Most Popular Kurt Raab Trailers
Total trailers found: 89
24 July 1970
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 out to find an old friend.
11 June 1992
A documentary about the life and work of director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
25 May 1977
Leni Gruyetin, a resident of Nazi Germany, lives a tumultuous life as she bears witness to the fascist regime of the Nazis.
31 July 1977
The lackluster and plodding Bolweiser has the (mis)fortune to be married to the town’s siren; his trusting nature leads him into serious trouble when she beds nearly every available guy.
28 May 1974
After the death of her abusive father, lonely librarian Martha finds herself caught up in a strange, sadomasochistic relationship with a monstrous husband whom she begins to suspect may be trying to murder her.
05 October 1972
Petra von Kant is a successful fashion designer -- arrogant, caustic, and self-satisfied. She mistreats Marlene (her secretary, maid, and co-designer).
20 February 1985
In the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separated in the woods, and Leon, a local peasant who's now a farmer of some wealth, discovers the woman, Rosa, and hides her in his cellar.
23 March 1976
Peter grew up during the economic miracle, bereft of parental care and love. Learning early on that interpersonal relationships are based on the principles of exchange or purchase, he abides by these rules and gives generous presents to his family and his wife Erika.
12 April 1987
The true story of WWII's notorious Sobibor Nazi death camp, where a courageous inmate orchestrates and leads the escape of over 300 prisoners.
07 October 1976
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 dim-witted brother, and a murder investigation.
26 October 1970
Can a small group of people start a proletarian revolution, asks the "Black Monk" in a leather jacket.
02 June 1971
"Whity" is the mulatto butler of the dysfunctional Nicholson family in the American southwest in 1878.
25 February 1982
Hans Castorp, fresh from university and about to become a civil engineer, comes to the Sanatorium Berghof in the Swiss Alps to visit his cousin Joachim, an army officer, who is recovering there from tuberculosis.
08 February 1984
Swaying between pleasure and despair, Elric throws himself into his pathological passion for the casino.
07 November 2011
Travelling between Germany, France and Tunisia, Viola Shafik reconstructs and deconstructs the unknown life story of El Hedi Ben Salem through interviews with his companions and family members as well as archive material.
15 January 1982
The young knight Tristan is injured in a fight in Ireland and cared for by the beautiful Isolde. He falls in love with her, unaware that she is the daughter of the Irish king.
05 March 1974
Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown children offer little companionship.
03 May 1985
An Aussie businessman is trying to find out why and by whom he was kidnapped and then later released with no explanation.
12 March 1982
Oskar Panizza’s The Council of Love (1895) is a blasphemous play set in 1495, during the first recorded outbreak of syphilis, which Panizza satirically presents as the punishment from Satan for sexually active humans.
23 February 1977
A husband and wife lie to each other about their weekend travel plans, only to both show up at the family's country house with their lovers.
08 July 1975
After having her second child, a German housewife suffers from post-partum depression before inexplicably falling into a continually misdiagnosed mental state, befuddling her relatives.
19 May 1971
Berta, a naive young maid, searches for love when the army engineers come to town to build a bridge.
30 October 1980
Nik, a released prisoner who started writing in prison, wants to leave his past behind him, but refuses to contact his former girlfriend and her family.
27 November 1981
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.
07 July 1975
After a worker kills a superior and commits suicide, each of his family members attempts to forge a path forward in life.
04 May 1984
It's Friday evening. The lift repairman leaves the building and wants to finish his work on Monday. But he doesn't know there are four men in the building.
01 November 1985
Pete is no stranger to success, delivering hit series as a musician in a rock group. When he parts ways with his band and produces his first solo LP, he learns for the first time what a flop means.
23 April 1981
The subject of this historical drama is a splintering Berlin in the years of 1948 and 1949. Played against the backdrop of social upheaval, the characters in the drama come to epitomize the best and worst of each pole of the political sphere.
15 February 1971
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.
12 July 1973
A German serial killer preys on boys and young men during the so-called years of crisis between the wars.
01 October 1981
Bored with her stuffy village life, teenager Susanne decides to run away to the bright lights Frankfurt, while her boyfriend does his military.
05 June 1970
"End of the Commune"/"Ende einer kommune" is a great 49 min. long movie made in 1969 about Fassbinder and the early years of the legendary Antiteater he was a member/leader of.
01 February 1982
The divorced and emancipated Margarete Johnson falls in love with her young and extremely medical bandaged nephew.
18 April 1980
A biologist has succeeded in growing a particularly energy-rich lettuce and now the whole world wants to get hold of the product.
21 March 1989
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 Fassbinder, was in the process of making a series of video sketches for a new production when he learned that he had AIDS.
05 May 1975
A pseudo variety show about the Aufbau-Era, the time of the German 'economic miracle'. Brigitte Mira recounts her four husbands through song and joke, on an series of artificial sets.
06 June 1975
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.
14 April 1978
This film tells the story about a group of girls at an exclusive German girls boarding school. Across the lake is an exclusive boys boarding school.
30 October 1982
Jesus returns to present-day Bavaria, walks around Munich in a somewhat dazed manner and strikes up an affair with a nun, arguing that they are married anyway.
18 May 1970
Avant-garde adaptation of a Carlo Goldoni play. Well-to-do Venetians congregate in a coffee house and discuss their problems.
15 March 1977
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, but upon her arrival she constantly insults and provokes him until he eventually, on her command, bites the carpet to bits.
27 May 1971
Inspired by the real life events of Mathias Kneißl, a marginal man, son of poor farmers from Bavaria, in the late XIX Century.
12 November 1972
A very stylized TV version of the Fassbinder play. The set consists of a few pieces of furniture in front of a large screen on which coastal scenery is back projected.
10 March 1972
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.
31 October 1984
Teenage girl idolises television game show host, and gets a chance to be his assistant
27 February 1976
Munich Heinz and Herbert wants to escape the torturous confines of their home by swimming across the Atlantic.