Martin May

Das Boot

A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. The crew tries to survive below the surface, while stretching both the boat and themselves to their limits.

Sober

Alcoholic Isabell wants to celebrate her niece's baptism. But her father can't forgive past mistakes. He wants to keep up the perfect family picture. Isabell must find the courage to choose her own path.

Das Boot Revisited: An Underwater Success Story

In 1981, a film about the misadventures of a German U-boat crew in 1941 becomes a worldwide hit almost four decades after the end of the World War II. Millions of viewers worldwide make Das Boot the most internationally successful German film of all time. But due to disputes over the script, accidents on the set, and voices accusing the makers of glorifying the war, the project was many times on the verge of being cancelled.

Die wunderbaren Jahre

The 17-year-old, musically gifted Stephan is expelled from school for making statements critical of the regime. With his future as a musician now blocked, he commits suicide. His girlfriend Cornelia wants to follow him to his death, but is prevented from doing so by her parents at the last moment.

Andy

A drama directed by Ralph Bohn.

Katie Fforde - Eine Liebe in den Highlands

Jenny is sent to inspect a wool factory in the Hudson Highlands. It depends on her audit whether her client will turn the factory into fodder for "investors". But Jenny immediately falls in love with the store, the country and the people - and with her boss.

Sex, Dogz and Rock n Roll

A couple assassins are taking a job which will bring the whole world in disorder.

Bei Thea

David flies from Tel Aviv to Munich to study. Through a gay friend he meets Thea, the older quirky landlady of a gay pub. He becomes friends with Thea. She recognizes through a ring David wears that he is her grandson.

Das Baby der schwangeren Toten

A pregnant woman suffers severe head trauma in a car accident. The doctors are unable to help her, but at the request of her fiancé, they decide to keep her body functioning artificially in order to save the unborn child. The ethical issues involved in the case trigger fierce public controversy.

Der rote Punkt

At a portrait photographer's exhibition, a portrait of a young woman garners attention. She has gone missing, and the photographer may have been the last person to see her alive. But what happened?

Rotkäppchen

Leonie goes to her grandmother's house with her parents and her little brother Simon. Simon wants her to read Little Red Riding Hood to him. The family's car suddenly breaks down. While her mother and brother try in vain to light a fire, Leonie goes to the entrance of a cave. She ventures inside. At the exit of the cave, a fairy tale land opens up.

The Flyer

Bernd, an insurance broker trainee, flees his mundane life in Germany to set a new World record in hang gliding in Bolivia.

The Crack Connection

The unscrupulous police commissioner Schimanski shake down patrons of a techno dance club in the drug-drenched Ruhr district.

Die Kinder von Blankenese

Tamar, Josef, Bracha and Wolfgang survived the persecution and the camps. May 1945. The children do not know where their parents are. In the former Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, they now live next to English soldiers and broken concentration camp inmates. They find shelter in the villa of the Jewish Warburg family in Hamburg-Blankenese. From Hell to Paradise. Anti-Semitism in post-war Germany is catching up with children and educators - hostility in the zoo, disregard in the local hospital. The children are waiting impatiently for the long journey to their new home in Palestine.

Das Boot - The Director's Cut

A German U-boat stalks the frigid waters of the North Atlantic as its young crew experience the sheer terror and claustrophobic life of a submariner in World War II.