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Superba is a trailer park surrounded by forest somewhere in the USA, twelve miles from the nearest town. The inhabitants are simple-minded, some of them primitive. When fifteen-year-old Dotty Fisher comes home distraught one day and says she was molested by a man in the woods, a committee of inquiry is formed made up of residents of the settlement. It is made up of three men who think nothing of the police and want to play judge at all costs. Because justice must remain justice. A manhunt for the culprit begins...

In Hannes Fuchs’ film début, which he devotes above all to a young woman’s passion for self-display, he presents film as a synthetic medium. He relates the components of image, sound and music to one another in different ways and plays with the opportunities for confrontation offered by editing – clearly revealing Godard-esque influences in the process.

During the Nazi era flames were used to burn books, homes and people. Flames were a response to resistance. With the help of source documents from the time Weiss sketches a character portrait of German fascism.

The young architect Hannelore becomes part of the all-male brigade Fröhlich whose members are supposed to build houses at the Strausberger Platz in Berlin. The brigade men drink a lot of beer and are less than thrilled about the new girl. Hanne is the only one who is absolutely delighted with Hannelore. When he starts a drunken fight on May Day, he is arrested and accused of armed robbery. Hannelore immediately convinces the other men in the brigade to help Hanne.

In front of a bank building and a one-way street sign, figures shot in single frames scurry back and forth. The action is interrupted increasingly rapidly by a succession of black and blank frames, until finally, in a flickering concentration, only an occasional single image can be recognized.

Clown Ferdinand travels to Berlin under adventurous conditions. Unfortunately, he has forgotten to book a hotel room in time. And so he puts himself and the group of children up in a completely unsuitable room in the children's department store. But as always, he solves all the problems that arise with a lot of charm and fun.

A man is drinking wine, pukes it up, and eats it. He repeats it for a while, until he starts to rub the vomit all over himself.

A visual allusion of the cleansing of the temple to numerous crimes. The film draws an arc from the Crusades to the Holocaust and the Vietnam War.

In spring 1946, Warsaw historian Wojtek arrives in a Polish provincial town to study the Renaissance. He soon becomes entangled in the fierce postwar power struggle between the Soviet-backed People’s Government—nationalizing industry and land—and reactionary exiled forces waging “bandit terror,” from train robberies to political assassinations. As violence escalates, Wojtek shifts from observer to active defender of the new “people’s power.”

Documentary about the mafia.

Wim Wenders' first work. According to Wenders official website, "the film got lost. There was no print of it, just the original material, which was shot on reversal film stock."

A documentary film about the results of land reform in Southern Italy.

One man, two women and a park bench.

Germans on the Mondo Cane tour, meaning an overview of "our bizarre world" in more than 30 revealing fragments with commentary that twists and turns to give things a universal, and in some places even cosmic, meaning.

T. finds a letter. Instead of just dropping it in a mailbox, he decides, conscientious as he is, to deliver it personally. He wanders the entire world, discovers astounding forms of existence, but cannot be hindered from his duty and keeps looking until he finally finds the address. There, he finds out that he has delivered his own judgment.

A film critic falls in love.

Adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's "More Stately Mansions".

This three-minute film was far more akin to the American-style "happening" in that the content was not particularly extreme. It was built up from items such as broken bicycle parts, a nude model, pieces of furniture, and these elements were then obscured or transformed by having a layer of paint thrown on them.

Exciting things happen on Captain Brass' small cargo ship on the last day in port: a windy "doctor" turns the captain on to a strange new ship's pharmacy, in which the medicines are replenished free of charge by his staff in every port of call. The "curbside swallow" Olga has long known that this is really about cocaine smuggling...

Ricky and Maria, desperate for money, undertake an insurance fraud. After getting involved with a thug, it ends in tragedy.

The story of a lodger's arrival and stay at an ominous bed and breakfast in Munich, where he falls victim to the landlady's micro-managing. A montage of film footage, photographs, drawings, graphics, street scenes and advertisements is accompanied by a literary text by Horst Bingel, sometimes read by the lead actor, satirist Hanns Dieter Hüsch.

TV movie about European energy policy