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Mendy - das Wusical (2005)

Aus der Tiefe des Raumes (2004)

In the Rhineland in the 1960s, Hans Gunter, a rather shy young man in his mid-twenties, is one of the top players in the country at Tipp-Kick— a tabletop soccer game. When one of the metal figure players accidentally falls into a bath of photo-chemicals, ...

Eine verflixte Begegnung im Mondschein (2004)

Claudia gets into a fight with the rich snob Benno over a parking space. At that moment, the mysterious bottle of holy water that Aunt Rosa had sent as a wedding gift shattered, rumored to be the water to grant wishes. ...

Jazzclub - Der frühe Vogel fängt den Wurm (2004)

A musician tries to get by working several jobs. ...

Verhexte Hochzeit (2002)

Der Narr und seine Frau heute Abend in Pancomedia (2002)

If It Don't Fit, Use a Bigger Hammer (2002)

Frustrated with their lazy new intern, a trio of offbeat builders decide to teach him a lesson with a series of escalating pranks. ...

Zehn wahnsinnige Tage (2000)

Felix is 20 and well on his way to becoming a conscientious police officer, but shortly before his exam he is deployed as a police officer at a demonstration against German deportation practices, and he meets Ra, an Indian woman, on the other side. ...

Football Rules Ok (2000)

For Hans Pollack and his friends, soccer is the most wonderful hobby in the world. They all worship the world-class forward Pablo Dios. Their adoration goes so far that it makes them forget the birth of a daughter, gamble away a house, "accidentally" kidna ...

Verlorene Kinder (2000)

Das vergessene Leben (1998)

A drama directed by Claudia Prietzel ...

The Trio (1998)

Zobel and Karl are a long time gay couple who live together in a trailer home with Lizzie, Zobel's spunky daughter from a heterosexual misadventure. Together these three form a team of thieves who eke out an existence as pickpockets. After a botched job, K ...

The First Semester (1997)

A young student stands to inherent a fortune provided he can pass his first semester of college and find a steady girlfriend. His scheming stepfather has other plans for the money, however. ...

Die Oma ist tot (1997)

Grandma Vera travels by bus from a small Polish town to Pinneberg to celebrate her birthday with granddaughter Linda, her husband Lothar and their two children Jan and Christina. Together with Lothar's stuffy, uptight parents, they spend a fun-filled eveni ...

Champagner und Kamillentee (1997)

Willi und die Windzors (1996)

The British parliament has decided to get rid of the royal family. All of them have to leave the county and so they move to Germany, where they want to live by their distant relatives, the Bettenberg family. But these are not amused about their snobbish vi ...

Männerpension (1996)

A support program brings the two convicts Gerd and Steinbock into the care of women. There they are supposed to prove that they are capable of integrating into society. Now Gerd stupidly kills a bar owner. This puts an end to their excursion into freedom f ...

Club Las Piranjas (1995)

Karl-Heinz, a filling-station attendant, and his family, Herta, a retiree, Kurt, a drugstore branch manager, and Margot, a divorced man-hunter, have only one thing in common: they have booked a holiday at Club Las Piranjas, where they want to relax from th ...

Wilder Westerwald (1995)

The Denunciation (1993)

By 1941, Adolf Hitler had taken personal command of the German military apparatus. His initial successes made this seem like a good idea at the time, but by 1944, after an unparalleled series of military defeats that Hitler refused even to acknowledge, a g ...

Dead Flowers (1992)

Alex (Thierry Van Werveke), a pest exterminator who lives with his grandmother, picks up a stranded woman (Kate Valk) who claims to be the American daughter of a spy. ...

Hiccup (1992)

Gertie, called Flo by her friends, sees her big chance of a modelling career when she manages to get the business card of successful model Chantal at a fashion show in her sleepy village. She goes to Berlin and nests in the flat share of Chantal and Freddi ...

Leo und Charlotte (1991)

Peng! Du bist tot! (1987)

American German teacher Andrea Flanegan and computer game developer Kai Westerburg become entangled in the mystery of a stolen computer chip and the computer murders that Westerburg's boss Herbert Wilhelm Peters is apparently carrying out with its help. Th ...

Super (1984)

The Earth shortly before its end. The houses in the cities are deserted, the streets smashed. The sky shimmers dark gray. ...

Marianne and Sophie (1983)

Marianne and Sophie have had enough. The two elderly ladies from Nuremberg do not feel like they are old, although both of their sons obviously want to make them old. Now the two old ladies have had enough. Fed up with their sons who bully them, Marianne a ...

Kiez (1983)

Set in Hamburg's "Hell's Kitchen," a waterfront milieu of gangsters, pimps, dealers and prostitutes, the story follows the attempts of an ex-seaman first to insinuate himself into the scene, and then to extricate himself from it. He becomes a small-time pi ...

Dazwischen (1982)

A Lot of Coal (1981)

Katlewski is in his early 20s and a miner from Recklinghausen. He no longer realizes his marriage to his wife and the prosperity they have achieved. ...

Ihr habt meine Seele gebogen wie einen schönen Tänzer (1980)

Lena Rais (1979)

Lena is married to bricklayer Albert and has three children. While the offspring rebel more and more openly and massively against their father's entrenched ideas and values as they get older, Lena takes the path of silent protest. But even this provocative ...

Es begann bei Tiffany (1979)

Hedda Gabler (1978)

On the Move (1978)

Atze, Lutz and Sulli have no work. Day after day, they idle away their time in a backyard. Atze has been fired from his job as a skilled worker at the hut, Lutz has just completed his apprenticeship and has not been taken on by his company, Sulli, who is G ...

Rückfälle (1977)

After rehab, Manfred Burger seems to have got his alcohol addiction under control and is trying to reorganize his life. Although he is now sober, he soon realizes that society cannot cope with his illness: His relationship with his wife Eva is on its last ...

Die Geisel (1977)

Former revolutionary Pat and sex worker Meg run a brothel in 1950s Dublin. In addition to five girls and two gay men, the old IRA general Musjö and Mr. Muleady also live in their establishment. One evening, two IRA fighters drag in a prisoner. The hostage ...

Invitation to the Dance (1977)

Theo Gromberg is a bon vivant, apparently with built-in guarantee to failure. Faithful to his side is his friend Enno, an Italian guest workers. Both have a dream: to which they want to get into the trucking business its own trucks. ...

Die Affäre Lerouge (1976)

Fuses (1974)

Zündschnüre explores the emotional and psychological aftermath of war. The story follows two former soldiers who return home after serving in a brutal conflict. They find themselves struggling to reintegrate into civilian life, grappling with trauma, gui ...

Kleiner Mann, was nun? (1973)

Emma Morschel, known as Lämmchen, is expecting a child. So she marries her boyfriend, Johannes Pinneberg. The young marriage gets off to a rocky start: Lämmchen's parents, class-conscious workers, are opposed to their daughter marrying the lowly clerk. ...

Tenderness of the Wolves (1973)

A German serial killer preys on boys and young men during the so-called years of crisis between the wars. Based on the true story of Fritz Haarmann, aka the Butcher of Hanover and the Vampire of Hanover. ...

Smog (1973)

Every day they clean the dirty windows of their cars from the filthy film that has formed overnight. Measuring stations call a low smog warning. But one day a soccer player collapses on the pitch with breathlessness. ...

Der Angestellte (1972)

Die Frau in Weiß (1971)

Umschulung (1969)

Karl Sand (1964)