Werner Schroeter Movies

An unusual story of a triangular relationship in Vienna. A woman shares an apartment with a man named Malina. The woman meets Ivan and falls under...

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

A mentally unstable woman and her son move to a sprawling mansion in Portugal to grow roses.

Personal diary-style documentary of German Gay rights activist Von Praunheim's sojourn in the US.

A woman experiences psychic disintegration and ends up in a psychiatric hospital.

Living together in an isolated house, three women go to murderous lengths to keep strangers out of their private retreat.

Werner Schroeter directed this dark and surreal tale of a man determined to save a lost lover from a grim fate at the hands of a violent mob. The...

When director Daniel Schmid grew up, his parents ran a hotel in the Alps, and this singular setting was to influence his film. Rather by coincidence...

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

A series of tableaux illustrating the life and death of a celebrated 19th century German opera singer.

An impoverished young man from Sicily travels to Wolfsburg, West Germany to find work. He takes a job in the Volkswagen factory after he travels...

A love triangle, accompanied by traditional German Christmas songs.

Schroeter’s film is a chronicle of Germany from the Nazi era until the economic boom of the 1950s and 1960s, centering on three women who...

Philippe Garrel’s documentary on France’s second wave of masterful filmmakers. Featuring Jean Eustache, Chantal Akerman, André...

Thirty years of Neapolitan history (from 1942 to 1972) through the ups and downs of the Cavioli and Pagano families.

Paula–’je reviens’ is one of Schroeter’s first experiments in choreography, as he stages actors in an empty room.

Carla is a different form of homage, in which Carla Aulaulu sings a song by Gitta Linds.

Fusing Shakespeare‘s tragedy with the Verdi opera, Schroeter's Macbeth is a fascinating television experiment shot entirely in a studio with...

With the ascetic grandeur of Carl Th. Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc, Schroeter evokes the visions of Saint Joan, partly through unused...