Rosa von Praunheim Movies

Lady Macbeth, driven by ambition, urges her husband, Macbeth, to murder King Duncan. Macbeth becomes king but descends into madness. A Scottish...

This film powerfully documents New York City's gay community's response to the AIDS crisis as they are forced to organize themselves after the...

A New York film and at the same time the study of a young man suffering from an obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). The Berlin filmmaker Oliver...

Filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim searches for his biological mother after discovering late in life that he was adopted.

Rosa von Praunheim was inspired to make this film by his own radio play “Die Nachtigall” (The Nightingale) from 1986, when he improvised...

A look at gay history over the last 100 years.

To mark the 60th birthday of the multi-talented comedian, singer and author Hape Kerkeling, the two documentary filmmakers André Schäfer...

In collage sequences, the surrogate of synthetic sensuality takes form and seduces the sailors in the guise of a Hawaiian girl. In ritual...

In modern-day Berlin (1987), Frau Kutowski goes insane, believing herself to be the (real-life) notorious Anita Berber, a nude art dancer/drug...

A trip through Lotti's horny life -- everything from her Aryan lover and her stay in a concentration camp while he is killed for their forbidden love...

The press called him the “Pink Giant” or the “Beast from Beelitz”. Before the fall of the Wall, he murdered five women....

A documentary about "Death" magazine, founded by "Screw" Magazine founder and publisher Al Goldstein, and its eventual failure.

Documentary about Berlin's "Salon Kitty," a brothel that was systematically used by the Nazis for espionage. The owner's daughter took over the...

Two actors improvise biographical scenes about Hitler and Jesus. They discover more and more similarities and set out in search of the reasons for...

Carla is a different form of homage, in which Carla Aulaulu sings a song by Gitta Linds.

Portrait on Marianne Rosenberg, underground icon Tabea Blumenschein dancing in the background.

AIDS victims and activists cope with hardship and society’s ignorance.

Austrian actor Peter Kern, who doesn't quite play himself, and the naive Berliner Axel Ranisch are thrown together. What unfolds is a scathing,...