Stefanie Stappenbeck

Die Bachmanns (2024)

After a 12-year marriage, Markus and Miriam have split up and share custody for their twins Elias and Emma. To be closer to his children, Markus moves in next door - with his new girlfriend Galina. ...

A Murder of Crows (2022)

Empathy is a two-edged sword, especially for Martin. Tormented by the past, haunted by the present, the chief inspector is a brilliant investigator and, together with his team, solves the most convoluted cases. From kidnapping to hostage situations, to mur ...

Das Märchen vom goldenen Taler (2020)

There is great sadness in the small village Everywhere. Since the Golden Thaler is no longer owned by the village, nothing grows there except cabbage and discouragement. ...

Für immer Sommer 90 (2020)

Summer 1990, Germany in the celebratory frenzy of reunification: In Brandenburg, Andy's youth clique uses the title win at the World Cup for an exuberant party at the lake: alcohol, drugs - movie break! What happened that night takes on a new meaning 30 ye ...

The Wedding (2020)

Three friends from school, Thomas, Nils and Andreas, are still searching for love in their adult lives. ...

Flug über Berlin (2019)

Lautlose Tropfen (2019)

Franziska Wellmer has been happily married for several years and has a teenage daughter. At a class reunion, she celebrates 20 years of graduation with seven former schoolmates, but is drugged and raped. When she wakes up the next morning, she no longer kn ...

Class Reunion 1.0 (2018)

Three former classmates reunite for their 30-year high school reunion. ...

The Carlos Benede Story (2017)

Carlos Benede is in his thirties, single and helps minors cope with the after-effects of crime. Alexander is a strong-willed and precocious eleven-year-old, who witnesses the horrific death of his mother by his own father. Benede mentors Alexander and the ...

Der 7. Tag (2017)

The day begins like a nightmare: Sybille Thalheim wakes up in a strange hotel room with a bloodstained knife in her hand. ...

Neid ist auch keine Lösung (2016)

An invitation to an old childhood friend's 40th birthday throws the Baumgartners' hitherto happy life into disarray and makes them question their previous concept of life. Marie and Markus Baumgartner are a picture-book couple. But everyday working life an ...

Nick: Off Duty (2016)

Day in, day out, Niklas 'Nick' Tschiller and his partner Yalcin Gümer investigate crimes that are happening in Hamburg. But at some point even the policeman needs a break to spend time with his daughter Lenny. Then it says: Tschiller a.D. - out of service ...

Super-Dad (2015)

Mark's life couldn't be better. He runs a cool beach bar with his partner Peer, is happy with his beautiful girlfriend Greta, has all the freedom - and no children to make his existence hell! But that suddenly changes when Mark is caught up in an old sin o ...

Blauwasserleben (2015)

Heike and Stefan have been a couple for many years and have a big goal together: to sail around the world on their own catamaran. One day the time has come, they leave their home in northern Germany behind and set sail. Their happiness seems perfect when t ...

Mit Burnout durch den Wald (2014)

Six wildly different people have no clue what's install for them on 'pioneering' burnout therapist Hannah's forest hike to a desolate hotel in Märkischen Schweiz, with some tricks to force them out of their comfort zones in completely different circumstan ...

Kein Entkommen (2014)

Unter Anklage: Der Fall Harry Wörz (2014)

Gräfenhausen near Pforzheim, on the morning of April 29, 1997: Harry Wörz is awaited by a large police force as he leaves his apartment and is immediately arrested. He is said to have visited the policewoman Silke, with whom he is still married but no lo ...

Ohne Dich (2014)

Martina and her partner Ralf, who run a restaurant together in Cologne, enjoy their holiday in Brittany - until one day Ralf does not return from a sailing trip. The Breton police believe in a sailing accident and make Martina little hope that her friend h ...

Der Minister (2013)

Franz Ferdinand von und zu Donnersberg is a charismatic, well-bred and handsome young man from a very wealthy family who sees his future in politics. His childhood friend Max Drexel is quick-witted, ambitious, quick-witted, but comes from a humble backgrou ...

Girl on a Bicycle (2013)

Paolo, an Italian tour bus driver living in Paris, has just summoned up the courage to propose marriage to his German girlfriend Greta. However, a chance encounter with a French woman on a bicycle the very next day turns Paolo's life upside down. ...

Im Alleingang - Elemente des Zweifels (2013)

Vivian loves sex and pursues her unusual preferences in excessive affairs. Everything changes when she gets involved with the Senator for Justice Ertel, because here the boundaries between sex play and rape become blurred. She goes to court. In her lawyer ...

Sechzehneichen (2012)

A young couple moves to a gated community (named Sechzehneichen), where soon the creative wife (a photographer) gets bored and the husband joins a secret mens' club. All the other wives seem strangely conservative and shallow. Basically a thinly veiled tak ...

Im Alleingang - Die Stunde der Krähen (2012)

Mary is a lawyer whose successful career is turned upside down when she has a car accident. Forced to live in a wheelchair she is fired and abandoned by her lover. ...

Deckname Luna (2012)

A Summer in the Mountains (2011)

Hamburg boy Leo Vandenbroek is not amused when his mother, ER surgeon Pia, drags him to a godforsaken Bavarian village for her 'long overdue relaxing holiday'. In fact she rented from local doctor Peter Huber because he's married to Maria, who she learned ...

Kann denn Liebe Sünde sein? (2011)

Maria needs sex like others need air to breathe. Thanks to their attractiveness , there is always a willing bed play. Maria's 17 -year-old son Laurin is also the result of a one-night stand - and yet he is his mother's pride . However , Laurin is one of th ...

Die Schäferin (2011)

No job, no plan. So lawyer Svea returns to her old job as a shepherdess on a temporary basis. Back home, she meets her childhood sweetheart Hannes again, who is now married to Svea's school friend Ute... ...

Niemand ist eine Insel (2011)

Silvia's career as an actress goes into decline after a few unfortunate statements recorded with a microphone hidden in his dressing room. On the other hand, we detected a serious disease to her daughter. ...

Liebe deinen Feind (2010)

Summer 1945 in Germany. In Nordstrand, a peninsula on the North Sea coast, the British army of occupation has set up its central administration in a carefully cordoned-off base cut off from the mainland. Gesa works in the military base's laundry with other ...

Tod am Engelstein (2010)

Die Literaturagentin Lara Brunn fährt nach längerer Zeit wieder in ihren Heimatort in den Bayerischen Alpen. Anlass ist der Geburtstag ihrer Mutter. Lara wartet gemeinsam mit ihrer Schwester Sylvia im Elternhaus, doch die Mutter taucht nicht auf. Am näc ...

Katie Fforde - Eine Liebe in den Highlands (2010)

Jenny is sent to inspect a wool factory in the Hudson Highlands. It depends on her audit whether her client will turn the factory into fodder for "investors". But Jenny immediately falls in love with the store, the country and the people - and with her bos ...

Pizza und Marmelade (2009)

Florian is a successful up and coming architect. However, when the firm goes bust, his life changes drastically. He has to take a job in a pizza place and move to a cheap and run down area of town. But not all is bad. He also learns that there's more to li ...

Der Tiger oder Was Frauen lieben! (2009)

Franz, editor-in-chief of a large publishing house and no stranger to sadness himself, learns shortly before his wife Simone's death that she has been cheating on him. Stunned by this infidelity, he doggedly sets out in search of his rival. At Simone's fun ...

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. ...

Der Heckenschütze (2008)

The Man at Her Side (2008)

Things could hardly be better for the attractive, lively Eva and her sensitive husband Max: The two are as in love as on the first day, have good jobs and live in a charming little house in the countryside. Eva works as an assistant in a renowned Frankfurt ...

Mickey & Maria (2007)

Maria just broke up with her boyfriend and is very disappointed in love. The girlfriend invited her to his son's birthday, but the kids arranged a formless mess, and Maria escapes from the holiday. It catches up with 9-year-old Mickey, calls the woman of h ...

Liebling, wir haben geerbt (2007)

Hannah hero finds out that her husband Martin is cheating on her. Angered, she announces that she wants a divorce. But Hannah is waiting for the million-dollar legacy of her great-aunt Käthe and a divorced woman will never entrust her family heritage to t ...

Kein Geld der Welt (2007)

Nur ein kleines bisschen schwanger (2007)

As a clerk in a textbook publishing house, Nina can forget her creative ideas. After a night of drinking together with chance acquaintance Dominik, Nina is asked to attend a redundancy interview: The publishing house has been sold, the new boss is rational ...

Vier Töchter (2006)

Happy as one (2006)

Straight to the heart: a fleeting collision on a street corner, Mathilda and Bronski's first encounter. Andi will meet Johanna, who has to tame her daughter Mandy. Andi will meet David, who is trying to cope with his girlfriend Ali's ambitious career aspir ...

Jena Paradies (2005)

Barefoot (2005)

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

Die letzte Schlacht (2005)

The 13 days from April 20th to May 2nd, 1945, are unique in the history of Germany: They are the final act in the history of the Third Reich, which was supposed to last for a thousand years and succumbed after twelve in an orgy of violence and fire. In the ...

Das Zimmermädchen (2005)

Sex & more (2004)

Valerie (Stefanie Stappenbeck) is about to get married to the first and only man she ever slept with. But before that happens, she wants to at least try on other guy. So she asks her friends Minza (Mina Tander) and Edda (Simone Hanselmann) to find her a si ...

Italiener und andere Süßigkeiten (2004)

Designer Charlotte's monotonous single existence is thrown into turmoil when one day she meets businessman Paolo Fabrelli. She thinks she recognizes him as the ice cream seller who proposed to her in Italy years ago. In reality, however, Paolo is his cousi ...

Die Dreigroschenoper (2004)

The Gangster Macheath secretly marries the daughter of beggar king Peachum. When Peachum finds out, he instructs the police chief Brown to arrest and hang Macheath. If not, all the beggars of Soho will disturb the upcoming coronation. ...

September (2003)

Couples and families in the days after September 11, 2001. All relationships become complictaed, but only one of the four nested stories surrounding a German who condemns the attack, and her husband, a Muslim who advocates it, offers approximate a discussi ...

Der Aufstand (2003)

June 17, 1953 - the day on which workers in the former Soviet Union took a stand against their government for the first time to protest against excessive labor standards. The protests escalated into a political uprising, which was only ended by the Soviet ...

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 ...

Hotte in Paradise (2003)

Hotte, a Berlin-based pimp with only modest turnovers, suddenly becomes a big player in the prostitution business. He has three girls on the streets: Rosa is in love with Hotte and is working hard for him. Jenny, the new girl, is an unconventional prostitu ...

Gnadenlose Bräute (2001)

008 - Agent wider Willen (2000)

The shy detective Serafim Schröder is still relatively new to the police force. That's why he doesn't yet know all of his employer's rules and regulations and "borrows" a confiscated BMW to impress the attractive student Maria. She is very impressed, not ...

Deutschlandspiel (2000)

Ben & Maria - Liebe auf den zweiten Blick (2000)

Yuppie prat loses his Ferrari and finds the love of his life with a craftswoman ...

Beckmann und Markowski: Gehetzt (1999)

Dark Days (1999)

Margarethe von Trotta's TV movie focuses on a woman whose life is destroyed by her addiction to alcohol. Angela Rinser is a happy mother of two children and quite successful in her job as bilingual secretary. The sudden death of her husband changes everyth ...

Die einzige Chance (1998)

Rosenkavalier (1997)

At first glance, Saskia, Barbara, and their parents seem to lead a completely normal life. But the parents' private clinic is used by them as a means for brutal sexual assaults. The Gilde couple not only founded the private clinic, but also an organization ...

Viel Spaß mit meiner Frau (1997)

Das Recht auf meiner Seite (1997)

King of Evergreen (1996)

Der andere Wolanski (1996)

Verdammt, er liebt mich (1996)

What happens when a mother and daughter fall in love with the same man? That's what happens to 17-year-old Emma when she falls head over heels for her history teacher Adrian Morisson and suddenly realises that the object of her affection is having a passio ...

Ein Bernhardiner namens Möpschen (1996)

Der Biberpelz (1994)

Der Kleine und der alte Mann (1993)

Dancing at the Dump (1991)

The tragic love story between 17 year-old Gerat Lauter, who is in search of the truth, and his much older teacher Claudia, as it becomes a criminal case with state complicity in the chaotic GDR autumn of 1989. ...

Biology! (1990)

A small town shortly before the end of the GDR: 15-year-old Ulla lives with her mother in a dilapidated old building where not even the electricity works properly. Economy of scarcity and national bankruptcy are visible everywhere. Only higher party comrad ...

Die Weihnachtsgans Auguste (1988)

The opera singer Ludwig Löwenhaupt wants a proper festive roast for Christmas, so he buys a goose in advance to feed the whole family. What he doesn't realize, however, is that the children, Elli, Gerda and Peterle, will grow fond of the animal, which is ...

Der Elterntauschladen (1986)