Bibos Männer 1986

Angela, a seventeen-year-old girl who is only known by the nickname “Bibo”, faces the world, especially the world of men, with a defiantly self-confident demeanor that doesn't accept defeat. Until she meets the young musician Mischi, one of those “Gelackten aus der Stadt”...

Der Komantsche 1979

Der junge Mönch 1978

Die Sweethearts 1977

A clique of four young Munich girls are fed up with the world of men and decide to form an a cappella band. Although they are far from being good singers, they shine with their fervor in performance and their love of 1950s pop songs.

Beer Chase 1977

A man who is dissatisfied with his senseless existence in his family-life and social status steals the uniform of a policeman and then enters the Oktoberfest. Now he is somebody, he is important, he can help, people respect him, etc. His wife, other relatives and some friends start to follow him while he gets some new acquaintances.

The Atlantic Swimmers 1976

Munich Heinz and Herbert wants to escape the torturous confines of their home by swimming across the Atlantic.

Das Andechser Gefühl 1975

An anxious teacher (played, as is the lead role in all his films, by the director) sits in a beer garden on the hill of the Andechs monastery. While flies drown in his mug of beer, he confronts a life of failure: the wife he ignored, the child he neglected, the teaching duties he has shirked, and his doomed efforts at winning tenure from school officials. Only a dream from the past-the memory of a former liaison with a film star with whom he shared "the Andechs feeling, a feeling that we are not alone" - provides sustenance. Despite an unexpected series of events, longing in Achternbusch's world ultimately remains stronger than fulfilment and thirst better than beer.