Andreas Schmidt

The Invisibles (2017)

Four young Jews survive the Third Reich in the middle of Berlin by living so recklessly that they become "invisible. ...

Zwei Bauern und kein Land (2017)

The Legend of Timm Thaler: or The Boy Who Sold His Laughter (2017)

The devil tricks a little boy off his laughter in exchange for assured wins in all his bets. It depicts his journey after the deal with the devil, how he loses his soul bit by bit with each win. ...

Wolfsland - Tief im Wald (2016)

A month has passed since "Butsch", the loner from Oberlausitz, and Viola Delbrück, the detective from Hamburg, stopped a young criminal couple. Despite this success, the mood between the detectives is worse than ever. But right now they are in demand as a ...

Wolfsland – Ewig Dein (2016)

The body of John Staffler, a well-known, successful lawyer, lies in front of the police officers. In his mouth: a red thong that definitely doesn't belong to his wife. At least that's what the former Hamburg criminalist Viola Delbrück and the Upper Lusati ...

Krauses Glück (2016)

Police chief Horst Krause is retired. Together with his sister Elsa, he takes care of the inn in Schönhorst. But none of that makes him happy. ...

Emma nach Mitternacht - Frau Hölle (2016)

Emma Mayer works as a presenter for a radio station. In her show 'Emma after midnight', she listens to the concerns of callers. She discovers that Katharina Holl, who is about to go on trial for involuntary manslaughter during the construction of an indoor ...

Fortune Favors the Brave (2016)

Eleven-year-old Linh shows great grace under pressure. When her mother, who's raising her kids on her own, has to return unexpectedly to Vietnam, Linh looks after her little sister Tien and the family restaurant on her own. Of course, no one is supposed to ...

Schattenspiel (2016)

While a married man waits in his lover's posh stairwell to pick her up for a date, his manifested guilty conscience, a dark shadow, plays its games with him. ...

Emma nach Mitternacht - Der Wolf und die sieben Geiseln (2016)

Emma Mayer is a psychologist and advises people in crisis situations. She works at a radio station in Mannheim and does her best to provide callers with help and support. When a hostage-taker calls her during a broadcast, her expertise and improvisation ar ...

Das Romeo-Prinzip (2015)

Tom does not have it easy. At the student theater, his friend Jan and his beloved Annelie play the leading roles; the inconspicuous Tom, on the other hand, makes the prop. When he realizes that he must finally take his life, and especially love, into his o ...

Reiff für die Insel - Katharina und der große Schatz (2015)

At the end of winter, there is a game of bowls in the north. The islanders are proud of their bowling ball, which Thies' grandfather found 60 years ago. Only Katharina believes the archaeologist Jens Jeschen, who wants to examine the sphere in a laboratory ...

Die Wallensteins - Dresdner Dämonen (2015)

Reiff für die Insel - Katharina und der Schäfer (2015)

To Life! (2014)

Fate has taken its toll on the aging cabaret singer Ruth and the young but terminally ill Jonas. Yet despite their great age difference and their entirely opposite experiences in life, they form an intense bond and give each other a reason and purpose to l ...

Krauses Geheimnis (2014)

Horst Krause still can't believe that his sister Meta moved to Cologne because of love. When a stranger surprisingly asks for a room, some excitement returns. Albert has been abandoned by his wife and does not know how to proceed. But why does the sailor e ...

Reiff für die Insel – Katharina und die Dänen (2014)

Radical Evil (2014)

Das radikal Böse is a German-Austrian documentary that attempted to explore psychological processes and individual decision latitude "normal young men" in the German Einsatzgruppen of the Security Police and SD, which in 1941 during the Second World War a ...

Sputnik (2013)

November 9, 1989, the day the Berlin Wall came down. A 10-year-old girl and her friends attempt to use their teleportation device to beam her uncle back to East Germany but instead, as they witness on TV, end up beaming everyone in their town into West Ger ...

Banklady (2013)

Banklady tells the true story of Gisela Werler, a law-abiding factory worker from Hamburg, who falls in love with a thief and becomes a media darling as Germany's first and most notorious female bank robber. Cunning, sexy, and exciting, Gisela and her belo ...

Wetlands (2013)

Helen is a nonconformist teenage girl who maintains a conflictual relationship with her parents. Hanging out most of her time with her friend Corinna, with whom she breaks one social taboo after another, she uses sex as a way to rebel and break the convent ...

Reiff für die Insel - Katharina und der ganz große Fisch (2013)

A Family of Three (2012)

When novelist Andrea Dewenter dies in a car accident, the lives of her husband Christian, grown-up son Lars, and adolescent daughter Elaine go off the rails. For all three, the few days between Andrea's sudden death and her funeral turn into an emotional r ...

Deckname Luna (2012)

Die zertanzten Schuhe (2011)

Twelve princesses sleep in twelve beds in the same room; every night their doors are securely locked, but in the morning their shoes are found to be worn through as if they had been dancing all night. The king, in mourning, promises his kingdom and a daugh ...

Krauses Braut (2011)

Krause and Elsa are stunned: their sister Meta wants to get married. She chose the Cologne taxi driver Rudi Weisglut, whom she met two years earlier during Krause's cure on the Baltic Sea. ...

Das Mädchen auf dem Meeresgrund (2011)

When Hans Hass seeks a secretary for his Viennese office in the summer of 1947, Lotte Baierl applies for the job. She has just graduated from high school and is a big fan of Hass. Lotte is learning how to handle diving equipment and underwater cameras, as ...

Engel der Gerechtigkeit (2011)

Faust (2011)

A doctor in early 19th-century Germany becomes infatuated with the sister of a man he unintentionally killed and bargains with the Devil incarnate to conjure their union in exchange for his soul. ...

A Good Summer (2011)

A tragicomedy about the trials and tribulations of life: three lonely hearts find each other, drift apart and experience the happiness of the moment together ...

Eines Tages... (2010)

Henri 4 (2010)

A wide-ranging, energetic period piece tracing the rise of the Protestant Henry of Navarre as he goes from battlefield warrior to France's beloved King Henri IV. Director Jo Baier's epic is a classically entertaining adventure, albeit one with more than a ...

Spook Inn (2010)

Chef Ralf Dienert from Berlin buys an old inn in Spessart after the death of his wife. When he arrives there he will have to deal with the thieving ghosts Karl, Mops and Clovis. ...

Liebling, weck die Hühner auf (2009)

Author Steffen Teuffel moved from Berlin to sleepy, 'dying' Brandenburg (ex-GDR) small-town Krummenwalde with his wife Beate, who runs the local beverage firm, and their kids: smart son Kai opted out of college and happily works in the only pub; his shallo ...

Joanna Trollope: In Boston liebt man doppelt (2009)

Krauses Kur (2009)

On a summer evening the circuit of the village policeman Krause suddenly went crazy. His doctor immediately prescribed a cure on the Baltic Sea for him. And so Krause and his sisters set off in the legendary "Dübener Ei". In the sanatorium he meets his ro ...

Zoogeflüster - Komm mir nicht ins Gehege! (2008)

Deputy director Sonja Winter is fighting against the closure of "her" zoo, where she lives with her daughter Hanna. However, city councillor Antonia Grewe is determined to push through her plan. Her right-hand man is, of all people, the architect Mark Fech ...

The Moon and Other Lovers (2008)

The story of Hanna, a woman who will not take life's setbacks and knock-downs sitting down. Instead, she takes them in her stride, picks herself up and marches onward. This is a woman who continually draws new courage from her inexhaustible will to live. W ...

Fleisch ist mein Gemüse (2008)

Heinz Strunk, plagued by crater-like skin rashes, lives with his sick mother in Hamburg-Harburg in the 1980s. As a saxophonist, he tours the North German lowlands with the dance combo "Tiffanys". In this bizarre universe of Korn, Klaus & Klaus and Kotelett ...

Rumpelstilzchen (2007)

German TV adaptation of Grimm's fairy tale "Rumpelstiltskin". ...

Krauses Fest (2007)

Police chief Krause celebrates Christmas every year with his two sisters. However, this year everything will be different. ...

The Counterfeiters (2007)

The story of Jewish counterfeiter Salomon Sorowitsch, who was coerced into assisting the Nazi operation of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp during World War II. ...

Rudy: The Return of the Racing Pig (2007)

Up to now, Nickel (9) and his single dad Thomas have been managing very well together. Then Nickel goes on a school excursion and brings the little piglet Rudy back with him in his rucksack. Once he´s home, he makes a terrifying discovery: dad has a girlf ...

Beutolomäus und der geheime Weihnachtswunsch (2006)

Mutterglück (2006)

Prisoners (2006)

In a German town, teacher Irene leads an inconspicuous, boring, lonely life. One day, a man rings at her door and slips in. It's an armed convict from the prison next door, escaped with a leg wound. He now makes her a prisoner in her own home. Almost witho ...

Neandertal (2006)

17-year-old Guido suffers since his early childhood from neurodermatitis. After being taken to the hospital due to a heavy attack, he starts to question his personal and familiar environment and discovers that his parents' relationship – which he assumed ...

Summer in Berlin (2005)

An intimate study of two women friends who come to each other because of troubles with everyday life and with men and thus try to enjoy a life based on their ideas. ...

Bin ich sexy? (2005)

15-year-old Mareike dreams of making a career as a model. Her family, with whom she lives in a village in the Electoral Palatinate, don't really take these goals seriously. Especially as Mareike's appearance does not necessarily correspond to the classic f ...

The Canterville Ghost (2005)

10 year-old Paul is an average but timid boy, subject to the typical fears of most kids his age. His overprotective mother Mona, believing Paul to be disturbed, sends him off to a psychotherapist. ...

Guys & Balls (2004)

Ecki is a sweet, closeted gay man who works in his family's bakery and plays goalie in his small town's soccer team. When he both loses the big game, and is caught flirting with another player, his homophobic teammates throw him out. He vows to return one ...

Liebe in der Warteschleife (2004)

Farland (2004)

Axel and Karla are an ill-matched couple in a borderline situation. The two meet in the hospital. Axel is keeping watch at his son′s bedside and Karla is waiting for some sign of life from her sister. None of the doctors can tell them whether the young c ...

Ich will laufen! Der Fall Dieter Baumann (2004)

Sports idol Baumann, advocate of strict controls, tested positive in 1999. ...

Hunger auf Leben (2004)

Liebe auf Bewährung (2004)

After the death of her husband, the well-off widow Juliane Willbrand sinks into a great void. Her efforts to return to her old job as a librarian after twenty years prove futile until prison warden Schober gives her a chance. The challenge as head of the p ...

Alltag (2003)

Berlin Kreuzberg: Veit Bischoff keeps his head above water with a dry-cleaning business and reluctantly looks after his mentally disturbed mother on the side. His dreary everyday life is only brightened up a little by his flirtation with the cashier from t ...

Beach Boys - Rette sich wer kann (2003)

Til, Sinan and Bramstedt rave about a music career and their dream woman, the pretty Lisa from school. But it's hard to get to, because she's preparing with her friends from the DLRG group for a lifeguard mission on Sylt. But when Bramstedt knocked out the ...

Hotte in Paradise (2003)

Hotte, a Berlin-based pimp with only modest turnovers, suddenly becomes a big player in the prostitution business. He has three girls on the streets: Rosa is in love with Hotte and is working hard for him. Jenny, the new girl, is an unconventional prostitu ...

Pigs Will Fly (2003)

A man struggles with memories of his violent childhood. ...

Gangster (2002)

The crook Vincent loves Mona, the daughter of a policeman. When Mona's father finds out what Vincent does for a living, he puts him behind bars. After Vincent is released from prison after a year, he meets up with the pimp Siggi for a poker game and gamble ...

Porn.com (2002)

Veteran film director Matty Bonkers, a Hollywood legend, arrives in Berlin for an honorary retrospective tribute. While introducing his film Mockery, he receives a phone call from his producer lying in intensive care at a hospital. Blau needs a favor for o ...

Schutzengel gesucht (2001)

Anna has a dreary job as a cashier at the airport snack bar. Christmas is anything but a celebration of love for her, as she has no family or friends. Only an elderly customer tries to cheer Anna up. In vain: she has planned to commit suicide on New Year's ...

Why Don't We Do It in the Road? (2001)

In the middle of the road on Potsdamer Platz, Berlin's heaviest tourist attraction and as close to Times Square as Germany will ever get. How they manage to "do it" there is Zarah's idea, a postmodern creative artist, who likes doing it with Anton in the ...

Heidi M. (2001)

Heidi M. is in her late forties and has a small store in the pulsating center of Berlin. She goes out in the evenings with her friend Jacqui, but when she is unexpectedly confronted with romantic love, old wounds are opened. ...

Advertising Rules! (2001)

Edward Kaminsky, an aging ad man, wants a golden parachute from his agency; he must first land the Opel auto contract. Rosa, a youth with wealthy parents, wants to establish herself as an artist. The clumsy and enthusiastic Viktor, not quite honest, wants ...

Der Solist - Niemandsland (2001)

Planet Alex (2001)

Berlin Alexanderplatz; within 24 hours, various stories rotate between the heights and depths of the square, between the television tower and the subway shafts, between larger and smaller fates, that slowly but surely become entangled. ...

The Metropolitan Opera: The Magic Flute (2000)

Mozart's allegorical fairy tale has charmed audiences and inspired artists, for more than 200 years. A few weeks before this telecast, the Met unveiled a new production of the opera featuring the colorful designs of acclaimed artist David Hockney. His bold ...

Conamara (2000)

Maria is a wife and mother in the beautiful, but very remote Connemara region of Ireland. When an old friend from Germany arrives in the place, her life is thrown into turmoil. ...

Crazy (2000)

Benjamin, a 16-year-old with lousy grades, switches to a boarding school in order to eventually reach grammar school. Adjusting to his new environment is difficult as he has to struggle with being a teen... specially when he falls in love to the school's d ...

Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (1999)

A classic production from the Bayreuth Festival is made available here for the first time on DVD! Staged and directed by Richard Wagner's grandson Wolfgang Wagner at the Bayreuther Festspiele in 1999, this production of Wagner's only comic opera features a ...

Kai Rabe gegen die Vatikankiller (1998)

Director Rufus Lindner is shooting his first film: " Die Vatikankiller". With audience favorite Kai Rabe in the leading role, success is guaranteed. But suddenly chaos descends on the film team: A starlet is murdered, the bitchy leading man goes increasing ...

Plus-minus null (1998)

Berlin. A lonely construction worker falls in love with an East European prostitute. She asks him to marry her - but they have different ideas about the reason for this marriage. ...

Der Schnapper: Blumen für den Mörder (1998)

Kidnapping Mom & Dad (1998)

Life Is All You Get (1997)

After he loses his job, his father, and his girlfriend, Jan's life is a shambles. Then suddenly he meets freakish street musician Vera, and a bittersweet romance unfolds... ...

The Greatest Love and the Greatest Sorrow (1994)

The Greatest Love and the Greatest Sorrow is a film which sets out to bring the viewer closer, not to the details of Schubert's life, but to the spirit of what he was trying to express with what he called his creative gift and with which he tried "to brigh ...

The Marriage of Figaro (1994)

Live from Glyndebourne 1994. The first production to be filmed Live in Glyndebourne´s new opera house May 1994. The Marriage of Figaro is a continuation of the plot of The Barber of Seville several years later, and recounts a single "day of madness" in ...

Black Rider (1993)

A young black man is verbally harassed by an older woman on a streetcar, while the other passengers remain silent. He finally exacts his revenge. ...

Der doppelte Nötzli (1990)

Josef Nötzli has swapped his job as an accountant for a chicken farm in Switzerland. He wants to be just as successful as his twin brother John, who he believes runs the Aurora Hotel in Berlin. In reality, however, John is one of the biggest underworld bo ...

The Rose Garden (1989)

In Germany, an old man attacks another old man and is arrested. The attacker refuses to speak. A female lawyer is appointed to him. She discovers that the attacker has numbers tattooed on his arm and the attacked man was a German officer. ...

Der Leibwächter (1989)

Film is about the undercover assignment of a BKA officer as the bodyguard of a drug baron. His job is to gather information to put a stop to the cartel. But unfortunately everything goes wrong, "The Bodyguard" is exposed and eliminated in Turkey. He surviv ...

Linie 1 (1988)

Film version of the musical by the same name: Sunnie, a girl from the province, comes to Berlin to meet rock star Johnnie who had given her his address after a concert. On the subway to Kreuzberg, Sunnie becomes acquainted with a couple of strange people, ...

Peng! Du bist tot! (1987)

American German teacher Andrea Flanegan and computer game developer Kai Westerburg become entangled in the mystery of a stolen computer chip and the computer murders that Westerburg's boss Herbert Wilhelm Peters is apparently carrying out with its help. Th ...