Margarethe von Trotta Movies

A man is released from prison and finds the society on the outside less than appealing. With several women as well as the police on his tail, he sets...

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

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.

A man who is dissatisfied with his senseless existence in his family-life and social status steals the uniform of a policeman and then enters the Okto...

A meditation on the first 100 years of German cinema, featuring an assembly of German filmmakers.

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

A documentary by Hans Günther Pflaum and Peter H. Schröder.

The reunion of a group of former medical students results in a flood of bitter memories.

Melodrama set in Hamburg's red light district.

A drama set in Cologne’s revolutionary circles of the late 1960s.

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...

Drama about the life of a travelling salesman.

Between 1933 and 1945 roughly 1200 films were made in Germany, of which 300 were banned by the Allied forces. Today, around 40 films, called "Vorbehal...

An intriguing Hans Christian Anderson-style fairy tale aesthetic and voice over narration. Sudden Wealth is a despairing chronicle of a group of starv...