Jeanette Hain

Haltlos (2024)

Pregnant Martha decides to put her child up for adoption. ...

Young Woman and the Sea (2024)

This is the extraordinary true story of Trudy Ederle, the first woman to successfully swim the English Channel. Through the steadfast support of her older sister and supportive trainers, she overcame adversity and the animosity of a patriarchal society to ...

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 ...

Hannes (2021)

Born at the same place, on the same day, Hannes and Moritz grow up to be inseparable friends. But one day a tragic motorcycle accident will change their lives forever, leaving Hannes in a coma with a slim chance of recovery. Moritz refuses to give up on hi ...

Whispers of War (2021)

When Khalil, a primary school teacher in Berlin, gets hold of images of war from his Kurdish hometown of Cizre, he is forced to question his entire existence in Berlin. His life spirals out of balance as he seems to recognise his long lost sister in the vi ...

Fabian: Going to the Dogs (2021)

In 1930s Berlin, Dr. Jakob Fabian, who works by day in advertising for a cigarette company and by night wanders the streets of the city, falls in love with an actress. As her career begins to blossom, prospects for his future begin to wane. ...

Der starke Hans (2020)

Strong Hans and Princess Sarah wants to find out why the source that is vital for their village has dried up. ...

The Wedding (2020)

Three friends from school, Thomas, Nils and Andreas, are still searching for love in their adult lives. ...

Lindenberg! Mach dein Ding (2020)

Long before his big stage breakthrough in 1973 in Hamburg, and 4.4 million records sold, the rock musician Udo Lindenberg from the Westphalian province, the man with the long hair and the hat, had many adventures. Before it all started, he moved from the r ...

Charlotte Link - The Decision (2020)

Simon's spontaneous decision to help a stranger embroils him in a murder plot. ...

Relativity (2019)

The fate of Nora, a supermarket cashier who lives happily with her boyfriend Aron, and that of Natan, a loving father who works as a night watchman, cross paths when misfortune turns their lives upside down. ...

So viel Zeit (2018)

Five old friends have to prove themselves one last time. ...

We Are Half The World (2018)

They were, at best mocked or ridiculed, at worst incarcerated, tortured, or even beheaded. But they would not be deterred. For decades ten thousands of women in Germany, Great Britain, in France, the U.S. and many other countries fought for their right to ...

Never Look Away (2018)

German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR regime. ...

Tödliches Comeback (2018)

Roy and Bruno Singer are a father and son team that couldn't be more different. While the thoroughbred musician Roy earns his money in Berlin with business that is not always legal, Bruno works for the Hamburg police. His dream is to join the homicide squa ...

Class Reunion 1.0 (2018)

Three former classmates reunite for their 30-year high school reunion. ...

Ego (2018)

Confused and disoriented, Marie wakes up after a serious accident in the middle of a snowy forest. Not being able to inform the emergency services of her position, Marie struggles to survive until she discovers a note depicting her fate in a whole new ligh ...

Don't Believe the Hype (2016)

Dawid, Vanessa and Ludwig are the finalists at a pitch-competition for a movie about the German Rap phenomenon CRO. As the three youngsters work out their extraordinary film ideas, they must fight through unexpected personal challenges. ...

A Dangerous Fortune (2016)

A shocking secret behind a young boy's death leads to three generations of treachery in the midst of the wealth and decadence of Victorian England. ...

Storno: Todsicher versichert (2015)

On his way to the provinces, young insurance agent Rupert crashes his car into a jam cart and picks up a real piglet. On top of that, he's given a good shaking by area manager Schulze, so the next day he takes his briefcase to the farms in the area. But th ...

Head Full of Honey (2014)

Before eleven years old Tilda's parents can put her beloved grandfather in an old people's home due to his progressing Alzheimer disease, she takes him on one last adventure that subliminally threatens to tear her family apart. ...

Therapy for a Vampire (2014)

Horror comedy film following vampire count Geza von Kösznöm who's visiting groundbreaking neurologist Sigund Freud because he's bored of his life and frustrated of the "eternally long" relationship with his wife Elsa. ...

Zeit der Zimmerbrände (2014)

After 15 years as coach of a middle-class ice hockey team in Canada, Harry Zoppke has served his purpose. Without a job and without a family, he returns to his hometown of Freiburg. While looking for work at his old club, the EHC Freiburg, he meets Benny, ...

Winterkartoffelknödel (2014)

A policeman suspects that several bizarre deaths in the same family were murders and that the killer is a mysterious woman who just moved to the village. ...

Landauer (2014)

The story of former Bayern Munich president Kurt Landauer, a Bavarian jew ousted by the National Socialists and brought to the concentration camp of Dachau, where he survived to come back and start to rebuild his old club after World War II. ...

Lügen und andere Wahrheiten (2014)

Six intertwined people struggle with their own sincerity, and, in so doing, unravel their secrets and the lies they live. ...

The Inner Zone (2014)

Psychological drama about a tunnel construction in the alps which becomes radioactive. ...

Göttliche Funken (2014)

Matthias, who is about to lead his beloved Diana in front of the altar, cannot believe his eyes: Lily, the former love of his life, appears as the pastor who has stepped in at short notice! The convincingly played love drama sends its protagonists on an ex ...

Run Boy Run (2014)

A true story of Jurek, an eight-year-old boy, who escapes from the Warsaw ghetto, then manages to survive in the woods and working as a farmhand, disguising himself as a Polish orphan. ...

Stiller Abschied (2013)

Charlotte, in her early 70s, is not a woman to fool. With energy and assertiveness, she leads the family-owned company since the death of her husband. But lately, irritating incidents are piling up: Charlotte gets bumpy, forgets appointments and messes thi ...

At the door (2013)

A man comes to pick up his son at his ex wife's house, just like every weekend. ...

The Forbidden Girl (2013)

The son of a fundamentalist pastor becomes addicted to an irresistible witch. If he gives in to his temptation, he will be doomed to eternal life on the dark side. ...

The Strange Case of Wilhelm Reich (2013)

At the end of his life, Wilhelm Reich - psychiatrist and experimental scientist searching for the fundamentals of life - finds himself on trial, charged with deception. His dream of liberating human individuality makes him a dangerous opponent of an Americ ...

Jahr des Drachen (2012)

Thomas Eichner works for a large textile company. He has traveled to Saigon to negotiate a joint venture. Far away from his home, the smouldering conflict with his grown-up son Daniel, the years of tormenting worry about his cancer-stricken wife Maren and ...

Bissige Hunde (2012)

A bank robbery in a small town. Police officer Arved Minks discovers that the bank robber, surrounded by police, is his own son. But to free him, Arved needs a miracle that night. ...

An Enemy to Die For (2012)

Despite the threat of war in the fall of 1939, the Germans decide to launch a sea expedition in search of evidence for Pangaea. Although the multi national geologists embark enthusiastically on their research mission, the growing political tension between ...

Dreileben: Don’t Follow Me Around (2011)

The police psychologist Jo is supposed to help catch the sex offender Molesch. Since the hotel is fully booked, she stays with her old college friend Vera and her husband Bruno. It turns out that Vera and Jo used to be in love with the same man. The two wo ...

Dreileben: Beats Being Dead (2011)

Johannes is a loner who wants a better job. And then he meets Ana. Ana is attractive and even though her job is even less prestigious than Johannes's, he falls for her. And then she quits her job to be with him (and be dependent on him) and suddenly things ...

The Poll Diaries (2010)

In 1914 on a family estate, Oda helps a wounded anarchist, and as their illicit friendship deepens, a family turmoil erupts as the war closes in. ...

Transfer (2010)

In the near future, the company, "Menzana" succeeds with the crucial step of transferring personalities for eternal youth. For the aged Hermann and his seriously ill wife, Anna, they both fear the day that death will separate them. At Menzana, they commi ...

The Whistleblower (2010)

Nebraska cop Kathryn Bolkovac discovers a deadly sex trafficking ring while serving as a U.N. peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia. Risking her own life to save the lives of others, she uncovers an international conspiracy that is determined to stop her, no matt ...

Albert Schweitzer - Anatomie eines Heiligen (2010)

The Lost Father (2010)

Albert Schweitzer (2009)

1949 the early years of the Cold War. Albert Schweitzer has become one of the most admired men in the world. The "jungle doctor" Albert Schweitzer tells the story of a philosopher and physician who promoted peace during the Cold War, built a hospital in wh ...

Kommissar Süden und der Luftgitarrist (2009)

Inspector Süden's friend and colleague Martin Heuer is in the final of the German qualifying round for the air guitar world championship. Suddenly his toughest competitor is nowhere to be found: Edward Loos, an architect and loner in real life, who is bet ...

Kommissar Süden und das Geheimnis der Königin (2009)

The Countess (2009)

Kingdom of Hungary, 17th century. As she gets older, powerful Countess Erzsébet Báthory (1560-1614), blinded by the passion that she feels for a younger man, succumbs to the mad delusion that blood will keep her young and beautiful forever. ...

The Young Victoria (2009)

As the only legitimate heir of England's King William, teenage Victoria gets caught up in the political machinations of her own family. Victoria's mother wants her to sign a regency order, while her Belgian uncle schemes to arrange a marriage between the f ...

Germany ’09 – 13 Short Films About the State of the Nation (2009)

Thirteen German directors present short films exploring the state of their country. ...

The Reader (2008)

The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a conc ...

TKKG - The Secret of the Mysterious Mind Machine (2006)

At first, friendgroup TKKG have no idea that something is amiss when "Jugend forscht" winner Kevin behaves strangely during the presentation of his "Mind Machine" - they blame his nervousness and his unexpected termination of the speech on relationship str ...

Nick Knatterton – Der Film (2005)

Little Berthold Wettelsteck is an avid comic book reader and is particularly fond of the comic book hero Nick Knatterton's stories. Until the story suddenly becomes reality and he suddenly finds himself in it. ...

Einmal so wie ich will (2005)

In the middle of the South African bush, Emma decides that things can't go on like this. After 25 years of good marriage, she leaves her husband Ferdinand and moves into the unknown with her trolley case. On the ostrich farm of the solitary John, she finds ...

Dinner for Two (2004)

Nothing can help. Leopold's cholesterol levels have finally broken through the sound barrier and it is his Steffi, of all people, whose cooking is to blame for everything, who has to put him on a strict diet. When Steffi's best friend Sophie is left withou ...

Die Frau des Architekten (2004)

Das falsche Opfer (2004)

Bibi Blocksberg (2002)

Elation in Neustadt: by the means of a little witching, Bibi Blocksberg saved two kids from burning to death. While her mother Barbara, a witch of flesh and blood herself, is very proud of her daughter, father Bernhard, overworked and stressed, disapproves ...

Die Westentaschenvenus (2002)

Thé beautiful bookseller Sophie wants to realize her lifelong dream and set up a reading café in the old shed next to the house inherited from her aunt. But the house still causes problems, a plumber must come here. And it seems like this Phillip White c ...

Sass (2001)

Brothers Franz and Erich Sass grew up poor. Together with his brother Franz, Erich specializes in cracking safes. Erich spends the money with his hands full. In the meantime, the police have also become aware of the brothers. Pursued by Detective Fabich, t ...

The Journey to Kafiristan (2001)

In 1939, the author Annemarie Schwarzenbach and the ethnologist Ella Maillart travel together by car to Kabul, but each is in pursuit of her own project. Annemarie Schwarzenbach, who was among Erika and Klaus Mann's circle of friends in the 30s, is searchi ...

Bjorn: Hurdles of Bureaucracy (2001)

Björn and his girlfriend Anja have packed their suitcases, their flight to their long-awaited holiday leaves in three hours. But then Björn notices that his passport is out of date. He rushes off to the local authorities, and the odyssey begins that comp ...

Munich: Secrets of a City (2000)

A collage of memories, fictional stories, biographies, dreams and missed opportunities, which in their entirety represent the idea of Munich. ...

The Farewell (2000)

A portrait of a single day in the late summer of 1956, toward the end of Bertolt Brecht's life, as he prepares to leave his lakeside home, surrounded by the women who form his extended family. ...

Requiem for a Romantic Woman (1999)

In the summer of 1807, Clemens Brentano stumbles into the most extreme love affair of his life. The woman, who, aged barely 17-years-old, throws herself at him with such terrifying brutality, is called Auguste Bussmann. ...

Lady Rettich, Czerni and I (1998)

When Marie embarks on a road trip to a small seaside town, she's joined by her quirky best friend Czerni and the eccentric, free-spirited schoolteacher Frau Rettich. What starts as a peaceful getaway quickly turns into an unpredictable journey of self-disc ...

The Trio (1998)

Zobel and Karl are a long time gay couple who live together in a trailer home with Lizzie, Zobel's spunky daughter from a heterosexual misadventure. Together these three form a team of thieves who eke out an existence as pickpockets. After a botched job, K ...

Die Cellistin (1998)

Kleiner König Erich (1993)

Bjorn: Hurdles of Bureaucracy (2001)

Björn and his girlfriend Anja have packed their suitcases, their flight to their long-awaited holiday leaves in three hours. But then Björn notices that his passport is out of date. He rushes off to the local authorities, and the odyssey begins that comp ...