Margit Carstensen Movies

A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he...

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,...

Petra von Kant is a successful fashion designer -- arrogant, caustic, and self-satisfied. She mistreats Marlene (her secretary, maid, and...

Focuses on three very different siblings, all searching for happiness. Hans-Jörg is a sex addicted librarian, who is interested in young...

A group of kids grow up on the short, wrong (east) side of the Sonnenallee in Berlin, right next to one of the few border crossings between East and...

A wildly anarchic satire of guerrilla terrorism in which a band of leftist radicals inadvertently become puppets of the West German government, which...

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.

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

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...

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

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...

The film tells different stories in a kind of parallel Germany about love, affection and hatred.

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

Oskar Panizza’s The Council of Love (1895) is a blasphemous play set in 1495, during the first recorded outbreak of syphilis, which Panizza...

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

To find a bone marrow donor for himself, fashion designer Jesko visits his upper-class family in southwest Germany where he has to confront mental...

The main characters in this film are wives of rich men who have nothing to do because they have staff – like the cook, the maid, the...

A film portrait of the influential Bavarian actor, director and screenwriter who publicly confessed his homosexuality.

A documentary about the life of Karlheinz Böhm from his film career to his charity activities in Ethiopia.