Roger Fritz

Open Wounds – A Journey through German Genre Films (2017)

A documentary about German cinema from 1960 to 1990. It follows "Verfluchte Liebe deutscher Film. ...

Doomed Love: A Journey Through German Genre Films (2016)

An alternative history of the not-so-well-known West German genre cinema of the 1960s and 1970s. ...

Passion & Poetry: Sam Peckinpah's War (2011)

A documentary about Sam Peckinpah's "Cross of Iron," shot in Yugoslavia in 1976. ...

Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah (2005)

Portrayal of a talented, influencial and troubled artist: a filmmaker who fought his own demons and seemed to live his own legend like no other director. Against all odds Sam Peckinpah was able to create a very personal body of work in the studio system of ...

Daniel, the Wizard (2004)

Evil teenager assassins Rike & Tom want to kill and film the execution of the rock star Daniel Küblböck [or Lana Kaiser to be correct], who is spiritually supported by his dead grandfather Johnny, with the support of the mysterious Baltazar! Will our w ...

The Cry of the Owl (1987)

Robert is magically attracted to Johanna. He observes and stalks her. Finally, the two get to know each other. But Johanna's relationship with Karl is not quite over. ...

The Shipwrecker (1984)

Three actors portray scenes from the life of Sterling Hayden, with a particular focus on his appearance before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Inspired by Hayden's memoir "Wanderer. ...

The Story (1984)

The young Munich sensational reporter Raoul Miller has attacked a lot of people in his cocaine report, who now take terrible revenge: they kill his girlfriend Raphaela and his parents. The drug mafia also ensures that Raoul loses his good reputation and be ...

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 ...

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. ...

Zero Point (1982)

A corrupt lawyer hires a killer to murder his client's divorced ex-wife. The start of a true love story. ...

Lili Marleen (1981)

The story of a German singer named Willie, who while working in Switzerland, falls in love with a Jewish composer named Robert, whose family is helping people to flee from the Nazis. Robert's family is skeptical of Willie, thinking she could be a Nazi as s ...

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 ...

Cross of Iron (1977)

It is 1943, and the German army—ravaged and demoralised—is hastily retreating from the Russian front. In the midst of the madness, conflict brews between the aristocratic yet ultimately pusillanimous Captain Stransky and the courageous Corporal Steiner ...

Kleine Bank mit schlechten Noten (1975)

Nessuno deve sapere (1973)

The Calabrian 'ndrangheta holds control of public works and is behind an inexorable chain of murders and retaliations. A Milanese engineer in his sports car is tragically involved in these events. ...

Strange City (1972)

A former bank clerk conceives a one-man robbery at the bank he works. He had before established an alibi for himself pretending and declaring him legally dead. Further complications ensue when he rejoins his estranged wife. ...

Die Kompanie der Knallköppe (1971)

Admiral Dagobert von Kattnig develops a rescue system for the German Navy. The mountain troops are to test the device in Upper Bavaria and Dagobert sends his son and his staff boatman there. Instead of testing the device, however, the two marvel at the coz ...

Lovemaker (1969)

A drama directed by Ugo Liberatore. ...

Carnal Circuit (1969)

We follow the Journal reporter Paulo whose close friend mysteriously been taken out of the way and it's now up to Paulo to figure out who the culprits are. The film is set in a drug-scented and "swinging" Los Angeles, where orgies and violence seem to be c ...

Till the Happy End (1968)

Photo dealer Arnold and his wife Frieda live in harmony and wealth with their ten-year-old son Peter in Bonn, when Arnold's brother Paul and his wife Vera turn up to get his share of the family business. A scuffle leads to Peter falling down a flight of st ...

Zuckerbrot und Peitsche (1968)

Dressman turns bank robber to afford the lifestyle he wants. ...

Jet Generation (1968)

In the "Swinging Munich" of the late 1960s: The young millionaire daughter Carroll Buchheim, an American, flew from the United States to Germany to visit her brother, who is missing. ...

Fabrik der Offiziere (1960)

An army war school during the WWII: first Lieutenant Krafft has a strong sense of justice. This has often brought him into disrepute with his previous superiors and he has been transferred several times as a result. With his new position in an officer's sc ...

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 ...

Zwischen uns beiden (1971)

A movie by Roger Fritz starring Helga Anders and Arthur Brauss ...

The Brutes (1970)

On the edge of a big city on a go-kart track, Mike and Werner meet Alice and her friends. They like the girl. Mike manages to separate Alice from her group and get into the car with Werner. It had been decided to go to a lake with the others to take a bath ...

Madame Bovary (1969)

In 19th-century France, doctor's wife Emma Bovary seeks to escape her dull provincial life through various extramarital affairs and extravagant spending, leading to tragic consequences. ...

Rabbit in the Pit (1969)

A young girl falls in love for the first time, but she has a dark secret and her boyfriend is on the verge of finding out. ...

Erotik auf der Schulbank (1968)

Three episodes depict events that actually took place in the years before the film was made. Three true‐life dramas explore teacher–student taboos: 1. Monika: A young teacher's love for his pregnant 17‐year‐old student leads to his self‐incrimin ...

Jet Generation (1968)

In the "Swinging Munich" of the late 1960s: The young millionaire daughter Carroll Buchheim, an American, flew from the United States to Germany to visit her brother, who is missing. ...

Girls, Girls (1967)

An underage girl starts an affair with her much older employer. Then, her lover is sentenced for the seduction of a minor, and the young woman gets involved with his son, the junior head of the company. When his father is released from prison, father and s ...

Zimmer im Grünen (1964)

Verstummte Stimmen (1962)