Percy Adlon

Bagdad Cafe (2021)

Smack bang in the middle of nowhere (or was it somewhere on the legendary Route 66?) two women are thrown together by chance. Stranded tourist Jasmin stumbles out of her unhappy marriage and finds herself at Brenda's remote cafe and motel. Ordinarily, no o ...

Mann vor wilder Landschaft (2019)

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. ...

Koenig's Sphere (2002)

Adlon recounts the making of the sculpture, "Kugelkaryatide" the sphere that stood in the center of Tobin Plaza between the two towers of the World Trade Center. The film follows the sculpture from its creation as the largest bronze sculpture of recent tim ...

Hawaiian Gardens (2001)

A romantic drama/detective story about big-time copyright fraud and a bigger-time crush. A complicated love triangle plays out to a dramatic climax, taking us from a strip mall somewhere in the glaring dust of Los Angeles County to a dark forest in Germany ...

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. ...

Eat Your Heart Out (1997)

A womanizer gets his own cooking show and, ironically, the females who call in end up airing their relationship problems to him. ...

Younger and Younger (1993)

The eccentric owner of a Los Angeles self-storage company finds his world come crashing down when his long-suffering wife dies, only to return as a beautiful ghost. ...

Salmonberries (1991)

A young orphaned woman named Kotzebue is trying to find out who her parents are in the icy landscapes of Alaska. Kotzebue is helped by an East German librarian, whose husband was killed while fleeing from the GDR. Although both women could not be more diff ...

Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter (1990)

This music special is dedicated to dispelling the prejudices associated with the HIV infection and raising money for AIDS research and relief. Some of today's most celebrated recording artists performing their interpretations of the classic songs of Cole P ...

Rosalie Goes Shopping (1989)

Rosalie loves to shop too much to let a little thing like no money stop her. When the local shopkeepers no longer take her bad checks or bad credit cards, she's finds herself out of ways to please her consumerist tendencies… until she discovers The Inter ...

Babycakes (1989)

Grace is an overweight mortuary cosmetician who falls in love with Rob, a handsome subway train conductor who doesn't even know she exists. When she finally devises a way to meet him, they discover that although they are physically different, they have a l ...

Bagdad Cafe (1987)

A German woman named Jasmin stumbles upon a dilapidated motel/diner in the middle of nowhere. Her unusual appearance and demeanor are at first suspicious to Brenda, the exasperated owner who has difficulty making ends meet. But when an unlikely magic spark ...

Herschel and the Music of the Stars (1986)

Not far from Windsor Castle, the Austrian composer Joseph Haydn visits the German astronomer Friedrich W. Herschel in the summer of 1792. But what begins as an informal afternoon ends in disaster for Haydn: his traditional world view is shaken by Herschel' ...

Sugarbaby (1985)

A plump Munich mortuary worker tracks down and seduces a married subway conductor. ...

The Swing (1983)

Based on Annette Kolb's autobiographical novel of the same name, THE SWING is a lavish, breathless reconstruction of life in Munich towards the end of the 19th century. The deceptively simple story centers around the Lautenschlags, a Bavarian-French Cathol ...

Last Five Days (1982)

At Gestapo head quarters a young woman establishes a relationship with another inmate. This young woman is Sophie Scholl who tells the story of her life and of her resistance movement′s courageous fight against Hitler′s Nazi regime. ...

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 ...

The Guardian and His Poet (1978)

About the life of writer Robert Walser. ...

Der Tänzer Heinz Bosl (1976)

A documentary about dancer Heinz Bosl who died in 1975 - aged 28. ...

Tomi Ungerer's Country Life (1973)

Tomi Ungerer moves with his wife Yvonne from New York to Nova Scotia, to a small peninsula with a wooden fisherman's house and a few stables. This first of four documentaries that Adlon makes about the French artist and writer is a breakthrough - both for ...

Percy Adlon erzählt... (2010)

The German director Percy Adlon talks about his career. ...

Filmlegenden. Deutsch (2005)

A parade of well-known actors and directors from Germany ...

Musen, Macht und Glamour - Die Welt der Maximilianstraße (2004)

Documentary about the Maximilianstraße in Munich. ...

Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs (1998)

Ekchart Schmidt examines the machinery behind the dream factory; the Hollywood myth is unmasked. How does the studio industry work? What role does marketing and the hype surrounding the stars play? ...

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. ...

Hollywood, Germany - Die amerikanische Herausforderung (1996)

Documentary by Eckhart Schmidt. ...