Marie Gruber

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 ...

Hey Bunny (2017)

A misanthropist ex-hacker is suspected of sabotaging a famous happiness-research facility. He is forced to prove his innocence and stumbles into a wild adventure, during which he involuntarily becomes an idealistic activist, has to deal with strange, possi ...

Familie mit Hindernissen (2017)

Katrin can only dream of a happy family. Because the patchwork constellation with several involuntarily connected families puts their nerves to the test. To kitten the fragile relationship with her 14-year-old daughter Saskia, she has invited all family me ...

Kästner and Little Tuesday (2016)

Germany, 1931. The youth novel "Emil and the Detectives" is being filmed, which will make its author, Erich Kästner, world famous. An unusual friendship begins between the childless author and fatherless Hans, the 9-year-old playing the character Little T ...

Lotte Jäger und das tote Mädchen (2016)

Frantz (2016)

In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious French man who visits the fiance's grave to lay flowers. ...

Drei Väter sind besser als keiner (2016)

Jasper finally wants to meet his dad! To fulfill his wish, Mother Maike first has to find out who that is. Three teenage acquaintances come into question: a farmer, a car screwdriver and the village's former heartthrob. With the eleven-year-old and his lit ...

Katie Fforde: Mein Wunschkind (2015)

Heimat ist kein Ort (2015)

The unemployed taxi driver Klaus, the gay dog sitter Uwe and the strict nurse Inge did not have an easy childhood. Her mother died too early, the father then gave her home. Now the old man has died and for the hated Kurbjuweits is the Notarbesuch on. Klaus ...

Engel der Gerechtigkeit: Geld oder Leben (2015)

After Dr. Patricia Engel experienced a treatment error with a fatal outcome that was also covered up, she gave up her promising career as a doctor and became a lawyer. When she once again comes across a medical error in the clinic of her father, heart spec ...

Krüger aus Almanya (2015)

Berlin widower Paul Krüger, a retired ex-GDR stone mason (66), hates foreigner immigrants, especially Muslims. When his beloved, doting granddaughter Annie plans to marry Deniz, an ambitious student and waiter in Ankara who needs a visa for Germany, backw ...

Franziskas Welt: Hochzeiten und andere Hürden (2015)

Lübeck pastor Franziska Kemper has to marry her ex-husband Christoph and his heavily pregnant girlfriend Andrea. Not an easy situation, as she has not yet got over the breakdown of her marriage. And she is also challenged as a pastor: Paul Jacobsen, who s ...

Heart of Stone (2014)

Penniless Peter Munk toils day after day as a charcoal burner in the Black Forest. In order to finally achieve the wealth he longs for and thus get closer to his previously unattainable crush Lisbeth, he turns to two mysterious forest spirits with his wish ...

Das Ende der Geduld (2014)

Corinna Kleist is a juvenile court judge who, after a leave of absence following the suicide of a convicted teenager, is appointed to a 'problem area' in Berlin. She now tries harder than ever to change the system in order to prevent troubled kids from bei ...

Alleine war gestern (2014)

Five friends in their early 60s see things differently. They are afraid of loneliness and want to give their lives a new twist. The quintet cheerfully, if a little naively, found a shared flat. A risky move, as the communards could hardly be more different ...

Die letzten Millionen (2014)

In a senior citizens' residence in Berlin, six residents are betting on the Lotto jackpot of € 30 million. But what should one do with so much money in his old days? Lebemann Conrad wants to hit the spot again, while the gay couple Otto and Jakob are ful ...

Beauty and the Beast (2014)

Forced to face the cruel side of life, a devastated, bankrupt merchant chances upon the enchanted castle of a hideous creature, the mere sight of it chills the bone to the marrow. There, a fate worse than death awaits the poor father-of-six, who, after plu ...

Engel der Gerechtigkeit - Kopfgeld (2013)

Engel der Gerechtigkeit: Ärztepfusch (2013)

Papa auf Probe (2013)

Moritz Kaiser, good-looking single from passion, enjoys the carefree life in the fast lane. The successful chief designer of a furniture company lives in a luxury apartment and drives a thick sports car. The tide turns when he is fired after an affair with ...

Sputnik (2013)

November 9, 1989, the day the Berlin Wall came down. A 10-year-old girl and her friends attempt to use their teleportation device to beam her uncle back to East Germany but instead, as they witness on TV, end up beaming everyone in their town into West Ger ...

Die Pastorin (2013)

Nacht über Berlin (2013)

Berlin, 1932. The Weimar Republic is torn apart in the struggle between right- and left-wing extremists and Berlin is a powder keg. Nightclub singer Henny Dalgow get to know the Social Democratic congressman and Jewish doctor Albert Goldman, and the two be ...

Rotkäppchen (2012)

One day Little Red Cap's mother tells her that her grandmother is sick, and sends her to her house to bring her a piece of cake, a bottle of wine and medicine. To arrive at her grandmother's house the girl must cross the woods, and there she meets a bad o ...

Aus Liebe zu Dir (2012)

Mother Sophia and daughter Adriana are expecting a child at the same time. When Adriana had an accident in the car, the baby had to be picked up early. It dies without Adriana's knowledge, and Sophie makes a momentous decision ... ...

Schmidt & Schwarz (2012)

Bella Australia (2012)

Bella enjoys her life in Berlin after separating from her husband Martin. She buys her daughter Lena a dress for their Abifeier and proposes a joint trip around the world. However, Lena has her own plans. Why else would she drop a meeting at the mall with ...

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 ...

Engel der Gerechtigkeit - Brüder fürs Leben (2012)

Die weiße Mücke (2012)

Police officers Schraube and Wattner lead a relaxed life in a quiet provincial town. There is no work waiting for them here, they can just relax all day. This changes abruptly when Mayor Billing wants to bring tourism to the village. The forest lake, of al ...

Inklusion - gemeinsam anders (2011)

What does inclusion mean for classmates, teachers, parents and for the people themselves? The inclusion of Steffi and Paul at the Rousseau School is proving difficult. Class teacher Albert firmly believes in the program. But Steffi bullies her classmates a ...

Es ist nicht vorbei (2011)

Carola Weber is shocked when her husband Jochen introduces his new colleague from the hospital: she knows this voice. Hearing it catapults Carola back to the worst time of her life, her imprisonment in the GDR women's prison Hoheneck. She is convinced that ...

Engel der Gerechtigkeit (2011)

I Phone You (2011)

Ling, in his 20s, lives in Chongqing, the largest city in China. There she meets Yu, a Chinese business traveler who lives in Berlin. As a farewell, he has given her an iPhone. They start a tender relationship by phone. When Ling flies to Berlin to see Yu, ...

My Family kills me (2011)

Helen, in her early 50s, really doesn't know which problem she should solve first: her husband seems to be cheating on her, the children are in terrible puberty, things aren't going well with the gardening business, and she herself is going through menopau ...

Three (2010)

Hanna and Simon are in a 20 year marriage with an unexciting relationship. By chance, they both meet and start separate affairs with Adam. Adam has no idea that his two lovers are married, until they are all found out when Hanna becomes pregnant, with the ...

Die Kinder von Blankenese (2010)

Tamar, Josef, Bracha and Wolfgang survived the persecution and the camps. May 1945. The children do not know where their parents are. In the former Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, they now live next to English soldiers and broken concentration camp inmat ...

Die Zeit der Kraniche (2010)

In the loneliness of the Lower Havel lowlands, one of the last bird paradise in Germany, twelve-year-old Lea lives alone with her father Lutz, a passionate environmentalist. She is on the cusp of adulthood, confronted with the challenges of the present and ...

Boxhagener Platz (2010)

Feature adaptation of adaptation of Torsten Schulz's novel set in East Berlin in 1968. ...

Auf Doktor komm raus (2010)

Actually, the young Berlin doctor Jan Büchner wanted to go directly to the Baltic Sea for a week. But a detour forces him to drive over land. And then his car breaks down in the middle of nowhere, just behind a small town called Marienhagen. The residents ...

My Words, My Lies - My Love (2009)

David, a waiter, finds an unpublished manuscript in a dresser drawer. To impress a girl, he claims to be the author. When the novel becomes a best-seller, the real author introduces himself and begins to take over David's life. ...

Die kluge Bauerntochter (2009)

The Farmer's Daughter is given a riddle to solve by the king: "Come to me, neither naked nor clothed, neither walking nor riding, nor driving, neither by day nor by night, neither with gift nor without gift." If she solves it, she had proved her cleverness ...

Tierisch verliebt (2009)

After the death of his wife, the veterinarian Sebastian Brunnen and his daughter Kira move from Berlin to a small Moselle town to try a new beginning there. Barely arrived, he is confronted with a dramatic case: Because Sebastian has been diagnosed with th ...

Böseckendorf - Die Nacht, in der ein Dorf verschwand (2009)

Autumn 1961: The GDR regime secures the border between the workers' and peasants' state and the class enemy in the West. To ensure this, the leadership also orders the use of firearms against those fleeing the republic. In Böseckendorf, close to the borde ...

Maria am Wasser (2009)

"Maria am Wasser" tells a story of the search in symbolic allusions and beautiful, fairytale pictures. The search for love, past, reconciliation and forgiveness. Summer 1983 in Saxony. A tank drives with four children of the orphanage "Frohe Zukunft" throu ...

Die Blücherbande (2009)

Werner Blücher is what you'd call a real thoroughbred crook: not a second seems to go by without the cunning rascal coming up with an idea for the next coup. It's just too bad that Blücher's criminal career hasn't been too successful so far - his lawyer ...

Ich steig dir aufs Dach, Liebling (2009)

Jerichow (2009)

In a small Northern German town, a dishonourably discharged Afghanistan veteran is offered a job as a deliveryman by an alcoholic Turkish entrepreneur, through which the former meets the latter's gorgeous wife. ...

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 ...

Immer Wirbel um Marie (2008)

Marie runs a bookshop in Torgau with a great deal of idealism. As business is not going well, she has taken a job as a seamstress in a toy factory. The future of this traditional business is not looking good either, as the company has been sold to a large ...

The Wall - The Final Days (2008)

Küss mich, wenn es Liebe ist (2008)

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Zeit der Fische (2007)

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Alle Alle (2007)

Ina, just released from prison, returns to the place of her childhood in search of life and meets the occasional desperado Domühl in her mother's house, which has been empty for thirty years. Hagen, a mentally handicapped resident, also ends up in this un ...

Nimm dir dein Leben (2007)

In the unworldly village of Dunkelhäuser in Saxony, the clocks tick a little differently than in the rest of the country: the nature-loving farmer goes about his daily work in his Adam costume, while the cow eats comfortably from the gutter and dog and ma ...

Wenn du mich brauchst (2006)

Wealthy Elvira Hertzfeld and clarinet-playing homeless man Paul Heisenberg would probably never have spoken to each other if Elvira's elegant dog Minou hadn't fallen for Paul's good-natured St. Bernard Sunny. But when the enthusiastic Minou pulls her mistr ...

Meine bezaubernde Feindin (2006)

The successful lawyer Kai Brechtel is to sue his new client for custody so that his daughter Luzie grows up with him and his new wife. When he meets the enemy - Luzie's mother Johanna - he quickly realizes that he's on the wrong side... ...

Die Mauer – Berlin '61 (2006)

August 1961: To earn a bit of West German money, East Berlin "plaselayer" Hans Kuhlke smuggles scrap metal to his friend Erwin Sawatzke in West Berlin. One evening, he and his wife are invited to the Sawatzkes' house. Meanwhile, their son Paul stays with a ...

Eine Chance für die Liebe (2006)

Marianne is diagnosed with cancer. She doesn't dare confide in her stressed husband and two grown-up children. It is only when she meets her childhood friend Philipp that she learns to believe in the future again. ...

The Lives of Others (2006)

In 1984 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and his actress-lover Christa-Maria. Wiesler becomes unexpectedly sympathetic to the couple, and faces conflicting loyalties when his superior takes a liking to ...

Die Nachrichten (2005)

Jan Landers made it: Grown up in East Berlin, he quickly made his career after the turnaround: from the weatherman of a local station to the newsreader in Hamburg. ...

Die letzte Schlacht (2005)

The 13 days from April 20th to May 2nd, 1945, are unique in the history of Germany: They are the final act in the history of the Third Reich, which was supposed to last for a thousand years and succumbed after twelve in an orgy of violence and fire. In the ...

Liebes Spiel (2005)

Liberated Zone (2004)

A financially devastated German town receives an encouraging boost with the arrival of a popular soccer star, though a heated love triangle threatens to overshadow the good vibes in this sexually liberated comedy from filmmaker Norbert Baumgarten. ...

The Family Jewels (2004)

Martin is the ambitious one in the family. He is poised to start on his doctorate, when he is diagnosed with testicular cancer and all his future plans begin to unravel. The removal of one testicle reduces the most immediate threat, but the cancer has alre ...

Ein Schiff wird kommen (2003)

Bruno, a bus driver in his mid-50s who was a surgeon in the GDR, has lost his job. ...

Spurlos - Ein Baby verschwindet (2003)

Lotti auf der Flucht (2003)

In Vienna, Lotti Portuné, a widow embassy councillor, sees a report on television in which she recognizes her childhood sweetheart Ernst, a skipper on the Elbe. He is still sailing the Elbe on the barge named 'Lotti' in her honor. Lotti doesn't think twic ...

Kubaner küssen besser (2002)

The Duck Shits Back (2002)

It's country versus city in this darkly comic showdown between the wily inhabitants of a farm and its arrogant new owner. ...

Fernes Land Pa-Isch (2000)

The 16-year-old Umberto, who lives in an East German small town with his mother and his little half-sister Bianca, dreams of Pa-isch, the country to which Bianca's Angolan father returned long ago. Pa-isch, a verballhorn of the Portuguese word for country, ...

Zwei Mädels auf Mallorca - Die heißeste Nacht des Jahres (2000)

The two sales clerks Tanja and Nicole hardly know each other, but they share something: their married lover, who is careful not to let them know anything about his marriage or the other. When they do find out the truth, they travel head over heels to Mallo ...

Schwiegermutter (2000)

Einfach raus (1999)

"Einfach raus!" is the wish that 18-year-old Andreas has had for a long time. Simply get out of the GDR and go to the West to realize his life's dream and study physics. Suddenly, in the historic summer of 1989, his dream becomes reality. The Hungarian-Aus ...

2 ½ Minuten (1996)

November 1990. Weekend. Three young turk men accompanied by two German women were taking the subway. They were in an exuberant mood and wanted to visit a discotheque. When a group of drunken neo-nazi youngsters entered the train an open confrontation arose ...

Einsteins Baby (1995)

Melissa (38) and Nadja (23) live together in Berlin. Melissa, a tomboyish beauty, is professionally successful but privately rather frustrated and damaged by men. Nadja is an intelligent, sensitive girl who likes to hide her gentle femininity behind a faca ...

Back to Square One (1994)

Movie-making cliches are parodied in this German comedy which features to warring actresses, meddling producers, indulgent directors, and an ignored writer. Not only must they contend with each other, they must also deal with the bankers who have the power ...

Go Trabi Go 2: Those Were the Days of the Wild East (1992)

Elated by the Italian attitude to life, family Struutz returns to Bitterfeld and experiences a shock: In the turmoil of the reunification her house must give way to a golf course. Hope Udo teacher, his wife Rita and daughter Jacqueline through the surprisi ...

Lord Hansi (1991)

Hans Paschke has been putting up with his wife for years. The charmer and womanizer Hans Paschke is good-looking and has perfect manners, but has nothing to do with work. But he knows how to skillfully bring his natural advantages 'to the woman'. His wife ...

Go Trabi Go (1991)

Family Struutz lives in Bitterfeld (GDR). After the fall of the wall, they take the opportunity to go on holiday with their car, an old Trabant. They simply want to visit Italy. But there are some incidents during their journey. ...

Der Elterntauschladen (1986)

Der Traum vom Elch (1986)

The nurses and friends Anna and Annette grow desperate over men and love. At the hospital, Anna has fallen in love with Markus, whom she lovingly calls "moose", but they only meet twice a year, when Markus has time for her. In the meantime, she keeps afloa ...

Je t'aime, chérie (1986)

"Je t'aime, Chérie." These three words and a Bulgarian volleyball jersey is all Martina, a young working woman from Berlin, is left with after a night at the beach spent with a mysterious lover. But then she learns that she is pregnant, and once the baby ...

Ach du meine Liebe (1984)

Detlev, a single insurance clerk in his 30s, is kept dependent by his loving and caring mother and loses his girlfriend Karin as a result. Grief and an alcoholic chance acquaintance prompt him to place an ad for marriage. Detlev gets caught up in a whirlwi ...

The Arctic Is Calling (1984)

This children's adventure movie is a charming tale of a group of youngsters in Prague who hear that Soviet sailors abandoned their failing ship in the Arctic Sea before it went down, but no one had been able to find the sailors yet. Inspired by the efforts ...

The Goat Horn (1984)

Two adolescents, Sauly and Mick, get to know each other while hitchhiking and stick together for the long haul. They both want to reach the ocean, which is some thousand kilometers away. An old car picks them up, but the trip ends shortly thereafter in a s ...

..schwierig sich zu verloben (1983)

Biggy is 18 years old and getting trained as a salesperson. She lives in a small town. In a greenhouse she meets Wolle, a 20-year-old locksmith. The two get closer and fall in love but their wild life comes to an end when Biggi tells Wolle that she is preg ...