Josef Ostendorf

When her sibling Zara suffers a nervous breakdown, the introvert Eva is forced to take on Zara’s job as a Foley artist. She struggles to create sounds for a commercial featuring a horse, and then a horsetail starts growing out of her body. Empowered by her tail, she lures a botanist into an affair, through a game of submission. Piaffe is a visceral journey into control, gender, and artifice.

La joven y valiente comadrona Christine hace un pacto con el diablo para salvar a su pueblo del brutal terror de los Caballeros Teutónicos. Castigada por una plaga de arañas, Christine pasa de salvadora a cazada.

She has her life firmly under control - but then the unbelievable happens. For seven hours, Hanna, who works as a psychotherapist in a Bavarian high-security prison, is taken hostage in her office by one of her patients. She is at the mercy of her tormentor, whom she has recently made a positive prognosis, and is raped several times. While the SEK Hanna, who is standing in front of the door, looks to safety, a convicted rapist destroys the life of a wife, mother and self-confident, cheerful woman. After the fact, nothing is as it was.

A shootout, five fatalities and he himself wounded - in the otherwise quiet station of the village policeman Frank Koops, things are just like in the Wild West. The bloodbath was commissioned by the imprisoned mafia boss Petrovic, who wants to use all means to get rid of a key witness who was hidden in the tranquility of St. Andreasberg in the utmost secrecy.

Nina Hausen, head of an escort agency, is attacked by a stranger on her nocturnal walk with the dog in the forest. Only with difficulty can she escape him by touching him with her car and seriously injuring him. On the way back she finds in her car a bag of diamonds - apparently the ransom from a case in which a boy was kidnapped. Under pressure from a colleague reports Nina Although the robbery of the police, the diamonds but suppresses them. But that's where their problems really start ...

En los años 30, un comediante y actor de cabaret alemán, Hans Zeisig, llega al legendario Hotel Lux, el "paraíso perdido" de Moscú. Allí es confundido con Hansen, el astrólogo personal de Hitler.

El joven proefsor Konrad Koch es elegido para enseñar inglés en una regia y disciplinada escuela alemana de finales del siglo XIX. El reformador director de la institución Von Merfeld ha contratado a Koch como uno de los primeros profesores de inglés dentro de la caduca institución, con el fin de introducir un nuevo vigor en ella. Pronto, Koch se da cuenta de lo necesario que es introducir muchas otras reformas.

After aspiring poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe fails his law exams, he's sent to a sleepy provincial court to reform. Instead, he falls for Lotte, a young woman who is promised to another man.

Los Buddenbrooks es la adaptación cinematográfica de la novela de Thomas Mann que retrata con mucho amor y gran alcance cinematográfico el auge y la decadencia de una familia de mercaderes, inserta en la aristocracia en Lübeck, en su lucha y sacrificio para poder sobrevivir económicamente y su búsqueda de la felicidad y del amor imposible.

Fat German star restaurant chef Gregor shows romantic interest in waitress Eden Drebb. She's happily married to hunky Xaver Drebb, but feels romantically neglected. Gregor's deserts seduce her, first trough her brat daughter Leonie, to spend time with him and his fabulous dishes. That soon becomes a rather platonic affair, and domestic troubles. Xaver decides to exact revenge on Gregor, with tragic results.

The film starts in the early evening of a normal day: Sophie, a 20 year old girl, is pregnant and wanders through the night to get sure about her future life. Does she want to be a mother or do an abortion? Does she love her friend or not? Who is the father of her unborn baby? Trying to figure out what to do Sophie encounters many people, and in the morning she has come to a decision. But this is not the movie's end...

Año 1989. El muro de Berlín está a punto de caer, y el planeta va a convertirse en un lugar seguro según un nuevo orden mundial. Sin embargo, en las afueras de Stuttgart, en Alemania Occidental, el Especialista Ray Elwood del 317 Batallón de Intendencia, en la Base del ejército norteamericano Theodore Roosevelt, está a punto de comprobar cómo su particular guerra fría se pone al rojo vivo. Elwood es un granuja encantador, un soldado condenado por el juez a cumplir servicio militar obligatorio que se las ha arreglado para hacer de éste un floreciente mercado negro. Oficialmente, atiende su trabajo diario como secretario del batallón para el inepto aunque bondadoso Coronel Wallace Berman. Extraoficialmente, se dedica a todo, desde la venta de artículos de limpieza robados a fabricar heroína para el implacable jefe de la Policía Militar de la base, el Sargento Saad. Cuando llega a la base un nuevo Sargento primero con la decidida intención de limpiarla de arriba a abajo.

Un malvado urbanizador amenaza con envenenar a una colonia de ratas y robar su territorio.

El emperador austríaco se enamora de Isabel. A pesar de que es un amor a primera vista, su relación no será fácil, pues a la madre de él, no le gusta la chica. El director alemán Christoph Böll, quien ya había dirigido el corto "The Sprinter", debutó en el mundo del largometraje con este telefilme que recupera el mito de la emperatriz Sissí, recordada por su gran belleza, su rebeldía y su espíritu avanzado para su época.

Dear Video is a black epistolary comedy which stars some of the finest actors from the former Yugoslavia. The film is constructed around the video 'correspondence' between two branches of a family, one living in Germany and pursuing 'modern' life and the other one living in a little village in Yugoslavia clinging to tradition. Through the home video 'letters' sent back and forth, petty jealousies, love liaisons and financial squabbles drive the family to the brink of war, a situation that reflects the collapsing state of affairs in what was then Yugoslavia.

A group of people meet on board an ambulance aircraft. They are all looking for a mysterious young man for different reasons. A "psychological-poetic" film that explores why people are puzzles to one another in the form of a game.

Die Letzte Rache narrates the eventful tale of Worldly-Wise, an adventurer who enters the service of an aging ruler in order to seek for him a successor. Unable to find a worthy heir, Worldly-Wise succumbs to the temptation to seize power himself.