Two young men, Martin and Rudi, both suffering from terminal cancer, get to know each other in a hospital room. They drown their desperation in tequila and decide to take one last trip to the sea. Drunk and still in pajamas they steal the first fancy car they find, a 60's Mercedes convertible. The car happens to belong to a bunch of gangsters, which immediately start to chase it, since it contains more than the pistol Martin finds in the glove box.
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.
Gabriel, Bobby and Costa are old friends from Altona, a multicultural hood in Hamburg. Just out of prison, Gabriel wants to turn his back on crime, but the others continue to operate as petty criminals. Friendships are tested as the trio navigate a dark world of mafia bosses and deals gone wrong.
The Orient Express, on its night trip from Munich to Venice, is full because of the beginning of the carnival in Venice. Between the passengers are a young writer, an actress, and her daughter, an elderly dancer, five neo-nazi punks, and a strange man that seems to have some kind of influence over them through their dreams.
Focuses on three very different siblings, all searching for happiness. Hans-Jörg is a sex addicted librarian, who is interested in young students. Werner is a successful politician with a dysfunctional family. Agnes, a trans woman, works as a table dancer in a night club. The three brothers just have one thing in common: their longing for a happy life.
Frank and Katrin return to Frankfurt to stop the scientist responsible for unleashing the plague of genetically mutated vermin upon the city.
Former boxing world champion Kai Burdenski is up to his ears in debt and can neither pay rent nor electricity for his boxing school. This is tragic not least because he trains teenagers from youth welfare, for whom his run-down hall has become a home. In particular, the young, talented asylum seeker Samy, who lost her entire family while fleeing Afghanistan, has taken Burdenski under his wing. It doesn't take long for bailiff Billy Kuckuck to understand that the former boxing professional is more than just a coach for Samy and the other young people, namely also a social worker and surrogate father. Therefore, Billy looks for ways and means to help the boxing legend, and turns to his daughter Jessica. But she only saw her father from his worst sides during his sports career and doesn't want to hear anything from him anymore. Burdenski's stubbornness and pride are not helpful here either.
Anna is a primary school teacher and a nervous wreck. The pupils do whatever they want to her. Thilo is an actor - but mainly on his business card. To earn money, he sells wine in a call center, or rather, he tries to. One day, mutual friends Valerie and Moritz play fate and bring the two together. But this also goes wrong: Anna has a minor nervous breakdown and Thilo - falls in love! Head over heels! But first they have to solve their own problems, face up to their reality and admit that they need to change something in their lives. And gradually Anna and Thilo find their way back to themselves and to each other, because life writes the most beautiful stories with love and music...
When a young musician and his wife become witness of a bank robbery they get in the midst of a political conspiracy with the risk of losing their lives.
A municipal worker's strike combined with Frankfurt's hottest summer in 150 years brings infected rats out onto the streets.
Silvia, a successful architect and single mother of nine-year-old Marc, is about to marry her colleague Rolf. Just now, after years of silence, Marc's father Ricardo, a rich South American entrepreneur's son, shows up.
The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.
A man travels to Berlin because his ex girlfriend is in a coma. He takes their son, Manuel. The father goes to the clinic often and Manuel feels out of place, so he prefers to ride his skateboard through the city in winter. The speechless and motionless body of the woman disturbs father and son, each one in his own way. The son faces the libidinous turbulences of becoming an adult, while the father suffers the physical discomforts of his age. A confrontation of different body images within an environment of emotional distance and the coldness of the city.
Sensuous Eva keeps quite a few of the villagers on the go and likes to stir up trouble. But what else can she do in such a sleepy village where even her best friend Katharina no longer has any time for her. When Eva is found dead, the whole village is in turmoil. The presumed killer is quickly arrested: Clemens, the sexton of the local community and a peeping-tom. Katharina becomes more and more suspicious when she finds one of Eva's earrings in the church. Does Christoph - her father - have something to do with the murder of her friend?
Nils Lovelorn, blessed with a present ego and a "second self" in the form of a well-rounded super blonde called Bebe, is sent back in time by time machine. There he is to blow out the lights of a pharaoh who, 3000 years later, threatens the world with destruction as a demon. Unfortunately, his feminine second half occasionally gains the upper hand and, to make matters worse, falls in love with the blood-sucking, evil pharaoh.
Paul receives a letter from one who claims to be his real father, proposing a last meeting before dying. He will travel to Australia and there he meets a woman that will be attracted.
LKA officer Robert can barely do his job because of his phobia of crime scenes. The shy man's big dream is to retrain as a "profiler", but his superior would have to agree first. Hairdresser Rita dreams of a life as a writer, but no one is interested in her stories. When the two meet, it's love at first sight. And when Rita's daughter becomes involved in a murder case, the timid Robert rises above himself.
Eddi is just back in town after his imprisonment. He plans to free his African jail comrade Timpe, because the latter will get no asylum in Germany and probably be killed when sent to his country. When freeing Timpe at the airport, Eddi and his comrades find out that the police officers are smuggling drugs when escorting those who get no asylum back to their countries. Eddi decides to take advantage of the situation.
Marine Ringo deserts in Hamburg when he finds his girlfriend with rival Eggers. Squatting with friend Yusuf, he uncovers Eggers’s shady land deals.
A short by Klaus-Gregor Eichhorn.
The story of hotel manager Michael Hagen, who finally wants to catch up on his long-promised honeymoon with his wife Rebecca. But Michael's boss has other plans: Michael is to take over the luxurious but increasingly run-down hotel "El Sol" in Mallorca and find out why the already few guests are increasingly leaving head over heels. To avoid disappointing his wife and losing his job, Michael keeps his assignment secret and flies to the Balearic island with Rebecca in the hope of making their dream vacation together possible after all.
The state of North Rhine-Westphalia has purchased a CD containing files from a Swiss bank. It contains files on more than 800 tax evaders. However, there is not enough tax investigation staff to process all the cases before the statute of limitations expires. The successful tax investigator Karola Kahane decides to pick out a particularly prominent name from the list. Her goal: finally, a tax evader who had failed to declare more than one million euros should actually go to prison for stealing from the community.
Four characters become involved in one dramatic story: Nico has a mission to drive a car containing a live bomb to a specified destination, park the car and escape as quickly as she can. Leo has become his client's target, having carried out a "contract" that unfortunately had already been cancelled. Fabian and Reza want to enjoy themselves without any money, bringing themselves into contact sooner or later with the police. Sooner or later all four will meet up in dramatic circumstances....
Manuel is the right-hand man of drug lord Renato Calvi. After Manuel witnesses his boss brutally punishing a man who apparently betrayed him to the police, he decides to break away from Renato and go into business for himself. Renato is not happy about this and now wants to involve Manuel's younger brother TS in his business. But what no one suspects is that TS is working closely with the police!
15-year-old Nina witnesses a terrible crime that puts her life in danger. Being an orphan, she has nobody she can trust. When corrupt businessman Thomas Backer sends five killers after Nina, witness protection officer, Max, a former special-forces soldier, is responsible for her safety. They soon overcome their initial distance to find common ground. While on the run from the ruthless Backer, Rudi, one of Max’s former comrades, comes to their rescue – and continues to help the two out of some precarious situations. Even Max’s ex-girlfriend Sara is not just there to help him as a federal prosecutor. Nevertheless, Nina and Max face ever-increasing danger, and soon the teenager is not the only one in need of a guardian angel – Max could use one too.
Speed Racer is a young and brilliant racing driver. When corruption in the racing leagues costs his brother his life, Speed must team up with the police and the mysterious Racer X to bring an end to the corruption and criminal activities.
A comedy about relationships. A just-divorced couple, the wife's lover; a convicted criminal, his pregnant wife and his best friend; the economy minister and his secret lover; all parties are under stress in a hostage situation and surrounded by uncoordinated police troops.
A serial killer kills redheaded women and drapes them like Venus from Sandro Botticellis artwork.
In Berlin in the year 2030, young Tim Burdenski is found seriously injured on the Gendarmenmarkt. Following an emergency call from a cab driver, he is taken to hospital but dies despite a delayed emergency operation. Journalist Lena Bach begins to investigate, as the 30-year-old is one of ten so-called "millennium children" who have been followed by a television team in a long-term documentary since his birth on January 1, 2000. All of them come from the middle class.
László Kovács, auteur filmmaker, is denied funding for his film project: too old, white and heart problems to boot! Conclusion: no longer employable. Wasn’t the Hungarian from Lake Balaton aiming high? What now? Continue to be on his successful wife’s back? László slips into a real life crisis and initially finds solace in the fascinating attraction of a “crazy woman” from the neighbouring village. But when a right-wing populist stands as the only candidate for mayor in the village of 120 souls, László comes to his senses. In order to “prevent the right-wing idiot”, he puts himself forward as a liberal counter-candidate. The only question that remains is whether László’s marriage and he himself will survive the village election campaign?
The three friends Ertan, Kemal and Mehdi live in Kiel. They are foreigners, "Kanaks", as they proudly call themselves. For them, this term is an expression of their attitude to life. The trio keeps their heads above water with small-time crooks, but over time they are drawn deeper and deeper into a maelstrom of violence and crime. On a whim, Erkan acts as the protector of two prostitutes and makes enemies of two unscrupulous pimps. After a failed robbery, Ertan ends up in prison for a short time and Kemal is deported to Turkey. However, the two proud "Kanaks" don't let this get them down, on the contrary: together, the friends now want to build a drug air bridge between Istanbul and Germany. But the dream of quick money ends in death and grief for Kemal and Ertan.
The body of a homeless man is found in Cologne not in the Dark Ages, but in the year 2000, where an autopsy reveals that he died of the plague. Doctor Martin Brügger sets out to find the cause and discovers masses of dead rats in the sewers. The population of the Rhine metropolis is in danger - but the authorities do not want to cause panic and keep the case a secret.
It's the greatest myth of the German post-war era: The Amber Room. Since its disappearance in 1945 from Koenigsberg Castle, legions of treasure hunters have tried and failed to find the room. It is said that Physics genius, Albert Einstein hid the legendary Amber Room from the Nazis in the turmoil of the last days of the war. It bears a secret within its amber - in wrong hands, it could destroy mankind! Our adventurers, Eik, Katharina and Justus, come across an incredible trace and with the help of Einstein's great-granddaughter Mila, together they fight off a ruthless pharmaceutical magnate who spares no effort to get ahold of the Amber Room. From Europe's biggest monument in Leipzig, through the halls of Munich's German Museum, across the dunes of St. Peter-Ording, to the Nazi caves of the Berchtesgaden Alps. The adventurous hunt begins. Written by Dreamtool Entertainment
Katrin and Jürgen spend their holidays in Corsica. Katrin is in her mid-thirties, working as a tracer at Jürgen’s company who suddenly remembers he’s married – but not with Kathrin. So they decide to end their vacation earlier than they had planned. Virtually a second before they start to drive back to the airport, Katrin takes her belongings out of Jürgen’s car again and lets him go. Now being alone for the remaining days of her vacation, Katrin finds herself more and more bewildered by the things that happened to her.
A helicopter crashes in the Sahara Desert. The entire crew are killed - only a small infant miraculously survives. Emir Tafud, who has no children of his own, brings the child up as his successor. When Ben is 25 years old he decides to set off in search of his true parents. In Casablanca he meets French crook Jacquot, who takes him with him to Monte Carlo. They both actually manage to find Ben's mother Christine. She tells Ben that his father was a scientist on a secret mission to Africa. Christine wants Ben to stay in Monte Carlo and take over her firm, but Ben has his heart set on living in Belem with his adored Amina. But now Ben gradually unearths a dreadful secret: Christine's second husband François was responsible for the death of his father, who had discovered valuable minerals in the Sahara. After a bitter struggle, Ben finally succeeds in saving his homeland from Western greed.
The baby Jennifer dies in a fire in the nursery. The public prosecutor's office, the media and the residents of the small town all agree: the au pair Christina set the fire. The lawyer and single mother Tamara takes on the defense of the young woman and finds herself in mortal danger...
Züli Aladag's critically acclaimed, but controversial movie deals with the conflict of Can, son of Turkish immigrants, and the Laubs, a supposedly liberal middle class family.
Eva works as a decoy. Her job is to test husbands for their fidelity. Her good friend Corinna gives her a particularly well-paid assignment. She is to seduce Stefan, the husband of the very wealthy Christiane Reedmann, and lure him into a trap. A short time later, Christiane is killed and all the evidence points to Eva as the murderer. Now Eva herself is caught in the trap.
A partially-clad woman is gagged and tied to a bed; her captor menaces her with a knife. Will he cut her? A man, whom we soon learn is named Paul, breaks through the door and shoots her captor. But she may not be free yet from torment. Paul may have his own sadistic streak. She's rescued by an unexpected source. Then we follow Paul through a series of stories outside stories, until we wonder if we are ever going to reach reality. So, it seems, Paul wonders as well, as we follow him in interactions with a make-up artist, a director, children on a playground, and passers-by on the street.
She is the star of her TV show. Live and night after night. She embodies the feeling of being invincible. When Jennifer Stolz puts on her legendary smile, millions of TV viewers melt away and one in particular: Nikolaus Feldhaus. Nicki loves Jennifer. However, she is unattainable for him. When he gets out, he tries to kidnap Jennifer with the help of his best friend, Koko. The journey sets off in a converted circus van towards the Baltic Sea. On the way there, Nicki has to make it clear to the woman of his dreams that she should walk down the aisle with him. He has exactly 48 hours to do so.
In order to track down the Russian mafia, Joachim Tresko goes undercover in the Berlin art scene. Meanwhile, his wife Katrin seems to have disappeared from the face of the earth. She had been researching the trafficking milieu for her newspaper. Tresko is thus involved in two seemingly different cases.
Stephan Renner from the SEK shoots the terrorist Harloff during an operation. He had previously killed his wife Barbara with his partner Tatjana. For this, Renner is sentenced to several years in prison and also loses custody of his daughter. When he is released, he is threatened by anonymous calls.
Esra leads two parallel lives. In her daily life the vivacious and spirited Esra adores her family but feels caged in her relationships. In her dream life, she yearns to discover the identity of the man who visits her dreams. While in waking life she struggles in vain, in her dream life she evolves in secret. But what if waking and dreaming were never separate and the real secret is shored by all?
Kaan (35) comes after a long time out of prison. He wants to do things differently. But his perception of reality does not seem to run parallel with the perceived.
'Amok' tells 48 hours of the live of Lorenz Fuchs, a middle aged gray accountant who believes his triste and monotonous life being meaningless and absurd. For him the outside world was always hostile and aggressive. When his Boss not only unexpectedly promotes him but also reveals that he knows about his well covert emotional failings, Fuchs is thrown out of his daily routine - his defense lines are crumbling. Well hidden memories of traumatic experiences bring up a long suppressed rage that results in an outburst of violence and a bloodbath.
In the course of a failed bank robbery , Charlotte is taken hostage in her husband's bank , as is Sophie , her husband 's lover . The two hostage- takers Max and Felix hope that the bank director will pay ransom for at least one of the two women , but they are wrongtremendously, because Charlotte 's husband wants to keep the loot for himself and get rid of the two women ...
400 years into the future, disease has wiped out the majority of the world's population, except one walled city, Bregna, ruled by a congress of scientists. When Æon Flux, the top operative in the underground 'Monican' rebellion, is sent on a mission to kill a government leader, she uncovers a world of secrets.
A couple of slackers find an antique dagger and manage to free the gorgeous female warrior that was imprisoned in it by an evil spell. An evil sorcerer is not happy by this turn of events and determines to possess both the blade and the warrior through a sacrificial ceremony. The two heroes manage to rescue the damsel in distress and defeat the wizard and his minions by employing skills mastered through hours of video game play.
The Dutch supervillain Freek van Dyk is keeping the world on tenterhooks - and the world's best secret services can only stand by and watch. Finally, the Turkish Ayran Secret Service intervenes. However, there is a mix-up, because after two of the ASS men are eliminated, ASS head Süleyman is looking for a "Süper agent" and mistakes the clueless Indian cleaner Ranjid for one. He actually just wants to cure his sick cow, but suddenly has to save the world.
Power woman Carla Bergmann is a committed pastor with heart and mind. Thanks to her media-effective appearances, Carla has made a difference in the Third World and, after eventful years abroad, is now looking forward to her pastorate in Cologne. Here she finally wants to take care of her daughter Sarah, who is in a marital crisis. But nothing goes as planned: Sarah resists her domineering mother, and Carla's promised position is already occupied by someone else. The pastor is forced to take over a small church in Sauerland, where she has to start from scratch.
The multiple burden as a mother, wife and author of successful historical romance novels Ellen swiss mastered always bravado. Actually, the attractive late forties could be satisfied with her life. But while it's just crackling with eroticism in her books, it only seems to exist for her husband as a housewife and mother. Gudrun Landgrebe plays the lead role in this quick-witted, aptly-watched comedy about the everyday chaos between kitchen, children, job and bed.
Zoe is spending a few lovely winter days on Sylt with a friend. She's struggling with her studies, her boyfriend Mike, and life in general. To make matters worse, she's now facing an unwanted pregnancy. Just to relieve herself of this overwhelming worry, Zoe calls Hamburg. There she learns that although her pregnancy test is negative, she has also taken an AIDS test, and it is positive. At first Zoe is completely shocked, but then she radically turns her life around. She drops out of her unwanted studies and leaves her (HIV-negative) boyfriend. Instead, she throws herself into love affairs in which she demands absolute honesty. Zoe desperately searches for an answer to the question of what meaning the remaining life of hers can have.
Despite her friends' warnings, a woman travels to the Sahara, determined to find her missing archaeologist father and the magical tower he was searching for. Aided by a mysterious prince, she battles outlaws and the desert's harsh conditions.
A prisoner in JVA Weißenburg takes a staff member hostage, prompting Prison Director Ella Jansen to enter the cell in exchange, relying on negotiation. When a special unit’s imminent arrival drives the inmate to rage and sexual violence, Jansen is rescued but then becomes entangled in a ruthless political scandal and power struggle that overlooks individual suffering.
The GDR casts its shadow right up to the present day: Stefan Kortman, a respected doctor in Hanover, carries a dark secret with him. Nobody in his home country knows that he was a Wall sniper and shot the husband of a young, pregnant woman trying to escape at the German-German border. Despite all his successes in his professional and private life, Stefan still can't find peace 20 years later. He wants to explain himself to the fugitive from back then.
The story of Lanze who is in love with the princess. One day the princess is kidnapped by the Dark Knight and Lanze starts his journey to rescue her. But he is not alone because Erdal, a turk, joins him on his journey.
Anywhere in the world, 20 years from now. Underground. Watch out for the signs...
The security guard at a pawn shop in a small port town, the seasick scion of a family of sailors, falls in love with the mistress of one of his best customers, a man who is constantly in debt. Under pressure from the mafia, the customer persuades his girlfriend to meet with the security guard and distract him while he commits a robbery.
Lawyer Thomas Neumann is extremely successful in his career and happily married to his wife Bettina. Nevertheless, he has a mistress on the side, who one day reveals to him that she wants him to have a child. Thomas agrees, but a sperm test reveals that he is infertile. Now he asks himself the question: who is the real father of his children? His brother Johannes, a priest, helps him to find out the truth. Thomas suspects two former friends with whom he and Bettina used to go on vacation. He invites them to his home so that he can carry out comparative studies in peace, as genetic testing didn't exist back then. One friend has gone mad, the other is blind. The two of them cause Thomas' household a great deal of confusion, especially as he has to entertain an important business partner from overseas at his home.
A brazen gang of car thieves is arrested. Their leader manages to free himself from prison with the help of a friend, is arrested again and sees his last chance in a spectacular hostage situation.
A former CIA agent's search for a lost colleague exposes a deadly conspiracy involving his own family and Soviet-era secrets in the mountains of East Germany.
1939, Emsland: Every day, old suitcase maker Grandpa Alfred is besieged by his young Jewish neighbor Samuel in his suitcase shop. The boy has only one wish: he wants to become a suitcase maker. This does not sit well with the grumpy old man. And especially not with his Nazi customers, who make this very clear. One day, Samuel's Jewish family is deported. Alfred must now decide which side he is on...
Sonja Brunner works as a prison officer in a prison. She has been earning money for the family for years, providing a living for her stepdaughter Iris and her husband Jens. Jens is a freelance writer and hopes to finally land a publishing deal with his new novel. After an incident with prisoner Michael Zeuner, who had taken Sonja Brunner hostage during an escape attempt, she moves to another prison - she represses the experience and continues to work. At first everything goes well, but the financial pressure at home increases.
The pedophile offender Mr. K. is prevented from jail through the professional statement of the psychologist Alexandra Pausch. Believing she has made the right decision, she closes her eyes towards the potential danger of her dangerous and charismatic patient. But as the horror steps into her own life, she realizes the careless appraisal of her diagnosis.
After missing four years, the body of a little boy is found in the forest. An unlikely pair of police officers investigate the boy's death.
After having a chance encounter with a mysterious character, Wendy, a young working class mother, discovers that she has super powers.
In the middle of the urban jungle, Darko, a young and handsome undocumented immigrant meets Alina, a mysterious woman who leads a steady life in Germany. Despite social and cultural differences, they share an immediate erotic connection. They start a passionate affair and very soon Darko finds himself absorbed in magnetic attraction.
25 years of coma lie behind the hard-hitting policeman Mick Brisgau, as he awakens in a world unknown to him.
Julia Whitman and her daughter Jody flee their husband and father’s violence to a doomsday paradise. Julia meets Matthey Haley in New Zealand and falls in love despite her inner resistance. However, the shadows of the past will not let you forget. Julia's ex-husband, Charles, who follows in the footsteps of his wife and daughter, shows up on the island.
Dramatic life of Gustav "Bubi" Scholz, who rose from post-war obscurity and a background in black market dealings to become a celebrated European boxing champion in the late 1940s. Charismatic and widely admired, he quickly became a national icon. But as the spotlight fades and his victories grow distant, Scholz’s personal life begins to unravel, leading him into a downward spiral of addiction and emotional turmoil.