Dietmar Mues

Der Meisterdieb (2010)

Robert, who ran away from home as a boy, returns to reveal he's become a master thief. His parents want to send him away again, afraid he'll wind up on the gallows. ...

Ladylike – Jetzt erst recht! (2010)

Tod am Engelstein (2010)

Die Literaturagentin Lara Brunn fährt nach längerer Zeit wieder in ihren Heimatort in den Bayerischen Alpen. Anlass ist der Geburtstag ihrer Mutter. Lara wartet gemeinsam mit ihrer Schwester Sylvia im Elternhaus, doch die Mutter taucht nicht auf. Am näc ...

Jeder Mensch braucht ein Geheimnis (2010)

Early retired principal Helmut Lürzer takes off to Italy with his mistress without a sound, leaving behind an unsuspecting and confused family. His wife Luise, their four grown-up children and even the grandchildren search for their grandfather. Helmut, w ...

Up! Up! To the sky (2008)

From an early age, Arnold believes he is an extraterrestrial. Day in, day out, he is busy trying to build a flying machine that will finally take him "home". Protected by his mother Ida and her long-time admirer, the country doctor Emil, he is regarded as ...

Prinz und Paparazzi (2005)

Das Geheimnis des roten Hauses (2005)

Thuringia, around the turn of the century: Eva Hermsdorf takes up a position as governess at the court of Count Rudolph von Plessen. A deep affection quickly develops between the two, but a secret makes their love impossible: Rudolph is said to have killed ...

Hilfe, ich bin Millionär (2003)

Das Herz ist rot (2003)

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 ...

Kollaps (2002)

Die achte Todsünde: Das Toskana-Karussell (2002)

Liebe und Verrat (2002)

Benno Deukert, a talented young boxer, gets to know Marie. The two fall in love and dream of a future together. ...

Eine öffentliche Affäre (2001)

Scharf aufs Leben (2000)

Scheidung auf Rädern (2000)

A Good Opportunity (1999)

Gosbert Klee and Thilo "Abo" Abogast are anything but down on their luck. Nothing in their pockets, nothing on their minds and nothing but trouble to boot! But just as Gosbert's caravan has been blown up in an accident and Abo is being pursued by a bailiff ...

Der Hund aus der Elbe (1999)

Three children rescue a pit bull from an illegal dog fighting ring. ...

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 ...

Der kleine Dachschaden (1998)

A wealthy couple in early retirement move into a bungalow in a park-like residential complex and are all set for a fulfilling retirement. Their happiness could be perfect if the workmen hadn't caused a tiny leak in the roof, which would require repeated re ...

Woanders scheint nachts die Sonne (1997)

Vera, a young, attractive shipbuilding engineer, has both feet on the ground. She is independent, energetic and self-reliant and is bringing up her daughter Taddi on her own. A long-cherished professional dream also comes true: Vera is to work in Shanghai ...

Erhöhte Waldbrandgefahr (1997)

Romantic comedy about an elderly intellectual and a young casual worker ...

Simones Entscheidung (1997)

Architect shuttles between two husbands. ...

Conversation with the Beast (1997)

An American historian (Mr Webster) comes to Berlin to visit an old man who claims to be the real Adolf Hitler and to be 103 years old. The Hitler who died in 1945, the old man says, was just one of his six doubles - one for each weekday - while Hitler hims ...

Und morgen fängt das Leben an (1996)

Tödliche Wende (1996)

The annual sailing trip of four respectable men from Baden-Baden turns into a horror trip when a drug-addicted occasional prostitute is killed by one of them. They want to cover it up, but the father of the deceased, a local editor, investigates and decide ...

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

Der große Abgang (1995)

The young and ambitious prosecutor Gudrun Lambert has a big fish on the hook: Axel Bode. The notorious hitman has already confessed to four murders. But he stubbornly refuses to name his client. However, Lambert wants more than just Bode's conviction. She ...

Schlaraffenland (1995)

They live in junk, talk nonsense, and paint a new picture of the world. Then Johanna comes along and turns everything upside down again. Almost like in a real movie, doom, love, and death loom large. ...

Der Mann mit der Maske (1994)

A series of rapes causes a stir in a German university town. A special commission led by senior public prosecutor Schildt and detective Gawilek investigates. After months of surveillance, everything points to a chaplain as the masked perpetrator, known as ...

Ein letzter Wille (1994)

Einer zahlt immer (1992)

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

Thea und Nat (1992)

Thea is attractive, and her husband Nat is wealthy. Together, they are a classic couple who have grown apart. A "clean" breakup is imminent. But then Thea causes an accident that leaves Nat paralyzed. Plagued by guilt, she moves back into their shared apar ...

Der Fotograf (1990)

The son of a photographer chasing his dream of life in a deserted harbor area is reminded by a chance acquaintance that he loves the same type of woman as his father. When the New Yorker discovers her father's work, she begins to tell new stories with the ...

Second Hand (1990)

The State Chancellery (1989)

In the hybrid form of documentary and dramatized scenes, the Barschel affair, one of the major domestic political scandals of the 1980s, is reconstructed. While the documentary scenes are reminiscent of the familiar television images of the scandal, the fi ...

Lethal Obsession (1987)

Several known criminals already have been murdered by a professional killer, leaving no trace but the "ace" game card. The police suspects a new mob is trying to take over the district. The investigating police officer Jan is victimized by a bomb himself, ...

Betrayed (1985)

A "film-noir" on double identity and role reversal. A man is looking for a woman to love. He finds her in a seedy bar and persuades her to marry him. The day she decides to flee… he kills her. To ward off suspicion, he moves in with the sister of the dec ...

Bis später - ich muss mich erschiessen (1984)

Based on Nikolai Erdman's banned 1928 comedy play The Suicide, a socially critical grotesque about a man tired of life ...

The Axe of Wandsbek (1982)

1934, Hamburg. Adolf Hitler is about to visit the city. Hamburg's executioner falls ill, and is unable to deliver the sentence of four communists who are awaiting capital punishment in jail. Fearing that this would spoil Hitler's visit, SS leader Footh off ...

We (1982)

In the 26th century the inhabitants of Utopia have so lost their individuality, which varies in number. They live in glass houses (this was written before the invention of television), which allows the political police, called "Keepers" can easily supervis ...

Kennwort Schmetterling (1981)

Der Aufstieg - Ein Mann geht verloren (1980)

Der Tote bin ich (1979)

Stefan Schröder is a trainee teacher for Latin and German. He has just moved into an apartment in an old, desolate house in the Berlin suburbs when he receives a letter from the school authorities: they have doubts about his loyalty to the constitution! F ...

Ein Mord, den jeder begeht (1979)

Union der festen Hand (1979)

Erik Reger's roman à clef examines the development of the Rhineland industrial region from 1918 to 1928, using the Risch-Zander steelworks as a case study: Strikes, the Emperor's visit, revolution, workers' and soldiers' councils, the occupation of the Ru ...

Die seltsamen Begegnungen des Prof. Taratonga (1978)

Feuer um Mitternacht (1978)

After the suicide of his father, a boy commits several pranks to take revenge on the supposed culprit and is suspected of being an arsonist without guilt. ...

Polly oder Die Bataille am Bluewater Creek (1975)

The Odessa File (1974)

Following the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, investigative journalist Peter Miller sets out to hunt down an SS Captain and former concentration camp commander. In doing so he discovers that, despite allegations of war crimes, the former commander has be ...