Hanna Schygulla

Hanna Schygulla

December 25, 1943 · 82 years old

Hanna Schygulla (born 25 December 1943) is a German actress and chanson singer. She is generally considered the most prominent German actress of the New German Cinema. Over 12 years, Hanna Schygulla appeared in 23 Fassbinder movies (including his first feature film), the most-acclaimed being The Mar…

Known For

23 titles
1
Poor Things

Poor Things

2023 · 2h 21m · Movie

An account of the fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter.

7.8
2
Dead Again

Dead Again

1991 · 1h 47m · Movie

A woman who has lost her memory is taken in by a Los Angeles orphanage, and a private eye is enlisted to track down her identity, but he soon finds that he might have a past life connection to her that endangers their lives.

6.8
3
The Delta Force

The Delta Force

1986 · 2h 5m · Movie

After a plane is hijacked by terrorists, The Delta Force is sent in to resolve the crisis.

5.7
4
Werckmeister Harmonies

Werckmeister Harmonies

2001 · 2h 25m · Movie

A naive young man witnesses an escalation of violence in his small hometown following the arrival of a mysterious circus attraction.

8.0
5
The Marriage of Maria Braun

The Marriage of Maria Braun

1979 · 2h 0m · Movie

Maria marries Hermann Braun in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. Alone, Maria puts to use her beauty and ambition in order to find prosperity during Germany's "economic miracle" of the 1950s.

7.7
6
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

1972 · 2h 4m · Movie

A troubled fashion designer strikes up a romance with a much younger woman.

7.5
7
Faust

Faust

2011 · 2h 20m · Movie

A despairing scholar sells his soul to Satan in exchange for one night with a beautiful young woman.

6.5
8
The Mystery of Henri Pick

The Mystery of Henri Pick

2019 · 1h 40m · Movie

An editor discovers a novel that she considers to be a masterpiece in a library whose particularity is to collect the manuscripts refused by publishers. The text is signed "Henri Pick", a Breton pizza-maker who died two years earl...

6.7
9
The Girl of Your Dreams

The Girl of Your Dreams

1998 · 2h 1m · Movie

A company of Spanish movie makers leaves Franco's Spain and moves to Hitler's Germany to produce a film. Problems soon arise.

6.7
10
Wrong Move

Wrong Move

1975 · 1h 43m · Movie

A writer goes on a road trip across West Germany with a group of eclectic people he meets along the way.

6.9
11
Love Is Colder Than Death

Love Is Colder Than Death

1970 · 1h 28m · Movie

A small-time pimp is torn between his lover and Bruno the gangster.

6.4
12
Everything Went Fine

Everything Went Fine

2021 · 1h 53m · Movie

When André, 85, has a stroke, Emmanuelle hurries to her father's bedside. Sick and half-paralyzed in his hospital bed, he asks Emmanuelle to help him end his life. But how can you honor such a request when it's your own father?

6.9
13
Katzelmacher

Katzelmacher

1969 · 1h 28m · Movie

Jorgos, a migrant worker from Greece, joins a group of young people in Munich usually hanging around. This foreigner incites hostility and jealousy among them, and he is insulted as a "Communist" and "Greek dog". After having been...

6.8
14
Passion

Passion

1982 · 1h 28m · Movie

A film director has an inspirational crisis while working on the production, Passion, and struggles with the nature of work and art.

6.2
15
Peter von Kant

Peter von Kant

2022 · 1h 25m · Movie

Peter Von Kant, a successful, famous director, lives with his assistant Karl, whom he likes to mistreat and humiliate. Through the great actress Sidonie, he meets and falls in love with Amir, a handsome young man of modest means.

6.3
16
Beware of a Holy Whore

Beware of a Holy Whore

1971 · 1h 43m · Movie

On a film set there are two things missing, the film material and the director. So the actors and actresses as well as the crew try to make the best out of the situation. When the director arrives the material is still missing and...

6.6
17
That Night in Varennes

That Night in Varennes

1982 · 2h 30m · Movie

During the French Revolution, a surprising company shares a coach, trying to catch up something - the time itself, perhaps.

7.2
18
Gods of the Plague

Gods of the Plague

1970 · 1h 31m · Movie

A man is released from prison and finds the society on the outside less than appealing. With several women as well as the police on his tail, he sets out to find an old friend.

6.4
19
Baal

Baal

1970 · 1h 27m · Movie

Baal explores the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality.

6.4
20
The Story of Piera

The Story of Piera

1983 · 1h 45m · Movie

This erotic drama about the incestuous relationship of a mother and daughter is based on the autobiography of Italian theater actress Piera Degli Esposti.

6.1
21
Rio das Mortes

Rio das Mortes

1971 · 1h 24m · Movie

Michel and Guenther, working in dead-end jobs, are obsessed with going to Peru to find buried treasure, using a map of the Rio das Mortes. Michel's girlfriend, Hanna, humors their plan, but really just wants to get married.

6.2
22
Fassbinder

Fassbinder

2015 · 1h 35m · Movie

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

6.6
23
Golem, l'esprit de l'exil

Golem, l'esprit de l'exil

1992 · 1h 45m · Movie

An allegory of the Golem, a Jewish mythical creature personifying displacement and exile, this film tells the story of a woman (similar to the biblical Ruth) and her sisters, who are forced into exile after the death of their husb...

5.9