Elfi Mikesch Movies

Wanda, a dominatrix who runs an S&M gallery on the Hamburg waterfront, must choose between her lesbian lover and an American trainee.

A mentally unstable woman and her son move to a sprawling mansion in Portugal to grow roses.

The life story of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, a German Jew, who as a physician established the field of sexology, and fought militantly against German...

An unusual story of a triangular relationship in Vienna. A woman shares an apartment with a man named Malina. The woman meets Ivan and falls under...

Vicky, an out-of-work actress, struggling waitress and lesbian has her whole life thrown into turmoil when her father comes from Germany to visit....

Nurses on the night shift roll dice to see which AIDS patient will die next. The owner of a gay bathhouse gets Kaposi's Sarcoma but tries to keep his...

Stylized, black and white biography of Frances Farmer by author Lynne Tillman and Sheila McLauglin.

The eponymous party is hosted by Queenie and Burrs, long-term lovers who are rapidly growing apart.

After reading a postcard that her mother let go in the wind, a woman learns that she has a twin.

The story of a child who faces the emptiness that surrounds the figure of his parents, disappeared in Africa.

A young woman is fed up with the usual consumer's television and begins to make her own television, or more correctly, closevision. She is now a...

The sexual fantasies of women are explored by four female directors.

The film explores the life and career of the Hamburg-born musician, whose creative work began in the West German post-punk scene of the 1980s.

Max Taurus, a sort of amateur detective, pursues the traces of general omni-present crime back to a partially demolished house. There, the remaining...

From feminist director and provocateur Monika Treut comes this eclectic collection of four short documentaries profiling unconventional women. One...

This story is told by the boy's father: "My father wrote letters from the front. He didn't come back from the war. In my dream, I saw a hundred...

Werner Schroeter was one of the most significant proponents of New German Cinema. Schroeter was diagnosed with cancer in 2006. In her film, Elfi...

Portrait made for the 70th birthday of Rosa von Praunheim by his close collaborator.

An actor and poet falls in love with a former mortuary photographer turned waitress. They find themselves caught up way over their heads in a dirty...

Rex Gildo’s songs and musicals made him very popular. His best-known song was “Fiesta Mexicana” from 1972. Rosa von Praunheim tells...