The Blue Angel is a tragic drama about a straight-laced professor who becomes infatuated with a seductive cabaret performer named Lola Lola. As his obsession grows, it leads to his downfall and ultimate destruction. Set in Weimar Germany, this film explores themes of love, jealousy, and self-destructiveness.
Max is an undercover detective who becomes involved with a criminal gang while trying to plan a bank robbery. He develops a complicated relationship with a prostitute who becomes his client, leading to manipulation and traps set by the French police. Max must navigate the dangerous world of crime and manipulation in the Parisian suburbs.
Love Is Colder Than Death (1969) is the directorial debut of Rainer Werner Fassbinder. It follows a trio consisting of a small-time gangster, a pimp, and a prostitute as they get involved in a crime syndicate. As the story progresses, the trio faces ruthlessness, murder, and a series of violent encounters with the underworld. Amidst the chaos, the small-time gangster falls in love with the prostitute, which adds a new dynamic to their criminal activities. Love, crime, and nihilism collide in this New German Cinema classic.
It is a love story between a prostitute and an artist. It was one of the first German films to break several taboos: nudity, suicide and euthanasia. In the Germany of the '50s, this caused a lot of negative reactions by the politicians and the Roman Catholic Church. The opposition reached the degree of banning the film and scandalizing it which paradoxically made it one of the landmarks in the history of film.
Rosemary is a German prostitute in 1950s Frankfurt, who becomes embroiled in a murder investigation. Based on a true story, the film combines elements of comedy, drama, and crime as Rosemary navigates the dangerous world of prostitution and industrial espionage.
In the vibrant red-light district of Hamburg, a singing sailor must confront his past and navigate a web of love, lies, and jealousy. With a German prostitute as his muse, he learns the bitter truth about loss and the power of music.
After the brutal murder of the prostitute Vera Paterny, Inspector Reinisch hardly makes any progress with the investigation. Vera's colleague Sonja reports on wild sex parties of the murdered and mentions names, prominent names.
Exploitation movie about a war between pimps in Cologne, Germany, in the Sixties.
Uwe Friessner’s first feature, At the End of the Rainbow, follows the exploits of a West Berlin teenager named Jimmi who ekes out a living through petty theft and part-time hustling, hangs out in punk clubs, and who, for reasons which this film subtly details, is thoroughly unemployable. Drawing on his own experience in trying to help a young runaway who eventually committed suicide, Friessner wrote into Jimmi’s story several older students who attempt to find work for him, and who give him shelter for a time in their commune.
After World War II, a lot of people, who lived in the eastern parts of the Third Reich had to be relocated. One of them is Hugo Starosta (Martin Held) with his family. They live in a fortress. Hugo is unemployed, his children don't seem to like school, but somehow they managa to get through.
Set in Hamburg's “Hell's Kitchen,” a waterfront milieu of gangsters, pimps, dealers and prostitutes, the story follows the attempts of an ex-seaman first to insinuate himself into the scene, and then to extricate himself from it. He becomes a small-time pimp, sending his naive girlfriend out onto the streets thinking she is financing their middle-class future. When he becomes involved with an old pal, Nil, he increases his criminal portfolio. But when he steals Nil's girlfriend and things heat up, he leaves for his sister's middle-class home in Berlin, where his attempts to fit in are doomed from the start. Returning to Hamburg, he starts a rapid decline that delivers him into the waiting arms of Nil, whose revenge is merciless.
Illustrates both the powerlessness of the ordinary worker as well as an intimate portrait of the joys and sorrows of a small group of people in the harbor section of Hamburg.
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