Thomas Fränzel

Second Thoughts (2022)

When Marie's boyfriend proposes to her in front of his entire family, she doesn't know what to say and flees to the countryside to think it over alone. But her thoughts accompany her. They sit around her in flesh and blood: Her mother pesters her with baby ...

The Opposite of Orange (2016)

One night in a lonely hotel room, two strangers fatefully meet - one blind - one suicidal. During the night they spend together, they learn of each others differences and similarities and change as people. ...

Alki Alki (2015)

Tobias and Flasche are childhood friends. However, their alcoholic friendship is doing more harm than good to Tobias, who realizes he should focus on his family and career. Everything changes when Tobias tells this to Flasche. ...

Like a Cast Shadow (2015)

Sibylle, a pragmatic architect, mother and wife, witnesses a suicide of a woman her age while on vacation in Italy. Devastated by this incident, it causes the perception of her life and her family to change. Something inside of her has been set in motion t ...

Schwestern (2013)

The happening of a ceremonial robing of the youngest daughter as a novice in a Swabian convent screws up the values of a modern family. As if life wasn't complicated enough anyway. And how are you supposed to be happy without new clothes? ...

Offroad (2012)

Meike has had enough of a comfortable life and ventures out on a risky off-road adventure in a jeep she bought at auction. ...

Adequate (2011)

Jakob Hansen is a very engaged trainee teacher, who faces his final practical exam for becoming a teacher. Some girls are crushing on him, which brings the soon-to-be teacher into trouble. Two students vent their frustration on him and thus put the ideals ...

Homesick Scientists (2011)

Four field researchers want to go home. Unfortunately, one of them apparently lost his mind. Since the return is not possible, as long as they remain in this state, ignited a controversy about what to do with him. Where do they come back and what was the o ...

Dreileben: Beats Being Dead (2011)

Johannes is a loner who wants a better job. And then he meets Ana. Ana is attractive and even though her job is even less prestigious than Johannes's, he falls for her. And then she quits her job to be with him (and be dependent on him) and suddenly things ...

Vielleicht in einem anderen Leben (2011)

In April 1945, as Jewish prisoners on a death march from Hungary reach an abandoned barn near an Austrian village, their SS guards vanish, leaving them starving, freezing and helpless while villagers remain divided over their fate. Desperate for food and h ...

Mein Mann, seine Geliebte und ich (2009)

Amoklove (2008)

A magical moment between two people in the subway, but then it is all over and they will never see each other again - wrong! Fabian fights for his love and chases Marie through Stuttgart. That is Amoklove: a declaration of love during a cardiac recess. †...

The Girl with the Yellow Stockings (2008)

A young couple is spending the day in bed. He asks her to marry him. She says no... ...

Narzissen (2007)

Throughout his whole life the boy – tortured by his mother's disdain – has been struglling for love. Katharina, the girl next door, raises new hope. For her, he cultivates a garden. ...

Paperbird (2007)

Nic, a stubborn 25-year-old German, is waiting for his lost luggage in Bangkok. In search of things from everyday life, he is drawn into a world that is initially foreign to him. When Nic meets Coco, a mysterious 22-year-old high-class prostitute, her pers ...

Snipers Valley (2007)

Young Bundeswehr soldiers Tom and Charly are stationed in Kosovo with the KFOR peacekeeping force. Their mission is to secure peace. Although the brutal war between the enemy Serbs and Albanians is officially over, the hatred between people continues to sm ...