Erdal Yıldız

The Ceremony (2025)

Two troubled migrant workers in a Bradford car wash are dragged into an escalating moral crisis as night falls. Each of them carries private hopes, traumas, and beliefs shaped by their diverse cultures. The two men must find a way to work out their differe ...

10 Days of a Bad Man (2023)

Battered, broken and bereaved, a private investigator must muscle his way through a tangle of lies to uncover the truth behind a mansion murder. ...

10 Days of a Good Man (2023)

A lawyer turned private investigator takes on a missing person case, propelling him on an unexpected and life-altering quest. ...

A Murder of Crows (2022)

Empathy is a two-edged sword, especially for Martin. Tormented by the past, haunted by the present, the chief inspector is a brilliant investigator and, together with his team, solves the most convoluted cases. From kidnapping to hostage situations, to mur ...

One Night Off (2021)

A 24-year-old music enthusiast Noah looks after his baby overnight for the first time. ...

Enfant Terrible (2020)

When 22-year-old Rainer Werner Fassbinder storms the stage of a small, progressive theatre in Munich 1967, and seizes the production without further ado, nobody suspects this brazen young rebel to become one of the most important post-war German filmmakers ...

Der letzte Bulle (2019)

25 years of coma lie behind the hard-hitting policeman Mick Brisgau, as he awakens in a world unknown to him. ...

Der Auftrag (2019)

Just as 16-year-old Miki Witt is about to steal a few beers, he witnesses Lebanese clan boss Ahmed Sayed shooting an LKA officer. Even though the teenager is aware that he was seen doing it, he still decides to testify as a key witness. This is a difficult ...

Fegefeuer (2019)

Sandstern (2018)

Set in West Germany in the 1980s, the tormented destiny of a young Turk confronted with uprooting and illness... ...

Brothers (2017)

A young man is searching for his place in the world. He finds his way, religion and his "brothers" in the radical Islam. What begins with the wish of helping people in Syria leads Jan through religious murder as an ISIS-soldier and back to his home county ...

Collide (2016)

An American backpacker gets involved with a ring of drug smugglers as their driver, and winds up on the run from his employers across Cologne's autobahns. ...

Nick: Off Duty (2016)

Day in, day out, Niklas 'Nick' Tschiller and his partner Yalcin Gümer investigate crimes that are happening in Hamburg. But at some point even the policeman needs a break to spend time with his daughter Lenny. Then it says: Tschiller a.D. - out of service ...

Half Brothers (2015)

Julian, Yasin and Addi learn from the executor of their deceased mother's will that the three men, who had previously been complete strangers, are brothers. The news hits like a bomb. A German family man with a penchant for tricks, a spoiled, ambitious Tur ...

The Lamb (2014)

In a small village, young Mert is about to get traditionally circumcised, but the family does not have the money to follow up with the circumcision celebration. The family wants to be able to serve lamb meat to the guests at the celebration. Mert's older s ...

Suck Me Shakespeer (2013)

Ex-con Zeki Müller goes undercover as a teacher at a below average Gymnasium to find money he'd stashed prior to incarceration. ...

Kokowääh 2 (2013)

Who said a patchwork family is without problems? ...

Sams im Glück (2012)

The Taschenbiers could actually lead quite a contented life - if it weren't for the strange fact that if you have a Sams in your home for 10 years, you slowly but steadily become a Sams yourself. And this is exactly what happens to Mr. Taschenbier. You can ...

Zenne Dancer (2012)

German photographer Daniel Bert, who comes to Istanbul to do photo shoots, meets Can, who is a zenne at a nightclub, and Ahmet, who comes from a conservative eastern family. ...

Berlin Calling (2008)

A man tours clubs around the globe with his manager and girlfriend. On the eve of their largest album release he is admitted to a psychiatric clinic after overdosing at a gig. ...

Porno!Melo!Drama! (2007)

Over one wild Cologne night, three women in search of the perfect partner and perfect life discover that a little bit of magic changes everything... ...

Fay Grim (2007)

Many years after her notorious husband, Henry Fool, fled after killing a neighbor, Fay Grim receives a visit from CIA agent Fulbright, who tells her that Henry is dead, but that some of his journals have been unearthed in France. She sets forth on a globe- ...

All Men Are Suspects (2006)

From beautiful Bavaria to a backyard apartment in Berlin - Helga feels surrounded by all sorts of darklings. One night, Helga thinks she sees Cem, a Turk, moving the corpse of a lover into the cellar... ...

One Day in Europe (2005)

One day in Europe shows stories set in four European countries. All of them involve thievery in some way or the other. The protagonists are strangers in the respective country. For none of them their stay turns out as planned. ...

Barefoot (2005)

A hedonistic bachelor - he is his rich family's black sheep - falls for a suicidal mental patient. ...

Der Herr der Wüste (2003)

Finnlandia (2001)

After the tragic loss of her husband, a young woman reconstructs the circumstances which caused his death. During this attempt to find her own way in daily life again, more and more recollections and occurrences appear on the surface, seemingly to foresee ...

Why Don't We Do It in the Road? (2001)

In the middle of the road on Potsdamer Platz, Berlin's heaviest tourist attraction and as close to Times Square as Germany will ever get. How they manage to "do it" there is Zarah's idea, a postmodern creative artist, who likes doing it with Anton in the ...

Wenn eine Mutter ihr Leben verspielt (2001)

The Last Cartridge (2000)

A young man of Turkish descent enters service in the German army and, during roll call, he is confronted with the war experiences of his grandfather. ...

Friends (2000)

Nils, Tayfun and Caro were best friends as children. When love came along later, the friendship fell apart. Nils became a policeman and unexpectedly meets Tayfun during a raid. Remembering their friendship, Nils makes Tayfun's drugs disappear and is caught ...

Lola and Billy the Kid (1999)

Lola is part of "The Migrant Workers", a Turkish drag queen troupe who perform to great acclaim. Lola's gay little brother Murat, on the other hand, is just beginning his search for an identity. An intense family drama set in "Anatolian" Berlin-Kreuzberg. ...

April Children (1999)

The film depicts the daily life of a Kurdish German family in Hamburg. Cem, one of sons, earns his living in a slaughterhouse and has a secret love affair with a German prostitute. ...

Drop Out (1998)

Marion, also known as Nippelsuse, leaves her boyfriend and has to find new accommodation as well as a job. She decides to become a private detective. She immediately gets a case to follow someone's unfaithful girlfriend. ...

Kiss My Blood (1998)

Vampyress Celina falls in love with battered East Berlin housewife Jane and efficiently rids her of her wife-beating husband. But the young couple soon find themselves on the run from a mysterious vampire hunter who has developed an unhealthy obsession wit ...

Trouble (1993)

A young Canadian woman who sings in Kreuzberg in a rock band, and her boyfriend, who lives in a politically active flat-sharing community. Due to the new capital situation, demolished buildings suddenly become sought-after buildings. The living and working ...