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No Asylum: The Untold Chapter of Anne Frank's Story (2015)

Anne Frank's father, Otto shows his enduring love for his daughter by desperately seeking visas to save their family from the Holocaust. No Asylum brings Otto's voice to life through his recently discovered letters, revealing for the first time the emotion ...

Hunkeler und der Fall Livius (2009)

Swiss allotment gardener Livius is murdered in his garden on French soil. The case must therefore be investigated by both the Swiss and French police. This leads to friction between the two forces. To make matters worse, Hunkeler has to cut short his vacat ...

Das Fräuleinwunder (2009)

On her eightieth birthday, a lawyer gives Frida Borel, the wealthy heiress of a textile fortune from St. Gallen, a mysterious pill from the legacy of her father, who died long ago. This miracle pill is supposed to relieve her of the misery and infirmity of ...

Hunkeler - Tod einer Ärztin (2005)

A summer of the century in Basel – but no vacation for Inspector Hunkeler. Instead of spending time with his partner Hedwig in Alsace, he has to take on a murky case: his family doctor, a liberal politician well known in the city, has been found murdered ...

Propaganda (2004)

Love in Thoughts (2004)

A posthumous look at the last days of Guenther's life as he, his best friend, and his sister let loose on a four-day binge of alcohol, drugs, and sex. ...

Mit deinen Augen (2004)

Despite her blindness, the famous singer Sophie Martell, who lives in Venice, has remained a cheerful, optimistic woman. However, she does not look forward to much, as her agent David hired journalist Eike Blohm to write Sophie's biography. But soon the id ...

Nobel (2001)

This is the story of writer Alberto's long journey to Stockholm, where the Nobel Prize awaits him, in a blazing Maserati. He is accompanied by Alessandro, a young journalist whose job is to interview him along the way. Personal and generational dynamics ar ...

Der Verleger (2001)

"The Publisher" is about the success story of a visionary man who begins after 1945 with a rickety car and a stack of novels. With his charismatic personality, he convinced the Allies to give him a newspaper license. A radio magazine soon follows, which qu ...

Jud Süß – Ein Film als Verbrechen? (2001)

"The blood of millions of people hangs on this film" wrote the newspapers in 1949, when the trial of Veit Harlan began. Between 1940 and 1945, 20 million Germans saw his inflammatory film "Jud Süß". Is Harlan a "director of the devil", as the public pros ...

Stan Becker – Echte Freunde (2000)

While searching for a treasure in the Berlin sewers, Stan Becker and his friend Oskar come across a dead woman. A short time later, the police arrest the two treasure hunters on suspicion of the crime. While in custody, Oskar falls victim to murder. After ...

Sunshine (1999)

The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century. ...

Totalschaden (1998)

Schalom, meine Liebe (1998)

My Mother's Courage (1995)

The deportation of 4000 Jews from Budapest to Auschwitz in July 1944, as told by George Tabori, and how the narrator's mother escaped it, owing to coincidence, courage and some help from where you'd least expect it. ...

Das größte Fest des Jahres (1991)

A TV special about the christmas celebrations of the most popular TV characters in the ZDF at that time. ...

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 ...

Die Frosch-Intrige (1991)

Eine Frau für Alfie (1989)

Elmar works as a local editor at the "Stadt-Anzeiger." What nobody knows is that his best reports come from Alfie. ...

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 ...

Zieh den Stecker raus, das Wasser kocht (1986)

Hammer (1986)

Gnadenlos (1984)

God Does Not Believe in Us Anymore (1982)

After his father is murdered by the Nazis in 1938, a young Viennese Jew named Ferry Tobler flees to Prague, where he joins forces with another expatriate and a sympathetic Czech relief worker. Together with other Jewish refugees, the three make their way t ...

The Magic Mountain (1982)

Hans Castorp, fresh from university and about to become a civil engineer, comes to the Sanatorium Berghof in the Swiss Alps to visit his cousin Joachim, an army officer, who is recovering there from tuberculosis. Intending to remain at the Berghof for thre ...

Bananen-Paul (1982)

A bear escapes from the circus and befriends a girl. ...

Cassette Love (1981)

At the heart of the film is the partner selection institute Duogena, which—very progressive for its time—not only works with computers but also uses video technology: as a visual calling card, a video portrait is recorded of each client in the Duogena ...

Charlotte (1981)

In 1939, Charlotte Salomon leaves Berlin to seek refuge at her grandparents' villa in the south of France. A little later, war breaks out, and Charlotte must, besides forgetting all she left behind, deal with her grandmother's depression, and her mother's ...

Das waren noch Zeiten - Kleine Geschichten von Kalke & Söhne (1981)

Wie der Mond über Feuer und Blut (1981)

Kameraden (1981)

The Rebel (1980)

"Poliziotti solitudine e rabbia" or "Ein Mann namens Venedig" (A Man called Venice), as it was called in Germany, is an Italian-German crime drama co-production from 1979, filmed mainly in the snowy winter of bleak West-Berlin. Italian cop Nick, played by ...

The Magician of Lublin (1979)

Yasha is a Jewish stage magician who tours through eastern Europe while destroying his career through personal problems. He has one more chance at theatrical success, but he needs to do a brand new trick in a Warsaw theater. ...

Es begann bei Tiffany (1979)

David (1979)

Although members of the Hitler Youth chant anti-Semitic paroles in front of his house during the Purim festival, Rabbi Singer is still profoundly convinced that Germany will stay a safe country for him, his family, and his fellow believers. But several yea ...

Mulligans Rückkehr (1977)

Prometheus aus der Seitengasse (1970)