The subtitle of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet’s first feature, from 1965, “Only Violence Helps Where Violence Reigns,” suggests the fierce political program evoked by their rigorous aesthetic. The pretext of the film, set in Cologne, is Heinrich Böll’s novel “Billiards at Half Past Nine,” which they strip down to a handful of stark events and film with a confrontational angularity akin to Bartók’s music that adorns the soundtrack. The subtlest of cues accompany the story’s complex flashbacks. The middle-aged Robert Fähmel tells a young hotel bellhop of persecutions under the Third Reich; his elderly father, Heinrich, an architect famed for a local abbey, recalls the militarism of the First World War, when his wife, Johanna, incurred trouble for insulting the Kaiser. A third-generation Fähmel is considering architecture, just as the exiled brother of Robert’s late wife, returns, only to be met by their former torturer, now a West German official taking part in a celebratory parade of war veterans. Straub and Huillet make the layers of history live in the present tense, which they judge severely. The tamped-down acting and the spare, tense visual rhetoric suggest a state of moral crisis as well as the response—as much in style as in substance—that it demands.

In this notorious Nazi propaganda historical costume melodrama, a conniving, ambitious Jewish businessman, Suess Oppenheimer, snares a post as treasurer to the Duke of Wurttemburg by showering the corrupt duke with treasure and promises of even greater riches. As the Jew's schemes grow more elaborate and his actions more brazen, the dukedom nearly erupts into civil war. Persuaded by the Jew, the Duke all but scuttles the constitution and alienates the assembly by lifting the local ban on Jews in Stuttgart. In a final outrage, the Jew rapes a wholesome German girl and tortures her father and fiancee. When the Duke succumbs to a sudden heart attack, the assembly of Elders try the Jew and sentence him to death for having "carnal knowledge of a Christian woman." Summary written by Kevin Rayburn

2036 年 — 在“乐无忧”传播开来、并给人带来如此多痛苦的 14 年后，在感染后嗜血的可怕生物之间，洁德·威斯克将杀出一条血路。在腥风血雨中奋战之余。杰德还有很多苦恼：她在新浣熊市的过去，她父亲与险恶的保护伞公司之间令人齿寒的联系，以及她姐姐比莉身上所发生的事。

Several young girls were killed. Policeman Matthaei travels to the region where it happened and searches a child that looks similar to the ones that were murdered. He finds one and stays with her and her mother, not telling them that he is waiting for the killer to start his bloody work one more time ...

弗兰西斯卡从事一项特殊工作，专门帮助已婚女人考验丈夫是否忠诚。因为自身性感火辣，已婚男人屡屡跌入陷阱。弗兰西斯卡坚信男人百分百都是混蛋，因为她有一个不堪回首的往事——她痴爱的男友忽然变成别人的新郎。 奇怪的是新目标与众不同，无论她使何种手段都不能使之心动。弗兰西斯卡坚持不懈制造各种偶遇，可她越来越感觉吃力，工作受到前所未有的阻力……而与此同时，她发现自己竟然悄悄爱上这位有趣的已婚男人。工作和个人情感的矛盾，她该如何化解？