Elfi Mikesch Movies

Wanda, a dominatrix who runs an S&M gallery on the Hamburg waterfront, must choose between her lesbian lover and an American trainee.

A mentally unstable woman and her son move to a sprawling mansion in Portugal to grow roses.

Stylized, black and white biography of Frances Farmer by author Lynne Tillman and Sheila McLauglin.

An unusual story of a triangular relationship in Vienna. A woman shares an apartment with a man named Malina. The woman meets Ivan and falls under...

The eponymous party is hosted by Queenie and Burrs, long-term lovers who are rapidly growing apart.

Vicky, an out-of-work actress, struggling waitress and lesbian has her whole life thrown into turmoil when her father comes from Germany to visit....

This story is told by the boy's father: "My father wrote letters from the front. He didn't come back from the war. In my dream, I saw a hundred...

A young woman is fed up with the usual consumer's television and begins to make her own television, or more correctly, closevision. She is now a...

Max Taurus, a sort of amateur detective, pursues the traces of general omni-present crime back to a partially demolished house. There, the remaining...

The sexual fantasies of women are explored by four female directors.

The life story of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, a German Jew, who as a physician established the field of sexology, and fought militantly against German...

The story of a child who faces the emptiness that surrounds the figure of his parents, disappeared in Africa.

The film explores the life and career of the Hamburg-born musician, whose creative work began in the West German post-punk scene of the 1980s.

From feminist director and provocateur Monika Treut comes this eclectic collection of four short documentaries profiling unconventional women. One...

Werner Schroeter was one of the most significant proponents of New German Cinema. Schroeter was diagnosed with cancer in 2006. In her film, Elfi...

Rex Gildo’s songs and musicals made him very popular. His best-known song was “Fiesta Mexicana” from 1972. Rosa von Praunheim tells...

A documentary about the making of the television mini-series by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, including interviewees with the principal actors.

An actor and poet falls in love with a former mortuary photographer turned waitress. They find themselves caught up way over their heads in a dirty...

After reading a postcard that her mother let go in the wind, a woman learns that she has a twin.

The authentic story of Maria Zechmeister who lived in an Upper Austrian village and was convicted of the murder of her husband. There was no evidence...