奥斯卡（大卫·本奈特 David Bennent 饰）的家庭有些荒诞。他的母亲和自己的表弟相恋，由于近亲不能结婚，所以被迫嫁给了一位商人。奥斯卡是谁的孩子只有他母亲知道。在他三岁生日那天，母亲送了他一面铁皮鼓。奥斯卡十分喜欢，整天挂在脖子上敲。
一天，奥斯卡躲到桌子底 下玩的时候发现了母亲与舅舅的秘密，他认为成人世界充满了欺骗，于是决定不再长大。当奥斯卡从楼上跳下时，奇迹发生了，他从此不再长高，身高永远只有三岁的水平！
奥斯卡还意外获得了一种神秘的能力――高分贝的尖叫。当看到母亲与舅舅幽会时，他会爬上钟楼，用尖叫震碎所有玻璃；当老师责骂他时，他的尖叫震坏了老师的眼镜。奥斯卡维持着三岁的身高水平慢慢长大。

1977年，一个商人被绑架后又被谋杀，杀他的是左翼的称为RAF的恐怖分子Armee Fraktion（红色帮派），他们绑架商人是为了试图以交换他们被抓的领导人。当诱拐的努力和一次劫持飞机相继努力失败后，RAF的3位非常杰出的领导人，安德烈亚斯巴德，古德兰·恩斯林和吉恩·卡尔泪谱，全部在监狱自杀。这3人实际上是被政府授命谋杀的。

铁皮鼓导演Volker Schloendorff的又一作品，《乱世启示录》，英文片名为 The Ogre，德文为Der Unhold，意为‘食人魔’，故事讲一个法国战俘亚伯（约翰马可维奇饰演）在战争中的所见所闻与所思。

年轻美丽的西德女孩卡塔琳娜•布鲁姆（Angela Winkler 饰）有段失败的婚姻，她偶然在亲戚家的晚会上邂逅英军男子路德维希•戈顿（Jürgen Prochnow 饰），两人一见钟情，并共度浪漫的一夜。然第二天一早，军警破门而入，四处搜查，戈顿已不见踪影。原来戈顿系警方通缉的抢劫犯，卡塔琳娜被作为同犯逮捕。
警方的搜捕轰动一时，《图片报》记者托特盖斯（Dieter Laser 饰）四处打探消息，搜集卡塔琳娜的隐私。他将搜集到的素材提供给警长拜茨迈纳（Mario Adorf 饰），警长再将这些作为证据，对卡塔琳娜进行严刑拷问。原本生活平静的卡塔琳娜一瞬间跌至谷底……
本片改编德国著名作家，诺贝尔文学奖获得者海因里希•伯尔的同名小说。

做事一向理性的水利工程师沃尔特·费伯（山姆·夏普德 Sam Shepard 饰）搭乘的飞机中途失事，被迫降落在墨西哥的沙漠之中。然而在获救之后，沃尔特却一反常态地决定，与素不相识的德国商人去墨西哥丛林寻找多年都未曾连络过的朋友。当他们来到朋友的住处时，发现朋友已经自杀身亡。
沃尔特的第二段旅程开始在渡轮之上。年过中旬的沃尔特邂逅了妩媚的年轻女孩赛贝斯（朱莉·德尔佩 Julie Delpy 饰）。钟情于艺术的赛贝斯与专长于科学技术的沃尔特，看似是两个世界的人，然而一段不可控制的情愫在二人之间渐渐蔓延，相约同去欧洲南部旅行。在无意间，沃尔特得知赛贝斯正是自己年轻时女友汉娜（芭芭拉·苏科瓦 Barbara Sukowa 饰）之女。惊讶之余，沃尔特不得不怀疑她就是自己的亲生女儿。

马克思（斯特兰·斯卡斯加德 Stellan Skarsgård 饰）是一名作家，近日里他即将前往纽约参加新书的签售会。在纽约，居住着两个他生命中非常重要的女人，一个是他的妻子克拉拉（苏珊·伍尔夫 Susanne Wolff 饰），另一个是他17年前的初恋情人瑞贝卡（尼娜·霍斯 Nina Hoss 饰）。
虽然克拉拉和马克思一直过着分居两地的生活，但克拉拉却坚信她和丈夫之间的感情非常坚定。但这段婚姻对于马克思来说俨然是另一番光景了，对于无限崇拜自己的妻子，马克思已经失去了新鲜感，他满心所想的，都是瑞贝卡的身影。马克思想方设法和瑞贝卡取得了联系，但瑞贝卡很显然并不期待这场迟到了17年的约会。

影片根据罗伯特·穆希尔同名小说改编，来源于作者的真实生活事件的回忆，在20世纪处年奥匈帝国东部的贫瘠的土地上，有着一所相对封闭的寄宿制学校，家长通过寄宿学校的严厉把他们培养成有用的人，老师严厉、刻板，孩子们有着欧洲寄宿学校的规矩，等级制度森严，暴力横行学校内的学生比亚斯尼经常因为曾经的偷盗行为而被同学选为肆虐的对象，他成为了众人暴力的牺牲品，他的同学托雷斯是个左右摇摆的人，这样的取舍也为他招惹了麻烦，当众人对比亚斯尼暴力升级学校当局为严肃校纪干预的时候他成为了众人之矢，他成为了没有理由为自己开脱的人，不得不黯然离开了学校。

Die BRD in den 70er Jahren. Über die heitere Anarchie kommt Rita Vogt zum Terrorismus, verführt durch ihren Gerechtigkeitssinn und durch die Liebe zu Andi. Als sie das Scheitern der Bewegung erkennt, taucht sie in der DDR unter. Mit Hilfe der Staatsicherheit, personifiziert in Erwin Hull, beginnt für sie dort unter anderem Namen eine neue Existenz.
Rita führt sozusagen das normale Leben der Arbeiterklasse. Sie will ankommen, während ihre junge Kollegin Tatjana weg will, in den Westen. Zwischen beiden beginnt eine Freundschaft, der eine Fahndungsmeldung im Westfernsehen ein abruptes Ende setzt. Wieder muss Rita untertauchen. Mit einem neuen Namen in einer neuen Stadt scheint sie mehr Glück zu haben.
Rita lernt im Urlaub den Studenten Jochen kennen. Er will sie mit nach Moskau nehmen. Doch dann wird Rita von ihrer Vergangenheit eingeholt, es ist das Jahr 1989 - die Mauer fällt, die DDR hört auf zu bestehen...

故事从1941年在舒瓦泽集中营的一场囚营赛跑开始，17岁的莫凯在比赛中轻松胜出，赢得一块肥皂。莫凯喜欢住在邻营的女孩奥黛特，常常借故亲近，就连赛跑时都要停下来跟她聊上两句，而奥黛特虽然嘴上说莫凯孩子气，心里对他也很中意。尽管活在囚营中，但生活还是处处充满希望，直到有一天，一名德国军官被地下党枪杀，希特勒决定报复，下令至少处决150名法国囚犯，德军军官们对此不以为然，因为在他们看来，这种愚蠢、过激又盲目的报复只会导致法国百姓的严重抵触，甚至出现哗变。然而希特勒的命令是不容有半点违抗的，无奈之下，军官们只好着手罗列处决名单。

In 1988, Oscar-winning German filmmaker Volker Schlondorff ("The Tin Drum") sat down with legendary director Billy Wilder at his office in Beverly Hills, California and turned on his camera for a series of filmed interviews. The conversation went on for two weeks. The results were aired on German TV in 1992 and debuted on U.S. television when it was shown on Turner Classic Movies in 2006. We are presented with a generous smattering of film clips, rare photographs and artwork, but mostly Wilder just sits in his office and talks with the off screen Schlondorff, moving easily between English and German. Clips shown include: "Double Indemnity," "The Lost Weekend," "A Foreign Affair," "Sunset Blvd.," "Ace in the Hole." "Stalag 17," "Sabrina," "Witness for the Prosecution," "Some Like It Hot," and "The Apartment." Wilder discusses all these films, and the actors in them as well. Mostly, Wilder offers his philosophy of movie making from one of its undisputed masters...

Volker Schlöndorff transposes Bertolt Brecht’s late-expressionist work to latter-day 1969. Poet and anarchist Baal lives in an attic and reads his poems to cab drivers. At first feted and later rejected by bourgeois society, Baal roams through forests and along motorways, greedy for schnapps, cigarettes, women and men: ‘You have to let out the beast, let him out into the sunlight.’ After impregnating a young actress he soon comes to regard her as a millstone round his neck. He stabs a friend to death and dies alone. ‘You are useless, mangy and wild, you beast, you crawl through the lowest boughs of the tree.’
The film takes youthful impetuousness and hatred of oppression as its subject and also ponders the cult of genius and sexual morals. Rainer Werner Fassbinder simultaneously plays both Baal and himself and is surrounded by many actors who were later to perform in his own films. After the film was broadcast on West German television, Brecht’s widow Helene Weigel prohibited any further screenings, arguing that the social circumstances engendering Baal’s rebelliousness had not been adequately explained.

法国恺撒奖最佳外语片奖提名
德国电影奖金奖最佳男演员奖
主演：布鲁诺·冈茨（《帝国毁灭》）
杰西·史柯林摩斯基（波兰电影大师）
内容简介:
1975年,黎巴嫩各派之间就分权问题产生巨大分歧,于是,内战爆发.西德记者莱斯奇前往战地收集信息.他亲眼目睹了内战给无辜的人民带来的伤害,内战只不过是在冠冕堂皇的借口掩饰下的权利争夺.当莱斯奇决心继续留下来进行报导的时候,又发现情人阿里亚娜还有另外的男朋友.事业与爱情的困扰使莱斯奇饱受煎熬…
IMDB评分：7.3/10

At the Paris Theater, an uncommonly engrossing and wise new German movie, "A Free Woman," records the losing battle a divorced woman in her thirties fights in Munich to attain belated self-fulfillment. The die is cast in a briskly impersonal society geared to male dominance and early training for career women. This attractive, capable young woman, needing love and encouragement, determinedly sidesteps her former slot of housewife, studies voice and dance, takes on subordinate jobs and painfully maneuvers with her former husband (a cold fish who shrewdly remarries) for child custody.
All this is quietly and beautifully projected by an unobtrusive camera and stunningly personified by the feeling, low-key performance of Margarethe von Trotta in the central role. The blond star also happens to be the wife of the gifted director, Volker Schlondorff, as well as his co-screen writer.
They and the other performers and contributors have forged a fine, thoughtful and stimulating film that observantly mirrors a human condition, the traditional subordination of women with truthful, biting irony. It would be hard to find a more persuasive and appealing proponent of feminism than Mrs. Schlondorff.

（IMDB简介）It's medieval times. Kohlhaas merchants with horses. When going to the local fair to sell his horses, is forced by a noble to leave him part of the merchandise as payment for traveling through his land, promising to give it back when the fair is over. When he returns, the horses are almost dead, and the man refuse to respond, so Kohlhass begins to fight unsuccesfuly against the injustice Written by Michel Rudoy