Max Riemelt

Home Stories (2026)

As a contestant in a singing casting show, Lea is asked by the TV team who she is and what makes her special. She doesn't know and begins to slip into different roles in her search for what makes her special, developing an unexpected fascination for her au ...

The Tasters (2025)

In autumn 1943, in Gross-Partsch, 26-year-old Rosa, who had come from Berlin to stay with the parents of her husband Gregor, who was fighting on the Russian front, was taken by the SS to a mysterious place. Forced to taste a dish, she joins the group of ta ...

About Luis (2025)

The two people in their late thirties, Constanze and Jens, have a very stressful daily life. Their situation intensifies when their ten-year-old son Luis begins having problems at school. The parents now find themselves in conflict between fulfilling socie ...

Two to One (2024)

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, a communist family discovers a bunker full of money soon to be worthless. With the help of their neighbors, they embark on a race against time to enter the capitalist world in style. ...

Ernesto's Island (2023)

Matthias, a successful employee enjoys his luxurious single life in Berlin until his mother dies. With her last wish to scatter her ashes in Cuba, she sends him on a journey into his past, to search for a true home. ...

Talking About the Weather (2022)

Clara is studying for a Ph.D in philosophy in Berlin. In this middle-class male academic environment, she feels pushed to one side. She returns to her childhood village in former East Germany for her mother's birthday, and becomes aware that a distance has ...

Ein Taxi zur Bescherung (2022)

Hamburg cab driver Axel Parschke finds himself in the Ore Mountains shortly before Christmas Eve: what begins as a lucrative job for IT analyst Jan Olsmer, who has gone blind after an accident and wants to meet his internet acquaintance Jenny Feller in the ...

The Matrix Resurrections (2021)

Plagued by strange memories, Neo's life takes an unexpected turn when he finds himself back inside the Matrix. ...

The Peppercorns and the Secret of the Deep Sea (2021)

As soon as Jaswinder, the mother of Alice's friend Tarun, discovered a way to avoid plastic, it is attacked and the documents about it, which are also top secret, stolen. Shortly thereafter, it also disappears without a trace. Alice, as the remaining peppe ...

Precious Ivie (2021)

Two Afro-German half-sisters that never met before, get closer through their father's death, search their roots and find themselves. ...

Der Schneegänger (2020)

After missing four years, the body of a little boy is found in the forest. An unlikely pair of police officers investigate the boy's death. ...

Head Burst (2019)

Markus is a handsome and respectable architect who has a secret: he is a pedophile. Despite feeling disgust of himself, Markus can't help but feel attracted to young boys. When he thinks he won't be able to suppress his deepest feelings, he decides to isol ...

My Mother's Girlfriend (2019)

Family is complicated, no question. But Jan finds it particularly hard: his lesbian mother Victoria asks him to become a sperm donor for the common desire child with partner Rosalie. Jan would be father and stepbrother in one. An absurd idea? Not if Jan is ...

Golem: The Return (2017)

Upcoming science-fiction thriller directed by Dominik Graf. ...

Berlin Syndrome (2017)

A passionate holiday romance leads to an obsessive relationship when an Australian photojournalist wakes one morning in an abandoned Berlin apartment and is unable to leave. ...

Icons of Light (2016)

Katharina and Steffen seem like the quintessential successful Berlin couple -- they have well-paying jobs, a loving relationship and a spectacular apartment. One night, fed up with the predictability of their lives, they decide on a radical change: They're ...

Amnesia (2015)

A young composer moves from Berlin to the island of Ibiza and begins a friendship with an elderly woman whose painful past has caused her to reject everything to do with Germany, including her native language. ...

Sense8: Creating the World (2015)

Go behind the scenes and around the world with the "Sense8" cast and crew in this in-depth look at how the hit series is made. ...

Sanctuary (2015)

Summer 1968. 14-year-old Wolfgang is deported from his family in the secluded Church Welfare Institution sanctuary. One thing is clear for Wolfgang: His yearning for freedom, he will not soon buried in the bog. ...

Storno: Todsicher versichert (2015)

On his way to the provinces, young insurance agent Rupert crashes his car into a jam cart and picks up a real piglet. On top of that, he's given a good shaking by area manager Schulze, so the next day he takes his briefcase to the farms in the area. But th ...

To Life! (2014)

Fate has taken its toll on the aging cabaret singer Ruth and the young but terminally ill Jonas. Yet despite their great age difference and their entirely opposite experiences in life, they form an intense bond and give each other a reason and purpose to l ...

Warsaw 44 (2014)

City of Warsaw, Poland, August 1st, 1944. Citizens have experienced inhuman acts of terror and violence during five long years of Nazi occupation. ...

Elly Beinhorn: Solo Flight (2014)

The story of Elly Beinhorn, the first German aviator ever to fly around the world which made her a national hero in the 1930s. ...

Blutgeld (2013)

The film is based on a true story about HIV-contaminated blood products in Germany in the 1980s. The brothers Ralf, Stefan and Thomas are hemophiliacs and live in constant fear of injury. When a new type of coagulant comes onto the market, they seem to be ...

Der zweite Mann (2013)

A young financial auditor, promoted to his first serious position, soon finds himself following in the fatal footsteps of his predecessor. ...

Free Fall (2013)

A promising career with the police, a baby on the way... Marc's life seems to be right on track. Then he meets fellow policeman Kay and during their regular jogs Marc experiences a never-before-felt sense of ease and effortlessness – and what it means to ...

Forgotten (2012)

During their childhood, Hanna and Clarissa were best friends. They spent every vacation together in an old summer house on a small island. Shortly after Hanna's 9th birthday, they suddenly lost touch and only meet again unexpectedly 25 years later. Hanna i ...

Auslandseinsatz (2012)

Three young soldiers are called up to one of the most dangerous trouble spots in the world - Afghanistan. But it's not just the constant psychological pressure that gets to them, the different cultures and ways of life in the country also pose problems for ...

The German Friend (2012)

It's the late 1950s, and in an affluent and quietly respectable part of Buenos Aires, young Sulamit Löwenstein strikes up a friendship with her next-door neighbour Friedrich over the whereabouts of her family dog. She is the daughter of German-Jewish immi ...

Partly Sunny (2012)

Two young guys in a bar hit on the woman they fancy by sending one of them over who tells her that the other one is terminally ill... ...

The Fourth State (2012)

A journalist gets caught up in a terrorist plot in Moscow while investigating the Russian secret service. ...

A Family of Three (2012)

When novelist Andrea Dewenter dies in a car accident, the lives of her husband Christian, grown-up son Lars, and adolescent daughter Elaine go off the rails. For all three, the few days between Andrea's sudden death and her funeral turn into an emotional r ...

Playoff (2011)

In the 1980s, an Israeli refugee, deemed a traitor, coaches West Germany's basketball team. ...

Urban Explorer (2011)

Anxious to explore the mysterious hidden world under metropolitan Berlin, an international group of four urban explorers hires a local guide, Kris, who leads them into the maze of escape tunnels and subterranean fortifications under the city. When their gu ...

Schandmal – Der Tote im Berg (2011)

We Are the Night (2010)

One night, 18 year old Lena is bitten by Louise, leader of a female vampire trio that are as deadly as they are beautiful. Her newfound vampiric lifestyle is a blessing and a curse at the same time. At first, she enjoys the limitless freedom, the luxury, t ...

13 Semester (2009)

When Momo leaves his small home town to go to university, he is full of enthusiasm and confidence, but slowly the pressures of study and campus living begin to grind him down. Half way through his course he finds himself at a crossroads with both his relat ...

Thousand Oceans (2008)

Five friends spend their holidays on a faraway island in the sea. On the last day of the holidays, out of the blue, Björn informs his friends that he will not return home but intends to stay in this paradise forever. There is no sign of life from Björn a ...

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. ...

The Wave (2008)

A school teacher discusses types of government with his class. His students find it too boring to repeatedly go over national socialism and believe that dictatorship cannot be established in modern Germany. He starts an experiment to show how easily the ma ...

Up! Up! To the sky (2008)

From an early age, Arnold believes he is an extraterrestrial. Day in, day out, he is busy trying to build a flying machine that will finally take him "home". Protected by his mother Ida and her long-time admirer, the country doctor Emil, he is regarded as ...

Snipers Valley (2007)

Young Bundeswehr soldiers Tom and Charly are stationed in Kosovo with the KFOR peacekeeping force. Their mission is to secure peace. Although the brutal war between the enemy Serbs and Albanians is officially over, the hatred between people continues to sm ...

An die Grenze (2007)

19-year-old NVA soldier, Alex Karow, is sent to the West German-East German border in May 1974, shortly after Willy Brandt's resignation and during the World Cup. The army is dominated by brutal rituals, tolerated or used by the officers. Alex understands ...

GG 19 – Deutschland in 19 Artikeln (2007)

Der Untergang der Pamir (2006)

The story of the German sail-training ship Pamir that sunk in a hurricane. ...

The Red Cockatoo (2006)

A coming-of-age story set in Germany in the 1960s. Siggi becomes involved in a love triangle when he falls for Luise, but the tightening political climate forces him to make a fateful decision. ...

Hallesche Kometen (2006)

Ben lives with his father in a dreary highrise housing estate, earning a bit of money delivering leaflets. The young man′s big dream is to one day write travel logs as a journalist. His unemployed father has been thrown hopelessly off balance with the de ...

Nachtasyl (2005)

Before the Fall (2004)

In 1942, Friedrich Weimer's boxing skills get him an appointment to a National Political Academy (NaPolA) – high schools that produce Nazi elite. Over his father's objections, Friedrich enrolls. During his year in seventh column, Friedrich encounters haz ...

Girls on Top 2 (2004)

Inken and Lucy are facing hard times when their parents' money is radically cut off. Together with Lena, who is fed up with her boyfriend, they desperately search for money, an apartment and love. But because each individual point is difficult to realize o ...

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 ...

Mein Vater und andere Betrüger (2001)

Teenager Charlotte adores her cool father until she realizes that he is leading a double life. ...

Girls on Top (2001)

The adventures of three teenage girls - Inken, Vicky and Lena - and their quest to have their first orgasm. ...

Brennendes Schweigen (2000)

The petty dealer Ole was found murdered and burned. ...

Bear on the Run (2000)

Thirteen-year-old Julia leaves Berlin, where she resides with her father, to spend vacation in the Czech Republic. While there she experiences first love, and also tries to help the local kids rescue a circus bear from a rich German hunter who's willing to ...

Ein Weihnachtsmärchen – Wenn alle Herzen schmelzen (1999)

Eine Familie zum Küssen (1997)