
Writing
Steven Gaydos
Acting credits
6.1A man who trains fighting cocks vows to remain silent until one of his birds wins a championship.
Cockfighter
1974
A documentary about the influential independent film production company The Shooting Gallery.
Misfire: The Rise and Fall of the Shooting Gallery
2013
3.0Ekchart Schmidt examines the machinery behind the dream factory; the Hollywood myth is unmasked. How does the studio industry work? What role does marketing and the hype surrounding the stars play?
Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs
1998
Documentary about Hollywood.
Hollywood Legenden
2004
3.5Documentary, based on a British poll, listing the 100 sexiest movie and TV moments. Supplemented by new interviews with performers, filmmakers, and authors/critics.
100 Greatest Sexy Moments
2003
Documentary about Hollywood.
Der Weg des Ruhms - Hollywoods Walk of Fame
2011
6.0Aspiring actors and actresses talk about making it in Hollywood and how they perceive this world. Casting directors and filmmakers also share their perspectives.
Hollywood Dreamers
1997
Schmidt follows the 27 miles of the “street of life” to Pacific Palisades, where the boulevard ends at the ocean. While interviews with celebrities from show and film document the well-known glamorous side of Sunset Boulevard, Schmidt also witnesses the transformation in the wake of a gigantic investment boom
Sunset Boulevard - 27 Meilen Amerika
1997
Documentary about Hollywood.
Stardust Hollywood - Sternenstaub und Götterwelten
2013
Film noir, which enjoyed particular success in the 1930s and 1940s, is probably the most profound genre of classic Hollywood cinema. Eckhart Schmidt tries to show the background and developments and speaks, among others, with directors such as Richard Fleischer and Robert Wise as well as with "femme fatale" actresses. Filmmakers of the following generations explain how the style and themes of noir continue to shape cinema today.
Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz
2004
10.0Starting out as e-mail pen pals, Daniel and Laura soon fall in love. Only problem is that she lives in Germany and he lives in Los Angeles. When they finally arrange to meet in person, they discover that there is no chemistry between them.
Internet Love
1998
Documentary about American gangster movies.
Hollywood Gangster
2008
NRDocumentary about Alfred Hitchcocks infatuation with blondes.
Made in Hollywood: Hitchcocks Blondinen
2016
NRDocumentary about Marilyn Monroe.
Marilyn Monroe: I Want to Be Loved
2010
Documentary about Hollywood during the silent film era.
Silent Hollywood: Cult, Stars, Scandals
2005
Documentary by Eckhart Schmidt.
Hollywood, Germany - Die amerikanische Herausforderung
1996
Documentary about the Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles.
Mulholland Drive - Ein Hollywood-Mythos
2010
TV review of a litany of Hollywood impropriety.
Hollywood Scandals
2011
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Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood
2009
Documentary about the dark side of Los Angeles.
Lost Angeles - Eine Stadt zwischen Traum und Trauma
2000
Documentary about Hollywood stars, paparazzis and professional photographers.
Glamour vs. Paparazzi
2008
Documentary by Eckhart Schmidt
Motel California
2003
NRDocumentary about Raoul Walsh
Made in Hollywood: Die Welt des Raoul Walsh
2017
Hollywood would be nothing without them: without the stars, who combine a lot of light and shadow, who act as rebels not only in front of but also behind the camera.
Hollywood Rebellen
2013
Behind the camera
NRWilling to do anything for money and fame, Lucky and Billie fake their love and eventually become a real couple, willing to sacrifice their dreams of success for real love and real life music.
Heart Strings
2025
NRWilling to do anything for money and fame, Lucky and Billie fake their love and eventually become a real couple, willing to sacrifice their dreams of success for real love and real life music.
Heart Strings
2025
5.8A passionate filmmaker creating a film based upon a true crime casts an unknown mysterious young woman bearing a disturbing resemblance to the femme fatale in the story. Unsuspectingly, he finds himself drawn into a complex web of haunting intrigue: he becomes obsessed with the woman, the crime, her possibly notorious past, and the disturbing complexity between art and truth. From the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina to Verona, Rome, and London, new truths are revealed and clues to other crimes and passions, darker and even more complex, are uncovered.
Road to Nowhere
2010
5.8A passionate filmmaker creating a film based upon a true crime casts an unknown mysterious young woman bearing a disturbing resemblance to the femme fatale in the story. Unsuspectingly, he finds himself drawn into a complex web of haunting intrigue: he becomes obsessed with the woman, the crime, her possibly notorious past, and the disturbing complexity between art and truth. From the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina to Verona, Rome, and London, new truths are revealed and clues to other crimes and passions, darker and even more complex, are uncovered.
Road to Nowhere
2010
6.0A grotesquely disfigured harpooner called Iguana is severely mistreated by his fellow sailors on a whaling ship in the 19th century. One night he escapes and takes up residence on a remote island. He makes himself ruler of the island and declares war on mankind. Anyone unfortunate enough to wind up on the island with Iguana is subjected to his cruel tyranny.
Iguana
1988
6.2Melodrama about a man cursed with immortality, who tries to declare his undying love for a depressed actress.
All Men Are Mortal
1995