Belle Du Seigneur (2012)
English-language adaptation of Albert Cohen’s epic Swiss tale of a tortured love affair between a high-ranking Jewish official and the protestant wife of one of his employees.
Archives: Movies
Ein Schritt zu viel (2020)
Nicole Lehnert came to work at an escort service through her friend Inès. It finances her law degree. Over dinner she met the much older Friedrich Benning – rather by chance. Friedrich’s colleague Lars Albers had booked the meal through the escort agency. Nicole likes the charming, successful banker who falls in love with her.. He rents her an apartment and buys her fancy clothes. Friedrich doesn’t understand that it will soon be too much for Nicole. She can no longer concentrate on her law studies, does not pass her exams. When Nicole got to know the up-and-coming start-up entrepreneur Josch, who was the same age, her relationship with Friedrich cracked. The drama of mutual dependencies takes a tragic turn.
In der Falle (2015)
Simone Carstensen-Kleebach actually has everything one could wish for in life: a husband who supports her and with whom she has been married for almost 20 years, a daughter and great career success. But the pressure to be perfect in all these roles lends Simone more and more. When she meets Leon on vacation, it sparks. And although Simone never thought it possible to “do something like that,” she gets involved in an affair with […]
The Joy of Flying (1977)
Young and attractive woman Sylvia (Corinne Cartier) runs a successful fashion boutique and neglected by her husband Kurt. He is more interested in TV and six-packs than the charms of the opposite sex which makes her frustrated. During the trip to a psychoanalysts congress, she dreams similar to Jong’s heroine Isadora while reading the emancipatory novel titled Joy of Flying Into Own World. First she has sex with her female friend’s lover and then an […]
The Reports on Sarah and Saleem (2018)
A wife’s routine is to meet her lover at a parking lot, drive with him somewhere, screw him inside his car, and then go back to the parking lot, take her car and drive home to her loving husband and daughter.
Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud (1995)
Nelly leaves her lazy, unemployed husband to work for retired judge Mr Arnaud, forty years her senior, after he offers to clear her bills for her. While she types his memoirs the two develop a close friendship, but Arnaud becomes jealous when Nelly begins dating his good-looking young publisher.
Frontalwatte (2016)
“Frontalwatte” is like running against a hard wall and falling down softly. Franz, Adrian and Anastasia stumble through a pointless world. They k..l time by viewing apartments, jaw operations, incest and poetry slams. Their search for identity becomes a search for the best fitting role.
Games of Desire (1964)
Ingrid Thulin plays the wife of the Swedish Ambassador of Greece. She becomes involved in a romantic triangle, to which you may ask “so what?” In this instance, however, the man who comes between husband and wife has a preference for the husband. Given this, Ingrid feels perfectly within her rights to go off on her own illicit affairs.
The Handmaid’s Tale (1990)
In a dystopian, polluted right-wing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on account of her now rare fertility.
Hysteria (2011)
Two doctors in Victorian England use manual stimulation of female genitalia to cure their patients’ ills, leading to the invention of the vibrator.