Doris Dörrie Movies

On the brink of her 30th birthday, Fanny feels the door to marital happiness closing on her. She is obsessed with death and even visits evening...

Two middle aged German brothers - one New Age and recently divorced, the other uptight and sceptical - travel to a Zen monastery in Japan in search...

Documentary filmmaker Troller criss-crosses post-reunified “Transgermania” for a year, probing German identity through festivals...

After a series of catastrophically failed marriages, Apple is single again. Blame on Apple's attachment is in her opinion, her mother Ingrid. Because...

This is not merely another film about cinema history; it is a film about the love of cinema, a journey of discovery through over a century of German...

Robert, a masseur who is hard of hearing, is unaware that he has inherited millions. Four people want to take it from him: stockbroker Kuhl, his...

Viktor and Angelika are a straight couple. He is a professor of veterinary science and she has studied art history. Both are more interested in their...

After his return from World War I, there is no more work for Fidelis in his parents' butcher shop in Swabia, Germany. To make a better life for...

Documentary about Los Angeles.

Football seen through the eyes of some of the best directors of the world.

Documentary about the Maximilianstraße in Munich.

Pepe is 15. His life in social misery changes completely when he is chosen as the main character of a film production. Shot on location where he...

Documentary by Eckhart Schmidt.

Released in Germany in 1983 as Mitten Ins Herz, Straight Through the Heart was director Doris Dorrie's first feature. Beatte Jensen portrays an odd,...

The film consists largely of a series of interviews with female filmmakers from several different countries and filmmaking eras. Some, such as...

What happens when famous directors stage an opera? Eckhart Schmidt shows successful and failed attempts.

Why does Doris Dörrie have a bag on her head in the interview? Consistent in the sense that in her works she always poses the question of how we...

On December 12, 1945 Maria Stadler got (as one of the first from the American occupying power) the license to operate a movie theater. At first she...