Tabea Blumenschein
Actor · 1952 – 2020 · Konstanz, Germany
Tabea Blumenschein (born August 11, 1952) was a German painter, actress, and designer.
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Movie6.0DramaThe final installment in Ulrike Ottinger’s Berlin Trilogy (following TICKET OF NO RETURN and FREAK ORLANDO) casts Delphine Seyrig as the nefarious Fritz Lang supervillain Dr. Mabuse, here the head of a powerful media empire that seeks to create headlines by manufacturing (and then publicly destroying) its own celebrity: the wealthy, handsome playboy Dorian Gray.
Dorian Gray im Spiegel der Boulevardpresse
Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press
1984 · 12 votes
Movie4.1FantasyThe notorious pirate ruler Madame X places a print ad, calling on women to escape their boring lives and promising "gold, love and adventure" to all who come aboard her ship, the Orlando. A motley crew including a housewife, diva and artist (played by Yvonne Rainer) embark on a quest for self-transformation, which quickly heads towards destruction as they are subjected to Madame X's sadistic, erotic escapades.
Movie5.9DocumentaryThe story of the life, loves and work of US writer Patricia Highsmith (1921-95), told through her unpublished diaries, her own voice and that of those who knew her, both family and close friends.
Loving Highsmith
2022 · 25 votes
Movie6.3RomanceDramaFrank, a dedicated schoolteacher, embraces the sexual freedoms of the city’s underground scene—navigating a double life in public restrooms, cinemas, and cruising spots. When he meets Bernd, a sweet and steady museum worker, he finds himself torn between the comfort of domestic partnership and the allure of anonymous desire.
Movie9.0DocumentaryPortrait on Marianne Rosenberg, underground icon Tabea Blumenschein dancing in the background.
Marianne Rosenberg
1976 · 1 votes
Movie5.9DramaIn collage sequences, the surrogate of synthetic sensuality takes form and seduces the sailors in the guise of a Hawaiian girl. In ritual punctuation, she distributes deaths which seemingly only the hardy siren Fatality can survive.
Movie6.4DramaA sartorially resplendent woman of few words arrives in Berlin with plans to live out the rest of her days as a drunkard.
Movie6.4DramaOnce upon a time there was a country known by the name of Laura Molloy. Laura Molloy was the name of this country. Only women lived in Laura MolloyEsmeralda del Rio was a woman. One day Esmeralda del Rio had the idea to undergo a series of transformations, which were to take her very far. So far did she go that she had no way of knowing how far she had gone. Two things were certain: Esmeralda del Rio was blond and in her own way she practiced a kind of magic which I would like to call 'blond magic'.
Laokoon & Söhne - Die Verwandlungsgeschichte der Esmeralda del Rio
Laocoon & Sons: The Story of the Transformation of Esmeralda del Rio
1975 · 4 votes
MovieDocumentaryShe was a muse, model and performer – a star, dazzling and intense. Lady Shiva managed to rise from street prostitution to the top. She lived in the fast lane and died tragically young. Her dream was to become a singer. With her companions, we trace her life during a vibrant time that kindles a yearning and provokes until today. The story of a woman’s meteoric fate and a great dream. An irrepressible desire for freedom in all its beauty and destructive force - and a stirring friendship and love.
Glow
2023
Movie4.3DramaDirector Werner Nekes has created this experimental film in the mode of James Joyce's Ulysses to the extent that human interactions are represented by poetic, symbolic images and language, with a certain amount of nudity added in.
Uliisses
1982 · 6 votes
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Little girls tell dirty jokes. A beautiful young woman wants to have her leg cut off. Two young men need money and take on the job - helping her. Quick money for a quick job, but it becomes increasingly insidious.
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