Michael Mendl

Zwei Leben für Europa (2022)

In the chaotic, highly emotional period after the First World War in 1918, the foreign ministers Gustav Stresemann (1878-1929) and Aristide Briand (1862-1932) put all their energies into trying to lead their countries, Germany and France, which were at enm ...

Silence (2020)

Inspired by a few youngsters in a coffee bar talking about aging, a busy man sinks into the idyllic surrounding of a lake. At this place the man seems to have turned into an old Gentleman who lingers and enjoys life at that unique spot. His thoughts and en ...

Der Auftrag (2019)

Just as 16-year-old Miki Witt is about to steal a few beers, he witnesses Lebanese clan boss Ahmed Sayed shooting an LKA officer. Even though the teenager is aware that he was seen doing it, he still decides to testify as a key witness. This is a difficult ...

Alt, aber Polt (2018)

Simon Polt (Erwin Steinhauer) is no longer a gendarme. Arrived in retirement, he participates cheerfully in the Weinviertel on village life. When a corpse is found after a feast, his sense of right and wrong again becomes noticeable. The police do not see ...

Heimat Helgoland (2017)

Heligoland, April 18, 1947: Preparations for one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history are almost complete. The British want to raze the island to the ground with more than 6,000 tons of explosives - nothing should remind of the sea fortress wit ...

A Cure for Wellness (2017)

An ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company's CEO from an idyllic but mysterious "wellness center" at a remote location in the Swiss Alps but soon suspects that the spa's miraculous treatments are not what they seem. ...

Katie Fforde: Bellas Glück (2017)

New York realtor Bella Castle's divorce is amicable and peaceful. But the news that her ex-husband Mick is going to be a father again throws Bella off course. ...

Warum Siegfried Teitelbaum sterben musste (2016)

Fritz Lang (2016)

Filmmaker Fritz Lang seeks inspiration for his first sound film by immersing himself in the case of serial killer Peter Kürten. ...

Father Rupert Mayer (2015)

Half Brothers (2015)

Julian, Yasin and Addi learn from the executor of their deceased mother's will that the three men, who had previously been complete strangers, are brothers. The news hits like a bomb. A German family man with a penchant for tricks, a spoiled, ambitious Tur ...

Das goldene Ufer (2015)

Vormärz in Germany: Gisela and Walther, a maid and a servant - a predestined path of life, which Gisela rebels against. Her free-thinking spirit puts her in great danger. Is Walther going to join her on this dangerous path? ...

In gefährlicher Nähe (2014)

Lawyer Lea Jung has won a much-noticed process. Her client Nick Storm, accused of rape, was acquitted because Lena was able to prove the alleged victim Yvonne Schubert was not credible. After the trial, Nick begins courting Lea. She has reservations but is ...

A World Beyond (2013)

Hans and Fridel are a marriage that come to Java fleeing of the pursuit Nazi just before the Second World war comes untied. In this paradise Hans finds an employment as municipal police, but his wife, always unsatisfied, turns into one addicted to the opiu ...

Krokodil (2013)

Die Holzbaronin (2013)

A Black Forest timber industrialist has to assert herself against male supremacy and economic difficulties in the first half of the 20th century. ...

Zurück ins Leben (2013)

Maria has been living in a retirement home in Vienna for almost two years, but she is far from finished with life. She tries to break up the monotonous routine with creative ideas, much to the chagrin of the prickly home manager, who wants to manage her ol ...

Love at Second Sight (2012)

Sophie wants to marry Martin and change her traditional farm into a farm that produces biologically grown food (sheep cheese, ...) To be able to do that she needs a credit from the local bank. The bank manager sends his son to find out if the credit can be ...

Auf der Spur des Löwen (2012)

Das Geheimnis der Villa Sabrini (2012)

Susanne works for an auction company, and founds out that a painting that they have been charged to sell is a copy. So she goes to Florence, where the expert that made the valuation lives, and meets with the owner. ...

Unser Hollywood: Das Filmstudio Babelsberg (2012)

Duel with Hitler (2012)

As a 25-year-old legal trainee Sebastian Haffner experienced the assumption of power of Hitler in Berlin in 1933. He became a witness of a dramatic upheaval which changed also his life fundamentally. His best friend had to emigrate hastily, the love to a y ...

Der Eisenhans (2011)

German TV adaptation of Grimm's fairy tale "Iron John". ...

Men in the City 2 (2011)

The sequel of the "Men in the city" movie which reunites all the characters. ...

Wunderkinder (2011)

Three musically talented children look to the future, but their hopes crumble when Germany and Russia enter into war. ...

Lilly the Witch: The Journey to Mandolan (2011)

Lilli is traveling to India, to solve a mystery. ...

Racheengel - Ein eiskalter Plan (2010)

At the beginning of the weekend, the detective commissioner Tina Campenhausen wanted to spend with her family, she is called to a hotel in Travemünde. Guest Brederstein lies dead in the tub. Everything points to suicide. Tina Campenhausen knows the dead t ...

Schatten der Erinnerung (2010)

Geologist Lena receives the news that her father Gottfried, who abandoned her eight years ago, is terminally ill. With a heavy heart, she travels back to her home village in the mountains with her young daughter. A journey into a difficult past, as Lena is ...

Takiye: Allah Yolunda (2010)

The film depicts the breakdown of a family that lost all its money to one of the Islamic investment companies that are very common in Europe. Metin invested all his money in one such company, JIMPA, and even convinced his close friends and family to do the ...

Utta Danella - Eine Nonne zum Verlieben (2010)

So ein Schlamassel (2010)

Jil has found great love in the landscape architect Marc. There is only a tiny problem: Marc is not a Jew, and Jil's devout Jewish family would never accept marrying a "goi," a non-Jew. There is only one thing that helps: Marc, son of a German bourgeois fa ...

Totentanz (2009)

Alle Sehnsucht dieser Erde (2009)

Pat is working as an insurance detective for the large insurance company IVV in Bangkok. She is tasked to find the former co-worker Jan Hansen who has embezzled tens of millions. ...

Der Tote in der Mauer (2008)

During demolition work in a village in northern Germany, a cemented-in corpse is discovered in the wall of a building. The autopsy leads the pathologist to conclude that the man suffocated in the cement. The identity of the dead man comes as a surprise to ...

Lost City Raiders (2008)

The year is 2048, and global warming has flooded much of Earth's land areas. A father and his two sons try to salvage treasures from sunken buildings when they are given an important assignment by the New Vatican. ...

The Visit (2008)

In her teens, Mme. Zachanassian had to flee her home town in disgrace. Now she's old and rich and the town is facing bankruptcy. But she returns with news that she wants to help - as long as the townsfolk kill someone for her. ...

M/S Gustloff (2008)

Joseph Vilsmaier Two-part TV movie focuses on the tragic events surrounding the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff, a German passenger ship, at the end of World War II. On 30 January 1945, Captain Hellmuth Kehding was in charge of the ship, evacuating wounded ...

Niete zieht Hauptgewinn (2007)

Marie Gruber fights tooth and claw to keep her café open. And yet she should be facing her "arch-enemy" with pure hostility. But she unwittingly falls in love with the real estate speculator who wants to take the café away from her. When the two confess ...

Mein Herz in Afrika (2007)

Zoologist Verena is supposed to pick up two small lions from South Africa. The consequences of an accident force her to stay longer at the animal station - where she clashes with ranger Ben. A few strokes of fate later, however, everything is different. Ve ...

Drei teuflisch starke Frauen - Die Zerreißprobe (2007)

Maria, Dana and Julie learn from their mother's diary that one of them has been adopted. ...

Gladiator of Pompeii (2007)

Epic drama of Pompeii at the city's height of glory, up to the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79, this film is one of titanic proportions, recounting on the grandest scale, its untimely destruction which killed 20,000 people in a matter of hours.Pompeii was a ...

Verstörung - und eine Art von Poesie. Die Filmlegende Bernhard Wicki (2007)

Documentary about film director and actor Bernhard Wicki. ...

A Love in Cuba (2007)

The real estate expert Jan Holzer travels to the Caribbean with a special assignment. Within a week, the businessman is to move the Cuban family Ortega to sell their beach property, on which Jans Bank wants to build a hotel together with a Swiss company. B ...

Freie Fahrt ins Glück (2007)

Karla and Werner have 35 harmonious years of marriage behind them. But when it comes to vacations, the unity is over. A week of wellness is a dream come true for Karla. But Werner only endures mud baths and a light diet because he is looking forward to the ...

Afrika - Wohin mein Herz mich trägt (2006)

Die Hochzeit meines Vaters (2006)

Meine Tochter, mein Leben (2006)

Ruth is an attractive, independent woman in her early 50s who has always lived for her daughter. But Lea, now in her mid-20s, is starting to break away from her dominant mother. In this difficult and conflicting time between mother and daughter, Lea sudden ...

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. ...

Karol Wojtyla - Geheimnisse eines Papstes (2006)

Denk ich an Deutschland in der Nacht - Das Leben des Heinrich Heine (2006)

Der zweite Blick (2005)

Hengstparade (2005)

Mathilde liebt (2005)

This melodrama about love in the third age focuses on the 65-year-old Mathilde living alone after the death of her husband. When she gets to know the attractive Carlo in the opera, she sleeps with him at the same evening. Mathilde tries to call him up some ...

Hitlers letzte Tage - Der Film "Der Untergang" (2005)

Documentary about the 2004 movie 'Der Untergang' aka. ...

Herzlichen Glückwunsch (2005)

A situational family comedy, wordplay and a whole host of idiosyncratic characters are the ingredients for this both cheerful and emotional film about family ties and love confusion, trust and the ability to let other people have their way. ...

Sterne über Madeira (2005)

Barefoot (2005)

A hedonistic bachelor - he is his rich family's black sheep - falls for a suicidal mental patient. ...

Meine große Liebe (2005)

The leather designer Vera Klunert can not believe it: her husband Andreas, with whom she is happily married, has simply kept secret her impending insolvency of the family business! Only a potential investor can help now. Ironically, in the rescue promising ...

Für immer und jetzt (2004)

Downfall (2004)

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still achieve ...

Geerbtes Glück (2004)

Hamburg landscape architect Ulrike inherits a vineyard near Barcelona, where she falls in love with Pablo. Her fatherly friend Joe advises her to be careful, because Pablo is the son of a real estate shark. Is the Spaniard just after her property? Until th ...

Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2003)

The inspirational portrayal of Mother Teresa, a simple nun who became one of the most significant personalities of the 20th Century. Armed with a faith that could move mountains, Mother Teresa followed her calling to help the poor, the lepers, the dying an ...

Der Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch (2002)

Franz und Anna (2002)

The action of the melodrama takes place in the late 19th century, in an idyllic mountain village. Behind the façade of law and morality there is stubbornness, depravity and fear. As a dedicated teacher , Franz Gattl has been caring for the children of the ...

Zu nah am Feuer (2002)

Successful husband, clever children, great job – the lawyer Eva lacks nothing. Except the erotic tingle that she and Richard, a writer have lost in their family life. ...

In Nowhere Land (2002)

Sükran's son Veysel works in a factory. Suffering as a result of her husband's political actions, she tries to save her son from the same fate. ...

Amen. (2002)

Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is appalled to discover that a poison gas he helped discover is being used to kill Jews. Driven by his conscience to alert the rest of the world, Gerstein teams up with a young Jesuit ...

Die Katzenfrau (2002)

At a conference in Verona, the dutiful German family man falls under the spell of the Italian Elsa. As soon as he falls for her, she disappears without a trace. Leo wife Hannah remorsefully confesses the affair. She forgives him. Then suddenly Elsa appears ...

Pope John XXIII (2002)

This is a two-part Italian television mini-series directed by Giorgio Capitani and broadcasted in April 2002 on Rai Uno. It is the life story of Pope John XXIII, nicknamed "the good Pope". ...

Papa Giovanni Joannes XXIII (2002)

The inspirational story of the jolly cardinal Angelo Roncalli, who looks back at his memories as a poor country priest and is eventually elected pope of the Roman Catholic Church. ...

As Far As My Feet Will Carry Me (2001)

The German soldier Clemens Forel - determined to be reunited with his beloved family - makes a dramatic escape through bitter cold winters, desolate landscapes, and life threatening ventures from a Siberian labor camp after World War II. 8000 miles and thr ...

Der Tanz mit dem Teufel - Die Entführung des Richard Oetker (2001)

When wealthy college student Richard Oetker is kidnapped and held for a hefty ransom, state police officer Georg Kufbach becomes obsessed with bringing the kidnapper to justice. This film is based on a true story. ...

Kelly Bastian - Geschichte einer Hoffnung (2001)

Solange wir lieben (2001)

Weiser (2001)

The film is based on the well-known, translated into many languages novel of writer Pawel Huelle. It is imbued with nostalgia and the atmosphere of mystery story of a group of children, fascinated by the figure of a man named David Weiser. ...

Oh du Liebezeit (2001)

Der Paradiesvogel (2000)

The Beast (2000)

An adulterous woman draws a meticulous plan to murder her husband with the help of her lover, a much younger man. Committed the crime, they move to a beautiful Mediterranean island where they remain hidden waiting for the insurance company pays the policy ...

Deutschlandspiel (2000)

Zwei Asse und ein König (2000)

Frauen lügen besser (2000)

Three women decide to turn the tables and fight back: Henriette, the feisty journalist of a women's magazine, the editor Anna and the beautiful saleswoman Sigi, together deceive the head of the publishing house by creating a fictitious author. ...

Miss Diamond (1999)

Diamonds are a girls best friends, so when an exhibition of the first diamonds ever discovered in Germany is announced, Lana thinks it is her duty to steal them. And so she does, since Lana is a diamond thief, a very good diamond thief. But the unexpected ...

Ein Mann steht auf (1999)

Bitter Innocence (1999)

Andreas Brandt is the head of the research department in a pharmaceutical company. He earns enough to build a future with his wife Monica and his daughter Eva. But a merger puts his position in jeopardy. Brandt randomly observes Larssen, who's responsible ...

Die letzte Chance (1999)

Der blonde Affe (1999)

The wealthy Hamburg gallery owner Elaine Troost dies mysteriously on a stormy fall night and her body is subsequently found in the bathtub by her daughter Gabrielle. The autopsy of the body reveals that her death was caused by violence. A witness testifies ...

Liebe und weitere Katastrophen (1999)

Since the death of her husband, ex-teacher Franziska has had to look after her son David and his disabled brother Bobby on her own. Their new neighbors, Professor Maximilian and his wife Mechthild, bring a breath of fresh air into their lives. ...

Die Schläfer (1998)

Claire suffers from memory loss, but is constantly tormented by fragmentary memories. The search for the truth leads the psychiatric patient to the Baltic Sea island of Tradum. Claire firmly believes that she will discover her lost identity there. The inha ...

Mortal Enemies: The Wrong Decision (1998)

Nico has just shot and killed a man by accident. He and his friend Max cover it up but it soon turns out that the victim was a big fish in the drug world, and that he was on his way to hand over important documents to the federal police. The feds want thes ...

Assignment Berlin (1998)

Tracy Garret's a cop and after an incident that left one person dead, she's invited by her father to spend sometime with him in Berlin. While they were out having dinner, her father's shot. She is then informed by the German inspector assigned to her fathe ...

Tierärztin Christine III: Abenteuer in Südafrika (1998)

A drama directed by Christian Kohlund. It follows "Tierärztin Christine" and "Tierärztin Christine II: Die Versuchung". ...

Mammamia (1998)

Paula, a 26‑year‑old Berlin woman, plans to introduce her boyfriend Daniel to her parents on Mother's Day—but the day turns chaotic when she discovers she's unexpectedly pregnant and her mother Clara suddenly announces she's leaving her father after ...

Die kleine Zauberflöte (1998)

Prince Tamino and his companions are chasing a magnificent boar. Caught up in the excitement of the hunt, Prince Tamino ignores all warnings and fails to notice that he is approaching the end of the world. ...

Andrea and Marie (1998)

Gefährliche Wahrheit (1998)

Das ewige Lied (1997)

Assistant Pastor Josef Mohr arrived in Oberndorf in 1818. In a time of political upheaval and economic hardship he writes a Christmas carol together with the teacher Franz Gruber. The main roles in Franz Xaver Bogners fictive history of the most famous Chr ...

Napoleon Fritz (1997)

Die sieben Feuer des Todes (1997)

Firefighters Stefan and Johannes and psychologist Marta Weber, Stefan's girlfriend, are targeted by the psychopathic arsonist Kovacz. Johannes is killed by an insidious firebomb in an attack on Marta's apartment. Apparently the arsonist also dies in the fl ...

Koma - Lebendig begraben (1997)

A police psychologist saves a young woman from jumping to her death and takes the unstable stranger into her family. She soon becomes jealous of her benefactor's happy marriage and tries to seduce her husband. When the rescuer surprises them both in an app ...

Die Friendensmission – 10 Stunden Angst (1997)

14 Days to Life (1997)

Konrad von Seidlitz is a young yuppie lawyer currently celebrating his engagement with Cornelia, daughter of minister of justice Volkerts. As a public relations gag, he hasn't paid his parking fines for two years and now insists on being sentenced to jail ...

The Lost Daughter (1997)

The rich Westerner embarks on a journey to find his daughter who vanished in Montreal and Zurich. The disappearance is linked to a sect that selects its followers for its heritage, education and physical beauty. ...

It Happened in Broad Daylight (1997)

Several young girls were killed in a rural area. Thus Inspector Matthaei has to travel to the region where it happened and has to search for the killer. When all the people suspect a roamer to be the killer he gets lynched and everybody thinks that the cri ...

Teneriffa – Tag der Rache (1997)

Tresko – Amigo Affäre (1996)

Journalist Katrin Tresko is on the trail of a criminal gang that is laundering money on a grand scale. But then she is murdered by their masterminds. Her husband, former BND agent Joachim Tresko, swears revenge. He sets out on his own to track down the cri ...

Die Nacht hat 17 Stunden (1996)

Tödliche Wende (1996)

The annual sailing trip of four respectable men from Baden-Baden turns into a horror trip when a drug-addicted occasional prostitute is killed by one of them. They want to cover it up, but the father of the deceased, a local editor, investigates and decide ...

Spur eines Zweifels (1995)

Brother of Sleep (1995)

In the beginning of the 19th century, Johannes Elias Alder is born in a small village in the Austrian mountains. While growing up he is considered strange by the other villagers and discovers his love of music, especially rebuilding and playing the organ a ...

Das Schwein - Eine deutsche Karriere (1995)

Tödliche Hochzeit (1995)

Der letzte Kosmonaut (1994)

Shokov is the last cosmonaut of the "Mir" station. On board: the secret satellite weapon "Medusa". A corrupt minister wants to sell them abroad. Shokov, fearing for his life, causes galactic chaos. ...

Dann eben mit Gewalt (1993)

Little Sharks (1992)

When dishwasher Ingo, whose girl-friend has just left him, returns a borrowed bar stool to the Folkwang Acting School in Essen, he stumbles into the audition for next year's new students. He lets Johannes, the broke and unsuccessful applicant, stay with hi ...

Silent Shadow (1991)

Linda is a headstrong woman. She marries and lives with her husband Paul in the Ruhr area. But 12 years of marriage do not make Linda happy. She dreams of seeing the sea and is constantly in search of fulfillment. Her husband doesn't understand her. Instea ...

Killer (1991)

Tired of never having enough money to spend, Rita and Susanne throw all bourgeois moral concerns straight out of the window and simply become contract killers. With their little heads and guns, they bring a few unpleasant contemporaries around the corner a ...

Pizza Express (1988)