Margit Carstensen

Connected by a series of complicated relationships and the same unusual father, Werner, Hans and Agnes all attempt to keep it together amid the turmoil of their daily lives. Set in a contemporary German landscape, director Oskar Roehler's unconventional, poignantly humorous family drama is a heartfelt portrayal of obsession and personal desires, including love, sex and acceptance. Martin Weiss, Moritz Bleibtreu and Herbert Knaup star.

Mother Kusters is the wife of a factory worker who goes beserk one day, killing himself and the boss' son. Mother finds herself a media celebrity, which only serves to make herself and her late husband look like idiots.

A housewife locked into a dull life with her distracted husband as she slow descent into suicidal depression after having her second child.

This tale of intermingled love and hate is directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and is the 13th of the 33 films he made in his short life. It explores the universal dynamics present in close human relationships, even lesbian ones.