Ernst Jacobi

Schächer (2018)

An unknown guest enters the house of an old woman and an old man. His visit is unexpected and changes everything forever. ...

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 ...

Masserberg (2010)

With provocative dresses and a lot of make-up, the 19-year-old Melanie defies her bleak hospital stay in Masserberg in Thuringia. For years, she suffers from a very serious eye disease that will lead to blindness without expensive therapy and expensive dru ...

The White Ribbon (2009)

An aged tailor recalls his life as the schoolteacher of a small village in Northern Germany that was struck by a series of strange events in the year leading up to WWI. ...

Dr. Hope (2009)

Historical Bio-Pic, based on the life of Hope Bridges Adams-Lehmann, being the first female physician and member of womens-lib movement in Germany at the end of 19th century. ...

Mein alter Freund Fritz (2007)

Im Chaos der Gefühle (2007)

Papa und Mama (2006)

Divorce lawyer Peter Ullrich's seemingly perfect life shatters when his wife Katja suddenly leaves with their children. To shield his reputation, he hides the split and asks his clerk Thomas - himself reeling from family turmoil - to care for the kids. Ami ...

Mörder in Weiß - Der Tod lauert im OP (2005)

Medical student Hanna works in the pathology department during her studies. On her very first day at work, she is confronted with the body of her ex-boyfriend Michael, who allegedly died as the result of an accident. However, when she discovers discrepanci ...

Neue Freunde, neues Glück (2005)

Nele Ungureit is blindsided: suddenly, after 35 years of marriage, her husband Fred leaves her for his secretary. Nele's ideas of happiness together in old age are suddenly shattered. Even her two grown-up children Susan and Hannes are no support for her i ...

The Tree of Life (2005)

This film sheds light on the poetic and mystical side of the Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of the UN Blue Helmet missions, Dag Hammarskjöld. ...

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. ...

Hannas Baby (2002)

The couple Hanna and Georg are overjoyed when Hanna finally gets pregnant, but things take a turn for the worst when Georg's father demands that abortion be performed because of a hereditary defect in his family. ...

Ein Mann gibt nicht auf (2000)

Tödliche Schatten (1999)

Hamsun (1996)

Knut Hamsun is Norway's most famous and admired author. Ever since he was young he has hated the English for the starvation they caused Norway during WWI. When the Germans occupy Norway 9 April 1940 he welcomes them and the protection they can give from Gr ...

Das Siegel des Todes (1996)

Zerrissene Herzen (1996)

After the death of their parents, the sisters Astrid and Britta want to make the Winkelmann fashion house number one in their hometown. Astrid accepts that her already troubled marriage to Bernd suffers from the ambitious goal - until Bernd agrees to have ...

Die Grube (1995)

Roula (1995)

Troubled Roula finds herself drawn to Leon, an author of children's books who has suffered an enormous emotional and creative blockage ever since his wife died in a motorcycle accident two years before. Leon has only his 12-year-old daughter Tanja to keep ...

The Sunset Boys (1995)

Ernest, Ted and August fulfill their friend Carl's dying wish and take him to Heidelberg, where they all first met 45 years ago, to see his old girlfriend one last time. However, the locals won't talk about her, due to a WW2 secret. ...

Tödliches Geld (1995)

Der Nachlaß (1994)

Von Frau zu Frau: Die Sammlerin (1994)

Einmal Macht und zurück - Engholms Fall (1994)

Imperfect Crimes (1993)

A psychiatrist is murdered and a rich heiress fears her disturbed lover will be implicated as the killer. She hires an ex-lover lawyer friend to help her defend him but when he turns up dead, the lawyer realizes he´s in over his head. ...

My Name is Victor (1993)

No one knows, or is ever likely to know how many disabled or handicapped relatives have been hidden from the outside world in attics and basements over the years. In this wry comedy, Basile is an eleven-year old boy living in a rural French town (along wit ...

Tote Briefe (1991)

Success (1991)

For fans of history, this glimpse of Munich society in the 1920s will be a much-treasured event. The story revolves around an art-gallery manager who puts on a show featuring the scandalous works of a woman artist who committed suicide. He is unjustly accu ...

Wie du mir.. (1989)

Lenin: The Train (1988)

March/April 1917. The first world war is already a couple year to pace. A sealed train with Russian emigrants keeps on driving from Zürich Germany and Sweden to Sint-Petersburg. The outlaws stand under the guidance of Vladimir J. Lenin. Two senior officer ...

Ede und das Kind (1988)

Eine geschlossene Gesellschaft (1987)

Follows the lives of students and their teachers based on the director's childhood memories. The events of the film take places in the actual boarding school called "Gymnasium Canisianum", founded in 1946 by a German catholic priest. ...

Frau Jenny Treibel (1982)

Jenny Bürstenbinder has climbed the social ladder by marrying Kommerzienrat Treibel. The professor's daughter Corinna Schmidt plans to do the same and woos Treibel's son Leopold with charm and wit. But Jenny Treibel lacks an adequate dowry. ...

Sommergäste (1981)

Germany Pale Mother (1980)

Germany 1939. Hans and Lene marry the day before the war breaks out, and Hans is sent to the Eastern front. During a bombing raid their daughter Anna is born. The house is destroyed and Lene and Anna moves in with relatives in Berlin. Hans survives the war ...

Der Mörder (1979)

The Tin Drum (1979)

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out. ...

Vor Sonnenaufgang (1979)

Die Geburtstagsfeier (1978)

Sonntagsgeschichten (1976)

The film explores intimate, often quiet stories, focusing on the interactions and relationships of its characters in a typical Sunday afternoon style. ...

Der Hofmeister (1976)

Das Leben des schizophrenen Dichters Alexander März (1975)

A schizophrenic patient is is wasting away in a mental institution, until a young doctor encourages him to write poetry. The resulting masterpieces are however not able to stop the man from suicide. ...

Die Gewehre der Frau Carrar (1975)

Der zerbrochene Krug (1974)

The Last Days of Gomorrah (1974)

Her only foray into science fiction—about the havoc wrought on society by a television that satisfies every human craving—The Last Days of Gomorrah was a favorite of Sanders-Brahms, who brought feminist politics to the New German Cinema movement of the ...

Der Angestellte (1972)

Einfach sterben (1971)

Der Kirschgarten (1970)

Der Tod des Deputierten Jean Jaurès (1970)

Abseits (1970)

Die Räuber (1969)

Goldene Städte (1969)

Graf Öderland (1968)

Affäre Dreyfuss (1968)

The disaster began in the late summer of 1894, when a French staff officer appeared at the military attaché of the German embassy in Paris. He offers important military information at very high prices. A cover letter for this case ends up in the attaché' ...

Zeit der halben Herzen (1968)

Mathilde Möhring (1968)

Berlin, around 1900. Art student Hugo Großmann takes his work lightly and his pleasure seriously! A friend's warnings do no good. He fails his exams. In the vegetable cellar of the widow Möhring, he finds cheap lodging and, in her daughter Mathilde, the ...

Der Teufel und der liebe Gott (1967)

Abschied vier Uhr früh (1967)

Jegor Bulytschow und andere (1966)

Thérèse Raquin (1966)

Der Mitbürger (1966)

Kubinke (1966)

Die chinesische Mauer (1965)

A gigantic masked ball is held at the court of the Chinese emperor Hwang Ti. The builder of the wall surrounding the vast land The builder of the enormous wall surrounding the vast country celebrates his victory over his last enemies and does not shy away ...

One Day: A Report from a German Concentration Camp 1939 (1965)

Germany, January 1939: a day in a concentration camp. Subjected to harsh military discipline the hungry prisoners are digging a huge hole and filling it up again. Several are tortured, die of exhaustion, in the electric fence, or are shot. ...

Michael Kramer (1965)

Das große Ohr (1965)

Skorpione (1964)

Campingplatz (1964)

Karl Sand (1964)

Die Nacht am See (1963)

Mauern (1963)

Schlachtvieh (1963)

Strange things happen in the overnight express: according to a cryptic, obviously military announcement, the train's telephone link with the outside world has been cut off, access to the rear part of the train has been barred, the windows cannot be opened ...

Kapitän Karagöz (1963)

Nachruf auf Jürgen Trahnke (1962)

Meine beste Freundin (1962)

Im sechsten Stock (1961)

Stories about tenants of a house. ...

Heute gehn wir bummeln (1961)

Black Gravel (1961)

Tensions rise when a U.S. military base is built in a small village in post-war Germany. ...

Die Dame ist nicht fürs Feuer (1960)

Das Fenster zum Flur (1960)

Der Prozeß Mary Dugan (1960)

The Day the Rains Came (1959)

A motorcycle gang in post-war Germany wreaks havok on a town, until one of their members begins to have second thoughts after a run-in with the police. ...

Neues aus dem sechsten Stock (1959)

Die Bürger von Calais (1958)

The Big Chance (1957)

Heidelberg teenagers make jazz music. ...

The Casino Affair (1957)

In a casino in a We'5t German health resort, one often sees Sybille - an attractive young student actress. With her winnings from the roulette table, she attempts to finance her studies. Despite a rather lucky streak, her winnings are a little on the lean ...

Möwen über Sorrent (1956)

Of und der Mond (1956)