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Great Directors (2009)

Summary: Ten of the greatest filmmakers in the world passionately discuss their craft in Angela Ismailos' hugely entertaining documentary GREAT DIRECTORS.

Release Date: September 30, 2010

Genre: Documentary

Director: Angela Ismailos

Writer: Angela Ismailos

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Anisma Films

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 17,921

Kamikaze 89 (1982)

Summary: In a totalitarian society of the future, in which the government controls all facets of the press, a homicide detective investigates a string of bombings, and finds out more than he bargained for.

Release Date: July 16, 1982

Genres: Thriller, Sci-Fi

Director: Wolf Gremm

Writers: Robert Katz

, Wolf Gremm

, Per Wahlöö

Runtime: 1 h 46 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Regina Ziegler Filmproduktion, Trio Film, Oase Film Essen, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF)

Distributor: Film Movement Classics, Film Movement, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, TeleCulture

Country: West Germany

Language: German

Domestic: $ 22,440

Veronika Voss (1982)

Summary: Partially based on the life of Sybille Schmitz, who found fame under the Nazi regime, but whose career was destroyed afterward. Veronika Voss is a once prominent UFA actress, kept by her doctor, who raises suspicion in a sports jo...

Release Date: May 13, 1982

Genre: Drama

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writers: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

, Pea Fröhlich

, Peter Märthesheimer

Runtime: 1 h 44 min

MPAA: R

Production: Laura Film, Tango Film, Rialto Film, Süddeutscher Rundfunk (SDR)

Distributor: MGM Home Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, HBO Max

Country: West Germany

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,600,000

Domestic: $ 8,144

International: $ 4

Lili Marleen (1981)

Summary: In 1938, a German singer falls in love with a Jewish composer in Zurich, who helps Jews flee Nazi Germany. She wants to help but is forced back to Germany. Her song "Lili Marleen" becomes a hit with soldiers and the Nazi top brass.

Release Date: January 14, 1981

Genres: Drama, Romance, Music

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writers: Manfred Purzer

, Joshua Sinclair

, Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Runtime: 2 h 00 min

MPAA: R

Production: Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), CIP Filmproduktion GmbH, Rialto Film, Roxy Films, Roxy-Film GmbH & Co. KG

Distributor: United Artists Classics

Country: West Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 10,500,000

Domestic: $ 8,144

International: $ 4

Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)

Summary: In late-1920s Berlin, Franz Biberkopf is released from prison and vows to go straight. However, he soon finds himself embroiled in the city's criminal underworld.

Release Date: August 10, 1983

Genres: Drama, Crime

Runtime: 1 h 04 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Bavaria Film, Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana

Countries: Italy, West Germany

Language: German

TV Series budget: $ 13,000,000

The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)

Summary: Maria marries Hermann Braun in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. Alone, Maria puts to use her beauty and ambition in order to find prosperity during Germany's "economic miracle" of the 1950s.

Release Date: March 23, 1979

Genre: Drama

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writers: Pea Fröhlich

, Peter Märthesheimer

, Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Runtime: 2 h 00 min

MPAA: R

Production: Albatros Filmproduktion, Fengler Films, Filmverlag der Autoren, Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR)

Distributor: RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, The Criterion Collection, HBO Max, New Yorker Films

Country: West Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 1,975,000

Domestic: $ 8,144

International: $ 3,711

In a Year with 13 Moons (1978)

Summary: A transgender woman tries to salvage something from the wreckage love has made of her life by confronting her anguished past, hoping to find ultimate acceptance among former acquaintances and herself.

Release Date: June 11, 1980

Genre: Drama

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writer: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Runtime: 2 h 04 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Filmverlag der Autoren, Pro-ject Filmproduktion, Tango Film

Distributor: Fantoma, New Yorker Films

Country: West Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 700,000

Germany in Autumn (1978)

Summary: Germany 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...

Release Date: March 17, 1978

Genres: Drama, Documentary

Directors: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

, Alf Brustellin

, Hans Peter Cloos

Writers: Alf Brustellin

, Heinrich Böll

, Hans Peter Cloos

Runtime: 2 h 03 min

Production: ABS Filmproduktion, Tango Film, Kairos-Film, Hallelujah Film, Edgar Reitz Film (ERF), Pro-ject Filmproduktion, Filmverlag der Autoren

Distributor: New Line Cinema

Country: West Germany

Language: German

Adolf und Marlene (1977)

Summary: When Hitler sees Marlene Dietrich in a movie, he falls in love with her. He persuades her to come back to Germany to be with him, but upon her arrival she constantly insults and provokes him until he eventually, on her command, bi...

Release Date: March 15, 1977

Genre: Comedy

Director: Ulli Lommel

Writer: Ulli Lommel

Runtime: 1 h 28 min

Production: Albatros Filmproduktion, Trio Film

Country: West Germany

Language: German

Shadow of Angels (1976)

Summary: Beautiful, 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 g...

Genre: Drama

Director: Daniel Schmid

Writers: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

, Daniel Schmid

Runtime: 1 h 41 min

Production: Albatros Filmproduktion, Artco-Film

Distributor: Leisure Time Features

Countries: Switzerland, West Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 600,000

Fox and His Friends (1975)

Summary: A suggestible working-class innocent wins the lottery but lets himself be taken advantage of by his bourgeois new boyfriend and his circle of materialistic friends.

Release Date: February 02, 1976

Genres: Drama, Romance, Crime

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writers: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

, Christian Hohoff

Runtime: 2 h 03 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: City Film, Tango Film

Distributor: New Yorker Films, New Yorker Video, HBO Max, The Criterion Collection

Country: West Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 450,000

Domestic: $ 8,144

Effi Briest (1974)

Summary: In the nineteenth century, seventeen year old Effi Briest is married to the older Baron von Instetten and moves into a house, that she believes has a ghost, in a small isolated Baltic town. She soon bears a daughter, Annie, and hi...

Release Date: June 16, 1977

Genres: Drama, History

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writers: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

, Theodor Fontane

Runtime: 2 h 15 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Tango Film

Distributor: New Yorker Films

Country: West Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 750,000

Domestic: $ 8,144

International: $ 4

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)

Summary: A lonely widow meets a much younger Moroccan worker in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love, to their own surprise and to the outright shock of their families, colleagues, and drinking buddies.

Release Date: October 31, 1974

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writer: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Runtime: 1 h 33 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Tango Film, Filmverlag der Autoren

Distributor: New Yorker Films, HBO Max, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Country: West Germany

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 260,000

Domestic: $ 8,144

International: $ 8,103

Tenderness of the Wolves (1973)

Summary: Using his status as a police informant to procure his victims, baby-faced, shaven-headed Fritz Haarmann dismembers their bodies after death and sells the flesh to restaurants, dumping the remainder out of sight.

Release Date: July 12, 1973

Genres: Drama, Crime, Biography

Director: Ulli Lommel

Writer: Kurt Raab

Runtime: 1 h 22 min

MPAA: 13+

Production: Tango Film

Distributor: Arrow Films

Country: West Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 250,000

Bremen Freedom (1972)

Summary: A 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...

Release Date: December 12, 1972

Genre: Drama

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writers: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

, Dietrich Lohmann

Runtime: 1 h 27 min

Production: Saarländischer Rundfunk (SR), Telefilm Saar GmbH

Country: West Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 240,000

The Merchant of Four Seasons (1972)

Summary: Hans Epp is a self-destructive man who lives a dissatisfied life. He tries to find meaning as a fruit vendor, but a heart attack impedes his ability to work, which turns his dissatisfaction into despair.

Release Date: February 10, 1972

Genre: Drama

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writer: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Runtime: 1 h 28 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Tango Film

Distributor: New Yorker Films, HBO Max, New Yorker Video, The Criterion Collection

Country: West Germany

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 325,000

Domestic: $ 8,144

International: $ 4

Haytabo (1971)

Summary: A biochemistry professor finds an old manuscript with structure and formula of immortality drug.

Release Date: August 16, 1990

Genre: Sci-Fi

Directors: Ulli Lommel

, Peter Moland

Writers: Ulli Lommel

, Peter Moland

Runtime: 1 h 15 min

Production: HJB Filmproduktion

Country: West Germany

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 5,000

Beware of a Holy Whore (1971)

Summary: On a film set there are two things missing, the film material and the director. So the actors and actresses as well as the crew try to make the best out of the situation. When the director arrives the material is still missing and...

Release Date: July 15, 1983

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writer: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Antiteater-X-Film, Nova International Films

Distributor: New Yorker Films, The Criterion Collection, The Criterion Channel

Countries: Italy, West Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 1,100,000

Domestic: $ 8,144

International: $ 961

Whity (1971)

Summary: Whity is the mulatto butler of the dysfunctional Nicholson family in the south-west U.S. in 1878. The father, Ben Nicholson, has an attractive young wife, Katherine, and two sons by a previous marriage; the homosexual Frank and th...

Release Date: June 02, 1971

Genres: Drama, Western

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writer: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

Production: Antiteater-X-Film, Atlantis Film

Country: West Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 680,000

Rio das Mortes (1971)

Summary: Michel 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.

Release Date: February 15, 1971

Genre: Comedy

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writer: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Runtime: 1 h 24 min

Production: Antiteater-X-Film, Janus Film und Fernsehen

Country: West Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 125,000

Great Directors (2009)

Kamikaze 89 (1982)

Veronika Voss (1982)

Lili Marleen (1981)

Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)

The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)

In a Year with 13 Moons (1978)

Germany in Autumn (1978)

Adolf und Marlene (1977)

Shadow of Angels (1976)

Fox and His Friends (1975)

Effi Briest (1974)

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)

Tenderness of the Wolves (1973)

Bremen Freedom (1972)

The Merchant of Four Seasons (1972)

Haytabo (1971)

Beware of a Holy Whore (1971)

Whity (1971)

Rio das Mortes (1971)

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