Girls & The Party

Successful architect Robert has a one-night stand with a mysterious lady in red. The next day they meet again, but Carolin is now a corporate lawyer working on a major contract for Robert ...

Runtime

1h 44m

Director

Margarethe von Trotta

Cast

Katja Riemann, August Diehl, Armin Mueller-Stahl

After her release from prison Alex, who has lost her faith in love, tries to reclaim her psychic balance through a retreat into loneliness. A man and a child interrupt her plan and force her to reengage. Alex dares to emerge from her shell and learns again how thin the ice is and how fragile happiness is, small though it may be.

Runtime

1h 42m

Director

Sylke Enders

Cast

Axel Prahl, Juliane Köhler, Leonard Carow

A portrait of Rita, who claims that her mother was never a mother for her. Rita gives birth to her own five children and forces her mother to take the role of a mother.

Runtime

2h 5m

Director

Maria Speth

Cast

Sandra Hüller, Luisa Sappelt, Coleman Swinton

The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by the Church and bourgeois society in general.

Runtime

1h 3m

Director

Luis Buñuel

Cast

Gaston Modot, Lya Lys, Max Ernst

Four friends take a road trip to kick back, hit the pubs, and go surfing. Tension builds among the group between Sandy, a quiet young man who is angered by the obnoxious, womanizing Boo who seduces a teenaged girl while on their trip in one of his usual one night stands. Meanwhile, the girl's psychotic dad is also looking for Boo out o...

Runtime

1h 30m

Director

Christopher Fraser

Cast

Phillip Avalon, John Jarratt, Mel Gibson