Acting
Ingrid Caven
Born August 3, 1938 · Saarbrücken, Germany (age 87)
Ingrid Caven (born Ingrid Schmidt; August 3, 1938) is a German actress best known for her roles in several films directed by her husband, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, including Love Is Colder Than Death (1969), Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (1970), and The American Soldier (1970). She continued to appear in Fassbinder's films after their 1972 divorce until his death in 1982.
Known For
Suspiria · 2018Suspiria
★ 6.92018
MovieHorrorMystery
A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the artistic director, an ambitious young dancer, and a grieving psychotherapist. Some will succumb to the nightmare. Others will finally wake up.
Time Regained · 1999Time Regained
★ 6.31999
MovieDrama
In early 1920s France, an author, lying on his deathbed, looks at various photographs and is flooded with memories of the people and events that have shaped his life.
Sleeping Beauty · 2017Sleeping Beauty
★ 4.72017
MovieDramaFantasy
In the kingdom of Letonia, the young prince Égon spends his nights playing the drums. During the day, he only has one thing on his mind: finding Sleeping Beauty in the kingdom of Kentz and breaking the spell over her. But his father, the king, doesn’t believe in fairy tales, and is completely opposed to Égon’s dream. It’s Maggie Jerkins, an archeologist from Unesco, who will provide Egon with the opportunity to follow his heart.
In a Year with 13 Moons · 1978In a Year with 13 Moons
★ 6.61978
MovieDrama
Elvira Weishaupt, once a burly working-class butcher, has made an enormous sacrifice for love. She has undergone a sex change for a romantic interest who has abandoned her, and she now must struggle to reconcile her past life with her present identity.
The Coffee House · 1970The Coffee House
★ 6.51970
MovieTV MovieDrama
People meet and chat at Ridolfo's Coffeehouse; the conversations are mostly about money, but also about feelings, ideals, friendship, love, fidelity and respectability.
35 Shots of Rum · 200935 Shots of Rum
★ 6.82009
MovieDrama
A widower and his daughter witness the retirement of a colleague of his and the closing of her department at her university.
Satan’s Brew · 1976Satan’s Brew
★ 6.31976
MovieComedyDrama
A famous poet who hasn't written a word in two years unconsciously plagiarizes the work of Stefan George, while dealing with several mistresses, his dimwitted brother, and a murder investigation.
Devil's Paradise · 1987Devil's Paradise
★ 5.71987
MovieDramaAdventure
At the start of the 20th century, a man lives in solitude on an island. One day on the mainland, he saves a young woman from some nasty folk and takes her with him to his island. Her former captors soon find the island as well.
Movies
Suspiria · 2018Suspiria
★ 6.92018
MovieHorrorMystery
A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the artistic director, an ambitious young dancer, and a grieving psychotherapist. Some will succumb to the nightmare. Others will finally wake up.
Time Regained · 1999Time Regained
★ 6.31999
MovieDrama
In early 1920s France, an author, lying on his deathbed, looks at various photographs and is flooded with memories of the people and events that have shaped his life.
Sleeping Beauty · 2017Sleeping Beauty
★ 4.72017
MovieDramaFantasy
In the kingdom of Letonia, the young prince Égon spends his nights playing the drums. During the day, he only has one thing on his mind: finding Sleeping Beauty in the kingdom of Kentz and breaking the spell over her. But his father, the king, doesn’t believe in fairy tales, and is completely opposed to Égon’s dream. It’s Maggie Jerkins, an archeologist from Unesco, who will provide Egon with the opportunity to follow his heart.
In a Year with 13 Moons · 1978In a Year with 13 Moons
★ 6.61978
MovieDrama
Elvira Weishaupt, once a burly working-class butcher, has made an enormous sacrifice for love. She has undergone a sex change for a romantic interest who has abandoned her, and she now must struggle to reconcile her past life with her present identity.
The Coffee House · 1970The Coffee House
★ 6.51970
MovieTV MovieDrama
People meet and chat at Ridolfo's Coffeehouse; the conversations are mostly about money, but also about feelings, ideals, friendship, love, fidelity and respectability.
35 Shots of Rum · 200935 Shots of Rum
★ 6.82009
MovieDrama
A widower and his daughter witness the retirement of a colleague of his and the closing of her department at her university.
Satan’s Brew · 1976Satan’s Brew
★ 6.31976
MovieComedyDrama
A famous poet who hasn't written a word in two years unconsciously plagiarizes the work of Stefan George, while dealing with several mistresses, his dimwitted brother, and a murder investigation.
Devil's Paradise · 1987Devil's Paradise
★ 5.71987
MovieDramaAdventure
At the start of the 20th century, a man lives in solitude on an island. One day on the mainland, he saves a young woman from some nasty folk and takes her with him to his island. Her former captors soon find the island as well.
Gold Flakes · 1976Gold Flakes
★ 8.41976
MovieDrama
Werner Schroeter's rhapsody of excess leaps from 1949 Cuba to contemporary France to points in between, while its feverishly shifting visual style evokes and parodies everything from kitschy Mexican telenovelas to silent French art films.
My Favorite Season · 1993My Favorite Season
★ 6.21993
MovieDrama
Elderly woman Berthe leaves her house to live with her daughter Emilie. Emilie and her brother Antoine had a falling out three years ago and have not seen each other since, but Emilie invites him for Christmas. Memories will resurface and impact both Berthe's destiny and the strange relationship between Emilie and Antoine.
Haytabo · 1971Haytabo
★ 6.81971
MovieDramaScience Fiction
A biochemistry professor finds an old manuscript with the structure and formula of an immortality drug.
Off Season · 1992Off Season
★ 4.81992
MovieDramaComedy
The formerly great Swiss hotel which Valentin’s family owned when he was a boy has been emptied and is about to be torn down. He revisits the magical site’s empty halls and ballrooms.
Joan's Dream · 1975Joan's Dream
★ 8.01975
MovieDrama
With the ascetic grandeur of Carl Th. Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc, Schroeter evokes the visions of Saint Joan, partly through unused footage of Darling and Caven pantomiming in his 1972 film The Death of Maria Malibran. - MoMA
Ludwig – Requiem for a Virgin King · 1972Ludwig – Requiem for a Virgin King
★ 5.51972
MovieDramaHistory
Reflected in an artificial and bombastically staged illusory world with Wagnerian compositions, glossy and satirical time references, 19th century German figures and traditions are stripped of their mythology and interpreted by the Germany of 1972.
In Memoriam Daniel Schmid Werner Schroeter · 2012In Memoriam Daniel Schmid Werner Schroeter
2012
MovieDocumentary
Swiss filmmaker Daniel Schmid died on August 5, 2006, and German filmmaker Werner Schroeter on April 12, 2010. They were close friends, and along with Jean Eustache, Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Philippe Garrel were the most innovative filmmakers of the post-New Wave era.
My Little Loves · 1974My Little Loves
★ 6.81974
MovieDrama
Daniel lives with his grandmother and, after a year of high school, goes to live with his mother in the south of France; a harsher environment which rapidly changes his perception of friends, work, and women.
The Roaring Fifties · 1983The Roaring Fifties
★ 3.71983
MovieComedy
The Second World War is over and now begins in post-war Germany, the reconstruction. Jakob Formann sees his chance here and begins a rapid rise as an entrepreneur.
Day of the Idiots · 1981Day of the Idiots
★ 5.81981
MovieDrama
A woman experiences psychic disintegration and ends up in a psychiatric hospital.
Playing with Fire · 1975Playing with Fire
★ 5.51975
MovieMysteryCrime
A banker hires a seedy detective to find his daughter and keep her safe from kidnappers.
Fox and His Friends · 1975Fox and His Friends
★ 7.21975
MovieDrama
Fox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and things that he has always wanted. He enters an abusive relationship with wealthy industrialist Eugen in an attempt to climb the social ladder. His desperation for love and affection soon spirals into tragedy.
Martha · 1974Martha
★ 7.01974
MovieTV MovieDrama
After the death of her abusive father, lonely librarian Martha finds herself caught up in a strange, sadomasochistic relationship with a monstrous husband whom she begins to suspect may be trying to murder her.
Der Mond is nur a nackerte Kugel · 1981Der Mond is nur a nackerte Kugel
★ 10.01981
MovieDrama
Despair · 1978Despair
★ 6.51978
MovieDramaThriller
Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufacturer, married to the capricious Lydia, loses his temper more and more every day when dealing with his workers and other businessmen; until he meets Felix, a vagrant, who seems to be physically identical to him; a disconcerting fact that leads Hermann Hermann to plot a particular way out of a fake world he actually hates.
Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter · 2011Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
★ 5.52011
MovieDocumentary
Werner Schroeter was one of the most significant proponents of New German Cinema. Schroeter was diagnosed with cancer in 2006. In her film, Elfi Mikesch, who photographed a number of Schroeter’s films and who collaborated closely with him to create his vision, provides us with an intimate insight into Schroeter’s artistic output during the remaining four years of his life.
TV Shows
Champs-Elysées · 1982Champs-Elysées
★ 6.81982
Series
Die Montagsmaler · 1974Die Montagsmaler
★ 8.01974
Series
Square · 2012Square
2012
Series
World on a Wire · 1973World on a Wire
★ 7.31973
SeriesDramaSci-Fi & Fantasy
In the future, Simulacron, a computer project simulating reality, encounters strange occurrences after its leader's death. Dr. Stiller questions the sudden disappearance of a friend and wonders if Simulacron holds the answers.