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Get Out Your HandkerchiefsGet Out Your Handkerchiefs (Preparez Vos Mouchoirs) (1978)
Dir. Bertrand Blier
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Carole Laure, Patrick Dewaere
Naive, frustrated husband Gerard Depardieu embarks on an unconventional quest to find his listless wife some happiness, firstly by 'lending' her to a…
DespairDespair (1977)
Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Dirk Bogarde
Fassbinder's blackly comic adaptation of Nabakov's novel about delusion, depression and decline of the human spirit. Dirk Bogarde plays a Russian…
Satan's Brew Satan's Brew (Satansbraten) (1976)
Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Margit Carstensen, Volker Spengler, Ingrid Caven
Schizophrenic Fassbinder dramedy involving a German poet struck with writer's block that partakes in a number of moneymaking schemes involving his…
StroszekStroszek (1976)
Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Bruno S., Eva Mattes
Powerful tragi–comedy follows a simple–minded Bruno S to America with a prostitute trying to escape her unsavoury past. The film's…
Mother Kuesters Goes to HeavenMother Kuesters Goes to Heaven (1975) Recommended
Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Brigitte Mira, Ingrid Caven, Karlheinz Bohm
A furiously witty political black comedy from New German Cinema iconoclast Rainer Werner Fassbinder, heavily inspired by the melodramas of Douglas…
Seven BeautiesSeven Beauties (1975) Recommended
Dir. Lina Wertmuller
Feat. Giancarlo Giannini, Shirley Stoler
Wimpish Casanova Giancarlo Giannini is cast wherever the winds of WWII fling him: eventually into a German concentration camp run by Shirley Stoler…
MarthaMartha (1974)
Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Margit Carstensen, Karlheinz Bohm
Addressing his favourite subject, emotional cruelty, Dir. Fassbinder skillfully works a vein of pitch–black comedy in depicting Margit…
Love and Anarchy (1973)
Dir. Lina Wertmuller
Feat. Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato, Eros Pagni
Cult director Lina Wertmuller's political parable about the would–be assassin of Mussolini who falls in love with a prostitute at his…
A Gorgeous Girl Like MeA Gorgeous Girl Like Me (Une Belle Fille Comme Moi) (1972)
Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Bernadette Lafont, Andre Dussollier
Twisted French black comedy of a licentious, manipulative murderess recounting her sordid past to a green criminology student. Dripping in silly…
Fists in the PocketFists in the Pocket (1965)
Dir. Marco Bellochio
Feat. Lou Castel, Paola Pitagora, Marino Mase
A ferocious intensity pervades this bitter yet utterly startling tale of a family afflicted with epilepsy, blindness and frustration, unafforded the…

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