Movies

Based on Michel Houellebecq's controversial novel, Atomised (aka The Elementary Particles) focuses on Michael and Bruno, two very different...

The Hartmann family is turned upside down when mother Angelika decides to take in the refugee Diallo, against her husband's will. Amidst the typical...

Vera and Wolf Küper live in Berlin with their 5-year-old daughter Nina and their one-year-old son Simon. Vera takes care of the children and the...

"Everything in life happens for a reason." After the death of his pregnant wife, Schimon clings to this sentence. When he meets Milena just two weeks...

After many years in Germany, the young doctor Lena returns to South Africa, the place of her childhood, for the first time. Her grandfather Jo, on...

Radio presenter Karla's biological clock is ticking, and it's now very loud and clear. But no matter what she does, she simply cannot find a suitable...

Seitz has been abusing his underage daughter for years and is the father of her first child. He is a brutal perpetrator of violence and has several...

Tired of never having enough money to spend, Rita and Susanne throw all bourgeois moral concerns straight out of the window and simply become...

What happens when “old” and “new work” collide? Barbara Lucke was the grand dame of the works council at Sander Versandhaus...

Village pastor Hans-Uwe is worried about his brother Fiedje and his friends Heinrich and Knud in his small village of Toestrup in Schleswig-Holstein....

A successful, womanizing middle-aged man decides to move out of the house he shares with his wife after she confesses to having an affair. He looks...

Viktor and Angelika are a straight couple. He is a professor of veterinary science and she has studied art history. Both are more interested in their...

Two middle aged German brothers - one New Age and recently divorced, the other uptight and sceptical - travel to a Zen monastery in Japan in search...

Joseph Vilsmaier Two-part TV movie focuses on the tragic events surrounding the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff, a German passenger ship, at the end...

A shared love of fish leads to a variety of romantic predicaments in this offbeat comedy from writer and director Doris Dörrie. Otto (Christian...

Urged by her mother, Anke left her baby for adoption ten years ago. For years afterward, she did not speak to her again. Now the soon-to-be attorney...

The subject of male prostitution gets a distinctly zany and offbeat twist in Stellungswechsel (AKA Special Escort), Maggie Peren's tale of five male...

Veteran defense attorney Konrad Biegler accepts the defense of a man accused of kidnapping a young girl. At the trial he must face the tenacious...