The Desire to See a Film of Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cops

March 1922 •English

Buster Keaton gets involved in a series of misunderstandings involving a horse and cart. Eventually he infuriates every cop in the city when he accidentally interrupts a police parade.

Day Dreams

November 1922 •English

In order to impress the father of a girl he is keen on, a young man goes to the city in search of work. In his letters home he writes of his various jobs which her imagination expands into much nobler ones than those that he is actually attempting.

Good Night, Nurse!

June 1918 •English

Roscoe's wife, tired of his endless drunkenness, reads of an operation that cures alcoholism and has him admitted to No Hope Sanitarium to get the surgery. Roscoe, wanting out, eventually disguises himself as a nurse to effect his escape.

Hard Luck

March 1921 •English

A down on his luck young man makes several attempts at committing suicide but fails them too. He then finds himself becoming more confident through a series of petty adventures, to such an extent that this becomes his undoing.

His Wedding Night

August 1917 •English

Al and Roscoe, employees at a gas station, are rivals for Alice. When Buster delivers a wedding gown for Alice and begins modeling it, he is mistaken for Alice and is kidnapped by Al.

My Wife's Relations

May 1922 •English

Buster and a woman are mistakenly married and her initially unfriendly family begins to treat him nicely when they come to believe he has a large inheritance awaiting him.

Mach's Licht aus!

November 2022 •German

One night, two perspectives: Swabian high school graduate Carlo tries to keep his girlfriend's first visit a secret from his parents, who want to find out what's going on.

Operation Magpie

December 2023 •English

Two Detectives are staking out the property of a notorious criminal mastermind but all is not as it seems.

Trailer Park Boys

July 1999 •English

After a psychic predicts his death, a small-time hoodlum named Julian hires a cheap documentary film crew to document the last few days of his mis-spent life. This is the film that pioneered the show of the same name.

Coney Island

October 1917 •English

Arbuckle escapes the watch of his domineering wife and heads for Coney Island. Keaton arrives that same day with his attractive, and rather easy, girlfriend, who is immediately stolen from him by St. John.

Convict 13

October 1920 •English

A young golfer is mugged by an escaped convict and finds himself in a prison where he foils a jailbreak.

The man who got his wife married

January 1970 •Arabic

The play revolves around Safwat El-Sherbiny, who comes out of the grave to tell Ghafir his story with his manager at work who was abusive to him, and was trying in various ways to get close to his beautiful wife, desirous of her.

Ronnie and Michael

July 2014 •English

Ronnie has accepted his fate but has yet to change his mind when he realises why he in fact is really in the woods.

The Turk Shop

January 2017 •Swedish

At a creative firm somewhere in Stockholm, there's a short break in a meeting. Cecilia relates an anecdote from a hen party, about a 'Turk kiosk' that turned out to be closed. Asal, relatively new at the workplace, questions Cecilia's choice of words, and this seriously offends Cecilia. In the end it's Asal who is accused of inappropriate behaviour.

Fremont

August 2023 •English

Donya, a lonely Afghan refugee and former translator, spends her twenties drifting through a meager existence in Fremont, California. Shuttling between her job writing fortunes for a fortune cookie factory and sessions with her eccentric therapist, Donya suffers from insomnia and survivor's guilt over those still left behind in Kabul as she desperately searches for love.

The Bad Guys: Little Lies and Alibis

January 2025 •English

A group of former criminals do their best to get to their parole interview on time.

The Dungeon Master

November 2011 •English

Shane and his friends thought it would be fun to recapture their 'geeky' youth with a game of Dungeons and Dragons. But then someone showed up in a cape.

Wax Paul Now

November 2019 •English

Three New Yorkers will stop at nothing to get Paul Giamatti his own wax statue at Madame Tussauds.

Call Your Father

April 2017 •English

On Josh and Greg's first date, they quickly realize that the generational divide between them is the least of their worries.

Pas de pain pas de gain

October 2009 •French