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.”
A middle-aged man's doubts about himself transform themselves into paranoia about his younger wife's behavior in this psychological thriller. The husband plants listening devices around their apartment and eventually drives the heretofore innocent woman into the arms of one of his co-workers.
Greenhouse effect, ozone alarm, climate catastrophe: Scientist Altenburg and his team want to stop this development with a bold solar energy project. The oil and nuclear lobby does not remain idle, the eco-thriller begins...
German director Hans Noever shot this crime drama in the U.S. in English, an unusual achievement at this time. The setting is Jefferson City, Missouri, and Joseph Randolph, a VIP in a fictional electronics company, has just gotten the sack. The company bigwigs insist it is simply because of...
A former bank clerk conceives a one-man robbery at the bank he works. He had before established an alibi for himself pretending and declaring him legally dead. Further complications ensue when he rejoins his estranged wife.
Bernhard works as a warehouse clerk in Munich. After being sentenced to probation for a physical altercation with a right-wing extremist, he could no longer continue his engineering studies. Bernhard meets Johanna. She comes from a well-to-do family; her father is a real-estate developer and her...
Frank, a young taxi driver from Berlin, falls in love with Jessica, a model. But the calls for help from his brother Ritchie bring him back to a tragic reality. For like Frank, he once was a dope fiend. Ritchie, as for him, is still deep in the hell of drugs, torn between getting his doses and...
A young woman is researching her brother's murderer and places an advertisement in the newspaper promising 7,000 marks for any useful information. The two young crooks Rio and Tommy sense their chance and send her on a futile journey across Germany, Belgium and France, "somewhere by the sea". Along...
Mattress dealer Moses Köhler, plagued by customer complaints of insomnia, skips early to a Cologne fair to study sleep habits. Concluding that modern life itself causes sleeplessness, he conceives the “disposable bed,” becoming the unlikely prophet of his own dream-induced nightmare.
Elser, employee and bearer of secrets in a public institute, throws everything away and disappears, so he is suspected of treason. But he is on a trip to Finland, where he falls in love with Rosa and tries to start a new life with her.
A broke-down shipowner robs a money transport with the help of his former employees, then he cheats them out of their share of the loot and, after a failed return to bourgeois life, allows himself to be killed by them; but only after a hunt staged by himself, in which he once again proves his...
