Leslie Malton

The Hero of Friedrichstrasse Station (2025)

All his life, Michael Hartung, owner of a hopelessly debt-ridden video store, has bet on the wrong horse. When an ambitious journalist confronts him with the results of his research, everything changes for the charmingly melancholy Micha. Many years ago, a ...

Verhängnisvolle Leidenschaft Sylt (2025)

After a drastic experience, Nina takes some time out on an island in northern Germany to be away from work and her husband Patrick. She meets the charming and mysterious Daniel, who immediately captivates her. At first she fights her desire, but soon the t ...

Endlich Witwer - Griechische Odyssee (2024)

Weekend Rebels (2023)

Mirco von Juterczenka's novel "Wir Wochenendrebellen" is the story of a father and his ten-year-old son, who is Asperger's autistic. The boy has set his mind on finally finding his favourite football club. But his selection criteria are very specific and b ...

What the Finn?! – Summer of Surprises (2023)

Finn has some bad luck. First, the paddling trip with his father falls through, and then he is robbed on the train to Berlin. On top of that, neither the conductor nor the police believe that his backpack and ticket have disappeared. Luckily, he meets the ...

Die Gänseprinzessin (2022)

Since the Prince disappeared there are years. The Kingdom is not going well because the King does not tolerate laughter. ...

Familie Bundschuh – Woanders ist es auch nicht ruhiger (2021)

The Bundschuhs buy an old manor house, which of course is very popular with all family members. So Hadi and Rose, Ilse and Susanne nest there, but don't even think about helping Gundula with the necessary renovation work. To make matters worse, the monumen ...

Stay Still (2021)

These young women are an odd couple. Julie is quick-witted and stubborn. She celebrates idleness and even voluntarily checks into a psychiatric clinic. Nurse Agnes, on the other hand, is always eager to do the right thing and to meet everyone's expectation ...

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. ...

My Indian Summer (2020)

Ebba, a successful food chemist, has a terrible dream in which she gives birth to a healthy bear cub. For her, this is a sign from fate that something is wrong in her life. She and her husband Markus are actually a good team, both privately and professiona ...

Ottilie von Faber-Castell - Eine mutige Frau (2019)

Head of the famous pencil corporation tries to make his 16 year old granddaughter ready to take his place. ...

Tödliches Erwachen (2019)

The lover of a policeman is strangled in his house. ...

Die Auferstehung (2018)

Dad is dead. For years he wanted nothing more to do with his children because they didn't agree with his lifestyle. Now daughter Linda alerts the three brothers Joschi, Jakob and Uli, and they all gather together with their spouses Fred and Franziska at th ...

Dieter Not Unhappy (2017)

Artists, vernissages, TV interviews - Dieter, a printer and publisher with universal acclaim, is a workaholic jetting through the world. Loneliness, unrequited love, a half-empty double bed - that's where photographer Marge points her lens. ...

Schwarzbrot in Thailand (2017)

Ottmar hands his Hamburg bakery to daughter Janina, retiring after 40 years with his wife to compatriot Beinle's fancy seniors residence in Pattaya, Thailand, which also provides private nursing as required. She waited decades to enjoy free time, exploring ...

Happy Burnout (2017)

An unemployed with diagnosed burn-out is getting a therapy in a clinic. ...

Winnetou - A New World (2016)

The first part, "A New World", tells how the young German engineer Karl May comes to America and starts to work for a railway company in the Wild West. Under dramatic circumstances, he meets Apache chief Winnetou and becomes friends with him and his tribe. ...

Schwarzach 23 - und die Jagd nach dem Mordsfinger (2016)

After Willy Unterkofer, an old acquaintance of the Germingers, is murdered, Franz Junior takes over the investigation together with Karl and Anna and a family quarrel soon arises. Franz Senior and Erika seem to want to steer the youngsters in a certain dir ...

Katie Fforde: Das Schweigen der Männer (2016)

Die Insassen (2015)

Heil (2015)

An African-German Author loses his memory and is used by a modern National Socialist Party as promotion-figure for more political power over Germany. ...

Wildwechsel (2014)

Thomas is trapped in a loveless relationship, even though he has already fallen in love again, Anton can't manage to introduce his boyfriend to his parents, who have their own problems, and after a party they all get together. ...

Die Zeit mit Euch (2014)

Three couples, six friends and the threat of retirement age: when TV journalist Paul quits his job at the age of 65, neither he nor his wife Christiane (59) had any idea that their relationship would be put to the test. Neither did personnel manager Marlen ...

Quality Time (2013)

You can't choose your family – which is why Conrad limits his visits with his parents to an absolute minimum. When venomous, irritable Carl injures himself seriously in a fall, his reluctant son Conrad and the butt-of-all-jokes Jonas has no choice but to ...

Halbe Hundert (2013)

At the centre of the comedy 'Halbe Hundert' ('half of hundred') stand three strong women at fifty. As with so many women of their generation, the number on their birth certificate seemingly doesn't fit to their sense of life at all. But all three of them s ...

Stille (2013)

Harry Cliewer, a famous television journalist, is at the height of his career. His daring interview with a top banker becomes a scandal and a ratings hit. At the same time, his son Alex publishes his novel: a reckoning with his father. In it, he describes ...

Move (2012)

Eleven moving dates, eight friends: Philipp, Wiebke, Jessica, Maria, Swantje, Michael, Thomas, Dina – all in their twenties and mutually lonesome. And always searching: For a new city, a new job, an own apartment, a new, or even an old love. The search i ...

Komm, schöner Tod (2012)

Berlin sometime in the near future: Due to the demographic change, more and more old people are walking confused through the city. In order to avoid accidents and to protect the elderly, there are special task forces that pick up the pensioners and bring t ...

Im Alleingang - Die Stunde der Krähen (2012)

Mary is a lawyer whose successful career is turned upside down when she has a car accident. Forced to live in a wheelchair she is fired and abandoned by her lover. ...

Offroad (2012)

Meike has had enough of a comfortable life and ventures out on a risky off-road adventure in a jeep she bought at auction. ...

Dora Heldt: Tante Inge haut ab (2011)

Familie Fröhlich – Schlimmer geht immer (2010)

Kreutzer Is Coming (2010)

Detective Kreutzer follows a case of a jazz singer murdered in a club. What unravels as the detective gets closer to the truth, surprises even Kreutzer himself. ...

Run If You Can (2010)

An independent tragicomedy, Run If You Can is the debut feature for director Brüggemann who, along with his sister, also wrote the compelling screenplay. Forced to spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair, Ben is deeply desperate, despite his humor and ...

The Boxer (2009)

Ben is a tormented young man who escapes abuse, his life in crime streets to spend, with the result that he was in prison ends. If Ben is released, he comes back as a boxer, with the help of his mentor, Joe, a bokstrainer. Have a new found love named Natal ...

Alter vor Schönheit (2008)

Neben der Spur (2008)

Warten auf Angelina (2008)

Nothing is more persistent than an unconfirmed rumor. And the less likely it sounds, the more seriously some people take it. Years ago, when reports circulated in the German media that Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt were about to take up residence in Berlin, ...

Unschuld (2008)

Ein starker Abgang (2008)

When the writer Heinz Kilian goes to the doctor because of stomach problems, the doctor urges him to be accompanied on his upcoming reading tour by nutritionist Vera Hartel. The two elderly gentlemen, who are driven by long-time publishing house employee H ...

Run for Your Life! (2008)

He lived the junkie's life as a heroin addict. Triathlon transformed him. Biopic of the record breaking Ironman Andreas Niedrig. ...

Paula's Secret (2007)

"Everyone has dreams, and dreaming is never stupid." So says Paula, a girl whose dreams are as big as her heart. For a long time, Paula has kept a diary, and written inside are her biggest secrets. When her diary is stolen by a pair of child thieves, she i ...

Die Kette (2006)

FC Venus (2006)

Anna is persuaded by her boyfriend Paul to move from Berlin to his home town of Imma. What the notorious soccer hater doesn't know, however, is that joining his best friend Steffen's law firm is just a pretext. In reality, Paul and his buddies are there to ...

Neun Szenen (2006)

Magdalena has to wash glasses at her own graduation ball. Rudi, who is in love with her, has to endure the presence of her boyfriend Julian. Julian doesn't have to do anything, but lets his mother look after him. They are united by one wish: To find their ...

Das unbezähmbare Herz (2004)

Der Auftrag - Mordfall in der Heimat (2003)

Erste Liebe (2002)

16-year-old Oliver falls in love with young Sina, who is also his father's secret lover ...

Klassentreffen – Mordfall unter Freunden (2001)

Hand in Hand (2001)

Il cielo tra le mani (2000)

Schweigen ist Gold (2000)

Jimmy the Kid (1999)

Herzlos (1999)

Midnight Flight (1998)

An American woman is stranded in a German airport when she witnesses someone sabotaging a plane. ...

Die einzige Chance (1998)

Virus X - Der Atem des Todes (1997)

A patient dies beneath Dr. Robert Stenzel's hands. His wife, the virologist Simone, realizes too late that the deceased was carrying a contagious virus. Robert has long since been infected too. For Simone, a merciless race against time begins... ...

Tödliches Alibi (1997)

Buy 1 Get 1 Free (1997)

Everyone knows them: Tupperware parties as the classic setting for commercialized housewives. Almost everyone also knows the fear of violence and assault. This short film presents a combination of both: a home demonstration based on the Tupperware party mo ...

Nach uns die Sintflut (1996)

A disaster-movie made in Germany. ...

Ehebruch - Eine teuflische Falle! (1996)

The Tourist (1995)

Inspector Lanz has finally found peace after the serial killer he was chasing for years was killed in a car chase in London. Lanz now has time to relax for a few days in Vienna with his wife Karen. There the nightmare begins again: the killer is alive an ...

Ich, der Boss (1995)

Ärztin in Angst (1995)

Die Elefantenbraut (1993)

Die Umarmung des Wolfes (1993)

Die Kupferfalle (1990)

The Little People (1990)

The Passenger – Welcome to Germany (1988)

An American filmmaker travels to modern day Berlin to make a film based on a real-life incident from 1942 in which 13 Jewish prisoners from a concentration camp were promised freedom if they appeared in a German propaganda film. Unfortunately, the Germans ...

Ticket to Rome (1986)

Das Totenreich (1986)

Denmark, by the end of the 19th century. Gov. Dihmer gives his resignation because of his illness. Two friends, a pastor and a physician, try to awaken his willpower and transcend a journey to Italy. Meanwhile, in the homeland, there are political breakth ...

Eine andere Frau (1985)

Palace (1985)

1944. Lucien, a fighter in the Free French Forces, is taken prisoner by the Germans. He is sent to a prison camp and then becomes a pianist in a palace. ...

Die Geschichte vom guten alten Herrn und dem schönen Mädchen (1985)

Blaubart (1984)

An internist is accused of murdering the sixth of his seven wives. During the court hearing, numerous statements, especially those made by his former wives, confront him with his past. Finally acquitted, the doctor loses himself in feelings of deepest guil ...

Windy Story (1984)

The film depicts a man who becomes a motorcycle grand prix champion in his teens, but suffers an accident, and then tries to make a comeback as a privateer a few years later. ...

Kinder unseres Volkes (1983)

In der Sackgasse (1983)

Liebe läßt alle Blumen blühen (1983)

The Unapproachable (1982)

A once celebrated, still famous actress lives an "unreachable" and secluded life in a villa in Berlin's Grunewald forest. One day, a young man uses a trick to break into her voluntary isolation, and a subtle game develops between the two, in which each sli ...

The Magic Mountain (1982)

Hans Castorp, fresh from university and about to become a civil engineer, comes to the Sanatorium Berghof in the Swiss Alps to visit his cousin Joachim, an army officer, who is recovering there from tuberculosis. Intending to remain at the Berghof for thre ...

Possession (1981)

A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incid ...

Die Ortliebschen Frauen (1981)

A pessimistic drama about a family struggling to survive after the death of their father. Left behind are the simple-minded mother, the strong-willed daughter Josefine, another sister and a mentally retarded brother. Josefine takes over the reins and looks ...

Kein Land (1981)

A young man from the countryside goes to Berlin, where he is robbed by hoodlums. Completely penniless, he meets a prostitute with whom he falls in love, but the pimp wins. In a hopeless situation, he decides to take back what is his by force. ...

Sierra Madre (1980)

Das Traumhaus (1980)

Four young people dream of a simple life. In the middle of Berlin, they retreat to an idyllic villa with a garden, where they want to provide for themselves and lead an alternative lifestyle. But then an unscrupulous property developer wants to demolish th ...