Cosima
Self
Daniel Brühl is perhaps Germany’s most famous actor, starring in films such as Goodbye Lenin and Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds. Often seen as the eternal nice guy, he has also played a darker range of characters in a number of languages. Portrait of a surprising and versatile actor.
Biopic about Alice Schwarzer.
Susana
Frank, a man without a criminal record, attacks a money transporter and then turns himself in to the police. His behavior is a mystery. In prison he meets the unscrupulous and suspicious Arab Fuad, who is protected by his clan. To get closer to Fuad, Frank intervenes in the drug business within the walls and gets caught between the two rival groups of German and Arab inmates. It is only the prison guard Susanna with whom Frank will be able to build a relationship of trust, not knowing that she is part of Fuad’s business and has a sexual relationship with him. However, they come emotionally close. What only Frank knows is that his wife and his daughter died in a car accident. Fuad was the hit-and-run driver that remained unpunished. Frank seeks revenge.
Katrin
These young women are an odd couple. Julie is quick-witted and stubborn. She celebrates idleness and even voluntarily checks into a psychiatric clinic. Nurse Agnes, on the other hand, is always eager to do the right thing and to meet everyone's expectations of her, which is not always easy. When the two of them accidentally meet one day, odds are they won't get along. But they quickly feel attracted to one another, despite their enormous differences.
Jette
Three friends from school, Thomas, Nils and Andreas, are still searching for love in their adult lives.
Vanessa
Ryan decide secuestrar a Vanessa Willard para poder cobrar el rescate. Sin embargo, la policía detiene a Ryan por una pelea, antes de que se pague el rescate.
Annika Hombach
Dalia Scheidegger
Allmen and the mystery of the dahlias.
Isabel
Jette Harms
Herta
Jette
Three former classmates reunite for their 30-year high school reunion.
Friederike Winter
Carlotta
Painter Freddy lives with his wife and child on Lake Tegernsee and is working on his comeback until one day his life suddenly turns upside down: He is accused of beating up his wife and as a result of which he is said to have custody of his eight-year-old son withdrawn . But Freddy can not remember having committed the alleged acts and protests his innocence. In this grave crisis, Eddy appears, Freddy's childhood friend. Both look confusingly alike and Eddy immediately begins to interfere in Freddy's life, in which worse things happen. Only Freddy knows that he has a doppelganger, an imaginary one at that - how is he supposed to convince those around him that it is Eddy who is to blame for all the disasters? Freddy is slowly losing control of his life...
Karla Seewald
Ariane
Baby belly or scholarship in the US - in Ella's Baby, the accidental pregnancy of a 16-year-old student turns the life of a patchwork family on its head. Tijan Marei plays the teenage girl whose "first time" messes up the already fragile family structure. In the role of her single father, who is planning to make a new offspring with his new girlfriend - played by Katharina Schüttler - Benno Fürmann can be seen. Director David Dietl tells the story in a humorous way, without losing sight of the seriousness of the topic.
Gabi Henke
The day begins like a nightmare: Sybille Thalheim wakes up in a strange hotel room with a bloodstained knife in her hand.
Music Coordinator
Autumn 1944; a young soldier named Karl Franke has been shipped to Courland and must prove himself to his fellow soldiers in his first mission.
Mimi
Mimi has her hands full. Her son Felix is hyperactive, her ex-husband Johnny is a mess, her father is a chronic gambler. Then Felix signs her up for a Swiss casting show, because Mimi wanted to be a musician originally. So Mimi decides to head for Switzerland, since it could pay all their debts. But then the whole family wants to come...
Anneliese Bräuer
Tres días extremadamente dramáticos vividos en Noruega en Abril de 1940. Tras la llegada del ejército alemán a Oslo, el rey noruego Haakon VII recibe un ultimátum impensable por parte de los alemanes: rendirse o morir. Ante esta situación, el rey deberá tomar una decisión que cambiará para siempre la historia de su país.
Marie
Biopic de la escritora rusa Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861-1937), una mujer adelantada a su tiempo que departió con Nietzsche, fue analizada por Sigmund Freud y se rodeó de grandes de artistas y escritores de finales de la época como el poeta Rainer Maria Rilke, de la que fue amante.
Alina
Alina tiene una hija de nueve años, Lilia; pero la esconde para no perder el trabajo. Lilia toca el violín y su madre, que no la puede llevar a clase, le pide a Jarek, un exnovio, que la lleve.
Svens Mutter
The friends and amateur detectives Rico and Oskar experiencing their last adventure together. Here everything is really only one well, because now they live next door to. Ricos mother Tanya and Buhl are together, Oskar is with his father Lars pulled to Rico into the house. But dies as the grumpy Fitzke, the trouble begins. The stone Breeder inherited Rico his beloved stone-collection over which the boy also very pleased - but then he and his buddy note that Rico's favorite stone calf stone was stolen. The task now is to make the thieves apprehended. And because there are on the way to the Baltic Sea, Rico and Oskar must as soon as possible afterwards. Glad Tanja is flown by Buhl in the "snogging holiday" ...
Claire Gehrich
Berlín, 1940. Cuando a Otto y Anna Quangel, un matrimonio de clase obrera, les comunican que su único hijo ha muerto en el campo de batalla, ambos emprenden una campaña nada menos que en contra de Hitler, el nazismo y la guerra, pero pronto comenzarán a ser perseguidos por la Gestapo
Miss Rottenmeier
Heidi es una huérfana de ocho años, criada por su abuelo en las montañas suizas. Junto a su amigo, Pedro el cabrero, cuida de las cabras del abuelo y disfruta de la libertad en la montaña. Pero un día su tía Dete decide llevársela a la ciudad de Frankfurt para ser educada en una familia adinerada. Allí hará amistad con la hija inválida de la familia, Klara.
Elsa
Es la impresionante historia sobre George Elser, el carpintero de la resistencia que intentó asesinar a Hitler en Munich el 8 de noviembre de 1939. Por solo 13 minutos de diferencia, si el Führer no hubiese abandonado su podio antes de lo previsto, podría haber cambiado la historia.
Erika Grzimek
A portrait movie about the famous German zoo director, zoologist, book author, editor, and animal conservationist in postwar West-Germany.
Rita
Rita and Georg have long been divorced - actually. But every Christmas they become a couple again. Then they play Georg's parents, Clara and Paul, the happy spouses because Georg just does not dare to tell them the truth. Rita in turn pretends to be in a new relationship, although in truth he is still attached to her. Even his job as a senior physician, the good-natured nurse has just come up with. But Rita also conceals her worries. The two do not suspect that Clara and Paul have already seen through the masquerade of the two and play their own little game.
Simone
Follows the lives of different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic few days before Christmas in Frankfurt, Germany.
Clara Immerwahr
Clara sabía que su lugar, se suponía que debía estar en la cocina. Sin embargo, ella persiguió su sueño de convertirse en científica, y fue la primera mujer de la Universidad de Breslau en obtener un doctorado. Al casarse con el químico Fritz Haber, su vida comienza a caer en una crisis existencial: por un lado, Fritz apoya su trabajo académico, pero por otro, la ve como una asistente con poca ambición. Además, Fritz traiciona su objetivo de usar la química para el bien de la humanidad y desarrolla un gas venenoso empleado por el ejército alemán en la Primera Guerra Mundial.
Bianca März
Dos exitosos asesores han viajado por varios de los países más convulsos del planeta con una sola idea en mente: satisfacer la codicia de sus clientes y civilizar la expansión del capitalismo. Frank Öllers y Kai Niederländer, son a su modo como Quijote y Sancho, espíritus y presencias, estereotipos y símbolos de su tiempo, que como el título bien indica, podríamos definir como la “era de los caníbales”.
Sophie
Berlín, siglo XIX, Romanticismo. El joven poeta trágico Heinrich aspira a vencer el carácter ineluctable de la muerte gracias al amor. Por esta razón intenta convencer a su prima Marie de que si se suicidan juntos conseguirán eludir el destino. El escepticismo y la falta de sensibilidad de Marie deprime a Heinrich. Sin embargo, Henriette, una joven casada, cuando se entera de que padece una enfermedad incurable, se muestra dispuesta a aceptar la propuesta del poeta. Relato libremente inspirado en el suicidio de Heinrich von Kleist, en 1811.
Betti
A sperm donor becomes impotent - and so he searches for the woman, who got his sperm, to become a father after all...
Ilsebill
A kindly but poverty-stricken fisherman catches a magical fish. The fish begs him to let it go, claiming to be a prince. The fisherman lets it go and tells his wife all about it. The fisherman's wife is overbearing and greedy and she demands that he go back and ask the fish to grant him a wish out of gratitude. The fisherman does not have any desires, so the wife tells him to make the fish give them a nicer house, which is what she wants. Mandje! Mandje! Timpe Te! Flounder, flounder, in the sea! For my wife, good ilsabil, Wills not as I'd have her will."
Bettina Bischoff
Marc (Hanno Koffer) es un agente de policía que vive con su novia Bettina, embarazada, y con la que en apariencia mantiene una genuina relación de amor y comprensión. Es una pareja feliz, pero las dudas llaman a la puerta de Marc cuando conoce a Kay (Max Riemelt) en un curso de formación. El desconcierto, el miedo, la incomprensión de sentirse atraído por otro hombre, una clase de deseo que hasta ahora desconocía, que incluso repudiaba, despierta dentro de él.
Eva Leupold
Polizistin
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, is responsible for her safety. They soon overcome their initial distance to find common ground. While on the run from the ruthless Backer, Rudi, one of Max’s former comrades, comes to their rescue – and continues to help the two out of some precarious situations. Even Max’s ex-girlfriend Sara is not just there to help him as a federal prosecutor. Nevertheless, Nina and Max face ever-increasing danger, and soon the teenager is not the only one in need of a guardian angel – Max could use one too.
Elli
Cinta alemana que narra la historia de un joven universitario que abandona la universidad para acabar rondando sin un rombo por las calles de la capital germana. Tras su renuncia a la carrera de derecho pasaremos un día entero junto a este veinteañero que vive del dinero que le pasa su padre, hasta que descubra que su cuenta corriente ha sido cancelada, punto de partida de una serie de situaciones singulares y/o desagradables. Sin medio de sustento y sin futuro a medio/largo plazo Niko comprenderá que ha de dar un giro a su vida para seguir adelante.
Iza
Simon es un joven muchacho que disfruta de una infancia idílica en el campo sueco mientras la sombra del nazismo y la Segunda Guerra Mundial va cubriendo Europa. Aunque lo han educado unos padres de clase obrera que le han transmitido su cariño y sus principios, él se siente distinto. Un día conoce al joven Isaac (Karl Linnertorp), un niño judío hijo de un rico librero que huye de la persecución nazi en Alemania... Adaptación del best seller "La historia de Simon", de Marianne Fredriksson.
Fanny Dannewald
Brigitte Kuhlmann
Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, alias Carlos, es un personaje clave en la historia del terrorismo internacional de los años 70 y 80. Considerado por algunos una figura de la extrema izquierda romántica, de hecho era un mercenario oportunista que trabajaba para los servicios secretos de cualquier potencia de Oriente Medio. Además, llegó a formar, al otro lado del Telón de Acero, una organización que estuvo activa durante los últimos años de la Guerra Fría
Felicia Schlesinger
Gregor Gropius, cirujano de prestigio, realiza un trasplante de hígado a Schlesinger, un arqueólogo que había hecho un descubrimiento en Jerusalén que demostraba que Jesús de Nazaret había sido una persona corriente.
Beatrice Rohner
2010 documentary film on the Armenian Genocide by the Young Turk government of the Ottoman Empire during World War I. It is based on eyewitness reports by European and American personnel stationed in the Near East at the time, Armenian survivors and other contemporary witnesses which are recited by modern German actors.
Mitbewohnerin
David, a waiter, finds an unpublished manuscript in a dresser drawer. To impress a girl, he claims to be the author. When the novel becomes a best-seller, the real author introduces himself and begins to take over David's life.
Elli
Alice
Thirty years after giving her daughter up for adoption in order to join the terrorist underground in Germany, Judith is tracked down by her now adult daughter Alice to a vineyard in the Alsace where she is now living with a new family and a new identity. Alice calls on her mother to give herself up, but Judith doesn't regret any of her past deeds.
Tosia
The film tells the early life story of Marcel Reich-Ranicki, who was born in Wloclawek, Poland in 1920. During the Third Reich, the family was in great danger. Nevertheless, he returned to Germany with his wife.
Lina
The lonely bank-employee Phillip follows a strict pattern of somewhat compulsive actions keeping his encounters with strangers to a minimum. When his home one day is robbed of all content and he later meets the enchanting blind cellist Lina, he finds, however, he needs to start improvising and taking chances.
Herself
Documentary satire about a project by Christoph Schlingensief: Ten years after his TV project "Talk 2000", Schlingensief started to work on a new talk show – at least that was what he claimed. But in reality, it was obvious that the pilot episodes he produced would never be broadcasted. Nevertheless, all celebrities from the political and cultural sphere, Schlingensief had requested, accepted his invitation, including the filmmaker Oskar Roehler, the televangelist Jürgen Fliege, the politician Claudia Roth, or the rapper Sido. It is beyond question, that the talk show panel took an unconventional course directly from the start – and was soon threatening to turn into an uproar.
Lucie
Hedda Tesman, his wife
Hedda and Jørgen Tesman come back from their honeymoon to their brand new house in the western part of the city. It is apparent from the start that the couple is a mismatch, and it becomes clear that Hedda will soon be bored to tears by her petit-bourgeois existence. Until she hears a man she loved a few years back is in town, the writer Eilert Løvborg.
Babette
Un día, diferente a cualquier otro, tiene lugar una tormenta eléctrica en mitad del invierno. Steini se instala con su novia Jenny; Olli sale con Babette por primera vez; y Marie, casada felizmente con Frank, se acuerda de Jan, que hace 5 años desapareció de su vida inesperadamente. Al día siguiente, por la noche, Marie escribe una carta a su viejo amor Jan. Pero tal y como le ha pasado en todos estos años, no encuentra las palabras adecuadas, por lo que tira la carta a la basura. Cuando Frank encuentra la carta en la basura, la confesión de Marie de que aún está enamorada de Jan le conmueve profundamente. Frank decide enviar la carta a Jan sin que ella lo sepa. Cuando, de repente, Jan vuelve a aparecer, Frank y Marie no son los únicos que se enfrentan a un período desafiante en sus relaciones. Todos en su círculo de amigos de alguna manera se ven forzados a hacerse una pregunta: ¿qué es más importante, amar o ser amado?.
'Sunday Girls' is a portrait of four young German actresses: Laura Tonke, Nicolette Krebitz, Katharina Schuettler and Inga Birkenfeld. They are members of a new group of young actresses who try to put their passion for films into practice, away from the mainstream TV market. Their individuality and their will to remain independent is what makes them so interesting... their luck, their fears, their goals, the things that life is made up of... "Of course I'm a little in love with them, that's how all films start." (director RP Kahl)
Rebecca
Arzttochter Susa Merbold
Annika Schmelzer
Annika's life and experiences as a young woman include peculiar sex, an unfortunately cold best friend, a terrible tutor/boyfriend, and a sensible and beautiful boyfriend (Kai). Her family life and lie collide in such a way that it is impossible for her to tell the truth even when she desperately wants to.
Jenny
German film.
Sophie
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...
Tania
Several episodes set on Christmas Eve.
Kinodate
Lukas, a young schizophrenic man, has to deal with a new town, a new relationship, and the paranoia in his head.
Paulina
Clara y Hans, dos terroristas de izquierdas, huyen de la policía desde hace quince años. Cuando su hija Jeanne, una adolescente cada vez más rebelde, se enamora de un muchacho desconocido, se convierte en una amenaza más para la seguridad de sus padres.
Natascha
Ina
Ria
TV drama about a young girl who is sexually abused inside her own family
Anne
After an argument with her boyfriend Dennis in a disco Anne goes home alone, leaving him and his friends Raf and Nicole behind. The next day she reads in the paper that two men and a woman are wanted for stabbing a man to death near that disco.
Lara
The story The Cry of Love is about the love between two men. Lara brings her first boyfriend, the good-looking Yannis, to the barbecue party in the family circle. Yannis, who flirts with his appearance, is a prostitute. When Lara's father Holger discovers Yannis' secret, he is both confused and fascinated. More and more, he feels drawn to Yannis.
Swetlana Wokowitsch
Sven is a twelve year old pocket-picker and works for Jens, boss of his gang in school. Teacher Vera Loewe becomes one of his victims. When she realizes that he's one of the pupils in her new class, she confronts him and wants to help, even against his will.
Spange
