Second-hand car sales man Willenbrock has everything that he could ever wish for. He is married, has two lovers, a cottage in the German city Grünen, and a BMW. Yet one day while at his cottage he gets mugged and his life is drastically changed. Little by little the world he once felt safe in falls apart around him.
An intimate study of two women friends who come to each other because of troubles with everyday life and with men and thus try to enjoy a life based on their ideas.
Twelve-year-old Martin is a little too small for his age. Too thin and too quiet, as his mother is unfortunately always reminding him. He and his blue baseball cap are joined at the hip, or rather, at the head. Martin and his parents have just moved to the quiet little town of Bellbach. A new home, a new school, but no new friends. Even on his first day, there’s trouble...
A renowned artist must uncover a young dancer's secrets in order to truly capture her likeness for a commissioned work.
A love connection clicks for Lila when she moves back to Berlin and meets Christopher -- never realizing that she's fallen for a rock star who's signed a contract to remain single for life.
Historical Bio-Pic, based on the life of Hope Bridges Adams-Lehmann, being the first female physician and member of womens-lib movement in Germany at the end of 19th century.
In order to avoid being “canceled”, an association called “House of Womxn” must immediately change the panel that will be participating in an international women’s conference in order to satisfy a diversity checklist. As a result, the very diverse panelists clash in the empty clubhouse, revealing some painful differences at first, but then some affirming commonalities as well.
Attorney Caroline, the sensitive Judith, the housewife Eva and the affluent entrepreneur Estelle have been friends for 15 years. Once a year, the ladies go on a weekend break, but this time the trip is not a good star: After the death of her husband Arne wants the mourning Judith completed his pilgrimage started to Lourdes. As faithful friends, the three others join her. However, it does not take long for the strains of the tour to cause many a quarrel.
The exits of a Berlin courtyard are blocked by the police due to an ambiguous event outside and a state of emergency occurs. Among the residents of the building, insecurities start to pump fear. Suspicion takes over panic, prejudices bring polarization and another question appears: Is the real danger coming from inside or outside?
More than anything, 10-year-old Sascha likes to go on bike rides with the neighbour girl Elli and collect sounds. He also has a passion for fixing up his bike in his improvised workshop. What he doesn't like is the new special school he has been sent to in order to learn how to read and write. One day Sascha is caught stealing and his mother decides to seek help at the youth welfare office.
A family, middle-class and entrepreneurial, in times of globalization.
Divorced policewoman Maren and her daughter Amelie live together in Bad Tölz and are a close-knit team. Not just mother and daughter, but best friends. But then Amelie starts to study, falls head over heels in love with her fellow student Erik and moves in with him in a shared student flat in Munich. Without Amelie, Maren not only feels very alone in the apartment, but also in life. She has to realize that she has been hiding behind Amelie for the last eight years after the divorce and hasn't had a life of her own. So she slowly goes "back on the ice". On the uncertain, slippery and sometimes painful ice that is called "life".
The world's most loved fairy tale is back in a whole new fantastic imagining in Pinocchio. When a piece of pine-wood falls into the hands of the poor old toy maker, Geppetto, he carves it into a puppet which he names Pinocchio. To Geppetto's delight, Pinocchio comes to life - and like most little boys, he's full of reckless whims and wild ideas! His crazy escapades lead him into a series of madcap adventures from joining the circus to visiting the inside of whale! Along his journey, and throughout all the fun, Pinocchio learns to be considerate and courageous and learns what it takes to become a real boy.
August 1961: To earn a bit of West German money, East Berlin "plaselayer" Hans Kuhlke smuggles scrap metal to his friend Erwin Sawatzke in West Berlin. One evening, he and his wife are invited to the Sawatzkes' house. Meanwhile, their son Paul stays with a friend in East Berlin. On this summer night, the political situation in Berlin comes to a dramatic head: the borders are closed and the construction of the Wall is initiated. The disappearance of his parents leaves 14-year-old pioneer Paul torn between family ties and loyalty to the party. At the last second, he sees through his role in the system and is taken in by his piano teacher. Together they plan their escape to the West - but it turns into a race against time.
Frank and Simone have fulfilled a dream and live with their two children in a row house in the suburbs. They are a happy couple, until the day Frank is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. The family is suddenly confronted with death.
After being hit on the head, the eccentric gourmet critic, Gilles "Günni" Demmonget, loses both his sense of taste and smell, and now, of all times, he is due to appear in a public cooking duel with his wild young competitor, Paul Scheffke. Hoping for a speedy recovery, Gilles moves into a fasting hotel on the island of Sylt for a while, recommended to him by his friend Risto. The isolation and peace, combined with doing without solid food is supposed to sharpen his senses and help them return completely. On the island, he not only experiences a turbulent reunion with fasting instructor Marit Hansen - but his desirous ex-lover Diana moves into the adjacent room as well.
On her 35th birthday of all days, Hanna catches her boyfriend Robert in flagrante delicto. Hanna would like to be done with her life. But after a rather involuntary dip in the Isar, she goes to the bank and falls into the hands of three chaotic bank robbers who take her hostage.
"Mom, tell her he exists!" Taffy begs her mother Julia. Her stupid classmate doesn't believe that Taffy's father, supposedly a polar explorer, really exists. So Julia fibs that he's coming to visit for Christmas. But Robert has actually absconded before his daughter is born. Where to conjure up a daddy now? Julia persuades her colleague Volker to step in. Everything is going well when the "real Robert" turns up...
Spring 1945: After successfully fleeing, Johanna is stranded with her two children and a teenager whom she has taken under her care in a village in northern Hesse.
It has been ten years since twelve-year-old Paula Wagner was the victim of a terrible crime - raped and murdered by her tennis teacher. Eleven years in which her parents Kai and Maria Wagner found it difficult to come to terms with what had happened.
Postal worker Jenny finds and reads the letters that the little girl Lilly sent to her dead mother. Jenny decided to help Lilly and gets involved with her father Matthias.
Conny Stein from the ordnance disposal service in Dresden has to defuse a bomb on his last day of work before retirement, on a construction site in a power plant. In the process, he discovers a girl who had previously come to the city in a minibus full of refugees and does not speak a word.
Pit Handlos has invested a lot of money in a dubious beauty product distribution business and has been trying to sell the products to former girlfriends ever since. He hides the decline of his middle-class existence behind a pretended facade of success. After losing his apartment, he moves in with his son Flo and his son's goth girlfriend Moni under a pretext and becomes entangled in untruths. When his reunion with his childhood sweetheart Christiane ends in a customer meeting and Christiane turns away disappointed, Pit realizes that something is going wrong. Only slowly does he realize that he still loves Christiane and that he must finally be honest with himself if he wants to give his life a chance.
No marriage without a break, no career without a crisis: writer Max Mangold experiences both. First, the highly successful author of fiery heartbreak novels under the pseudonym Jana van Hausten suffers a severe writer's block, then his wife Susanne tells him that she wants to go to Rostock University for a year - ostensibly for the sake of her career. Coincidentally, her old childhood sweetheart, the fisherman Jörn, also lives there. Without further ado and driven by jealousy, Max travels there to fight for his marriage. And then he has a fateful encounter with hairdresser Nancy, who is a hardcore fan of Jana van Hausten.
Claudia lives happily with her husband Jens and their two children Katja and Max in the small town of Barstedt. Her husband has his own small construction company and Claudia, as a housewife, has no financial worries - until she suddenly runs out of money at the bank and learns that the joint account has been blocked.
Archduchess Ottilie and her servants are in the middle of preparations for the big birthday bash for Princess Aurora. Lowly servant Johann wants nothing more than to be "one of them".
A strange family: 17-year-old Phil lives with his mother and twin sister in an old mansion on the outskirts of town. When he returns from summer camp, the mood in the mansion has soured somehow. Phil doesn’t worry about it, hanging out with his best friend Kat instead. When he starts to feel attracted to a mysterious new student at school, Phil is plunged into emotional turmoil only exacerbated by the trouble at home.
German judge Elke Seeberg's orderly world turns upside-down when a terrorist bomb explodes in a Berlin bus and the federal police come bursting through her door: Allegedly her teenage daughter played a part in the attack and is now on the run. What follows is a Kafkaesque nightmare of illegal round-the-clock surveillance by the Secret Service, public denunciation, and the collapse of her career. But when Federal Agent Buch helps her put together some pieces of the puzzle on her own, the fear of terrorists quickly gives way to the paranoia against an all-powerful state encroaching on all her rights.
Based on the true case of the "mask man", the film tells the story of Claus Jansen, whose son Hannes disappears from boarding school overnight in 1992. A few weeks later, the boy is found murdered. The father begins to investigate himself and makes the search for the perpetrator his personal mission. Claus is pushing the question of his own guilt: If he hadn't sent Hannes to boarding school, would his son still be alive today? Claus knows that if he doesn't end his obsessive hunt, he will lose himself and the love of his wife Heike and his younger son Sebastian ...
Germany in the near future: the economic situation has deteriorated dramatically, the social mood is simmering and the political camps are becoming more radicalized. Chaotic conditions are driving people onto the barricades and into the arms of the extreme right-wing DNS party, which is planning to secede economically and socially from individual federal states. To prevent this nightmare, the federal government sees only one option: to secretly build up the leading candidate of the opposing left-wing party.
Jana Frank has everything under control professionally. As an organizer of flight attendant schedules, she tells her employees where to go. Family life is more difficult. Her daughter Marie is in the middle of puberty and hangs around at night with her grandpa Charly, who wants to beautify the city with plants and flowers in his old age. As a result, Jana is regularly woken up by the police to pick up her father from the station. When Charly decides to move to the country and buys a house, Jana meets the former landlord Thomas and falls head over heels in love.
The fictionalized story of one of the most incredible and enduring love stories of two tennis megastars: Steffi Graf and Andre Agassi. No one expected that these two completely different personalities - she is the introverted German and he the temperamental American - would fall in love with each other. And the two of them probably least of all...
Max Bretschneider pretends to be a communist in order to conduct the last interview with Erich Honecker.
Just before the fall of the Berlin Wall, the birthday celebrations of an East German family turn into a tragicomical moment of political and personal breakdown.
A woman who appears to be in the middle of life travels to Switzerland to seek euthanasia. As she puts the well-considered decision into action in an apartment, she encounters doubts for the last time.
When the rich brewer Dillinger wants to withdraw 100,000 euros in cash, Gerhard Schwegler, head of the Volkskassen, refuses to pay out the money: Dillinger's son Daniel had abandoned Schwegler's daughter Marie two days before the wedding. Dillinger fumes, Schwegler remains firm and, because teenager Lea films the whole thing for her video blog, the rumor spreads like wildfire that the Volkskasse Oberhopfingen is no longer paying out money and is bankrupt.
The death of a young woman in a remote village in the Eifel region changes the previously tranquil life overnight. Prophecies come true, believers make pilgrimages to the grave of the dead, and the Vatican itself investigates an alleged "miracle." A priest who has secretly long since lost his faith is sent to Hamburg to follow the trail of the dead woman and is confronted with his own history as he traces her life.
The worn-out ex-journalist Ralph has to work as a substitute teacher at an evening school and in the end learns more than his protegees.
St. Petersburg 1917. The frontline of the global war is coming closer everyday; people are hungry, wor-ried, angry. In February the tsar is overthrown. Many artists are euphoric: Revolution! Freedom, finally? No. Starting in October, the Bolsheviks rule by themselves. What were poets, thinkers, and avant-gardists like Maxim Gorky and Kazimir Malevich doing during this drastic change of power? In the film, five of them alight from the director’s piles of books as animated cut-out figures. With their own recorded words in their mouths, they participate in salons, committees, and street riots.
Short film.
16-year old Steffi just graduated from high school and is very much looking forward to her class trip to Paris where she has promised her boyfriend Fabian the romantic night that she has kept him waiting for so long. Her lifelong plan to join the police forces is already set up, her adult life is right around the corner. At a routine health check-up, just before the trip to Paris, Steffi and her parents are faced with a shattering diagnosis ...
Three fathers who are also brothers-in-law make a pact to save their daughters from their boyfriends.
A routine check-up reveals that the Pilates trainer Kathrin is suffering from kidney disease and needs a transplant. Her husband Arnold is a successful architect in the middle of a large project and is afraid of donating one of his kidneys. Götz, a friend of the couple's, would undergo the operation immediately if it means saving Kathrin's life - even though this causes problems with his partner Diana. Confronted by issues of life and death, the fragility of the relationships within and between the couples is laid bare. Eventually, the question can no longer be avoided: what is true love?
"Snowblind" is set in the black forest in the ice cold winter of 1946. Peter, a 16-year old, blind boy is trying to get out of Germany together with his father Heiner – a former SS officer. They carry the fatally wounded soldier Karl, who promised to guide them across the border to Switzerland. By the time they reach his families remote farm house, Karl has died and Peter and Heiner hope for Karls father to fulfill his sons promise. A snow storm forces them to stay at the farm house, causing highly sensible dynamics between the contradicting characters - sparking a chain of fateful events.
East Germany, 1988. 19-year-old Franka doesn't really care for politics. She prefers going to the disco and dreaming about seeing Bruce Springsteen and Michael Jackson live in concert. But beneath her carefree façade, she is scarred by the loss of her baby brother. But then she meets Stefan: He's young, idealistic, and part of an environmental activist group. A mix that makes Franka instantly make fall for him – and his group, which welcomes her with open arms. But this wild, revolutionary influence does not stay unnoticed: Her mother, who's with the Party, is worried about Franka. As Stefan's group loses the support of the church, leaving them vulnerable to the state, Stefan and Franka are soon in the government's line of fire…
A young race car mechanic fakes an engagement to the most scandalous racing star on the scene—officially for his reputation, secretly for her own chance behind the wheel. But soon the lie threatens to destroy everything, including what has long since become more than just a game.