Magdalena Montezuma Movies

A woman experiences psychic disintegration and ends up in a psychiatric hospital.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Carole Bouquet

Set in Hamburg's “Hell's Kitchen,” a waterfront milieu of gangsters, pimps, dealers and prostitutes, the story follows the attempts of an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Wolf-Dietrich Sprenger

Max Taurus, a sort of amateur detective, pursues the traces of general omni-present crime back to a partially demolished house. There, the remaining...

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Cast: Magdalena Montezuma

A sartorially resplendent woman of few words arrives in Berlin with plans to live out the rest of her days as a drunkard.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tabea Blumenschein

FREAK ORLANDO is divided into five more-or-less distinct sections, all featuring "Freak" Orlando, a woman, played by the late Magdalena Montezuma,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Magdalena Montezuma

A series of tableaux illustrating the life and death of a celebrated 19th century German opera singer.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Magdalena Montezuma

Collage of dramatic scenes, some exaggerated to comic effect, with asynchronous sound from well known classic, operatic, and rock and roll music...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Magdalena Montezuma

In a dark and spare theatrical space, four characters use gesture, language, and movement to explore themes of desire and mortality.

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Cast: Steven Adamczewski

Schroeter's virtuosic staging of the Oscar Wilde tragedy is a complex montage of image and sound, filmed on the grand steps of Baalbeck, the ancient...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mascha Rabben

Living together in an isolated house, three women go to murderous lengths to keep strangers out of their private retreat.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Magdalena Montezuma

Schroeter’s film is a chronicle of Germany from the Nazi era until the economic boom of the 1950s and 1960s, centering on three women who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Carla Egerer

Werner Schroeter's stunning split-screen short deals with what the director called "archaic, fundamental themes" of love and mourning.

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Cast: Carla Egerer

Werner Schroeter's rhapsody of excess leaps from 1949 Cuba to contemporary France to points in between, while its feverishly shifting visual style...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Magdalena Montezuma

A mentally unstable woman and her son move to a sprawling mansion in Portugal to grow roses.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Magdalena Montezuma

An impoverished young man from Sicily travels to Wolfsburg, West Germany to find work. He takes a job in the Volkswagen factory after he travels...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nicola Zarbo

Early Rosa von Praunheim short film. Originally intended to be the ending of "Die Bettwurst".

Genre: Drama

Cast: Magdalena Montezuma

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Cast: Magdalena Montezuma

Two women, one from Boston and one from Germany, flee their empty lives to seek fulfillment in Mexico. The Black Angel is a transitional film; on one...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Magdalena Montezuma

Fusing Shakespeare‘s tragedy with the Verdi opera, Schroeter's Macbeth is a fascinating television experiment shot entirely in a studio with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anette Tirier

With the ascetic grandeur of Carl Th. Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc, Schroeter evokes the visions of Saint Joan, partly through unused...

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Cast: Magdalena Montezuma

Oskar Panizza’s The Council of Love (1895) is a blasphemous play set in 1495, during the first recorded outbreak of syphilis, which Panizza...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Antonio Salines

Tally Brown, New York is a 1979 documentary film directed, written and produced by Rosa von Praunheim. The film is about the singing and acting...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tally Brown

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lou Castel

Genre: Drama

Cast: Heinrich Giskes

Genre: Drama

Cast: Magdalena Montezuma

This film is in effect a slideshow of exquisite single photographic images in sparkling black and white, representing Mikesch’s own version of...

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Cast: Heinz Emigholz

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Veruschka von Lehndorff

Eva, an upper-class housewife, frustratedly leaves her arrogant husband and decides to enter the call girl business. She lets Yvonne, a prostitute,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gudrun Landgrebe

Michel and Guenther, working in dead-end jobs, are obsessed with going to Peru to find buried treasure, using a map of the Rio das Mortes. Michel's...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hanna Schygulla

Frank, a gay school teacher, has a very active sex life and an interest in making films. One evening, he meets Bernd and they become lovers. But...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Frank Ripploh

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michael König