Barbara Focke

Eltern allein zu Haus: Frau Busche (2017)

After her son moves out, single mother Katrin Busche finally wants a partner again - and unsuspectingly plunges another woman into a marital crisis. ...

24 Weeks (2016)

Astrid is a comedian who makes people laugh for a living; her husband Markus is her manager and the two of them work well together. They have a nine-year-old daughter and are expecting their second child. When they learn that their child will not be born h ...

Katie Fforde: Du und ich (2016)

Charlotte and Alec lead the life of a hip New York couple. Suddenly they are torn from their happiness when Charlotte has a rear-end collision that is the harbinger of a stroke of fate... ...

Drei Väter sind besser als keiner (2016)

Jasper finally wants to meet his dad! To fulfill his wish, Mother Maike first has to find out who that is. Three teenage acquaintances come into question: a farmer, a car screwdriver and the village's former heartthrob. With the eleven-year-old and his lit ...

Das Paradies in uns (2013)

Wenn es am schönsten ist (2013)

Schwarzwaldliebe (2009)

Elisabeth von Holbach is what you would call a tough top lawyer who knows all the tricks of the trade. So at first it seems like child's play when she is commissioned by a financially strong client to persuade the farmer Karl Lindner to sell his farm. She ...

Alter vor Schönheit (2008)

Wenn wir uns begegnen (2008)

It's the 24th of December: The emergency department of a district hospital is preparing for a turbulent night: head physician Professor Singer, who has lost his wife and is even more involved in the work, and the surgeon Hannah Cornelsen, who talks about t ...

Vater aus Liebe (2008)

The single Christine Arnold, who works with great success as a commercial lawyer in a Cologne law firm, is on her way to her old friend Judith, who is going through a very difficult phase of her life: recently she has parted company with her longtime frien ...

Beim nächsten Tanz wird alles anders (2007)

Die Liebe kommt selten allein (2006)

After the death of her husband, the attractive Eva takes refuge in her self-imposed loneliness and becomes known as a bitch. After a burglary in her picture frame store, she meets detective inspector Ferdinand Rixen. At the same time, master painter Harry ...

Glück auf vier Rädern (2006)

When psychology professor Friedrich Sibelius gives up his teaching job, a new phase of his life begins: his son Thomas needs advice, his grandchildren need attention, and his wife Anna drags him to a salsa course. On top of that, Friedrich finally wants to ...

Unter dem Eis (2005)

The family happiness of young mother and wife Jenny is suddenly shattered when she finds her neighbor's seven-year-old daughter Luzi dead in the woods. Everything points to her son Tim being partly responsible for Luzi's death. ...

Am Tag als Bobby Ewing starb (2005)

1986 - The protest movement against the construction of the nuclear power plant in Brokdorf is on its last legs. Only one rural commune remains: the "Alternative Wohnkollektiv Regenbogen". For them, it could go on and on with endless consensus discussions, ...

Lauras Wunschzettel (2005)

Laura Sebald lives with her daughter Anna in Berlin, where she runs a small goldsmith's store. Despite all the efforts of her best friend Birgit, the attractive woman has been avoiding every male acquaintance since her fiancé died in an accident five year ...

The Boxer and the Hairdresser (2004)

"The Boxer" is Mirco, a naive daredevil who easily slips his fist. "The Hairdresser" is the gay marriage swindler Fränki. Both are in jail, sharing a cell and a bed. Fränki adores Mirco. But when they are both free again, everything seems different: Mirc ...

Kebab Connection (2004)

In Hamburg, Ibrahim "Ibo" Secmez, of Turkish descent, wants to direct the first German kung-fu movie. For now, he makes commercials for his uncle's kebab restaurant. Titzie, an aspiring actress and Ibo's German girlfriend, finds she's pregnant. Ibo is unce ...

Problemzone Mann (2002)

The well-known and successful fitness trainer Vic has the world of women at his feet, but actually none of them are good enough for him. Any blemish will give him a rash! Cleo is completely different: she is fat, a self-confessed hater of sports and loves ...

Gefühle im Sturm (2002)

Stefanie von Nauenstedt begins a passionate affair with David, her brother-in-law, and realizes only too late how much her husband André and her son mean to her. ...

Die Novizin (2002)

Ein Trick zu viel (2002)

Todesstrafe - Ein Deutscher hinter Gittern (2001)

Der Zauber des Rosengartens (2001)

Landscape architect Katharina Klante is overjoyed. Not only has she found her daughter Laura again, whom she had to give up for adoption as a baby, but she has also fallen in love with Martin Vogt. As Laura's adoptive father, he has been caring for the gir ...

Der Mann, den sie nicht lieben durfte (2001)

Fashion designer Irena falls in love with a professional gamer after the death of her husband, without realizing that he received her husband's heart as an organ recipient. ...

Das Geheimnis des Rosengartens (2000)

A successful landscape architect is forced to stay overnight in a remote castle hotel after a car breaks down, where she learns that the castle owners' adopted 20-year-old daughter is actually her own presumed dead daughter. ...

Verbotenes Verlangen - Ich liebe meinen Schüler (2000)

(Television) melodrama about an established, happily married teacher who falls in love with one of her pupils and becomes pregnant by him. ...

Aimée & Jaguar (1999)

In 1943, while the Allies are bombing Berlin and the Gestapo is purging the capital of Jews, a dangerous love affair blossoms between two women – one a Jewish member of the underground, the other an exemplar of Nazi motherhood. ...

Das Miststück (1998)

When Anna Maron follows her brutal husband after a violent argument, she catches him with his mistress to make matters worse. Completely distraught, Anna drives off and promptly has an accident with hitman Alex Lee, who takes her hostage in order to have a ...

Zur Zeit zu zweit (1998)

Die Bubi Scholz Story (1998)

Dramatic life of Gustav "Bubi" Scholz, who rose from post-war obscurity and a background in black market dealings to become a celebrated European boxing champion in the late 1940s. Charismatic and widely admired, he quickly became a national icon. But as t ...

Hunger - Addicted to Love (1997)

Laura loves Simon and Simon loves Laura. But Laura does not love herself enough to let Simon closer to her. The reason being something nobody is allowed to know: she tries to suffocate any kind of feelings by giving in to eating attacks. When Simon finds o ...

Lea Katz - Die Kriminalpsychologin: Das wilde Kind (1997)

Wenn ich nicht mehr lebe (1996)

Risiko Null – Der Tod steht auf dem Speiseplan (1995)

Einer zahlt immer (1992)

On Christmas Eve, of all times, unemployed waiter Karl finds himself on the street. ...

Herzklopfen (1985)

Walter Bannert's life-affirming film depicts the passionate love affair between an apprentice and a student from a middle-class family. Julia Stemberger's first film role also marked her breakthrough as a character actress. 16-year-old toolmaker apprentice ...

Und ab geht die Post (1981)