Movies: Jörg Buttgereit

Seven episodes, each taking place on a different day of the week, on the theme of suicide and violent death....

A journey through time and history of diverse monster types, from the latex monster in devastated postwar Japan to aliens and serial murderers....

The wild West Berlin of the 1980s became the creative melting pot of pop subcultures: music, art and chaos. Before the Iron Curtain fell, anything and everything seemed possible....

The Meltdown Memoirs depicts the production of the movie Street Trash along with cast and crew interviews 20 years later....

A documentary about the German band "Mutter"....

The 20-minute short film “ Piggy ” documents one of the forensic biologist Dr. Mark Benecke carried out decomposition study. Jörg Buttgereit took over the artistic direction of this forensic decomposition film....

Tv documentary by Margarete Kreuzer about the sub-culture of West-Berlin in the 1980s. The unique political and geographical status of West-Berlin in the cold war lead to a unique scene of artists reflecting the Zeitgeist and creating profound work ...

Lothar Schramm is a simple man with complex problems, yet he seems like such a nice guy. He works as a taxi driver and lives by himself where he is happy to answer his door to strangers and kill them outright. As with many shy loner types he has a pr...

After the Nazis took power, the resistance searched for a solution to end Adolf Hitler's evil dictatorship. They formulated a plan to bio-engineer super-human assassins, eventually finding their man in one Captain Berlin....

Guided by his doctor (or is it voices in his head?), a young director is given a mission: to go to Texas to make an abstract roadmovie (“Unfocused film! Focus is repressed!”) about the Housecore Horror Festival of Film and Music, a festival that brin...

A guy is in love with a girl. He sees her one day with another guy, freaks out, commits suicide, and then she has a baby....

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Manne's last summer: goes to watch a football game, drinks, pukes. Man keeps drinking. Man drops dead....

The Captain Berlin character was created by Buttgereit in the early 1980s and first appeared in his Super 8 short film CAPTAIN BERLIN - RETTER DER WELT (CAPTAIN BERLIN SAVES THE WORLD). In this film, Buttgereit himself plays Captain Berlin in a yello...

A graveyard is the ironic location for a tribute to one of the world's most notorious oddballs....

A short documentary about Jörg Buttgereit's father....

A documentary about the now abandoned and very influential punk club S.O.36. A punk music club on Oranienstrasse near Heinrichplatz in the area of Kreuzberg in Berlin, Germany....

An authorized stop-motion sequel to Jörg Buttgereit's 1993 movie "Schramm", called scenes from the Afterlife of Lothar Schramm, who was the centre of the feature film....

In 2009, exground filmfest presented Jörg Buttgereit's picturized stage play “Captain Berlin vs. Hitler”. Now he had actors speak his radio play in a theater and then filmed it. A re-enactment of an Italian horror film of the 1980s. A stranger steals...

Jörg Buttgereit short film....