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- DirectorRainer KaufmannStarsIna WeisseErika MarozsánUlrich NoethenSuccessful designer Marie has a loving husband and two children. But fate offers more. When she meets the fiancée of their friend Dom, the two women fall for each other. This comes out and life gets out of control. Can there be a long-term solution?
- DirectorWolfgang MurnbergerStarsFlorian David FitzNico Ramon KleemannJascha BaumA biographical look on Erich Kästner and his biggest fan around the second world war.
- DirectorLancelot von NasoStarsFlorian StetterAlwara HöfelsOliver WnukErich Kästner's "Das doppelte Lottchen" is the classic story of swapping roles, and now also the basis for a dramatic yet cheerful family film on Das Erste. Amidst a playful game of confusion, twin sisters Lotte and Luise finally discover that their parents had intended to forever hide from them.
- DirectorMichael HofmannStarsKatharina SchüttlerAlexander BeyerMartin BrambachThe film starts in the early evening of a normal day: Sophie, a 20 year old girl, is pregnant and wanders through the night to get sure about her future life. Does she want to be a mother or do an abortion? Does she love her friend or not? Who is the father of her unborn baby? Trying to figure out what to do Sophie encounters many people, and in the morning she has come to a decision. But this is not the movie's end...
- DirectorStephan WagnerStarsJuliane KöhlerMatthias BrandtAmber BongardA lawyer helps a mildly intellectually disabled couple, who have had their young daughter removed from their care by the authorities.
- DirectorLars MontagStarsMuriel BaumeisterBarbara FockeOliver MommsenTwo young people, Irena and Julian, meet each other at the street market. It's love at first sight: They spend the night together and marry a week later. The parents are shocked, but the young lovers are happy and soon Irena becomes pregnant. A horrible accident destroys their happiness: Julian dies in a plane crash... After some time passes, Irena suddenly gets a call: Some stranger called Dennis wants to give her a lot of money because, as he says, he is "a friend of Julian, and Julian once saved his live". Irena meets him and feels attracted to this man. They slowly get closer and fall in love. Yet Dennis has a secret which he doesn't dare to reveal to Irena...
- DirectorMark SchlichterStarsAlexandra Maria LaraWotan Wilke MöhringPeter LohmeyerDreamy Paula and her husband Edgar, an insurance salesman, lead a dull, middle-class life in Struvensiel, a fictitious suburb of Hamburg. Paula runs into her childhood sweetheart Max at their 10-year class reunion. In order to save him from Hamburg's underworld, she turns - to her own surprise - from a plain country bumpkin into a tough lady.
- StarsEdin HasanovicVincent KrügerNomie Laine TuckerThomas and Kai are neo-Nazis and live in a shared flat. One day a black woman leaves her and Thomas' 6-year-old daughter Lara with them. Living with the "black girl" challenges the beliefs of the fresh father.
- DirectorBrigitte BerteleStarsFlorian David FitzMaja SchöneMark WaschkeAfter an evening out, the 35-year-old, self-confident Judith is raped on her way home. She fights with all possible means to prevent her life being changed. Her lawyer advises her to press charges. But the destructive consequences force their way into her life. When the perpetrator's false statement causes her hopes of legal redress to collapse, Judith looks for another way to get justice and it almost looks like she is out for revenge. But Judith is pursuing an unusual, radical path to prove the criminal's guilt.
- CreatorUwe KerskenStarsHans MittermüllerStefan WeinfurterHeinrich August WinklerDocumentary series about 1,000 years of German history. Reviewing the history from about 955 A.D. to the modern-day monarchy and World War I.
- DirectorVolker SchlöndorffMargarethe von TrottaStarsAngela WinklerMario AdorfDieter LaserA young woman's life is scrutinized by police and tabloid press after she spends the night with a suspected terrorist.
- DirectorÖzgür YildirimStarsDavid KrossEmilia SchüleBen MünchowA teenager wakes up in a subway car with no memory of how he got there or who he is.
- DirectorJeshua DreyfusStarsAnna von HaeblerJamila SaabKaren DahmenFive friends on a trip to a remote Swiss valley start playing a game where everyone has to be brutally honest. Soon, old wounds are reopened. After a couple of days, nothing is how it was before. A low-budget debut feature that plays with genres and cliches - a chamber drama in nature.
- DirectorPhilipp HirschStarsMatti Schmidt-SchallerMilena TscharntkeTom GronauGlocke had a simple plan to set the pimp Hermann's SUV on fire, become an internet star and impress Lena. Instead, he drops into a mobile toilette and becomes a web-fail. He decides to follow the web call to hike and search for the drop-out Friedrich. Together with Judith, Steffi, Elias and Paule he heads of into the Harz. As access to internet and smartphones are not allowed the plan to start all over again works and the adventure brings the five together. But each teenager has a secret of their own and soon the hike leads the teens to face their past.
- DirectorSusan GordanshekanStarsPegah FerydoniHadi KhanjanpourHenrike von KuickThey hardly know each other - but now they are married. Mina and Kian met through a traditional Iranian marriage bureau. But although Kian does his best to help Mina find her way in Germany, living together proves difficult.
- DirectorNiels LaupertStarsLudwig TrepteMartin KieferJil FunkeTeenage dropouts Adam and Tommek pass their days hanging out and drinking in their grim housing complex, but as grinding boredom combines with Adam's need to prove himself and Tommek's penchant for petty crime, the two make a bet that plunges them into shocking and sudden violence.
- DirectorPhilipp EichholtzStarsVictoria SchulzAleksandar RadenkovicDaniel ZillmannThe young Berlin schoolteacher Charlie (Victoria Schulz) no longer wants to continue as usual on her chosen path and asks herself what she really wants and needs.
- DirectorEva TrobischStarsAenne SchwarzAndreas DöhlerHans LöwJanne's new boss's brother-in-law rapes her, but she doesn't report the incident and continues her way of life as usual. But her silence has consequences, not only for her but also for the love that she feels for her friend Piet.
- DirectorMichael RöselStarsHede BeckVilmar BieriAntonio Di MauroWest Germany in the 1950s: A scale model artist is hired to build the perfect copy of a film star's villa - but soon realizes that through his model, he has the ability to control the events in the real villa.
- DirectorDennis GanselStarsMoritz BleibtreuKasia SmutniakMax RiemeltA journalist gets caught up in a terrorist plot in Moscow while investigating the Russian secret service.
- DirectorTomy WigandStarsMarianne SägebrechtAnnette FrierMiriam SteinMarguerita wants to go to Rome and see the Pope. She succeeds--but with countless adventures along the way, including a charming con man, a rocker bartender granddaughter, a perpetually worrying daughter and, of course, the Pope.
- DirectorTill EndemannStarsNina KunzendorfBenjamin SadlerAlwara HöfelsA banker's family is to be included in a protection programme after the family father became involved in negligent transactions with a gangster. But he will only receive comprehensive protection if he provides the needed information.
- DirectorMarco KreuzpaintnerStarsGeorg ArmsMatthias BrandtFabian BuschTwo children disappear without a trace. Their grandfather recognizes similarities with an abduction in the past.
- DirectorVolker SchlöndorffStarsBibiana BeglauRichard KropfMartin WuttkeThe riveting true story of Rita Vogt, a 1970s West German terrorist who escapes to the East with the help of the Stasi. She lives in constant fear of having her cover blown, until it unavoidably happens after the German re-unification.
- DirectorChris KrausStarsPaula BeerEdgar SelgeTambet TuiskIn the summer of 1914, thirteen-year-old Oda von Siering (Paula Beer) leaves Berlin to join her family and an assortment of German and Russian aristocrats on an estate in Estonia. The von Siering family home is a character in its own right, a hulking, neoclassical manor that hovers on stilts above the sea. Oda arrives there bearing her mother's coffin and a gift requested by her surgeon father: a jarred, two-headed fetus to add to his laboratory of gruesome curiosities. Ebbo von Siering (Edgar Selge) sees himself in his daughter when she calmly and expertly learns to suture the corpse of a cat. What he fails to recognize - and what Oda luckily understands - is that their interest in science is their only similarity. His dedication to experimentation is linked to an appalling obsession with power and destruction, while Oda is genuinely curious about life. Her quick, quiet intelligence complements her humanity and her lucid understanding of right and wrong. When she strays from a family picnic and discovers a badly wounded Estonian anarchist, she helps him without a second thought, smuggling him into her father's lab and putting her new surgical skills to good use. As their illicit friendship deepens, family turmoil escalates and war closes in. The safe haven of the community collapses, forcing Oda's family to make impossible choices.
- DirectorHelmut MetzgerStarsKatja WeitzenböckRoland KochThure RiefensteinDianne Schönleber is married with Heiko.Her husband will travel to Verona for his business.Dianne thinks that their marriage is happy til one day she receives an anonymous letter with the phrase: "Your husband sleeps with another woman".So she decides to travel immediately by night train to Verona.In the train she meets Anton Brück and they have to share the same compartment.Anton helps her to escape to the identity control because the identity card of Dianne has expired.Anton tells Dianne that his wife was unfaithful and left him.A little before Verona Anton left the compartment because he didn't bought his train ticket.
- DirectorThomas JahnStarsTil SchweigerJan Josef LiefersThierry van WervekeTwo terminally ill patients escape from a hospital, steal a car and rush towards the sea.
- DirectorRainer KaufmannStarsUlrich NoethenUlrich TukurKatja RiemannA married couple meet an old friend of the husband during the vacation. The friend is also on vacation with his wife. The couples start to do things together. The four characters have different feelings about spending time together and the trip makes their inner dissatisfactions come to light.
- DirectorTobi BaumannStarsOliver PocherOliver FleischerEllenie Salvo González29-year-old Simon works in a phone shop, but his thoughts circle around finding a new girlfriend after being left by his last one year ago. However, he finds the woman of his dreams in his most-hated coffee shop.
- DirectorOskar RoehlerStarsJürgen VogelMeret BeckerMoritz BleibtreuThis is a family story that covers 30 years in the life of the Freytag family, narrated by grandson Robert. When his grandfather returns from Russia in 1949, he becomes part of the German "economic miracle" by producing garden gnomes. Robert's father Klaus wants to become a writer. He marries Gisela, who almost immediately gets pregnant with Robert, but the marriage doesn't work. Both parents abandon the boy, who is raised by both sets of grandparents. While his father belongs to the 1960s generation that rebels against their fathers, he falls in love with the neighbor's's daughter Laura.
- DirectorOskar RoehlerStarsJennifer DeckerRay FearonKatrin SassA drama about the relationship between a young black man and a rich German girl.
- DirectorOskar RoehlerStarsHannelore ElsnerVadim GlownaTonio ArangoFlanders, a famous female author, travels 1989 after the fall of the Berlin wall into the German capital. She is deeply depressed of the events because she saw the communistic states as a very good thing that has now ended. In the joy of these days she finds no person to understand her, so she has to travel back to Munich. After meeting several people, known and unknown, it seems as if there will be no way to go.
- DirectorOskar RoehlerStarsRP KahlMarie ZielckeRobert Viktor MinichA young Berlin couple travel to a friend's place for the celebration of Silvester and New Year's Eve. During that period, we witness today's juvenile sub-culture, especially the ways of keeping a partnership - or breaking it up in between.
- DirectorOskar RoehlerStarsAndré HennickeMarie BäumerVadim GlownaAngst is the story of a sensitive stage director, Robert, and his beautiful girlfriend Marie, a doctor in a children's clinic. Their different attitudes toward life lead the two to constant fights and conflicts. When Robert finds out that his father is terminally ill, he feels guilty for not having taken more care of him. Marie tries to help, but when his father dies, Robert falls into a downward spiral of despair. He looks for solace in his work and in one-night stands with prostitutes. When Marie finds out that Robert has betrayed her, she leaves him. However, her love for Robert and her realization that to love someone also means one must be able to forgive, offer hope for a new beginning between the two.
- DirectorFatih AkinStarsBirol ÜnelSibel KekilliGüven KiraçWith the intention to break free from the strict familial restrictions, a suicidal young woman sets up a marriage of convenience with a forty-year-old addict, an act that will lead to an outburst of envious love.
- DirectorSönke WortmannStarsJürgen VogelKai WiesingerGedeon BurkhardWhen dishwasher Ingo, whose girl-friend has just left him, returns a borrowed bar stool to the Folkwang Acting School in Essen, he stumbles into the audition for next year's new students. He lets Johannes, the broke and unsuccessful applicant, stay with him. Ingo decides to go to Munich with Johannes, where he wants to try his luck once again. Hitchhiking, they get rides with very different drivers on the autobahn. They meet up with the smooth-talking Ali in the wayside dinner "Raststätte Spessart". Arriving in Munich, the trio tries to find cheap sleeping accommodation. They enter Ingo into the audition at Munich acting school, and Johannes falls in love with street artist Herta from Berlin.
- DirectorWolfgang BeckerStarsJürgen VogelChristiane PaulRicky TomlinsonAfter he loses his job, his father, and his girlfriend, Jan's life is a shambles. Then suddenly he meets freakish street musician Vera, and a bittersweet romance unfolds...
- DirectorDavid WnendtStarsCarla JuriChristoph LetkowskiMarlen KruseThe adventures of an eccentric girl who has strange attitudes towards hygiene and sexuality longs for the reunion of her divorced parents.
- DirectorMaren AdeStarsSandra HüllerPeter SimonischekMichael WittenbornA practical joking father tries to reconnect with his hard working daughter by creating an outrageous alter ego and posing as her CEO's life coach.
- DirectorRoland Suso RichterStarsHeino FerchNicolette KrebitzSebastian KochDuring the Cold War, Germany was divided into two states - East and West. This epic story tells about their dramatic connections.
- DirectorFrancis MeletzkyStarsJulia KoschitzJürgen VogelAugust ZirnerFor three years investment banker Elena Wagner (Julia Koschitz) was a shooting star at the investment bank Ahrends & Oppermann in Frankfurt. Elena is completely absorbed in climbing the career ladder and unconscionably sacrifices everything for it, including her love affair with IT manager Marc (Jürgen Vogel). When she finds herself cut out of the loop from one day to another from meetings and her boss Dr. Ahrends (August Zirner) is no longer available for her, she reconnects to her ex lover Marc to try and make sense of it. What starts as a coup in the banking milieu snowballs into a human drama about betrayal, money and love in which none of the parties involved wants to lose control
- DirectorLeander HaußmannStarsMichael HerbigJürgen VogelThekla ReutenIn 1938 Hans Zeisig, an apolitical comedian, impersonator and cabaret actor, flees with a Russian passport (instead of American, which he would have preferred) from Nazi-Berlin, and finds himself in the legendary Hotel Lux, the 'lost paradise' of the Comintern, in Moscow. Everyone believes that Zeisig is a man named Hansen, Hitler's personal astrologer. But Zeisig quickly realizes that he's gone from the frying pan into the fire. In the Hotel Lux he meets his friends Frida and later Meyer again, still passionate communists. For the three idealists an adventure between love and death begins to run its course.
- DirectorGerhard ErtlSabine HieblerStarsMeret BeckerMartin GladeMavie HörbigerThree stories about couples who all have a gas station in Austria.
- DirectorChris KrausStarsJürgen VogelNadja UhlMargit CarstensenUn hombre enfermo de leucemia busca desesperadamente un donador de médula.
- DirectorDoris DörrieStarsHeike MakatschBenno FürmannAlexandra Maria LaraThree couples meet for dinner and talk about love and sex.
- DirectorSven TaddickenStarsJördis TriebelJürgen VogelMaik SolbachMax is very ill. He decides to steal in his own company. But when he tries to run away with the money, he has a car accident that takes him to Emma's pigs farm.
- DirectorJan HrebejkStarsBolek PolívkaCsongor KassaiJaroslav DusekIn German-occupied Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (Czechoslovakia), a childless couple agree to hide a Jewish friend at great personal risk of discovery and execution.
- DirectorAndreas KleinertStarsHede BeckJordan Elliot DwyerNora HicklerAuthor Paul Bacher prefers drinking to writing until he runs over a hitchhiker, flees the scene and then returns to dispose of the corpse. The teacher Teresa brings him out of his slump and he starts to write again.
- DirectorMarcus H. RosenmüllerStarsDavid KrossFreya MavorJohn HenshawThe love story of a young English woman and a German PoW, who together overcome prejudice, public hostility and personal tragedy.
- DirectorJulia von HeinzStarsDevid StriesowMartina GedeckKaroline SchuchBased on the book "Ich Bin Dann Mal Weg" by Hape Kerkeling, in which the author describes his journey on the Way of St. James, a pilgrimage route, and the people he encounters there.
- DirectorCaroline LinkStarsJulius WeckaufLuise HeyerSönke MöhringDramatised origin story of one of Germany's most beloved contemporary comedians.
- DirectorNora FingscheidtStarsHelena ZengelAlbrecht SchuchGabriela Maria Schmeide9-year-old Benni is a toss-up between institutions that cannot tackle her outbursts. She wants to move in with her mother, but she can not handle her wild daughter. After Micha is hired Benni slowly opens up and attaches herself to him.
- DirectorOliver KienleStarsLivia RennerLisa VicariChristina HeckeTo realize their culinary and boxing dreams, the daughter of a billionaire forms a mutually beneficial alliance with the son of a struggling single mom.
- DirectorHanns Christian MüllerStarsGerhard PoltGisela SchneebergerThiam AïssatouComedy takes place in the 4th century and is about a Bavarian (Gerhard Polt) named Germanikus, who is kidnapped to Rome and unintentionally causes mischief there.
- DirectorHelmut DietlStarsThomas GottschalkHarald SchmidtVeronica FerresThe program director of a German TV station desperately looks for a new talk master for the Late Show.
- DirectorHelmut DietlStarsGötz GeorgeMario AdorfHeiner LauterbachJakob Windisch has written THE number one bestselling novel. Since he is very shy, no-one has seen him except Uhu Zigeuner who is the designated director of the film adaption. Zigeuner is on the hunt for the woman of his dreams, a woman who should also play the main role in the film. Meanwhile, ruthless producer Oskar Reiter wants to buy the film rights at all costs - and he is struggling for the love of the beautiful Valerie. These and a lot more egos meet every night in a restaurant called "Rossini" where everybody must go so that everybody else sees them.
- DirectorHelmut DietlStarsTowje KleinerMonika SchwarzHelmut FischerThe spin.
- DirectorHelmut DietlStarsJean-Pierre CasselDietmar SchönherrSigi JortzikA woman moves in.
- DirectorPhilipp StölzlStarsHeike MakatschMoritz BleibtreuKatharina ThalbachMaria, the mother of television presenter Lisa Wartberg, has an accident with memory loss. All she can remember is that she has never been to New York. Without further ado, the elderly woman smuggles herself aboard a cruise ship.
- DirectorOskar RoehlerStarsEdgar SelgeKatja FlintRalf RichterA successful novel writer called Dr. Jekyll feels haunted by Hyde, a character from his latest novel who somehow materialized. When Jekyll awakens from a surreal nightmare he realizes that Hyde took his penis away, leaving only a hole behind, what finally turns out to be the beginning of a psychological and at times quite campy journey through male fears of loss of power, identity and youth.
- DirectorMartin WeinhartStarsJürgen VogelNicolette KrebitzAndré EisermannLiving and loving in a small village in the south of Germany. People and their conflicts with morality, manners, and society.
- DirectorKaspar HeidelbachStarsKlaus J. BehrendtClotilde CourauJürgen VogelEarly nineties. The political and economic landscape of Poland, Russia and Germany is changing. Both good and bad sides of freedom are revealed. The mafia is becoming more and more bold, operating without obstacles across borders. One of the more lucrative "businesses" is the trade in luxury cars, stolen in Germany and transferred to Russia by Russia.
- DirectorHorst Johann SczerbaHerrmann ZschocheStarsMeret BeckerJürgen VogelArmin RohdeFreddie and his sister Rita have lost their parents when they were still young. Now they are managing life in a rather strange way: Freddie works as a detective in a department store and blackmails clients whom he catches stealing; and Rita is a nurse but she hopes to be descovered as a singer appearing in a striptease show on television.
- DirectorUrs OdermattStarsMichael GwisdekAnica DobraJürgen Vogel
- DirectorRainer KaufmannStarsChristian NätheJürgen VogelNicolette KrebitzChristoph Hansen, 16 year old son of a well-to-do Hamburg family is shocked when is father is arrested as a suspect in the murder of a male teen prostitute. Resolved to find the real killer on his own to clear his family name, he starts his investigation in the seedy part of town around the central station, where the street kids hang out - only to find that there's a whole different world that normal people like him don't usually see.
- DirectorMatthias GlasnerStarsDani LevyJasmin TabatabaiJürgen VogelA film about life's problems and the love affairs of two men and women in their twenties. They pretend to suffer from the mediocrity of their lives but in fact try to cover their own lack of perspective and inner emptiness. Setted in scene surprisingly amusing, this crazy and happy Zeitgeist-Comedy abstains from a comment while describing those people in their vividness as well as in their incapacity of giving their existence any sense. Therefore, the film becomes a both interesting and alarming seismograph for mental concussions and shortfalls.
- DirectorDani LevyStarsMaria SchraderMark SchlichterJürgen VogelSensing that their relationship is crumbling, Christian avoids celebrating Christmas with his girlfriend Julia and heads for Paris. Alone in their Berlin flat, Julia decides that this is the time to drop her lover Frank, so she invites him to dinner. Deciding between the two men grows harder as Frank keeps impressing Julia with his wit and sex appeal, while Christian annoys her with a series of desperate calls from his refuge.
- DirectorMatthias GlasnerStarsCorinna HarfouchJürgen VogelThomas HeinzeEdgar, a convicted serial killer, is told by the female prison doctor that he will die of a brain tumor within days. Holding her hostage he manages to escape intending to quietly enjoy his freedom for the time left, but word spreads among the witnesses and survivors of his crimes. They all arm themselves, desperately seeking revenge.
- DirectorBernd BöhlichStarsMaria SchraderJürgen VogelChristian RedlA small settlement on the outskirts of Berlin: the siblings Jeanine and Steffen Menzel are missing. After a long search, the police find the bodies of the two children in a nearby bush - they have been cruelly murdered.
- DirectorBernd SchadewaldStarsJürgen VogelChristiane PaulLaura TonkeThe movie tells the story of Ivan Varvakis (Ioannis Varvakis) born 1745 on Psara as Ioannis Leontidis and died 1825 in Zakynthos. He was a Greek-born pirat and later Russian nobleman, decorated with the Imperial Russian Order of St. Anne and the Order of St. Vladimir. Varvakis was famous for his charity and was an important member of the Greek secret society Filiki Eteria. In his old age, he was an active participant in the Greek Revolution.
- DirectorJan SchütteStarsJürgen VogelJulia KravitzLars RudolphMunich, Germany. Homeless people live under bridges, in boxes, in the subway. A life that is hard but manageable for those who do not want to or who cannot leave. Hagen Trinker, still quite young and definitely not out of possibilities to give his life a meaning, meets Judith. She is 15 and decided to quit home as she had a fight with her parents. Hagen has a crush on her but also wants to send her back into a life without a daily struggle for living. When she also falls in love with him, he takes this present gratefully. But their happiness is over as quickly as it started. Only that Hagen now has the will to do something with his life again.
- DirectorSven TaddickenStarsMartina GedeckUlrich TukurJohannes KrischEmotionally broken and in the middle of a profound spiritual crisis, an orderly and composed housewife will embark on a platonic relationship with a psychologist seeking help. However, he too is a mere mortal.
- DirectorMichael RowitzStarsHannelore HogerFrederick LauAnna BrüggemannA music student must come to terms with his grandmother's dementia.
- DirectorMiguel AlexandreStarsKen DukenRegula GrauwillerGregor TörzsThree jailers, a wheelchaired man and a mentally handicapped girl climb a mountain in the alps along with their supervisors.
- DirectorLeni RiefenstahlStarsLeni RiefenstahlA collection of underwater footage directed by Leni Riefenstahl over nearly 30 years.
- DirectorRoberto RosselliniStarsEdmund MoeschkeErnst PittschauIngetraud HinzeA young German boy faces the problems of the tough life in the immediate post-WWII Berlin.
- DirectorMarco PetryStarsMerlin RoseLisa VicariMax von der GroebenAndi has had an inferiority complex since childhood and not only has to deal with it, but also with girls, feelings and genitalia in different sizes