Judith Engel

Mit Herz und Hilde (2024)

Hilde's restaurant is booming! Hilde and her colleagues can look forward to plenty of customers with their unusual meatball creations. But the cash register is not doing well at all: too many free burgers for the needy call the tax office into action. Hild ...

Alreadymade (2024)

In 2004, a urinal was voted the most influential work ever in modern art. Famed artist and provocateur Marcel Duchamp claimed to have created "Fountain"—or rather, he bought the mass-produced product and signed it—but according to some, it is the lesse ...

Die Jägerin - Riskante Sicherheit (2023)

Dedicated public prosecutor Judith Schrader is once again fighting organized crime in Berlin. This time she is investigating security companies that are increasingly in the hands of the OC. ...

Harter Brocken: Der Goldrausch (2023)

When the village sheriff Frank Koops settles a dispute between the neighbors Ernst and Rudi, he has no idea that this is the prelude to murderous complications that go back far into the past. ...

Miss Merkel - Ein Uckermark-Krimi (2023)

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel is retired and lives with her husband and pug in a small town. She is bored with the quiet life. When a man is found murdered in a castle, she begins to investigate on her own, supported by her bodyguard. ...

McLenBurger - 100% Heimat (2022)

57-year-old Hilde likes to lead the way - both in her family and at work. That's why she regrets having failed with her own restaurant years ago. Now she may be making her umpteenth new start at the Quincy's burger chain, but she remains true to herself: s ...

Beat On The Brat (2022)

Helen tries to do everything right, but the customers are not interested in the middle-aged woman in the sausage grill. As the straps cut deeper and deeper, Helen has to break out and from then on she does everything wrong, or right? ...

Die Jägerin - Nach eigenem Gesetz (2021)

The committed public prosecutor Judith Schrader is once again fighting against organized crime in Berlin. She is not only investigating two opposing rocker clans, but also against vigilante justice in the ranks of the police. During an operation in the roc ...

Goldjungs (2021)

Cologne in the 1970s. To all appearances, things could hardly go better for Iwan Herstatt and his bank. Above all, a group of young currency traders ensures brilliant balance sheets. The fact that they are called gold boys is no coincidence. ...

Ich brauche euch (2020)

Der König von Köln (2019)

A rather regular state official, who works at the building authority, becomes a puppet of a few super rich. They want to make quite a lot of profit from a planned large-scale building project. Quicker than anticipated, the father-to-be gets surprised by a ...

Im Niemandsland (2019)

It's the summer of 1990, two teenagers in Germany fall in love - an innocent first love, shortly before the German reunification. Katja (16) is from West-Berlin, Thorben (17) from GDR. Their families are fighting over a house in Kleinmachnow (a suburb of E ...

Aber ich liebe dich nicht! (2019)

Gegen die Angst (2019)

After police officer Jan Wiegand is critically injured in action, public prosecutor Judith Schrader throws herself into the fight against organized crime in Berlin. But she would actually have to give up the case, as she has a secret relationship with the ...

The Silent Revolution (2018)

In 1956 Stalinstadt, East Germany, during the Hungarian uprising against Soviets is taking place, local teenagers perform a seemingly harmless act that causes unexpected consequences. ...

Casting (2017)

For her first television film, director Vera wants the perfect cast. But the first day of shooting is fast approaching and the numerous casting sessions have yet to find a suitable actress to play the leading role. Although the producer and crew are gettin ...

Willkommen bei den Honeckers (2017)

Max Bretschneider pretends to be a communist in order to conduct the last interview with Erich Honecker. ...

Zorn - Kalter Rauch (2017)

In the fifth film in the series, the two chief commissioners Zorn and Schröder again investigate a truly tricky case in Halle. The script was written by Stephan Ludwig, who wrote the novel as in the previous productions. Directed by the crime-experienced ...

Das Märchen vom Schlaraffenland (2016)

Paul's life is marked by hunger, poverty and hard work. His sister Magda is sick and needs medicine. In town they meet Master Flintstone. ...

Ein Mann unter Verdacht (2016)

Anja Altmann disappears after a birthday party. When the police ask husband Thomas about her , family attorney and friend Lavinia Bertok manage to dispel any suspicions about him. But soon Thomas is arrested. While the Altmann family start hurling accusati ...

Simon Says Goodbye to His Foreskin (2015)

Simon Grünberg (12) never cared for his Jewish heritage, while his divorced parents bicker whether he should to his bar mithzva as father Frank wants, or save his foreskin as mother Hannah holds. When he falls in love at first sight of the new 'rabbi' Reb ...

October November (2014)

Director Gotz Spielmann follows his acclaimed thriller Revanche with this visually captivating character study, in which a family reunion at a mountainside inn lays bare old wounds and reveals long-held secrets. ...

Eichmanns Ende (2010)

Adolf Eichmann, one of the Third Reich's worst war criminals escapes to Argentina. With his wife and three sons he lives undiscovered in a German community in Buenos Aires until he his kidnapped by Israelis and tried for his crimes. ...

Gravity (2010)

The story of a seemingly settled bank employee who breaks the shackles of his everyday life and becomes a wanderer between worlds. Frederik is an up-and-coming young bank employee who lives an ordinary life. When a bank customer, whom Frederik has denied a ...

Inspektor Barbarotti - Mensch ohne Hund (2010)

Inspector Gunnar Barbarotti has no increased desire for the grueling meeting with his ex-wife. The curious case, which he urgently needs to take on, is just right for the Italo-Swedes: after a birthday party in the idyllic town of Kymlinge, two members of ...

Die zwei Leben des Daniel Shore (2009)

Mogadischu (2008)

The incredible true story of Lufthansa Flight 181, which was hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in October of 1977, and the noble efforts of stewardess Gabriele Dillmann (Nadja Uhl) to ensure the safety of the terrified passenger ...

The Stranger in Me (2008)

A young couple in love: Rebecca (32) and her boyfriend Julian (34) are expecting their first child and are full of pleasant expectation. As Rebecca gives birth to a healthy boy their luck seems to be perfect. But instead of the unconditional motherly love ...

Eine gute Mutter (2007)

Paul is a gifted boy and his parents Gesine and Uwe are proud of him. One day Gesine meets a former neighbor: Kathrin, who, like Gesine, gave birth to a child seven years ago, but lost the baby in a tragic house fire shortly afterwards. Gesine finds Kathri ...

Hounds (2007)

Despite having lived in the East German countryside for several months, teenager Lars and his dad, Henrik, are still treated as unwelcome guests. Henrik is building a "marriage barn," a proposed bed-and-breakfast for newlywed Berliners. ...

Fair Trade (2006)

The shortest distance and at the same time the most obvious gap between the so-called Third World Countries and Europe is the Straits of Gibraltar. "Fair Trade" is one of the many stories that happen there every day. ...

The Free Will (2006)

After nine years in psychiatric detention Theo, who has brutally assaulted and raped three women, is released. Living in a supervised community, he connects well with his social worker Sascha, finds a job at a print shop and even a girlfriend, Nettie, his ...

Die fremde Frau (2004)

Alexander, son and creative head of the traditional Brandenburg jewelry dynasty, is happily married to the lawyer Konstanze. One day, Helen Berg, a mysterious beauty, appears and casts an erotic spell over Alexander. Alexander is overwhelmed by his intoxic ...

In This Very Moment (2003)

This is the story of Sylvia, who loses her stepchildren on a shopping trip in Poland. For fear of losing her husband's love too, she is unable to tell him what has happened and returns home, pretending everything is fine. When he realizes that his children ...

The Queen – Marianne Hoppe (2000)

Werner Schroeter's lovely and touching portrait of the great German actress Marianne Hoppe, whose career spanned from the glory days of the Weimar era through the Nazi years to a postwar return to the stage in Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams, and experimen ...