Margit Carstensen Movies

Possession

74/100

A woman starts exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior after asking her husband for a divorce. Suspicions of infidelity soon give way to something much more sinister.

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

78/100

An arrogant fashion designer falls in love with an icy beauty who wants to be a model.

Chinese Roulette

75/100

Both the parents of a young teen who walks with crutches, goes on each their secret meeting with lovers, both surprising each other at the family's county home. The daughter arrives and initiates a guessing game of "Chinese roulette".

Martha

77/100

After the death of her abusive father, the lonely librarian Martha marries an equally vile businessman - Helmut. The cruel and torturous nature of their relationship lead Martha to believe Helmut might be trying to kill her.

The Third Generation

71/100

A mogul merrily funds terrorists to boost his computer sales, by panicking West German government and industry c. 1980, as the third generation of Western European left-wing activists forms... See full summary »

Finsterworld

69/100

A number of individuals in Germany whose lives are connected in some ways, and all of them have dark sides which may shock us to the core.

Satan's Brew

72/100

Walter, a German anarchist poet, is short of money after his publisher refuses to give him an advance. He tries various ways of raising money, including shooting one of his mistresses and ... See full summary »

Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven

77/100

Frau Kusters is preparing dinner late one seemingly ordinary afternoon in her seemingly ordinary kitchen in Frankfurt...

Fear of Fear

77/100

Margot, who lives in a comfortable middle class apartment, fears that she is losing her mind after having had her second child...

Tenderness of the Wolves

65/100

Story of a gay serial killer who murders young boys so he can serve them as dinner to his circle of fellow cannibals.

The Niklashausen Journey

62/100

Can a small group of people start a proletarian revolution, asks the "Black Monk" in a leather jacket...

It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine.

70/100

An autobiographical, psycho-sexual, fantastical retelling of Steven C. Stewart's point-of-view of life.

Die 120 Tage von Bottrop

61/100

An eccentric homage to the Rainer Werner Fassbinder days of German filmmaking.

Terror 2000 - Intensivstation Deutschland

64/100

Germany, right after the re-unification. The people are out of control, blind hatred towards immigrants is common sense. In this time, a social-worker, with the mission to bring a Polish ... See full summary »

Shattered Glass

70/100

Bremen Freedom

76/100

A very stylized TV version of the Fassbinder play. The set consists of a few pieces of furniture in...

Nora Helmer

71/100

A beautiful young housewife, Nora, is trying to convince her tight-laced, bourgeois husband, Torvald, to give her some extra money for the holidays, even if he has to borrow it. Fassbinder's interpretation of "A dolls house".

Manila

56/100

Due to a delayed flight a group of German flight passengers have to wait in the hall of the airport of Manila...

Women in New York

74/100

New York in the 1930's. A group of wealthy women meet in beauty and fashion salons, at parties and other social occasions. Their lives circle around their wealthy husbands or lovers.

Adolf and Marlene

62/100

When Hitler watches Marlene Dietrich in a movie, he falls in love with her. He persuades her to come back to Germany to be with him...

Eine Kirche der Angst vor dem Fremden in mir

73/100

Der Hauptmann von Köpenick

60/100