Six weeks after the accidental death of her husband, Wessendorf Vicky decides to travel to Bangkok to investigate the background of the scene of the tragedy. Her husband George had bought a luxury apartment in the city, Vicky wants to sell as quickly as possible.
German TV movie chronicling the life of singer and actor Roy Black.
A homeless refugee looks for a fresh start at a European multinational temp agency - but they have very different plans for him.
Understanding who you are is complicated enough in everyday life. How difficult must it be to find your identity when you slip into the body of your rebellious daughter as a mother and into the skin of your mother as a 16-year-old? This is exactly what happens to teacher Susanne and her daughter Isabelle. Suddenly, everything turns upside down: punk Isabelle frustrates her boyfriend Basti and her friends with her well-behaved, bourgeois nerdiness. And she no longer wants to be with her divorced father Georg. On the other hand, teacher Susanne surprises them with her new pedagogy and unusual laid-back attitude...
The movie tells a true story in the life of well-known German actor Manfred Krug. Living in the German Democratic Republic he is forced to leave the country after protesting against the expatriation of singer/songwriter Wolf Biermann in 1976.
Turbo & Tacho
Student Markus Schneider works as a courier. Every day he chases through the streets of Berlin on his rollerblades to deliver documents on time. Little does he know that he is being used as a cocaine courier by a gang of corrupt police officers. He is also a convenient scapegoat when the crooks are looking for someone to frame for a double murder.
A hired Santa makes promises to a little boy he can't really keep.
When a photo model gets replaced by a batch of new younger prettier girls, her life of riches melts in front of her eyes and she's forced to live like a homeless person in a parking lot of a high class hotel she once lived in.
After 20 years and with their children gone, Georg and Charlotte face unexpected distance. Charlotte, eager to enjoy newfound freedom, clashes with Georg, who withdraws into solitude. Their once-solid marriage frays as each insists on personal plans, leaving longtime friends Peter and Christa to watch the uneasy drift.
Architect Alexander Beck has just won an architecture prize. He wants to modernize GDR building blocks in Thuringia. Alex travels to the heart of rural Eastern Germany where he grew up and where people remember him as Alex from the Free German Youth, a pro-GDR youth organization.
Since Nina met Daniel for the first time, she hasn't been able to get him out of her mind: he's smart, attractive and mysterious, and the two of them keep meeting again and again, seemingly by chance. Nina gets involved in an affair with him, experiences exciting erotic adventures, explores the limits of her desire - and risks her marriage to Sebastian. Then she finds out that the two men know each other. This knowledge ends up completely messing up their world...
After overseeing major projects as a construction manager for many years and having traveled all over the world, Peter is taking early retirement. First of all, he has big plans for the new phase of his life: he can finally make up for a missed togetherness with his wife Charlotte, a successful scientist who will soon follow him into retirement, and write his long-awaited novel. The reality, however, soon turns out to be far less romantic: Charlotte has little time for her husband because of her job, and Peter can't even get past the first sentence in his novel.
Anne Grainauer, a celebrated foreign correspondent, suddenly finds herself without a job after 24 years. The charming Gregor König offers some consolation. Anne finds out that Gregor is not only the mayor of Dresden, but also the favorite enemy of her daughter Jess, who is leading a citizens' initiative against the airport expansion. Gregor persistently courts Anne's heart. And she has to make a decision.
The Berlin businessman and family man Richard Brosche is amazed when he learns that he has a second illegitimate teenage daughter in Mallorca. In his search for traces in the Balearic Islands, a series of mix-ups and surprising revelations arise that completely change Richard's life. - Dieter Pfaff plays the leading role in this quick-witted comedy about the strange paths that not only the male libido sometimes goes.
A young man goes on a road trip with an old lady he saves from a hospital.
Berlin, shortly after the fall of the Wall: Eddy from the East is the undisputed No. 1 in the business: no one sticks as fast as he does. In the evenings, the poster artist sits in his den, eats peanuts and ponders why women only ever go for his "friend" Ralf. The gloomy hours are suddenly over when Eddy is discovered for an advertising campaign. As "Shaky, der Erdnußmann (the peanut man)", he makes it big. With a souped-up Golf GTI and a really loud hi-fi drone, he dashes off into a new life. What falls by the wayside is the tender bond he has just forged with the voluptuous Margot...
Anja and Christop Bremermann have been married for 24 years and have to admit that their love for each other is slowly fading. They decide to divorce by mutual agreement. But the whole thing doesn't go as smoothly in practice as they initially thought. By the time it gets down to the nitty-gritty and involves money and mutual recognition, the serenity is over. While the couple's lawyers fight a bitter duel, the unique dynamics of the mud fight suddenly make Anja and Christoph's lives exciting again. The unexpectedly sparked passion even leads to feelings long thought lost flaring up again...
62-year-old company boss Anton is happily married to 41-year-old successful lawyer Johanna, his business is doing well and his daughter Marie and son David are finally standing on their own two feet. So it's time for his long-awaited move to the countryside and to tackle the renovation of a house by the lake. However, when Johanna becomes pregnant and he also becomes a grandfather, his focus changes and he decides to be a full-time dad this time. However, being a model dad and company director at the same time proves to be anything but easy, and so not only does he mess up an important job, he also falls out with his children...
Suzanna (29) is facing the ruins of her marriage. Her husband Rudolph is in despair, trying to cope with her extreme mood swings. She is trying to cope with her situation and her traumatic experiences. In the mirror she sees a person she does not know - herself. In a vicious circle of solitude and depression she finally turns to strangers to find remedy.
A man who was a confidant of Adolf Hitler dies and leaves a fortune to make amends for his Nazi past—but his son has to search the world to find it.
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.
Germany in the early 19th century. "Die Vermessung der Welt" follows the two brilliant and eccentric scientists Alexander von Humboldt and Carl Friedrich Gauss on their life paths.
Miss Sophie has dinner with her friends.
Ulli wants to surprise his partner Susanne with a very special gift: a painter to paint a portrait of her. When Markus Marberg arrives at Susanne's house, it turns out that the two of them know each other from school. However, they didn't like each other at all in the past... During the portrait sessions, which Susanne is initially reluctant to attend, they both confess that they were actually in love with each other at school. Suddenly the two are overcome by old feelings...
