Margarethe von Trotta Movies

Tensions between members of a film crew build while they wait for the arrival of the director and star to arrive on location.

A divorced woman in her thirties fights a losing battle in Munich to attain belated self-fulfillment. The die is cast in a briskly impersonal society...

Three people rob a bank to help a day care center that's in debt. Wolf is captured, Werner identified, police suspect Christa is the third. She and...

Within four episodes ("Er am Ende", "Muss ich aufpassen", "Eva" and "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" ) are being told adventures of love sick Felix. On...

Documentary about women in the film industry. Numerous notable actresses and female directors share their thoughts.

After a chance encounter with a wanted man, a woman is harassed by the police and press until she takes violent action.

Munich Heinz and Herbert wants to escape the torturous confines of their home by swimming across the Atlantic.

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....

When Ruth's husband dies in New York, in 2000, she imposes strict Jewish mourning, which puzzles her children. A stranger comes to the house - Ruth's...

Drama about the life of a travelling salesman.

An anxious teacher (played, as is the lead role in all his films, by the director) sits in a beer garden on the hill of the Andechs monastery. While...

The film addresses the failure of the individual in anonymous urban society. The film begins as men attempt to break out of their anonymity and...

Using rare footage and exclusive interviews with filmmakers from all over the globe, "Reel Herstory" corrects the historic notion that women behind...

Two women–a literature professor and a painter–start to rely upon their friendship as an alternative to their unhappy relationships with...

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

A meaningful account of the personal and professional life of the great Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) that explores his film legacy,...

By chance Paul Kromberger discovers on the internet a photograph of the US opera diva Caterina Fabiani who is the spitting image of Evelyn, his dead...

A countess loves her brother's Prussian-officer friend in the 1919 Baltic area.

Claude Chabrol film for TV based on the short story An Invitation to the Hunt by Georges Hitchcock. Receiving an unexpected invitation to participate...