circus family. A new preliminary home.

Haiti/F 2009, 107 min

Peck’s searing critique of absolute power within the most elegant chamber drama.

GER/A 2009, 168 min

The description of a lifeline through architecture.

GER 2009, 60 min

Reframing CYCLING THE FRAME. Cynthia Beatt and Tilda Swinton once again go on the trail of the Berlin Wall. 

D 2008, 375 min

Whoever shows his wound will be healed.

A 2008, 72 min

27 still-existing buildings and interiors by Austrian architect and pioneer of European Modernist architecture Adolf Loos in order of their construction. 

GER/Morocco 2008, 95 min

Tangiers, Morocco. A complicate love triangle between a young Moroccan woman and a German couple. Money, dishonesty and prostitution occur as antagonists of real friendship and moreover of love....

FR/GER/Portugal 2008, 118 min

One night to find an ever-escaping truth fhe last film of Werner Schroeter.

GER 2008, 42 min

Wild, risky, dangerous: German cinema needs more Torpedos!

GER 2007, 75 min

A love story between art, capital and marketing.

GER 2007, 95 min

Victory of the invisible the predecessor of ORLY.

GER 2007, 120 min

The critically acclaimed follow-up of Maria Speth’s debut THE DAYS BETWEEN.

CDN 2007, 79 min

A multilayered journey through the hometown in his head, Guy Maddin’s MY WINNIPEG is a vigorous caprice of fact and fiction.

A 2007, 99 min

40 buildings by the Austro-American architect Rudolph Schindler from the years 1931 to 1952. Schindler’s pioneering work in Southern California is the cornerstone of a branch of modern...

GER 2007, 429 min

The legendary opera performance at the Amazon in Manaus.

GER 2007, 95 min

An ambivalent childhood ...

GER 2007, 91 min

Four generations meet in a summer mansion as past resentments are vented the idyllic atmosphere slowly starts to crack.

USA 2006, 65 min

Two summer days in the suburbs of Baltimore. Matthew Porterfield’s debut and the puristic prequal of his celebrated PUTTY HILL.

GER 2006, 82 min

Henner Wincklers second feature film after his exceptional debut SCHOOL TRIP.

TND/MAD/F/GER 2006, 115 min

Nouri Bouzid's award-winning film about the making-of a terrorist.

GER 2006, 88 min

Precise observation and bizarre comedy – Ulrich Köhler’s second feature film after his celebrated BUNGALOW.

GER 2005, 93 min

Three episodes between stage and life – exciting young German cinema and a true Berlin film!

GER 2005, 52 min

15 rooms of the Villa Cargnacco in Gardone on Lake Garda, where Gabriele D’Annunzio moved in 1921 and lived until his death.

GER 2005, 90 min

A love triangle.

L/IT/A 1989-2005, 45 min

Four experimental movies by the artist Bady Minck, located somewhere between Salzburg and Alfred Loos' spinal marrow, between dream and nightmare.

GER 2005, 87 min

Christoph Schlingensief's first ur-animatograph installation.

GER 2005, 100 min

How must be a person who gives informations to the secret service? The much acclaimed debut of Benjamin Heisenberg hits a nerve.

GER 2005, 399 min

Lost in Namibia – a documentary about Christoph Schlingensief’s last, unfinished film – commented by himself.

GER 2005, 232 min

“The Animatograph” is a conglomeration of various media: cinema, theater, performance, installation, painting and opera.

GER 2004, 283 min

Schlingensief’s attempt at self-therapy after the trauma of directing PARSIFAL in Bayreuth.

GER 2003-2004

Hamlet in the labyrinth. 11 films by Herbert Fritsch in cooperation with the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz. After texts by William Shakespeare.

GER 2004, 95 min

A slice of life in 75 shots.

GER 2003, 962 min

Part one of Schlingensief’s Atta trilogy – set between his parents’ home, an amateur film club and studio.

GER 2003, 75 min

Christoph Schlingensief’s answer to the Talent Show frenzy!

GER 2003, 110 min

Heinz Emigholz’ congenial approach to Bruce Goff’s works.

GER 2003, 87 min

A delightfully offbeat black comedy about a guy who first loses a testicle to cancer and then has a ball trying to steal it back from the hospital’s pathology lab.

GER 2003, 94 min

A woman abandons her two stepchildren in Poland. A modern adaption of the fairy tale “Hänsel and Gretel”.

GER 2004, 77 min

An Interviewfilm-portrait from the first untill the last film!

A 2002, 90 min

Austria 2000: Right after the FPÖ under Jörg Haider had become part of the government, the first time an extreme right wing party became state officials after WW2, infamous German shock director...

A 2002, 80 min

Peter Kern documents Schlingensief’s Hamlet.

GER 2002, 372 min

Quiz 3000 presents what is for him the only acceptable form of serial dramatic art in this theatrical “televisionary” TV quiz show.

GER 2002, 82 min

Bottle-turning with undressing - The debut of Henner Winckler (LUCY).

GER 2001, 349 min

His staging of “Hamlet” at Schauspielhaus Zurich takes shots at the right-wing populist Swiss People’s Party (SVP).

GER 2001, 24 min

14 works of the swiss artist, civil engineer and legendary bridge builder Robert Maillart designed between 1910 and 1935.

GER 2001, 85 min

Cinema and reality coming close.

GER 2001, 79 min

With inevitable intensity – the portrait of a young woman, wandering around in the urban setting of Berlin. 

GER 2001, 75 min

The third part in Arslan’s trilogy about Turkish youth growing up in Germany, focusing on 21-year-old Deniz during one long, labyrinth-like day in her life, in which she experiences everything...

GER 1993-2000, 38 min

Eight buildings designed and furnished by famous architect Louis H. Sullivan at the end of his career.

GER 2000-2001, 305 min

U3000 – the underground talk.

GER 1999, 82 min

A day in the life of a dead man.

GER 1999, 95 min

An eerily stunning and haunting film about the social and emotional demise of a man who is not able to adapt to life in post-unified Berlin.

GER 2017, 131 min

For the 1998 general election Schlingensief organized an “election campaign circus” in Berlin and founded the party CHANCE 2000. An ecstatic piece of political education and a tale of a party’s...

GER 1976-1998, 263 min

The DVD brings together for the first time the cinematic oeuvre by Riki Kalbe.

GER 1997, 84 min

The everyday live of three German-Turkish teenagers in their neighbourhood Berlin-Kreuzberg. The first part of Thomas Arslan's "Berlin Trilogy" with Berlin hip-hop legend Kool Savage.

GER 1997, 60 min

The surviver of the Fassbinder family meet on Potsdamer Platz for the shooting of the Last New German Film – a remake of Pasolini’s THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM.

GER 1997, 177 min

Interviewfilm with Roland Klick from 1997 about all his films.

GER/FR 1996, 125 min

Werner Schroeter’s exceptional documentation on the art of singing and how it is brought into existence.

F/D/I 1996, 105 min

A dark vision of comic star Enki Bilal.

GER 1979-1995, 296 min

Klaus Telscher is one of the most important German experimental filmmakers of the 1980s and 90s. His sophisticated work is atmospherically dense, playful as well as caustic, and his complex filmic...

GER 1995, 93 min

Three episodes based on three short stories and commented by famouse American writer Paul Bowles.

GER 1995, 77 min

Christoph Schlingensiefs grotequely erotic, blasphemous, ultraviolent, incestuous, scatological, certifiable splatter comedy about a Messiah in...

GER 1980-93, 330 min

Rüdiger Neumann is a filmmaker and professor at the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg whose teaching has influenced two generations of filmmakers, many of whom now play an active role in...

GER 1993, 30 min

Based on the story "The Story of Lahcen and Idir" by the famous American writer Paul Bowles.

GER 1992, 45 min

A film portrait for the WDR! Perhaps one of the best films by Christoph Schlingensief? Unsparing, cheeky persiflage on all homestories and at the same time homage to a good friend.

GER 1992, 92 min

After a wedding party three friends from Hamburg strand in newly reunited Berlin. A restless odyssey through the wastelands of a big city pending between an unpredictable future and a still...

GER 1992, 79 min

They sought love and found only hatred the even more disgusting, more evil and more perverse peak of the German Trilogy.

GER 1991, 81 min

After his success THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER Michael Klier once again deals with the situation of people during changing times after Fall of the Wall.

GER 1991, 89 min

The death of a friend provokes a goup of artists to take a serious look at their own survival. THE HOLY BUNCH examines the manifold relationships between the edificies of a monumental architecture...

GER 1990, 60 min

After the German reunification-syrup, here comes the film to wake you up! Loud and aggressive! Christoph Schlingensief’s unscrupulous response to German reunification!

GER 1989, 55 min

One light, one day, one leader. Five men, four women, dragged out of the darkness by a hand-held spotlight. We see the last hour in the Führerbunker as it really was.

GER 1989, 92 min

From ugly duckling to swan. Roland Klick does not stick to clichés, but in recourse to the fairy tale once again formulates a declaration of love to the cinema!

GDR 1989, 66 min

Andreas Kleinert’s award-winning graduation film at the film school “Konrad Wolf”.

USSR, EG, SUD, GDR 1964-1989, 174 min

Eight films by directors Suliman Elnour, Eltayeb Mahdi, Ibrahim Shaddad of the Sudanese Film Group (SFG).

GER 1989, 78 min

A documentary-like introspection into the low dives and low-lives of the marginals and petty criminals found in the dead-end parts of Warsaw and West Berlin.

GER 1988, 83 min

Harry (Ian Dury), a drummer and pyromaniac who likes to play with fire, and German car mechanic Gina (Pia Frankenberg) are forced to share an apartment due to Hamburg’s housing shortage. Pia...

GER 1988, 27 min

Berlin-based British filmmaker Cynthia Beatt and actress Tilda Swinton follow the Wall on the west side of Berlin.

GER 1988, 110 min

After the essay “On Marionette theatre” by Heinrich von Kleist.

GER 1988, 85 min

Visconti meets “Dallas” in Schlingensief’s official remake of Veit Harlan’s OPFERGANG (1944)!

GER 1988, 100 min

Between gentle poetry and exciting narration the award-winning feature debut by Christian Wagner.

USA/BRD 1976–1987, 194 min

Movies of Sheila McLaughlin and Lynne Tillman released on DVD for the first time!

GER 1986, 84 min

Dr. Faustus in eternal ice: Udo Kier as the devil's aunt and Tilda Swinton as Brünhilde. A young couple trapped in eternal ice, bound to each other in tender love, threatened by everyone.

GER 1986, 21 min

Alfed Edel and Udo Kier in front of Schlingensief’s virtuoso handheld camera for the first time!

GER 1986, 85 min

A bullet rained love story in Berlin.

IND 1986, 95 min

The movie-political pioneered by Deepa Dhanraj, for the first time in the restored version on DVD.

GER 1986, 81 min

Meat, Your Parents: A morbidly wicked parade of ghosts of the past, packed with black humour!

DDR 1985, 15 min

Andreas Kleinert’s short documentary about a cashier in Clärchen’s ballroom.

GER 1985, 13 min

Between Broadway act, classical music and operetta – cinema never came that close to the good old mixtape!

GER 1985, 88 min

“Destiny put her on the wrong side. She is rich, but wants to be poor. She’s well on her way, she’s making movies.“ A revealing (social) portrait — sparked by the present and filmed in exciting...

GER 1984, 9 min

A city (Hamburg) is afflicted by a series of slaps in the face. Pia Frankenberg’s short film proves that cinema can strike back!

GER 1984, 130 min

Based on the tragedy “The feud of the Schroffensteins” by Heinrich von Kleist.

GER 1984, 71 min

Schlingensief’s way of getting even with German avant-garde film.

GER 1983, 144 min

After the tragedy “Penthesilea” by Heinrich von Kleist.

GER 1983, 9 min

Schlingensief shouts into the camera: Everything will be different now! The first film of the “Trilogy on Film Criticism”.

GER 1983, 82 min

An omnipresent giant who sees everything, but can’t be seen himself ... An 82-minute “...

GER 1983, 13 min

The cinema takes off to new possibilities. Part two of the “Trilogy on Film Criticism”.

GER 1983, 92 min

One of the most intense, ruthlessly unadulterated performances Hopper has ever put to screen!

GER 1982, 2 min

Christoph Schlingensief, 22, on the state of the nation.

FR/GER 1982, 244 min

Syberberg’s film adaptation of Richard Wagner’s “Parsifal”.

AL/MOZ/USA 1969-1982, 311 min

As a multi-layered contribution to an aesthetic of resistance to colonial violence, the edition is also of current interest. Six films by Ruy Guerra, Murilo Salles, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Assia Djebar...

GER 1982, 4 min

One of Schlingensiefs first 16 mm short films.

GER 1981, 13 min

A young woman strolls through the night, then boards a train. Seeking closeness to others she chooses an unusual method by searching through people’s luggage. Pia Frankenberg’s first film as a...

GER 1980, 170 min

Germany is a foreign country where you have to make an effort.

GB 1977-1980, 125 min

One of the most important avant-garde films of the seventies, the first time available on DVD.

Org

I 1967–1978, 177 min

Fernando Birri‘s ORG is a monstrous, three-hour long film that has only been screened extremely rarely since it premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 1979.

GSSR 1978, 95 min

As a journalist, Sopiko interviews a wide range of different women about their living conditions and desires.

IND 1977, 107 min

Schemes, assassinations and espionage in the old Indian empire on the eve of colonialization

GER 1977, 21 min

Watching filmmaking through the lens of the camera.

GER/FR/GB 1977, 442 min

Syberberg’s controversial film essay on Hitler as possible projection of the secret wishes of the German.

GER 1975-77, 56 min

The project THE FORMATIVE YEARS makes visible and accessible seven early experimental works by Heinz Emigholz, which provided a crucial impetus for the international experimental film movement of...

GER 1975-1977, 56 min

The project THE FORMATIVE YEARS makes visible and accessible seven early experimental works by Heinz Emigholz, which provided a crucial impetus for the international experimental film movement of...

NIG 1976, 137 min

SHAIHU UMAR by Adamu Halilu is one of the first feature films in Hausa. The film is based on the eponymous 1955 novella by Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, which has been reprinted many times. Balewa was...

GER 1972-75, 142 min

The project THE FORMATIVE YEARS makes visible and accessible seven early experimental works by Heinz Emigholz, which provided a crucial impetus for the international experimental film movement of...

GER 1972-1975, 142 min

The project THE FORMATIVE YEARS makes visible and accessible seven early experimental works by Heinz Emigholz, which provided a crucial impetus for the international experimental film movement of...

GER 1974, 187 min

The last ten years in Karl May’s life. A man fighting for his work, which lets him become an iconic figure of his time.

GER 1974, 84 min

Between THE FRENCH CONNECTION and REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE, SUPERMARKET is rightfully regarded as a cult classic of German cinema.

GER 1972, 139 min

The last king of the old type, within the setting of his fantasies, at the beginning of the industrial age.

GER 1970, 85 min

Klick’s psychedelic endgame in noman’s land.

GER 1968, 10 min

Christoph Schlingensiefs first film.

GER 1966, 52 min

A stroll through St. Pauli at night – cult director Roland Klick lets a young love flare up between nouvelle vague, German beat and total cinematic madness. A modern Orpheus and Eurydice.

Two

GER 1965, 24min

A day in the life of an office worker and an aging striptease dancer who both live in the same house. Normally they don’t notice each other, but on this day their paths cross twice.

GER 1964, 16 min

Roland Klick chases young Otto Sander through the tristesse of a small farming village. A masterpice and short film classic!

GER 1963, 10 min

A little boy in pre-Christmas season. Roland Klicks first movie!

GER 1974-1983 / 1995-2000 / 1986-2004, 94 min

The films THE BASIS OF MAKE-UP (I-III) are the starting point of over 30 film works of the series “Photography and beyond”, which also includes the subgroup “Architecture as Autobiography”. Shown...

Films A-Z

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