Margarethe von Trotta Filmes

Documentary about women in the film industry. Numerous notable actresses and female directors share their thoughts.

Tensions between members of a film crew build while they wait for the arrival of the director and star to arrive on location.

Baal explores the cult of the genius, an antiheroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality.

After a chance encounter with a wanted man, a woman is harassed by the police and press until she takes violent action.

Germany, 1968: The priest's daughters Marianna and Juliane both fight for changes in society, like making abortion legal. However their means are...

Three people rob a bank to help a day care center that's in debt. Wolf is captured, Werner identified, police suspect Christa is the third. She and...

A countess loves her brother's Prussian-officer friend in the 1919 Baltic area.

Ricky returns to Munich from Vietnam and is promptly hired as a contract killer.

Drama about the life of a travelling salesman.

Munich Heinz and Herbert wants to escape the torturous confines of their home by swimming across the Atlantic.

A divorced woman in her thirties fights a losing battle in Munich to attain belated self-fulfillment. The die is cast in a briskly impersonal society...

Using rare footage and exclusive interviews with filmmakers from all over the globe, "Reel Herstory" corrects the historic notion that women behind...

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...

The film does not have a plot per se; it mixes documentary footage, along with standard movie scenes, to give the audience the mood of Germany during...

A meaningful account of the personal and professional life of the great Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) that explores his film legacy,...

By chance Paul Kromberger discovers on the internet a photograph of the US opera diva Caterina Fabiani who is the spitting image of Evelyn, his dead...

An anxious teacher (played, as is the lead role in all his films, by the director) sits in a beer garden on the hill of the Andechs monastery. While...

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...

Sisters Maria and Anna live together. Maria is a most proficient executive secretary, encouraging Anna to finish her studies and start a career. Anna...

Two women–a literature professor and a painter–start to rely upon their friendship as an alternative to their unhappy relationships with...