6.7

Querelle

1982, West Germany, France

• Actors: Brad Davis, Franco Nero, Jeanne Moreau, Laurent Malet, Hanno Pöschl, Günther Kaufmann, Burkhard Driest, Roger Fritz, Dieter Schidor, Natja Brunckhorst, Robert van Ackeren, Werner Asam, Isolde Barth, Axel Bauer, Neil Bell, Gilles Gavois, Wolf Gremm, Karl-Heinz von Hassel, Y Sa Lo, Michael McLernon, Frank Ripploh, Karl Scheydt, Vitus Zeplichal, Isa Jank
• Genre: Drama
• Director(s): Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• Available languages:
  • English English.

French sailor Querelle arrives in Brest and starts frequenting a strange whorehouse. He discovers that his brother Robert is the lover of the lady owner, Lysiane. Here, you can play dice with Nono, Lysiane's husband : if you win, you are allowed to make love with Lysiane, if you lose, you have to make love with Nono... Querelle loses on purpose...

  7.8

Faustrecht der Freiheit

1975, West Germany

• Actors: Peter Chatel, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Karlheinz Böhm, Adrian Hoven, Christiane Maybach, Harry Baer, Hans Zander, Kurt Raab, Rudolf Lenz, Karl Scheydt, Peter Kern, Karl-Heinz Staudenmeyer, Walter Sedlmayr, Bruce Low, Marquard Bohm, Brigitte Mira, Evelyn Künneke, Barbara Valentin, Elma Karlowa, Lilo Pempeit, Ingrid Caven, Ulla Jacobsson, Hark Bohm, Kitty Buchhammer, El Hedi ben Salem, Irm Hermann, Wolfgang Hess, Ursula Strätz
• Genre: Drama, Crime, Romance
• Director(s): Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• Available languages:
  • German German.

Franz "Fox" Biberkopf is a working-class guy, at loose ends when his lover is arrested and the police shutter their carnival booth. In need of cash for his weekly lottery purchase, Fox lets himself be picked up by an elegant older man named Max. At Max's, he meets two younger gay men who have expensive tastes and images to uphold. The next day, Fox wins 500,000 marks in the lottery, and Max's friends suddenly become Fox's friends, especially Eugen, the heir to a bookbinding firm that's short of cash. Eugen's polish beguiles Fox, and the fleecing begins.

  7.1

Fontane - Effi Briest

1974, West Germany

• Actors: Hanna Schygulla, Wolfgang Schenck, Ulli Lommel, Lilo Pempeit, Herbert Steinmetz, Ursula Strätz, Irm Hermann, Karlheinz Böhm, Karl Scheydt, Barbara Lass, Rudolf Lenz, Andrea Schober, Eva Mattes, Theo Tecklenburg, An Dorthe Braker, Peter Gauhe, Barbara Valentin, Hark Bohm, Margit Carstensen, Wolfgang Hess, Renate Küster, Fred Maire, Arnold Marquis, Kurt Raab
• Genre: Drama
• Director(s): Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• Available languages:
  • German German.

In the nineteenth century, seventeen year old Effi Briest is married to the older Baron von Instetten and moves into a house, that she believes has a ghost, in a small isolated Baltic town. She soon bears a daughter, Annie, and hires the lapsed Catholic Roswitha to look after her. Effi is lonely when her husband is away on business, so she spends time riding and walking along the shore with Major Crampas. Instetten is promoted to Ministerial Councillor and the family moves to Berlin, where Effi enjoys the social life. Six years later, the Baron is given letters from Crampas to Effi that convince him that they had an affair. He feels obliged to challenge Crampas to a duel and banish Effi from the house.

  6.7

Pioniere in Ingolstadt

1971, West Germany

• Actors: Hanna Schygulla, Harry Baer, Irm Hermann, Rudolf Waldemar Brem, Walter Sedlmayr, Klaus Löwitsch, Carla Egerer, Günther Kaufmann, Burghard Schlicht, Gunter Krää, Ulli Lommel, Elga Sorbas
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
• Director(s): Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• Available languages:
  • German German.

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