Frank Ripploh
1949 - 2002
Querelle
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Brad Davis, Franco Nero
A handsome Belgian sailor on shore leave in the port of Brest, who is also a drug-smuggler and murderer, embarks upon a voyage of highly charged and violent homosexual self-discovery that will change him forever from the man he once was.
Querelle
Taxi zum Klo
Frank Ripploh
Frank Ripploh, Bernd Broaderup
Frank, a gay school teacher, has a very active sex life and an interest in making films. One evening, he meets Bernd and they become lovers. But while Bernd is attentive and caring, Frank gets bored and continues his polymorphously perverse ways.
Taxi zum Klo
Macumba
Elfi Mikesch
Magdalena Montezuma, Bernd Broaderup
Max Taurus, a sort of amateur detective, pursues the traces of general omni-present crime back to a partially demolished house. There, the remaining tenants try to gain pleasure and power from progressive abandonment in order to tear down their own conventionalities.
Macumba
Die Betörung der blauen Matrosen
Tabea Blumenschein, Ulrike Ottinger
Tabea Blumenschein, Valeska Gert
In 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.
The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors
Kamikaze 1989
Wolf Gremm
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Günther Kaufmann
In a totalitarian society of the future, in which the government controls all facets of the media, a homicide detective investigates a string of bombings, and finds out more than he bargained for.
Kamikaze 1989
Taxi nach Kairo
Frank Ripploh
Frank Ripploh, Christine Neubauer
Frank and his S&M partner are surprised by Frank's harridan mother when she walks in on the pair in an amorous clinch. Frank's mother threatens to disinherit her son if he does not settle down and get married. Frank hires the actress Klara to pose as his wife, and the pair moves into a quaint country house. Soon the newly weirds are both after their handsome neighbour Eugen. Frank becomes confused when he feels he may be falling for his first female.
Taxi to Cairo
