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- DirectorAnno SaulStarsDenis MoschittoNora TschirnerEmanuel BettencourtIn Hamburg, Ibrahim "Ibo" Secmez, of Turkish descent, wants to direct the first German kung-fu movie. For now he makes commercials for his uncle's kebab restaurant. When Titzie, Ibo's aspiring-actress girlfriend, finds out that she's pregnant, Ibo's uncertainty about fatherhood is compounded by his own father's disowning him for getting a German girl pregnant--so Titzie sends him packing. He makes attempts at getting it right, but as the birth approaches, he's still not ready. In the background are three thugs in search of good tripe soup and a Capulet-Montague feud between the kebab joint and the Greek taverna across the street. Can Ibo be the glove upon that hand?
- DirectorChristian AlvartStarsNorman ReedusChristian von AsterAndré HennickeWanted for a long time, serial killer Gabriel Engel gets arrested in a spectacular police raid. Small town cop Michael Martens travels to the big city to interrogate him and finds out more than he is looking for.
- DirectorTill EndemannStarsJacob MatschenzAlice DwyerAdrian TopolMalte lives in Usedom, an island in the Baltic, very popular for its sunshine. The young boy survives with difficulty thanks to a small job in a snack bar but especially thanks to the smuggling of cigarettes. But Malta can no longer bear living with her alcoholic father. The return of her sister, who had left for Poland five years earlier, and her son Lukas, as well as her meeting with Annika, a young tourist, turns her life upside down.
- 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.
- DirectorPéter PalátsikStarsAnna FinTim WilliamsDan van HusenWhat do you do when love turns into suspicion and mourning turns to fear? When Marian gets word that her brother Michael has committed suicide, she travels to Berlin to sort out his life. Marian reunites with her childhood friend Susanne who offers to help her pack up Michael s things. Together, they find unnerving photographs and clues that something might not be right
- DirectorDaniel HedfeldRené SydowStarsJochen KolendaSebastian SommerfeldKathrin HildebrandtA hunting turns into a psychological thriller when one of the huntsmen is found dead.
- DirectorTobi BaumannStarsOliver KalkofeBastian PastewkaThomas FritschA mysterious serial killer is shocking the underworld. Scotland Yard is investigating the case. Clues lead the detectives to Blackwhite Castle.
- DirectorCyrill BossPhilipp StennertStarsOliver KalkofeBastian PastewkaJoachim FuchsbergerThe Vexxer is back. The notorious criminal mastermind wants to murder seven people in one day. Inspectors Even Longer and Very Long will do everything in their power to stop the Vexxer.
- DirectorRoland ReberStarsWolfgang SeidenbergMarina Anna EichMira GittnerA Man (Wolfgang Seidenberg) realizes the absurd emptiness of his life and leaves home, without actually knowing what he's running from as well as what he's looking for. After a ride on a taxi he ends up in a rather derelict area of town. In an abandoned business areal he runs into Godot (Mira Gittner), who is rummaging the city sewers for life's unwanted debris. During the night, the Man meets his inner self, his past and his demons. He reviews his former life, looking for meaning among (and between) the multitudes of social mannerisms of his past. In his flashbacks, he meets up with his family, his wife and loved ones, and goes on a trip trough his (and thus every other) existence. The memories are presented as differently twisted TV shows. Flipping through the channels and aided by Godot, the Man follows his own train of thought, guiding the members of the audience to their own lifes' cores.
- DirectorRoland ReberStarsMira GittnerMarcus GrüsserMarina Anna EichSophie, a student of Egyptology as well as Christoph, an out-of-work actor, apply to a classified ad in the newspaper for a job. "Someone to look after my house for six weeks - good pay." It's a box number ad, and both get the job - with one not knowing about the other. They enter the house and meet each other. Sophie doesn't want to stay six weeks in a house with an unknown man. So thinks Christoph: he doesn't like the idea either. But, after the postman brought two registered letters with advance payment, they decide to try it. The rules say that both of them can do what they want in that house except one thing; there is one room which they are not allowed to enter, and is to remain locked. They barely agree to this arrangement when strange things begin to occur. Sophie and Christoph are looking after a house with a locked room - where everything (...or nothing) can be concealed from others. "All houses have a forbidden room" says Christoph, Sophie's answer, "just like our soul."
- 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.
- DirectorChristian PetzoldStarsBenno FürmannNina HossAntje WestermannPhilipp Gerber is a smart, self-satisfied car salesman. In an inattentive moment at the wheel of his car, he runs over a young boy riding a bike and drives away. As he has feelings of guilt, he tries to find out more about the accident's victim and learns that the boy lies seriously injured in a hospital. Philipp wants to tell his mother, Laura Reiser, the truth, but he doesn't. After a carefree holiday with his girlfriend Katja, he learns that the boy is dead. Meanwhile, Laura staggers between grief and the desire for revenge. One evening, she can't bear it anymore and jumps off a bridge, but Philipp saves her life.
- DirectorOliver RihsStarsJule BöweMilan PeschelJenny Deimling"Black Sheep" is about urban Berlin Lifestyle. About a bunch of hopeless losers, who are trying, to get the big money with the strangest plans. There is an Ex-Handmodel for Rolex, who wants to seduce a yuppie girl and cheat his insurance company. There is an East-German woman and her drunken artist boyfriend playing Lotto. Some satanists, who are planing a ritual with their grandmother. Two young anarchists, who are testing a new kind of Ego-economy. And last, but not least, three horny Turkish boys, who are stealing cash, to meet a prostitute. A lighthearted, stylish comedy in a electric Berlin, full of surreal moments. About material illusions and true love.
- DirectorLeander HaußmannStarsTom SchillingChristian SengewaldJulia DietzeA young game designer falls in love with an older woman and suddenly his whole life turns upside down.
- DirectorJohannes FabrickStarsWotan Wilke MöhringMatilda MerkelNick Julius SchuckA young mother and wife fights with depression which leads to committing suicide. The story follows lives of her beloved ones, husband and children, after this horrifying act.
- DirectorRoland ReberStarsCarolina HoffmannChristoph BaumannThomas KollhoffILLUSION is a film about people, their wishes, fears, hopes and longings. A glance behind the facade of daily routine. A visually stunning cycle between reality and illusion, a carousel of emotions with thrilling twists. Eight people that cannot be more different meet in a BAR. For one night they escape their everyday life which is paralyzed of rituals and find themselves in a journey to their world of thoughts, their quintessential lust. Oppressed wishes, sexual fantasies and fears come to the surface and forgotten experiences are revealed. The evening takes its course.
- DirectorRalf MöllenhoffStarsTanek SeranekMalte GutkowskiRocco FinamoreSix young people on their way to a joint holiday - when the tank gets empty they find themselves stranded in the midst of an unknown wilderness. Everything looks perfect, but near an old graveyard Christin gets attacked by a deranged man and injured by his bite. Looking for help Web and Eddie discover an outlying house, its basement barricaded with solid perforated plates. Additionally a high metal fence seems to protect the shabby property from something. At last they are let into this odd fortress but even there the distraught feeling of a permanent threat won't cease. They do not know that the strange lady is hiding something at her garden: Something that is hungry for human flesh. Alarmed, they discover something incredibly dangerous has already changed the whole world. Old-school horror movie filmed on grainy super 8 with slowly walking dead. Very fine traditional zombie story in the way of zombie master Romero.
- DirectorDaniel AchtAli EckertStarsFabian BuschWotan Wilke MöhringMonica Nancy WickFlo and his buddy Hotte work in the lousy video store Video König in Neukölln. No wonder, because Hotte shines with zero film knowledge, and Flo has to deal with the fact that his girlfriend left him.
- DirectorRobert ThalheimStarsAlexander FehlingRyszard RonczewskiBarbara WysockaA civil service worker befriends an elderly concentration camp survivor.
- DirectorPatrick TaussStarsKaren BöhneStipe ErcegBernadette HeerwagenThe 30-year-old Fabo wanders aimlessly through the night and drowns his frustration in alcohol.
- DirectorFranz MüllerStarsSimon LichtMehdi NebbouAlexander Hörbe3 Germans. 2 midlife crises. But only 1 Ireland.
- DirectorChristian WitteStarsMartin Hentschel
- DirectorLars HenriksStarsElena MeißnerDavid AdamsAnna BergA look into the lives of a dysfunctional family after the father dies.
- DirectorAkizStarsCarolyn GenzkowSina TkotschWilson GonzalezAfter attending a rave party, a teenage girl forms a bond with a strange monster as she suffers a slow chaotic mental breakdown.
- DirectorRoland ReberStarsAntje MönningAndreas PeglerWolfgang SeidenbergWhat does life taste of? For joyful Nikki the answer is clear: of pleasure. Delightfully she enjoys this at every possible occasion, as she drives through the country looking for people and their stories for her video-blog.
- DirectorMatthias KutschmannStarsDavid Hugo SchmitzMaximilian MundtJan BülowThe 80s: Four friends in western Germany try to impress girls with bad singing and worse dancing. They find out that to find your significant other it isn't enough to be just a pretty girl, neither it helps to be a showoff.
- DirectorMarc RothemundStarsKostja UllmannJacob MatschenzAnna Maria MüheAn ambitious young man struggles to achieve his dream of becoming an employee in a Munich luxury hotel despite being strongly visually impaired.
- DirectorLars JessenJacques PalmingerRocko SchamoniStarsDevid StriesowHeinz StrunkRocko SchamoniAn inept music manager documents his attempt of bringing about a comeback of the 80s techno pioneers Fraktus, who in the past 30 years have disconnected both from each other and their music.
- DirectorAlexandra SellStarsUlrike KrumbiegelAnnekathrin BürgerMaria RogozinaAnnebärbel's life and feelings have become as frigid as a block of ice. At the age of 58, she stands as an unfriendly monument to former times. As a doctor, she shows little compassion, and as a wife, not much love. Only her domineering mother elicits human emotions from her. Negative ones at that. No matter what she does, it is never good enough for her mother. Even less so since her daughter took over her practice. But everything starts to change when Annebärbel's husband leaves her and she is forced to take stock of her life. In the process, she makes a journey deep into her past, and attempts to live her childhood dream, which she had to give up all these years ago due to her mother: figure skating. With wobbly, tentative legs, she steps into a world full of chilly magic: the skating rink. This is when she has to admit that people are part of the equation as well, and they haven't exactly been waiting for "Dr Horrid" to come stumbling in front of their blades. The misanthropic Annebärbel has to endure a wide array of interpersonal conflicts, before she finds, on the ice rink, the kind of warmth she didn't know she needed: she forms a warm friendship with a young woman who is a top athlete, a group of aged amateur skaters show her how to lust for life, and she meets the 1974 World Figure Skating Champion, Christine Stüber-Errath, from Berlin. And so it is the ice that makes Annebärbel open up, and begin to emancipate herself from her mother and her own icy ways.
- DirectorTobias WiemannStarsMia KasaloSamuel GirardiSusanne BormannA girl struggling with asthma is taken to a clinic in South Tyrol to be cured. After some time she decides to get out of this hell (that's how she feels about it) and soon she meets a new friend. Together they try to reach the peak of a mountain where, according to an old custom, she can be healed.
- StarsAnnette FrierAnna SchudtElena UhligIt has been 25 years since they graduated from high school or could have done it if they had not graduated beforehand, had done laps of honor or simply failed. Now they see each other again at the class reunion, the former top of the class, the former genius, the ex-class brat, the ex-class ass, meanwhile in their mid-40s, and suddenly face the people with whom they dreamed their future life back then . But what has actually happened in reality now? With others, but also with yourself? Annette Frier, Charly Hübner, Anja Kling, Jeanette Hain, Nina Kunzendorf, Fabian Hinrichs, Oliver Wnuk, Elena Uhlig, Kida Khodr Ramadan, Anna Schudt, Christian Kahrmann, Marek Harloff, Aurel Manthei, Nadja Zwanziger, Nicole Kersten, Guido Renner, Björn Jung: That is the impressive list of actors and actresses who came to play with 17 former classmates without a text or a well-written story. Burghart Klaußner slipped into the role of the teacher who doesn't want to miss a reunion with his old students. Without knowing the full life path of all the other characters, the actors improvised for two days on the basis of their role profiles and their own life experience, they got into unpredictable situations, astonished the others - and probably sometimes also themselves - with quick-wittedness and dramaturgical imagination and developed in this way moments and stories full of humor, melancholy and truthfulness.
- DirectorHape KerkelingStarsHape KerkelingHeinz SchenkElisabeth VolkmannPeter Schlönzke, adoring fan a TV show wants to be like the show's host. When he attends a talent contest, he fails entirely and manages to get only a job as cable person. His backstage view lets him see the real personality of his idol.
- DirectorSteffen WeinertStarsChristoph BachMaggie Valentina SalomonAlwara HöfelsEight-year-old Jana desperately needs a heart donor. But the months pass and there is no suitable organ. Out of desperation, her father Micha - against the advice of the doctors and the will of his wife - turns to illegal organ traders.
- DirectorArne FeldhusenStarsChristoph Maria HerbstMilena DreißigBjarne MädelThe movie spin-off of the TV series centered around the incompetent boss of a German insurance office.
- DirectorEd HerzogStarsSebastian BezzelIlse NeubauerEisi Gulp'Die, you pig!'. The words are emblazoned on the wall of school principal Höpfl's home for all the villagers to see. Soon after, this very man is found lying dead as a doornail on the train tracks. Franz Eberhofer, the local policeman in the sleepy Lower Bavarian province of Niederkaltenkirchen, suspects murder. And the prospect is one that does not entirely displease him, as this backwoods offers very little excitement other than the fantastic meals with his cooking-obsessed Grandma or the constant stress with his Beatles-loving Dad. He is supported by Rudi Birkenberger, now a department-store detective but previously with Franz in the Munich detective squad until both were suspended. The Höpfl case gets even more tangled when a second corpse is found, that of a drug-addict hustler with whom Höpfl had been in contact. Franz must also cope with the fact that his Susi is having an affair and he thinks the lover is the Thai offspring of his estranged brother, who is supposed to be their babysitter.
- DirectorRoland ReberStarsWaltraut BorchmannChristian BuseMarina Anna EichWhat is life? Is it the yearning of a lover, the fear of growing old, the rebellious struggle for a dignified death or the hunt for the most clicks? Is it maybe just a show?
- DirectorEd HerzogStarsSebastian BezzelSimon SchwarzLisa Maria PotthoffCrime comedy set in a village somewhere in Bavaria, centering around a village policeman's attempt to solve a murder case, his chaotic private life and the dysfunctional relationship with his wacky father.
- DirectorEd HerzogStarsSebastian BezzelSimon SchwarzLisa Maria PotthoffPolice officer Franz Eberhofer is woken up by his colleagues because his boss Barschl has been killed. The murder weapon is Franz' knife, so he is suspected to be the murderer of his hated boss.
- DirectorMichael HanekeStarsChristian FriedelErnst JacobiLeonie BeneschStrange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. Who is responsible?
- DirectorFelix SchäferStarsMaryan BartillaRoger BonjourMaximilian DirrSix men meet at a surprise party. A note left behind reveals that they are part of a therapeutic intervention. Reluctantly, they surrender to their destiny and embark on a journey to explore their own selves.
- DirectorSarah WinkenstetteStarsYoran LeicherAnna KönigAndreas NicklA bullied 12-year-old boy bonds over soccer with a 11-year-old Syrian refugee.
- DirectorDennis GanselStarsHenning BaumSolomon GordonAnnette FrierJim Button and Luke the Engine Driver embark on an adventurous journey through fantastic worlds to free the kidnapped Princess Li Si from the impenetrable Dragon City and solve the secret of Jim's mysterious origins.
- DirectorRichard HuberStarsRainer BockSerkan KayaJoachim KrólAn official becomes a puppet of the Cologne upper class.
- DirectorJochen TaubertStarsMarkus BeyerThomas BinderUwe ChorobaThe film deals with the American Civil War in a way that makes both armies appear to be sadists.
- DirectorCandy FlipTheo MeowStarsHendrik AdamsCandy FlipJenzFour depressive teenagers withdraw from patriarchal society to start a new life in a mountain hideout. They transform their misery and melancholia into pornography for their website "Sad Girls" - and use the money they earn to fund their survival. For them, sadness is an act of counter-cultural resistance. Just when everything seems to be going fine, the arrival of two gonzo reporters threatens to upset the fragile balance of this feminist micro-utopia. A mockumentary about about sad porn stars, feminism and fragile masculinities.
- DirectorCaroline LinkStarsJulius WeckaufLuise HeyerSönke MöhringDramatised origin story of one of Germany's most beloved contemporary comedians.
- DirectorCarlos Andrés MorelliStarsMark WaschkeAnna BrüggemannKasimir BrauseMarried but separated couple Matthias and Anna, marital wounds still open, get together to plan their son Lukas' birthday party. When, at the end of the party, little guest Julius isn't picked up by his parents, a rapid chain of events takes place. First Matthias just wants to get rid of Julius, but later the helpless little boy awakens Matthias' protector instincts and opens his eyes to his own son's needs.
- DirectorLars HenriksStarsChiara LüssowVanessa GrzybowskiLuisa HöferEmily desperately wants to be an actress. When a weird theater troupe of misfits take her in, she is excited at first. But the group turns out to be a deadly cult.
- DirectorHelge SchneiderStarsHelge SchneiderPeter ThomsEva KurowskiRods fever.
- DirectorRalf HuettnerHelge SchneiderStarsHelge SchneiderPeter ThomsBuddy CasinoA parody of a western filmed in the country of Karl May, a German writer famous for his adventure books which feature the Apache Winnetou.
- DirectorChristoph SchlingensiefHelge SchneiderStarsHelge SchneiderHelmut KörschgenAndreas KunzeDetective 00 Schneider has to return from retirement to catch a mad art collector.
- DirectorJan-Ole GersterStarsTom SchillingKatharina SchüttlerJustus von DohnányiAn aimless university dropout attempts to make sense of life as he spends one fateful day wandering the streets of Berlin.
- DirectorLeander HaußmannStarsChristian UlmenKatja DanowskiDetlev BuckBarkeeper Frank, semi-formally called "Herr Lehmann", is part of a lethargic West Berlin-microcosm. His lifestyle is disturbed when his parents show up for a visit, things go awry with his girlfriend and his best friend acts strange.
- DirectorJohannes FabrickStarsTimur BartelsNatalia BelitskiCarla DemminA young assistant doctor is confronted with bad cases of abused children. She is shocked at how complicated it is to hold responsible parents accountable.
- DirectorHans-Christian SchmidStarsAugust DiehlFabian BuschDieter LandurisWhen the orphaned Karl Koch and his friend David start breaking into government and military computers, an acquaintance senses that there is money in computer cracking - and travels to east Berlin to try to contact the KGB.
- DirectorChristoph SchneeStarsTobias SchäferMartin BrambachTim Oliver SchultzThe biggest Bank crash after WWII caused by young money dealers