Horst Janson

The McKenzie Break

A German U-Boat commander plans a daring escape from a PoW camp in Scotland.

Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter

When several young girls are found dead, left hideously aged and void of blood, Dr. Marcus suspects vampirism. He enlists the help of the Vampire Hunter. Mysterious and powerful, Kronos has dedicated his life to destroying the evil pestilence. Once a victim of its diabolical depravity, he knows the vampire's strengths and weaknesses as well as the extreme dangers attached to confronting the potent forces of darkness.

The Privilege

A wealthy teen and his friends attending an elite private school uncover a dark conspiracy while looking into a series of strange supernatural events.

The Twins from Immenhof

Alexander Arkens lives a happy life as the tenant of the Immenhof. His twin daughters Billy and Bobby also feel good. Then Alexander receives the message that the owner of the farm wants to increase the rent. A little later, Dalli, the farm owner, visits the estate of her youth. There is a huge spark between her and Alexander.

Frühling auf Immenhof

There is a lot of sunshine on the traditional Immenhof: owner Dalli and tenant Alexander Arkens want to give the javascript soon. Even Alexander's twin daughters Billy and Bobby and grandma Arkens have the sympathetic Dalli closed in her heart. But while the witty twins enjoy country life, the Immenhof is once again in financial trouble. A loan, which is due to be repaid, is a big concern for Dalli and Alexander. While Dalli wants to ask for help at her former job, Alexander wants to come to money on his own. This is the big noise preprogrammed.

Der Kapitän

Captain Ebbs is an older, experienced seaman who has, however, only sailed on freighters. While his current old barge, the Martin Luther, has to go into the shipyard for an overhaul, the shipping company gives him command of the elegant cruise ship Julia to temporarily replace a colleague who has fallen ill. The rough Ebbs finds his way into his new job only with difficulty and initially puts his foot in his social mouth.

Flaschendrehen

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...

Battle of the Godfathers

Hamburg business man Otto Westermann is also the boss of organized crime in the city. His reign as godfather is in danger, though, as an ambitious Sicilian mafioso enters the fray. His goal is clear and simple: he wants to take over Hamburg. But Westermann isn't as easy to defeat as the Sicilian expects. And soon Hamburg is on the verge of a bloody mob war.

Don't Turn the Other Cheek

A spaghetti western in which three adventurers team up during the Mexican Revolution. Mary O'Donnell, a radical Irish journalist, wants to foment a peasant revolt in Mexico. She enlists the help of a seedy bandit, Lozoya, by saving him from a death sentence in Utah. They meet a man calling himself Prince Dmitri Vassilovich Orlowsky, who claims to be a Russian prince, not to mention a man of the cloth. Wallach pretends to be a Mexican folk hero. The trio crosses the border, the two men seeking a cache of gold while O'Donnell pursues her revolution.

Hijacked to Hell

Released directly to video, this action film features John Phillip Law as Ted Barner, a low-level employee of a corporation in Indonesia who is charged with testing a new laser weapon. Accompanied by an engineer who works for the corporation and a friend, Barner heads out to the test site with the laser in tow. Before the three can get very far, they must outrun an evil Texas industrialist who intends to grab the laser for himself. They are joined by a female reporter and end up at the site of the test, where their problems are just beginning.

Brasilianische Protokolle 2

Documentary film about a slum community on the outskirts of Recife, a major city in northeastern Brazil. A portrait of life in extreme poverty and lawlessness: men without work, hopeless women, hungry and sick children.

Das Riesenrad

The story of a marriage over time, based on a play by Jan de Hartog. Maria Schell and O. W. Fischer play an aristocratic Austrian couple who meet during the imperial era and experience the first five decades of the 20th century together: temptations and transgressions, world wars, economic crisis, the death of their son in the war. They experience good times and bad times and always remain cheerful, just as the Ferris wheel in Vienna's Prater continues to turn.

Crazy - Total verrückt

A comedy directed by Franz Josef Gottlieb

To Catch a King

Robert Wagner plays an American who owns a Lisbon nightclub and Teri Garr is a slightly dippy chanteuse who has stumbled across a Nazi plot to kidnap the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, living at the time (1942) in Portugal.

Böseckendorf - Die Nacht, in der ein Dorf verschwand

Autumn 1961: The GDR regime secures the border between the workers' and peasants' state and the class enemy in the West. To ensure this, the leadership also orders the use of firearms against those fleeing the republic. In Böseckendorf, close to the border, people are not prepared to accept this development. When one of the residents accidentally learns of a secret plan from the SED district leadership, which reveals that all unruly residents are to be forcibly relocated in just a few days, the people of Böseckendorf spontaneously decide to flee en masse. But can an entire village escape the GDR state power unnoticed overnight?

Buddenbrooks - 1. Teil

First part of two of the saga of the troubled Buddenbrook family and their business in mid 19th century Germany.

That Guy Loves Me, Am I Supposed to Believe That?

A woman moves back and forth between two men and two cities.

Fliegen lernen

Apothecary Eva had after the painful separation of her husband Christian life and emotions rearranged. A new relationship is out of the question for the 42-year-old, she just wants to be there for her two almost grown-up sons and one day to take over the pharmacy of her still-mother-in-law. Out of the blue, however, the more than ten years younger doctor Hendrik burst into her life and makes no secret that he has fallen in love with her. Eva suddenly struggles with feelings she never wanted to allow.

Schlaflos

After 12 years in prison, Carla Sagmeister is finally released. Due to an erroneous expert opinion by forensic scientist Dr. Borchert, she was innocently convicted of the manslaughter of her lover. Back in freedom, she wants to force Dr. Borchert to reopen her case in order to prove her innocence. The scientist himself begins to have doubts. Meanwhile, Carla takes a journey into her past and reconnects with her family for the first time.

Das Nürnberger Bett

A successful writer of crime stories, is missing and searching a special, antique bed which used to be his source of inspiration.

A Glass of Water

Intrigue and scheming at the court of Queen Anne of England between liberal Lord Bolingbroke and Lady Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough. German comedy after the play of Eugène Scribe.

Deadly Jaws

Two divers find a treasure map, which apparently points to a sunken treasure below the ocean. They hire a professional to help them get the gold but this guy turns out to have a few secrets of his own.

Escape from East Berlin

East Berlin, shortly after the construction of the Berlin Wall. Kurt Schröder and his family dig a tunnel to escape to West Berlin as they struggle to overcome the obstacles blocking their underground path to freedom.

Shout at the Devil

During World War One an English adventurer, an American elephant poacher and the latter's attractive young daughter, set out to destroy a German battle-cruiser which is awaiting repairs in an inlet just off Zanzibar. The story is based on a novel by Wilbur Smith, which in turn is very loosely based on events involving the light cruiser SMS Königsberg, which was sunk after taking refuge in Rufigi delta in 1915.

The Cry of the Wild Geese

Gare uses the knowledge that his wife Amelia was imprisoned and had an illegitimate son to make her his subject. When her son Marc Jordan appears and falls in love with her daughter Judith, Amelia is forced to tell the truth. Gare then tyrannizes Judith. She tries to escape, but a fatal accident occurs first.

Murphy's War

Murphy is the sole survivor of his crew, that has been massacred by a German U-Boat in the closing days of World War II. He is rescued, and ends up at a forgotten mission station near the mouth of the Orinoco, and begins to plot his vengeance. He wishes to sink the U-Boat by means of any method imaginable to him, and sets about to make the courageous attempt, assisted by Louis, the administrator of the local oil company.

The Devil May Well Laugh

Three bums get played by the devil.

Les mystères de Sadjurah

A cabaret singer is dragged into a crazy adventure after being mistaken for an archaeologist who is her look-alike.

Das Mädchen und der Staatsanwalt

A mother is sentenced to one year in prison for matchmaking her underage daughter with her adult boyfriend.

Tierärztin Christine II: Die Versuchung

A vet has successfully taken over her father's practice. Now the already smouldering marital crisis comes to a head when anonymous letters accuse her husband of having an affair. Meanwhile, the doctor is being courted by the local mayor.

Tierärztin Christine

When her father suffers a heart attack, Christine, a qualified vet, travels with her two children from Munich to Carinthia to take over his veterinary practice while he recovers. However, this puts her marriage to architect Thomas, which is already in crisis, to the test. While the jealous Thomas is on a business trip to Salzburg, the attractive Christine is being courted in Carinthia by the charming farmer Georg Reiser.

The Sword and the Balance

Three young men are suspected of kidnapping and murdering a little boy. Most likely, two of them are really involved, but one is not. All of their pasts are questionable, riddled with violence and controversy. Neither the police nor the court can decide how to solve that puzzle.

The Broken Crown

A crime drama directed by Ruben Maria Soriquez.

Liebe, Tod & viele Kalorien

Paula, the wife of a busy estate agent, wants to help her sister's orphaned daughter Maggie restructure a debt-ridden inn after the unexpected death of her sister. In doing so, she gets in the way of her own husband, who wants to sell the property behind her back to a group of investors together with his young mistress.

Vukovar: The Way Home

The story follows a group of Croatian refugees who have been forced to leave their hometown of Vukovar by Serbian forces during Croatia's struggle for independence. The people are settled at a railway station in a village near Vukovar, where they live in a train which is adapted to serve as a temporary accommodation.The situation grows dim as the date of their return proves to be uncertain, and the lives of the survivors and refugees becomes more and more complicated being burdened by PTSD and strong feelings of hope to return to their homestead.

Rosamunde Pilcher: Stürmische Begegnung

The young bookseller Rebecca Bayliss was setting up her new apartment in London when she received news of her mother Lisa's serious illness. Rebecca rushed off to her mother in Ibiza and heard the terrible news: leukemia. During the last hours together, Lisa Bayliss tells her daughter the truth about her origins.

Da wo es noch Treue gibt

Christl and Hansi Sandgruber return from their vacation in Australia. A lot of work awaits them, as the wildlife park's 30th anniversary is coming up. Hansi's arch-enemy Viktoria Perterer is going through less rosy times, having gone bankrupt overnight after reckless stock market speculation. Unexpectedly, a rumor surfaces that old Sandgruber may be responsible for the unexplained death of Viktoria's beloved father, who died in a mountain accident. Hansi is outraged by this suspicion of his father, but there seems to be evidence to support it.

The Best of Enemies

In Occupied France, a cultured civilised German ofi ccer is billeted out and stirs up conflicting emotions in the household.

The Sword and the Balance

Three young men are suspected of kidnapping and murdering a little boy. Most likely, two of them are really involved, but one is not. All of their pasts are questionable, riddled with violence and controversy. Neither the police nor the court can decide how to solve that puzzle.

Breakthrough

Starting in late May 1944, during the German retreat on the Eastern Front, Captain Stransky (Helmut Griem) orders Sergeant Steiner (Richard Burton) to blow up a railway tunnel to prevent Russian forces from using it. Steiner's platoon fails in its mission by coming up against a Russian tank. Steiner then takes a furlough to Paris just as the Allies launch their invasion of Normandy.

A Woman Needs Loving

All could have gone smoothly if George, the man Jane, a beautiful library assistant, met in a park, had not been bitten by a dog. But the sight of blood spilling from the body of a man who attracts plunges the young woman into the vortex of a neurosis upsetting her sex life, leading her to a short encounter with lesbian love.

You Can't Win 'Em All

During the 1922 Turkish Civil War, two Americans and a group of foreign mercenaries offer their services to a local Turkish governor who hires them as guards for a secret transport.

Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions

The greatness, fall and renaissance of Hammer, the flagship company of British popular cinema, mainly from 1955 to 1968. Tortured women and sadistic monsters populated oppressive scenarios in provocative productions that shocked censorship and disgusted critics but fascinated the public. Movies in which horror was shown in offensive colors: dreadful stories, told without prejudices, that offered fear, blood, sex and stunning performances.

Der Spielverderber - Das kurze, verstörte Leben des Kaspar Hauser

In 1828 a man called Kaspar Hauser appears in Nuremberg, barely able to speak and walk. He is admitted to the house of a professor, who among other things explores Kaspar's unusual characteristics and deals with his education.

Life Is Tough, Eh Providence?

An eccentric bounty hunter named Providence captures and sets free a criminal in order to collect the same bounty over and over again in different states, until they discover that a local sheriff is up to something crooked.

The Last Days of Patton

Gen. George S. Patton now works a desk job for the U.S. military after World War II. In the midst of dealing with the difficulty of adapting to his dramatic change of lifestyle, Patton is involved in an auto wreck that leaves him in critical condition. While his body fails him, Patton introspectively reminisces about his relationship with his spouse, Beatrice; his childhood; and his days on the WWI battlefields.

Lilos Lachen - Das erstaunliche Leben der Liselotte Pulver

A documentary on the occasion of Liselotte Pulver's 90th birthday.

The Purloined Letter

Part of a 6-film collection called “Grands Détectives” about famous fictional private detectives.

The Dirty Game

A U.S. intelligence general recalls three Cold War cases of Soviet, French and Italian spies.