Dominique Horwitz

Arnold Schönberg - Der rastlose Visionär (2024)

Mordach: Death in the Mountains (2023)

The notion that he embarked on a journey to the picturesque Mordach solely for the purpose of hiking finds no credence in the eyes of Frankfurt's BKA official, Cuma Ozan, following the discovery of a corpse. His local colleagues, in fact, entertain suspici ...

Two-Headed Calves (2022)

Two-Headed Calves is Johannes and Marie's wedding video. For Johannes, the marriage is supposed to mark the start of a new life, and in the end it does, just differently than expected. ...

Confessions of Felix Krull (2021)

Literary adaptation: a handsome youth of humble origins rises in society through his connections made as an elevator attendant in a luxury hotel. ...

Das Märchen vom goldenen Taler (2020)

There is great sadness in the small village Everywhere. Since the Golden Thaler is no longer owned by the village, nothing grows there except cabbage and discouragement. ...

Weserlust Hotel (2018)

Schwarzach 23 und der Schädel des Saatan (2018)

When the head of Herbi Zidinger is discovered on the head of a scarecrow, Chief Inspector Franz Germinger Jr. is immediately on the scene. His sister discovered the skull, so Germinger Senior quickly learns about the murder and, as usual, gets involved in ...

All inclusive - eine Inklusive Komödie (2016)

Mutter reicht's jetzt (2016)

On their 35th anniversary, Barbara dreams of Provence's lavender fields, but her husband won't budge. Secretly, she joins a French class with free‐spirited teacher Alexander and classmates Mehmet, Richard, Simon, and Miriam, learning life as much as lang ...

Nele in Berlin (2015)

Nele is studying pharmacy in Berlin so that she can take over her father's pharmacy in Bad Homburg, or so her dad thinks. Hans-Peter has no idea that his daughter has dropped out of university and is restoring furniture instead. Nor does he know that his w ...

Mona kriegt ein Baby (2014)

The 14-years old Mona becomes pregnant. Problems in the family are the result. ...

Krauses Braut (2011)

Krause and Elsa are stunned: their sister Meta wants to get married. She chose the Cologne taxi driver Rudi Weisglut, whom she met two years earlier during Krause's cure on the Baltic Sea. ...

Löwenzahn - Das Kinoabenteuer (2011)

Little Fritz Fuchs and his friend Roman Zenkert are about to recover Hannibal's legendary Alpenschatz. However, as an avalanche in the cave goes down, the jammed Fritz is ignored by his "buddy" ignominiously. Decades later, Fuchs is overtaken by his past. ...

Gegengerade (2011)

It is FC St. Pauli's most important match and the fans flock to Hamburg's Millerntor Stadium in droves to support their heroes for ninety minutes. Finally, the chance to win promotion to the first Bundesliga is here. Magnus, Kowalski, Arne, Dr. Hennings an ...

Faust II reloaded - Den lieb ich, der Unmögliches begehrt! (2010)

A couple of school kids from difficult social backgrounds put on a play at school - an ambitious staging of Goethe's Faust II. ...

Die Frau des Frisörs (2008)

Vera and Siegfried have taken out a large loan and mortgaged their house and livelihood so that Vera can realize her lifelong dream of becoming a fashion designer. Unfortunately, her dream is shattered. Vera wonders how she's going to teach the down-to-ear ...

Himmlischer Besuch für Lisa (2008)

After the accidental death of her husband, Lisa Bergmann no longer sees any meaning in life. Until one day three angels named Raphaela, Wally and Asmodeus appear. ...

Red Zora (2008)

In this sun soaked adventure for the entire family, a group of five orphaned children form their own makeshift family while attempting to operate outside the rules of society. Though they must sometimes steal to survive, their loyalty to one another means ...

Krauses Fest (2007)

Police chief Krause celebrates Christmas every year with his two sisters. However, this year everything will be different. ...

You're Not Alone (2007)

Master painter Hans Moll and his wife, the television announcer Ms. Wellinek and her husband, and the German-Russian Jew Yevgenia have many things to live on: food, drink, an apartment. What they do not have is work. They all discover the yearning for a ch ...

Rudy: The Return of the Racing Pig (2007)

Up to now, Nickel (9) and his single dad Thomas have been managing very well together. Then Nickel goes on a school excursion and brings the little piglet Rudy back with him in his rucksack. Once he´s home, he makes a terrifying discovery: dad has a girlf ...

Strike (2007)

A nearly illiterate woman becomes one of the founders of Poland's Solidarity union. ...

Albert - Mein unsichtbarer Freund (2007)

Shooting Dogs (2006)

Two westerners, a priest and a teacher find themselves in the middle of the Rwandan genocide and face a moral dilemna. Do they place themselves in danger and protect the refugees, or escape the country with their lives? Based on a true story. ...

The Quiet Love (2005)

Two very different love stories cross each other in warm and magical way. A humanistic and yet mysterious film about love and death near the German/Danish border. ...

Die Blindgänger (2004)

Marie is a 13 year old girl and blind. When she meets Herbert something wonderful begins. ...

My Magical Friend Sams (2003)

Sams in danger, it is said, when Mr. Taschenbier's son Martin brings the Sams back into the household, which, however, is kidnapped shortly afterwards by the sports teacher because of his special skills. ...

Mord im Haus des Herrn (2002)

Ich schenk dir einen Seitensprung (2002)

The firefighter Erik wants to make a proposal to his girlfriend Sofie, but at the crucial moment sparkles the attractive Melissa in between. When Sofie learns that Erik had a fleeting affair with Melissa on Carnival, a world collapses for her. But the two ...

Help! I'm a Boy (2002)

In Hamburg, an aged sorcerer is searching for a replacement. Freddie, who's about 12, finds the wizard's book of spells and knows enough to read a few lines to his friend Emma. She repeats the lines adding exasperation about Mickey, a boy who's often mean ...

Verrückt nach Paris (2002)

A road movie comedy about the longing for freedom and the realization of dreams: Hilde, Karl and Philip live in a Bremen residential home for people with disabilities. While the two boys work in a workshop where they make toy "waddling ducks", Hilde peels ...

Der Schuß (2001)

Bargeld lacht (2001)

Liebesschuld (2001)

Urged by her mother, Anke left her baby for adoption ten years ago. For years afterward, she did not speak to her again. Now the soon-to-be attorney from Hamburg travels back to her home village to make up with her dying mother. She learns that her daughte ...

Küss mich, Tiger! (2001)

A literature professor is happily married, but he feels the need for more romance in his life ...

Heidi M. (2001)

Heidi M. is in her late forties and has a small store in the pulsating center of Berlin. She goes out in the evenings with her friend Jacqui, but when she is unexpectedly confronted with romantic love, old wounds are opened. ...

Ein tödliches Wochenende (2001)

Liebesengel (2000)

Enthüllung einer Ehe (2000)

Jana is faced with a mystery: Why is her partner Roman behaving so strangely? At first she thinks she has a mistress. When she spies on her, the far more painful truth comes to light. Roman has been leading a double life for years. She feels like a woman t ...

Der Mörder in meiner Nähe (2000)

A maniac is once again on the loose in Berlin. A young woman narrowly escapes from the fiend. She is uncooperative with the police, as if she knows the perpetrator and wants to protect him. In fact, her brother and even her husband, one an internist and th ...

Bonhoeffer: Agent of Grace (2000)

The story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German clergyman of great distinction, who actively opposed Hitler and the Nazis. His convictions cost him his life. What is a moral person to do in a time of savage immorality? That question tormented Dietrich Bonhoeff ...

Meine Mutter, meine Rivalin (2000)

Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht (1999)

Five friends go to a ski lodge on Christmas Eve in a good mood to spend the Christmas vacations together. At the same time, three gangsters attack a department store - the robbery ends in disaster. The three perpetrators manage to escape, but one of them i ...

Night Shapes (1999)

The Pope is in town and the night of his stay is anything but heavenly for some of Berlin′s inhabitants. Rich and poor, down-and-outs and policemen, street kids and taxi drivers - in their search for a little bit of happiness, they all end up on an amusi ...

Die Braut (1999)

The relationship between Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the great German writer, and Christiane Vulpius, a village girl, is one of the instantaneous and fiery passion. They lived together for 28 years, 18 of these living in sin, 10 a married couple. Christian ...

Der Tod in deinen Augen (1999)

During a business lunch, a hearing-impaired woman becomes an "earwitness" to a murder plot, which she reads from the lips of a man at the next table. She informs the police, but initially ends up with a corrupt policeman who lulls her into a false sense of ...

No Trains No Planes (1999)

The film takes place in a small cafe on the forecourt. When Gerard, one of the regular visitors, appears in the cafe to inform him that he is leaving, the usual course of the cafe's life suddenly breaks. ...

Das Glück wohnt hinterm Deich (1998)

Frauen lügen nicht (1998)

The two friends Marie and Hannah spend a vacation together in Italy. While Hannah has just been divorced, the fun-loving Marie throws herself into an affair with the Viennese surgeon Xavier Gruber. However, he only wants a vacation flirtation without conse ...

Ein tödliches Verhältnis (1998)

Schalom, meine Liebe (1998)

Trickser (1997)

After a successful bank robbery, Erik and Bingo have to part again. While Erik is stuck in a demolition house with his booty and broken foot, Bingo believes Erik has settled with the money. The accomplices become bitter rivals. ...

Tödliche Wahl (1995)

Der letzte Kosmonaut (1994)

Shokov is the last cosmonaut of the "Mir" station. On board: the secret satellite weapon "Medusa". A corrupt minister wants to sell them abroad. Shokov, fearing for his life, causes galactic chaos. ...

Stalingrad (1993)

A German Platoon is explored through the brutal fighting of the Battle of Stalingrad. After half of their number is wiped out and they're placed under the command of a sadistic captain, the platoon lieutenant leads his men to desert. The platoon members at ...

Christinas Seitensprung (1993)

Bommels Billigflüge (1993)

La Treizième Voiture (1993)

A Scottish woman with her nephew travels to Russia in the Paris-Moscow express. On the same flight in the 13th carriage, the old icons are returning from France to Russia. Thieves try to replace real icons with fake ones. ...

Dead Flowers (1992)

Alex (Thierry Van Werveke), a pest exterminator who lives with his grandmother, picks up a stranded woman (Kate Valk) who claims to be the American daughter of a spy. ...

Anna Goldin, the Last Witch (1991)

A native of Sennwald, Anna Göldi arrived in Glarus in 1765. For seventeen years, she worked as a maidservant for Johann Jakob Tschudi, a physician. Tschudi reported her for having put needles in the bread and milk of one of his daughters, apparently throu ...

Hausmänner (1991)

Two stay-at-home dads who meet at the playground realize that their daily routine is stifling their creative talents. Without telling their wives, they organize a service that connects retired women with families in need of babysitters. The business is so ...

The Black Rider (1990)

Inspired by the German folktale, Wilhelm, a file clerk, falls in love with a huntsman's daughter. In order to marry, Wilhelm must prove his worth as a hunter and gain her father's approval. Naive and desperate, he makes a deal with a devil named Pegleg. ...

Follow Me (1989)

A poetic attempt to show the state of mind of people critical of the regime in Prague who vacillate between their love of their homeland and their desire to emigrate, illustrated by the example of a philosophy professor who has to work as a gravedigger and ...

Tour d'Amour (1989)

A comedy about a man who conquers his dream woman with the help of a dialable telephone box, but fails due to the broken technology of his alarm clock. Anton is a lonely stranger. Every morning he sees a girl going to work. He is too shy to talk to her, bu ...

Martha Jellneck (1988)

72 years old Martha Jellneck lives alone in a small apartment in Hamburg. Since she's hampered in walking, she never leaves her home. Her only contacts to the outside world are the young social worker Thomas and a neighbor boy who walks her dog. When Thoma ...

Fifty Fifty (1988)

Der Madonna-Mann (1987)

Australian geologist Graves meets Juliane in a Hamburg variety show. She mistakes Graves for a killer and lures him to gangster Tanzmann. When the mistake is discovered, they only have ten hours to find the real killer... ...

From the Reports of Security Guards & Patrol Services - Part Five (1987)

A sexual assault and its consequences. The 2nd of three self-contained shorts from Helke Sander's series of shorts entitled From the Reports of Security Guards & Patrol Services. ...

Der Marquis von Keith (1986)

The Lenz Papers (1986)

Four-part german limited serial about the baden revolution in 1848 and 1849. ...

The Baader-Meinhof Gang on Trial (1986)

Based on the research for his non-fiction book "Der Baader-Meinhoff-Komplex", "Spiegel" journalist Stefan Aust wrote the screen play to Reinhard Hauff's controversial feature film that re-narrates the startling trial against the RAF terrorists Baader, Mein ...

Die wilden Fünfziger (1983)

The Second World War is over and now begins in post-war Germany, the reconstruction. Jakob Formann sees his chance here and begins a rapid rise as an entrepreneur. ...

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 ...

Eine Jugendliebe (1977)

Every year, 17-year-old Wolfgang from Hesse spends his summer vacation with his grandfather in Fischerhude in Schleswig-Holstein. In the north, he always meets his childhood sweetheart Nanni, whom he wants to marry soon. But the two of them are not destine ...