Doris Dörrie Movies

Anna, an odd, quirky young girl begins a romance with the much older dentist Dr. Armin Thal. Both lovers are neurotic, and both seem to thrive on...

Otto and Leo are two men from Germany who have launched a successful business in which they import koi, the beautiful Japanese fish, for collectors...

Two middle aged German brothers - one New Age and recently divorced, the other uptight and sceptical - travel to a Zen monastery in Japan in search...

Pepe is 15. His life in social misery changes completely when he is chosen as the main character of a film production. Shot on location where he...

Robert, a masseur who is hard of hearing, is unaware that he has inherited millions. Four people want to take it from him: stockbroker Kuhl, his...

The film consists largely of a series of interviews with female filmmakers from several different countries and filmmaking eras. Some, such as...

What happens when famous directors stage an opera? Eckhart Schmidt shows successful and failed attempts.

Documentary about Los Angeles.

In 1996, cinematographer Helge Weindler died in Almeria, Spain, while shooting his wife Doris Dörrie's new film. A year later, she set out to...

When a salon refuses to hire her because of her plump figure, irrepressible hair stylist Kathi plots revenge by opening her own beauty parlor next...

Documentary by Eckhart Schmidt.

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...

On December 12, 1945 Maria Stadler got (as one of the first from the American occupying power) the license to operate a movie theater. At first she...

Documentary about the Maximilianstraße in Munich.

It's summer and very hot in Germany's only open-air swimming pool for women. There, women bathe topless, in a bikini, bathing suit or burkini. Each...

From the 1950s onwards, Erika and Ulrich Gregor brought countless film historical milestones to Berlin and shaped cinema discourse in post-war...

This film deals with the everyday problems and self-discovery difficulties of young people today. The actors are amateurs who find themselves in a...

After Sam, a penniless Afro-German singer, discovers he's HIV positive, he gets utterly drunk, spends a few miserable days, but promptly falls (back)...

Documentary about the teenagers at Hasenbergl in Munich.