Alexander May

Trau' niemals deinem Schwiegersohn (2006)

Zeppelin! (2005)

In 1929, on the shores of Lake Constance, zeppelins are being built in the small town of Friedrichshafen. Fascinated by airships, Robert gets a job in the assembly shop thanks to Thea's brother Konrad, with whom he has fallen madly in love. The trio spent ...

Die Rückkehr des Vaters (2004)

4 Freunde und 4 Pfoten (2003)

Mozart, a cute little dog, has inherited a fortune. You'd think a heavenly dog's life was certain. But trouble threatens the little treasure, because the wicked Titus, disinherited by his deceased mother, has hatched a diabolical plan to get his hands on h ...

Die achte Todsünde: Das Toskana-Karussell (2002)

Der Narr und seine Frau heute Abend in Pancomedia (2002)

Liebesschuld (2001)

Urged by her mother, Anke left her baby for adoption ten years ago. For years afterward, she did not speak to her again. Now the soon-to-be attorney from Hamburg travels back to her home village to make up with her dying mother. She learns that her daughte ...

Warten ist der Tod (1999)

Jew-boy Levi (1999)

Benjamin Levi (Bruno Cathomas) is a Bavarian cattle dealer traveling to pre-World War II Germany on his annual trip to a remote farming village. Levi hopes to do some business and, more importantly, win the hand of the lovely Lisbeth (Caroline Ebner). But ...

Schwarzes Blut (1999)

Sommergewitter (1998)

A Minute of Silence (1998)

In a dying French mining town near the German border, the last miners are preparing to strike. Marek and Mimmo, two young miners and friends, have different views on the impending strike. ...

Tod im Labor (1997)

Der Weihnachtsmörder (1997)

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Beichtstuhl der Begierde (1997)

Dizzy, lieber Dizzy (1997)

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Willi und die Windzors (1996)

The British parliament has decided to get rid of the royal family. All of them have to leave the county and so they move to Germany, where they want to live by their distant relatives, the Bettenberg family. But these are not amused about their snobbish vi ...

Verliebte Feinde (1995)

Ich klage an (1994)

1984 in the GDR. Jürgen and Vera Färber spend their vacation with their children Martha and Mischa in the eastern Harz Mountains. Shortly before returning home, they all play hide-and-seek together in the great outdoors. Mischa disappears without a trace ...

An Unholy Love (1993)

Georg and Eva have to keep their love secret: Georg is a catholic priest in Bavaria, Germany, obliged to celibacy. They suffer under the situation, but can't stay away from each other. ...

Ein Mann für meine Frau (1993)

Sommerliebe (1993)

Alarm auf Station 2 (1993)

Ein Engel für Felix (1992)

Bronstein's Children (1991)

East Berlin, 1973. Eighteen-year-old Hans Bronstein and his girlfriend arrive at his parents' summer house to find a former Nazi camp Kapo chained there—employed when Hans's father Arno and his friends were prisoners. Hans demands legal justice; Arno ins ...

Pappa ante Portas (1991)

Heinrich Lohse, a strict and highly efficient purchasing manager at a company bulk-orders 40 tons of mustard and enough typewriting paper for 40 years just to get discount. Heinrich's boss decides it's time for him to retire early. ...

Die Frosch-Intrige (1991)

Der Deal (1991)

Bei mir liegen Sie richtig (1990)

Willi Kritz earns his living as a night watchman and corpse washer at the East German Pathological Institute at the Berlin Clinic. In the process, he found another source of income: he steals pathological exhibits and smuggles them to West Berlin disguised ...

Ein anderer Liebhaber (1990)

Ein Treffen mit Rimbaud (1988)

A young hitchhiker is picked up by an ageing gangster on his journey south and slowly becomes familiar with his mysterious past. But their journey together ends in death. ...

Wer einsam ist, der hat es gut weil keiner da, der Ihm was tut (1986)

8 Stunden Zeit (1986)

Ami Go Home oder Der Fragebogen (1985)

Das leise Gift (1984)

Ein Mann namens Parvus (1984)

In the Sign of the Cross (1983)

Fictional story of a traffic accident that triggers a catastrophe near a small village in 1990. A liquefied gas truck collides with a transport truck carrying radioactive material for reprocessing. An accident that was never thought possible by human stand ...

Kinder unseres Volkes (1983)

Frau Juliane Winkler (1983)

Ein Fall von Zuneigung (1982)

Zwei Tote im Sender und Don Carlos im PoGl (1982)

Der Spot oder Fast eine Karriere (1981)

This bizarre comedy demonstrates - as a convincing example - how TV-commercials may be produced, sacrificing extensive amounts of money, bottomless creativity and even human life without any respect right to the finish. ...

Der Schatz des Priamos (1981)

Sting in the Flesh (1981)

Ines and Hans try to save their crumbling marriage with a vacation trip. With three children, the grandmother, and some hamsters in the overloaded car to Sardinia. ...

Alberta und Alice oder Die Unterwerfung (1981)

Johann Sebastian Bachs vergebliche Reise in den Ruhm (1980)

The last journey of Thomaskantor Johann Sebastian Bach leads from Leipzig to Potsdam. Already 60 years old, he hopes that an audition with the Prussian King Frederick II will not only bring him artistic recognition and renewed appreciation, but also an end ...

The Disgruntled (1979)

Der Durchdreher (1979)

The chaotic journalist Maximilian Glanz is working on his big book that will never be finished, answers letters to the editor of a tabloid newspaper and dreams of escaping to an island and leaving everything behind. His marriage is in crisis. And on the da ...

… von Herzen mit Schmerzen (1978)

Kleine Geschichten mit großen Tieren (1978)

Grete Minde (1977)

Grete Minde, based on the novel by Theodor Fontane, tells the story of a girl trapped in the turbulent religious and social prejudices of 17th-century Sweden. ...

Das chinesische Wunder (1977)

Haben Sie nichts zu verzollen? (1977)

Einöd (1976)

Seniorenschweiz (1976)

Kann ich noch ein bisschen bleiben? (1976)

The Clown (1976)

Based on the best-selling novel by Nobel-laureate Heinrich Böll, this drama is a passionate indictment of Catholicism. Hans Schnier (Helmut Griem) has earned his living as a clown, though he is in fact a very covert sort of social critic. After enduring a ...

Baby Hamilton oder Das kommt in den besten Familien vor (1975)

A baby is delivered to the Hamilton family, triggering a turbulent search for those responsible among six potential fathers. ...

Die Halde (1975)

On his wanderings, Tom meets young Lizzi and accompanies her to the vacation resort "Im Sonnengrund". The residents there are threatened by a huge garbage dump that will bury them all. ...

Depressionen (1975)

Diary of a Disease - prophesied that all psychiatric experience speaks against the described spontaneous healing. The next depression is determined. ...

Ein deutsches Attentat (1975)

Auguste Bolte (1974)

Ermittlungen gegen Unbekannt (1974)

Karussells werden im Himmel gemacht (1973)

Dream City (1973)

A married couple of artists move to a utopian town known for its absolute freedom, but behind the surface perversion and violence are spreading. ...

The Pedestrian (1973)

When a German businessman causes a car accident with deadly consequences, the papers start digging into his past to find scandals. What they find causes him to reevaluate his own past during WW2 when he was in Greece. ...

Die Geschichte einer dicken Frau (1973)

Das Paradies auf der anderen Seite (1972)

Betreten verboten (1972)

The Torbergs' life follows an orderly course, defined by bourgeois convention. Per-Olof, the son, opposes his father's authoritarianism, and their daughter Monika, the sculptor, has moved out of the family home. However, this has not prompted Mr. Torberg t ...

Zeitaufnahme (1972)

Jakob von Gunten (1971)

Adaptation of Robert Walser's novel about a young man who enters an oppressive servant school. ...

Oliver (1971)

Verschwörung in Ulm – Der Reichswehrprozeß 1930 (1971)

Karpfs Karriere (1971)

What to do if you are stuck as a police officer in a boring small town, no decent crimes happen and you should actually make the big career at the instigation of your wife? In this lamentable situation is Heinrich Karpf. An unfine plan is supposed to bring ...

Prozeß Mariotti (1970)

August der Starke - Ein ganzes Volk nennt ihn Papa (1970)

Jonathan (1970)

A group of vampires terrorizes a small village on the German North Sea Coast. The young Jonathan joins a group of fellow students and locals, who plan an uprising against the vampires. ...

Bischof Ketteler (1969)

La felicità... (1969)

Herr Wolff hat seine Krise (1969)

Fragestunde (1969)

Das Haus mit den sieben Stockwerken (1968)

Versetzung (1968)

Tattoo (1967)

A well-off couple adopt a 16-year-old boy from an orphanage in West Berlin, but their attempts to help him assimilate into his new surroundings fail. The repressive tolerance of the well-educated adoptive parents is just too much for the mischievous young ...

Das Karussell (1965)

Sie werden sterben, Sire (1964)

Die Reise um die Erde (1964)

Zwei Whisky und ein Sofa (1963)

Beate Dehn and Klaus Hartmann are two ambitious young architects locked in a fierce professional rivalry. When both enter the same high-stakes design competition, their battle of wits turns personal—and seductive. Charming and manipulative, Klaus has a r ...

Orden für die Wunderkinder (1963)

A retirement home. An elderly gentleman is conversing with a paralyzed countess. When she asks him why he was awarded the title of advisor and an order, Ziegler modestly replies, "For services to the fatherland and the people." The scene changes, and we se ...

Zaubereien oder Die Tücke des Objekts (1962)

Nichts als die Wahrheit (1969)