Volker Schlöndorff Movies

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 for...

A countess loves her brother's Prussian-officer friend in the 1919 Baltic area.

October 1941. Eighteen months into France’s occupation by German troops, young Communist members of the Resistance shoot dead an officer of the...

A documentary about the life of the actress Hildegard Knef.

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

Thirteen filmmakers talk about Henri Langlois and their relationship with him.

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

A nearly illiterate woman becomes one of the founders of Poland's Solidarity union.

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

West Germany in the 1970s. Many artists, journalists and intellectuals were branded as sympathizers of Baader-Meinhof's left-wing terrorism. The...

The history of a family, in the film business now for three generations, behind and in front of the camera. The film is not only a foray through the...

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...

A meditation on the first 100 years of German cinema, featuring an assembly of German filmmakers.

In 1988, German filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff sat down with legendary director Billy Wilder (1906-2002) at his office in Beverly Hills,...

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....

Barny, although a Marxist, is intrigued by the mysteries of religion. In confession, she teases a priest, Léon Morin, but he is a young and...

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...

After achieving fame as a movie star, a woman finds her private life invaded by relentless fans, leading her mother’s ex-lover to intervene and...

An adaptation of the Henry James short story Les raisons de Georgina.

Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1919, when the Republic of Weimar is born, to 1933, when the Nazis come...