Ralph Herforth

Surviving Brandenburg (2024)

László Kovács, auteur filmmaker, is denied funding for his film project: too old, white and heart problems to boot! Conclusion: no longer employable. Wasn't the Hungarian from Lake Balaton aiming high? What now? Continue to be on his successful wife's b ...

The Zone of Interest (2023)

The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp. ...

Billy Kuckuck - Angezählt (2021)

Former boxing world champion Kai Burdenski is up to his ears in debt and can neither pay rent nor electricity for his boxing school. This is tragic not least because he trains teenagers from youth welfare, for whom his run-down hall has become a home. In p ...

Freaks - You're One of Us (2020)

After having a chance encounter with a mysterious character, Wendy, a young working class mother, discovers that she has super powers. ...

King of Ravens (2020)

In the middle of the urban jungle, Darko, a young and handsome undocumented immigrant meets Alina, a mysterious woman who leads a steady life in Germany. Despite social and cultural differences, they share an immediate erotic connection. They start a passi ...

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. ...

Der letzte Bulle (2019)

25 years of coma lie behind the hard-hitting policeman Mick Brisgau, as he awakens in a world unknown to him. ...

Angst in meinem Kopf (2018)

Sonja Brunner works as a prison officer in a prison. She has been earning money for the family for years, providing a living for her stepdaughter Iris and her husband Jens. Jens is a freelance writer and hopes to finally land a publishing deal with his new ...

Heritage (2018)

A former CIA agent's search for a lost colleague exposes a deadly conspiracy involving his own family and Soviet-era secrets in the mountains of East Germany. ...

Der Kroatien-Krimi: Der Teufel von Split (2016)

Der Koffermacher (2016)

1939, Emsland: Every day, old suitcase maker Grandpa Alfred is besieged by his young Jewish neighbor Samuel in his suitcase shop. The boy has only one wish: he wants to become a suitcase maker. This does not sit well with the grumpy old man. And especially ...

8 Seconds (2015)

Esra leads two parallel lives. In her daily life the vivacious and spirited Esra adores her family but feels caged in her relationships. In her dream life, she yearns to discover the identity of the man who visits her dreams. While in waking life she strug ...

The Promotion (2014)

'Amok' tells 48 hours of the live of Lorenz Fuchs, a middle aged gray accountant who believes his triste and monotonous life being meaningless and absurd. For him the outside world was always hostile and aggressive. When his Boss not only unexpectedly prom ...

Die Fahnderin (2014)

The state of North Rhine-Westphalia has purchased a CD containing files from a Swiss bank. It contains files on more than 800 tax evaders. However, there is not enough tax investigation staff to process all the cases before the statute of limitations expir ...

Vergrabene Stimmen (2014)

Kaan (35) comes after a long time out of prison. He wants to do things differently. But his perception of reality does not seem to run parallel with the perceived. ...

Agent Ranjid Saves the World (2012)

The Dutch supervillain Freek van Dyk is keeping the world on tenterhooks - and the world's best secret services can only stand by and watch. Finally, the Turkish Ayran Secret Service intervenes. However, there is a mix-up, because after two of the ASS men ...

The Guardians (2012)

15-year-old Nina witnesses a terrible crime that puts her life in danger. Being an orphan, she has nobody she can trust. When corrupt businessman Thomas Backer sends five killers after Nina, witness protection officer, Max, a former special-forces soldier, ...

The Hunt for the Amber Room (2012)

It's the greatest myth of the German post-war era: The Amber Room. Since its disappearance in 1945 from Koenigsberg Castle, legions of treasure hunters have tried and failed to find the room. It is said that Physics genius, Albert Einstein hid the legendar ...

Der Mann, der alles kann (2012)

LKA officer Robert can barely do his job because of his phobia of crime scenes. The shy man's big dream is to retrain as a "profiler", but his superior would have to agree first. Hairdresser Rita dreams of a life as a writer, but no one is interested in he ...

Der Mauerschütze (2011)

The GDR casts its shadow right up to the present day: Stefan Kortman, a respected doctor in Hanover, carries a dark secret with him. Nobody in his home country knows that he was a Wall sniper and shot the husband of a young, pregnant woman trying to escape ...

Swans (2011)

A man travels to Berlin because his ex girlfriend is in a coma. He takes their son, Manuel. The father goes to the clinic often and Manuel feels out of place, so he prefers to ride his skateboard through the city in winter. The speechless and motionless bo ...

Geister: All Inclusive (2011)

The story of hotel manager Michael Hagen, who finally wants to catch up on his long-promised honeymoon with his wife Rebecca. But Michael's boss has other plans: Michael is to take over the luxurious but increasingly run-down hotel "El Sol" in Mallorca and ...

Schandmal – Der Tote im Berg (2011)

Dora Heldt: Tante Inge haut ab (2011)

2030 - Aufstand der Jungen (2011)

In Berlin in the year 2030, young Tim Burdenski is found seriously injured on the Gendarmenmarkt. Following an emergency call from a cab driver, he is taken to hospital but dies despite a delayed emergency operation. Journalist Lena Bach begins to investig ...

Familie Fröhlich – Schlimmer geht immer (2010)

Ein Fall für Fingerhut (2010)

Heute keine Entlassung (2009)

Live Wire (2009)

A comedy about relationships. A just-divorced couple, the wife's lover; a convicted criminal, his pregnant wife and his best friend; the economy minister and his secret lover; all parties are under stress in a hostage situation and surrounded by uncoordina ...

Emilie Richards - Das Paradies am Ende der Welt (2009)

Julia Whitman and her daughter Jody flee their husband and father's violence to a doomsday paradise. Julia meets Matthey Haley in New Zealand and falls in love despite her inner resistance. However, the shadows of the past will not let you forget. Julia's ...

1½ Ritter - Auf der Suche nach der hinreißenden Herzelinde (2008)

The story of Lanze who is in love with the princess. One day the princess is kidnapped by the Dark Knight and Lanze starts his journey to rescue her. But he is not alone because Erdal, a turk, joins him on his journey. ...

Fire! (2008)

When a young musician and his wife become witness of a bank robbery they get in the midst of a political conspiracy with the risk of losing their lives. ...

Speed Racer (2008)

Speed Racer is a young and brilliant racing driver. When corruption in the racing leagues costs his brother his life, Speed must team up with the police and the mysterious Racer X to bring an end to the corruption and criminal activities. ...

Hitman Zero (2008)

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Melodies of Spring (2008)

Anna is a primary school teacher and a nervous wreck. The pupils do whatever they want to her. Thilo is an actor - but mainly on his business card. To earn money, he sells wine in a call center, or rather, he tries to. One day, mutual friends Valerie and M ...

Positive Prognosis (2007)

The pedophile offender Mr. K. is prevented from jail through the professional statement of the psychologist Alexandra Pausch. Believing she has made the right decision, she closes her eyes towards the potential danger of her dangerous and charismatic patie ...

Lamento (2007)

Sensuous Eva keeps quite a few of the villagers on the go and likes to stir up trouble. But what else can she do in such a sleepy village where even her best friend Katharina no longer has any time for her. When Eva is found dead, the whole village is in t ...

Bad Girls (2006)

In the course of a failed bank robbery , Charlotte is taken hostage in her husband's bank , as is Sophie , her husband 's lover . The two hostage- takers Max and Felix hope that the bank director will pay ransom for at least one of the two women , but they ...

Rage (2006)

Züli Aladag's critically acclaimed, but controversial movie deals with the conflict of Can, son of Turkish immigrants, and the Laubs, a supposedly liberal middle class family. ...

Æon Flux (2005)

400 years into the future, disease has wiped out the majority of the world's population, except one walled city, Bregna, ruled by a congress of scientists. When Æon Flux, the top operative in the underground 'Monican' rebellion, is sent on a mission to ki ...

Dem Himmel sei Dank (2005)

Power woman Carla Bergmann is a committed pastor with heart and mind. Thanks to her media-effective appearances, Carla has made a difference in the Third World and, after eventful years abroad, is now looking forward to her pastorate in Cologne. Here she f ...

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 ...

Agnes and His Brothers (2004)

Focuses on three very different siblings, all searching for happiness. Hans-Jörg is a sex addicted librarian, who is interested in young students. Werner is a successful politician with a dysfunctional family. Agnes, a trans woman, works as a table dancer ...

Scratch: The New Sound of Terror (2004)

Frank and Katrin return to Frankfurt to stop the scientist responsible for unleashing the plague of genetically mutated vermin upon the city. ...

Der Vater meines Sohnes (2004)

Silvia, a successful architect and single mother of nine-year-old Marc, is about to marry her colleague Rolf. Just now, after years of silence, Marc's father Ricardo, a rich South American entrepreneur's son, shows up. ...

Am Kap der Liebe (2004)

Paul receives a letter from one who claims to be his real father, proposing a last meeting before dying. He will travel to Australia and there he meets a woman that will be attracted. ...

Die Geisel (2003)

A prisoner in JVA Weißenburg takes a staff member hostage, prompting Prison Director Ella Jansen to enter the cell in exchange, relying on negotiation. When a special unit's imminent arrival drives the inmate to rage and sexual violence, Jansen is rescued ...

Der Auftrag - Mordfall in der Heimat (2003)

Das Herz ist rot (2003)

A Map of the Heart (2002)

Katrin and Jürgen spend their holidays in Corsica. Katrin is in her mid-thirties, working as a tracer at Jürgen's company who suddenly remembers he's married – but not with Kathrin. So they decide to end their vacation earlier than they had planned. Vi ...

The Bunny Guards vs. the Forces of Evil (2002)

A couple of slackers find an antique dagger and manage to free the gorgeous female warrior that was imprisoned in it by an evil spell. An evil sorcerer is not happy by this turn of events and determines to possess both the blade and the warrior through a s ...

Pest - Die Rückkehr (2002)

The body of a homeless man is found in Cologne not in the Dark Ages, but in the year 2000, where an autopsy reveals that he died of the plague. Doctor Martin Brügger sets out to find the cause and discovers masses of dead rats in the sewers. The populatio ...

Detective Lovelorn and the Revenge of the Pharaoh (2002)

Nils Lovelorn, blessed with a present ego and a "second self" in the form of a well-rounded super blonde called Bebe, is sent back in time by time machine. There he is to blow out the lights of a pharaoh who, 3000 years later, threatens the world with dest ...

Verbotene Küsse (2001)

Revenge of the Rats (2001)

A municipal worker's strike combined with Frankfurt's hottest summer in 150 years brings infected rats out onto the streets. ...

Der Vamp im Schlafrock (2001)

The multiple burden as a mother, wife and author of successful historical romance novels Ellen swiss mastered always bravado. Actually, the attractive late forties could be satisfied with her life. But while it's just crackling with eroticism in her books, ...

Wenn eine Mutter ihr Leben verspielt (2001)

Autsch, du Fröhliche! (2000)

Scharf aufs Leben (2000)

Marmor, Stein & Eisen (2000)

She is the star of her TV show. Live and night after night. She embodies the feeling of being invincible. When Jennifer Stolz puts on her legendary smile, millions of TV viewers melt away and one in particular: Nikolaus Feldhaus. Nicki loves Jennifer. Howe ...

Kanak Attack (2000)

The three friends Ertan, Kemal and Mehdi live in Kiel. They are foreigners, "Kanaks", as they proudly call themselves. For them, this term is an expression of their attitude to life. The trio keeps their heads above water with small-time crooks, but over t ...

Gone Underground (2000)

Anywhere in the world, 20 years from now. Underground. Watch out for the signs... ...

Solange es Männer gibt (2000)

Die Prüfung (2000)

A short by Klaus-Gregor Eichhorn. ...

Die Singlefalle - Liebesspiele bis in den Tod (1999)

A high-stakes assignment for rookie police officer Katherin Schmidt. Her boss sends her undercover as Julia Hollander's assistant at her agency after two clients are murdered. ...

Bang, Boom, Bang (1999)

Bank robber Kalle Grabowski escapes from prison while his unemployed smalltime crook buddy is sitting around doing nothing after he just lost all their money. A fast paced comedy from German director Peter Thorwarth. ...

The Hour of the Lion (1999)

Harold Lowe is a successful talk-show host, who's show is watched by 13 million people. His wife Christina is kidnapped by a mad professor of journalism who lost the love of his life to suicide - after she had appeared on the show. ...

Der Bunker - eine todsichere Falle (1999)

The Polar Bear (1998)

Four characters become involved in one dramatic story: Nico has a mission to drive a car containing a live bomb to a specified destination, park the car and escape as quickly as she can. Leo has become his client's target, having carried out a "contract" t ...

Short Sharp Shock (1998)

Gabriel, Bobby and Costa are old friends from Altona, a multicultural hood in Hamburg. Just out of prison, Gabriel wants to turn his back on crime, but the others continue to operate as petty criminals. Friendships are tested as the trio navigate a dark wo ...

Cut (1998)

A partially-clad woman is gagged and tied to a bed; her captor menaces her with a knife. Will he cut her? A man, whom we soon learn is named Paul, breaks through the door and shoots her captor. But she may not be free yet from torment. Paul may have his ow ...

Tower of the First Born (1998)

Despite her friends' warnings, a woman travels to the Sahara, determined to find her missing archaeologist father and the magical tower he was searching for. Aided by a mysterious prince, she battles outlaws and the desert's harsh conditions. ...

Die Bubi Scholz Story (1998)

Dramatic life of Gustav "Bubi" Scholz, who rose from post-war obscurity and a background in black market dealings to become a celebrated European boxing champion in the late 1940s. Charismatic and widely admired, he quickly became a national icon. But as t ...

König auf Mallorca (1998)

Sign of the Ape (1997)

Die Babysitterin – Schreie aus dem Kinderzimmer (1997)

The baby Jennifer dies in a fire in the nursery. The public prosecutor's office, the media and the residents of the small town all agree: the au pair Christina set the fire. The lawyer and single mother Tamara takes on the defense of the young woman and fi ...

Die Sexfalle (1997)

Eva works as a decoy. Her job is to test husbands for their fidelity. Her good friend Corinna gives her a particularly well-paid assignment. She is to seduce Stefan, the husband of the very wealthy Christiane Reedmann, and lure him into a trap. A short tim ...

Koerbers Akte: Tödliches Ultimatum (1997)

Koerbers Akte: Kleines Mädchen – großes Geld (1997)

Knockin' on Heaven's Door (1997)

Two young men, Martin and Rudi, both suffering from terminal cancer, get to know each other in a hospital room. They drown their desperation in tequila and decide to take one last trip to the sea. Drunk and still in pajamas they steal the first fancy car t ...

Desert of Fire (1997)

A helicopter crashes in the Sahara Desert. The entire crew are killed - only a small infant miraculously survives. Emir Tafud, who has no children of his own, brings the child up as his successor. When Ben is 25 years old he decides to set off in search of ...

Liebe Lügen (1997)

The security guard at a pawn shop in a small port town, the seasick scion of a family of sailors, falls in love with the mistress of one of his best customers, a man who is constantly in debt. Under pressure from the mafia, the customer persuades his girlf ...

Tresko - Im Visier der Drogenmafia (1996)

In order to track down the Russian mafia, Joachim Tresko goes undercover in the Berlin art scene. Meanwhile, his wife Katrin seems to have disappeared from the face of the earth. She had been researching the trafficking milieu for her newspaper. Tresko is ...

Adrenalin (1996)

Stephan Renner from the SEK shoots the terrorist Harloff during an operation. He had previously killed his wife Barbara with his partner Tatjana. For this, Renner is sentenced to several years in prison and also loses custody of his daughter. When he is re ...

Irren ist männlich (1996)

Lawyer Thomas Neumann is extremely successful in his career and happily married to his wife Bettina. Nevertheless, he has a mistress on the side, who one day reveals to him that she wants him to have a child. Thomas agrees, but a sperm test reveals that he ...

Der Venusmörder (1996)

A serial killer kills redheaded women and drapes them like Venus from Sandro Botticellis artwork. ...

Landgang für Ringo (1996)

Marine Ringo deserts in Hamburg when he finds his girlfriend with rival Eggers. Squatting with friend Yusuf, he uncovers Eggers's shady land deals. ...

Night Train to Venice (1996)

The Orient Express, on its night trip from Munich to Venice, is full because of the beginning of the carnival in Venice. Between the passengers are a young writer, an actress, and her daughter, an elderly dancer, five neo-nazi punks, and a strange man that ...

Unter Druck (1995)

Bunte Hunde (1995)

A brazen gang of car thieves is arrested. Their leader manages to free himself from prison with the help of a friend, is arrested again and sees his last chance in a spectacular hostage situation. ...

Brüder auf Leben und Tod (1995)

Manuel is the right-hand man of drug lord Renato Calvi. After Manuel witnesses his boss brutally punishing a man who apparently betrayed him to the police, he decides to break away from Renato and go into business for himself. Renato is not happy about thi ...

Lemgo (1994)

The sports reporter for a provincial newspaper becomes involved in an intrigue involving a young singer and subsequently has to deal with a series of murders and political criminals. ...

Ausgerechnet Zoé (1994)

Zoe is spending a few lovely winter days on Sylt with a friend. She's struggling with her studies, her boyfriend Mike, and life in general. To make matters worse, she's now facing an unwanted pregnancy. Just to relieve herself of this overwhelming worry, Z ...

Schattenboxer (1992)

Eddi is just back in town after his imprisonment. He plans to free his African jail comrade Timpe, because the latter will get no asylum in Germany and probably be killed when sent to his country. When freeing Timpe at the airport, Eddi and his comrades fi ...

Glück 1 (1992)

The Party: Nature Morte (1991)

The eponymous party is hosted by Queenie and Burrs, long-term lovers who are rapidly growing apart. ...