Movies: Raphaela Film

Ekchart Schmidt examines the machinery behind the dream factory; the Hollywood myth is unmasked. How does the studio industry work? What role does marketing and the hype surrounding the stars play?...

Documentary about Hollywood....

Budd Boetticher talks about the Ranown Cycle, a collection of low-budget westerns of the late 1950s....

Documentary about Ray Bradbury...

Documentary about the American actress Tippi Hedren....

Documentary about the 2004 movie 'Der Untergang' aka. 'Downfall'...

Once before, the ravishing lake mermaid Undine has warned her lover Raoul. Their humid-romantic fairy-tale love is in danger because Raoul's brother wants to destroy the pristine mountain lake idyll with an ambitious hotel project. Undine defends her...

Documentary about Hollywood....

A documentary about director Budd Boetticher....

Starting out as e-mail pen pals, Daniel and Laura soon fall in love. Only problem is that she lives in Germany and he lives in Los Angeles. When they finally arrange to meet in person, they discover that there is no chemistry between them....

Film noir, which enjoyed particular success in the 1930s and 1940s, is probably the most profound genre of classic Hollywood cinema. Eckhart Schmidt tries to show the background and developments and speaks, among others, with directors such as Richar...

Aspiring actors and actresses talk about making it in Hollywood and how they perceive this world. Casting directors and filmmakers also share their perspectives....

Documentary about Marilyn Monroe: 1962: America loses its blonde icon. Marilyn Monroe dies under mysterious circumstances. How did she die? The police report states: probable suicide. But there are many things that point to murder: a corpse draped to...

Nine beautiful amazons report how they murdered the men who deserved it...

Artur Brauner talks about his career....

Documentary about Italian cinema....

A writer's fantasy goes erotic ways in Rome....

Documentary about Hollywood stars, paparazzis and professional photographers....

Documentary about the American actress Jane Russell....

Documentary by Eckhart Schmidt....