Margit Carstensen Movies

Petra von Kant is a successful fashion designer -- arrogant, caustic, and self-satisfied. She mistreats Marlene (her secretary, maid, and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Margit Carstensen

After the death of her abusive father, lonely librarian Martha finds herself caught up in a strange, sadomasochistic relationship with a monstrous...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Margit Carstensen

Focuses on three very different siblings, all searching for happiness. Hans-Jörg is a sex addicted librarian, who is interested in young...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Moritz Bleibtreu

A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Isabelle Adjani

A husband and wife lie to each other about their weekend travel plans, only to both show up at the family's country house with their lovers.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anna Karina

After a worker kills a superior and commits suicide, each of his family members attempts to forge a path forward in life.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Brigitte Mira

An eccentric homage to the Rainer Werner Fassbinder days of German filmmaking.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Margit Carstensen

A famous poet who hasn't written a word in two years unconsciously plagiarizes the work of Stefan George, while dealing with several mistresses, his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kurt Raab

After having her second child, a German housewife suffers from post-partum depression before inexplicably falling into a continually misdiagnosed...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Margit Carstensen

Paul, a man suffering from cerebral palsy, lives an unfulfilled life in a nursing home. Sitting in his wheelchair, he fantasizes about a life in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Steven C. Stewart

On 30 April 1945, dictator Adolf Hitler, his wife Eva Braun, and prominent members of the Third Reich live out their final hour in the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Udo Kier

A wildly anarchic satire of guerrilla terrorism in which a band of leftist radicals inadvertently become puppets of the West German government, which...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Harry Baer

Unable to possess Ivy in reality, Adrian organizes himself so as to know everything about her, to possess her story. Like the viewer, Adrian will be...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Margit Carstensen

A German serial killer preys on boys and young men during the so-called years of crisis between the wars. Based on the true story of Fritz Haarmann,...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Kurt Raab

Germany, right after the re-unification. The people are out of control, blind hatred towards immigrants is common sense. In this time, a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Margit Carstensen

The film tells different stories in a kind of parallel Germany about love, affection and hatred.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Christoph Bach

A very stylized TV version of the Fassbinder play. The set consists of a few pieces of furniture in front of a large screen on which coastal scenery...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Margit Carstensen

Avant-garde adaptation of a Carlo Goldoni play. Well-to-do Venetians congregate in a coffee house and discuss their problems.

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Margit Carstensen

Due to a delayed flight a group of German flight passengers have to wait in the hall of the airport of Manila. The crowd is quite mixed, ranging from...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eddi Arent

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Rudolf Lenz

In the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separated in the woods, and Leon, a local peasant who's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Armin Mueller-Stahl

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Juraj Kukura

Full of anticipation, ten-year-old Emma goes on vacation to her grandma Dolly in the country. Once there, however, the girl learns that old...

Genre: Family

Cast: Zoë Mannhardt

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

A documentary about the life of Karlheinz Böhm from his film career to his charity activities in Ethiopia.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Karlheinz Böhm

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eva Mattes

When Hitler watches Marlene Dietrich in a movie, he falls in love with her. He persuades her to come back to Germany to be with him, but upon her...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kurt Raab

To find a bone marrow donor for himself, fashion designer Jesko visits his upper-class family in southwest Germany where he has to confront mental...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jürgen Vogel

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

Rainer Werner Fassbinder was probably Germany’s most significant post-war director. His swift and dramatic demise at the early age of 37 in...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

A film portrait of the influential Bavarian actor, director and screenwriter who publicly confessed his homosexuality.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

A childish wife reveals surprising strength when faced with blackmail. Based on A Doll's House by Ibsen, this is a video recording made for German...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Margit Carstensen

Gesche's Poison is a psychological portrait loosely based on the true story of Gesche Gottfried who became notorious in 19th century Bremen for...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Geno Lechner

A group of kids grow up on the short, wrong (east) side of the Sonnenallee in Berlin, right next to one of the few border crossings between East and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alexander Scheer

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ezard Haußmann

Feuerreiter is an elegant period drama that begins in Frankfurt in 1796. Through his friend, Baron von Sinclair, romantic and rebellious poet...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Martin Feifel

Genre: Drama

Cast: Veronika Bayer

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michael Ballhaus

The movie version of Christoph Schlingensief's stageplay.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Margit Carstensen

Using unpublished and newly digitalised archive footage and film material, Bettina Böhler has brilliantly assembled this film about the life and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Christoph Schlingensief