Arnd Schimkat

It's Just a Phase, Honeybunny (2021)

The successful writer Paul and the sought-after voice actress Emilia were always considered to be the absolute dream couple by friends: Harmonious, happy, successful, with three charming children named Bo, Marie and Fe. But now, in their late 40s, their re ...

The old Man and the Pain in the Neck (2020)

Shortly before his 75th birthday, Wilhelm Schürmann has no desire to adapt his lifestyle even a little to suit his age and his health problems. When, after a bout of weakness, he was told to stop driving - at least for the time being - and move in with hi ...

Eine Almhütte für Zwei (2020)

"Eine Almhütte für Zwei" tells an unusual love story: two adults who have remained mentally at the level of children are expecting children. While the happy couple - played by Tom Beck and Anna Drexler - are looking forward to their happy family, the env ...

Ausgrissn! - In der Lederhosn nach Las Vegas (2020)

The Perfect Trap (2019)

The discovery of a magic mirror allows Fred to realize his dream: his twin tidies up his room, eats without complaining and becomes first in class. But Fred did not keep his promise to keep this secret by revealing it to his friend, Émile. ...

Views (2019)

Terminally ill Frank and Martin get to know each other in a hospital room. When Martin excitedly tells his new roommate what he can see outside the window, Frank has no idea that the encounter will change his views forever. ...

Meet Me in the Woods (2018)

The petty criminal Frieda stops the physicist Oskar from killing himself. They both embark on a journey to Norway. Oskar does'nt seem to find life worth living as he has calculated that he will never find love and therefore spend the rest of his lifetime a ...

The Last Pig (2016)

Plum out of luck, Swabian farmer Huber's farm goes under. Then his girlfriend Birgit takes over her father's newly-acquired firm – in former East Germany. That's reason enough for Huber to bail on his debts and head out on a road trip through southwest G ...

Neid ist auch keine Lösung (2016)

An invitation to an old childhood friend's 40th birthday throws the Baumgartners' hitherto happy life into disarray and makes them question their previous concept of life. Marie and Markus Baumgartner are a picture-book couple. But everyday working life an ...

Offside (2015)

Neighbor Ingrid warns mother Sonja about the refugees in the neighboring home for asylum seekers. There should have been trouble again. In contrast to Sonja, her husband Peter takes a more relaxed view of everything. When his son Nils suddenly appears on t ...

Male Mistakes (2014)

Daniel and Thomas are two friends who are trying to catch girls in various therapy groups. ...

Joy of Fatherhood (2014)

A sperm donor becomes impotent - and so he searches for the woman, who got his sperm, to become a father after all... ...

Staudamm (2014)

A young man called Roman is working for an attorney. Roman has to travel to a small village in Bavaria, in order to get some files from a local police station. These files keep records about a high school massacre committed by a student a year ago. Due to ...

Die Gruberin (2013)

Sofie Gruber, trapped in a loveless marriage on a remote Bavarian farm, discovers her husband dead one morning, apparently by suicide. As rumors swirl that she had a hand in his death, Sofie must confront isolation, suspicion, and the harsh realities of he ...

Almanya: Welcome to Germany (2011)

After living 45 years in Germany, the Turkish Hüseyin Yilmaz, seventy, announces to his family that he has bought a house in Turkey and they should return to make the necessary reforms. The idea is unwelcome and causes very heated discussions. In additio ...

Otto's Eleven (2010)

Otto is a man from a little German island, where he lives together with his friends. He gets his treasure, an expensive painting, stolen by a casino owner and his female assistent, so Otto starts travelling to the main land with his friends. Will he get it ...

Machen wir's auf Finnisch (2008)

Intern Annika gets the chance for a permanent position at the record company "GrandMusic". As a rehearsal, she is supposed to prepare the Finnish boy group "Ripili" for a youth competition in Germany. When the band arrives at the airport, Annika realizes t ...

North Face (2008)

North Face tells the story of two German climbers Toni Kurz and Andreas Hinterstoisser and their attempt to scale the deadly North Face of the Eiger. ...

Tote Hose – Kann nicht, gibt’s nicht (2005)

Thomas has a problem: the single man has crashed a borrowed Ferrari into the wall without insurance and now needs a lot of money to pay for the damage. When he accidentally runs in front of the convertible of likeable photographer Lisa and ends up in hospi ...

Highway to Hellas (2015)

The life of Jorg Geissner, a German banker, totally transforms with a visit to Paladiki Island, Greece. A business trip to check on a project called "Galapagos in Greece" by the islanders and for which his bank extended a loan and credit, brought him there ...