Alexander Beyer

The true story of Franz Streitberger, the director’s great-grandfather, a motorcycle courier for the Austrian Army. At the beginning of the Second World War, this introverted young soldier comes across a wounded fox cub that he looks after and takes to occupied France with him – and through this unique friendship, his own past as an outcast farmers son slowly catches up with him.

Claudia Voss, honorary mayoress, is presented with a fait accompli when her Southern German district decides to build a refugee centre in her town. Some of the population are fuming and resistance grows, but there are equal amounts of willingness to help and empathy. Unexpectedly, the committed wife and mother attracts the attention of right-wing circles and faces attempts to intimidate her. The more Claudia Voss tries to mediate, the stronger the hostility becomes. A gripping contemporary thriller which paints a nuanced picture of the challenges brought by an increasingly polarized political reality. No exception, but instead a widespread, alarming phenomenon in today’s democratic societies.

Dois agentes britânicos criam uma estratégia bizarra para enganar os nazistas e alterar o curso da Segunda Guerra Mundial.

The blind ex-commissioner Alexander Haller will never forget May 12, 2017. It is the day he lost his fiancée Kara and his eyesight in a bomb attack. When a mysterious note appears on a murder victim with exactly this date, his past catches up with him.

Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, um homem judeu evita ser enviado para um campo de concentração alegando ser persa. Quando um oficial militar alemão pede que fale farsi, ele deve fingir falar o idioma para garantir sua sobrevivência.

Four women are fighting for a place in modern media society.

Due to the fall of the Berlin Wall, a double agent is targeted by the American foreign intelligence service CIA.

Rike é uma médica de quarenta anos que vive em função do seu trabalho. Ela aproveita suas férias para finalmente realizar um sonhos antigo: navegar sozinha de Gibraltar, no sul da Espanha, até a Ilha de Ascenção, no equador. No entanto, sua viagem tranquila é interrompida quando, após uma tempestade, ela encontra um navio de refugiados extremamente lotado e danificado em seu caminho.

A plastic surgeon publishes an ad searching for a slave. Even if he meant it in an ironic way and is really looking for a housemaid, a lot of SM-subs are showing up in front of his house the next day...

The good thing about a low point is, you can not fall lower. At least the unemployed Maria Kowalke thinks after her break-up and when the "strange" father re-enters her life. Instead of teaching art education, Maria, who urgently needs work, has to step in as a music teacher in a secondary school. The lack of concentration and insubordination of their 10th graders quickly push them to their limits. It could always be worse! But Maria Kowalke is a teacher who advocates for her students, and her father Max Schellinger a pensioner who is far from the old iron.

Quando a família de Luna é morta a sangue frio nas férias, em uma montanha, ela mal escapa e descobre que está vivendo uma mentira. Seu pai era um agente secreto russo e sua família era apenas uma frente. Luna tem a oportunidade de fugir do país. Mas, primeiro, ela quer vingança.

Hannah and Julian have separated and meet for a last time to empty out their shared apartment. But nothing goes as planned, and their last night together becomes a turbulent roller-coaster ride.

Eleven-year-old outsider Stephan arrives at Castle Schreckenstein, an all-boys boarding school, where he learns about life within a community and soon finds himself being part of a funny 'pranks-competition' the boys are currently fighting against the neighboring girls of Castle Rosenfels. When the girls have no choice but to move to Schreckenstein after a failed prank, life at school is suddenly nothing like it used to be...

Três amigos dividem um apartamento e dedicam grande parte do tempo livre para se divertirem com um time interminável de namoradas. Um dia, um bebê é deixado na porta do apartamento deles, com um bilhete da mãe (Nancy Travis) dizendo não ter condições de cuidar da filha no momento. Acontece que o pai é um ator (Ted Danson) e está atualmente filmando na Turquia. Após o choque inicial os outros dois resolvem cuidar da criança, mas isto afetará a vida dos três muito além do que possam imaginar.

Universes meet: Jule Ronstedt as a woman, who is a mystery of the world of numbers, and Alexander Beyer as astrophysicists collect the stars together from the sky. Thomas Kronthaler provides cinematic proof that there is no contradiction between mathematics and love. Other roles include Friedrich von Thun, Günther Maria Halmer and Suzanne von Borsody.

On vacation at a remote house by the sea a family is faced with a disturbing reality, when lost memories urge to the surface and slowly fades out, what seemed safe once - as well as the past can't be washed away.

Ao fundar o polêmico site WikiLeaks, Julian Assange conta com o apoio do amigo Daniel Domscheit-Berg. O objetivo da página é fornecer uma plataforma para que denunciantes, anonimamente, exponham segredos do governo e crimes corporativos. Com o crescimento do site, a dupla logo passa a dar mais furos noticiosos do que a mídia convencional. O grau de influência de Assange aumenta, e a relação entre os dois amigos acaba bastante abalada.

A young couple moves to a gated community (named Sechzehneichen), where soon the creative wife (a photographer) gets bored and the husband joins a secret mens' club. All the other wives seem strangely conservative and shallow. Basically a thinly veiled take on the Stepford Wives, just without any bit of humor or atmosphere, but instead filled with the sterile, unflinching and dry seriousness that makes watching a lot of our German films such a drag and a miserable experience.

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.

Kleist's death at Wannsee - a spectacular case that has disturbed and fascinated posterity to this day. The German poet is found shot - what does that mean? What exactly happened on the afternoon of November 21, 1811 at Kleiner Wannsee? What do you know about the woman who died with him?

Constança, 1410. Maria, filha do burguês mais rico da cidade, está às vésperas de se casar com um prestigioso advogado, filho de um conde. Embora o compromisso encha de orgulho o pai da menina, ansioso por enobrecer, Marie não está apenas convencida do noivo, que ela só viu duas vezes. Suas suspeitas são confirmadas tragicamente na véspera do casamento quando, após a assinatura do contrato de casamento, um estranho invade a casa garantindo que Marie tenha dormido com outros homens em troca de presentes, como uma vil prostituta. A partir desse momento, a vida da menina dará uma terrível reviravolta inesperada. Sozinha, com sua reputação arruinada, ela não terá escolha para sobreviver a não ser fazer parceria com uma prostituta e ficar nas estradas.

Yael Hersonski's powerful documentary achieves a remarkable feat through its penetrating look at another film-the now-infamous Nazi-produced film about the Warsaw Ghetto. Discovered after the war, the unfinished work, with no soundtrack, quickly became a resource for historians seeking an authentic record, despite its elaborate propagandistic construction. The later discovery of a long-missing reel complicated earlier readings, showing the manipulations of camera crews in these "everyday" scenes. Well-heeled Jews attending elegant dinners and theatricals (while callously stepping over the dead bodies of compatriots) now appeared as unwilling, but complicit, actors, alternately fearful and in denial of their looming fate.

The life of 15 year old Alex is turned upside down, when his parents are divorced and find new partners right away. After a fight at school, the mother takes him over to England, where Alex chaotic life continues.

About sweeping love, rock & roll and getting rid of all that stale air of the fifties. You've got the good guys - that's Lulu and Jimi - and the bad guys: Lulu's mother Gertrud, her secret lover Schultz, the chauffeur, and a wicked old shrink, Von Oppeln, crouching in his gloomy office like a spider waiting to pounce on his prey Lulu. Light and darkness, bright garish colours, hot rock & roll and wild dance numbers mark this road movie about lovers fleeing from the evil powers of a deeply bigoted society. A drama about the relationship between a young black man and a rich German girl.

On a summer evening the circuit of the village policeman Krause suddenly went crazy. His doctor immediately prescribed a cure on the Baltic Sea for him. And so Krause and his sisters set off in the legendary "Dübener Ei". In the sanatorium he meets his roommate Rudi - an encounter with far-reaching consequences.

Kate Davis (Mira Sorvino), uma jovem jornalista inglesa, é enviada a trabalho para Leningrado. A Segunda Guerra Mundial está no seu auge, os nazistas já dominam metade da Europa e parte de Rússia, mas falham em Leningrado. Ao perceber que não conseguiria tomar a cidade à força, Hitler monta uma estratégia extremamente desumana. Cerca Leningrado, bloqueando o acesso de mantimentos, com o objetivo de matar de fome mais de três milhões de pessoas. Em meio a este cerco do horror, Kate e a população local, precisam tentar de todas as maneiras sobreviver e não sucumbir à fome e ao domínio do nazismo, na batalha mais cruel da Segunda Guerra Mundial.

Adaptação do romance de James McBride, ambientado durante a Segunda Guerra, que conta a história de quatro soldados americanos que fazem parte da 92º Divisão Buffalo Soldier - formada apenas por negros. Baseados na Toscana, Itália, em 1944, esses quatro homens caem numa armadilha preparada pelos nazistas. E acabam se separando quando um deles decide arriscar sua própria vida para salvar um garotinho italiano.

O governo israelense envia uma missão secreta de retaliação para matar onze pessoas ao redor do mundo depois que terroristas palestinos assassinam onze atletas israelenses nas Olimpíadas de Munique em 1972.

Martin is the ambitious one in the family. He is poised to start on his doctorate, when he is diagnosed with testicular cancer and all his future plans begin to unravel. The removal of one testicle reduces the most immediate threat, but the cancer has already spread and Martin's doctor argues for an operation that would save him, but could also castrate him.

Lene Thurner is standing on a train platform in Munich. She has to decide: back to Berlin where she lives, or toward the south, where at the foot of the Alps her family lives on the lonely farm “Hierankl”.

A great mosaic, a labyrinth of scenes, dialogue splinters, interviews, portraits of people surrounding Hamlet and wanting to be part of his story.

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...

A mãe de Alexander, fiel devota do socialismo na antiga Alemanha Oriental, tem um ataque cardíaco ao ver o filho em uma passeata contra o sistema vigente. Quando ela acorda do coma, após a queda do muro de Berlim, o médico aconselha a Alexander que ela evite emoções fortes, pois outro ataque tão cedo seria fatal. Com o peso na consciência pelo estado atual de sua mãe, Alex faz de tudo para que ela continue vivendo em uma ilusória Alemanha socialista, mudando embalagens de produtos industrializados e até mesmo inventando documentários televisivos para preencher as brechas do dia-a-dia do recente capitalismo no país.

Gregor, a young man, lives with and cares for his elderly grandmother. He's also a bit of an inventor. One day, when her wheelchair accidentally rolls down a hill and throws her into a pond, he gets an idea for an invention: A harness system that will let his grandmother walk again by supporting her weight. Meanwhile, her friends from the nursing home are trying to convince her to leave Gregor and live with them.

A comedy directed by Andreas Prochaska. Barbara Valentin's last movie.

Rita Vogt is a radical West German terrorist who abandons the revolution and settles in East Germany with a new identity provided by the East German secret service. She lives in constant fear of having her cover blown, which unavoidably happens after the German re-unification.

A group of kids grow up on the short, wrong (east) side of the Sonnenallee in Berlin, right next to one of the few border crossings between East and West reserved for German citizens. The antics of these kids, their families, of the "West German" friends and relatives who come to visit, and of the East German border guards, all serve to illustrate the absurdity of everyday life on the Sonnenallee, and therefore throughout the former East Germany.

Two German tourists meet a lady while waiting speedboat.

The actors Martin and Maria have not been a couple for a long time, but they didn't get very far without each other. While he spends his time with alcohol, numerous affairs and reveries about his own film, she is bored with her young lover. When Maria surprisingly finds the loot of a bank robbery in the trash, she takes the opportunity to get rid of her lover, only to run into her ex-husband shortly afterwards. The old passion flares up again and Martin suddenly sees the chance to finally realize his long-held script.

Gabriel is running from his family. His dream of a life in freedom shatters when his hands resolve to leave him.