Sylvester Groth

Sarah and Tom are in terrible financial trouble. On the brink of losing everything, they’ve managed to find a buyer for their stylish London home. When their best friends Richard and Beth come round for a final dinner, an uninvited old friend, Jessica, tags along. After a seemingly trivial argument, Jessica hangs herself in the garden. Tom goes to call the police when Sarah realizes if the buyer finds out, the sale will collapse, meaning definite financial ruin. The only solution - to convince Richard and Beth to take Jessica’s body to her flat and make it look like she killed herself there. If they’re clever enough about it, what could possibly go wrong?

Quando uma arma ultrassecreta cai nas mãos de um grupo de mercenários que ameaçam o mundo, a agente da CIA Mace Brown terá que unir forças para uma missão letal com a agente alemã Marie; a ex-membro do MI6, especialista em computadores, Khadijah; a psicóloga Graciela, e com Lin Mi Sheng, uma mulher misteriosa que está rastreando todos os seus movimentos.

After his return from World War I, there is no more work for Fidelis in his parents' butcher shop in Swabia, Germany. To make a better life for himself and Eva, the former fiancée of a friend who fell in battle, he emigrates to Argus, a town in North Dakota, in the United States. The artist Delphine, in whom Eva will find a friend, also moves there. To relieve Eva's homesickness, Fidelis founds a singing club.

Friends Franzi, Marieave and Kim planned to spend the summer rehearsing for a Peter Pan play, but when strange things start to happen at the theatre they take on the role of investigators.

Com a vencedora do Oscar Helen Mirren e a indicada ao Oscar Keira Knightley. Nesta fotografia de Berlim, dez histórias sobre diferentes formas de amor se cruzam pelas ruas da vibrante capital alemã.

While World War One is coming to an end, the Social Democrat Friedrich Ebert is trying to maintain political stability in Berlin. In the haughty Prince Max of Baden he finds an ally who offers him government participation under his chancellorship. In the meantime, discontent with the monarchy is steadily increasing in the last days of the war, but Emperor Wilhelm II remains steadfast in his throne.

A história real de Robin, um homem brilhante e aventureiro que fica paralisado por conta da poliomelite. Contra todos os conselhos, ele e sua amada Diana se recusam a ser aprisionados pelo sofrimento e vivem uma intensa história de amor, com cada respiração como se fosse a última.

In the fifth film in the series, the two chief commissioners Zorn and Schröder again investigate a truly tricky case in Halle. The script was written by Stephan Ludwig, who wrote the novel as in the previous productions. Directed by the crime-experienced Andreas Herzog. In addition to the two proven chief commissioner actors Stephan Luca and Axel Ranisch play again u. a. Alice Dwyer the prosecutor Borck and Katharina Nesytowa Zorn's girlfriend Malina.

Just before the fall of the Berlin Wall, the birthday celebrations of an East German family turn into a tragicomical moment of political and personal breakdown.

Single mother Maria falls from the clouds when the police come: She does not believe for a second that her son, Matis could have killed the pretty Lea from next door. He is in his early 20s, but still thinks and feels like a child - right? After his arrest, Simon finds a sex booklet belongs to him that the bus driver Bacher sold him. Matis actually makes a confession, to which, however, the psychologist Benjamin doubts. In the meantime, mother Maria is investigating on her own. The thriller gradually increases its level and excitement.

Durante a Guerra Fria, um agente da CIA e um agente da KGB decidem unir forças para se infiltrar em uma organização criminosa e perversa que planeja usar armas nucleares para acabar com o equilíbrio do poder.

No final de março de 1945, no campo de concentração Buchenwald, o prisioneiro Hans Pippig descobre em uma mala uma criança judia escondida. Se denunciar a criança de 3 anos com certeza morrerá. Por outro lado, a violação de regras do campo ameaçaria a longa preparação para a revolta dos prisioneiros contra a SS.

A dark psychological thriller, A Pact tells the twisted story of a contentious love triangle. As teenagers, Paul tricked Georg into handing over his girlfriend Anna to him. Georg agrees, on the condition that he can have her back whenever he wishes. After decades of silence, when Anna and Paul have a family together, Georg suddenly re-appears. Strange things start happening to Paul, and it soon becomes clear that Georg has not forgotten the pact.

Após a morte de sua mãe, Lena (Jytte-Merle Böhrnsen) decide parar sua carreira de atriz e retorna à sua pequena cidade natal na Alemanha. Lá, ela encontraseu namorado, que quer casar com ela. Ela também encontra Julius (Martin Lüttge), amigo de infância de sua mãe, que começa a contar-lhe sobre Auschwitz em 1944, "onde tudo começou", como sua mãe costumava dizer. Disposta a encontrar respostas para as perguntas que fez à sua mãe, Lena vai para a Polônia. Acompanhada por Julius e o padre Richard Franzen (Wolfram Koch), um padre que se apaixona por ela, a viagem de Lena se torna uma viagem ao passado. - See more at: http://www.eurochannel.com/pt/Cerejas-Amargas-Didi-Danquart-Alemanha.html#sthash.WCWYOv7m.dpuf

Jens Kessler, um terrorista da Facção do Exército Vermelho na Alemanha, é libertado da prisão. Durante os 18 anos que permaneceu lá, sua família, amigos e camaradas seguiram com suas vidas, cada um projetando sua própria fantasia de heroísmo ou falha em Jens. Para Inga, seu grande amor e mãe de seu filho, o passado e o presente entram em conflito já em seu primeiro fim de semana de liberdade. A tensão cresce, e não é preciso muito para começar um clima de histilidade. Baseado no romance de Bernhard Schlink, mesmo autor de O Leitor.

Andrea tem um negócio a ponto de quebrar, uma mãe que a assedia e má sorte no amor. A única coisa que tem clara é que não quer ter filhos. Mas a vida não a escutou e agora ela deve escolher entre dois homens encantadores enquanto espera seu primeiro filho.

Nos anos 80, dois estivadores da Alemanha Oriental, Cornelis e Andreas, sonham um sonho impossível: deixar o país. Para poder fugir pelo mar, eles precisam entregar um de seus colegas para a polícia do Estado. O plano muda quando Cornelis se apaixona por uma jovem vietnamita chamada Phuong Mai.

Tom Sawyer has a head full of pranks and drives when he invents is not just a new adventure, preferably around with his best buddy Huck Finn - much to the chagrin of his Aunt Polly with Tom and his half-brother Sid in the town of St. Petersburg on the Mississippi river.

Beate Uhse was a German pilot and entrepreneur. The only female stunt pilot in Germany in the 1930s, after World War II she started the first sex shop in the world. The company she started, Beate Uhse AG, is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, and is the world leader in sales of sexual aids. The company also started a television channel on the Premiere network of television channels.

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.

Jakob and Manu have developed their own specific survival strategies. Without a permanent home or steady job, they live in a makeshift camp in the woods and use the municipal swimming pool when they need to shower. Always short on cash, they make a living as providers of human services. They notice what is missing in other people′s lives and make a living by satisfying others′ desires and giving them what they need or what they lack.

A renowned actor named Otto is the epitome of the problematic but beloved ladies man. Even when drunk he still knows more about filmmaking than does the amateur who is directing him in his latest movie. But what should the unreliable star do when a local actor joins the crew as his understudy? Comic situations arise not only because of the well-known environment, but also from an inclination to authentically capture the various relationships.

No primeiro ano da ocupação de França pelos alemães, Shosanna Dreyfus testemunha a execução da sua família pela mão do Coronel Nazi Hans Landa. Shosanna escapa por pouco, fugindo para Paris onde falsifica uma nova identidade como proprietária e operadora de um cinema. Noutro local da Europa, o Tenente Aldo Raine organiza um grupo de judeus americanos, soldados, para executar investidas rápidas e chocantes de retribuição. Conhecidos pelos seus inimigos como "os sacanas", o bando de Raine une-se à actriz e agente infiltrada alemã Bridget von Hammersmark numa missão para destruir os líderes do Terceiro Reich. O destino de todos eles converge sob um letreiro de cinema, onde Shosanna está determinada em criar o seu próprio plano de vingança...

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.

A biography of Hildegard Knef, one of Germany's biggest post-war stars.

O filme centra-se no destino de três gerações de uma família de comerciantes no norte da Alemanha, mostrando a ascensão e queda de seus integrantes. Numa sociedade pronta para a mudança, os valores familiares parecem também condenados a se transformar.

Na Alemanha pós-2ª Guerra Mundial o adolescente Michael Berg se envolve, por acaso, com Hanna Schmitz, uma mulher que tem o dobro de sua idade. Apesar das diferenças de classe, os dois se apaixonam e vivem uma bonita história de amor. Até que um dia Hanna desaparece misteriosamente. Oito anos se passam e Berg, então um interessado estudante de Direito, se surpreende ao reencontrar seu passado de adolescente quando acompanhava um polêmico julgamento por crimes de guerra cometidos pelos nazistas.

O ator mais aclamado da Alemanha é contratado pelo propagandista Nazi Joseph Goebbels para preparar o líder do Terceiro Reich para fazer um discurso.

One night he will fetch the silver from the night sky Jonas loves his fathers magical stories. When Helge dies, Jonas ends up in an orphanage whereupon dreariness and discipline rule his life until a group of circus performers appear in the village.

A male prostitute and a handicapped girl witness a murder.

Na Europa, em Haag, está assumindo um novo chefe, o superintendente da polícia sueca Ola Sellberg, que pretende investir pesado contra o crime organizado que ataca agora as grandes instituições capitalistas e que por hora sobrevive incólume diante de um sistema judiciário ineficiente. Enquanto isso, em Londres, a corretora Rebecca Akerstm, descobre que seu noivo, Phoeniz Kane, um gênio das finanças, está seriamente envolvido com o crime. Temendo por sua vida, ela reúne provas das ações ilegais de Kane e procura por proteção. E num encontro entre amigos, Falk testemunha o assassinato a sangue frio de seu mentor Selberg, tornando-se a questão agora de ordem pessoal.

A singer flees from Nazi Germany, travels to Paris and befriends a young writer, his lover and a professor.

In the summer of 1807, Clemens Brentano stumbles into the most extreme love affair of his life. The woman, who, aged barely 17-years-old, throws herself at him with such terrifying brutality, is called Auguste Bussmann.

Gesche's Poison is a psychological portrait loosely based on the true story of Gesche Gottfried who became notorious in 19th century Bremen for killing fifteen people with arsenic. Known by her neighbors and friends as a merciful Christian, loving mother and devoted wife, she poisoned within fifteen years her parents, her brother, two husbands, three children and numerous friends. When caught, she never denied her deeds, but could not give any reason.

Outside Time is the second feature film of Andreas Kleinert, a German director who grew up in the GDR and who started making films at the time of the fall of the Wall. The film is set in a small town somewhere in Brandenburg, a place which is rapidly falling "outside time"; since it cannot keep pace with the changes brought about by unification and the transformation of the former GDR. The Russian troops stationed there have withdrawn and their barracks have turned into rat-infested ruins; the intercity trains do not stop there any more and even the regional railway link to Berlin is going to be suspended. Most young people are leaving. When Sophie introduces her lover to her mother and her brother, Sergej becomes embroiled in the incestuous tensions underlying the relationship between Sophie, her brother, Georg, and her mother. The arrival of the Russian implodes the claustrophobic sham existence that held this dysfunctional family together.

A psychodrama based on the criminal activities of the former STASI (state security police) in the now defunct German Democratic Republic.

Near the end of WWII a lone U-Boat is sent from Germany to Japan carrying plutonium needed for a Japanese A-Bomb. During the long journey, news arrives on the radio that Hitler killed himself and Germany has surrendered. This causes a rift in the crew, the Nazi Party members wanting to continue to Japan since they are still at war, while the others just want to surrender or return home.

Segunda Guerra Mundial, 1942. O filme traz um retrato da Batalha de Stalingrado vista pelos olhos dos alemães. A história segue um grupo de soldados alemães, desde o fronte italiano no verão de 1942 até as estepes congeladas da Rússia soviética e terminando com a batalha por Stalingrado. Através deles são mostrados os horrores da guerra, o medo, a esperança e todas as emoções dos combatentes envolvidos. Uma descrição da brutal batalha de Stalingrado, a "Waterloo" do Terceiro Reich, vista pelos olhos do oficial alemão Hans von Witzland e por seu batalhão.

Elias, born at the end of the war, receives an anonymous phone call on his 47th birthday: his parents are dead. He is now a successful politician, but thirty years ago he had fled from his home and parents in the East to seek a new life in the West. The return to his parental home causes Elias a sense of unease and disturbs the rigid order and complacency of his life.

In the ruins of an amphitheatre just outside an unnamed Italian city lives Momo, a little girl of mysterious origin. She is remarkable in the neighbourhood because she has the extraordinary ability to listen — really listen. By simply being with people and listening to them, she can help them find answers to their problems, make up with each other, and think of fun games.

1942. The members of the Voß family, mother, two daughters, a daughter-in-law, and a son-in-law, are living in a house at the river. A fellow soldier of son Paul, who fights at the eastern front, delivers his greetings and an embroidered Russian blouse for Emmi, Paul′s wife. Daughter Agnes, whose husband is also fighting in the war, receives a fur vest from the junior partner who is stalking her. Obviously, the vest is also loot from the eastern front. When the family receives news that Emmi′s husband has been killed in action, the war finally enters the house at the river. Emmi commits suicide while Agnes′s husband returns as a cripple from the war front. At home, he has to learn what a price his wife had to pay for the "Russian fur".

German-Polish adaptation of Theodor Storm's novella.

In the fall of 1945, nineteen year-old Mark Niebuhr, is accused of murder and is jailed as a prisoner of war in Warsaw, Poland. He maintains his claim of innocence throughout long periods of solitary confinement. When Mark is placed among a group of Polish criminals, he becomes the target of their aggression. Later, Mark experiences true hell in a communal cell with fanatical German war criminals. Turning Point is based on actual events from Hermann Kant's novel of the same name.