Michael Ballhaus Movies

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

Film extras take possession of a bogus film production company and acting as ideal world of film to persuade one associates mother-in-law of marriage.

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...

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

This absolutely top-notch documentary by Robert Fischer is a fascinating look back at not just the film in question, but Fassbinder's meteoric career...

An essay film in which filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim interviews "the willing victims of Rainer Werner Fassbinder."

Anywhere in the world, 20 years from now. Underground. Watch out for the signs...

Brother and sister meet again after 15 years and fall in love with each other.

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

Documentary film.

Two life stories. That of Malou, a French woman, married to a German Jew, a refugee stranded in South America: a picture of the pre-war generation...

The true story of Adele Spitzeder, who started her own private bank in 1870s Bavaria by promising everyone that gave her money high interest rates....

The burial of an old woman leads to several complications among family and friends.

The 50-year-old haulier Kluth is left by his wife and falls in love with 15-year-old Anita, the daughter of the owners of his favorite pub. Anita's...

Follows a woman, Lotte, who travels through Germany and seeks human connections, but is unsuccessful as every person she encounters is locked into...

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...