Volker Schlöndorff

The retired Chief superintendent Jakob Franck who often had to inform relatives as a “death messenger”, now hopes to lead a life ...

During a book tour in the United States, Max meets and falls in love with a young woman. Many years later, Max returns to the United States, ...

On the night of August 24, 1944, the fate of Paris rests with General von Choltitz, who plans to destroy the city on Hitler’s orders. As ...

After spending two years in prison, framed for accepting a bribe, former newspaper reporter Harry Barber is released, bitter and disillusioned. ...

Walter Faber has survived a crash with an airplane. His next trip is by ship. On board this ship he meets the enchanting Sabeth and they have a ...

In a dystopian, polluted right-wing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on account of her now rare fertility.

A regular day in a Louisiana sugarcane plantation changes course when a local white farmer is shot in self defense. A group of old, black men ...

A salesman faces a crisis as he’s about to lose his job, struggles with bills, and feels disrespected by his sons, who haven’t lived ...

Made with an eye to the autumn of 1980 when the German parliamentary elections took place, The Candidate examines Germany’s history past and ...

Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his mother, Agnes, Oskar is reluctant to enter a ...

Germany in Autumn does not have a plot per se; it mixes documentary footage, along with standard movie scenes, to give the audience the mood of ...

After a chance encounter with a wanted man, a woman is harassed by the police and press until she takes violent action.

Baal 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.

After accidentally killing her ex-lover, a young woman hides the body with the help of two men she’s romantically involved with, leading to ...

An IRA operative escapes to the Americas and teams up with a circus singer to create a popular vaudeville act. When the singer falls for a rebel, ...

Although his alcoholism has been treated, Alain still feels he is deeply unwell and does not feel he can leave the detoxification clinic once and ...

The widow Barny lives in Nazi-occupied France, looking after her half-Jewish daughter in a small village. When the Germans arrive, she decides to ...

Enigmatic gangster Silien may or may not be responsible for informing on Faugel, who was just released from prison and is already involved in ...

In a strange and isolated chateau, a man becomes acquainted with a woman and insists that they have met before.

In 19th-century Paris, Charles Swann risks his social standing in his obsessive pursuit of prostitute Odette. His overwhelming desire for her ...

At an Austrian boys’ boarding school in the early 1900s, shy, intelligent Törless observes the sadistic behavior of his fellow students, ...