Magdalena Montezuma Movies

In a dark and spare theatrical space, four characters use gesture, language, and movement to explore themes of desire and mortality.

Two women, one from Boston and one from Germany, flee their empty lives to seek fulfillment in Mexico. The Black Angel is a transitional film; on one...

Fusing Shakespeare‘s tragedy with the Verdi opera, Schroeter's Macbeth is a fascinating television experiment shot entirely in a studio with...

Living together in an isolated house, three women go to murderous lengths to keep strangers out of their private retreat.

The final installment in Ulrike Ottinger’s Berlin Trilogy (following TICKET OF NO RETURN and FREAK ORLANDO) casts Delphine Seyrig as the...

Collage of dramatic scenes, some exaggerated to comic effect, with asynchronous sound from well known classic, operatic, and rock and roll music...

With the ascetic grandeur of Carl Th. Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc, Schroeter evokes the visions of Saint Joan, partly through unused...

A series of tableaux illustrating the life and death of a celebrated 19th century German opera singer.

Werner Schroeter's stunning split-screen short deals with what the director called "archaic, fundamental themes" of love and mourning.

Schroeter’s film is a chronicle of Germany from the Nazi era until the economic boom of the 1950s and 1960s, centering on three women who...

An arthouse biopic about German Romanticist and writer Friedrich Hebbel.

Early Rosa von Praunheim short film. Originally intended to be the ending of "Die Bettwurst".