Matthias Habich

Summer, 1918. Two young women, Luise and Elsa live alone on a secluded farm in Alsace. As young German deserter Hermann comes along, a new relationship forms between the three, filled with love, competition and hate.

When his younger sister, a single parent, moves into the second apartment with her 5-year-old daughter Nina, an unexpected friendship develops between Josef and the uncared-for little girl.

The 78-year-old former architect Richard Gärtner (Matthias Habich) wants to put an end to his life. However, this should not be done abroad, but quite legally with the help of his family doctor. For Dr. Brandt (Anna Maria Mühe), out of personal conviction, it is out of the question to get her elderly but healthy patient a fatal preparation.

Goldmund estuda no mosteiro Mariabronn. Seu pai o enviou para lá. Lá ele conhece um monge chamado Narciso, que se submeteu a uma vida voltada exclusivamente ao desenvolvimento espiritual. O encontro dos dois abalará suas crenças para sempre.

Florian, de 12 anos, e a sua adorada cadela de raça Collie, Lassie, são inseparáveis e melhores amigos. Os dois vivem felizes numa aldeia idílica. Quando o pai de Florian perde o emprego, a família tem de se mudar para um apartamento menor onde não são permitidos cães. Florian fica destroçado e tem de abrir mão de Lassie. A cadela é entregue ao cuidado do conde Von Sprengel que viaja para o Mar do Norte com ela e com a sua exuberante neta Priscila. Quando o malvado caseiro começa a tratá-la mal, Lassie aproveita uma oportunidade de fuga e inicia uma viagem cheia de aventuras, sempre em busca de Florian. Mas Lassie não foi a única que embarcou numa viagem. Florian também não aguenta mais e vai à procura da sua cadela. Estes dois não são fáceis de derrotar!

25 years ago, Cornelius left his then girlfriend Julia to live with Frank. After Julia fled to the USA at the time, she is now returning and wants to live in the former common house, which puts the relationship between Cornelius and Frank to the test.

Teenager Connie and her friends try to save an island full of nature and place of their encounters from being destroyed by the construction of a hotel there.

Clare (Teresa Palmer) é uma fotógrafa australiana que está passando férias em Berlim. Lá, ela conhece Andi (Max Riemelt), um jovem carismático que logo conquista a atenção da moça. A atração entre os dois é instantânea e eles acabam passando uma noite juntos. No entanto, quando Clare acorda na manhã seguinte, se vê sozinha e presa no apartamento de Andi.

After getting his cancer diagnosis, Holm decides to die in Switzerland. With a last big appearance he wants to say goodbye to his family. Holm invites family members and close friends to a dinner to review his successful life. But the evening is not a wistful-emotional family reunion, but a settlement with the head of the family. Old wounds break open, long kept secrets come to light, the different views of the people, the others and the life leads to hard argument and to many a surprise.

Um homem encontra a foto de uma cantora de ópera americana e reconhece nela sua falecida esposa. Ele convence a filha a viajar para Nova York em busca da sósia e investigar essa estranha semelhança. Um filme de Margarethe von Trotta.

Six numbers in the lottery! If that's not good luck for Georg Freudenreich and fellow winner and brother-in-law Heinrich. This distracts from the feelings Heinrich has suppressed all his life. He has fallen in love with Edward. But now, at over 70, how is he supposed to live a love he has always denied himself?

13 people between the end of 60 and the middle 80: They have already experienced many things in their lives. Everyone has their own hopes, desires, conflicts and problems. What unites them is the longing for closeness - for a loving, lovable partner and the somewhat unusual way they have chosen to escape their loneliness: a speed dating. So you dare to an event in which each face a man and a woman and only have seven minutes to get to know each other and open courageously in ever new constellations to a foreign counterpart.

Rosemarie is a hard-working young woman living in a small English town in the 1950's. She left Austria with her father during the war to escape the Nazi oppression and since then, despite poverty and loneliness, she has always kept the faith that better days would arise. When she meets Anton, one of her father's friends, she immediately falls in love and starts believing in a fortunate destiny with him. Against all impediments, their secret love affair may help Rosemarie to find out where she really belongs.

Choir director Johanna Bischoff and her girls choir go to a concert in their hometown Hameln. Shortly before the scheduled performance disappear four of the girls and the organist David.Sie were on a hike in a cave of the Ith - the fabled mountain, in which 700 years ago the Pied Piper is said to have led the children. Seeking help, Johanna turns to her ex-boyfriend Jan Faber, head of the police station in Hameln.

Após a morte de sua avó, uma família no norte da Alemanha se reúne novamente no imóvel herdado. A saga da família ilumina seu passado; lindas e duras lembranças. Adaptação do livro de 2008 com o mesmo nome.

After the death of his wife, respected writer Henrik Agdestein won't let anyone get close to him, neither the kind-hearted teacher Sonja nor the feisty policewoman Laura. And certainly not top politician Leif, whose homosexuality he disapproves of.

More than fifty years have passed since Harry left his great love Elly head over heels to go to America. Now he has returned to see her again - and must discover that she lives as a nun in a Protestant monastery. At first she refuses to contact him, the pain is too deep that he has not been alive throughout the years. Only when she learns the true reason for his supposed silence does she let Harry back into her life. With the memory of the past times, the two also return to the old feelings. Elly gets into a deep moral conflict

Nine young actors leave behind their daily lives in Berlin and travel to the country to audition for a summer theatre production to be performed in the ruins of an old church. A once-renowned Swiss director is using this week of rehearsals to find the lead for this production of “Hamlet”. The director is staying privately at the home of an old woman, but the actors are being put up at a run-down hotel with very thin walls.

Drama about the tragic Nanga Parbat expedition by the two Messner brothers in 1970, on which Reinhold Messners younger brother Günther died.

A 24 hours ceasefire. The situation in Falluja is devastating- no food, no medications, no help. A group of five people sets out with the plan to help- they end up fighting for the lives of the helpless and wounded and eventually - their own.

Robert is magically attracted to Johanna. He observes and stalks her. Finally, the two get to know each other. But Johanna's relationship with Karl is not quite over.

A young woman is found raped and bludgeoned to death. Her father can’t reconcile himself with her death, and even less with the fact that the murderer was never found. Half of his life he continues the search. Finally, after more than 20 years, as DNA-analysis becomes a factor in forensic medicine, new perspectives open.

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.

Ana, uma artista adolescente, é criada em Ibiza por seu pai alemão Klaus em um estilo de vida naturalista. Ela conhece Justine, que a convida a se mudar para Madri e obter educação artística e apoio financeiro. Ana faz amizade com Linda, conhece o problemático Said, um jovem saharaui, e mais tarde é hipnotizada por Anglo, que abre uma porta para suas memórias e vidas passadas.

A Polish woman and a German man fall in love against the odds and decide to set up a cemetery for exiles. But can their daring venture survive the call of the toad? Adapted from Gunter Grass’ novel.

Adapted from Eduard von Keyserling’s 1911 novel of the same title, Waves depicts both the lives and loves of an aristocratic German family during a summer holiday on the Baltic coast of what is now Lithuania, as well as the twilight of a social order and its mores in a world soon to be plunged into the cataclysm of world war.

Em 1942, o jovem Traudl Junge tem o que parece ser a melhor profissão do mundo: ele é secretário de Hitler. Três anos depois, o império se resume a um abrigo subterrâneo e, de lá, Traudl narra os últimos dias da vida de do ditador.

Mais do que uma biografia, Nero é a recriação de um período de mudanças radicais vividas por Roma durante o governo de um dos seus mais famosos e enigmáticos líderes. Durante os 31 anos em que comandou o imbatível Império Romano, Nero enfrentou poderosos inimigos externos, além da inveja dentro de sua própria família, que fez de tudo para destruí-lo. Quando criança, cresceu entre homens e mulheres escravas, e acabou se apaixonando por uma delas. Mas quando chamado pelo dever, o jovem é obrigado a abrir mão de seu amor, para assumir o poder e se casar com alguém à altura de suas raízes nobres. Depois de proclamado imperador, a loucura passa tomar conta do novo líder, colocando em risco todo o Império Romano.

Prussian general's son Friedrich, Freiherr (German baron) von der Trenck, is an unruly student whose countless affairs make him enemies, but he wins every duel. Frederic II the Great recruits him for his personal bodyguard. During his cadet training under the cruel stickler Graf (count) von Jaschinsky Friedrich falls in love with the king's headstrong oldest sister Amalia. She, however, refuses to be married off the the Swedish king's heir. When Prussia makes war on Austria over Silesia, Trenck's loyalty is dubious on account of an Austrian family branch. Janischky eagerly convinces the king there is more.

Em 1938, pouco antes de estourar a 2ª Guerra Mundial, a família Redlich foge da Alemanha e se instala no Quênia, na África. Lá o advogado Walter Redlich (Merab Ninidze) passa a trabalhar numa fazenda, enquanto sua mulher Jettel (Juliane Köhler), filha de uma família burguesa, tenta se adaptar à nova vida. Regina (Lea Kurka), a filha do casal, cresce e aprende a língua e os costumes locais, encontrando no cozinheiro Owunor (Sidede Onyulo) um amigo. Quando a guerra está acabando Walter recebe uma proposta para atuar como juiz em Frankfurt. Depois de tantos anos em que aprenderam a amar o novo país, Jettel e Regina começam a duvidar se voltarão para a Alemanha com ele.

Vasily Zaitsev é um jovem atirador russo que, convencido por um companheiro político, torna-se o ícone da propaganda russa em plena 2ª Guerra Mundial. A fama de Vasily o torna uma lenda viva para o exército russo e desperta também a atenção do exército nazista, que envia seu melhor atirador de elite com o objetivo de matar aquele que se tornou a esperança de toda a Rússia.

Johannes Breutigam, a successful architect, is confronted with his real life on a New Year's Eve. His wife is cheating on him, his partner Losfeld has betrayed him and his company is on the verge of bankruptcy. Deeply depressed and desperate, he rents a hotel room on the 32nd floor. He writes a farewell letter to his wife and opens the window to jump into the depths. A young woman is standing on the window sill next door, apparently up to the same thing. With the promise to spend the last evening of the year with her, he manages to save her and himself for the time being. This is the beginning of a strange, romantic, comical story that takes place on a single New Year's Eve and in which two people change their lives

The Jewish antiques dealer Siegfried Rabinovicz is on his way from New York to Hamburg where he is about to testify as the principal witness in a murder case. During a stop-over, an airport hostess talks him into giving up his seat on the connecting flight to another passenger. While Rabinovicz is waiting in the VIP lounge, he gets into a conversation with a stranger who is remarkably well informed about the murder Rabinovicz is going to testify about.

A drama directed by Martin Buchhorn based on the novel by Günter Grass.

The mother of a murdered hitchhiker meets the offender.

Beyond Silence is about a family and a young girl’s coming of age story. This German film looks into the lives of the deaf and at a story about the love for music. A girl who has always had to translate speech into sign language for her deaf parents yet when her love for playing music grows strong she must decide to continue doing something she cannot share with her parents.

Paris during the 1920s. Ever since her parents' separation, ten-year-old Maisie has been travelling to and fro between her father Beale Farange and her mother Ida. She spends half a year with each one alternately. But neither parent can provide Maisie with the warmth and affection she so desperately needs.

This French thriller begins with a flashback to a small village dance where a six-year-old girl is kidnapped and killed. Seventeen years later the murder remains unsolved. The girl's parents Caroline and Chris have gone on with separate lives Caroline remarried and had another daughter while Chris became an alcoholic. The two are thrown back together when each begin receiving strange messages that imply their daughter has returned from the dead for vengeance. They contact a police detective (the lover of Caroline's best friend) who finds the case intriguing and decides to reopen it. Unfortunately, as soon as he begins questioning the old suspects, people begin to die.

The story tells of a love which after ten years is beginning to grow old, and of the attempt to turn the imminent end into a new beginning. After ten years of eventful relationship, man and woman have finally decided to say yes to each other in an abandoned railway station on the edge of town. It is the first evening in their new home. Everything is temporary, nothing is finished. The furniture has not yet been delivered, the heating is not functioning yet, the telephone is not connected, neither is the television. They are inescapably confronted with their own selves and with each other. And although, at least at the beginning, they fervently strive for love and harmony, the past catches up with them. When he, as always, seeks to withdraw by taking flight, he discovers that his key does not fit. He is at her mercy. Ruthlessly, they call each other to account.

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.

In search of freedom, Duchess Alexandra, cousin of Empress Sissi, leaves Austria and her violent husband to settle incognito in Paris.

During the Greek summer in the war year of 1944, a German military unit sets up camp on the plateau of Thebes. Armed with a 16 mm camera, the captain of the unit, a former professor for classical Greek philology, comes up with the idea to film the myth of Oedipus.

Contemporary criticism in a Turkish setting.

Marianne, a young Canadian nurse living as an expatriate in Switzerland, is traumatized by a violent incident and becomes lost in the Alps. In time, a Swiss engineer working in the mountains discovers her; he gives her a place to stay and slowly gains her trust as she regains her health. However, he soon discovers she's wanted by the law, and circumstances become difficult for him as he tries to hide her from the authorities.

A couple who appears to have the perfect relationship finds their future in jeopardy following a scorching night of lust and debauchery in this erotic drama adapted from the controversial novel by French author Colette.

A young man travels with his French girlfriend to Ethiopia. Whilst there he discovers a house in which the French poet Rimbaud once lived and he becomes obsessed with finding out more information about him.

Are you happy? You don't have to answer right away. There is an island in the Mediterranean where the question concerning happiness is taken very seriously. A man comes and is drawn into a confusing game. A child an a mysterious woman play an important role in the game. He is mistaken for someone else and gradually sees the possibility of leaving his former life behind and finding happiness on the island. Is this only an illusion which should be rejected?

Pierre is a Montreal photojournalist who returns from Nicaragua to find that his ten-year menage a trois is over. Haunted by his mid-life crisis, he becomes obsessed with trying to find out why his two lovers, Sarah and David, have left him.

An American filmmaker travels to modern day Berlin to make a film based on a real-life incident from 1942 in which 13 Jewish prisoners from a concentration camp were promised freedom if they appeared in a German propaganda film. Unfortunately, the Germans lied. The psychological process undergone by the modern filmmaker while shooting the story provides the basis of this arty and challenging film.

Em plena Segunda Guerra Mundial, na Tunísia, legionários franceses devem transportar barras de ouro para um local seguro. Mas quando eles chegaram, a cidade já havia caído nas mãos dos alemães. Um tiroteio irrompe; quatro homens escapam. Augagneur, um dos sobreviventes, apropria-se dos lingotes e foge...

Francois Korb is an arms manufacturer who sold both to the Germans and the Allied forces. Korb's home life is less than ideal, since his wife is having an affair with his brother, and his young son is inseparable from a teddy bear. To remedy the son's situation, the parents take in a little refugee girl as a temporary companion and playmate, and the two children become fast friends.

Polish director Krzysztof Zanussi once more explores the dilemma of intellectualism at the expense of humanity in 1982's Imperative. The story concerns math professor Robert Powell, who feels that there is something lacking in his ever-so-precise life. What is missing is truth, specifically philosophical truth. Thus he philosophizes at great length, allowing director Zanussi plenty of room for didactic but little room for warmth. Leading ladies Brigette Fossey and Leslie Caron occasionally melt through the cold logic of Imperative.

An abstract look at the changes in a woman's inner self. Married to a down-and-out writer, she is forced into a liaison with a book thief.

Switzerland 1523. The mercenary Hansli Gyr returns with his soldiers from Italy to his home in the Oberland. They have fought for the Pope and now find a religious upheaval in Switzerland.

A young man seeks freedom and eventually gets conformed. To escape society, he wanders south. After some adventures he returns to his lover, where he expects a civil career.

The three daughters of the Dessau merchant Sellmann move with their father to Prague in 1936, where he accepted a position as director of the Böhmische Landesbank. For the three different women begins a new life, which accompanies the film over a period of ten years.

A countess loves her brother's Prussian-officer friend in the 1919 Baltic area.

The 23-year-old Bruno accidentally clashes with society, the judicial and the police. Once he has exceeded the legal limits, he is stuck to the wrong side of the law.