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1. The Indian Tomb (1959)
102 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
A German architect runs away with the maharajah of Eschnapur's fiancee but is caught and thrown in the dungeon, while his relatives arrive from Europe looking for him and the maharajah's brother is scheming to usurp the throne.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Debra Paget, Paul Hubschmid, Walther Reyer, Claus Holm
Votes: 2,933
2. Never Look Away (2018)
R | 189 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR-regime.
Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Stars: Tom Schilling, Sebastian Koch, Paula Beer, Saskia Rosendahl
Votes: 25,331 | Gross: $1.30M
3. Lola (1981)
R | 115 min | Drama, Romance
A seductive cabaret singer-prostitute pits a corrupt building contractor against the new straight-arrow building commissioner, launching an outrageous plan to elevate herself in a world where everything-and everyone-is for sale.
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Stars: Barbara Sukowa, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Mario Adorf, Matthias Fuchs
Votes: 6,822
4. Century of Cinema (1995–1998)
60 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Martin Scorsese describes his initial and growing obsession with films from the 1940s and 50s as the art form developed and grew with clips from classics and cult classics.
Stars: Martin Scorsese, Michel Piccoli, Nagisa Ôshima, Allison Anders
Votes: 94
5. Germany in Autumn (1978)
123 min | Documentary, Drama
Germany in Autumn has no typical plot; it mixes documentary footage with standard movie scenes to present the mood of Germany during the late 1970s. The film covers 2 months in 1977 when a ... See full summary »
Directors: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Alf Brustellin, Hans Peter Cloos, Alexander Kluge, Maximiliane Mainka, Edgar Reitz, Katja Rupé, Volker Schlöndorff, Peter Schubert, Bernhard Sinkel | Stars: Wolfgang Bächler, Heinz Bennent, Wolf Biermann, Joachim Bißmeier
Votes: 1,418
6. Die Macht der Gefühle (1983)
115 min | Crime, Drama
Anthology film in which different scenes are montaged side by side. Hannelore Hoger plays a central role as the accused. Numerous references to earlier Kluge films are hidden.
Director: Alexander Kluge | Stars: Hannelore Hoger, Alexandra Kluge, Edgar M. Böhlke, Klaus Wennemann
Votes: 154
7. Abschied von gestern - (Anita G.) (1966)
88 min | Drama
The film tells the story of Anita G., a young East German migrant to West Germany and her struggle to adjust to her new life.
Director: Alexander Kluge | Stars: Alexandra Kluge, Günter Mack, Eva Maria Meineke, Hans Korte
Votes: 1,063
8. Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed (1968)
103 min | Drama
"Neues Kino movie" about life in the circus dome narrated in Brechtian spirit; deceptively illusionist grip is broken violently by aloofness and sweeping subjective tracking shots.
Director: Alexander Kluge | Stars: Hannelore Hoger, Sigi Graue, Alfred Edel, Bernd Höltz
Votes: 462
9. Cosmic Miniatures (2024)
94 min
Explores the birth of intergalactic battle dogs inspired by the valiant space dog Laika. The finale pays homage to Kluge's friend Edgar Reitz, offering an unexpected masterpiece.
Director: Alexander Kluge
10. Gelegenheitsarbeit einer Sklavin (1973)
91 min | Drama
Roswitha is working to carry out illegal abortions, to support her husband and two children. The police discovers her and the husband is arrested. Roswitha gets involved in social work and politics.
Director: Alexander Kluge | Stars: Alexandra Kluge, Franz Bronski, Bion Steinborn, Sylvia Gartmann
Votes: 347
11. Die Reise nach Wien (1973)
103 min | Comedy, Drama
During the closing months of the Second World War, two small-town German women discover some money in an attic and decide to spend it on a trip to Vienna.
Director: Edgar Reitz | Stars: Elke Sommer, Hannelore Elsner, Mario Adorf, Nicolas Brieger
Votes: 72
12. Orphea (2020)
99 min | Drama, Fantasy, Music
A reinvention of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, set in contemporary Manila as a rock musical.
Directors: Khavn, Alexander Kluge | Stars: Lilith Stangenberg, Ian Madrigal
Votes: 58
13. Cinématon (1972– )
Documentary
Stars: Gérard Courant, Diana Lui, Joseph Morder, Célestine Roussel
Votes: 14
14. Der starke Ferdinand (1976)
97 min | Drama
The clownish security chief of a West German business is obsessed with protecting his factory from fancied and real breaches, especially from groups such as The Red Army Faction. ... See full summary »
Director: Alexander Kluge | Stars: Heinz Schubert, Vérénice Rudolph, Joachim Hackethal, Gert Günther Hoffmann
Votes: 184
15. In Gefahr und größter Not bringt der Mittelweg den Tod (1974)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
Two women with different goals in life are independently out on the town of Frankfurt am Main. One is an offbeat thief and the other an East German spy.
Directors: Alexander Kluge, Edgar Reitz | Stars: Dagmar Bödderich, Jutta Winkelmann, Alfred Edel, Norbert Kentrup
Votes: 222
16. Die Patriotin (1979)
121 min | Drama
A history teacher and a patriot goes out into the winter landscape carrying a shovel. She comes across a dead soldier killed at the battle of Leningrad.
Director: Alexander Kluge | Stars: Hannelore Hoger, Dieter Mainka, Alfred Edel, Alexander von Eschwege
Votes: 204
17. Krieg und Frieden (1982)
123 min | Drama, History
At the peak of the Cold War, the short-range missile crisis, neutron bombs could have potentially annihilated Central Europe.
Directors: Stefan Aust, Axel Engstfeld, Alexander Kluge, Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: Jürgen Prochnow, Günther Kaufmann, Manfred Zapatka, Karl-Heinz Merz
Votes: 97
18. News from Ideological Antiquity - Marx/Eisenstein/The Capital (2008 Video)
570 min | Documentary
Director Alexander Kluge provides his own take of Eisenstein's unfinished filming of Karl Marx's Capital, a subject that the Russian director and James Joyce had debated in 1927.
Director: Alexander Kluge | Stars: Oksana Bulgakova, Dietmar Dath, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Durs Grünbein
Votes: 70
19. Druckfrisch (2003– )
30 min
Hot off the press.
Stars: Denis Scheck, T.C. Boyle, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Thomas Hettche
Votes: 36
20. Kulturzeit (1995– )
40 min | News
Culture time on 3sat.
Stars: Cécile Schortmann, Vivian Perkovic, Nina Brunner, Peter Schneeberger
Votes: 52
21. Der Kandidat (1980)
129 min | Documentary
In 1980 Franz Josef Strauss competed against Helmut Schmidt for the Office of the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Directors: Stefan Aust, Alexander Kluge, Volker Schlöndorff, Alexander von Eschwege | Stars: Wolf Biermann, Karl Carstens, Edmund Stoiber, Franz Josef Strauß
Votes: 130
22. Table for Love (1967)
90 min | Drama
Elizabeth is a young woman who seeks happiness excessively burning out all those around her.
Director: Edgar Reitz | Stars: Heidi Stroh, Georg Hauke, Nina Frank, Ruth von Zerboni
Votes: 139
23. Der große Verhau (1971)
86 min | Sci-Fi, Comedy
Outer space in 2034 is run by greedy corporations in a rundown bureaucracy. Two astronauts, who are not very smart, make their way with shady dealings, smuggling and spaceship wrecking.
Director: Alexander Kluge | Stars: Vinzenz Sterr, Maria Sterr, Sigi Graue, Henrike Fürst
Votes: 143
24. Brutality in Stone (1961)
12 min | Documentary, Short
In his experimental short film 'Brutalitaet in Stein' (Brutality in Stone), Alexander Kluge demonstrates how Nazi architecture used dimensions of inhuman and super-human scale to bolster ... See full summary »
Directors: Alexander Kluge, Peter Schamoni | Stars: Hans Clarin, Christian Marschall
Votes: 278
25. Spiegel TV Magazin (1988– )
45 min | Documentary, News, Reality-TV
Spiegel TV Magazin.
Stars: Maria Gresz, Kay Siering, Sibylle Rauch, Björn Höcke
Votes: 61
27. Schneeweißrosenrot (1991)
84 min | Documentary
About the identical twins Jutta Winkelmann and Gisela Getty, who belonged to the "harem" of the Commune 1 founder Rainer Langhans.
Directors: Rainer Langhans, Christa Ritter | Stars: Jutta Winkelmann, Gisela Getty, Dennis Hopper, Werner Herzog
Votes: 32
28. The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time (1985)
113 min | Comedy, Drama
In this film, Kluge continues his fascination with history, culture and cinema as he examines the close of the 20th century.
Director: Alexander Kluge | Stars: Jutta Hoffmann, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Hans-Michael Rehberg, Peter Roggisch
Votes: 167
29. Literaturclub (1990– )
75 min | Talk-Show
In the Literatureclub four to five new publications are discussed and debated. Always at the cutting edge of literature.
Stars: Gunhild Kübler, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Andreas Isenschmid, Peter Hamm
Votes: 8
30. Filmkrönikan (1956–2008)
30 min | Talk-Show
"The Film Chronicle" presents new feature film from around the world, directors and actors, as well as various themes.
Stars: Nils-Petter Sundgren, Gunnar Oldin, Orvar Säfström, Jacques Tati
Votes: 8
31. Anselm Kiefer in Barjac (2020 TV Movie)
46 min | Documentary
German painter and sculptor Anselm Kiefer discusses his Barjac project with Alexander Kluge.
Director: Walter Smerling | Stars: Anselm Kiefer, Alexander Kluge
32. Mülheim - Texas: Helge Schneider hier und dort (2015)
89 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
Helge Schneider is one of the most extraordinary German artists. Jazz musician, entertainer, film director, actor and clown. His exceptional talent is his improvisational skill. This is ... See full summary »
Director: Andrea Roggon | Stars: Helge Schneider, Andrea Schumacher, Erwin Klempke, Rudi Olbrich
Votes: 128
33. Die Frau mit der Kamera - Portrait der Fotografin Abisag Tüllmann (2015)
80 min | Documentary
Director Claudia von Alemann talks about her friendship with the photographer Abisag Tüllmann and documents her work.
Director: Claudia von Alemann | Stars: Jean-Luc Godard, Abisag Tüllmann
Votes: 13
34. Sternstunden (1994– )
60 min | Talk-Show
Stern hours talk show.
Stars: Bernard Senn, Barbara Bleisch, Yves Bossart, Ingrid Grave
Votes: 18
35. Protokoll einer Revolution (1963)
12 min | Short
The story of a revolution in a Caribbean insular state.
Director: Günter Lemmer | Stars: Sammy Drechsel, Uschi Glas, Rolf Illig
Votes: 18
36. Deutschland, deine Künstler (2008– )
45 min | Documentary, Biography
Germany, your artists.
Stars: Tom Vogt, Til Schweiger, Iris Berben, Campino
Votes: 20
37. Happy Lamento (2018)
90 min | Documentary
Features the young master director Khavn de la Cruz from Manila. It's all about the circus, about electricity - but above all about the song Blue Moon, to which Elvis Presley lent his voice... See full summary »
Director: Alexander Kluge | Stars: Khavn, Helge Schneider, Heiner Müller, Wolfgang Rihm
Votes: 11
38. Étoiles et toiles (1982–1986)
Documentary
Stars: Frédéric Mitterrand, Jean-Luc Godard, Clint Eastwood, Raoul Coutard
Votes: 106
39. News & Stories (1988– )
Talk-Show
News and Stories Talk Show.
Stars: Alexander Kluge, Manfred Osten, Christoph Schlingensief, Dirk Baecker
Votes: 8
40. Auge in Auge - Eine deutsche Filmgeschichte (2008)
106 min | Documentary
Ten personalities from the industry look back on the highlights of German film history.
Directors: Michael Althen, Hans Helmut Prinzler | Stars: Michael Ballhaus, Doris Dörrie, Andreas Dresen, Dominik Graf
Votes: 154
41. Schweinegeld (1989)
91 min | Comedy
A satire about corruption, about big and small crimes: The noble clochard Maxwell, the unsuccessful film producer Harry and the unemployed actress Wally are anything but kissed by luck. But... See full summary »
Director: Norbert Kückelmann | Stars: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Claudia Messner, Rolf Zacher, Stefan Suske
Votes: 17
43. Das Phänomen der Oper (2007)
71 min | Documentary
Director: Alexander Kluge | Star: Alexander Kluge
44. Literatur im Foyer (1997– )
60 min | Talk-Show
Stars: Thea Dorn, Felicitas von Lovenberg, Denis Scheck, Ijoma Mangold
45. Ein Arzt aus Halberstadt (1970)
29 min | Short
Director: Alexander Kluge | Star: Ernst Kluge
Votes: 30
46. Die Erben von Papas Kino (1968 TV Movie)
28 min | Documentary
Director: Wilhelm Roth | Stars: Marran Gosov, Werner Herzog, Fred Hoffmann, Rob Houwer
Votes: 13
47. Auf der Suche nach einer praktisch-realistischen Haltung (1983)
13 min | Short
Director: Alexander Kluge
Votes: 31
48. Alpha Forum (1998– )
45 min | Talk-Show
Stars: Werner Reuß, Hans Jürgen Mende, Christoph Lindenmeyer, Isabella Schmid
50. Willi Tobler und der Untergang der 6. Flotte (1972 TV Movie)
96 min | Sci-Fi
Director: Alexander Kluge | Stars: Alfred Edel, Helga Skalla, Hark Bohm, Kurt Jürgens
Votes: 97