Matthias Fuchs

Mord im Haus des Herrn (2002)

Prüfstand VII (2002)

Prüfstand VII is a 2002 German docudrama film directed by Robert Bramkamp, about the V2 rocket and the rocket research in the Peenemünde Army Research Center. The film deals with the history of ideas surrounding the rocket research and the conquest of sp ...

Der Verleger (2001)

"The Publisher" is about the success story of a visionary man who begins after 1945 with a rickety car and a stack of novels. With his charismatic personality, he convinced the Allies to give him a newspaper license. A radio magazine soon follows, which qu ...

Jud Süß – Ein Film als Verbrechen? (2001)

"The blood of millions of people hangs on this film" wrote the newspapers in 1949, when the trial of Veit Harlan began. Between 1940 and 1945, 20 million Germans saw his inflammatory film "Jud Süß". Is Harlan a "director of the devil", as the public pros ...

Nicht ohne dich (2001)

Mörderinnen (2001)

Deutschlandspiel (2000)

Das Schloß meines Vaters (1999)

Der Solist – Kein Weg zurück (1999)

In Hamburg, a suspicious crash and mafia-style killings hinge on witness Maja Stein, who demands protection. Detectives Lanart and Marquardt hide her in a safehouse, but corrupt cops ambush them. Lanart saves Maja as Marquardt is killed. Discovering Maja i ...

Schwarzes Blut (1999)

World War Three (1998)

This mock documentary uses archival footage, interviews and reports taken out of context and staged interviews to highlight a possible escalation into a nuclear war. In this feature, tension in East Germany, and an uprising triggered by a visit by Gorbache ...

Vorübergehend verstorben (1998)

Zur Zeit zu zweit (1998)

Hundert Jahre Brecht (1998)

Frankfurt Millennium (1998)

While the masses enthusiastically meet to celebrate the new Millennium, one does not sense much commotion at the kiosk and corner bar "Das Frankfurter Kreuz ". Strangers as well as regulars come to the Kiosk owned by Walter. ...

Kalte Küsse (1997)

After the corpse of the programmer Klaus Pape was found neatly dismantled in a freezer, Commissioner Beate Stein starts the research that will lead her to both the red-light district and the better society of Hamburg. ...

Der stille Herr Genardy (1997)

Beim nächsten Kuß knall ich ihn nieder (1996)

Reinhold Schünzel is one of the most sought-after actors and directors of cinema of the Weimar Republic. When the National Socialists come to power in 1933, he just releases his legendary gender comedy "Viktor and Victoria". Despite his Jewish faith, Schà ...

Wenn ich nicht mehr lebe (1996)

The Deathmaker (1995)

Fritz Haarmann, who has killed at least 27 boys, is questioned by a psychology professor in order to find out whether he is sane and can be held responsible for his crimes. During this interrogation Haarmann reveals his motives and his killing methods. ...

Der Sandmann (1995)

The ambitious young Ina Littmann is an investigative journalist for the TV talk show "Eye in Eye". Her current subject is Henry Kupfer, who wrote a bestseller about a psychopathic killer after he was himself in prison for 8 years for manslaughter. As an en ...

Die Eroberung der Mitte (1995)

The adventures of the unscrupulous successful therapist Mark Stroemer and his adversary Wolke Donner, who gains his trust under a false name in order to put a stop to his activities. ...

Rotwang Must Go! (1994)

Business tycoon Rotwang has been murdered. In a series of intertwined, loosely connected flashbacks, the film recounts the ludicrous events leading up to the bloody deed, while also pursuing some bizarre side plots. There are many possible perpetrators bec ...

Tödliche Besessenheit (1994)

When a businessman falls in love with a widowed actress, her dream of owning her own theater on the North Sea coast finally seems to come true. But suddenly a young man enters her life and things take a dramatic turn. ...

Durst (1993)

Living and loving in a small village in the south of Germany. People and their conflicts with morality, manners, and society. ...

Im Himmel hört Dich niemand weinen (1993)

Vom Mörder und seiner Frau (1993)

Mau Mau (1992)

A couple of stories revolve around the last days of a stripclub called 'Mau Mau'. ...

Europe in the Evening (1989)

Based on the novel "Trust D. E." by Ilja Ehrenburg. Jens Boot, a successful manager in a multinational corporation, organizes the takeover of companies in Europe. Very soon he realizes his task—the preparation of the destruction of Europe. He suspects hi ...

Wie du mir.. (1989)

Julius Caesar (1988)

Jealous conspirators convince Caesar's friend Brutus to join their assassination plot against Caesar. To stop Caesar from gaining too much power, Brutus and the conspirators kill him on the Ides of March. ...

Die Bombe (1988)

A terrorist drives a car to Hamburg's Rathausmarkt and unloads an unknown device that he claims can cause radioactive contamination. A special unit tries to subdue the man, but this reveals that the only way to prevent the explosion is to constantly readju ...

Boran -Time to Aim (1987)

The story follows Philip Boran, an ex-convict who has managed to turn his life around and become a movie star. However, his new life is disrupted when his brother is murdered following a bank robbery. Driven by grief and a desire for justice, Boran sets ou ...

Der Madonna-Mann (1987)

Australian geologist Graves meets Juliane in a Hamburg variety show. She mistakes Graves for a killer and lures him to gangster Tanzmann. When the mistake is discovered, they only have ten hours to find the real killer... ...

Der Sommer des Samurai (1986)

In Hamburg, the police are faced with a mystery after a series of burglaries: there are no clues at the crime scene except for a Japanese character. The characters are soon found all over the city. A retired detective and a journalist finally uncover a hug ...

Grottenolm (1985)

A group of people meet on board an ambulance aircraft. They are all looking for a mysterious young man for different reasons. A "psychological-poetic" film that explores why people are puzzles to one another in the form of a game. ...

The Noah's Ark Principle (1984)

The year is 1997, and World Peace seems to have come, with most classic weapons of mass destruction having been abandoned. However, orbiting the Earth there is the European/American space station FLORIDA ARKLAB, capable of controlling the weather at any lo ...

Decoder (1984)

F.M. discovers that different sonic frequencies induce different patterns of behaviour in listeners, first in his own studio but later in the local "H-Burger" restaurant where the passive muzak appears to be wiping people's emotions. ...

A Woman in Flames (1983)

Eva, an upper-class housewife, frustratedly leaves her arrogant husband and decides to enter the call girl business. She lets Yvonne, a prostitute, teach her the basics and both set out for prey together, until Eva starts an affair with Chris, who turns ou ...

Mascha (1983)

Lola (1981)

Germany in the autumn of 1957: Lola, a seductive cabaret singer-prostitute exults in her power as a temptress of men, but she wants out—she wants money, property, and love. Pitting a corrupt building contractor against the new straight-arrow building com ...

Wie Rauch und Staub (1979)

Skyline (1978)

Death Is My Trade (1977)

A biography of Auschwitz commander Rudolf Höss. ...

Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven (1975)

Frau Emma Küsters prepares dinner late one seemingly-ordinary afternoon in her seemingly-ordinary Frankfurt kitchen. She wants to add canned sausages to the stew; her irritating daughter-in-law thinks otherwise. But the point is moot: Ernst Küsters has n ...

The Last Days of Gomorrah (1974)

Her only foray into science fiction—about the havoc wrought on society by a television that satisfies every human craving—The Last Days of Gomorrah was a favorite of Sanders-Brahms, who brought feminist politics to the New German Cinema movement of the ...

Der Prokurator oder Die Liebe der schönen Bianca (1972)

Zeit der Kirschen (1966)

Kolportage (1964)

Tote ohne Begräbnis (1964)

Nach Ladenschluß (1964)

The Cardinal (1963)

A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal. ...

Ein Dorf ohne Männer (1963)

Liebe im September (1962)

Liebling, ich muß dich erschießen (1962)

Das Mädchen und der Staatsanwalt (1962)

A mother is sentenced to one year in prison for matchmaking her underage daughter with her adult boyfriend. ...

Mit 17 weint man nicht (1960)

Horst, the 18-year-old son of a factory owner, and 17-year-old Karin dream up their future together in the most beautiful colors. Newly married, however, they don't float on cloud nine as they had hoped, but sink into the dreary everyday life of marriage. ...

Der liebe Augustin (1960)

Buddenbrooks - 2. Teil (1959)

Second part of two of the saga of the troubled Buddenbrook family and their business in 19th century Germany. ...

2 x Adam, 1 x Eva (1959)

O Wildnis (1959)

In a town in Connetticut in 1906, newspaper publisher Miller has problems with his sixteen-year-old son Richard, who reads Wilde, Shaw, Swinburne and Ibsen. Richard loves the neighbor's daughter with touching naivety, which the neighbor finds sinful. The p ...

Der Engel, der seine Harfe versetzte (1959)

One day, an exceptionally beautiful girl shows up at Josua Webmann's pawnshop to pawn a golden harp. Josua's apprentice, Klaas, immediately sees her as an angel. That evening, she meets him again and dances with him, causing even the previously indifferent ...

U47 - Kapitänleutnant Prien (1958)

In 1939 German U-boat captain Günther Prien receives orders to infiltrate the British Royal Navy base at Scapa Flow and sink British warships. ...

Unser Herr Vater (1958)

Ferien auf Immenhof (1957)

The pony hotel has just been opened, but so far no guests have arrived. Dick gets Ralf to design a brochure about the hotel. The girls and Ethelbert then lead the village children on horseback to Lübeck, where they all distribute the brochure - not knowin ...

The Perjured Farmer (1956)

Mathias Ferner commits perjury and is thus able to secure the farm of his stepbrother Jakob as soon as he dies. In doing so, he deprives Paula Roth and the children of their inheritance. However, there is a letter incriminating Mathias Ferner. Years later, ...

Hochzeit auf Immenhof (1956)

The Immenhof has been closed by officials, awaiting auction. In the meantime, Angela has died, so Jochen is now a widower. Oma Jantzen and Angela's younger sisters Dick and Dalli live with him in the forester's house. In order to save the manor house, Dall ...

Der erste Frühlingstag (1956)

Die Mädels vom Immenhof (1955)

Granny Jantzen lives with her three granddaughters Dick, Dalli and Angela on the small pony farm Immenhof in Northern Germany. Since the breeding of ponies isn′t profitable anymore, Granny Jantzen is struggling to keep the family property. During the sum ...

The State I Am In (2001)

Clara and Hans are left-wing terrorists who have been sought by police for almost fifteen years. Their increasingly rebellious daughter Jeanne begins to pose a threat to their security when she falls in love with a boy she meets on the beach. ...