Anton Rattinger

O remake da obra homônima de Stefan Zweig, Schachnovelle (1960). Advogado Dr. Josef Bartok é sequestrado pelos nacional-socialistas para que possam se apossar da grande fortuna que administra. Quando Bartok permanece em silêncio, os nazistas o prendem e o deixam vegetar sem contato ou distração. Quando Bartok está à beira de ser mentalmente quebrado, se depara com um livro em que os movimentos das partidas de xadrez foram registrados em um ardil. Por falta de alternativas, ele internaliza esses jogos. Anos depois, quando ele conhece o atual campeão mundial de xadrez em um navio, a insanidade da prisão toma conta.

Em 1982, o genial cineasta alemão Rainer Werner Fassbinder morreu de overdose, com apenas 37 anos, deixando uma obra impressionante para sua pouca idade. Em menos de duas décadas, ele produziu mais de 60 filmes e diversas peças, além de colaborar em outras funções, como ator, montador, roteirista. Essa é a fascinante história de um dos mais importantes representantes do Novo Cinema Alemão, cuja ascensão fulminante como um dos principais diretores da Europa coincide com sua queda mental e física, que levaram à sua morte prematura.

1980: 19 year old Robert, fed up with Hippy phoniness and bourgeoise narrow mindedness alike, flees the German provinces for West Berlin. A tour de force through the glorious dirt of West Berlin ensues. Full of sex, drugs, love and PUNK.

Karos handball team is facing a big international competition. When it becomes public that her boyfriend is an active member of a far-right party, the team, the club, Karo's family and last but not least she is put to the test: Does Karo have to be marginalized in order to signal against exclusion in society?

This is a family story that covers thirty years in the life of the Freytag family (narrated by the grandson, Robert). When his grandfather returns from Russia in 1949, he becomes part of the German "economic miracle" by producing garden gnomes. Klaus, Robert's father, wants to become a writer. He marries Gisela who almost immediately gets pregnant with Robert - but the marriage doesn't work. Both parents abandon the child, and Robert goes on living with both pairs of grand parents. While his father belongs to the 1968 generation that rebels against their fathers he falls in love with the neighbor's's daughter Laura.

A stubborn, atmospheric and brutal view of the great love between father and daughter.

A paz de um aprazível povoado da Alemanha é quebrada quando uma centena de corvos manipulados geneticamente arrasa com tudo que encontra na sua frente. A veterinária Alexandra Werner é a única esperança para tentar achar uma solução, antes que seja tarde demais.

Tobi e Achim são amigos de colégio há alguns anos e dividem o mesmo quarto, e o carinho que um guarda pelo outro vai além do superficial. Tobi e Achim são dois garotos bastante populares. Amigos desde a infância, acreditam que nada seria capaz de ficar entre sua amizade. Eles estão ansiosos pelas férias de verão, quando vão ao acampamento. Quando um grupo de homossexuais chega no acampamento direto de Berlim, Tobi começa a ficar confuso em relação à sua sexualidade.

A financially devastated German town receives an encouraging boost with the arrival of a popular soccer star, though a heated love triangle threatens to overshadow the good vibes in this sexually liberated comedy from filmmaker Norbert Baumgarten.

The sisters Claire and Rita Krug have been merciless rivals for their mother's favor since early childhood. Claire, tied to a wheelchair at an early age due to a tragic accident, flees - barely an adult - from the oppressive atmosphere in her parents' home into a new life as an architect in Israel. She breaks off contact with the family radically.

Once upon a time very much alike the twenties in Germany, a little town is frightened to death by an uncaught child murderer. Since somebody has to be blamed the townspeople turn against an inconspicious policeman, a family-man who becomes suspected of the crime and therefore loses his job. Strangely enough, the only work he can find is to distribute candy on children, dressed up as clown. When a bunch of kiddies, including his own son who doesn't recognize the father due to the masquerade, plays a nasty trick to him, things turn really ugly...

A comedy directed by Wolf Vogel.

The young policeman Joachim Krippo likes to occasionally share his bed with a nice married couple. When he is supposed to be guarding the criminal Engel Potraske during a court appearance, the dangerous Engel manages a spectacular escape, but departs minus a toe! Krippo is subsequently suspended from his duties and put with other police officers under the care of an elderly police psychologist. Krippo's professional set-backs are followed by private ones: his grandad - who was actually being well looked-after in an old people's home - is dropped off at his place because the payments due have not been made. He tries to get his grandad out of the flat by pairing him off with the police psychologist. But, in the critical moment, Krippo lunges for the bait himself. At least, this means that he will be discharged from the psychograph tests as being fit for service again...

Noticing Marie's devastation after her boyfriend, Paul, dumps her, call boy Theo tries to help, and their friendship soon grows deeper, touching a part of Theo he's frozen in order to service his male clients. When Paul returns, however, his presence threatens this fragile new union.

Berlin, December 1989. Dana Lech from Poland has been living with her German-Italian boyfriend in the western part of the city for several months. After the fall of the wall, her Polish ex-boyfriend Jan suddenly appears at the door and shows her the conflict with which she lives. She stands between the former and the new partner, between her past and the present, between her old homeland Poland and a Germany in which the border between East and West has fallen. Dana tries to find her own way between all these contradictions.

After his training as a policeman, the young, shy Köppe is transferred to a northern German town. Unfortunately, in an area where fox and rabbit say goodnight, there is little for a lawman to do. So Köppe kills time with the search for mysterious cow murderers, flirting with two attractive women and befriending a likeable petty crook.

A hundred years after the theft from New Zealand of three irreplaceable tribal carvings, two Maori, Rewi and Peter, decide it's time for ancient grievances to be put right. Both men are in Berlin where the carvings are stored in a museum. Plans go awry when a group that Peter has assembled breaks into the museum. Rewi persuades the others to let him put his own, more daring plan into action. Tensions build and international media interest broadens when a sniper's bullet hits Peter.

Sabine works in a hairdressing salon in Berlin. In order to keep the job, she has to occasionally grab the boss. She also feeds her boyfriend Frank. Sabine has simple dreams: sleek-cars and holidays on the beach.

On the run from her criminal Italian husband, a young French woman meets a German lover in West Berlin who offers her shelter but who also gets entangled in her threatened life ever deeper.

Germany, 1968: The priest's daughters Marianna and Juliane both fight for changes in society, like making abortion legal. However their means are totally different: while Juliane's committed as a reporter, her sister joins a terroristic organization. After she's caught by the police and put into isolation jail, Juliane remains as her last connection to the rest of the world. Although she doesn't accept her sister's arguments and her boyfriend Wolfgang doesn't want her to, Juliane keeps on helping her sister. She begins to question the way her sister is treated.