Ellen Umlauf Movies

Schroeter's virtuosic staging of the Oscar Wilde tragedy is a complex montage of image and sound, filmed on the grand steps of Baalbeck, the ancient...

Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound the clarion call to decadent fun, while outside a...

Dr. Gabriel Eisenstein, legal counsel at Arabayam & Co., is serving an eight-day sentence in the Grinzing district prison for insulting a public...

The young policeman Joachim Krippo likes to occasionally share his bed with a nice married couple. When he is supposed to be guarding the criminal...

Austrian television director Fritz Lehner makes his feature debut with the big-budget drama Jedermann's Fest, based on the 1911 play by Hugo von...

Leo, the owner of the stocking product "Discrete", has driven his company into the wall; the company is virtually bankrupt.

In 1923 Berlin, following the suicide of his brother, an American acrobat struggles to survive while facing unemployment, depression, alcoholism, and...

True story of two diametrically opposed young women dealing with terminal illness.

Werner Schroeter's rhapsody of excess leaps from 1949 Cuba to contemporary France to points in between, while its feverishly shifting visual style...

The students at a school of hotel management repurpose the institute into a hotel with a show stage, double-cross the principal, the groundskeeper,...

Her only foray into science fiction—about the havoc wrought on society by a television that satisfies every human craving—The Last Days...

The inmates of a reformatory for underage girls have had turbulent pasts: prostitution, crime, violence, and drugs dominated their lives. One of...

Graf Porno is a real playboy who makes money out of everything that falls into his hands. During great sex parties he puts his girls on and...

Pierre earns his money in an unusual way. Together with Dr. Schumann, he helps people die. Schumann is the agent, and Pierre takes care of the jobs....

Two women, one from Boston and one from Germany, flee their empty lives to seek fulfillment in Mexico. The Black Angel is a transitional film; on one...