Wdr Movies

German television version of the story “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allen Poe.

A pessimistic drama about a family struggling to survive after the death of their father. Left behind are the simple-minded mother, the strong-willed...

The Laddakhis, high up in the Western Himalayas, have a strong connection to the psychic energies of the gods and demons through their belief in Tantr...

A diary of a lonely 30 year old man who works as a butcher in a supermarket. The movie shows his daily life between the supermarket and his flat. His...

The scientist Agnes must take care of a foreign flat. Without her family knowing about it, she visits this flat regularly and begins a parallel life....

Rolf Jürgens is nicknamed "Kontroll-Rolf". For many years, he has made it his principle to recalculate, recount and check everything: Telephone bills,...

He was born as Anton Chen in Berlin in 1925. When the Nazis came to power in 1933, he first emigrated to Switzerland, then to China and finally to the...

A documentary film about the Mizrahim, or Jewish community of Iraq.

Technology is advancing and groundbreaking developments are being made in the field of artificial intelligence. With these advancements, comes a new w...

Rossini's opera for La Scala. Considered one of Rossini's most brilliant compositions, The Thieving Magpie stars Ileana Cortrubas and Nucci Condo.

Sixty years after the Holocaust, director Peter Lilienthal, himself a victim and refugee of the Nazi regime, sheds a light on Jewish life in Germany i...

A woman hired to tutor two orphaned children, Flora and Miles, begins to suspect that the little ones are being haunted by the ghosts of their previou...

Famed Swiss architect and artist Robert Maillart was renowned for his concrete bridges; this documentary examines the elegant design of his engineerin...

Twenty-seven thousand photos of corpses, and bodies tortured in detention centers of the Syrian regime, are leaked in 2014 by a mysterious deserter wi...

A young Janka leads a band of kids in 1920's Poland, experiencing many adventures and witnessing technological innnovations along the way. The second...

The 50-year-old haulier Kluth is left by his wife and falls in love with 15-year-old Anita, the daughter of the owners of his favorite pub. Anita's pa...