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1. Arena (1975– )
60 min | Documentary
Wide-ranging arts program.
Stars: Gavin Millar, Kenneth Tynan, John Walters, Jonathan Miller
Votes: 320
2. Heimat: A Chronicle of Germany (1984)
924 min | Drama, History, War
The village of Schabbach experiences the shifting fortunes of Germany from 1919 to 1982.
Stars: Marita Breuer, Rüdiger Weigang, Kurt Wagner, Gertrud Bredel
Votes: 3,336
3. 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
4. Venice 70: Future Reloaded (2013)
120 min | Documentary, Drama
Seventy short films about cinema and its future.
Directors: Hala Abdallah, John Akomfrah, Wang Bing, Catherine Breillat, Júlio Bressane, Rama Burshtein, Antonio Capuano, Peter Ho-Sun Chan, Isabel Coixet, Amiel Courtin-Wilson, Claire Denis, Lav Diaz, Amit Dutta, Aleksey Fedorchenko, Frédéric Fonteyne, James Franco, Lluís Galter, Haile Gerima, Aleksey German Jr., Amos Gitai, Benoît Jacquot, Zhangke Jia, Kim Ki-duk, Abbas Kiarostami, Pablo Larraín, Tobias Lindholm, Guido Lombardi, Jazmín López, Samuel Maoz, Pietro Marcello, Brillante Mendoza, Celina Murga, Amir Naderi, Shirin Neshat, Nicolás Pereda, Franco Piavoli, Giuseppe Piccioni, João Pedro Rodrigues, Walter Salles, Paul Schrader, Ulrich Seidl, Luca Severi, Jean-Marie Straub, Tusi Tamasese, Tariq Teguia, Pablo Trapero, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Teresa Villaverde, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Andrew Wonder, Yonfan, Krzysztof Zanussi, Karim Aïnouz, Bernardo Bertolucci, Jan Cvitkovic, Atom Egoyan, Davide Ferrario, Monte Hellman, Semih Kaplanoglu, Marlen Khutsiev, Yorgos Lanthimos, Milcho Manchevski, Franco Maresco, Salvatore Mereu, Ermanno Olmi, Michele Placido, Edgar Reitz, Hong Sang-soo, Todd Solondz, Sion Sono, Kounosuke Tsukamoto, Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Shekhar Kapur, Heeraz Marfatia | Stars: Jessica Alexander, Bernardo Bertolucci, Lola Créton, Haile Gerima
Votes: 397
5. Die zweite Heimat: Chronik einer Jugend (1992)
1,416 min | Drama, History
Hermann Simon, an aspiring composer, comes of age in Munich during the troubled 1960s.
Stars: Henry Arnold, Salome Kammer, Frank Röth, Armin Fuchs
Votes: 354
6. Home from Home: Chronicle of a Vision (2013)
Not Rated | 231 min | Drama, History
Jakob longs for a new life for himself and his troubled family in Brazil.
Director: Edgar Reitz | Stars: Jan Dieter Schneider, Antonia Bill, Maximilian Scheidt, Marita Breuer
Votes: 1,539
7. 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: 1,413
8. The Cat Has Nine Lives (1968)
91 min | Drama
Three women, a journalist, her French friend and a pop singer, deal with life, career, desire, sex and personal fantasies.
Director: Ula Stöckl | Stars: Liane Hielscher, Kristine de Loup, Jürgen Arndt, Elke Kummer
Votes: 289
9. Kulturplatz (2004– )
25 min | Documentary
Stars: Eva Wannenmacher, Nicole Salathé, Nina Brunner, Nino Gadient
Votes: 22
10. Días de cine (1991– )
60 min | News
Antonio Gasset hosts this show in which recently released movies and DVDs are thoughtfully discussed in a documentary-like way.
Stars: Gerardo Sánchez, Elena S. Sánchez, Antonio Gasset, Cayetana Guillén Cuervo
Votes: 334
11. 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: 1,057
12. Heimat 3: A Chronicle of Endings and Beginnings (2004– )
689 min | Drama, History
The village Schabbach experiences Germany's triumphs and tragedies from 1989 to 2000.
Stars: Henry Arnold, Salome Kammer, Peter Schneider, Uwe Steimle
Votes: 656
13. Cinema 3 (1984–2016)
News
Stars: Jaume Figueras, Crisol Tuà, Monts Llussà, Àlex Gorina
Votes: 229
14. Saturday Review (1986–1990)
Documentary
Stars: Russell Davies, Minette Marrin, Eric Griffiths, Jonathan Meades
15. Titel, Thesen, Temperamente (1967– )
30 min
The cultural magazine in the first, in the weekly change of six editors of the ARD radio stations.
Stars: Dieter Moor, Siham El-Maimouni, Evelyn Fischer, Caren Miosga-Grob
Votes: 58
16. Von Sex bis Simmel (2005 TV Movie)
67 min | Documentary
Directors: Hans Günther Pflaum, Peter H. Schröder | Stars: Wolf C. Hartwig, Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta, Manfred Purzer
Votes: 23
17. Das goldene Ding (1972)
113 min | Adventure
The myth of Jason and the Argonauts in a different interpretation performed by children.
Directors: Alf Brustellin, Nicos Perakis, Edgar Reitz, Ula Stöckl | Stars: Christian Reitz, Oliver Jovine, Konstantin Sautier, Hermann Haberer
Votes: 68
18. Filmstunde_23 (2024)
89 min | Documentary
In 1968 Munich, a high school classroom becomes a film studio directed by Edgar Reitz, chronicling the lives of teenage girls.
Directors: Jörg Adolph, Edgar Reitz | Star: Edgar Reitz
Votes: 14
19. Wie Holocaust ins Fernsehen kam (2019 TV Movie)
44 min | Documentary
At the beginning of 1979, after more than 30 years of collective repression, a dramatized and emotional US television miniseries ensured that the German population was suddenly reminded of ... See full summary »
Director: Alice Agneskirchner | Stars: Nadja Berlinghoff, Rosemary Harris, Blanche Baker, Michael Moriarty
Votes: 14
20. Cardillac (1969)
97 min | Crime, Drama
A goldsmith is so obsessed with his own craft that he murders his customers.
Director: Edgar Reitz | Stars: Rolf Becker, Catana Cayetano, Hans Christian Blech, Liane Hielscher
Votes: 53
21. Das Schweigen des Dichters (1986)
102 min | Drama
Director: Peter Lilienthal | Stars: Jakov Lind, Len Ramras, Towje Kleiner, Gudrun Weichenhan
Votes: 17
22. 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
23. Heimat Fragments: The Women (2006)
146 min | Drama
Homeland Fragments: The women.
Director: Edgar Reitz | Stars: Nicola Schössler, Henry Arnold, Salome Kammer, Caspar Arnhold
Votes: 109
24. The Media Show (1987–1991)
60 min | Documentary
Stars: Emma Freud, Muriel Gray, John Hegarty, Judith Williamson
Votes: 30
25. 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: 220
26. Der Schneider von Ulm (1978)
120 min | Drama, History
Albrecht Ludwig Berblinger dreams of flying. By chance he gets to know the airship designer Jakob Degen and sees his flying objects in action.
Director: Edgar Reitz | Stars: Tilo Prückner, Vadim Glowna, Hannelore Elsner, Harald Kuhlmann
Votes: 102
27. Geschichten aus den Hunsrückdörfern (1982)
117 min | Documentary
Director: Edgar Reitz | Star: Edgar Reitz
Votes: 36
28. 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: 140
29. Geschichten vom Kübelkind (1971)
205 min | Drama
"Das Kübelkind" is a figure of art: in every story society forces her to learn something. But she, grown up from the moment of her birth, always learns something more than was demanded of her without being asked.
Directors: Edgar Reitz, Ula Stöckl | Stars: Kristine de Loup, Bruno Bendel, Alf Brustellin, Ilse Brustellin
Votes: 35
30. Stunde Null (1977)
108 min | Drama, Romance, War
Leipzig area in 1945. The American occupying forces withdraw to the Elbe river, leaving the territory to the Russians.
Director: Edgar Reitz | Stars: Kai Taschner, Herbert Weissbach, Günter Schiemann, Anette Jünger
Votes: 118
31. Automotive (2020)
80 min | Documentary
Sedanur spends the night in Ingolstadt sorting car parts and headhunter Eva is looking for specialists in logistics automation. Two very different representatives of a generation in which, sooner or later, everyone will be replaceable.
Director: Jonas Heldt | Stars: Drago Engelbrecht, Alexander Fritsch, Eva Heppel, Sedanur Hatice Koca
Votes: 30
32. Nachtstudio (1997– )
60 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
Talk show in the night studio with Volker Panzer.
Stars: Volker Panzer, Josef H. Reichholf, Norbert Bolz, Herfried Münkler
Votes: 27
33. Feuerlöscher E. A. Winterstein (1968)
10 min | Short
Director: Alexander Kluge | Stars: Bernd Höltz, Alexandra Kluge, Hans Korte, Peter Staimmer
Votes: 47
35. 800 Mal Einsam - ein Tag mit dem Filmemacher Edgar Reitz (2019)
84 min | Documentary, Biography
Eight Hundred Times Lonely is an eighty-four-minute non-commercial art house documentary film about famous 86-year-old German filmmaker Edgar Reitz. Anna Hepp, the young filmmaker of this ... See full summary »
Director: Anna Hepp | Stars: Edgar Reitz, Anna Hepp, Henry Arnold, Marita Breuer
Votes: 59
36. Der Radfahrer von San Cristóbal (1988)
87 min | Sport
Director: Peter Lilienthal | Stars: René Baeza, Luz Jiménez, Roberto Navarrete, Dante Pesce
Votes: 15
38. Wortwechsel (1982– )
30 min | Talk-Show
Talk Talk Show.
Stars: Walter Janson, Gabriele von Arnim, Birgitta Weber, Jacqueline Stuhler
39. Hinter der Leinwand (1961–1970)
Documentary
Stars: Carl-Friedrich Bringer, Volker Schlöndorff, Uschi Glas, Curd Jürgens
Votes: 9
40. Abschied vom Drehbuch (1991 TV Movie)
76 min | Documentary
Director: Petra Seeger | Star: Edgar Reitz
41. Zum Horizont und zurück. Ströher, ein Malerleben (2006 TV Movie)
105 min | Documentary
Late 19th century: Friedrich Karl Ströher, a farm boy from the Hunsrück, decides to become an artist.
Director: Ute Casper | Stars: Caspar Arnhold, Emily Nora Brede, Edgar Reitz
42. Entering Reality (1999)
12 min | Short
Director: Marco Kreuzpaintner | Stars: August Diehl, Anuschka Herbst, Michael Tregor, August Zirner
Votes: 71
44. Kommunikation - Technik der Verständigung (1962)
11 min | Documentary, Short
An industry film commissioned by the West German Post Office, Kommunikation represents the use of the latest communications technology to link up the world. A technophile ballet in the ... See full summary »
Director: Edgar Reitz
Votes: 42
45. Erinnerungen an 'Berlinger': Bernhard Sinkel im Gespräch mit Robert Fischer (2011)
32 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Robert Fischer | Stars: Bernhard Sinkel, Alf Brustellin, Martin Benrath, Peter Ehrlich
48. Der Film verlässt das Kino: Vom Kübelkind-Experiment und anderen Utopien (2018)
90 min | Documentary
For over half a century, the filmmaker Edgar Reitz, one of the signatories of the Oberhausen Manifesto and a pioneer of epic film narration, has explored, as a practitioner and theoretician... See full summary »
Director: Robert Fischer | Stars: Edgar Reitz, Ula Stöckl, Kristine de Loup, Werner Herzog
Votes: 9
50. Hannelore Elsner: Ohne Spiel ist mir das Leben zu ernst (2021 TV Movie)
61 min | Documentary, Biography
The exceptional actress Hannelore Elsner, who died in 2019, is portrayed. Among others, her son Dominik, Iris Berben, Henry Hübchen and Oskar Roehler remember Elsner. The film is supplemented by archive material from her life's work.
Director: Sabine Lidl | Stars: Mario Adorf, Heide Alrun, Adriana Altaras, Anneliese Auer
Votes: 11