Jonas Laux

Das Mädchen von früher (2023)

Bente, a school dropout, was a foster child on the Strand family's remote farm. Forensic medicine finds a key in Bente's stomach. Where was the girl going with two cans of gasoline? Why did the local gas station attendant sell her gasoline even though it w ...

Amokspiel (2018)

When a single phone call is the difference between life and death: Jan May holds five hostages captive in a radio studio and plays a perfidious game of amok with them every hour. If a caller answers with the wrong slogan, a hostage is killed. Criminal psyc ...

Balloon (2018)

Two families attempt a daredevil plan to escape the GDR with a homemade hot air balloon, but it crashes just before the border. The Stasi finds traces of this attempt to escape and immediately starts investigations, while the two families are forced to bui ...

Rosamunde Pilcher: Argentinischer Tango (2016)

Argentinian tango teacher Valentina Martino is not having an easy time of it. Her ex-husband evaded taxes, so she has to stay in Cornwall illegally. She lives there with her niece Elena. To earn money, Valentina works as a domestic help. However, this is n ...

Out of Frame (2015)

Désamour (2014)

Ada and Christoph are standing at the parting of their ways. The assumed closeness between them turns out to be an illusion. Christoph cheats on Ada. ...

Autumn Blood (2013)

Two young orphans in the Tirolian Mountains come under siege by a vicious band of hunters. Frightened of being separated by child services following the death of their mother, a self-sufficient 16-year-old girl and her 10-year-old brother - who hasn't spok ...

The Angel Maker (2009)

A child death in a small german town dismay its inhabitants, who start to think that the death is related with an old leyend. ...

Beyond the Wall (2009)

In September 1974, at the Bösebrücke border crossing between East and West Germany, Heike and Ulrich Molitor, along with their two little children, are caught trying to escape to the West. As a punishment the parents are presented with a terrible decisio ...

Die Frau vom Checkpoint Charlie (2007)

Based on a true story, Miguel Alexandre's two-part drama focuses on an East German woman and the fight for her children. Spring 1982: Sara Bender, living with her daughters Silvia and Sabine in the East German town of Erfurt, wants to marry her colleague P ...