Isolde Barth

The Academy (2025)

Jojo, a young art student, discovers the microcosm of an art academy with all of its opportunities and contradictions. ...

No (2021)

Isn't the trajectory of a shared life determined in advance? Get married, have kids, be like everyone else… According to Dietrich Brüggemann, who competed in Vary six years ago, 30-somethings conceivably have it all, yet they fail in their attempts to a ...

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 ...

Fanny und die gestohlene Frau (2016)

Unfortunately, Fanny can only enjoy her unexpected wealth for a short time. The tax office asks her to pay a hefty inheritance tax. Because of the valuable property, she has to pay far more than she was bequeathed in cash. Debts again - and her "crazy" hal ...

Fanny und die geheimen Väter (2016)

A property on Lake Ammersee including inventory plus 183,000 euros and 47 cents - Fanny Steininger is over the moon about this inheritance! A certain Walter Jeromin bequeathed it all to her. Allegedly her biological father, but the 60-year-old slob, who ha ...

Siblings (2016)

The siblings Bebe and Mikhail leave their country of Moldova to apply for asylum in Germany. Their flight turns into a modern odyssey. ...

Spieltrieb (2013)

A tangled drama of cruelty and manipulation, attraction and love. ...

The Blind Spot (2013)

The true story of a journalist who investigates the backgrounds of the Oktoberfest terror attack of 1980. ...

Jungle Child (2011)

A family of a German linguist lives with an indigenous tribe in Papua New Guinea. ...

The Cinema and its Double: Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 'Despair' Revisited (2011)

This absolutely top-notch documentary by Robert Fischer is a fascinating look back at not just the film in question, but Fassbinder's meteoric career which ended all too soon with his untimely death. Archival footage of Fassbinder is utilized (including se ...

Kronos. Ende und Anfang (2008)

A desperate family on its way to self-destruction - a drama about struggling generations, "Kronos" becomes an absurd symbol of the recurrent process of perishing and new beginnings. ...

Trau' niemals deinem Schwiegersohn (2006)

Drei Schwestern made in Germany (2006)

Late fall 1947: The inhabitants of Frauenburg, a US garrison town, are facing another harsh post-war winter. But a social sensation causes a stir: Freya Sonnenberg, one of the three daughters of the former mayor, is to marry the American base commander Bel ...

Damals warst Du still (2005)

Detective Mona Seiler's new case: 17-year-old Samuel Plessen, son of famed psychotherapist Fabian Plessen, is found dead. Clues point to the notorious "Beauty-Killer," so Mona enlists profiler Oliver Kern. As more victims surface, linked to Fabian's hidden ...

The Bridesmaid (2004)

A hard-working young man meets and falls in love with his sister's bridesmaid. He soon finds out how disturbed she really is. ...

Utta Danella - Plötzlich ist es Liebe (2004)

Rosenstrasse (2003)

When Ruth's husband dies in New York, in 2000, she imposes strict Jewish mourning, which puzzles her children. A stranger comes to the house - Ruth's cousin - with a picture of Ruth, age 8, in Berlin, with a woman the cousin says helped Ruth escape. Hannah ...

Getting a Life (2003)

Schöne Lügen (2003)

Interior designer Kim Joosten is like many modern women: self-confident, successful and always concerned about her appearance. When she saves a child's life at a barbecue, she suffers severe burns and is disfigured by a large facial scar. However, represen ...

One Lover is not enough (2002)

Anna, married to the lawyer Rainer, despite all remorse, begins a liaison with the charming pharmaceutical representative Lars - fortunately the husband of her friend Bettina. Their meeting in a luxury hotel has fatal consequences: Anna and Lars are ear-wi ...

Utta Danella - Die Hochzeit auf dem Lande (2002)

With a pounding heart, the horse madman Martina Kilian awaits the wedding with the glamorous jumping rider Arndt Graf Solm-Weltingen. When the Count hangs up the cavalry just before the marriage to enter the catering business of his future parents-in-law, ...

Ich pfeif auf schöne Männer (2001)

Linda is a successful art director, but not only her career but also her bad experiences with men have left her lonely. Linda's gay colleague Donald is her best "friend," but at the moment he needs help himself. He is in love with the agency boss Peter Kö ...

Nightcap (2000)

Mika, heiress to a Swiss chocolate company, is married to celebrated pianist André and stepmother to his son, Guillaume, whose mother died in a car wreck on his tenth birthday. Their lives are interrupted by the unexpected arrival of Jeanne, a young woman ...

Zwei Asse und ein König (2000)

E-m@il an Gott (1999)

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Oganga, the Giver and Taker of Life (1999)

On a vital military mission for the Allies, Indy comes across a disease-ravaged African village and is able to rescue one small child from certain death. The presence of the child endangers the mission, leaving Indy in a moral quandary; fighting his consci ...

Ich wünsch Dir Liebe (1999)

Insensitively, the doctor teaches his patient Katja the terrible truth. The young woman has a brain tumor, she still has six months to live. ...

Rosamunde Pilcher: Dornen im Tal der Blumen (1998)

Verfolgt! - Mädchenjagd auf der Autobahn (1998)

Blutiger Ernst (1998)

Frost (1997)

Time of darkness. Time of fire kindled against cold and fear. During the Holy Night, the seven year old Micha has to escape with his young mother Marianne from the violence of his drunken father... During their one week odyssey through frozen Germany, moth ...

Gestohlenes Mutterglück (1997)

Annie and Helmut lead a harmonious marriage. Annie gets pregnant but Helmut is being relocated to Nigeria. Shortly before giving birth, Annie looses her child. Out of desperation she kidnaps another baby. ...

Eine Herzensangelegenheit (1997)

Workaholic (1996)

Rhoda loves Max but he is a workaholic. So Rhoda decides to become a successful businesswoman herself and falls in love with her co-worker Paul. So Max quits his job to fight for his relationship with Rhoda full-time. ...

Durst (1993)

Living and loving in a small village in the south of Germany. People and their conflicts with morality, manners, and society. ...

Boomtown (1993)

Die ungewisse Lage des Paradieses (1992)

Das lange Gespräch mit dem Vogel (1992)

Es wäre gut, daß ein Mensch würde umbracht für das Volk (1991)

The passion of Christ, based on J. S. Bach's "Johannes-Passion". Its mix of music, speech, dancing and singing re-creates the style of antique Greek tragedies. ...

Malina (1991)

An unusual story of a triangular relationship in Vienna. A woman shares an apartment with a man named Malina. The woman meets Ivan and falls under his spell. It will be her last great passion. Her feelings are so strong and all-encompassing that Ivan can n ...

Die zukünftigen Glückseligkeiten (1990)

1640. A man attempts to flee from England, torn apart by religious unrest, to France. He is the philosopher and irreverent cynic Thomas Hobbes. But before he can reach the ship that will save him, civil war breaks out. The chaos inspires him to develop new ...

Dr. M (1990)

In the not-too-distant future Berlin is shocked by a series of spectacular suicides; a policeman's investigations lead him to a beautiful, enigmatic woman and the revelation of a sinister plot to manipulate the population through mass hypnosis. ...

Quiet Days in Clichy (1990)

Expatriate Henry Miller indulges in a variety of sexual escapades while struggling to establish himself as a serious writer in Paris. ...

Pestalozzi's Mountain (1989)

In the 1770s, Swiss farmer Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi established a school for poor orphaned children in the Aargau. Up to total exhaustion he sacrificed himself for his pedagogical theories. Five years later, the project of the idealistic educator failed ...

Herbst in Lugano (1988)

Chimären - Fiktion und Wirklichkeit (1988)

Crazy Boys - A Handful of Pleasure (1987)

A decadent Cabaret in Hamburg is near closing down. The owner decides to make a last effort to save the place: produce a male striptease show. Many candidates answer to his newspaper ad. No matter how weird were the rehearsals, the owner would have no regr ...

Kein Alibi für eine Leiche (1986)

Larry Cambell is a merciless womanizer and ruthless businessman. Now the sonny boy wants to sell his brother Roy's new invention in the United States. Under the pretext of making the American business perfect, Larry asks Roy to sign a contract. In reality, ...

Marie Ward - Zwischen Galgen und Glorie (1985)

The story of Marie Ward, a religious woman from a devout, aristocratic Yorkshire Catholic family who lived between 1585 and 1645 and moved to St. Omer in Walloon France, where she joined the Order of St. Clare, later returning to England to found her own o ...

Frevel (1984)

A detective with the highest clearance rate in the country, gets involved in a case with a young woman arrested for having killed her child. The detective falls under the spell of the young woman. ...

Deutschlandlied (1984)

Three former school friends, reunited at a school reunion, decide to embark on a camping trip into the woods. ...

Tausend Augen (1984)

Hamburg student Gabriele constantly dreams of her boyfriend in Australia. The reality is different, because while she sits in lecture halls during the day, she is a dancer in a peep show at night. The place is run by the mysterious Arnold, who not only has ...

Das schöne irre Judenmädchen (1984)

Hur und Heilig (1984)

A housewife, annoyed by her husband who constantly wanders in brothels, and a child, who eventually throws her into the Rhine, begins a new life and attracts a prostitute. ...

Annas Mutter (1984)

Based on the actual case of Marianne Bachmeier from 1981, the film tells the story of a mother who in a calm and determined manner shoots the murderer of her daughter seven times in the court room.The man dies at the crime scene. The media jumps at this tr ...

Die Frau ohne Körper und der Projektionist (1984)

Brandmale (1983)

A young man gets caught between two women and finally loses both of them because he is unable to make up his mind. A love triangle that tries to conjure up hidden emotional states. ...

Querelle (1982)

A handsome Belgian sailor on shore leave in the port of Brest, who is also a drug smuggler and murderer, embarks upon a voyage of highly charged and violent homosexual self-discovery that will change him forever from the man he once was. ...

Frankfurt: The Face of a City (1981)

Bored with her stuffy village life, teenager Susanne decides to run away to the bright lights Frankfurt, while her boyfriend does his military. Caught in the swamp of drugs, prostitution, violence and human trafficking, Susanne experiences the dark side of ...

Lola (1981)

Germany in the autumn of 1957: Lola, a seductive cabaret singer-prostitute exults in her power as a temptress of men, but she wants out—she wants money, property, and love. Pitting a corrupt building contractor against the new straight-arrow building com ...

Purity of Heart (1980)

An abstract look at the changes in a woman's inner self. Married to a down-and-out writer, she is forced into a liaison with a book thief. ...

Palermo or Wolfsburg (1980)

An impoverished young man from Sicily travels to Wolfsburg, West Germany to find work. He takes a job in the Volkswagen factory after he travels through Northern Italy by train. ...

Exit... But No Panic (1980)

A guy having sex with a woman on a rooftop – just to get her coffee-machine. ...

The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)

Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. She must rely on her beauty and ambition to navigate the difficult post-war years alone. ...

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. ...

Das Einhorn (1978)

A copywriter gets famous with his first book. When asked to write a new novel about love for his publisher, he urgently needs tutoring since he doesn't know the first thing about it. His way through the beds leads him to the very young Orli. In her he disc ...

Despair (1978)

Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufacturer, married to the capricious Lydia, loses his temper more and more every day when dealing with his workers and other businessmen; until he meets Felix, a ...

The Serpent's Egg (1977)

In 1923 Berlin, following the suicide of his brother, an American acrobat struggles to survive while facing unemployment, depression, alcoholism, and the social decay of Germany during the Weimar Republic. ...

The Stationmaster’s Wife (1977)

The lackluster and plodding Bolweiser has the (mis)fortune to be married to the town's siren; his trusting nature leads him into serious trouble when she beds nearly every available guy. ...

Group Portrait with a Lady (1977)

Leni Gruyetin, a resident of Nazi Germany, lives a tumultuous life as she bears witness to the fascist regime of the Nazis. ...

Gold Flakes (1976)

Werner Schroeter's rhapsody of excess leaps from 1949 Cuba to contemporary France to points in between, while its feverishly shifting visual style evokes and parodies everything from kitschy Mexican telenovelas to silent French art films. ...

Das Rückendekolleté (1975)

Knife in the Back (1975)

At night, a violent confrontation between a pimp and a Greek guest worker takes place on Hamburg's Reeperbahn, resulting in the latter's death. In the subsequent trial before a jury, contradictory statements make it difficult to decide whether this was an ...

Irene (1975)

Die sich Christen nennen (1971)

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. ...