Rainer Laupichler

Because We Are Champions (2022)

Things are not going well for basketball coach Andreas: He gets fired, his wife leaves him, and then he is caught driving under the influence. The consequence? Community hours. From now on, Andreas will coach a basketball team of players with mental disabi ...

Leben über Kreuz (2021)

Two couples who can't stand each other need to become friends. Because this is their only chance for a life-saving organ donation. ...

Because You're Mine (2019)

They failed as a couple, but as parents Julia and Tom share custody of their daughter Anni after their divorce. Driven by her hurt feelings, Julia begins to systematically alienate the girl from her father. ...

Passagier 23 (2018)

It's been five years Martin's family vanished without a trace from a cruise ship. Ever since, the police psychologist is tortured by the thought of his wife having committed a murder-suicide, taking their son with her. He is the only one not willing to bel ...

Carneval - Der Clown bringt den Tod (2018)

A tricky out-of-area mission for Peter Lohmeyer alias Chief Inspector Jan Fabel in his fourth case: in the hustle and bustle of Cologne Carnival, of all things, the introverted hamburger has to chase a serial killer and stop a colleague from going it alone ...

Loverboy (2017)

15-year-old Caro is one of the inconspicuous students in her school. One day she get noted by a handsome, wealthy Turkish guy who is 5 years older than her. ...

Manhunt: Escape to the Carpathians (2016)

A breathless criminal hunt, which leads into the remote mountain world of Romania, with the portrait of a foreign country, which has remained standing in time. Hanna Landauer and Sven Schröder are part of a special unit of the LKA, which traps fugitives a ...

All of a Sudden (2016)

Karsten apparently has it settled. However, in this provincial German town, a moment of weakness turns to disaster, disappointment soon fuels anger, justice hides behind hypocrisy, and evil gradually unfolds. ...

The Dark Side of the Moon (2016)

A psychedelic mushroom trip turns a successful lawyer into a wanted man. ...

The Cold Truth (2015)

On a freezing November night, a young doctor accidentally runs over and kills an 18-year old boy. The criminal investigation is quickly dropped, but the mysterious circumstances of the accident leave behind many unanswered questions. ...

Zen and the Art of Murder (2015)

One morning, a Japanese monk shows up in a village: He does not speak a word, has a head injury and is evidently on the run. Chief Inspector Louise Bonì immediately senses that the young man is in grave danger. However, her supervisor Bermann does not bel ...

Wenckes Verbrecher (2013)

Detective Inspector Wencke Müller is passed over for a long-overdue promotion. Instead of Wencke, the police chief's daughter, Ina-Annabel Michels, is given the leadership position at the Duisburg Police Department. The new team leader immediately takes c ...

Halbe Hundert (2013)

At the centre of the comedy 'Halbe Hundert' ('half of hundred') stand three strong women at fifty. As with so many women of their generation, the number on their birth certificate seemingly doesn't fit to their sense of life at all. But all three of them s ...

Idiotentest (2012)

In a driving school, three women of different ages meet for the so-called idiot test. There is a close friendship between the women. Annette, Katja and Isabel unite dislike for the macho driving instructor Marius, but also enthusiasm for Erik, who also has ...

An einem Tag in ... Duisburg. Todesfalle Loveparade (2011)

Westflug - Entführung aus Liebe (2010)

1978. In a desperate act of love, a plane is hijacked in East Germany and forced to land in the American Sector of West Berlin, triggering a Cold War crisis and forcing 60 hapless passengers to decide in minutes whether to give up everything and stay in th ...

Zarte Parasiten (2009)

Jakob and Manu have developed their own specific survival strategies. Without a permanent home or steady job, they live in a makeshift camp in the woods and use the municipal swimming pool when they need to shower. Always short on cash, they make a living ...

Albert - Mein unsichtbarer Freund (2007)

You Told Me, You Love Me (2006)

Former swimming champion Johanna, now a pensioner, finds her life changes completely when she answers a lonely hearts ad and meets writer Johannes. ...

Antibodies (2005)

When a notorious German serial killer is captured after committing some of the most heinous acts against humanity ever imaginable, a farmer and police officer from a sleepy rural community on the outskirts of Berlin is drawn into the case as he searches fo ...

Folgeschäden (2004)

The film tells the story of a German woman's marriage to an Algerian virologist in Hamburg. When the man comes under suspicion of having contact with Islamist terrorist circles, mistrust grows between the previously happy spouses like a creeping poison... ...

Betty - Schön wie der Tod (2003)

A young woman devotedly runs her father-in-law's construction company, but her husband's reckless lifestyle threatens the company's very existence. Together with the company's authorized signatory, she plans the perfect murder, which seems to be going acco ...

Der Job seines Lebens (2003)

Externally, they could be twins. But really only outwardly: the unemployed, disillusioned toolmaker Erwin Strunz and the dynamic, power-infested Prime Minister Uwe Achimsen. There's the inevitable confusion - and everyone thinks Erwin is for Prime Minister ...

Something to Remind Me (2002)

Middle-aged lawyer Thomas meets Leyla at the pool. After their paths keep crossing, he asks her out on a date. Somewhat to his surprise she agrees. The next morning Thomas awakes to find Leyla and his laptop, which contains vital case files, missing. ...

Operation Rubikon (2002)

Und die Braut wusste von nichts (2002)

Mein ist die Rache (1997)

Gates of Fire (1996)

Ex-Secret Service agent Harry Kowa now works as a bodyguard. Protecting his boss from an assassination attempt, he kills one of the attackers, who turns out to be a government agent. Now it's open season on Kowa. ...

5 Stunden Angst – Geiselnahme im Kindergarten (1996)

A bank robber barricades himself in a Berlin kindergarten after a robbery and holds the children hostage. ...

Day Thieves (1985)

A trio takes shelter in a friend's apartment while he is away for awhile. One of the trio is Lola who teaches French on the side, maintains an out-of-sight hairstyle, and has a 10-year-old son. Another of the trio is a homosexual who supports himself by pl ...

Strike Back (1981)

Dave knows what it is to suffer. Especially when he takes the rap for a gang of motorbike thieves and ends up in jail. All for the love of Corinna, his beautiful girlfriend. Refused parole and nearly insane with frustration he makes a violent escape to be ...