Ingrid Caven Movies

A man is released from prison and finds the society on the outside less than appealing. With several women as well as the police on his tail, he sets...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Harry Baer

Beautiful, detached, laconic, consumptive Lily Brest is a streetwalker with few clients. She loves her idle boyfriend Raoul who gambles away what...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ingrid Caven

A woman experiences psychic disintegration and ends up in a psychiatric hospital.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Carole Bouquet

Elvira Weishaupt, once a burly working-class butcher, has made an enormous sacrifice for love. She has undergone a sex change for a romantic interest...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Volker Spengler

After a worker kills a superior and commits suicide, each of his family members attempts to forge a path forward in life.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Brigitte Mira

Sensing their relationship is crumbling, Christian avoids celebrating Christmas with his girlfriend Julia and heads for Paris.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maria Schrader

Daniel lives with his grandmother and, after a year of high school, goes to live with his mother in the south of France; a harsher environment which...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Martin Loeb

After having her second child, a German housewife suffers from post-partum depression before inexplicably falling into a continually misdiagnosed...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Margit Carstensen

Elderly woman Berthe leaves her house to live with her daughter Emilie. Emilie and her brother Antoine had a falling out three years ago and have not...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Daniel Auteuil

The setting is Les Fauvettes School for Girls just after WWI, where sternly Teutonic headmistress Ingrid Caven vies with Catherine Jourdan, a...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Catherine Jourdan

A documentary about the life and work of director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Harry Baer

A German serial killer preys on boys and young men during the so-called years of crisis between the wars. Based on the true story of Fritz Haarmann,...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Kurt Raab

Avant-garde adaptation of a Carlo Goldoni play. Well-to-do Venetians congregate in a coffee house and discuss their problems.

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Margit Carstensen

Reflected in an artificial and bombastically staged illusory world with Wagnerian compositions, glossy and satirical time references, 19th century...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Harry Baer

Documentary on the history of gay and lesbian film.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Waters

In Genève, bookseller and publisher Axel Thorpe catches willful, rich 16-year-old Sibylle Ashby shoplifting. She brags about her writing, so...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Sami Frey

The formerly great Swiss hotel which Valentin’s family owned when he was a boy has been emptied and is about to be torn down. He revisits the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sami Frey

Satire on 19th-century class relations and thinly veiled commentary on the failure of the 1968 political revolution.

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Ingrid Caven

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Juraj Kukura

Hans is a street fruit peddler and born-loser. His choice of career upsets his bourgeois family, causing him to turn to drinking and violence. After...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hans Hirschmüller

Small-time pimp Franz is torn between his mistress and Bruno, the gangster sent after him by a shady crime syndicate he's refused to join.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ulli Lommel

Can a small group of people start a proletarian revolution, asks the "Black Monk" in a leather jacket. The medieval shepherd, Hans Boehm, claims to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michael König

Michel and Guenther, working in dead-end jobs, are obsessed with going to Peru to find buried treasure, using a map of the Rio das Mortes. Michel's...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hanna Schygulla

A famous poet who hasn't written a word in two years unconsciously plagiarizes the work of Stefan George, while dealing with several mistresses, his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kurt Raab

The life of a married Munich technical draftsman with a son.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kurt Raab

An African-American GI retires from the US Army in West Berlin to live with his (white) girlfriend, who already has a baby with another black man....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Conrad Jennings

Ricky returns to Munich from Vietnam and is promptly hired as a contract killer.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Karl Scheydt

Made during the last months of actor Kurt Raab, who died of AIDS in 1988. Raab, who had worked in both theatre and film, most notably with...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Kurt Raab

Nightclub singer La Paloma succumbs to the persistent courting of a chubby rich admirer and marries him. Before the marriage, she was thought to be...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ingrid Caven

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ingrid Caven

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.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kurt Raab

A biochemistry professor finds an old manuscript with structure and formula of immortality drug.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eddie Constantine

Rita, the prostitute, meets the Lebanese worker Hossein. He need working papers. She needs love.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dagmar Beiersdorf

A banker hires a seedy detective to find his daughter and keep her safe from kidnappers.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Jean-Louis Trintignant

Ingrid Caven offers a rich repertoire of songs in French, German and occasionally English; at times, she dispenses with words and simply plays with...

Genre: Music

Cast: Ingrid Caven

A film critic falls in love.

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Cast: Lutz Bajohr

A young man raises the dead in a high valley where the power is held by Violanta.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lucía Bosè

At the start of the 20th century, a man lives in solitude on an island. One day on the mainland, he saves a young woman from some nasty folk and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sam Waterston

In the kingdom of Letonia, the young prince Égon spends his nights playing the drums. During the day, he only has one thing on his mind:...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Niels Schneider

A widower and her daughter witness the retirement of a colleague of his and the closing of her department at her university.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alex Descas

Young American dancer Susie Bannion arrives in 1970s Berlin to audition for the world-renowned Helena Markos Dance Company. When she vaults to the...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Dakota Johnson

A series of tableaux illustrating the life and death of a celebrated 19th century German opera singer.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Magdalena Montezuma

Werner Schroeter's rhapsody of excess leaps from 1949 Cuba to contemporary France to points in between, while its feverishly shifting visual style...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Magdalena Montezuma

A small carnival is in dire financial straits. Their show is attracting fewer and fewer paying customers, as their "attractions" are ageing, out of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shelley Winters

North of Italy, the von Kettens dispute the forces of the Episcopate of Trent. Herr Ketten seeks marriage in a distant country, Portugal. After their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Clara Riedenstein

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....

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Ruth Drexel

A bride's biggest fears regarding her wedding materialize in a bizarre nightmare.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marie-Christine Friedrich

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Renato Berta

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ingrid Caven

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ingrid Caven

Werner Schroeter was one of the most significant proponents of New German Cinema. Schroeter was diagnosed with cancer in 2006. In her film, Elfi...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Werner Schroeter

The story of the young man Peter, who grew up during the economic miracle, bereft of parental care and love. Learning early on that interpersonal...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vitus Zeplichal

When director Daniel Schmid grew up, his parents ran a hotel in the Alps, and this singular setting was to influence his film. Rather by coincidence...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Daniel Schmid

Ronnie lives in a small sleepy village and is the owner of a small company for deep-frozen goods. Daydreams, contact ads, the firemen's brassband,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Peter Lohmeyer

Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufacturer, married to the capricious Lydia, loses his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dirk Bogarde

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Rudolf Lenz

In early 1920s France, an author, lying on his deathbed, looks at various photographs and is flooded with memories of the people and events that have...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Catherine Deneuve

Fox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and things that he has always wanted. While he wants to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Peter Chatel

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

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Margit Carstensen

With the ascetic grandeur of Carl Th. Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc, Schroeter evokes the visions of Saint Joan, partly through unused...

Genre:

Cast: Magdalena Montezuma

About the making of "Der amerikanische Soldat/The American Soldier" in 1970.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Marius Aicher