Manfred Zapatka

After nine years in psychiatric detention Theo, who has brutally assaulted and raped three women, is released. Living in a supervised community, he connects well with his social worker Sascha, finds a job at a print shop and even a girlfriend, Nettie, his principal's brittle and estranged daughter. But even though superficially everything seems to work out Theo's seething rage remains ready to erupt. (imdb)

Armin Steeb is adrift: just finished with school, living with his middle-class parents, clueless about finding work. He tries connecting with a girl, he engages in risky sex with strangers in public toilets, he goes to job interviews. He also sends an anonymous letter to a local Munich newspaper, claiming responsibility for a fatal road accident. He fitfully pursues notoriety as he goes through life nearly without affect. What will it take to get Armin to smile? (imdb)

When Bridunsa, a secretary in a Romanian printing company, annouces her plans to marry her German printer boyfriend, the extreme reaction of her excentric boss and ex-lover treaten to ruin both their upcoming marriage and their lives. (Sengir)

The collaboration between Kluge, Schlöndorff, Aust, and Engstfeld resulted in a study of the nuclear arms race during the West German debate about accepting the deployment of U.S. Pershing missiles.

Weird buddy movie about Ruhrpott losers in love. (imdb User Comments)

Editor Eckernförde has come into the possession of an audio cassette that contains a recording of the last minutes of deceased politician Uwe Barschel. The circumstances of his untimely death have never been completely resolved - until now. Unfortunately, the editor's daughter Nina accidentally takes the tape with her to Munich, where she is about to visit her paralyzed Mom in a sanatorium. When this information reaches the CIA and the BND, both organizations compete to get hold of the tape. (imdb)

Utopia is a 186 minute film regarded by critics as a "hard ghetto film" and is the tale of a pimp and his five girls. Many of his films produced while in Germany had German titles.

A young Berlin couple in crisis: he is struggling with an unfinished writing project, she escapes the emptiness of her couple. A quarrel erupts. Tragedy of a dysfunctional and modern everyday life, in a timeless pattern. (cinereel.org)

A psychodrama about how injustice is turned into oblivion about an opportunity worker and a woman from the civil house of a marriage for 30 years . Soon the relationship fails due to the aggressive, also destructive tendencies of the man who enters a deep personal crisis. When the marriage coined/shaped of force and Psychoterror goes finally into the breaks, the man looks for comfort in the alcohol and becomes criminal.

A young lawyer stumbles upon a vast conspiracy while investigating a brutal murder case. (imdb)