Synopsis:

Maria Braun waits for the news of her husband who was sent to war. When she gets tired of being a passive wife, she starts working in an illegal bar for American soldiers. Soon she hears of her husband’s death; then she goes to the bar and asks a soldier to dance with her. But, as often happens in the confusion of war, her husband is not dead but imprisoned. His return makes things more complicated, but Maria Braun still has her ways of avoiding the role that the others want to impose on her. On...

digital, color, 120 min

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A love story of a woman that sings for Nazis and a Jewish composer. Wilkie helps Robert transport the Jews to a safer territory. She becomes popular with a song, Lili Marleen, and even Hitler expresses a desire to see her. Despite all, Wilkie doesn’t forget Robert. 

digital, color, 120 min

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A bit unusual story under the influence of Jean.Luc Godard about friendship between a pimp, Franz, and a criminal, Bruno. Even though the friendship might not be the best idea because of the pressure of a certain syndicate of criminals, Bruno and Franz even share Franz’s girlfriend, Johanna. But, Bruno soon becomes over superfluous… 

black and white, 88 min

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A Greek emigrant, Jorgos, enters the lifeless days of young people from the suburb of Munich. He represents a communist threat. When he starts dating a girl they beat him up, but it seems that in this early Fassbinder movie women have different views and easily accept something new. 

black and white, 88 min

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After getting out of prison, Franz Walsh returns to the old friends. The former girlfriend, Johanna, killer, Günter, and the new mistress, Margaret, are waiting for him. Günter killed his brother, Marian, and the two women that he hangs around with are planning something horrible, one out of love, the other out of jealousy. 

black and white, 91 min.

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Mister R. is a typical example of a normal person, even though his boss would like him to move one step ahead from this technical pedantry towards solving problems. Mrs. R. begins to climb up the social scale and has expensive tastes. What was there to make him commit the cruel crime he eventually committed?  

color, 88 min

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Hans Epp is a fruit seller. After one fight with his wife because of the fruit delivery to ex-lover Ingrid, Hans goes to a bar and gets drunk. One day he becomes violent towards his wife that draws him deeper into despair. It seems that the only person who understands him is his sister Anna. Soon Hans has a heart-attack and too weak to run the business he finds a replacement in a young and trustworthy Anzell – he only doesn’t know that his wife had an affair with Anzell.

color, 88 min

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Petra von Kant, successful fashion creator, falls in love with Karin and promises her a career of a model. Soon Petra becomes jealous and possessive, but Karin easily gets out of her influence whenever she wants. It seems that Karin will return to her husband who suddenly returned from Australia. Petra’s secretary Marlene opposes Petra’s relationship with Karin and leaves Petra – maybe to be a slave to someone else, as Fassbinder himself says.

color, 124 min

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A story about forbidden love between a widow in her sixties, Emma, and worker Ali – from Morocco, twenty years younger than she. When the outer pressure calms down and when they are left alone, there arouses a new inner pressure bringing a new threat to their relationship. There is a question if Ali can adjust to the environment and life with Emma… 

color, 92'

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An adaptation of the classic from the 19th century by Theodor Fontane. Effi Briest is a 17-year-old forced to marry a baron 20 years older than she. Cheerful and happy by nature, Effi sinks into despair. In times of baron’s absence she is confronted by major Crampas… 

digital, b/w, 140 min

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Angela is an intelligent daughter of divorced parents who forgot about each other. She uses crutches, but that doesn’t keep her from coming up with a plan of how to join her parents together. She invites them, with their lovers, to a family mansion in the countryside. Her parents believe that the other is on a business trip, and they are surprised to find out that the other came but still decide to stay. The next evening, Angela imposes on them a game of truth – Chinese roulette…

color, 86 min

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The last part of the Fassbinder’s post-war trilogy (the first two are The Marriage of Maria Braun and Lola) is an amalgam of a few stories from real life. Veronika Voss is an actress who was supposedly Gobles’ lover. Now when the things stop going well for her, she becomes addicted to morpheme and the doctor’s only concern is to take all the money from her. The only person willing to help is a sports journalist Robert Krohn, even at the cost of losing a girlfriend.

digital, b/w, 104 min

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TV series in 13 parts and epilogue: Part 1 - The Sentence Begins (Die Strafe beginnt, 81') Part 2 - How Can You Live if You Aren’t Prepared to Die? (Wie soll man leben, 59') Part 3 - A Hammer on Your Head Can Hurt Your Soul (Ein Hammer auf den Kopf kann die Seele verletzen, 59') Part 4 - A Handful of People in the Depths of Silence (Eine Handvoll Menschen in der Tiefe der Stille, 59') Part 5 - A Reaper with the Might of God (Ein Schnitter mit der Gewalt vom lieben Gott, 59...

color

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Martha and Helmut Salomon are anything but a perfect couple. She is naďve, immature and self-centered, whereas he is selfish, possessive and sadistic. After they get married Helmut puts Martha’s mother in a mental institution and forbids Martha to continue doing the job she loves. After they return from their honeymoon he moves her into a new house without giving her the chance to take her things from the old home.

digital, color, 116 min

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This is a black comedy about an unlucky and clumsy writer who tries every imaginable way to get hold of some money. He has a brother fascinated by flies, a wife who counts the days since they last slept together, a rich masochistic lover who he accidentally shoots -- and at least one more lover. In the midst of all this mess he finds time to declare himself the reincarnation of Stefan Georg, a gay German poet from the 19th century.

digital, color, 112 min

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Lola is a singer and dancer in a cabaret. Von Bohm is a construction inspector enchanted by Maria-Luise, the daughter of his land-lady. He receives an assignment to investigate possible corruption in a local night club; Von Bohm realizes that Marie-Louise is actually Lola, a dancer. This discovery will force him to choose between the woman he loves and a job he believes in.

digital, color, 113 min

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Novi superkompjuter Instituta za kibernetiku ima moćni simulacijski program s vlastitim artificijelnim svijetom i preko devet tisuća 'identitetskih jedinica' koje žive kao ljudska bića, nesvjesna da je njihov svijet samo simulacija. Profesor Henry Vollmer, tehnički direktor simulacijskog programa, na rubu je nevjerojatnog otkrića, no pogine u misterioznom incidentu. Njegov nasljednik je doktor Fred Stiller koji raspravlja s Güntherom Lauseom, institutskim savjetnikom za sigurnost ko...

color, 212'

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b/w, 9'