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Köln 75 (2025)

The true story of Vera Brandes, teenage patron saint of the 1970s Cologne music scene, who risked everything to organize the greatest solo concert in music history: Keith Jarrett's legendary Köln Concert. ...

Sad Jokes (2024)

Director Joseph is working through a new idea for a film and the breakup with his ex-boyfriend Marc. At the same time Sonya, the mother of his son Pino, is suffering from a depression that increasingly tears her from her life. ...

Scorched Earth (2024)

Professional criminal Trojan returns to Berlin in search of a new job after a failed coup. He cannot refuse the lucrative offer of a painting theft. But the meticulously planned action soon gets out of hand and it's all about survival. ...

Der Fall Marianne Voss (2024)

Griesenow, 2013: The hairdresser Marianne Voss is found dead in the forest by her daughter Heike. Shortly afterwards, her husband Karsten comes under suspicion of murder. But he protests his innocence. ...

Bones and Names (2024)

Boris and Jonathan have been a couple for many years. But their relationship has reached a point where they might as well spend their evenings together separately: One lies in bed reading, the other works at a desk in the next room. While actor Boris digs ...

TÁR (2022)

As celebrated conductor Lydia Tár starts rehearsals for a career-defining symphony, the consequences of her past choices begin to echo in the present. ...

It's for Your Own Good (2020)

Three fathers who are also brothers-in-law make a pact to save their daughters from their boyfriends. ...

Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence (2020)

Using unpublished and newly digitalised archive footage and film material, Bettina Böhler has brilliantly assembled this film about the life and work of the exceptional artist Christoph Schlingensief, who died in 2010. ...

Cocoon (2020)

In the heat of a shimmering Berlin summer, Nora spends her days as a third wheel to her older sister Jule and her best friend Aylin. When Romy comes onto the scene, a friendship blossoms. Nora instantly falls for her, opening up a whole new world and unexp ...

Charlie's Angels (2019)

Elena Houghlin is a scientist, engineer and inventor of Calisto -- a sustainable energy source that will revolutionize the way people use power. It will be ready as soon as she works out the last issue, if not it could be turned into a dangerous weapon. Bu ...

Die Spur der Mörder (2019)

LOMO: The Language of Many Others (2018)

Karl, a 17-year-old boy who spends most of his time collecting pictures and videos for his blog, finds a new purpose when he falls in love with his fellow student Doro. ...

Only God Can Judge Me (2018)

Ricky spent years behind bars after taking the rap for his brother Rafael and his buddy Latif after a failed robbery. Now, Latif wants to express gratitude by letting Ricky in on a coup that will bring lots of money. After some hesitation, Ricky agrees, an ...

Hit Mom – Mörderische Weihnachten (2017)

Hanni works around the clock as a cleaning lady. She has to because her husband, whom she loves, has not exactly shown himself to be a support financially. They also have their son Viktor. One day Hanni witnesses an attempted murder on an old lady. The kil ...

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 ...

Too Close (2017)

Caro lives happily with her 18-year-old son Ben. Her ex-husband Manni moved out a long time ago and has a new family. Ben is now at an age where he is very bored of the occasional sailing trips and visits to relatives with his mother. But there is a lot to ...

Club Europa (2017)

Martha, Yasmin, Jamie and Sam live in a shared apartment in Kreuzberg. Martha is from France, Yasmin from Germany, Jamie from the U.S. and Sam from Cameroon. They sit in their kitchen, cook for each other and dance together. But, compared to his flatmates, ...

Brother and Sister (2016)

Neukölln, a trendy district in Berlin. Living space is scarce here. Without surety, proof of credit worthiness and salary there is no chance at all now. Thies knows this game; he works for a real estate management company and watches that the rules are up ...

Der Hafenpastor und das Blaue vom Himmel (2016)

In the third film of the successful series, Jan Fedder is back as a Pastor Book with body and soul. To look after human destinies in St. Pauli, he sees as his life's task, no matter what milieu they come from or what confession they belong. The fallen and ...

Looping (2016)

Three women, three different stories, one room in a psychiatric clinic. A strong and tumultuous relationship erupts among them, evolving into an energetic, honest and erotic bond. This takes them to a point where their hopes may be fulfilled… in very dif ...

Brandmal (2015)

A series of ritual murders shakes Hamburg. First a songwriter is stabbed and scalped, then a scientist. Investigations by Kriminalhauptkommissar Jan Fabel lead into the left student scene of the 1980s. Both victims belonged to the environment of the terror ...

Ihr Sohn (2015)

Gregor finds out that his mother has cancer. ...

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. ...

Der Hafenpastor und das graue Kind (2015)

Pastor Stefan Book once again has his hands full in his parish in St. Pauli: he has only just managed to talk the mentally distressed sexton Eddi out of attempting suicide when he learns that 16-year-old confirmation student Paloma and her boyfriend Winni, ...

Überleben an der Scheidungsfront (2014)

Journalist Dieter Lindemann believes he has found the perfect solution for everyday family and work life with his wife Esther and their two five-year-old twins and three-year-old daughter with the principle of a "50:50 split" of job, housework and childcar ...

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, ...

Inspector Dupin: Brittany's Surf (2014)

A peaceful island will do anything to ward off the reputation of 'vacation paradise. ...

Bis zum Ende der Welt (2014)

Maria Nikolai was once a celebrated musician. 20 years ago she came to Hamburg with her husband, who has since died. But her neighborhood, which used to be a neighborly neighborhood, is gradually threatening to turn into a social hotspot: the streets are d ...

The Tears of the Sea (2014)

Brigitta Nielebeck suffered a serious car accident in which miraculously escape unscathed. However, she has lost his memory. Doctors recommend her to spend time with family members. Therefore, make contact with Marie, her 16 year old daughter, who for two ...

Aschenbrödel und der gestiefelte Kater (2013)

Exit Marrakech (2013)

When 17-year-old Ben visits his father Heinrich in Marrakech, it is the start of an adventurous journey through a foreign country with a picturesque charm and a rough beauty where everything appears possible — including the chance that father and son wil ...

Als meine Frau mein Chef wurde (2013)

Hanna, who works with her husband Martin at a Hamburg shipyard, is to be promoted to Deputy Managing Director. Enthusiastically, she accepts the job. But her boss Bernd Möller aims at closing the yard and uses Hanna for his perfidious plans. It must enfor ...

Blutadler (2012)

A cruel serial killer keeps the Hamburg police in suspense. Two women have already fallen victim to him. Both were killed after a Viking ritual, the so-called blood eagle. Although the perpetrator, Chief Inspector Fabel sends mysterious e-mails, the invest ...

Breaking Horizons (2012)

"Congratulations, you're pregnant!" Lara can hardly believe what the doctor has just told her. The 25-year-old spends her nights hanging around Berlin with best friend Nora, having lost interest in her architectural studies long ago. She has no idea what t ...

Der Hafenpastor (2012)

Stefan Book is Pastor of the Hamburger St. Pauli Church for Schanze, Karo and Kiez. He sees it as his life's task to devote himself to the fallen and stranded. In view of the flight of the young, deportation-threatened African Adoma Fauré into his church, ...

Überleben an der Wickelfront (2012)

The journalist Dieter Lindemann and the lawyer Esther have finally become parents - twins. But who stays at home now? Esther has just taken over the management of her law firm. So Dieter stays at home and is looking forward to the time out: sleeping late ...

Für immer 30 (2011)

For a long time advertising specialist Timo Wittmann was the best in his profession. But he does not want to believe that his star has long since sunk in the fast-paced business. When his boss hires the talented Susanne Andersen as new Art Director, Timo t ...

Wolfsfährte (2010)

A dead girl at the Elbe beach gives riddle to Chief Commissioner Jan Fabel. However, it does not stop at this one murder. Alluding to the literary models of Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella, a bloody trail soon runs through Hamburg. In his new novel, writer ...

Love of the Children (2010)

Two single parents decide to move in together and their two teenage children fall in love. ...

Die Seele eines Mörders (2009)

Crash Point: Berlin (2009)

After a mid-air collision, an uncontrollable passenger plane with 90 souls on board speeds through the skies over Germany. The impact point for the inevitable plane crash is easily calculated: the center of Berlin. Now the race is on to prevent the catastr ...

Die Drachen besiegen (2009)

Sooner or Later (2007)

Nora is fourteen and lives with her parents in a quiet Berlin suburb. She is a romantic introvert who spends her day retreated into her own enchanted dreamworld. Her parents, Anette and Uwe, are busy trying to handle reality; both are wrestling with unreal ...

Hannah (2007)

A picturesque blonde beauty constructs an impenetrable emotional wall that neither her parents, her boyfriend, nor her colleague can penetrate. Hannah may appear perfect on the surface, but her inner demons are slowly consuming her. A photo lab developer w ...

Hunde haben kurze Beine (2006)

Finanzbeamte küsst man nicht (2006)

Stefan Ahrens works very successfully as a tax consultant. One day at a wedding he meets the attractive tax official Ulrike Stechlin, with whom he immediately falls in love. Unfortunately, the two are unable to exchange addresses and only meet again a few ...

Dornröschen erwacht (2006)

After three years in a coma, Juliane Maybach suddenly wakes up, but doesn't remember the last months before the accident that caused her critical condition. The estrangement from her husband Stefan and their daughter Antonia weighs heavily upon her mind an ...

Mr. und Mrs. Right (2004)

Marseille (2004)

A young Berlin photographer participates in an apartment swap with a stranger in Marseille to briefly explore the French city. ...

Irgendwas ist immer (2003)

On her 23rd birthday, Julia is dumped by her boyfriend Patrick, her hoped-for career as a pop journalist vanishes into thin air and she finds out that she is pregnant by Patrick, who is already seeing someone else. Although she is also being courted by a n ...

Sommernachtstod (2003)

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Mädchen, böses Mädchen (2003)

Lottoschein ins Glück (2003)

"Bad luck in the game, luck in love": Astrid Seibel knows the saying, of course - but until now she did not know that the two seem to be linked. The mother of two children, who has just been left by her unfaithful husband, actually types six correct number ...

Help! I'm a Boy (2002)

In Hamburg, an aged sorcerer is searching for a replacement. Freddie, who's about 12, finds the wizard's book of spells and knows enough to read a few lines to his friend Emma. She repeats the lines adding exasperation about Mickey, a boy who's often mean ...

My Brother the Vampire (2002)

Josh is about to turn 30; he's mentally retarded, and likes to play at being a vampire. His sister Nicole is 15, and dealing with her impending womanhood; middle brother Mike is the "normal" one, but in some ways the most childish - his latest conquest is ...

Wenn zwei sich trauen (2002)

No Regrets (2001)

This teenage drama deals with the emotional chaos of a high school graduate at the beginning of a new period of his life. 19-year-old Daniel is frustrated: he wants his great love Luca to be the "first" woman in his life, but she seems to be unreachable, s ...

Wie buchstabiert man Liebe? (2001)

Anna is illiterate. Her patronizing husband Rolf has always taken advantage of this to patronize his wife. But that is over now. Anna took the difficult step and moved into her own apartment with the children. Fortunately, her best friend Maria lives next ...

99€ Films (2001)

Anyone can hold a mini-DV camera. Anyone can get 99 euros in credit. And everyone has already written a five-minute story in school. So everyone is actually prepared to make a 99euro-film. but "99euro-films" is more. It is the proof that German films can a ...

Sophie - Sissis kleine Schwester (2001)

Stundenhotel (2000)

Cloned to Kill (2000)

Kill me softly – Frauenmord in Frankfurt (2000)

Unschuldige Biester (1999)

Ein Vater im Alleingang (1999)

After his daughter is contaminated with an unknown poison gas and put into an induced coma, her father, a sports reporter, starts his own research to obtain a sample of the gas so that an antidote can be developed. The trail leads to Morocco, but a powerfu ...

Die hohe Kunst des Seitensprungs (1999)

Places in Cities (1998)

Mimmi is a very lonely girl, not knowing what to do with her life. On the search for friends and boyfriends, she wanders around alone in different cities. ...

Single sucht Nachwuchs (1998)

Pi - Die Polizistin (1998)

Winter Sleepers (1997)

Young blonde translator Rebecca lives with her boyfriend ski instructor Marco in a mountain villa owned by her friend, nurse Laura. Rene, local cinema projectionist, steals Marco's car and gets into a car crash with local Theo, whose daughter, after being ...

Nur für eine Nacht (1997)

Felix has cancer. Before the 16-year-old starts chemotherapy, he wants to fulfill a big wish: a night with Rebecca, his best friend's cute cousin. But he only has 24 hours until the treatment. Felix's father, who has so far paid precious little attention t ...

100 Years Of Adolf Hitler: The Last Hour In The Führerbunker (1989)

On 30 April 1945, dictator Adolf Hitler, his wife Eva Braun, and prominent members of the Third Reich live out their final hour in the Führerbunker. ...

Die Schule der Frauen (2024)

The five acting students have not seen each other for 36 years. Now they face each other again and look back on the past together. What experiences have they had? What were their successes? What would they rather have done without? ...