Antares
2004A deadly car crash sets off three parallel stories of women at crisis points, faltering behind the doors of the same, plain Vienna apartment block.
Archives: Movies
Swinging Wives
1971Sex comedy about lonely housewives and their activities while the husband is away. It’s a series of vignettes connected by documentary-style interviews with people on the street. The eroticism relies completely on nudity, not altogether different from British sex comedies of the era.
Beyond Borders
2003Beyond Borders is an epic tale of the turbulent romance between two star-crossed lovers set against the backdrop of the world’s most dangerous hot spots. Academy Award winner Angelina Jolie stars as Sarah Jordan, an American living in London in 1984. She is married to Henry Bauford son of a wealthy British industrialist, when she encounters Nick Callahan a renegade doctor, whose impassioned plea for help to support his relief efforts in war-torn Africa moves […]
The Oldest Profession (aka Le plus vieux métier du monde)
1967A collection of sketches on prostitution through the ages. 1) “The Prehistoric Era”: A caveman discovers that a cavewoman is more attractive when cave paint is applied to her face. And she can earn more seashells that way. 2) “Roman Nights”: The Emperor goes out seeking a little nocturnal amusement, only to find that the high-priced, Oriental courtesan he hires is his wife, the Empress. 3) “Mademoiselle Mimi”: In revolutionary France, Mimi finds that her […]
The Edukators
2004Three activists cobble together a kidnapping plot after they encounter a businessman in his home.
Eine Liebe in St. Petersburg (2009) aka A Love in St. Petersburg
2009An already engaged Berlin anesthetist falls in love with a Russian pediatrician.
Zwischen heute und morgen (2009) aka Between Today and Tomorrow
2009The 40-year-old translator Anouk happens to meet Heiner, an architect, older than her, in Berlin. The couple plunges into a love affair a few days later. At stake are either their past lives, seemingly firmly established in two marriages, or a shared future that could begin that night. We are following two people who are suddenly faced with the decision to begin a new, possibly more intense and better life together – but at the […]
The Enchantment (aka Die Verzauberung)
2007Two couples on vacation in the Austrian alps is a recipe for adultery? Dr. Helmut Baer falls on the first day there and twists his leg. The lady next door is a masseuse. She stays behind while their spouses go with the children on an overnight hike in the mountains. Both couples become tempted by each other, but only one acts upon it. Adultery is in the air!
The City Below (2010) aka Unter dir die Stadt
2010The boss promotes an employee and sends him to a far place so that he can screw his wife.
Storms in Africa (aka Stürme in Afrika)
2009Invited to join her sister at the bedside of their father in the South-African bush, a woman misled by her husband falls in love with a gruff ranger.