Michael Schönborn

The blind former chief inspector Alexander Haller has experience with kidnappings. This time he is in an unfamiliar position: His sister Sophie was kidnapped while visiting the theater with Niko. The assumption that it is about 50,000 euros, which Haller's private driver owes the betting mafia, turns out to be the wrong track. The hostage takers are asking for 750,000 euros and seem to be well informed about the Hallers ...

Martin Behrens es un experto en Medio Oriente para la agencia de inteligencia alemana BND. Obtiene información que conduce a un ataque con aviones no tripulados de EE. UU. Contra un terrorista buscado en Zahiristán. Unos días más tarde, hay un ataque terrorista contra un restaurante: el video que reclama responsabilidad lo llama venganza por el ataque con aviones no tripulados. La periodista independiente Aurice, con quien Martin estaba teniendo una aventura, está entre las víctimas: estaba investigando la corrupción en el corazón del BND. Martin pronto debe darse cuenta de que en un mundo donde las grandes corporaciones se benefician de los tratos de armas y de los contratos de seguridad nacional, el bien y el mal a veces son difíciles de distinguir.

Sophie Brand is overwhelmed: as a single mother with two jobs no wonder. A mountain of unpaid traffic tickets takes her to the judge, who buzzes her 300 social hours in a home for the disabled. In addition, he puts her on his own brother: Georg, a dreaded patient in the home, who sits in a wheelchair since an accident and only bitterness for his environment left. But Sophie can not rausekeln. So it happens that something special develops out of initial antipathy: trust, friendship, love. The emotional tragicomedy knows how to implement a supposed taboo subject sensitively.

On the advice of his chief counsel Julius, old Lord Gundolf offers the throne to whichever of his sons brings him the finest carpet. He blows three feathers into the air for the boys to follow. The eldest brothers Gerhard and Gebhard are sure they'll win the contest. One goes east and the other goes west. Both make fun of the youngest, Gustav, whom they call "Simpleton", because his feather flies into a forest.

Konrad y Maja forman una pareja perfecta, con dos hijos fantásticos. Él es jardinero y ella, después de doctorarse, acaba de conseguir un trabajo muy bueno como investigadora en una clínica de renombre. La vida les sonríe. El día que Maja se presenta a su nuevo trabajo, Konrad la acompaña con la moto y después de dejarla tiene un accidente sin importancia. Enseguida le atienden y le operan en la misma clínica, y parece que el incidente haya quedado superado. Pero al cabo de unos días, Konrad se empieza a encontrar mal, hasta el punto que la han de ingresar en un hospital con una sepsis muy grave. Desafiando las órdenes de sus superiores, Maja comienza a investigar qué pudo haber pasado durante la operación de su marido para que haya contraído una enfermedad tan grave, y al final tendrá que elegir entre la fidelidad a la empresa y la verdad y la salud de Konrad.

Under the slogan of the arms race of the superpowers, which escalates in the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 and brings the world to the brink of nuclear war, two exemplary post-war male figures challenge an almost archaic feud: Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss and journalist Rudolf Augstein.

Follows "Live is Life" aka "Die Spätzünder".

Adele Spitzeder, an actress of medium talent, finds the role of her life as a dazzling financial genius, but in truth the operator of a gigantic pyramid scheme. With a brilliant appearance and empty promises, she serves the hopes and greed of her fellow human beings with virtuosity. With the help of a never-ending stream of money, she buys her way out of situations that would have landed others in prison long ago. Her enemies are just waiting for the pyramid to collapse and bury Adele - and countless small investors with her.

Película protagonizada por Katja Weitzenböck. Ella interpreta a una abogada que lucha por la gente necesitada.

A dead girl at the Elbe beach gives riddle to Chief Commissioner Jan Fabel. However, it does not stop at this one murder. Alluding to the literary models of Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella, a bloody trail soon runs through Hamburg. In his new novel, writer Gerhard Weiss argues that the bloody fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm were based on authentic models. Is the Hamburg fairy tale murderer inspired by Weiss's novel?

Marie's father in law dies and leaves the world with his last wish being Marie and her husband to move into his house. Unfortunately Marie's hypochondriac mother in law isn't happy at all with the whole situation...

Al divorciarse, Grace se queda con su hija en la vieja residencia familiar, pero su hermana reclama parte de la herencia de dicha casa. Además, su exmarido se niega a contribuir económicamente para rehabilitar la casa, por lo que Grace busca trabajo como enóloga para pagar los honorarios del arquitecto Flynn Cormack.

A greater-Vienna seniors' home is run like a prison by the stuck-up female executive and staff. Hippie-type rebel Rochus 'Rocco' Siwak incurs a community service to be spent there as orderly. Sympathizing with seniors who still aspire to some dignity and self-realization, he helps them get around the rules, such as smuggling in contraband, and ends up inspiring them to form a rock band and enter a free podium competition. But it doesn't square with his own last shot as band guitarist.—KGF Vissers

Diana busca empleo y consigue una entrevista para ser la niñera de unos niños sin madre. Al llegar a la casa descubre que el padre es un hombre que ya conoce y con quien hay una fuerte atracción.

A free-wheeling chronicle of the Munich sex film industry in the 1970s.

This drama is based on the childhood memories of Hans Jürgen Massaquoi, who was one of the few black native Germans in Nazi Germany. In 1935 at the age of nine, he lives with his German mother in a small flat in Hamburg's working class district Barmbek, while his father and grandfather had left the country. Although the boy is not persecuted by the Nazis and dreams of joining the Hitler Youth, his skin color makes him a target for racist abuse...

Many years ago Thaddeus Hartington quarreled with his son David. Now he is seriously ill, but only wants to undergo a risky heart surgery, if he had the opportunity to reconcile with David. His dedicated doctor Kate sets out to find the missing person. She finds him in a small south English town, where he lives with his son Jeffrey. With charm and openness, Kate manages to win David's trust and eventually his heart. However, when he learns that Kate is on his father's behalf, this puts the young love to the test.

Filmerzählung nach Motiven des Romans "Der Spieler" von Fjodor Dostojewski, mit Hannelore Elsner in der Titelrolle.

Robert Von Metz es el gran maestre de los templarios, guardianes del Santo Grial. Recientemente se ha hecho cargo de David, un joven de 18 años al que está iniciando en los secretos de la orden. Robert también lo protege y esconde de sus enemigos desde hace siglos, la hermandad de Sion. David, además, ha descubierto que no es como los demás y ha crecido como una persona desconfiada. Pronto descubrirá su verdadera identidad, pues está destinado a dirigir el destino de la orden. Ayudado por Stella, una atractiva e impulsiva joven, tendrá que hacer frente a la hermandad enemiga, que no desea otra cosa que la muerte de David para acabar de una vez por todas con los templarios.

The towns of Gschaid and Millsdorf are in a constant state of feuding with each other. Nevertheless Gschaid's Sebastian and Millsdorf's Susanne are married. In her husband's town Susanne has to put up with daily harassment by the locals, which also extends to her two children. Finally she moves back to her parents, alone. When the children, who long to find a magical crystal they believe has the power to reunite the family, get lost in a howling blizzard on the exposed mountain after bringing their mother her Christmas presents, both towns set up rescue missions.

Former detective Brenner has become an ambulance driver and finds himself, much to his dismay, caught up in a war between two rival first aid organizations.

The mechanic Jack tries to get rid of his criminal background.

After spending three years doing field installation work in West Africa, Fred returns home to his old neighbourhood, an industrial region on the outskirts of a major city. He is filled with confidence and optimism for a new start. He has brought home with him a pile of money that he made in Africa. But he never wrote to his wife Rita. He only wired her a money transfer every month. In the meantime, Rita has a new life that she now shares with a GI. Fred rents a room in the "Royal", a sleazy hotel. There, he meets Alma, who takes care of the rooms and the guests and who is being kept by her sugar daddy - the aging hotel director. A passionate encounter with his old girlfriend Vera, who had high hopes for the two of them at some earlier time, dissipates into a brief carnal episode

A “film-noir” on double identity and role reversal. A man is looking for a woman to love. He finds her in a seedy bar and persuades her to marry him. The day she decides to flee… he kills her. To ward off suspicion, he moves in with the sister of the deceased.