Heinrich Giskes

Wunderlich's World (2016)

Mimi has her hands full. Her son Felix is hyperactive, her ex-husband Johnny is a mess, her father is a chronic gambler. Then Felix signs her up for a Swiss casting show, because Mimi wanted to be a musician originally. So Mimi decides to head for Switzerl ...

Tiefe Wunden (2015)

Sommer in Rom (2013)

For Cologne newspaper journalist Michael Heinrich, a year-long posting as Itally correspondent is a dream coming true. His lawyer wife Susanne agrees to take her long-postponed sabbatical year there, but janitor Filippo and his hunky cousin Toni still hasn ...

Agent Ranjid Saves the World (2012)

The Dutch supervillain Freek van Dyk is keeping the world on tenterhooks - and the world's best secret services can only stand by and watch. Finally, the Turkish Ayran Secret Service intervenes. However, there is a mix-up, because after two of the ASS men ...

Rindvieh à la carte (2011)

Felix Hauser is the high-flyer par excellence in haute cuisine. He hosts a popular cooking show and his upmarket restaurant is frequented by hand-picked celebrities. A restaurant chain with branches in Tokyo and New York is in the pipeline. As he rushes fr ...

Die Schäferin (2011)

No job, no plan. So lawyer Svea returns to her old job as a shepherdess on a temporary basis. Back home, she meets her childhood sweetheart Hannes again, who is now married to Svea's school friend Ute... ...

Lisas Fluch (2011)

Blindes Vertrauen (2005)

SommerHundeSöhne (2005)

Summer is the time to travel, enjoy life, and do or leave what you want. A motor home with two occupants makes its way south. But the two travelers do not travel voluntarily, and certainly not together. ...

Night of the Living Dorks (2004)

Three not-so-cool school friends decide to try a old voodoo ritual. Later, they die in a car accident, but live on as zombies. But being a zombie has advantages, too... ...

So fühlt sich Liebe an (2004)

A successful journalist must choose between his wife and a co-worker. ...

Claras Schatz (2003)

Fliege kehrt zurück (2003)

ABC des Lebens (2003)

The Hunt for the Hidden Relic (2002)

Steffen Vogt, aged around 25, is helping out at a German archeological excavation in Israel when he finds a 2,000-year-old skeleton holding the instructions for a video camera dating from the year 2003. The bones also show traces of the present day. His th ...

Hashish (2002)

A small village high up in the mountains of Ketama, Northern Morocco. The life of the people here has been shaped by the drug hashish for centuries. Hashish as daily work, hash as exchange currency, hashish as business, hashish as basis and philosophy of a ...

The Woman Who Doubted Dr. Fabian (2002)

After a small sample of fabric, the eternal student and occasional dealer Paul ends up in the emergency room. Enraged, father Willi takes his offspring back to his sleepy Westphalian home, where foxes and rabbits still say goodnight to each other. He locks ...

If It Don't Fit, Use a Bigger Hammer (2002)

Frustrated with their lazy new intern, a trio of offbeat builders decide to teach him a lesson with a series of escalating pranks. ...

Hochzeit auf Raten (2002)

Tabloid reporter Jule learns that her marriage to editor-in-chief Max, which she entered into four years ago, is invalid. Since Max, who has known this for some time, does not ask her to marry him again, she quits her job and moves in with her friend Bianc ...

As Far As My Feet Will Carry Me (2001)

The German soldier Clemens Forel - determined to be reunited with his beloved family - makes a dramatic escape through bitter cold winters, desolate landscapes, and life threatening ventures from a Siberian labor camp after World War II. 8000 miles and thr ...

Ein Sommertraum (2001)

Natalie IV - Das Leben nach dem Babystrich (2001)

Ich schenk dir meinen Mann 2 (2001)

Das Phantom (2000)

After the partner of a policeman is killed he is drawn into a mysterious plot of conspiracy and terrorists. ...

Biikenbrennen - Der Fluch des Meeres (1999)

Some businessman of a software company moves to the seashore because his daughter suffers from asthma as her mother did before she died. He doesn't like the villagers and he doesn't want them to hold the Biikenbrennen like every year in front of his new ho ...

Bang, Boom, Bang (1999)

Bank robber Kalle Grabowski escapes from prison while his unemployed smalltime crook buddy is sitting around doing nothing after he just lost all their money. A fast paced comedy from German director Peter Thorwarth. ...

Südsee, eigene Insel (1999)

A family spends their vacation in the basement so that their neighbors don't notice that they can't afford to go on vacation. ...

Die Bademeister – Weiber, saufen, Leben retten (1999)

Paul and Böller from Wanne-Eickel have a dream: they want to apply to be lifeguards on Sylt. Not because the two VoKuHiLa advocates love saving lives so much, but because they are hoping for a lot of beer and a pack of gorgeous women. Once they arrive on ...

Voll auf der Kippe (1999)

Hamburg - Stadt in Angst (1999)

The film is about a series of murders in Hamburg, in which Inspector Sophie Fleming, with the help of her ex-boyfriend Martin, hunts down a killer who sinks his victims in the Alster and displays them in the town hall square. ...

Auch Männer brauchen Liebe (1998)

Die Bubi Scholz Story (1998)

Dramatic life of Gustav "Bubi" Scholz, who rose from post-war obscurity and a background in black market dealings to become a celebrated European boxing champion in the late 1940s. Charismatic and widely admired, he quickly became a national icon. But as t ...

Die Musterknaben (1997)

Docker and Dretzke are two police officers from Cologne. But the cases here in the precinct don't win them a flower pot at the CID. And so they find themselves at the bottom of the career ladder. When they are assigned by the Düsseldorf State Office of Cr ...

Der Coup (1997)

Willi und die Windzors (1996)

The British parliament has decided to get rid of the royal family. All of them have to leave the county and so they move to Germany, where they want to live by their distant relatives, the Bettenberg family. But these are not amused about their snobbish vi ...

Landgang für Ringo (1996)

Marine Ringo deserts in Hamburg when he finds his girlfriend with rival Eggers. Squatting with friend Yusuf, he uncovers Eggers's shady land deals. ...

Nightland (1996)

Doctor, maid, slave, sister, father, mother, sick person, old people, wounds... Film is about perception and misperception and all kinds of loss. Based on the Franz Kafka story "A Country Doctor". ...

No More Mr. Nice Guy (1993)

The brothers Kipp and Most set off to inherit their grandmother's estate. Along the way, they meet Viktor, a deserted Russian soldier who kidnaps them, and Nadine, who joins them voluntarily. On their way to their inheritance, the protagonists get into som ...

Superstau (1991)

Every year, many Germans are preparing to spend their vacations in the sunny south. And they all have to use the same highways. And every year everything ends in a big traffic jam. ...

Der neue Mann (1990)

Keine Hand wäscht die Andere (1988)

On the run from her criminal Italian husband, a young French woman meets a German lover in West Berlin who offers her shelter but who also gets entangled in her threatened life ever deeper. ...

Tage im Hotel (1983)

Liebeskonzil (1982)

Oskar Panizza's The Council of Love (1895) is a blasphemous play set in 1495, during the first recorded outbreak of syphilis, which Panizza satirically presents as the punishment from Satan for sexually active humans. As a result, Panizza was imprisoned fo ...

Purity of Heart (1980)

An abstract look at the changes in a woman's inner self. Married to a down-and-out writer, she is forced into a liaison with a book thief. ...

Marija (1978)

The Fifth Commandment (1978)

A notorious gang of robbers threaten the Ruhr region of Germany in the 1920s. ...

Heinrich (1977)

The life and struggles of the German writer Heinrich von Kleist. ...

Auf dem Chimborazo (1977)

Die Geisel (1977)

Former revolutionary Pat and sex worker Meg run a brothel in 1950s Dublin. In addition to five girls and two gay men, the old IRA general Musjö and Mr. Muleady also live in their establishment. One evening, two IRA fighters drag in a prisoner. The hostage ...

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. ...

Under the Pavement Lies the Strand (1975)

West Berlin, 1974. The revolution didn't happen like it was supposed. Grischa, a 30-year-old actress dissatisfied with standard left-wing politics, interviews working women to find out how they deal with being both mothers and members of society. ...

Die Bakchen (1974)

Austrian flmed staged production of Euripedes' The Bacchae, portraying a conflict between the deity Dionysus, son of Zeus, and his cousin Pentheus, ruler of Thebes ...

Kein Grund zur Unruhe (1974)

Kleiner Mann, was nun? (1973)

Emma Morschel, known as Lämmchen, is expecting a child. So she marries her boyfriend, Johannes Pinneberg. The young marriage gets off to a rocky start: Lämmchen's parents, class-conscious workers, are opposed to their daughter marrying the lowly clerk. ...

Tenderness of the Wolves (1973)

A German serial killer preys on boys and young men during the so-called years of crisis between the wars. Based on the true story of Fritz Haarmann, aka the Butcher of Hanover and the Vampire of Hanover. ...

Apokal (1971)

This German language film is said to be loosely based on a story by Edgar Allen Poe. It is difficult to say, as there is no story to be discerned in this non-stop pastiche, heavy with symbolism but with no other distinguishing features. It was, however, a ...

Die Mutter (1971)

Like Two Merry Aeronauts (1969)

The double suicide of Heinrich von Kleist and his companion Henriette Vogel on November 21, 1811 at the Kleiner Wannsee in Berlin is the focus of this film. Based on testimonies from the preparation days and the day of the suicide, as well as the statement ...

I’m an Elephant, Madame (1969)

The pupil Rull rehearses the uprising at a grammar school in Bremen and tries to break through the authoritarian structures of his school. The result is a humorous protest movement that demands a democratic school form. ...

Under the Pavement Lies the Strand (1975)

West Berlin, 1974. The revolution didn't happen like it was supposed. Grischa, a 30-year-old actress dissatisfied with standard left-wing politics, interviews working women to find out how they deal with being both mothers and members of society. ...