Heino Ferch

Death in Mombasa (2024)

It's been a year since Moritz Wagner and his daughter Aluna turned their backs on Kenya and moved to Hamburg. They searched in vain for Farrah, Moritz's wife and Aluna's mother. Moritz's strenuous, sometimes traumatic job as a war photographer had put a lo ...

Das Beste kommt noch! (2023)

The close friendship between Arthur and Felix is put to the test when one lends the other his health insurance card. Arthur finds out that Felix is terminally ill, but Felix doesn't know it yet. However, because he doesn't have the courage to break the bad ...

Allmen und das Geheimnis des Koi (2023)

Johann Friedrich von Allmen and his partner Carlos get caught up in a new adventure in which the disappearance of a very valuable koi plays a crucial role. ...

Wo ist meine Schwester? (2022)

Die Geschichte der Menschheit - leicht gekürzt (2022)

In order to leave a lasting impression in space, Dr. Georg Friedle and his team of researchers include a condensed version of world history with the 1977 Voyager mission. However, their attempt to present themselves as an intelligent and empathic race back ...

Dad Got Grounded (2022)

Paul is living the dream. He's a pilot who gets to fly across the globe, and at home, his beautiful younger wife Susan waits for him. The only catch: he promised to retire early and take care of their 4-year-old son Franz. But when he breaks his word, Susa ...

The Peppercorns and the Secret of the Deep Sea (2021)

As soon as Jaswinder, the mother of Alice's friend Tarun, discovered a way to avoid plastic, it is attacked and the documents about it, which are also top secret, stolen. Shortly thereafter, it also disappears without a trace. Alice, as the remaining peppe ...

Ein Mädchen wird vermisst (2021)

Allmen und das Geheimnis der Erotik (2021)

For Johann Friedrich von Allmen, boredom is not an acceptable condition. During an uninspiring reading, the art detective spontaneously steals a famous Fabergé egg from the host's possession. His security officer, Krähenbühler, does not allow the unusua ...

Liebe ist unberechenbar (2021)

Leonard and Judith have little in common. To be more precise: almost nothing. He is a professor of mathematics who loves solitude and avoids other people. Judith, on the other hand, enjoys being around people at her job in the campus café and gets involve ...

Wer einmal stirbt dem glaubt man nicht (2020)

Widow Clara and widower Ulf have an unusual commonality: Both mourn the loss of their spouses, but they cannot have them declared dead. Although there are no official doubts about the alleged suicide of Ulf's wife Anke or about the fatal glacier crash of C ...

Die Spur der Mörder (2019)

Liebe verjährt nicht (2019)

Heino Ferch and Tanja Wedhorn have an entertaining exchange of blows in the romantic comedy "Liebe verjährt nicht": The two popular actors play a failed dream couple who unexpectedly get a second chance after 20 years and do a lot to restore it from old i ...

Allmen and the Mystery of the Dahlias (2019)

Ironically, the art detective Johann Friedrich von Allmen is staying in a high-end Zurich hotel when a million-dollar dahlia painting disappears from the private suite of the owner. What would be more obvious to the eccentric Dahlia Gutbauer than to entrus ...

Der Froschkönig (2018)

When Isabelle loses her necklace while walking down the street, the attractive Jimi helps her to fish the pendant out of a gully. Jimi falls in love with Isabelle at first sight and wants something from her in return for his help. For four weeks, he doesn' ...

Der Richter (2018)

Dr. Joachim Glahn is the presiding judge at the Berlin district court and is known for his explicit sense of justice and truth. His daughter Luise is now embarking on the same career path and has just been admitted to law school. But then Luise then Luise ...

Hot Dog (2018)

A pair of Tactical Units Police Officers from different walks of life come together to rescue an ambassador's daughter. ...

Angst (2017)

Randolph Tiefenthaler and his wife Rebecca have bought a beautiful 1920s house and move in with their children. The only condition for the sale was that the former owner's brother would be allowed to continue living in the basement. ...

Allmen and the Pink Diamond (2017)

After his successful first "case", Allmen decides to make finding lost art objects his profession and thus avoid financial misery in the future. ...

Conni & Co 2 - Das Geheimnis des T-Rex (2017)

Teenager Connie and her friends try to save an island full of nature and place of their encounters from being destroyed by the construction of a hotel there. ...

Hans im Glück (2016)

Jean receives in payment for seven years of work with a master craftsman a gold nugget. He then exchanges this nugget for a horse, then the horse for a cow, the cow for a pig, the pig for a goose, the goose for a sharpening stone. Finally, he loses the sto ...

Conni & Co (2016)

A young girl goes through the ups and downs of school-life. ...

Allmen and the Dragonflies (2016)

Generosity, weakness for expensive pleasures and ruin is a combination that does not bode well. Johann Friedrich von Allmen was a man with a taste for women and the expensive pleasures of life. Unfortunately, his luck has run out, but now a new opportunity ...

Fritz Lang (2016)

Filmmaker Fritz Lang seeks inspiration for his first sound film by immersing himself in the case of serial killer Peter Kürten. ...

Keine Ehe ohne Pause (2016)

No marriage without a break, no career without a crisis: writer Max Mangold experiences both. First, the highly successful author of fiery heartbreak novels under the pseudonym Jana van Hausten suffers a severe writer's block, then his wife Susanne tells h ...

The Wagner-Clan (2015)

After the death of genius Richard Wagner his wife Cosima fights for his legacy even against the will of her children Sigmund and Sieglinde. ...

Unterm Radar (2015)

German judge Elke Seeberg's orderly world turns upside-down when a terrorist bomb explodes in a Berlin bus and the federal police come bursting through her door: Allegedly her teenage daughter played a part in the attack and is now on the run. What follows ...

Call Me Helen (2015)

Is. This. My. Son? No matter how often Tobias Wilke poses this question, there's always only one answer: Yes! Tobias, can't believe his eyes when he comes to the airport to pick up his 17-year-old son Finn – and learns that Finn is now calling herself He ...

Mara and the Firebringer (2015)

Mara Lorbeer, a fifteen year old girl, finds out that she has to save the world because the Norse god Loki is threatening to break free of his chains. ...

Suite Française (2015)

France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law as they both await news of her husband: a prisoner of war. Parisian refugees start to pour into their small town, ...

Tigers (2014)

Ayan, a pharmaceutical salesman in Pakistan, takes on the multinational health care corporation he works for after he realizes they knowingly marketed a baby formula that's responsible for the death of hundreds of babies everyday. ...

Der Verlust (2014)

Uli and Nora share an intimate, late love. But Uli always avoids the decision to stand on the common relationship. One morning Uli suffers a stroke during a tour of the harbor on the Elbe. He fights his way through the city to the reading room of the libra ...

Sarajevo (2014)

The events in Sarajevo in June 1914 are the backdrop for a thriller directed by Andreas Prochaska and written by Martin Ambrosch, focusing on the examining magistrate Dr. Leo Pfeffer (Florian Teichtmeister) investigating the assassination of Archduke Franz ...

Verratene Freunde (2013)

Two married couples, in their mid-40s, have been friends for a long time. Until one husband believes he has to bring an indiscretion to the public about the other and the respective life plans and moral concepts are called into question. Matthias Brandt, B ...

Wenn es am schönsten ist (2013)

Ein vorbildliches Ehepaar (2012)

Two men meet in the men's room of a courthouse. Both just divorced, they decide to help each other recover their wives. ...

Hanni & Nanni 2 (2012)

The summer break is over and the twins returned to Lindenhof. That has now changed a lot. Because Mrs Theobald had to travel, Mademoiselle Bertoux has taken the lead. ...

Ruhm (2012)

A nameless man receives phone calls intended for someone else and ends up pretending to be that person, while a female character rebels against her author. ...

München '72 - Das Attentat (2012)

Munich 1972: The Olympic Games are supposed to show the world a new, different Germany: the spirit of Munich - cosmopolitan, relaxed and free. But then the unthinkable happens: in the early hours of September 5, Palestinian terrorists enter the Olympic Vil ...

Deckname Luna (2012)

Verschollen am Kap (2011)

19-year-old Karla wants to make the world a better place in a Cape Town township - much to the annoyance of her father Claas Lohmann, who worked as a manager for a Berlin-based energy company in Africa. In the Cape, Karla falls in love with the activist Ma ...

Vater Mutter Mörder (2011)

Early in the morning, Tom Wesnik is driving home from a party with his wife Esther. At the entrance to their home village of Sarezin, they are confronted by an unsettling sight: A police roadblock blocks their way, patrol cars and fire engines line the mai ...

Rottmann schlägt zurück (2011)

Max Schmeling (2010)

Based on the true story of Max Schmeling. A national hero in the 1930's when he became World heavyweight champion. He lost favour with the Nazi regime when he lost to a black man, Joe Louis, and is sent to the front in the hope he will be killed in battle. ...

Im Dschungel (2010)

Life Is Too Long (2010)

No crisis is as disastrous, overwhelming and unjust as that of Alfi Seliger. The Jewish filmmaker, hypochondriac and family man is up to his neck in problems: his pubescent children Romy and Alain find him ridiculous, his wife Helena would be happy if she ...

Tod in Istanbul (2010)

Cologne/Bonn Airport: Detective Inspector Mark Kleinert transfers the young Turkish man Baran Sahin, who has been arrested for illegal possession of weapons, to Istanbul. Seemingly a routine operation - until Kleinert receives a call from his lover Carla P ...

Hanni & Nanni (2010)

Hanni and Nanni are not only sisters, but also best friends. The twins are inseparable and always up to something. When they cause a wild chase through a department store, their wealthy parents have had it: They send the girls to the posh boarding school L ...

Vincent Wants to Sea (2010)

Vincent, a young man who suffers from Tourette's syndrome, has just lost his mother. His father, a successful politician, does not want to take care of him and therefore places him into a mental institution. He is put into a room with Alexander, a guy with ...

Kennedy's Brain (2010)

A young Swedish freelance investigative journalist dies under mysterious circumstances in South Africa, and his mother sets off in a relentless pursuit of the truth behind his death. ...

Jerry Cotton (2010)

Jerry Cotton is the best agent of the FBI and suspected of murder. So he has to find the real killers from gangster boss Serrano. ...

Die Toten vom Schwarzwald (2010)

A woman disappears mysteriously in the middle of a forest. Police begins his search, in addition to her husband, a forensic expert. When officers asked to provide them with a photograph of the missing, he discovers that someone has entered her house and st ...

Vision - From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen (2009)

Hildegard von Bingen was truly a woman ahead of her time. A visionary in every sense of the word, this famed 12th-century Benedictine nun was a Christian mystic, composer, philosopher, playwright, poet, naturalist, scientist, physician, herbalist and ecolo ...

Entführt (2009)

Spring 2008 in a suburb of Munich: Hannah Bergmann and her father Frank are kidnapped. The kidnappers do not just want money, they want to destroy an empire. ...

Und Jimmy ging zum Regenbogen (2008)

Rodolpho Aranda, head of an Argentinian chemical company, is found murdered in a Berlin bookshop: An elderly librarian named Valerie Steinfeld poisoned him with cyanide and then took her own life. As the LKA was unable to establish any connection between t ...

The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)

When German police viciously quell a protest against the shah of Iran, popular journalist Ulrike Meinhof rebels against her dishonest marriage, walks away from her children and joins radical anarchist Andreas Baader. Together with Baader's girlfriend, Gudr ...

Das Wunder von Berlin (2008)

East Germany, 1988: working as a state security service agent, Jürgen Kaiser is loyal to the party line, but worried about his son Marco, a punk. As he is arrested after a concert, Marco is forced to join the army, where he surprisingly identifies with so ...

Messy Christmas (2007)

A holiday celebration with the extended family gets stretched to the breaking point in this comedy from Germany. Sara is happily married to Jan, though this wasn't always the case -- Sara is Jan's second wife, while Sara has three ex-husbands, Gunnar, Andi ...

The Hunt for Troy (2007)

True story about how famous German businessman and archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann located the ruins of the mythical ancient city of Troy in Turkey in 1868. ...

Die Mauer – Berlin '61 (2006)

August 1961: To earn a bit of West German money, East Berlin "plaselayer" Hans Kuhlke smuggles scrap metal to his friend Erwin Sawatzke in West Berlin. One evening, he and his wife are invited to the Sawatzkes' house. Meanwhile, their son Paul stays with a ...

Auf ewig und einen Tag (2006)

Ghetto (2006)

In 1942, in Vilna, the Nazi annihilate 55,000 Jews and squeeze the 15,000 survivors in a seven blocks ghetto. The twenty-two year old sadistic commander Kittel is assigned to administrate the ghetto in the capital of Lithuania, becoming the master of life ...

The Airlift (2005)

Two-part historic drama about a difficult love affair between a German woman and an American soldier during the Berlin Airlift. After her husband Axel is declared dead, Luise Kielberg must survive as a single mother of a 12-year-old boy in post-war Berlin. ...

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

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

Hunt for Justice (2005)

The heroic struggle of Canadian Louise Arbour, Chief War Crimes Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, as she battles world politics and fierce opposition to indict Slobodan Milosevic for crimes against humanity. ...

Hölle im Kopf (2005)

D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers (2005)

Exile and possibly death are in the cards for the Queen of France in this edgy cloak-and-dagger adventure based on Alexandre Dumas' unrivaled tale of THE THREE MUSKETEERS and their reckless romantic friend D'Artagnan. Supernatural powers and dark mystical ...

About the Looking for and the Finding of Love (2005)

Director helmut Dietls and Patric Susskinds illustrate a legendary story of two lovers who cant keep themselves away from death. ...

Mord am Meer (2004)

Hans Wolgast is executed with a shot in the head in the idyllic town of Husum to Mozart's Magic Flute. His half-brother, Inspector Anton Glauberg, immediately suspects that the shadows of the family past have caught up with him because Hans was a member of ...

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 Lion (2003)

In Africa in the fifties, during the Mau-Mau war, young Patricia's friendship with a lion she raised for years. ...

Das Wunder von Lengede (2003)

The film is based on the events surrounding the Lengede mining accident in 1963. ...

Der Anwalt und sein Gast (2003)

Julius Caesar (2002)

Twenty year-old Julius Caesar flees Rome for his life during the reign of Sulla but through skill and ambition rises four decades later to become Rome's supreme dictator. ...

Extreme Ops (2002)

While filming an advertisement, some extreme sports enthusiasts unwittingly stop a group of terrorists. ...

Nachts im Park (2002)

After the sudden death of his wife, heart surgeon Dr. Steffen Hennings becomes increasingly withdrawn. He works a lot, but he doesn't sleep. A horrific murder is about to change his fate once again in a tragic way. All clues point to him. Why does he sit i ...

The Seagull's Laughter (2001)

Post-war provincial Iceland: around 1950, Freyja, who'd been a plump teen, returns from America, a widow with a 20-inch waist, seven suitcases of dresses, and a list of who ever wronged or slighted her. She moves in with an aunt and socialist uncle: findin ...

The Tunnel (2001)

Inspired by true events, Olympic swimmer Harry Melchior defects from East Germany in the 1960s and hatches a daring plot to help his sister and others flee East Berlin through a 145-yard underground tunnel. ...

The Unscarred (2000)

Four exchange students meet in Berlin 20 years after graduating but picking up where they left off doesn't turn out to be as easy as they had hoped. ...

Marlene (2000)

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

The Green Desert (1999)

Katja and Johann are two teenagers who are the best of friends. They spend most of their time in a ruined fort, fantasizing about an ideal world. Their relationship becomes threatened when Johann is taken ill with leukemia, and Katja's mother is undecided ...

Der Feuerteufel - Flammen des Todes (1999)

Several emblematic buildings in Vienna suffer from a series of explosions that destroy works of art of inestimable value, as well as generating a large number of victims. Detective Peter Bender will need the help of Lena, a student of art, discover the mur ...

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. ...

Mortal Enemies: The Wrong Decision (1998)

Nico has just shot and killed a man by accident. He and his friend Max cover it up but it soon turns out that the victim was a big fish in the drug world, and that he was on his way to hand over important documents to the federal police. The feds want thes ...

Run Lola Run (1998)

Lola receives a phone call from her boyfriend Manni. He lost 100,000 DM in a subway train that belongs to a very bad guy. She has 20 minutes to raise this amount and meet Manni. Otherwise, he will rob a store to get the money. Three different alternatives ...

Tower of the First Born (1998)

Despite her friends' warnings, a woman travels to the Sahara, determined to find her missing archaeologist father and the magical tower he was searching for. Aided by a mysterious prince, she battles outlaws and the desert's harsh conditions. ...

Single sucht Nachwuchs (1998)

Two Women, Two Men (1998)

Nick and Charlotte are a married couple. As both are more than busy earning money, there is no time for love or sex - only Tuesdays. Soon, Charlotte finds a lover, Luis, who is an unsuccessful, married artist. He and his wife Eva also have no time for sex, ...

Widows (1998)

A black comedy about the dream of freedom and the difficulty of obtaining this: While Molly (Eva Mattes), Elisabeth (Katja Flint) and Maria (Ornella Muti) are great friends, but at the same time completely different. Molly is a difficult stressed housewife ...

The Harmonists (1997)

Comedian Harmonists tells the story of a famous, German male sextet, five vocals and piano, the "Comedian Harmonists", from the day they meet first in 1927 to the day in 1934, when they become banned by the upcoming Nazis, because three of them are Jewish. ...

Spiel um dein Leben (1997)

Nick has lost everything. A brutal robbery has destroyed his life and his dreams. Financially, he is facing ruin with just a few hundred marks in his bank account. It's Advent time, and out of nowhere his fortunes change. Nick is lucky in a lottery, his ac ...

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 ...

Winter Sleepers (1997)

Young blonde translator Rebecca lives with her boyfriend ski instructor Marco in a mountain villa owned by her friend, nurse Laura. Rene, local cinema projectionist, steals Marco's car and gets into a car crash with local Theo, whose daughter, after being ...

Koma - Lebendig begraben (1997)

A police psychologist saves a young woman from jumping to her death and takes the unstable stranger into her family. She soon becomes jealous of her benefactor's happy marriage and tries to seduce her husband. When the rescuer surprises them both in an app ...

Buddies - Leben auf der Überholspur (1997)

Life Is All You Get (1997)

After he loses his job, his father, and his girlfriend, Jan's life is a shambles. Then suddenly he meets freakish street musician Vera, and a bittersweet romance unfolds... ...

Lucie Aubrac (1997)

A love story or a tale of the resistance, this poignant movie tells both the haunting story of a French resistance cell in Lyon but also the love of Lucie Aubrac for her husband... ...

It Happened in Broad Daylight (1997)

Several young girls were killed in a rural area. Thus Inspector Matthaei has to travel to the region where it happened and has to search for the killer. When all the people suspect a roamer to be the killer he gets lynched and everybody thinks that the cri ...

The Ogre (1996)

Frenchman Abel Tiffauges is a naive man who lives a simple life working as a mechanic. Falsely accused of being a child abuser, he is recruited as a soldier when World War II begins, but is captured soon and taken to the heart of Nazi Germany. ...

Wer Kollegen hat, braucht keine Feinde (1995)

The employees in the software department allegedly lack "creative power". At least that's what high-flyer Dr. Heller suspects. The new head of the media company wants to make a name for himself. This includes ignoring specialist Georg Meier's software and ...

Küß mich! (1995)

Paula knows exactly what she wants to do after her studies. She wants to marry her long-term boyfriend Michael, start a family and earn money. Her only problem is her fountain pen kleptomania. She compulsively takes her writing instruments everywhere. Duri ...

Deutschlandlied (1995)

This three-part film tells how people in the fictional town of Königsbruck experience the end of the war in 1945. For some it is salvation, for others total collapse, but for everyone it is a confrontation with the American liberators and occupiers. ...

Das Baby der schwangeren Toten (1994)

A pregnant woman suffers severe head trauma in a car accident. The doctors are unable to help her, but at the request of her fiancé, they decide to keep her body functioning artificially in order to save the unborn child. The ethical issues involved in th ...

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. ...

Lauras Entscheidung (1994)

Gefährliche Verbindung (1993)

An Impossible Teacher (1993)

In contrast to his successful brother Ernst (Heino Ferch), Robby (Sebastian Koch) dropped out of teacher training early and ekes out a living as a taxi driver. When Ernst emigrates to New Zealand to find love, Robby spontaneously takes on his brother's tra ...

Everything's a Lie (1992)

Erich Kasulke and Rudolf Portmann are comedian stars of the former GDR. When the Wall falls, so does their success. Portmann becomes a successful businessman, while Kasulke tries to continue working on the comedy circuit - without success. When his wife al ...

Schön ist’s im Labyrinth – George Grosz in Amerika (1992)

George Grosz, born on July 26th in Berlin, vicious draftsman and painter of the face of the ruling class, enfant terrible of the 1920s, accused of pornography and blasphemy, was one of the most popular visual artists of the Weimar Republic. Little is known ...

Wer hat Angst vor Rot, Gelb, Blau? (1991)

Berlin painter Banuscher has been rather moderately successful so far. He has only been able to keep his head above water thanks to the financial support of his girlfriend Francis. She then organizes his first exhibition, which is finally a success. Instea ...

Mocca für den Tiger (1991)

Der Tod kam als Freund (1991)

A large chemical company in southern Germany is experiencing strange glitches in its data processing. A hacker has infiltrated the computer system and, for example, ordered 9,999 rhesus monkeys instead of 100, or had 500 marks transferred to all the secret ...

Scheidung a la carte (1991)

Wedding (1990)

Three former school friends, all grown up in Wedding, the blue collar district of West Berlin, have not seen each other for a decade. They meet in their old teenage hide-out, a storage depot close to the East Berlin Wall in the summer of 1989. ...

Innocence Unknown (1988)

After the essay "On Marionette theatre" by Heinrich von Kleist. The film focuses on Kleist himself, torn apart, searching for knowledge, for identity, trapped in his loneliness and self-absorption, jumping over walls, making grimaces, cruelty, suffering. ...

Schloß Königswald (1988)

In Königswald Castle, eight noble old ladies and their maid are waiting for the end of World War II. Princess Ursela has made arrangements with her grandmother, the Countesses Hohenlohe, Dohna, Posadowsky, and Woronzoff, as well as Baroness Schweinitz and ...