Eva Mattes

Krieg oder Frieden (2024)

Wünsdorf in Brandenburg was a military base for decades: first for the Prussians, then for the Wehrmacht and finally for the Red Army. At the center of Elfi Mikesch's multifaceted essay is the pioneer of ecological urban development Ekhart Hahn, who, toge ...

Josefa’s Return (2024)

Over 40 years ago, Josefa left her home village in a dispute. A lot has happened in the meantime. Now she returns as a mature woman to where she is still known as a man. ...

Rehragout-Rendezvous (2023)

Bavaria's most laid-back cop returns, juggling parenting and working at the family farm with the reopening of a grisly cold case. ...

Lena Lorenz - Mutterliebe (2022)

Petra Hoffmann is in her early 50s and pregnant. She is not carrying her own child though, but that of her daughter. Midwife Lena Lorenz has been looking after mother and daughter for a while and the pregnancy has been unproblematic thus far, but shortly b ...

Viral Humour (2021)

Humor helps people through hard times. A look at the viral videos, songs and sketches that have filled the Internet worldwide since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and what this lockdown humor says about humans in distress. ...

Enfant Terrible (2020)

When 22-year-old Rainer Werner Fassbinder storms the stage of a small, progressive theatre in Munich 1967, and seizes the production without further ado, nobody suspects this brazen young rebel to become one of the most important post-war German filmmakers ...

Lang lebe die Königin (2020)

The young sales presenter Nina Just is not respected in the slightest by her mother Rose, who lives in a farmhouse with her partner Werner. The young woman's life comes apart at the seams when her mother falls ill and needs a donor kidney to survive. She f ...

Leberkäsjunkie (2019)

While dealing with a burnt-down house, smelly diapers and brutal lack of sleep, a Lower Bavarian police officer faces his worst adversary: cholesterol. ...

The Paper Brigade (2018)

Lithuania, 1941, during World War II. Hundreds of thousands of texts on Jewish culture, stolen by the Germans, are gathered in Vilnius to be classified, either to be stored or to be destroyed. A group of Jewish scholars and writers, commissioned by the inv ...

Botticelli (2015)

Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) is both a cultural icon and a lasting source of artistic inspiration. His famous female figures, like Venus and Primavera, have become part of our shared visual memory and influence artists worldwide. Berli ...

Mord am Höllengrund (2014)

Single mother Sabine lives with her 18-year-old son Ilya at Kochelsee in Bavaria. Ilya wants to take some time out and go on vacation to Italy with his girlfriend Cora. But Cora suddenly disappears and Ilya goes to Italy alone. When Sabine discovers a buri ...

Ai Weiwei - Evidence (2014)

Documentary about artist Ai Weiwei's 2014 exhibition in Berlin. ...

Fever (2014)

It's the early 1950s and little Franzi is growing up in the small Austrian town of Judenburg. Her oppressive family home is dominated by her feverish and mentally ill father, who is rigid and unpredictable. Her father, who regularly delivers halves of pork ...

Roland Klick: The Heart Is a Hungry Hunter (2013)

The gritty, kinetic, visionary cinema of Roland Klick is ripe for rediscovery. After shooting with international stars, such as Mario Adorf and Dennis Hopper, Klick celebrated international success and achieved cult status. Yet after making only six featur ...

Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim (2012)

Rosa von Praunheim is an icon in the scene: gay activist, loving provocateur and a very special filmmaker from Berlin for decades. His curiosity for people and their fates runs through his extensive film work. For his 70th birthday he has now made 70 new s ...

Sams im Glück (2012)

The Taschenbiers could actually lead quite a contented life - if it weren't for the strange fact that if you have a Sams in your home for 10 years, you slowly but steadily become a Sams yourself. And this is exactly what happens to Mr. Taschenbier. You can ...

Ulrike Ottinger: Nomad from the Lake (2012)

Ulrike Ottinger is an exceptional filmmaker and artist. Her cinematic universe has influenced entire generations. As a young woman, she brought the international art world to the sleepy town of Konstanz. It all began on the shores of Lake Constance where U ...

Under Snow (2011)

In Echigo, Japan, the snow often lies several feet deep well into May, covering landscapes and villages. Over the centuries, the inhabitants have organised their lives accordingly. In order to record their very distinctive forms of everyday life, their fes ...

Das Glück ist eine Katze (2010)

Frido Schulz and Rosa Schätzlein have known each other since their student days. But while Rosa made a career as a lawyer, Frido had to take over his father's electrical store. Since then, he and Rosa have been like cats and dogs, even though they are nei ...

Keiner geht verloren (2010)

Katja emigrated from East Berlin to Bavaria. There she has found the love of her life. Now she invites her mother Rita to take a look at her future husband. During her journey from Berlin to Bavaria, Rita picks up the stranded actor Hotte. ...

Mahler on the Couch (2010)

Alma Mahler's affair with the young architect Walter Gropius sets in motion a marital drama that forces her husband Gustav Mahler to seek advice from Sigmund Freud. ...

Lippels Traum (2009)

Eleven-year-old Philipp, known as Lippel, travels from Passau in Bavaria to the Orient without a flying carpet: because his father, the posh chef Otto Mattenheim, is on a business trip, the new housekeeper Mrs. Jakob looks after Lippel. But she turns out t ...

Long Shadows (2008)

After two decades in prison Widmer, a former German RAF-terrorist, is released. He meets Valerie, his next door neighbour. The young woman tries to get her life back on track after she lost child custody for her little son. She shows some interest in Widme ...

Memory Books (2008)

In Uganda, AIDS-infected mothers have begun writing what they call Memory Books for their children. Aware of the illness, it is a way for the family to come to terms with the inevitable death that it faces. Hopelessness and desperation are confronted throu ...

The Short Life of José Antonio Gutiérrez (2006)

A look behind the heroic story of a Guatamalan immigrant who became the first US soldier to die in the American-led war in Iraq. ...

The Little Polar Bear 2: The Mysterious Island (2005)

New adventures from Lars, the cheeky little polar bear who loves nothing more than to explore the big wide world. This time Lars and his friend Robby start out for a rescue mission for their friend Caruso leading them all the way to the Galapagos Islands. ...

Laura's Star (2004)

Laura sees a shooting star falling to earth and finds it in a park, down on the floor and with a broken point. The star is a living being, and Laura takes her home to reattach its point with a band-aid. The little star has special powers and can make peopl ...

Die Dreigroschenoper (2004)

The Gangster Macheath secretly marries the daughter of beggar king Peachum. When Peachum finds out, he instructs the police chief Brown to arrest and hang Macheath. If not, all the beggars of Soho will disturb the upcoming coronation. ...

My Magical Friend Sams (2003)

Sams in danger, it is said, when Mr. Taschenbier's son Martin brings the Sams back into the household, which, however, is kidnapped shortly afterwards by the sports teacher because of his special skills. ...

The Net (2003)

Explores the incredibly complex backstory of Ted Kaczynski, the infamous Unabomber. This exquisitely crafted inquiry into the rationale of this mythic figure situates him within a late 20th century web of technology—a system that he grew to oppose. A mar ...

Die Farbe der Seele (2003)

Suck My Dick (2001)

Story of the successful author Dr. Jekyll. One day, Hyde, one of his invented characters, detaches himself from the story and enters Jekyll's life. With the help of the fairy Jeanny, Hyde takes away Jekyll's penis, and later also his hair and teeth, and in ...

Goebbels und Geduldig (2001)

It is 1944 and Reich Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels narrowly escapes an assassination attempt on the way to Obersalzberg. It is whispered to him that his rival Heinrich Himmler is the mastermind and that he has also hidden a double of the propagand ...

The Slurb (2001)

One Saturday, the Slurb, a strange little creature with a proboscis nose, enters Mr. Taschenbier's life. Slurb, who immediately adopts the shy Mr. Taschenbier as his "daddy," is, however, his sheer opposite: he is cheeky and chaotic and throws his well-ord ...

Enemy at the Gates (2001)

A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII. ...

Danach hätte es schön sein müssen (2001)

In 1974, the woman kills herself. I meet the man again in 1997. He still lives in the apartment he moved into 41 years ago with his wife and child. The apartment is almost unchanged. The man is my father. After that and over the following two and a half ye ...

Himmlische Helden (2001)

Bugsy, a small-time crook, seeks to bring his son home by needing a wife, money, and a career. An angel named Noname is sent to help him, but Noname is as chaotic as Bugsy. Noname's mission is to ensure Bugsy's happiness to avoid banishment from heaven. Bu ...

Fassbinder's Women (2000)

An essay film in which filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim interviews "the willing victims of Rainer Werner Fassbinder. ...

Otomo (1999)

The true story of Otomo, a black man seeking work and asylum in the German city of Stuttgart. However, all he finds is racism, police trouble and his final destiny. ...

Jew-boy Levi (1999)

Benjamin Levi (Bruno Cathomas) is a Bavarian cattle dealer traveling to pre-World War II Germany on his annual trip to a remote farming village. Levi hopes to do some business and, more importantly, win the hand of the lovely Lisbeth (Caroline Ebner). But ...

My Best Fiend (1999)

A film that describes the love-hate relationship between Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski, the deep trust between the director and the actor, and their independently and simultaneously hatched plans to murder one another. ...

One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich (1999)

Chris Marker's portrait of Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky documents the director at work on his final film, The Sacrifice, during the last year of his life. Interweaving behind-the-scenes footage with excerpts from Tarkovsky's earlier works, Marker cra ...

Und alles wegen Mama (1999)

Moloch (1999)

In 1942 Bavaria, Eva is alone, when Adolf arrives with Josef, his wife Magda, and Martin to spend a couple of days without politics. ...

Widows (1998)

A black comedy about the dream of freedom and the difficulty of obtaining this: While Molly (Eva Mattes), Elisabeth (Katja Flint) and Maria (Ornella Muti) are great friends, but at the same time completely different. Molly is a difficult stressed housewife ...

Yugofilm (1997)

The lives of a Serb family are torn apart by the pressures of the not-too-distant war with the Croats. The film addresses the fundamental question "Can love survive between political enemies? ...

The Cry of Love (1997)

The story The Cry of Love is about the love between two men. Lara brings her first boyfriend, the good-looking Yannis, to the barbecue party in the family circle. Yannis, who flirts with his appearance, is a prostitute. When Lara's father Holger discovers ...

Alice Guy-Blaché (1997)

A one-hour biographical documentary about Alice Guy-Blaché, one of the first women to direct films. ...

In der glanzvollen Welt des Hotel Adlon (1997)

The documentary tells the story of the Berlin luxury hotel, which was built by the director's great-grandfather and fell victim to a fire shortly after the end of the Second World War. ...

Brother of Sleep (1995)

In the beginning of the 19th century, Johannes Elias Alder is born in a small village in the Austrian mountains. While growing up he is considered strange by the other villagers and discovers his love of music, especially rebuilding and playing the organ a ...

The Promise (1995)

East-Berlin, 1961, shortly after the erection of the Wall. Konrad, Sophie and three of their friends plan a daring escape to Western Germany. The attempt is successful, except for Konrad, who remains behind. From then on, and for the next 28 years, Konrad ...

The Film Narrator (1993)

Germany in the Thirties. A movie teller realizes that his profession is not longer needed. Silent movies are not produced any longer. Telling stories is the only thing the man was ever good in, so he does not know what to do now. As political circumstances ...

Werner and the Wizard of Booze (1990)

Comic artist Brösel trades a magic pen that helps him come up with funny stories for the promise to fulfill one of Rumpelstiltskin's wishes. The resulting animated films show episodes of the life of Werner, a plumber apprentice and motorbike enthusiast an ...

Elektro-Lähmung - Ein Film gegen die politische Ohnmacht (1989)

An initiative discusses a videotape in which a group of activists portrays themselves and their work against the "nuclear power mafia." After argumentatively and polemically confronting the economic and political power of the energy industry, the activists ...

Autumn Milk (1989)

With the death of her mother, eight-year-old Anna ends her childhood: From now on, she has to look after the nine-member family. Deprivation-rich years, which also find no end when Anna marries: Her husband Albert must be a soldier in the Second World War, ...

Felix (1988)

Within four episodes ("Er am Ende", "Muss ich aufpassen", "Eva" and "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" ) are being told adventures of love sick Felix. On Sylt he meets two nymphomaniac women, in Hamburg he meets Eva, a girl who is even more love sick and later he ...

Now or Never (1986)

Mo lost her heart to Tom, but left him nine years ago for no apparent reason. Now she lives together with son Benjamin in Hamburg. Mo has another man, Tom has been living with another woman for some time. When Mo learns that she is terminally ill, she retu ...

Die Unbekannten im eigenen Haus (1985)

Peaceful Days (1984)

In Friedliche Tage, we enter a totalitarian and inhuman society, in which daily life is a series of nightmares and the protagonists search for a utopia of freedom and love. ...

Rita Ritter (1984)

A writer tries unsuccessfully to sell his screenplays and plays. He marries a television editor, but she only wants to fuck him and thinks nothing of his work. He then remembers his old Parisian lover Rita, calls himself Rita from then on and becomes her w ...

A Man Like Eva (1984)

A bearded director named EVA, a fictive Rainer Werner Fassbinder, lives in a large house with his cast and crew as he films Dumas' Lady of the Camellias. His accountant informs him he has many unpaid bills and little cash on hand. EVA throws a fit and fire ...

Longing for Women: Dorothy Arzner (1983)

By the time director Katja Raganelli arrived in California to make a film about Dorothy Arzner in 1980, Arzner had passed away in a car accident. Nonetheless, Raganelli visited Arzner's desert home and retraced the pioneering filmmaker's career in this doc ...

Dear Melanie (1983)

A drama directed by Michael Verhoeven. ...

Die wilden Fünfziger (1983)

The Second World War is over and now begins in post-war Germany, the reconstruction. Jakob Formann sees his chance here and begins a rapid rise as an entrepreneur. ...

Vergiftet oder arbeitslos? (1982)

Céleste (1981)

In 1914, with men gone to war, Marcel Proust hired Céleste Albaret as his attendant. More than eight years later, she was at his side when he died. During this entire time, she only entered his room when he rang for her, sleeping from 9 AM to 3 PM to wait ...

Vor den Vätern sterben die Söhne (1981)

Germany Pale Mother (1980)

Germany 1939. Hans and Lene marry the day before the war breaks out, and Hans is sent to the Eastern front. During a bombing raid their daughter Anna is born. The house is destroyed and Lene and Anna moves in with relatives in Berlin. Hans survives the war ...

Eva Mattes: Fragen an die Mutter (1980)

Eva Matte's confrontation with her mother, who was a star of Third Reich cinema. ...

Woyzeck (1979)

Having fathered an illegitimate child with his lover, Marie, feckless soldier Franz Woyzeck takes odd jobs around his small town to provide some extra money for them. One job is volunteering for experiments conducted by a local doctor, who puts Woyzeck on ...

Union der festen Hand (1979)

Erik Reger's roman à clef examines the development of the Rhineland industrial region from 1918 to 1928, using the Risch-Zander steelworks as a case study: Strikes, the Emperor's visit, revolution, workers' and soldiers' councils, the occupation of the Ru ...

Schattengrenze (1979)

I Am My Films: A Portrait of Werner Herzog (1979)

Interview film with German director Werner Herzog revisiting the films he made up to ca. 1977. ...

Der Schluchtenflitzer (1979)

Andy lives with his parents on a small farm in Lower Bavaria. He rides his "Schluchtenflitzer", a moped, to discos with his friends. He meets Roswitha in a dance hall. ...

David (1979)

Although members of the Hitler Youth chant anti-Semitic paroles in front of his house during the Purim festival, Rabbi Singer is still profoundly convinced that Germany will stay a safe country for him, his family, and his fellow believers. But several yea ...

In a Year with 13 Moons (1978)

Elvira Weishaupt, once a burly working-class butcher, has made an enormous sacrifice for love. She has undergone a sex change for a romantic interest who has abandoned her, and she now must struggle to reconcile her past life with her present identity. ...

Women in New York (1977)

In 1930s New York, a group of bored wealthy women convene in social situations and converse about their husbands and/or lovers. ...

Stroszek (1977)

Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expectations: with a glockenspiel and an accordion, he ekes out a living as a street musician. He befriends Eva, a prostitute down on her luck and they join his ...

Tausend Lieder ohne Ton (1977)

Born for Hell (1976)

Loosely based on the notorious Richard Speck murders, this is the grim tale of a disturbed Vietnam vet returning home via Belfast, who invades a house shared by eight nurses and proceeds to terrorize and murder them. ...

Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven (1975)

Frau Emma Küsters prepares dinner late one seemingly-ordinary afternoon in her seemingly-ordinary Frankfurt kitchen. She wants to add canned sausages to the stew; her irritating daughter-in-law thinks otherwise. But the point is moot: Ernst Küsters has n ...

Die Jungfrau von Orleans (1974)

Effi Briest (1974)

When 17-year-old Effi Briest marries the elderly Baron von Instetten, she moves to a small, isolated Baltic town and a house that she fears is haunted. Starved for companionship, Effi begins a friendship with Major Crampas, a charismatic womanizer. ...

Supermarket (1974)

A drifting teen slips from petty crime into exploitation on the streets of Hamburg, courted by a self-serving journalist and a predatory pimp, before a doomed romance pushes him toward a desperate armed-robbery scheme he can't outrun. ...

Liebe leidet mit Lust (1973)

Desaster (1973)

The film addresses the failure of the individual in anonymous urban society. The film begins as men attempt to break out of their anonymity and reveal themselves. In doing so, they encounter social rules that are not suited to them. The film asks how men c ...

Immobilien (1973)

The supposedly naive owner of the castle, Louise Strothmann von Auerheim, advertises that the entire family estate is for sale. This not only attracts the attention of her money-hungry relatives, but also a whole host of potential buyers, from porn factory ...

Jail Bait (1973)

In a small German town, a 14-year-old girl's relationship with an older man draws scrutiny and leads to legal consequences, reflecting the constraints of their social surroundings. ...

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972)

Petra von Kant is a successful fashion designer -- arrogant, caustic, and self-satisfied. She mistreats Marlene (her secretary, maid, and co-designer). Enter Karin, a 23-year-old beauty who wants to be a model. Petra falls in love with Karin and invites he ...

Hochzeit (1972)

Film based on a play written by Elias Canetti. ...

Mathias Kneißl (1971)

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 from the rich to give to the poor, becoming a hero for the rural people and a popular social rebel. He was chased ...

Love Under 17 (1971)

About the sexual relations of minors, told in eight episodes, dealing with parenthood, hitch-hiking, and the youth is not so bad after all. ...

o.k. (1970)

A five-man US fireteam dig in at the Bon Song Valley (represented by the Bavarian forest) to await the end of the Easter truce with the Vietnamese. A Vietnamese girl passes by and the team rape and kill her. One refuses to take part and escapes to report t ...

Der Tag, an dem die Kinder verschwanden (1967)

Dr. med. Hiob Prätorius (1965)

Dr. med. Job Prätorius enjoys great popularity among patients, doctors and students alike thanks to his kindness and philanthropy. Only his colleague Prof. Speiter begrudges him his success. When his patient Maria Violetta wants to commit suicide because ...

My Generation (2010)

Compilation of online clips of frustrated videogame players having violent outbursts. ...