Movies: Katrin Schaake

Petra von Kant is a successful fashion designer -- arrogant, caustic, and self-satisfied. She mistreats Marlene (her secretary, maid, and co-designer). Enter Karin, a 23-year-old beauty who wants to be a model. Petra falls in love with Karin and invi...

The life of a married Munich technical draftsman with a son....

A playboy who refuses to give up his hedonistic lifestyle to settle down and marry his true love seeks help from a demented psychoanalyst who is having romantic problems of his own....

Small-time pimp Franz is torn between his mistress and Bruno, the gangster sent after him by a shady crime syndicate he's refused to join....

Tulipe, is an old man who lives alone in an old railway carriage in the Argentueil region of Paris. His main passions are gardening and oil painting, but he also has a secret source of income. His godson discovers that Tulipe is actually a master for...

A man is released from prison and finds the society on the outside less than appealing. With several women as well as the police on his tail, he sets out to find an old friend....

A group of young slackers spend most of their time hanging out in front of a Munich apartment building. When a Greek immigrant named Jorgos moves in, however, their aimless lives are shaken up. Soon new tensions arise both within the group and with J...

Ricky returns to Munich from Vietnam and is promptly hired as a contract killer....

"Whity" is the mulatto butler of the dysfunctional Nicholson family in the American southwest in 1878. The father, Ben Nicholson, has an attractive young wife Katherine, and two sons by a previous marriage; the homosexual Frank, and the retarded Davy...

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 girlfriend, Hanna, humors their plan, but really just wants to get married....

A child is kidnapped by a secret organization to force his father to be part of a drug-smuggling ring....

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

All could have gone smoothly if George, the man Jane, a beautiful library assistant, met in a park, had not been bitten by a dog. But the sight of blood spilling from the body of a man who attracts plunges the young woman into the vortex of a neurosi...

A young married couple, professional, intelligent and without inhibitions. Peter, an economist, Helga, a secretary at a financial broker. When Helga's boss is offered old tankers, the clever couple decides to get involved in the business. The plan is...

In this docudrama, police in the countryside near Berlin attempt to trick a confession out of a Polish guest worker for the 1927 murder of an eight-year-old girl....

A rock band moves into a farmhouse in a little village. They are eyed suspiciously by the citizens of the village....

People from all over the world spend their summer holidays at the Black Sea. German Walter and his girlfriend Gisela check in at the hotel as spouses. Walter uses the passport of his wife. The police find the body of a young woman washes up by the wa...

Adapted from the book by Robert Muller and based on his own experiences, this film recreates the Germany of 1936, when a young boy is trying to conceal his Jewish blood. The film shows how the Nazi ideology was absorbed into the fabric of people's li...

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