Michael Schönborn

Blame Game (2019)

Martin Behrens is a Middle East expert for the German intelligence agency BND. He obtains information leading to a U.S. drone strike on a wanted terrorist in Zahiristan. A few days later, there's a terrorist attack on a restaurant – the video claiming re ...

Der Kotzbrocken (2015)

Sophie Brand is overwhelmed: as a single mother with two jobs no wonder. A mountain of unpaid traffic tickets takes her to the judge, who buzzes her 300 social hours in a home for the disabled. In addition, he puts her on his own brother: Georg, a dreaded ...

Die drei Federn (2014)

On the advice of his chief counsel Julius, old Lord Gundolf offers the throne to whichever of his sons brings him the finest carpet. He blows three feathers into the air for the boys to follow. The eldest brothers Gerhard and Gebhard are sure they'll win t ...

Die Kraft, die Du mir gibst (2014)

Maja could hardly be happier. She loves her husband Konrad and their two children more than anything and things are also going well professionally, having recently taken up a promising position as a molecular biologist in a renowned clinic after completing ...

Public Enemies (2014)

Under the slogan of the arms race of the superpowers, which escalates in the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 and brings the world to the brink of nuclear war, two exemplary post-war male figures challenge an almost archaic feud: Defense Minister Franz Josef S ...

Live is Life 2 (2013)

Follows "Live is Life" aka "Die Spätzünder". ...

Die Verführerin Adele Spitzeder (2012)

Adele Spitzeder, an actress of medium talent, finds the role of her life as a dazzling financial genius, but in truth the operator of a gigantic pyramid scheme. With a brilliant appearance and empty promises, she serves the hopes and greed of her fellow hu ...

Der Wettbewerb (2011)

The Fischbach brothers and their families live next door to each other just outside Vienna. Hubert works for an oil company, Viktor runs an organic food store. When a climate protection competition is announced in the community, it's all about who uses les ...

Kebab mit Alles (2011)

Johann Stanzerl sees himself surrounded. All other business premises in his Viennese district are already in Turkish hands. Only his beloved café "Prinz Eugen", named after the famous general who prevented the Turks from taking Vienna, is still resisting ...

Engel der Gerechtigkeit (2011)

Der Kardinal (2011)

The semi-documentary film contains fictional scenes as well as archive footage of the life and work of the Archbishop of Vienna, Cardinal Franz König (1905–2004). ...

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 ...

Seine Mutter und ich (2010)

Marie's father in law dies and leaves the world with his last wish being Marie and her husband to move into his house. Unfortunately Marie's hypochondriac mother in law isn't happy at all with the whole situation... ...

Katie Fforde - Festtagsstimmung (2010)

Grace Ravenglass is the owner of Luckenham House, an estate in the picturesque Hudson Valley near the metropolis of New York. Grace is just about to break up her marriage and has to come to terms with her husband Edward moving out to be with his younger lo ...

Live Is Life (2010)

A greater-Vienna seniors' home is run like a prison by the stuck-up female executive and staff. Hippie-type rebel Rochus 'Rocco' Siwak incurs a community service to be spent there as orderly. Sympathizing with seniors who still aspire to some dignity and s ...

The Love Trap (2008)

Diana, looking job, gets an interview for a nanny motherless children. Arriving at the house discovers that the father is a man who knows and with whom there is a strong attraction. ...

Die Lüge (2008)

Financial advisor Nadja Trenkler and housewife Susanne Lasko look like twin sisters. When they happen to run into each other in the elevator one day, Nadja suggests to her doppelgänger that they occasionally switch places for a fee. ...

Pornorama (2007)

A free-wheeling chronicle of the Munich sex film industry in the 1970s. ...

König Otto (2006)

Janitor Otto Huber is a down-to-earth person through and through. When he wins a trip to Africa in a competition, the single father boards the plane just for the sake of his young daughter. Once there, he happens to be chosen as "King Otto". ...

Neger, Neger, Schornsteinfeger (2006)

This drama is based on the childhood memories of Hans Jürgen Massaquoi, who was one of the few black native Germans in Nazi Germany. In 1935 at the age of nine, he lives with his German mother in a small flat in Hamburg's working class district Barmbek, w ...

Vorsicht Schwiegermutter! (2005)

The wedding bells will soon ring for Rebecca and Lutz - but there is someone who has concerns about this marriage: Lutz's mother Gerlinde. She is obsessed with getting rid of Rebecca and stopping the wedding. But sweet Rebecca really wants Gerlinde's affec ...

Auf den Spuren der Vergangenheit (2005)

Many years ago Thaddeus Hartington quarreled with his son David. Now he is seriously ill, but only wants to undergo a risky heart surgery, if he had the opportunity to reconcile with David. His dedicated doctor Kate sets out to find the missing person. She ...

Die Spielerin (2005)

It all starts with a mistake. The wealthy Polina finds a sleeping man in her hotel room, the business lawyer Friedrich. A mistake by the receptionist, he claims, and she believes him. He asks her to play for him in the casino. She is a lucky child. She pla ...

Blood of the Templars (2005)

18-year old David grew up assuming that his mother and his father have died when he was a baby. He was raised by a monk and is close to completing High School. He gets into a fight during a party and discovers he is stronger than he thought he was- also, t ...

Rock Crystal (2004)

The towns of Gschaid and Millsdorf are in a constant state of feuding with each other. Nevertheless Gschaid's Sebastian and Millsdorf's Susanne are married. In her husband's town Susanne has to put up with daily harassment by the locals, which also extends ...

Verfluchte Beute (2004)

Toni, Stefan, Niels, Maike and Frank are supposed to renovate a hut in the Tyrolean Alps. But what they find gives them the shivers: In the kitchen lie the bloodied bodies of three criminals who robbed the Landesmuseum. An argument breaks out between the f ...

August der Glückliche (2002)

When the heart-sick bus driver August is forced into involuntary retirement, he decides to gamble away his severance pay at the casino. But he wins: a million euros! Looking for a person who truly loves him, August places an advertisement in the newspaper: ...

Die Dickköpfe (2002)

Andreas Hofer (2002)

Vier Meerjungfrauen (2001)

No overview found. ...

Come, Sweet Death (2000)

Former detective Brenner has become an ambulance driver and finds himself, much to his dismay, caught up in a war between two rival first aid organizations. ...

Highway Society (2000)

The mechanic Jack tries to get rid of his criminal background. ...

Gesteinigt - Der Tod der Luxuslady (2000)

Hart im Nehmen (2000)

When a young couple in Vienna suddenly find themselves unemployed, they open a little restaurant near a local soccer place. Soon they have to find out about the odds and ends of self-employment as they have to learn that their newly won independence suffer ...

Alle für die Mafia (1998)

Italy gives sponsors the choice between banishment and prison. Mario Adorf decides to go into exile. ...

Lebenslang ist nicht genug (1997)

Rendezvous des Todes (1997)

Ein Mord auf dem Konto (1996)

And Nobody Weeps For Me (1996)

Between 1924 and 1934, six children grow up in an apartment building in the Munich suburbs. Among them is the rather inconspicuous and melancholy Leo Knie, who has been in love with the pretty Marilli Kosemund since early childhood. Marilli is not averse t ...

Sierra Leone (1987)

After spending three years doing field installation work in West Africa, Fred returns home to his old neighbourhood, an industrial region on the outskirts of a major city. He is filled with confidence and optimism for a new start. He has brought home with ...

Betrayed (1985)

A "film-noir" on double identity and role reversal. A man is looking for a woman to love. He finds her in a seedy bar and persuades her to marry him. The day she decides to flee… he kills her. To ward off suspicion, he moves in with the sister of the dec ...

Die Momskys oder Nie wieder Sauerkraut (1981)

The Momskys are not only messy, they also need money. Cunningly, they plan to kidnap the son of a millionaire. But their scheme doesn't exactly go according to plan. ...