Peer Raben Movies

The final installment in Ulrike Ottinger’s Berlin Trilogy (following TICKET OF NO RETURN and FREAK ORLANDO) casts Delphine Seyrig as the...

Can a small group of people start a proletarian revolution, asks the "Black Monk" in a leather jacket. The medieval shepherd, Hans Boehm, claims to...

Nightclub singer La Paloma succumbs to the persistent courting of a chubby rich admirer and marries him. Before the marriage, she was thought to be...

Garden parties, music and dancing characterize the lives of a family of German aristocrats in the days leading to World War I.

Berta, a naive young maid, searches for love when the army engineers come to town to build a bridge.

Film extras take possession of a bogus film production company and acting as ideal world of film to persuade one associates mother-in-law of marriage.

Three sequences are linked together in this short film by Straub; the first sequence is a long tracking shot from a car of prostitutes plying their...

The main characters in this film are wives of rich men who have nothing to do because they have staff – like the cook, the maid, the...

Inspired by the real life events of Mathias Kneißl, a marginal man, son of poor farmers from Bavaria, in the late XIX Century. Mathias stole...

About the making of "Der amerikanische Soldat/The American Soldier" in 1970.

A documentary about the making of the television mini-series by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, including interviewees with the principal actors.

The formerly great Swiss hotel which Valentin’s family owned when he was a boy has been emptied and is about to be torn down. He revisits the...

Two life stories. That of Malou, a French woman, married to a German Jew, a refugee stranded in South America: a picture of the pre-war generation...

Follows two wealthy families in Germany during the first half of the 20th century. One of them is German, the other one Jewish.

Two men lose their jobs and have to start from scratch. They go their separate ways about it, but their paths sometimes cross.

The true story of Adele Spitzeder, who started her own private bank in 1870s Bavaria by promising everyone that gave her money high interest rates....

An essay film in which filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim interviews "the willing victims of Rainer Werner Fassbinder."

Francois Korb is an arms manufacturer who sold both to the Germans and the Allied forces. Korb's home life is less than ideal, since his wife is...