Wdr Movies

Shot over the course of a year, this intimate portrait of provocative composer John Adams presents scenes of the artist at work and at play against th...

In late eighties, in Ceausescu's Romania, a black market VHS bootlegger and a courageous female translator brought the magic of Western films to the R...

After a chance encounter with a wanted man, a woman is harassed by the police and press until she takes violent action.

In the fictional Black Forest village of Sankt Christoph, everyone in town shuns Bärbele. According to the gossips, her father is said to have set fir...

Celebrating Udo Lindenberg’s 80th birthday, exploring his extraordinary career as one of Germany’s most influential rock musicians. The film traces hi...

An odyssey through Beethoven’s lasting presence and influence in our modern world – viewed through the eyes of the composer himself.

Highly topical, serious and humorous, this film observes people who are passionately devoted to bird watching. Through their eyes and ears, we discove...

Explores Leni Riefenstahl's artistic legacy and her complex ties to the Nazi regime, juxtaposing her self-portrayal with evidence suggesting awareness...

A slow, dialogue-free film about a woman's journey in Siberia.

“I am a hypochondriac”, admits Rosa Von Praunheim, the icon of the gay movement, right at the beginning at the film. The director, who turned seventy...

A 9th century woman of English extraction born in the German city of Ingelheim disguises herself as a man and rises through the Vatican ranks.

A portrait of the genius that shook the world with her discovery of “the banality of evil.” After she attends the Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s trial in Jerus...

Six days in the life of Wilhelm: a detached man without qualities. He wants to write, so his mother gives him a ticket to Bonn, telling him to live. O...

What can be more dreadful for a daughter than getting a postcard from Thailand with the words: "My girl, everything is fine here - I eat paddy-thai an...

A young woman has the idea of setting up her boyfriend with a very wealthy but sickly lady to claim her inheritance.