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.

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

Werner Schroeter was one of the most significant proponents of New German Cinema. Schroeter was diagnosed with cancer in 2006. In her film, Elfi...

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

One of Werner Schroeter's most important and inventive works, this threadbare evocation of Jean Genet's notorious Querelle depicts the erotic...

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...

Oskar Panizza’s The Council of Love (1895) is a blasphemous play set in 1495, during the first recorded outbreak of syphilis, which Panizza...

Werner Schroeter's stunning split-screen short deals with what the director called "archaic, fundamental themes" of love and mourning.