Movies: Michael Ballhaus

  • 1977
    Chinese Roulette

    Chinese Roulette (1977)

    Chinese Roulette

    7.21977HD

    A husband and wife lie to each other about their weekend travel plans, only to both show up at the family's country house with their lovers....

    Chinese Roulette
  • 1988
    The House on Carroll Street

    The House on Carroll Street (1988)

    The House on Carroll Street

    5.81988HD

    Emily Crane is fired after refusing to give names to a 1951 House Un-American Activities Committee, and takes a part-time job as companion to an old lady. One day her attention is drawn to a noisy argument being conducted largely in German in a neigh...

    The House on Carroll Street
  • 1986
    Under the Cherry Moon

    Under the Cherry Moon (1986)

    Under the Cherry Moon

    5.71986HD

    Two friends from Miami are in the French Riviera enjoying life by scamming money off of rich women. One day, they read about a young woman set to inherit $50 million from her father. At first, Tricky has Christopher Tracy talked into romancing her fo...

    Under the Cherry Moon
  • 1955
    Lola Montès

    Lola Montès (1955)

    Lola Montès

    6.81955HD

    Lola Montes, previously a great adventuress, is reduced to being the attraction of a circus after having been the lover of various important men....

    Lola Montès
  • 1978
    Despair

    Despair (1978)

    Despair

    6.51978HD

    Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufacturer, married to the capricious Lydia, loses his temper more and more every day when dealing with his workers and other businessmen; until he meets Fel...

    Despair
  • 1971
    Whity

    Whity (1971)

    Whity

    5.21971HD

    "Whity" is the mulatto butler of the dysfunctional Nicholson family in the American southwest in 1878. The father, Ben Nicholson, has an attractive young wife Katherine, and two sons by a previous marriage; the homosexual Frank, and the retarded Davy...

    Whity
  • 1983
    Baby It's You

    Baby It's You (1983)

    Baby It's You

    5.81983HD

    In a 1966 New Jersey high school, Jill and new student Sheik from the other side of the tracks make their way in a first love romance....

    Baby It's You
  • 1982
    The Magic Mountain

    The Magic Mountain (1982)

    The Magic Mountain

    6.11982HD

    Hans Castorp, fresh from university and about to become a civil engineer, comes to the Sanatorium Berghof in the Swiss Alps to visit his cousin Joachim, an army officer, who is recovering there from tuberculosis. Intending to remain at the Berghof fo...

    The Magic Mountain
  • 1978
    Germany in Autumn

    Germany in Autumn (1978)

    Germany in Autumn

    6.31978HD

    Germany in Autumn does not have a plot per se; it mixes documentary footage, along with standard movie scenes, to give the audience the mood of Germany during the late 1970s. The movie covers the two month time period during 1977 when a businessman w...

    Germany in Autumn
  • 1992
    Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man. The Myth. The Movies.

    Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man. The Myth. The Movies. (1992)

    Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man. The Myth. The Movies.

    6.31992HD

    Short documentary on the making of Francis Ford Coppola's "Dracula" (1992)....

    Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man. The Myth. The Movies.
  • 1976
    Satan’s Brew

    Satan’s Brew (1976)

    Satan’s Brew

    6.41976HD

    A famous poet who hasn't written a word in two years unconsciously plagiarizes the work of Stefan George, while dealing with several mistresses, his dim-witted brother, and a murder investigation....

    Satan’s Brew
  • 1975
    Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven

    Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven (1975)

    Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven

    7.81975HD

    After a worker kills a superior and commits suicide, each of his family members attempts to forge a path forward in life....

    Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
  • 1984
    Heartbreakers

    Heartbreakers (1984)

    Heartbreakers

    51984HD

    Blue, a yet-to-be discovered painter, is left by his longtime girlfriend because she considers him too immature for a lasting relationship. Eli, Blue's best friend, works for his father's garment business and is still searching for a woman who's inte...

    Heartbreakers
  • 1988
    Baja Oklahoma

    Baja Oklahoma (1988)

    Baja Oklahoma

    71988HD

    Juanita Hutchins works at Texas bar, but she aspires to be a country songwriter. When she's not looking after her impulsive daughter, Candy, or vouching for her promiscuous friend, Doris Steadman, she's trying to maintain some semblance of a romantic...

    Baja Oklahoma
  • 1983
    Sheer Madness

    Sheer Madness (1983)

    Sheer Madness

    6.81983HD

    Olga and Ruth become friends. Olga is independent, separated from her husband, living with an immigrant pianist, and teaching feminist literature. Ruth is withdrawn, a painter, possibly mentally ill. Ruth dreams in black and white, sometimes of her s...

    Sheer Madness
  • 1992
    I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me

    I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me (1992)

    I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me

    6.41992HD

    A documentary about the life and work of director Rainer Werner Fassbinder....

    I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
  • 1990
    Martin Scorsese Directs

    Martin Scorsese Directs (1990)

    Martin Scorsese Directs

    91990HD

    Providing behind the scenes footage of the director on set with clips from his own films, Martin Scorsese Directs depicts to riveting effect the way Scorsese brings the written story to life on the big screen. Additional interviews with the likes of ...

    Martin Scorsese Directs
  • 1982
    Dear Mr. Wonderful

    Dear Mr. Wonderful (1982)

    Dear Mr. Wonderful

    4.81982HD

    Ruby Dennis is an middle-aged man with an unfulfilled ambition as a singer. As he begins to pursue that ambition, his family falls apart....

    Dear Mr. Wonderful
  • 2008
    Auge in Auge - Eine deutsche Filmgeschichte

    Auge in Auge - Eine deutsche Filmgeschichte (2008)

    Auge in Auge - Eine deutsche Filmgeschichte

    6.32008HD

    This is not merely another film about cinema history; it is a film about the love of cinema, a journey of discovery through over a century of German film history. Ten people working in film today remember their favourite films of yesteryear....

    Auge in Auge - Eine deutsche Filmgeschichte
  • 1992
    Visions of Light

    Visions of Light (1992)

    Visions of Light

    6.91992HD

    Cameramen and women discuss the craft and art of cinematography and of the "DP" (the director of photography), illustrating their points with clips from 100 films, from Birth of a Nation to Do the Right Thing. Themes: the DP tells people where to loo...

    Visions of Light