Jochen Nickel

1975, Rosenkreuz Manor. Sigrun starts a new position with the eccentric Baroness Heidenreich. A shared longing binds the two women together: the old lady’s memory contains the secret to Sigrun's true identity; the nurse’s life force holds the key to the future for the Baroness. On the path to self-discovery, Sigrun is confronted with the sinister world of "völkisch" occultism, opening an unearthly abyss in which every moral and principle is tested.

A German communist wrongly accused and sent to a labour camp has to keep her past life hidden for the sake of her and her family’s freedom.

At the end of World War II, Red Army soldiers bent on brutal revenge for past atrocities attack a German city. Compassion comes from an unlikely source. Based on a true story.

Four teenage friends - Frank, Spüli, Mücke, and Pommes - try to have their first contact with the opposite gender. Not so easy in the Ruhr region of the 80s. Attempts at dancing and being in a band go wrong, and their parents and teachers can't help with that, so the four teens need to get creative.

After her fiancee cancels the wedding, Merlin's life changes drastically when she moves in with one of her brother's best friends.

Once Upon a Time there lived a brave man, Michael, who was unaware what fear is. At the same time, Princess Elisabeth lived with her father, the king, in a makeshift tent city, because their castle was uninhabitable and haunted by ghosts, its treasure cursed. If he wants to know how to shudder, he should visit this Haunted Castle.

Two couples and two singles are confused by their enotions to each other.

Vera von Schalburg é uma jovem alemã de ascendência russa, dinamarquesa e polonesa que vive em Paris em 1938, é fluente em vários idiomas, tem memória fotográfica e é extremamente inteligente. Mas, para sustentar seu filho, ela é obrigada a se prostituir... até o dia que recebe uma oferta incomum.

Marco and Lisa are in love. Online, they fight together against dreadful monsters. Sometimes they die on their mission, but there’s always one life to spare. Yet, Lisa refuses to meet Marco for real. One day she stops showing up for the game, Marco decides to go searching for her.

Kissing before Customers, that's Gretchen and Sarah's motto. And both are flirting with the enenmy. Literally. Clemens, who with his business partner is after the same assignment as them, is the center of their attention. When it comes to his intentions, though...

Werner and Holgi are friends, but also lifelong rivals. Now Werner finally has enough of being the eternal second and is planning his revenge. With his special motorcycle, the 'Red Porsche Killer', he challenges Holgi and his car.

David and Philip are distinctive in the work's couriers World Express. Every day, roam the world completing tasks assigned to them by the mysterious head of Anson. Do not give up any adversity and provide dangerous consignment on time. Their current mission is to deliver to Mexico a ransom for the kidnapped girl. In the meantime, it appears that the girl's mother, Corrina, was once associated with David. Just before the start of the task Philip is murdered, and the ransom stolen. To save the girl, David needs to work with Corrina. It begins a dangerous journey through the dense jungle to the mysterious Mayan city.

Uma jovem é mordida por uma mulher misteriosa e torna-se a quarta integrante de um grupo de vampiras movidas a sangue, sedução, glamour e muita diversão pelas noites de Berlim.

On the escape of the violent Poles 1946, the child of Rosemarie get lost. And Rosemaries tries to find her daughter.

When Germany is hit by a drought, the Ruhr area is threatened with the collapse of drinking water. Meteorologist Martina Fechner is appointed head of the crisis team, but has to recognize that her colleagues see the crisis as an opportunity for their own career. When even highly toxic germs are discovered in a reservoir, the region is also threatened by a plague.

The attractive Moni works as a photo reporter at the local newspaper of her small hometown Lüsgraf. One day, when the bricks-and-mortar shakers, makers of electric shavers and the village's biggest employer, face bankruptcy, the male workforce occupies the factory to prevent them from selling to a dubious investor. In the meantime, Moni and her friends have come up with a different plan to save the company: Instead of making old-fashioned razors, the squatters should rather switch to the production of modern massage sticks! Now the ladies have to make their plan only the Lüsgrafer men tasty ...

The end of the 14th century. Parents send the eldest son Jan to study in Hamburg, and the youngest - Klaus - to the monastery. No sooner had the children moved away from their homes, as on Klaus'es eyes the robbers kill their parents and burn the house. Only thanks to the loyal monk Wigbold Klaus managed to survive the shock. A few years later Klaus Störtebeker finds his brother Jan and his long-time friend Elizabeth Pren in Hamburg. From her, he learns that she is expected to marry Simon von Wallenrod, whose father Klaus suspects of killing his parents. But the Pranks and the Wallenrods are rich and respected people, and Klaus is a poor man. And now he becomes a pirate...

Felix perdeu-se da sua amiga Sofia a acaba por dar a volta ao mundo na tentativa de procurar o caminho de volta a casa. Nessa viagem feliz encontra-se com muitos personagens criados pelos livros de histórias infantis.

Annika's life and experiences as a young woman include peculiar sex, an unfortunately cold best friend, a terrible tutor/boyfriend, and a sensible and beautiful boyfriend (Kai). Her family life and lie collide in such a way that it is impossible for her to tell the truth even when she desperately wants to.

Colônia no final da Segunda Guerra Mundial. A cidade está em ruínas, todo mundo está com medo, muitos estão mortos. É uma época de grande desumanidade. Os jovens piratas Edelweiss de Colônia se recusam a se submeter à pressão do regime nazista. Eles lutam com a Juventude Hitlerista e rabiscam propaganda anti-guerra nas paredes. Karl é um pirata Edelweiss; seu irmão mais novo, Peter, está no movimento da Juventude Hitlerista. Os dois jovens ficaram sozinhos desde a morte da mãe em um bombardeio; seu pai está servindo na frente, e seu irmão mais velho, Otto, foi morto em ação. O financée de Otto, Cilly, está fazendo o melhor para sobreviver à guerra com seus filhos. Carl está tentando ajudá-la.

Alec Mccall é contratado da Zit Tecnologia para treinar um chimpanzé chamado Clement. Ao suspeitar que os planos de Zit para Clarence não eram nada nobres, McCall foge com o macaco. Durante a fuga, conhecem e são acolhidos pelo pequeno Michael. Treinado em artes marciais, o macaco logo se entrosa com o garoto e é descoberto e perseguido por capangas da Zit.

Robert, a recently widowed engineer from Cologne, decides to change his life. He invests all he has in a new business in Southeast Germany - a network of coin operated telescopes, hoping to profit from the breathtaking vistas of the Saxon "Switzerland" area of the East. Once in that region, Robert meets Christiane, who uncanningly resembles his deceased wife. Christiane is also at a crossroads. She has a secret plan to recover something of great value lost after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

In 1933 Nuremberg, successful Jewish businessman Leo Katzenberger owns an apartment building and runs a shoe store. A devoted family man, he has a good relationship with his loving wife Claire. As the climate in Germany grows increasingly dangerous, bombshell Irene moves to the neighborhood. After forming an unlikely friendship, his relationship with Irene is immediately regarded with suspicion.

Marko Stemper, 19 years old, comes from a disadvantaged background and works as a window cleaner. His father, an alcoholic, tyrannizes the whole family, so Marko's only joy in life is boxing. As he is the most promising talent in his club, Gerd Hermsbach, a local demimonde boss, offers him the opportunity to become a professional. Marko accepts, but has to pay a high price...

After the tragic accidental death of her sister, which she has not seen since a dispute 18 years ago, the architect Sarah suffers from guilt feelings: She believes she could have saved Susanne with a liver donation. To at least do something for Susanne's husband Max and the three children, Sarah drives to the family's farm in the Vogelsberg. And has to cope with a tragedy whose cause lies in her old love for Max. Sonja Kirchberger and Jochen Nickel play the lead roles in the quietly told, melancholy TV drama about the destructive dynamics of family relationships.

Produced and directed by seven Munich Film School students, Honolulu takes place not in Hawaii, but inside of a rural town just outside of Munich, Germany. Several vignettes, lasting approximately 10 to 15 minutes each, are connected by one of the town’s public bus routes, outside of which two men booze the night away while waiting for the bus to make its rounds.

A young couple's plan to rob a gasstation fails miserably when all of a sudden the man's former teacher, the UEFA-Cup final and a Julio Iglesias concert help them to perform the perfect robbery.

Griffin Michael is the only survivor of a top-secret C.I.A. program that raised five people to become superweapons—human killing machines. Griffin has been trained to use his mind as a weapon: with a small brain impulse he can move objects hundreds of times his own weight, and can kill with a single thought. Now he is about to be released from the remote secret facility where he has been raised, and unleashed on an unsuspecting world...

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

A short thriller comedy directed by Annette Ernst.

Bleibtreu atua como Daniel, um professor novo e tímido de Hamburgo que decide seguir o que acha ser o seu destino. A aventura começa quando Daniel conhece Juli, uma vendedora de rua que garante estar vendendo para ele um anel que o levará a um verdadeiro amor. Só que Daniel não imagina que o caminho seria cheio de acontecimentos.

Due to a delayed flight a group of German flight passengers have to wait in the hall of the airport of Manila. The crowd is quite mixed, ranging from an cultivated east German teacher couple up to sleazy sex tourists. As the waiting prolongs, more and more aggressions and long repressed behaviors shed their way to the surface.

A new case for the energetic criminal investigation officer Beate Stein: The half-undressed corpse of a subway driver is found in a subway tunnel. It soon seems as if the perpetrator has been found in a convicted female murderer. But after his death, the murders continue ...

Josh Angel é dono de uma academia de artes marciais na cidade de Berlim. Apesar de trabalhar diariamente com golpes e pancadas, sua vida é calma e tranqüila, pois ele prefere se concentrar no lado pacífico e poético das filosofias orientais que formam a base das lutas. Por isso, ele é uma espécie de “guru” das crianças da cidade. Porém, tudo muda na vida de Josh quando sua amiga Lisa é feita refém durante uma ação criminosa. As negociações entre os bandidos e a polícia se tornam mais tensas a cada momento. A Comissária Jackie Winter e seu parceiro Mehmet Schulz, da divisão anticrime da policia, não têm outra opção e pedem a ajuda de Josh, também conhecido como O Puma. É nesta situação extrema, perturbado pela tensão de ver sua amiga a um passo da morte, que Josh será obrigado a usar todo o seu conhecimento e técnicas para tentar salvar a vida de Lisa.

The Hamburg friends Walter, Ricco and Floyd take each day as it comes between the estates of tower blocks and fast food restaurants. All three are in their early twenties and are dreaming of another life when Floyd suddenly takes a job on a freighter going to Singapore…

Bank robber Kalle Grabowski escapes from prison while his unemployed smalltime crook buddy is sitting around doing nothing after he just lost all their money. A fast paced comedy from German director Peter Thorwarth.

Hannes is a beer truck driver in Dortmund. His biggest dream is to win the first prize at the International Timetable Contest in Inari (Finland). When his new boss cancels his extra holidays to go there, Hans goes mad… On his journey to Finland by train, followed by the police, he meets lot of folks and the love of his life.

Berlim, 1927. Seis jovens ambiciosos unem suas forças para buscar uma visão criativa única. Com disciplina e trabalho duro, eles logo dominam um repertório que foca a música "A Cappella" com letras que vão desde o sentimental até o absolutamente tolo. Seu sucesso na Alemanha é ecoado por triunfos no exterior e gravações vendidas em todo o mundo. E suas vidas se transformam em uma grande festa, com todas as mulheres, carros e luxo que eles querem. Mas enquanto eles ignoram a política, a política não os ignora. Três dos seis Harmonists são judeus, e, portanto, inaceitáveis para os nazistas, que os forçam a dissolver o grupo. O que começou como uma das histórias de sucesso mais encantadoras dos "loucos anos vinte" é destruído por uma ideologia intolerante. Os nazistas põem fim aos cômicos Harmonists, mas não consegue silenciar suas vozes.

Marco locks himself away in his studio to paint a new painting. The canvas, however, remains white for lack of inspiration. In order to divert himself, he decides to clean the studio and suddenly finds a bottle of Mescal.

After the corpse of the programmer Klaus Pape was found neatly dismantled in a freezer, Commissioner Beate Stein starts the research that will lead her to both the red-light district and the better society of Hamburg.

Ein Pizzabäcker gibt seinem lustlosen Fahrer den Auftrag Pizzen auszuliefern. Die Bestellung haben zwei Polizisten aufgegeben, die ein Objekt überwachen. Sie planen den großen Coup, indem sie selbst das Geld der observierten Gangster nehmen und sich absetzen. Die Gangster selbst erwarten einen Drogendeal. Als der allerdings schief geht und die Polizisten auch hilflos dazwischen funken, sieht der Pizzabote seine Chance und verschwindet mit dem Geld.

After a successful bank robbery, Erik and Bingo have to part again. While Erik is stuck in a demolition house with his booty and broken foot, Bingo believes Erik has settled with the money. The accomplices become bitter rivals.

In the beginning of the 19th century, Johannes Elias Alder is born in a small village in the Austrian mountains. While growing up he is considered strange by the other villagers and discovers his love of music, especially rebuilding and playing the organ at the village church. After experiencing an "acoustic wonder", his eye color changes and he can hear even the most subtle sounds.

A comedy directed by Rainer Kaufmann.

O alemão Oskar Schindler viu na mão de obra judia uma solução barata e viável para lucrar com negócios durante a guerra. Com sua forte influência dentro do partido nazista, foi fácil conseguir as autorizações e abrir uma fábrica. O que poderia parecer uma atitude de um homem não muito bondoso, transformou-se em um dos maiores casos de amor à vida da História, pois este alemão abdicou de toda sua fortuna para salvar a vida de mais de mil judeus em plena luta contra o extermínio alemão.

One man's quest for revenge in a post-apocalyptic world

An original satire about women of the 90s in search of the men of their dreams. Franzy believes she's through with men, but desperately needs new amorous story lines for the comic strip she writes for a newspaper. So she observes her friend Maischa struggling to satisfy her need for love -- and someone who knows how to install her new shelf. Since joiner Klaus demands too much attention, she sets her eyes on the good-looking footballer Rene.

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.

Kemal Kayankaya, a private detective, was hired by a Turkish women, Ilter, to search for his husband, Amend, who has been missing since the death of her father, Vassif. Unknownst to him, he was about to unravel the secrets of his client's family, as well as their various dealings with the underworld and the police. Moreover, being a Turk raised in a German foster family, he has also begun to understand and accept his own ethnicity.

A comedy directed by Claus-Michael Rohne.

Jojo was counting on his inheritance from a rich uncle to pay off his gambling debts, but the old man played a dirty trick on him, giving him custody of an oversized dog, and leaving the real cash in the hands of one of his neices. His comfortable fantasy of future solvency has been sorely tried; to restore it, he begins to try wooing his cousin Kathrin (the woman with the loot). However, as things progress, he finds himself actually falling for her, which is perhaps the only really decent thing that he's done in his adult life. When he and a gambling buddy take Kathrin on a jaunt to the south of France, things get pretty dicey when a corrupt cop comes onto the scene. In this romantic thriller, only one will survive.

No futuro, as multinacionais controlam as últimas fontes de combustível. Uma delas envia seu melhor investigador à Estação 44, para descobrir quem é o responsável pela sabotagem que está diminuindo a produtividade e pondo em risco as vidas dos funcionários.