Maria Schrader Movies

A comic study of 20th-century history, reconstructing the life of writer, creator and professional prisoner Tulse Luper. Born in 1911 Newport and...

Two inseparable friends with very different characters come to Munich to study and soon desire the same woman. The more reliable and down-to-earth...

On the brink of her 30th birthday, Fanny feels the door to marital happiness closing on her. She is obsessed with death and even visits evening...

After plotting a way to get kicked out of boarding school, the twins diverge for the first time in their lives when Nanni starts enjoying her stay.

Silva fulfills herself a dream: from Poland she flies to USA. With only a few hundred dollars she arrives in New York, incapable of the language. Not...

No one knows, or is ever likely to know how many disabled or handicapped relatives have been hidden from the outside world in attics and basements...

Edward Kaminsky, an aging ad man, wants a golden parachute from his agency; he must first land the Opel auto contract. Rosa, a youth with wealthy...

When Holly and old flame Freddi meet Alemnesch, a young asylum seeker from Rwanda who is heavily pregnant and on the run from authorities, their...

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.

Anna and Lisa, two young women, meet by chance in the vestibule of a bank, and decide after that to go on together leaving a successful trail of...

Misadventures of a hapless young man from rural Bohemia who, in 1991, is finally free to cross newly open borders.

Based on the novel Hohaj by Elisabeth Rynell, it depicts the devastation felt by Elizabeth, a woman who had lost her husband in a car accident and...

“Acting is something anyone can do,” says Barbara Sukowa. “It’s completely intuitive and instinctual, much like a child...

A cheerful, amusing and melancholic look back at the Munich film festival from the perspective of the people who make up the film festival.

The happening of a ceremonial robing of the youngest daughter as a novice in a Swabian convent screws up the values of a modern family. As if life...

When writer Wolfgang Herrndorf learns that he is terminally ill, he throws himself into his work with feverish discipline and, between surgeries,...

Sophie "inherits" her uncle's preserved whale and finds out that whoever sleeps in the whale's belly with her will be granted one wish, causing chaos...