Michael Ballhaus Filmes

Petra von Kant is a successful fashion designer -- arrogant, caustic, and self-satisfied. She mistreats Marlene (her secretary, maid, and...

Herbert Stempel's transformation into an unexpected television personality unfolds as he secures victory on the cherished American game show,...

Cameramen and women discuss the craft and art of cinematography and of the "DP" (the director of photography), illustrating their points with clips...

The Mambo Kings tells the story of César and Nestor Castillo, brothers and aspiring musicians who flee from Cuba to America in search of the...

After the death of her abusive father, lonely librarian Martha finds herself caught up in a strange, sadomasochistic relationship with a monstrous...

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...

Lola Montes, previously a great adventuress, is reduced to being the attraction of a circus after having been the lover of various important men.

The lives of two struggling musicians, who happen to be brothers, inevitably change when they team up with a beautiful, up-and-coming singer.

An aging Southern Belle makes life horrible for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her dreams of what life should be.

The 12 years old well-bred Lonnie meets the impudent Karen on the street. They spend some time together and Karen teaches Lonnie some of her favorite...

Though he never actually worked in Hollywood, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who died in 1982 at the age of 36, was influenced greatly by American studio...

Two friends from Miami are in the French Riviera enjoying life by scamming money off of rich women. One day, they read about a young woman set to...

"Whity" is the mulatto butler of the dysfunctional Nicholson family in the American Southwest in 1878. The father, Ben Nicholson, has an attractive...

110 of the world's top cinematographers discuss the art of how and why films look the way they do.

In a 1966 New Jersey high school, Jill and new student Sheik from the other side of the tracks make their way in a first love romance.

Love or money? When it comes to this question, Heinrich Krull clearly seems to choose money...

Blue, a yet-to-be discovered painter, is left by his longtime girlfriend because she considers him too immature for a lasting relationship. Eli,...

Two former lovers start a new relationship.

A group of people from the wealthy middle class in engage in quasi intellectual quarrels and discussions trying to find some meaning in their...