List of the best Volker Schlöndorff movies: The Tin Drum(1979), Circle of Deceit(1981), Diplomacy(2014), The Ninth Day(2003), The Legends of Rita(1999), Coup de Grace(1976), Voyager(1991), Ulzhan(2007), Swann in Love(1984), Palmetto(1998), The Handmaid's Tale(1990), The Ogre(1996) ... ...
Drama
West Germany|France|Poland|Yugoslavia
1979
142 Minutes
Director
David Bennent Angela Winkler Mario Adorf Daniel Olbrychski Katharina Thalbach Heinz Bennent Andréa Ferréol Charles Aznavour
child mother father doctor little person brash disturbing quirky family home poland horrors of war childhood nazism growing up revenge 1930s
In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.
Drama
West Germany|France
1981
110 Minutes
Director
Bruno Ganz Hanna Schygulla Jean Carmet Jerzy Skolimowski Gila von Weitershausen
foreign correspondent photographer lover wife journalist sniper intense spirited gutsy fiery beirut hotel west germany bedroom orphanage lebanese civil war israeli-palestinian conflict journalism ethics moral dilemma
Laschen, a German journalist, travels to the city of Beirut during the fights between Christians and Palestinians to produce an essay about the situation. Together with his photographer, he... See full summary »
Drama, History
France|Germany
2014
88 Minutes
Director
André Dussollier Niels Arestrup Burghart Klaußner Robert Stadlober Charlie Nelson Jean-Marc Roulot Stefan Wilkening Thomas Arnold
diplomat commandant consul dark paris city diplomacy men fate transformation
A historical drama that depicts the relationship between Dietrich von Choltitz, the German military governor of occupied Paris, and Swedish consul-general Raoul Nordling.
Drama, War
Germany|Luxembourg|Czech Republic
2003
97 Minutes
Director
Ulrich Matthes August Diehl Germain Wagner Bibiana Beglau Jean-Paul Raths Ivan Jirik Karel Hromadka Adolf Filip Vladimir Fiser Peter Varga Petr Janis
catholic priest inmate dissident ss officer bishop brother somber disturbing gripping powerful dachau concentration camp luxembourg difficult decision nazis world war ii moral dilemma holocaust repression temptation sacrifice
A drama loosely based on Jean Bernard's Nazi-era prison diary.
Drama
Germany
1999
103 Minutes
Director
Bibiana Beglau Martin Wuttke Nadja Uhl Harald Schrott Alexander Beyer Jenny Schilly Mario Irrek Thomas Arnold Franca Kastein Dietrich Körner Alexander Hosfeld
Rita Vogt is a radical West German terrorist who abandons the revolution and settles in East Germany with a new identity provided by the East German secret service. She lives in constant ... See full summary »
Drama, History
France|West Germany
1976
95 Minutes
Director
Margarethe von Trotta Matthias Habich Rudiger Kirschstein
army officer countess gripping emotional baltic coast unrequited love love 1920s
A countess' unrequited love for an army officer leads to disaster.
Drama
Germany|France|Greece
1991
117 Minutes
Director
Sam Shepard Julie Delpy Barbara Sukowa Dieter Kirchlechner Traci Lind Deborra-Lee Furness August Zirner Thomas Heinze Bill Dunn
engineer lover brother daughter student passionate emotional dark ship europe island airport greece hospital affair plane crash death incest travel romance
April 1957: Rational engineer Faber's plane crashes in Mexico. He learns that he became a dad in 1938. He takes a ship from NYC to France and meets cute, young Sabeth. Fate?
Drama
Kazakhstan|Germany|France
2007
105 Minutes
Director
Philippe Torreton Ayanat Ksenbai David Bennent Olga Landina
Somewhere in the endless steppes of Central Asia lies a treasure. One man holds the key to it, a fragment of an ancient map. But in his restless quest, Charles isn't looking for fame or ... See full summary »
Drama
France|West Germany
1984
110 Minutes
Director
Jeremy Irons Ornella Muti Alain Delon Fanny Ardant Marie-Christine Barrault Nathalie Juvet Anne Bennent
intellectual jew prostitute wife baron homosexual emotional brooding sultry witty paris ballroom bedroom dinner party household france high society obsession prostitution love-hate relationship
In the late nineteenth century Paris, Briton Charles Swann, a man of wealth and culture, runs among the social set. That life is threatened when he falls in love with Odette de Crécy, a ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
Germany|USA
1998
114 Minutes
Director
Woody Harrelson Elisabeth Shue Gina Gershon Rolf Hoppe Michael Rapaport Chloë Sevigny Tom Wright
A recently released ex-con gets involved in a fake kidnapping scheme that turns very real.
Sci-Fi
USA|Germany
1990
109 Minutes
Director
Natasha Richardson Robert Duvall Faye Dunaway Aidan Quinn Elizabeth McGovern Victoria Tennant Blanche Baker Traci Lind David Dukes Zoey Wilson Elizabeth Doby
husband chauffeur wife slave friend bleak chilling dark melodramatic united states house garden bedroom post-apocalypse repression sex pregnancy dystopia unrequited love forbidden love
In a dystopian, polluted right wing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on account of her now rare fertility.
Drama
1996
117 Minutes
Director
John Malkovich Armin Mueller-Stahl Gottfried John Marianne Sagebrecht Volker Spengler Heino Ferch Dieter Laser Agnès Soral Sasha Hanau Caspar Salmon Daniel Smith
frenchman recruiter powerful disheartening bavaria training camp third reich power pursuit 1940s
A simple Parisian's (John Malkovich) love of children involves him in a Nazi scheme to kidnap boys and train them as SS troops during World War II.
Romance, Documentary, Drama
1970
85 Minutes
Director
Rainer Werner Fassbinder Margarethe von Trotta Gunther Neutze Miriam Spoerri Irmgard Paulis Rudolf Waldemar Brem Hanna Schygulla Irm Hermann Günther Kaufmann Walter Sedlmayr
poet anarchist actress thrilling tavern society bourgeoisie morality love