Wdr Movies

Documentary on the history of gay and lesbian film.

Born into a well-off family, Franz Blum had led a carefree youth until, some time after graduating from high school, he was arrested by the police. Fo...

When 22-year-old Rainer Werner Fassbinder storms the stage of a small, progressive theatre in Munich 1967, and seizes the production without further a...

Half documentary, half docu-drama about a German karate champion, who used to be a successful pimp...

The life and struggles of the German writer Heinrich von Kleist.

Under the slogan of the arms race of the superpowers, which escalates in the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 and brings the world to the brink of nuclear...

When British philosopher Harold Hilliard took off for Warsaw to lecture on the Dysteleological Surd, he had no idea that he would soon become embroile...

Eternal daydreamer Mel can't wait to quit her sucky catering job and fly to her dream destination: Portugal. Things change when the beautiful Jenny li...

Gerd is a locksmith apprentice. In a dispute, he gives his boss a slap and is fired. He does not look for a new job. Instead he wants his freedom back...

This film powerfully documents New York City's gay community's response to the AIDS crisis as they are forced to organize themselves after the governm...

Alice, a political activist, has been found guilty of civil disobedience while taking part in an environmental protest and has been sentenced to commu...

To mark the 60th birthday of the multi-talented comedian, singer and author Hape Kerkeling, the two documentary filmmakers André Schäfer and Eric Frie...

The film tells the story of longtime married couple Lena and Tore, who need to deal with Lena's sudden lost of biographical memory due to amnesia.

Shot over the course of a year, this intimate portrait of provocative composer John Adams presents scenes of the artist at work and at play against th...

A silent film character is stuck in a German theater and wants to return to his film.

While on an automobile tour of Italy with his mother, the German publisher in this story has an accident which results in her death. He decides to sta...