Douglas Sirk Movies

A bickering husband and wife decide to go to a lawyer to get divorced. When in the office, they present their sides of the same story, of which they...

A French-language remake of Douglas Sirk's "The Court Concert" (1936).

An adaptation of Tennessee Williams' "The Lady Larkspur Lotion" created by Douglas Sirk with the assistance of his film students and Rainer Werner...

The stars and director of 'Written on the Wind' and 'The Tarnished Angels' talk about director Douglas Sirk's techniques. Archival interviews...

A short film made by Sirk at the end of his life with one of his students. An adaptation of Schnitzler, with Hanna Schygulla: a night of New...

Douglas speaks about some of the stars he has directed like Asta Nielsen, Lili Dagover, Zarah Leander, George Sanders, Signe Hasso, Barbara Stanwyck,...

Documentary about the shooting of BOURBON STREET BLUES.

A small-scale, bare room situation involving a man and a woman who are bound together in an endless cycle by their hopeless poverty. Tennessee...

When director Daniel Schmid grew up, his parents ran a hotel in the Alps, and this singular setting was to influence his film. Rather by coincidence...

Television documentary about German-born American director Douglas Sirk.

This documentary brings together a collection of remarkable interview footage with Douglas Sirk filmed in 1982 for the French TV show 'Cinéma...

A man comes back from America after years to find his reputation ruined.

Melodrama written by Douglas Sirk.

Portrait of filmmaker Douglas Sirk.

An investigative portrait of the master of cinematic melodrama, Douglas Sirk. His life was the ultimate melodrama, from which all his films were...

When Mister Vlasman gets promoted from baking bread to making macaroni, he and his wife want to enter high society. They could not be happier when a...

This 82-minute 1991 documentary by Eckhart Schmidt features a 1980 interview with Douglas Sirk in which he reflects on his career.

Adaptation of Molière's comedy "The Imaginary Invalid", about a hypochondriac, his doctor, his daughter and her lover.

Douglas Sirk talks about his 1937 film 'Zu neuen Ufern'