Rosa von Praunheim Movies

Pioneering gay German filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim explores America’s burgeoning trans rights movement—from early leaders like Virginia...

Phoebe Legere is a New York legend. In the early 80s she made a name for herself with her scandalous performances. So it seemed only a given to make...

Shocking, often hilarious, and always controversial, Rosa von Praunheim delivers a radical treatise on heterosexuality in Red Love by intertwining...

A documentary about "Death" magazine, founded by "Screw" Magazine founder and publisher Al Goldstein, and its eventual failure.

A staged documentary by Berlin’s Rosa von Praunheim, who gathers five women who came of age in the 1930s—ranging from a lesbian-feminist...

Five German directors celebrate the influence that famed filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim has had on their careers in honor of his 70th birthday. After...

Portrait of siblings George and Mike Kuchar, who have made a name for themselves in the US underground scene with low-budget films.

An astrologer informs Rosa von Praunheim that he only has 13 days left to live. Rosa then decides to organize his estate. Unrealized films are...

In his film, Rosa von Praunheim approaches the famous communist theater director Erwin Piscator by developing irreverent improvisations in the spirit...

Short film about queer left-wing people in West Berlin.

Catchy mix of farce and documentary. Portrait of a Berlin theatre company made up entirely of the homeless, alcoholics and junks. They call...

A three hour documentary about the tenants of the 24th floor in a high-rise building in the Frankfurter Berg settlement who speak about their living...

Short film about queer left-wing people in West Berlin.

In this daring autofictional documentary, filmmaker Tim Lienhard, raised in a Catholic family in southern Germany, traces his late-in-life...

A documentary about the Berlin homeless theater group Ratten 07.

Rosa von Praunheim has made 150 films and repeatedly provoked the middle-class to homophobic majority society. But he doesn't spare his own community...

Self-reflection of a star person played by a woman.

Samuel Beckett walks in Berlin in 1969.

Documentary about the Berlin-based organization ACT and its unusual educational program. Founded by former schoolteacher Maike Plath and two other...

“This film is part of a series of films on gay men who survived the Nazi era. I met Walter Schwarze when he was already in his eighties. My...