Frank Röth

The Investigation (2024)

Peter Weiss' monumental 1965 stage play, among the greatest artworks on the Holocaust, condenses the testimonies of witnesses and the accused during the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials of 1963-1965. This ultra-faithful film adaptation builds, across four hours, ...

Leningrad. Stimmen einer belagerten Stadt (2024)

It was one of the great crimes of the Second World War: from 1941 to 1944, a total of 872 days, the siege and starvation of Leningrad by the German Wehrmacht on Hitler's orders lasted. Over a million people fell victim to the blockade, most of them dying o ...

The Fundraiser (2023)

Shortly after injuring her face in a fall, world-famous conductor Lydia Tár is reluctantly pulled by her wife Sharon to a fundraiser for the school of their daughter Petra, only to discover that it's a surprise party for her 50th birthday. ...

TÁR (2022)

As celebrated conductor Lydia Tár starts rehearsals for a career-defining symphony, the consequences of her past choices begin to echo in the present. ...

Ökozid (2020)

The consequences of the climate catastrophe are dramatic in 2034. Drought and floods destroy the livelihoods of millions of people. After the third storm tide in a row, the headquarters of the International Court of Justice in The Hague was evacuated. In a ...

The General Case (2016)

In the young Federal Republic of Germany, which in the late 1950s in politics and justice is still interspersed with only superficially purified Nazi cliques, leads the Hessian Attorney General Fritz Bauer a lonely fight against the coverup of Nazi crimes ...

False Freedom (2014)

The name "Voss" is given to a high-ranking Nazi criminal who flees from Germany to South America after the end of the Second World War, like hundreds of thousands of other people. The escape route leads across the Alps and South Tyrol to Genoa and from the ...

Die Jahrhundertlawine (2008)

In the Austrian Alps have found the body of a young woman who died in a skiing accident eight years earlier. Dr. Marc Pelletier decides to return to the scene, as it is the brother of his ex-girlfriend. When he reach the ski resort, a dreadful avalanche bu ...

Ich Chef du nix (2007)

Outsourcing (2007)

The smallest business is the family. What if we only looked at this business from an economic point of view? What if the family suddenly dismisses its members in order to be able to manage more effectively? ...

Mathilde liebt (2005)

This melodrama about love in the third age focuses on the 65-year-old Mathilde living alone after the death of her husband. When she gets to know the attractive Carlo in the opera, she sleeps with him at the same evening. Mathilde tries to call him up some ...

Zwei Wochen für uns (2005)

Ina and Klaus Heller have sent their twins to vacation camp and are looking forward to a romantic and loving time together. But their mutual friends have their doubts. After all, how are the stressed-out judge and the ambitious architect supposed to know h ...

Sterne leuchten auch am Tag (2004)

Das Kommando (2004)

General Heinz Büchner is in charge of a special unit of the German army. His son Christopher is a member of the unit. They get the mission to take out a band of terrorists that plan an attack on the American headquarters in Heidelberg. ...

Gefährliche Gefühle (2003)

A midwife is called to her lover's wife of all places. ...

Die Kristallprinzessin (2002)

The up-and-coming designer Marie Haller falls in love with Max, the noble heirs of Wartenborg's well-known Kristallschleiferei - without knowing that he is her half-brother. When Marie learns the truth about her ancestry and shortly thereafter Max is kille ...

Mord an Bord (2002)

Because of a name mix-up, hair artist Burkharda Meier is hired as a singer on a dreamboat. At first, she sounds no better than a crybaby, but a few singing lessons, love affairs and minor murders later, she becomes an audience favorite as Nancy Meyer... ...

Revenge of the Rats (2001)

A municipal worker's strike combined with Frankfurt's hottest summer in 150 years brings infected rats out onto the streets. ...

Das Monstrum (2001)

Eine öffentliche Affäre (2001)

Das Alibi (2000)

Der Todeszug (1999)

After the Truth (1999)

Famous Nazi doctor Josef Mengele — the 'Death Angel of Auschwitz', who killed more than 300.000 people — emerges from his hideout in Argentina to Germany as a 87-year-old man, and must stand for his crimes in court. The young solicitor Peter Rohm is as ...

Straight Shooter (1999)

After his daughter died of cancer, former French foreign legionnaire "Straight Shooter" alias Volker Bretz threatens those who financed, built, favoured and now work the nuclear power plant Atar II to kill one of them each day until the plant is shut down. ...

Operation Bluebird (1999)

Short action directed by Stefan Holtz. ...

Ultimate Trespass (1998)

Christine Wagner is raped by a burglar in her house while her husband Stefan is on a business trip. When she later wants to report the break-in and the sexual assault to the police, her descriptions are believed to be implausible. The officer in charge con ...

Der kleine Unterschied (1997)

A 60-year-old journalist falls in love with a young woman, abandons his wife and children and ends up falling into loneliness. ...

Mörderische Zwillinge (1995)

Twin sisters go their separate ways when a man dies while making love and one of them falls in love with an architect. The orphaned twin reacts with jealousy and makes a pass at the sister's husband: a love affair with fatal consequences that is disguised ...

Felidae (1994)

A domestic house cat named Francis investigates the grisly feline murders taking place in his new neighborhood. ...

Geheimnis in Cornwall (1986)

Goldkronach (1986)

Kolp (1985)

Set in the fast and loose ambience of 1947 in West Germany, this story is about Hans Kolp, an inventive, teenage urban con artist who takes advantage of an out-of-control black market where almost any Allied goods can be stolen and traded for a tidy profit ...

Kolp (1985)

Set in the fast and loose ambience of 1947 in West Germany, this story is about Hans Kolp, an inventive, teenage urban con artist who takes advantage of an out-of-control black market where almost any Allied goods can be stolen and traded for a tidy profit ...