Maria Schrader Movies

Before Dawn charts the years of exile in the life of famous Jewish Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, his inner struggle for the "right attitude" towards...

Sensing their relationship is crumbling, Christian avoids celebrating Christmas with his girlfriend Julia and heads for Paris.

After plotting a way to get kicked out of boarding school, the twins diverge for the first time in their lives when Nanni starts enjoying her stay.

Edward Kaminsky, an aging ad man, wants a golden parachute from his agency; he must first land the Opel auto contract. Rosa, a youth with wealthy...

When the two children of the Menzel family are found murdered, the parents come under suspicion of having killed their own children. The fact that...

No one knows, or is ever likely to know how many disabled or handicapped relatives have been hidden from the outside world in attics and basements...

When Ruth's husband dies in New York, in 2000, she imposes strict Jewish mourning, which puzzles her children. A stranger comes to the house - Ruth's...

On the brink of her 30th birthday, Fanny feels the door to marital happiness closing on her. She is obsessed with death and even visits evening...

The film tells the story of longtime married couple Lena and Tore, who need to deal with Lena's sudden lost of biographical memory due to amnesia.

A married young academic falls under the sexual thrall of a much older man whose air of jaded ennui conceals a secret desire for vengeance.

Silva fulfills herself a dream: from Poland she flies to USA. With only a few hundred dollars she arrives in New York, incapable of the language. Not...

Based on the novel Hohaj by Elisabeth Rynell, it depicts the devastation felt by Elizabeth, a woman who had lost her husband in a car accident and...

When Holly and old flame Freddi meet Alemnesch, a young asylum seeker from Rwanda who is heavily pregnant and on the run from authorities, their...

Moritz and Eva Jung's marriage is in crisis. Moritz is tormented by feelings of guilt, but is unable to talk about it with Eva, who keeps urging him...

Sophie "inherits" her uncle's preserved whale and finds out that whoever sleeps in the whale's belly with her will be granted one wish, causing chaos...

Misadventures of a hapless young man from rural Bohemia who, in 1991, is finally free to cross newly open borders.

Essay film about German family life in the postwar decades, refracted through TV quiz shows and their hosts' biographies.

A documentary on Aktenzeichen XY - ungelöst, one of the most popular and long-running German TV programmes that deals with true crime and...