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Bad Director (2024)

Director Gregor Samsa, washed-up and in his late fifties, is reviewing his life. Having wasted it as a cultural worker doesn't exactly add to his joy. ...

791 km (2023)

5 people of different personalities have to take a taxi from Munich to Hamburg, as the train service is canceled. The strangers discover that every one of them has their own cross to bear, but to overcome trouble they have to work together as a group. ...

Das Märchen vom Frosch und der goldenen Kugel (2022)

A fake prince is caught stealing a golden ball and banished to a magical forest, where a fairy inadvertently turns him into a frog. The enchantment can only be lifted by kissing a princess. When the frog helps to retrieve the gold ball from a deep well, he ...

Der Boandlkramer und die ewige Liebe (2021)

Death (in Bavarian: Boandlkramer) is supposed to get little Maxl, but he falls in love with Maxl's mother. Confused by the previously unknown feelings, he confides in the devil. The incarnate persuades him to start a business where the Boandlkramer gets th ...

Adisa (2021)

Susanne has to travel to Kenya as an EU representative in order to weigh up possible aid for a village near the Somali border that has been attacked by terrorists. While the bereaved hope for an equal cooperation with the EU, the appointment and the promis ...

Divertimento (2020)

Jonas Olsen, a chess player haunted by a tragic past, is given an opportunity to participate in a mysterious game, Divertimento. ...

t=E/x² (2020)

t=E/x² ("texsquare") tells the story of Merlin, an editor at a film production company finishing a documentary. He soon realises that he is stuck in a time loop along with a stranger, Eva. t=E/x² unfolds as a 'reverse narrative' and on three different ti ...

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 ...

Crescendo (2020)

When world-famous conductor Eduard Sporck accepts the job to create an Israeli-Palestinian youth orchestra, he is quickly drawn into a tempest of sheer unsolvable problems. ...

Matze, Kebab und Sauerkraut (2020)

Longtime friends Noah and Hakim fall in love with the same woman. Charlotte is a photographer from Bavaria, blonde, blue-eyed, German and Catholic. Noah is Jewish and Hakim is Muslim. The tension between the two friends, the religions and the previously fr ...

Unter deutschen Betten (2017)

After a disastrous performance and a philandering producer leave her publicly humiliated, a faltering pop star takes up work as a cleaning woman. ...

Godless Youth (2017)

German students compete to enter one of the country's elite schools. ...

Vesper (2017)

Marge asks her nephew Christian for help to protect herself against her sinister husband Walter. Christian will soon discover dark secrets and that Walter is not who he's intended to be. ...

Neid ist auch keine Lösung (2016)

An invitation to an old childhood friend's 40th birthday throws the Baumgartners' hitherto happy life into disarray and makes them question their previous concept of life. Marie and Markus Baumgartner are a picture-book couple. But everyday working life an ...

The Visitors: Bastille Day (2016)

Stuck in the corridors of time, Godefroy de Montmirail and his faithful servant Jacquouille are projected to a time of profound political and social upheavals: the French Revolution... specifically, The Terror, time of great dangers, during which the desce ...

Fauler Zauber (2016)

Prinzessin Maleen (2015)

Princess Maleen loves Count Konrad, but her father, Lord Theodor, has other plans for her and locks her in a tower. ...

Krippenwahn (2015)

Helena has just started a new job - and she's already pregnant. She desperately needs daycare. Madness ensues as she discovers that the odds of getting into a nursery are about as high as winning the lottery. ...

Punk Berlin 1982 (2015)

1980: 19 year old Robert, fed up with Hippy phoniness and bourgeoise narrow mindedness alike, flees the German provinces for West Berlin. A tour de force through the glorious dirt of West Berlin ensues. Full of sex, drugs, love and PUNK. ...

Die drei Federn (2014)

On the advice of his chief counsel Julius, old Lord Gundolf offers the throne to whichever of his sons brings him the finest carpet. He blows three feathers into the air for the boys to follow. The eldest brothers Gerhard and Gebhard are sure they'll win t ...

Outlier (2014)

Cancer patient and successful writer Lilith Winterbottom should be dead by now. But the cynical misanthrope seems to scare even death away, in order to finish her last book and find a hero's death worthy of her main character Spider. ...

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. ...

Sprung ins Leben (2014)

The diagnosis is a shock. Katharina refuses to accept that her 17-year-old son Basti will be in a wheelchair after a traffic accident. She tirelessly takes him from one doctor to the next, not realizing how Basti feels increasingly suffocated by her care. ...

Me, Myself and Mum (2013)

How to become a man when your mother and your closed circle have decided otherwise? This is the challenge Guillaume took up. The film recounts Guillaume's tragicomic battle from the young age of eight, as he adopts the role of a girl then of a homosexual.. ...

Legend No. 17 (2013)

Biopic of Russian ice hockey legend Valeri Kharlamov from early childhood, rising to the pinnacle of the sport and his untimely death ...

Wohin der Weg mich führt (2012)

Lawyer Sarah Stein has her life firmly under control and a clear goal for her career: to become a partner in the renowned Frankfurt law firm she works for. However, the latest case her boss entrusts her with seems more like a beginner's job: the elderly fo ...

The Legacy of the Siren (2012)

Michel must go to dangerous lengths to save his wife and newborn child from the intrigues of the king's mistress in this historical drama. ...

Cloud Atlas (2012)

A set of six nested stories spanning time between the 19th century and a distant post-apocalyptic future. Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. Action, ...

Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia (2012)

Asterix crosses the channel to help second-cousin Anticlimax face down Julius Caesar and invading Romans. ...

The Artist and the Model (2012)

In occupied France in summer 1943, a world-weary famous sculptor finds the desire to work again with the arrival of a beautiful young Spanish refugee. ...

Iron Sky (2012)

In the last moments of World War II, a secret Nazi space program evaded destruction by fleeing to the Dark Side of the Moon. During 70 years of utter secrecy, the Nazis construct a gigantic space fortress with a massive armada of flying saucers. ...

The Revenge of the Siren (2012)

In 1427, Lady Maria Van Arnstein is informed that her beloved husband Michel Van Arnstein was murdered in a battle against the Hussitas. However he was actually betrayed by his ambitious cousin Hettenhein that wants his lands and castle. The Pope's Great I ...

Ten - Sin for Salvation (2011)

Hannes stands at the gates of heaven and has only one chance to return to Earth to his sick daughter: he must win a bet against Peterson (St. Peter). To do so, Hannes must break all ten commandments within 30 minutes in Munich's worst bar! Will he succeed? ...

Die Superbullen (2011)

Tommie and Mario are on the prowl again. But this time not through the alcohol haze of Cologne Kalk or the Ballermann Club on Mallorca but through the German underworld. For a while, at least, because the police want to get rid of their two most stupid emp ...

The Royal Siren (2010)

Constance, 1410. Marie, daughter of the richest bourgeois of the city, is on the eve of marrying a prestigious lawyer, son of an earl. Although the compromise fills with pride the girl's father, anxious to ennoble, Marie is not just convinced about her fia ...

Restless Heart: The Confessions of Augustine (2010)

Augustine is a two-part, Italian-made mini-series about the influential theologian and church father St. Augustine of Hippo. The piece tells the story of his life from a teenager to his death at the age of 69. Much of the content for the scenes of him as a ...

Betrayal (2009)

A thriller based on true events in Norway during the WWII. Tor Lindblom makes a fortune supplying the Nazis with everything from liquor and cigarettes to cement and steel. He also owns the Club Havana, a nightclub in Oslo frequented by the industrial elite ...

Bis an die Grenze (2009)

Berlin couple Eva and Peter are planning a trip to Bavaria with their children to visit Eva's parents. But there is trouble brewing behind the idyllic family façade. Father-in-law Anton and Peter can't smell each other, and the relationship between Eva an ...

Nichts als Ärger mit den Männern (2009)

The young musician Katharina keeps afloat after completing her studies with odd jobs over water. But then her grumpy father Hubert suffers a heart attack - and suddenly Katharina has to take care of the catering company. When she learns that the company is ...

U-900 (2008)

The year is 1944, Atze and Samuel occasionally operate on the black market, but mostly keep quiet and wait for the Americans to come. When the last German submarine, the U-900, is sent on a final mission, Atze foolishly messes with the general of this miss ...

Ossi’s Eleven (2008)

Finally out again. The attempt to cheat his boss out of a truckload cost haulage driver Oswald a year of his life and his job. Now it's back home to the prefabricated building. It's just in time that Oswald's buddy Karl knows about trophies made from old D ...

Für immer Afrika (2007)

Katrin and Sam practise together in a bush hospital in Namibia. Sam had been the best friend of Katrin's late husband. He feels more than just a collegial connection to Katrin, but he suppresses his feelings. When the patient Christian woos Katrin, jealous ...

Die Erntehelferin (2007)

After escaping from the Sudeten German Marienbad, Clara, together with her widowed brother-in-law Johann and his four children, is quartered in a small Franconian village in 1946. In addition to hunger and poverty Clara burdens the tuberculosis of her six- ...

Rettet die Weihnachtsgans (2006)

When his favorite goose Henriette is to be slaughtered for Christmas, twelve-year-old Rudi Wasmeier does everything he can to save her. ...

Alien Autopsy (2006)

Humouristic reconstruction of the 1995 scandal when two British lads were accused of having faked a documentary from the Roswell incident in 1947. ...

Urmel aus dem Eis (2005)

There are incredible things on the South Sea island of Titiwu: Professor Habakuk Tibatong has taught some animals to speak. For example, the pig lady Wutz, the quirky shoebill Schusch, the lively penguin Ping and the monitor lizard Wawa. On the rocky reef, ...

The Tube (2005)

This is the opportunity of a lifetime: Sabine Fink, a young, ambitious public prosecutor, is entrusted by Chief Public Prosecutor Grabowski with the spectacular case of a tunnel disaster. A catastrophe that cost the lives of entire families. The question o ...

Stockflame (2005)

Hitlers letzte Tage - Der Film "Der Untergang" (2005)

Documentary about the 2004 movie 'Der Untergang' aka. ...

Karl-May-Spiele: Winnetou und das Geheimnis der Felsenburg (2005)

Grenzverkehr (2005)

When three teenage boys from Bavaria try to lose their innocence in the neighboring Czech Republic, they get themselves and a young pregnant Ukrainian immigrant into trouble with local pimps. ...

Apollonia (2005)

Der Clown (2005)

Former secret government agent Max Hecker (Sven Martinek) disguises himself with a clown mask in order to fight international crime. He hangs up his mask when one of his supporters, journalist Claudia (Diana Frank), is murdered. Four years later, he must p ...

Ring of the Nibelungs (2004)

In this swords-and-sorcery tale, good-hearted blacksmith Eyvind hides away infant Prince Siegfried after two malevolent kings murder his father. But a fiery meteor sent by the gods reveals Siegfried's destiny, sending him on the quest of a lifetime. To sav ...

Downfall (2004)

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still achieve ...

The Antman (2003)

"The Antman" is a lovingly-made but sluggish monster-movie parody, done with German-speaking actors on a sparse soundstage standing in for 1950s Mexico. Promising concept is bolstered by colorful performances by Gotz Otto and Lars Rudolph, and the filmmake ...

Family Affairs - Gier nach Glück (2002)

My Wife's Name Is Maurice (2002)

Georges, a wealthy Parisian, has a mistress who wants to marry him, but he has no intention of divorcing his wife, the source of his money. The mistress, meanwhile, has a jealous boyfriend, so when Georges dumps her, two people are angry with him. Add Geor ...

Mortal Beauty - Fluch der Schönheit (2002)

An adventurous, mystical story about Valdez de Corazón, Prince of San Vanidad, who is not only a very powerful man, but also a very beautiful one. To ensure that neither of these things change, he marries the sorceress Alyssa de Espella, bearer of the sec ...

Deep Freeze (2002)

A deadly creature terrorizes a team of researchers at an isolated Antarctic laboratory. ...

The Shanghai Spell (2002)

A fourteen year old lad discovers his first love at the point of his pencil whilst drawing the portrait of a sickly but coquettish fifteen year old girl. In the neighbourhood an old freedom-fighter pits himself against bad types, a pretty cinema-ticket gir ...

Der Tanz mit dem Teufel - Die Entführung des Richard Oetker (2001)

When wealthy college student Richard Oetker is kidnapped and held for a hefty ransom, state police officer Georg Kufbach becomes obsessed with bringing the kidnapper to justice. This film is based on a true story. ...

Goebbels und Geduldig (2001)

It is 1944 and Reich Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels narrowly escapes an assassination attempt on the way to Obersalzberg. It is whispered to him that his rival Heinrich Himmler is the mastermind and that he has also hidden a double of the propagand ...

Death, Deceit & Destiny Aboard the Orient Express (2001)

Terrorists hold a group of people hostage during a Millenium Eve party aboard the Orient Express. Only an action movie star and a gymnast can save them. ...

High Adventure (2001)

Chris, slick adventurous grandson of legendary adventurer Allan Quatermain, searches for the mythical treasure of Alexander the Great with the help of a pretty German girl, while eluding a dangerous greedy gangster. ...

Gunblast Vodka (2001)

Supermodel Everhart is kidnapped by bad guy Prochnow and rescued by good guy Otto in technopop action. ...

She Who Must Be Obeyed (2001)

Leo Vincey receives a map from his late father, leading him to the legendary city of Kor in search of an explanation for his mysterious ancestry. ...

Der Weihnachtswolf (2000)

After years of waiting for her big break, singer Amanda has finally achieved her goal: she is allowed to host a big TV show. Unfortunately, it's Christmas of all times, so she has no time for her ten-year-old son Joshua, whom she wants to send by courier t ...

Bear on the Run (2000)

Thirteen-year-old Julia leaves Berlin, where she resides with her father, to spend vacation in the Czech Republic. While there she experiences first love, and also tries to help the local kids rescue a circus bear from a rich German hunter who's willing to ...

Marlene (2000)

In this biopic, Marlene Dietrich leaves Berlin for Hollywood, where she establishes herself as an international star through various film roles. ...

The Millennium Disaster - Computer Crash 2000 (1999)

A convicted murderer holds the world hostage with a year 2000 virus in all the world's major computer systems. ...

Ein Weihnachtsmärchen – Wenn alle Herzen schmelzen (1999)

Der Voyeur (1999)

Framed (1999)

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Der blonde Affe (1999)

The wealthy Hamburg gallery owner Elaine Troost dies mysteriously on a stormy fall night and her body is subsequently found in the bathtub by her daughter Gabrielle. The autopsy of the body reveals that her death was caused by violence. A witness testifies ...

Beowulf (1999)

Beowulf is a wanderer who learns about a man-eating creature called Grendel, which comes in the night to devour warriors trapped at the Outpost. The Outpost is ruled by Hrothgar. He has a daughter, whose husband may have been murdered by the Outpost's mast ...

The Girl of Your Dreams (1998)

During the Spanish Civil War, a troupe of Spanish filmmakers is invited to shoot a film at UFA studios in Nazi Germany. ...

Earthquake in New York (1998)

A cop is after a nasty serial killer. Cop's wife and kids are somewhere in the city too. Then a disastrous earthquake hits the city. ...

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)

A deranged media mogul is staging international incidents to pit the world's superpowers against each other. Now James Bond must take on this evil mastermind in an adrenaline-charged battle to end his reign of terror and prevent global pandemonium. ...

The Secrets of 007 (1997)

Behind-the-scenes look at more than three decades of the James Bond feature film series. ...

Der Schutzengel (1997)

Dr. Maria Fender makes few friends at her new workplace with her motto "Rehabilitation instead of incarceration". At the renowned clinic for the mentally ill, only hard cases such as child molesters and serial killers are detained. When Maria defies the th ...

Rosamunde Pilcher: Irrwege des Herzens (1997)

The story of two people who want to turn their backs on their past and the story of an old love that is reawakened... ...

Hart to Hart: Till Death Do Us Hart (1996)

On a mission of mercy, Jennifer Hart is in Germany to donate bone marrow to Maximilian, a young leukemia patient. Following the operation, she plans to spend a romantic anniversary in Munich with her husband Jonathan. The bone marrow clinic's director, Pet ...

Gridlock (1996)

After explosions destroy all the bridges connecting Manhattan to the rest of New York, the authorities attribute the disaster to a terrorist organization. New York cop Jake Gorki, flying over the Federal Reserve Bank in his helicopter, suspects something e ...

It's a Jungle Out There (1995)

Anna, 17 years old, is happy to throw her first big birthday party without her parents, but some of her guests are so stoned that they leave a big chaos and, even worse, destroy the favorite record of Anna's father. After the return of her shocked and angr ...

Nur über meine Leiche (1995)

A cynical and ruthless womanizer dies, but is given the chance to return to life if he manages to save three women within three days, whom he has deprived of their faith in love. ...

Lauras Entscheidung (1994)

Schindler's List (1993)

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II. ...

Hochwürden erbt das Paradies (1993)

A village pastor and a tourism entrepreneur come into conflict over building land on which the pastor wants to build a youth center and the entrepreneur wants to build a luxury hotel. When a parishioner bequeathed "paradise" to the pastor, which is a well- ...

Dann eben mit Gewalt (1993)

Little Sharks (1992)

When dishwasher Ingo, whose girl-friend has just left him, returns a borrowed bar stool to the Folkwang Acting School in Essen, he stumbles into the audition for next year's new students. He lets Johannes, the broke and unsuccessful applicant, stay with hi ...