Laurens Straub

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Boléro
4.5

Boléro

Nov 01, 1985
Une jeune femme fait le tour du monde afin de trouver l'amant idéal.
Comedy
Friedliche Tage
1

Friedliche Tage

May 25, 1984
In Friedliche Tage, we enter a totalitarian and inhuman society, in which daily life is a series of nightmares and the protagonists search for a utopia of freedom and love.
Drama
Les enfants de la colère
6.4
L'histoire d'une amitié entre deux jeunes insoumis qui ne trouvent pas leur place en Allemagne de l'Est. Leurs projets se dessinent de l'autre côté du mur où ils rêvent d'une vie meilleure. Mais le destin en a décidé autrement et les deux garçons paient très cher leur désir ardent de liberté. Ils se retrouveront alors face à des situations extrêmes où leur amitié sera mise à rude épreuve.
Drama
Der Havarist
5.7

Der Havarist

Aug 17, 1984
Three actors portray scenes from the life of Sterling Hayden, with a particular focus on his appearance before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Inspired by Hayden’s memoir “Wanderer.”
Drama
Wim Wenders, Desperado
7.7
"Wings Of Desire" et "Buena Vista Social Club", "Paris, Texas" et "The State Of Things" : Wim Wenders est considéré comme l'un des pionniers du nouveau cinéma allemand et l'un des représentants les plus importants et les plus influents du cinéma contemporain. . Avec des documents d'archives inédits et des rencontres extraordinaires avec des compagnons et des témoins contemporains tels que Francis Ford Coppola, Willem Dafoe, Andie MacDowell, Hanns Zischler, Patti Smith et Werner Herzog, ce documentaire offre un aperçu unique de la vie et de l'œuvre de l'un des plus grands artistes aux multiples facettes de notre époque. Le célèbre documentariste Eric Friedler ("It Must Schwing. The Blue Note Story") et son co-réalisateur Andreas Frege ont eu l'opportunité exclusive d'incarner Wenders pour ce film
Documentary
Max und Moritz Reloaded
2.4
Max and Moritz are two young brothers living an adventurous life of petty crime in Hamburg, Germany. After the two boys steal a car and get into an accident, with the adolescent daughter of a Hamburg Senator sitting in the passenger seat, the two scoundrels are packed up and sent to a boot camp. This military-style camp is run by Axel and Henry, two former East German soldiers who still strongly believe in Communism but are secretly gay lovers. Max and Moritz steal another car...a red Ferrari owned by small-town pimp Murder-Hanne. The nationalistic sadist teaches the boys a painful lesson, but Max and Moritz wouldn’t be Max and Moritz if they let this weekend-fascist get them down... and when they acquire the key to their military school’s ordinance depot, things start to change.
Comedy
Rita Ritter
1

Rita Ritter

Feb 25, 1984
A writer tries unsuccessfully to sell his screenplays and plays. He marries a television editor, but she only wants to fuck him and thinks nothing of his work. He then remembers his old Parisian lover Rita, calls himself Rita from then on and becomes her wife. When a French director stages a play of his, he meets Rita again in Paris and the two women become a happy couple.
Drama
Macumba
1

Macumba

Jan 01, 1982
Max Taurus, a sort of amateur detective, pursues the traces of general omni-present crime back to a partially demolished house. There, the remaining tenants try to gain pleasure and power from progressive abandonment in order to tear down their own conventionalities.
Ein Mann wie EVA
4.8

Ein Mann wie EVA

Feb 17, 1984
A bearded director named EVA, a fictive Rainer Werner Fassbinder, lives in a large house with his cast and crew as he films Dumas' Lady of the Camellias. His accountant informs him he has many unpaid bills and little cash on hand. EVA throws a fit and fires him. He then proceeds to play one person off against another, dismiss with cruelty his recent lover Ali, sleep openly with his leading lady Gudrun, and make a direct and public play for his leading man, Walter. He's mercurial, dictatorial, and manic. Will he finish the film, having drawn great performances from his actors through his manipulations, or will his antics set events in motion that spin out of his control?
Drama
Taxi zum Klo
6.4

Taxi zum Klo

Jan 01, 1981
Frank, a gay school teacher, has a very active sex life and an interest in making films. One evening, he meets Bernd and they become lovers. But while Bernd is attentive and caring, Frank gets bored and continues his polymorphously perverse ways.
Romance
Ein Mann wie EVA
4.8

Ein Mann wie EVA

Feb 17, 1984
A bearded director named EVA, a fictive Rainer Werner Fassbinder, lives in a large house with his cast and crew as he films Dumas' Lady of the Camellias. His accountant informs him he has many unpaid bills and little cash on hand. EVA throws a fit and fires him. He then proceeds to play one person off against another, dismiss with cruelty his recent lover Ali, sleep openly with his leading lady Gudrun, and make a direct and public play for his leading man, Walter. He's mercurial, dictatorial, and manic. Will he finish the film, having drawn great performances from his actors through his manipulations, or will his antics set events in motion that spin out of his control?
Drama