Dominik Graf

My Falcon (2023)

Forensic biologist Inga Ehrenberg is so absorbed in her work at the Forensic Medicine Institute that she doesn't initially notice how lonely she is after her divorce a few years ago. It is only when her father claims that she has a half-sister and a falcon ...

Melting Ink (2023)

In 2020, the author Anatol Regnier published Jeder schreibt für sich allein, a book that examines the life and work of writers in Nazi Germany. In collaboration with Regnier, Dominik Graf, Constantin Lieband, and Felix von Boehm have adapted this book int ...

Shadows of the Past (2022)

As a 16-year-old girl, Christina experienced her great love – with 39-year-old Jakob. When he died in an accident, he left an irrevocable gap in her life. Twenty years later, young Patrick rescues Christina from a thunderstorm. From the beginning, he rem ...

Fabian: Going to the Dogs (2021)

In 1930s Berlin, Dr. Jakob Fabian, who works by day in advertising for a cigarette company and by night wanders the streets of the city, falls in love with an actress. As her career begins to blossom, prospects for his future begin to wane. ...

Crossroads (2018)

A woman goes through a weekend full of ups and downs after a shocking diagnose, according to which she has less than a year left to live. ...

Golem: The Return (2017)

Upcoming science-fiction thriller directed by Dominik Graf. ...

Twilight Eternal (2017)

It's his last chance to get back on his feet. And so Philipp Keyser knows no scruples as he approaches the young painter Alma, to find a lost painting, which is in the possession of a mysterious old man. Too late, Philip is clear that he expires more and m ...

Open Wounds – A Journey through German Genre Films (2017)

A documentary about German cinema from 1960 to 1990. It follows "Verfluchte Liebe deutscher Film. ...

Manhunt: Escape to the Carpathians (2016)

A breathless criminal hunt, which leads into the remote mountain world of Romania, with the portrait of a foreign country, which has remained standing in time. Hanna Landauer and Sven Schröder are part of a special unit of the LKA, which traps fugitives a ...

Doomed Love: A Journey Through German Genre Films (2016)

An alternative history of the not-so-well-known West German genre cinema of the 1960s and 1970s. ...

Was heißt hier Ende? Der Filmkritiker Michael Althen (2015)

Documentary about German film critic Michael Althen. ...

Beloved Sisters (2014)

A love triangle forms between post-Enlightenment writer Friedrich Schiller and two sisters -- one who became his wife, and the other, his biographer. ...

Wealthy Corpses: A Crime Story from Starnberg (2014)

Starnberg. An idyll with fangs. This is where police master trainee Ariane from Dortmund ends up. Inspector Lu takes her firmly under his wing. Her first cases are typical and strange: the Kini is found dead in the lake - again. And then Sisi is kidnapped. ...

Es werde Stadt! – 50 Jahre Grimme-Preis in Marl (2014)

An overview of the interconnecting relationship between the most important TV award in Germany, the Grimme-Preis, and the town Marl where it is handed out once a year. ...

Lawinen der Erinnerung (2012)

The leitmotif for this film portrait is Oliver Storz's autobiographical novel Die Freibadclique, which tells the story of a group of friends drafted into the army as fifteen-year-olds just before the end of the Second World War. Again and again, Dominik Gr ...

The Invisible Girl (2011)

Eleven years ago, an 8-year-old girl disappeared from a small German town on the German-Czech border. Although her body was never found, nor were there any traces of blood or DNA evidence, a mentally-disabled man was coerced to confess to the crime. Even t ...

Dreileben: Don’t Follow Me Around (2011)

The police psychologist Jo is supposed to help catch the sex offender Molesch. Since the hotel is fully booked, she stays with her old college friend Vera and her husband Bruno. It turns out that Vera and Jo used to be in love with the same man. The two wo ...

The Road We Don’t Walk Together (2009)

Kommissar Süden und der Luftgitarrist (2009)

Inspector Süden's friend and colleague Martin Heuer is in the final of the German qualifying round for the air guitar world championship. Suddenly his toughest competitor is nowhere to be found: Edward Loos, an architect and loner in real life, who is bet ...

Germany ’09 – 13 Short Films About the State of the Nation (2009)

Thirteen German directors present short films exploring the state of their country. ...

The Vow (2007)

1818 in the Münsterland: Innumerable pilgrims seeking comfort and consolation visit the bedside of Anna Katharina von Emmerich, a nun whose body bears marks of the holy wounds of Christ on her chest, forehead and hands. Clemens von Brentano, an artist in ...

A City Is Blackmailed (2007)

A village is blackmailing the city of Leipzig. ...

The Red Cockatoo (2006)

A coming-of-age story set in Germany in the 1960s. Siggi becomes involved in a love triangle when he falls for Luise, but the tightening political climate forces him to make a fateful decision. ...

Cold Spring (2004)

A rebellious young woman is thrown out by her wealthy, but marbly parents and gets into a nightmare of poverty, prostitution and sickness. ...

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 ...

A Map of the Heart (2002)

Katrin and Jürgen spend their holidays in Corsica. Katrin is in her mid-thirties, working as a tracer at Jürgen's company who suddenly remembers he's married – but not with Kathrin. So they decide to end their vacation earlier than they had planned. Vi ...

Friends of Friends (2002)

Dominik Graf relocates the story of the same name by Henry James from the 19th century to the year 2001. ...

Munich: Secrets of a City (2000)

A collage of memories, fictional stories, biographies, dreams and missed opportunities, which in their entirety represent the idea of Munich. ...

Your Best Years (1999)

Vera Kemp, heiress of an industrial enterprise, lives in an apparently perfect world. While she doesn't care for big business, her husband Manfred runs the company. However, she learns about his affair with a younger woman and tries to save her marriage. D ...

Bitter Innocence (1999)

Andreas Brandt is the head of the research department in a pharmaceutical company. He earns enough to build a future with his wife Monica and his daughter Eva. But a merger puts his position in jeopardy. Brandt randomly observes Larssen, who's responsible ...

Doktor Knock (1997)

The diabolically brilliant doctor Dr. Knock from Karlsruhe takes over a rural doctor's practice in Bavaria. To achieve his goal of a lucrative sanatorium, he must overcome empty waiting rooms, empty coffers and gullible citizens. And so Dr. Knock intrigues ...

The Scorpion (1997)

Josef Bertholt is head of operations of the Munich Police's drug squad. When his wife Lily is the victim of a hit by drug dealers, he becomes even more obsessed with his work. ...

A Whispering in the Mountain of Things (1997)

Dominik Graf, now a leading filmmaker, revisits his late father Robert Graf's acting career (1956–1966), during which Robert appeared in 20 features and 25 TV dramas by directors like Hoffmann, Staudte, Siodmak, Sturges, and Comencini. Through archival c ...

Journey to Weimar (1996)

The Invincibles (1994)

Simon, the leader of a police special unit, becomes caught up in a complex scheme involving bribery and money-laundering, as well as an affair with the beautiful wife of a government official investigating organized crime and political corruption. After th ...

Frauen sind was Wunderbares (1994)

An attractive teacher is faced with a big problem: she can't decide which of her two "men of the heart" she should choose. She has to choose between her current boyfriend, who is a free-spirited womanizer, and a reserved university lecturer who has a six-y ...

Nachtwache (1993)

A deliriously vulgar modernist journey to the end of the night. ...

The Gamblers (1990)

Jojo was counting on his inheritance from a rich uncle to pay off his gambling debts, but the old man played a dirty trick on him, giving him custody of an oversized dog, and leaving the real cash in the hands of one of his neices. His comfortable fantasy ...

Tiger, Löwe, Panther (1989)

The three friends Pat, Nicoletta and Sissy are in their 30s and actually lead very decent lives. But that alone does not satisfy them: Like cats of prey, they are on the hunt for happiness, which they seek in relationships with the opposite sex. ...

Die Beute (1988)

The private detective Nelly (Martina Gedeck) has a moored and industrial property. The moor has been cultivated for a year, but the politics are still there. The children of the industry blame her wife Gerda (Donata Höffer), who made the most of her profi ...

The Cat (1988)

Two bank robbers hold the clerks hostage and demand 3 million German marks as ransom. What the police do not realize is that the true criminal mastermind watches them from outside the bank, anticipating every move. ...

Bei Thea (1988)

David flies from Tel Aviv to Munich to study. Through a gay friend he meets Thea, the older quirky landlady of a gay pub. He becomes friends with Thea. She recognizes through a ring David wears that he is her grandson. ...

Drei gegen drei (1985)

The plan is simple: the three generals Weingarten, Ludovico and Klotz from San Chaco set a hitman on their doubles Stephan, Kralle and Peter, who live in Germany, in order to fake their deaths and also lighten the state coffers by 300 million dollars. But ...

Treffer (1984)

Albi, Franz and Tayfun want little more in life than to ride their bikes, but things toughen up when they get unemployed. ...

Second Sight (1982)

A young woman who works in a bookstore has been terrified by nightmares about having committed suicide in a past lifetime, combined with a sense of déjà vu regarding a specific apartment building. When she meets a young man who works in an optical compan ...

Neon City (1982)

Episode movie about the no-future generation of the early 1980s. ...

Der kostbare Gast (1979)

Satire by Dominik Graf. An unsuspecting man is hired as a surrogate father. The income is good, the apartment is fully furnished, only the children's room is empty. A middle-class couple (Donata Höffner and "Tatort" detective Charles Brauer) desperately ...

Nur ein kleines bisschen Liebe (1977)

A young sex worker in search of love... ...

The Universal Theory (2023)

Johannes, a doctor of physics, travels with his doctoral supervisor to a scientific congress in the Alps. A series of mysterious incidents occur on site. He meets Karin, a mysterious jazz pianist who seems to know more about him than she can know. Suddenly ...

Open Wounds – A Journey through German Genre Films (2017)

A documentary about German cinema from 1960 to 1990. It follows "Verfluchte Liebe deutscher Film. ...

Show What You Love (2016)

In the 1970s, the Munich Group set about revolutionizing German film with low budgets and an excess of creativity. The Bungalow bar next to the Türkendolch theater was their meeting place, who were inspired by the French New Wave and New Hollywood. Munich ...

Return to Beethoven Street: Sam Fuller in Germany (2015)

A documentary on the 1973 Sam Fuller film Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street. ...

Mythos Metropolis (2010)

Documentary by Eckhart Schmidt. ...

Germany ’09 – 13 Short Films About the State of the Nation (2009)

Thirteen German directors present short films exploring the state of their country. ...

Auge in Auge - Eine deutsche Filmgeschichte (2008)

This is not merely another film about cinema history; it is a film about the love of cinema, a journey of discovery through over a century of German film history. Ten people working in film today remember their favourite films of yesteryear. ...

Fremder Bruder (2006)

Friends of Friends (2002)

Dominik Graf relocates the story of the same name by Henry James from the 19th century to the year 2001. ...

Munich: Secrets of a City (2000)

A collage of memories, fictional stories, biographies, dreams and missed opportunities, which in their entirety represent the idea of Munich. ...

Irren ist männlich (1996)

Lawyer Thomas Neumann is extremely successful in his career and happily married to his wife Bettina. Nevertheless, he has a mistress on the side, who one day reveals to him that she wants him to have a child. Thomas agrees, but a sperm test reveals that he ...

Tango im Bauch (1985)

Kieselsteine (1983)

Vienna in the eighties. An accidental meeting in a restaurant. She, Hannah, is Jewish and has a live-in lover, a young and successful architect. He, Friedrich, is a German and lives permanently in Vienna. Two worlds collide with another, begin to become e ...

1+1=3 (1979)

An unmarried actress in Munich becomes pregnant but decides against marrying the child's father, and eventually moves in with a more agreeable man she meets on a winter sports holiday. ...

Maiden's War (1977)

The three daughters of the Dessau merchant Sellmann move with their father to Prague in 1936, where he accepted a position as director of the Böhmische Landesbank. For the three different women begins a new life, which accompanies the film over a period o ...