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- DirectorThomas SiebenStarsFriedrich MückeLiv Lisa FriesArnd SchimkatThe Dam tells the story of young man called Roman, who is working for an attorney. Roman has to travel to a small village in Bavaria, in order to get some files from a local police station. These files keep records about a high school massacre committed by a student a year ago. Due to bureaucratic reasons, Roman has to stay in the village for a few days. By accident he meets a young girl called Laura, who has survived the massacre. By becoming more acquainted to Laura, Roman also becomes more interested in the tragic event. Later on he realizes that Laura is hiding a secret. She has been more involved in the incident.
- DirectorHans WeingartnerTobias AmannStarsDaniel BrühlAnabelle LachattePatrick JoswigKati, Jochen and Lukas take a trip on magic mushrooms. Lukas is not coming back.
- DirectorOlaf SaumerStarsKlaus Dieter BangeHildegard SchroedterKatja GötzAt sunrise five people meet on a high rise rooftop in order to leap to their deaths.
- DirectorPut Puttipong NakthongTheresa von EltzStarsPaula BeerJella HaaseJannis NiewöhnerChristmas is approaching, and with it, desire for harmony, beauty, light, and hope.
- DirectorHelge SchneiderStarsHelge SchneiderPeter BerlingAndreas KunzeAn eccentric doctor tries as best he can to lead a pleasant life, despite the bad tricks played by the residents of an orphanage.
- DirectorHans WeingartnerStarsPeter SchneiderTimur MassoldHenrike von KuickTwo misfit males, one man-child, one boy, find each other, building a small cabin in the woods to create a new life. Their daily struggle for survival creates a strong bond between them until the hut is destroyed and one of the boys carted off. The former psychiatric patient is told that his friend was just a figment of his imagination, but this provokes him to fight back and prove the boy's existence.
- DirectorBettina BlümnerStarsJasna Fritzi BauerUlrich NoethenMax HegewaldTeenage Sascha has two dreams: to write a novel about her mother and to take revenge on her step-father who brutally murdered her.
- DirectorWinfried BonengelStarsAaron HildebrandChristian BlümelJule FlierlRepentant ex neo-Nazi Ingo Hasselbach's autobiographical experiences are the basis for "Fuhrer Ex". Two friends dream of escaping the oppression of communist GDR in 1980s in Berlin. When they finally make an attempt, however, they are imprisoned. In jail, they allow themselves to be indoctrinated into the hate-fueled neo-Nazi movement to try and survive their incarceration. The question is how much they will allow the ideology to dominate them once they've been released. "Fuhrer Ex" examines the value and costs of both personal and political comradeship.
- DirectorAdolf WinkelmannStarsCharly HübnerOscar BroseLina BeckmannJulian is a 12-year-old boy whose family is just scraping by in the Ruhr industrial region of Germany in the early 1960s . When his mother and younger sister go away for a while, he is left mostly alone in the apartment while his father works in the coal mine. He has to confront the confusing world of adults and older boys and the older girl next door on his own. Finally events build up and threaten to tear the family apart.
- DirectorSebastian SchipperStarsLaia CostaFrederick LauFranz RogowskiA young Spanish woman who has recently moved to Berlin finds her flirtation with a local guy turn potentially deadly as their night out with his friends reveals a dangerous secret.
- DirectorDetlev BuckStarsDavid KrossJenny ElversErhan EmreFrom the youth directed novel of the same name by Greogor Tressnow comes a film by Detlev Buck that is a realistic portrait of life in the section of Berlin called Neukölln. It's about power and weakness, delinquents and victims, and the difficulties a 15-year-old faces in a poor and criminal environment.
- DirectorThomas ArslanStarsTamer YigitIdil ÜnerBirol ÜnelCan is a drug dealer in Berlin. He sees no way to change his situation until his supplier Hakan offers him to run a bar, but then Hakan is shot. Abandoned by his girlfriend Jale, Can is then arrested and sentenced to four years in prison.
- DirectorThomas ArslanStarsTamer YigitKool SavasSerpil TurhanErol, Ahmed and Leyla live with their Turkish father and German mother in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Erol, a petty criminal, will save the family honor by completing his military service in Turkey. However, he must first confront his loan shark.
- DirectorUwe FrießnerStarsCarmen-Maja AntoniThomas BestvaterOliver Bröcker17 year old Fredy is unemployed. His parents are alcoholics and cannot give him any support. He finds confirmation in a group of neo-Nazis who soon put their right-wing extremist slogans into practice.
- DirectorZüli AladagStarsOktay ÖzdemirRobert HöllerAugust ZirnerZüli Aladag's critically acclaimed, but controversial movie deals with the conflict of Can, son of Turkish immigrants, and the Laubs, a supposedly liberal middle class family. Simon Laub, professor of literature, and his wife Christa, real estate agent, live with their son Felix in a safe and quiet Berlin district. However, Felix gets in trouble with Can, son of a Turkish greengrocer, who starts to tyrannize the family. As he is annoyed by the boy's attacks, Simon -despite his political correct attitude- humiliates Can, which starts a vicious circle of anger and violence...
- DirectorDavid WnendtStarsAlina LevshinJella HaaseSayed AhmadMarisa hates foreigners; she finds them guilty of the decline of her country. But her convictions will slowly evolve when she accidentally meets a young Afghan refugee.
- DirectorFlorian Henckel von DonnersmarckStarsUlrich MüheMartina GedeckSebastian KochIn 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.
- DirectorTini TüllmannStarsFelix SchäferJessica SchwarzGreta BohacekWhile Freddys world collapses, Eddy, his childhood imaginary friend reappears. And he looks exactly like him but turns out to be a horrific version of himself. How to prove someone who used to be a product of your own mind is alive?
- DirectorDani LevyStarsHelge SchneiderUlrich MüheSylvester GrothThis action comedy is set in 1944. Hitler appears in it as a physically and mentally destroyed person who takes the advice of Goebbels and goes to a Jewish concentration camp to receive lessons in eloquence to inspire the German people to continue to fight.
- DirectorHanno BrühlStarsBjörn JungNatascha BonnermannWilli Herren
- DirectorMarc BrummundStarsLouis HofmannAlexander HeldStephan GrossmannSummer 1968. 14 year old Wolfgang is deported from his family in the secluded Church Welfare Institution sanctuary. One thing is clear for Wolfgang: His yearning for freedom, he will not soon buried in the bog.
- DirectorWolfgang BeckerStarsDaniel BrühlKatrin SassChulpan KhamatovaIn 1990, to protect his fragile mother from a fatal shock after a long coma, a young man must keep her from learning that her beloved nation of East Germany as she knew it has disappeared.
- DirectorHannes StöhrStarsPaul KalkbrennerRita LengyelCorinna HarfouchA man tours clubs around the globe with his manager and girlfriend. On the eve of their largest album release he is admitted to a psychiatric clinic after overdosing at a gig.
- DirectorUli EdelStarsNatja BrunckhorstEberhard AurigaPeggy BussieckA teen girl in 1970s Berlin becomes addicted to heroin. Everything in her life slowly begins to distort and disappear as she befriends a small crew of junkies and falls in love with a drug-abusing male prostitute.
- DirectorLars KraumeStarsLeonard ScheicherTom GramenzLena KlenkeA group of twelfth-grade pupils in East Germany decide to show their solidarity with the victims of the 1956 Hungarian uprising by staging two minutes of silence during lessons.
- DirectorAndreas DresenStarsMerlin RoseJulius NitschkoffJoel BasmanIn 1990s east Germany, three boys are in love with techno music and start their own club.
- DirectorTil SchweigerStarsTil SchweigerNora TschirnerMatthias SchweighöferRainbow press reporter Ludo is sentenced to 8 months; he's released on probation but must work at a local daycare center for 300 hours. He meets Anna, who has unfinished business with him.
- DirectorEkrem EngizekStarsBurak DorukHivzo LekovicTito UysalFour Turkish friends who make their living as small time drug dealers in Stuttgart, Germany, get in over their heads when they receive a shipment of Colombian cocaine.
- DirectorDamian John HarperStarsAaron AltarasPeri BaumeisterMartin BrambachEric is a junkie who lives to party. He is addicted to the one drug that makes him feel invincible- "like Jesus and the terminator at the same time." When he is accepted to an acting school in Berlin, he tries to reconnect with his great love Anja (Peri Baumeister), change his life, and strive to be better. But numerous conflicts and issues follow him, leaving him to retreat back to his old ways as other situations escalate.
- DirectorDennis GanselStarsJürgen VogelFrederick LauMax RiemeltA high school teacher's experiment to demonstrate to his students what life is like under a dictatorship spins horribly out of control when he forms a social unit with a life of its own.
- DirectorFatih AkinStarsJonas DasslerVasiliki Georgina PseimadaChristine JensenA serial killer strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s.
- DirectorAlireza GolafshanStarsTom SchillingKlaas Heufer-UmlaufLisa BitterA good natured comedy about tax evasion and disability.
- DirectorDavid NawrathStarsRainer BockAlbrecht SchuchThorsten MertenWalter is a 60-year-old removal man for forced evictions. He recognizes in one of the tenants about to be evicted his estranged son, Jan. In order to help Jan, Walter has to confront not only his crooked boss but also his own past.
- DirectorStephan RickStarsJürgen ProchnowMoritz BleibtreuNora WaldstättenA psychedelic mushroom trip turns a successful lawyer into a wanted man.
- 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.
- DirectorWolfgang PetersenStarsMarie-Luise MarjanWolfgang GrönebaumHeinz SchachtEvery day they clean the dirty windows of their cars from the filthy film that has formed overnight. Measuring stations call a low smog warning. But one day a soccer player collapses on the pitch with breathlessness.
- DirectorBernd BöhlichStarsAlexandra Maria LaraRobert StadloberStefan KurtAfter her return from a Russian Gulag, Antonia is forced to keep her horrible experiences secret in favor of the new socialistic GDR. When she can't conceal the past despite much effort, her newly regained freedom is taken away once again.
- DirectorSherry HormannStarsAlmila BagriacikRauand TalebMerve AksoyAynur, a German woman of Kurdish-Turkish descent, struggles for a free, self-determined life in the face of her family's opposition. Her brothers insult and threaten her until she finally reports her oldest brother to the police.
- DirectorJulia von HeinzStarsMala EmdeNoah SaavedraTonio SchneiderHow far one is willing to go for the sake of one's political commitment.
- DirectorPeter FleischmannStarsHelmut GriemFernando ArrabalCarline SeiserThe BRD is haunted by a mysterious, deadly plague. In Hamburg, a group of people head for an odyssey through the country to search for survivors and a rescue.
- DirectorHenning GronkowskiStarsJanaina LiesenfeldEmily LauJoy GrantYUNG is a trip following four young girls into the pulsating and hedonistic subculture of modern day Berlin. But above all, it's a pure, rough and authentic pic about friendship.
- DirectorMichael HanekeStarsGabriel Cosmin UrdesLukas MikoOtto Grünmandl71 scenes revolving around a recent immigrant, a couple that has just adopted a daughter, a college student and a lonely old man.
- DirectorChristian PetzoldStarsBenno FürmannNina HossHilmi SözerThe dishonorably discharged Afghanistan veteran Thomas returns to his home village of Jerichow. Ali, a local Turkish-German businessman, owner of a snack-bar chain, hires him as a driver. That's when Thomas meets Laura, his Turkish boss's young and attractive wife. A classic love triangle is born, unfolding in desolate northeast Germany, where thick forests suddenly end on cliffs overlooking the Baltic Sea. Caught between guilt and freedom, between passion and reason, the protagonists have no hopes for fulfillment of their dreams.
- DirectorMarie KreutzerStarsValerie PachnerPia HierzeggerMavie HörbigerA high-powered business consultant struggles to keep her professional and personal lives from colliding after her schizophrenic sister attempts suicide.
- DirectorKim LonginottoZiba Mir-HosseiniA documentary about real divorce cases in Iran's tribunals.
- DirectorTom TykwerStarsFranka PotenteBenno FürmannJoachim KrólTwo enamoured strangers look for a warm place in a cold world.
- DirectorSönke WortmannStarsNilam FarooqChristoph Maria HerbstHassan AkkouchA university professor's ignorance is exposed when he must prepare a student for a debate.
- DirectorPhilipp KlingerStarsSarah MahitaBéla Gabor LenzStephan Szasz17-year-old Rebekka has been feeling empty and hollow since her brother Dennis' suicide two years ago. His friend Vincent is the only one who can help her through this difficult time, but he's an outsider, accepted by nobody--especially since he jumped off the bridge with Dennis and survived. Although Rebekka's parents do not want her to spend time with Vincent, the two start a relationship that is healing and destructive at the same time. When things are threatening to escalate, Rebekka must leave everything behind to find her way back to herself.
- DirectorAndreas DresenStarsMeltem KaptanAlexander ScheerCharly HübnerDesperate to help her son, Rabiye Kurnaz, a housewife and loving mother from Bremen, goes to the police, notifies authorities and almost despairs at their impotence and in the end, against all the odds, something truly remarkable happens.