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- DirectorPhilipp StölzlStarsAlexander FehlingMiriam SteinMoritz BleibtreuAfter aspiring poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe fails his law exams, he's sent to a sleepy provincial court to reform. Instead, he falls for Lotte, a young woman who is promised to another man.
- DirectorGötz SpielmannStarsNora WaldstättenPeter SimonischekUrsula StraussA successful actress returns to her family home in rural Austria to visit her ailing father and sister, who spent her whole life taking care of him and her family. The reunion is marked by jealousy, introspection and a secret.
- DirectorOskar RoehlerStarsMoritz BleibtreuChristian UlmenFranka PotenteTwo half brothers in Berlin, 30+, one an introverted scientist, the other a sexually frustrated teacher, have no love life. That's about to change.
- DirectorPercy AdlonStarsIrm HermannLena StolzeJoachim BernhardIn Wittelbacherpalais, Munich's prison and Gestapo center, middle-aged Else Gebel awaits trial for carrying anti-Nazi material. She serves as a clerk in the Gestapo office. On Thursday, 18 February 1943, two youths arrive at the prison, arrested for carrying anti-Reich pamphlets and suspected of dropping leaflets from the university tower and painting anti-Hitler signs along Ludwigstraße: Sophie, 21, and her brother Hans, 24 and back from the Soviet front. Sophie is housed with Else, and for five days, as Sophie is interrogated and charges brought, the women form a bond based on simple interactions: poetry, tea, shared clothing, courage, love of freedom, and a promise Else gives Sophie.
- DirectorRobert van AckerenStarsGudrun LandgrebeMathieu CarrièreHanns ZischlerEva, an upper-class housewife, frustratingly leaves her arrogant husband and decides to enter the call girl business. She lets Yvonne, a prostitute, teach her the basics and both set out for prey together, until Eva starts an affair with Chris, who turns out to be a call boy, as well. Consequently, she moves into his penthouse, large enough for both to offer their services separately.
- DirectorBernd EichingerStarsNina HossHeiner LauterbachMathieu CarrièreA historical drama set in the 1950s, based on real-life events. Rosemarie Nitribitt comes out of a remand center, runs away from her foster parents, and ends up working as a barmaid in a Frankfurt nightclub. A wealthy French businessman offers to set her up in return for tape-recordings of her sex sessions with German VIPs.
- DirectorMartin SchreierStarsSvenja JungEmilia SchüleKen DukenA romantic drama set in 1961 that follows a young studio extra's ambitious efforts to reunite with the French girl he loves after being separated by the construction of the Berlin Wall.
- DirectorHelena HufnagelStarsLuise HeyerJytte-Merle BöhrnsenMaximilian SchafrothIsi (27) is stuck in a quater-life-crisis. With a graphic diploma in one hand and a drink in the other, Isi is stuck in a strange place 'inbetween' university and real life. This place would seem bleak and lonely, if her very best friend Lotte wasn't there with her. But that changes abruptly when Lotte not only finds a real job but also falls in love with her colleague Leo, effectively ending their live as a twosome. One second later Lotte is a vegan grown up and Isi's live is turning backwards. She has to move into a filthy flat-share despairing over the antics of her "musician" flatmate Klausi and the slightly crazy medical student Daniel. While Isi is working on a Graphic Novel from Scott Fitzgeralds "The Beautiful and Damned", she starts to realize, that adulthood has arrived, like a runaway train, and there's no getting out of its way. She finds herself in an almost awesome, love-hate relationship with her twenties, which is "pretty far from okay".
- DirectorAnne Zohra BerrachedStarsJulia JentschBjarne MädelJohanna GastdorfAt work, Astrid is admired by her fans as a famous cabaret artist and privately a second child is on road to complete her family happiness.
- DirectorTim TrachteStarsLuna WedlerJannik SchümannLuise BefortWhen Jessica leaves home one night, she has no idea she is about to meet her great love. But Danny hides a dark secret and soon Jessica will be faced with the most difficult decision of her life.
- DirectorFlorian GottschickStarsSvenja JungMateusz DopieralskiChristoph LetkowskiA beautiful girl, bored and hungry for life, takes advantage of her new-found freedom away from her parents to explore what lies beneath the surface of Berlin.
- DirectorIldikó EnyediStarsLéa SeydouxGijs NaberLouis GarrelJacob Störr, a sea captain, makes a bet in a café with a friend, to marry the first woman who enters the place. And in walks Lizzy.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorFrederik SteinerStarsLiv Lisa FriesLena StolzeSophie RogallTerminally-ill Lea surprises her family with her wish to die, consciously and controlled, on her own birthday. Her mother tries everything to prevent the plan. But things turn out differently. Tragic and dignified.
- DirectorChristian PetzoldStarsPaula BeerFranz RogowskiMaryam ZareeUndine works as a historian lecturing on Berlin's urban development. But when the man she loves leaves her, the ancient myth catches up with her. Undine has to kill the man who betrays her and return to the water.
- StarsMatthias BrandtKaroline SchuchSilke BodenbenderA case that remained a mystery for nearly thirty years. The desperate search of a brother for his sister. And the agony of those who are left behind by a chillingly brutal crime.
- 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.
- DirectorSabrina SarabiStarsLouis HofmannLiv Lisa FriesJohannes NussbaumThe story of piano student David, who hurls himself into the world of music and into his first love. Full of zest for life but with growing pressure, he soon begins to lose control.
- StarsJannis NiewöhnerMalgorzata MikolajczakSebastian Urzendowsky1944. Walter Proska is a young Wehrmacht soldier who begins to question the purpose of the war, who the real enemy is and whether his real duty should be to his fatherland or his own conscience.
- DirectorOskar RoehlerStarsTom SchillingWilson GonzalezEmilia Schüle1980: 19 year old Robert, fed up with Hippy phoniness and bourgeoise narrow mindedness alike, flees the German provinces for West Berlin. A tour de force through the glorious dirt of West Berlin ensues. Full of sex, drugs, love and PUNK.
- DirectorSeverin FialaVeronika FranzStarsLukas SchwarzElias SchwarzSusanne WuestTwin boys move to a new house with their mother after she has face-changing cosmetic surgery, but under the bandages is someone the boys don't recognize.
- 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.
- DirectorDietrich BrüggemannStarsBenno FürmannJerry HoffmannLiv Lisa FriesAn African-German author loses his memory and is used by a modern National Socialist Party as promotion-figure for more political power over Germany.
- DirectorViviane AndereggenStarsRosalie ThomassJohann von BülowUlrike C. TscharreLuisa Jobst is a grade-school teacher in Bavaria. She's as idealistic as she is fair - much to the displeasure of a father who's hoping she'll give his son better grades. One day, a nude photo of Luisa suddenly appears on the school website. The police can't help her, and the whole town is gossiping. By herself, she tracks down the person responsible - and soon goes missing without a trace.
- StarsClaudia EisingerTorben LiebrechtSvenja JungHamburg 1973. When the well-known women's rights activist Zarah Wolf receives the offer to become Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the high-circulation magazine "Relevant", the dedicated journalist sees the opportunity to push forward the issue of emancipation.
- DirectorLars MontagStarsBernhard SchützJan Henrik StahlbergFriederike KempterA provocative comedy about the difficulties of living a happy relationship. A shoe theft on the ICE forms the prelude to a kaleidoscope of relationships and dependencies between a wide variety of city dwellers.
- DirectorConnie WalterStarsAnna BertheauAntonio WannekTim SanderGermany 1982: The country is divided into two parts. Nele, coming from West-Germany, travels to East-Germany where she meets Captain, singer of a band. They fall in love with each other, but the regime "takes care" of their relationship, meaning: They cannot see each other again. Germany 1990: The country is reunited. Nele searches for her lost love.
- StarsLuke MockridgeSeyneb SalehCristina do RegoBastian returns home for the holidays to learn that his brother is dating his ex, and if that wasn't enough, his parents are also keeping a big secret.
- 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.
- DirectorBarbara TeufelStarsJana StraulinoUrsula RennekeKatja DanowskiOn Labour Day 1987, a riot broke out in Kreuzberg which gave this west-Berlin district its legendary reputation - a reputation which has prevailed right up to the present day. During the night of 1 May, the Berlin police used force to try and break up a street party - and triggered off a riot in which old and young, Turks, Germans, anarchists and ordinary citizens battled shoulder to shoulder to repel state authority.The riot ended with the police in retreat, a supermarket in flames and one more problem for Berlin's Senator for Internal Affairs. How was he to keep a district in check when the inhabitants were clearly hell-bent on protesting against the Queen's and Ronald Reagan's visits as well as the International Monetary Fund conference? Kreuzberg's anarchists included a group of women living in an apartment in Ritterstrasse, or "Knight Street". These "female knights", as they were known, fought any and all manifestations of patriarchy with exactly the same verve they applied to organizing resistance to the IMF meeting. And then: the wall came down, the world changed and nothing was the way it used to be anymore.
- DirectorJan SchomburgStarsSandra HüllerGeorg FriedrichFelix Schmidt-KnoppMartha is in a happy relationship, she has a home and knows just where she belongs. But then one day, two policewomen appear at her door and all at once everything changes.
- DirectorNicolette KrebitzStarsNina HossDevid StriesowBella BrunnetA woman's life is destroyed when she discovers that her husband has another family.
- DirectorGilbert BeronneauStarsAnna Maria MüheDavid FischerThorsten MertenThe Hotel Lunik is a refuge for a group of radical utopists. In the center of it all, are the Siblings Franz and Babette, who through their anti-capitalist guerrilla campaigns call into question the basis for a money-based society. On the other side Franz's cousin Toni, is setting up a nightclub on the ground floor of the hotel with an entrepreneurial spirit in diametric opposition to it's surroundings. Guests are to be lured with a high-class lounge act along with a quiz show developed by Franz's own father, Alfons. Toni and his loyal bartender Viktor have their hands full contending with the difficulties of an unmotivated workforce. Among Lunik's odd population are Tom, the bellman with a screw loose, Nora, the pretty cook peeling potatoes and dreaming of a world in show business, and Emilia, the chronically sick photographer who wants to spend her last weeks singing in the company of friends. The criminal campaigns of Franz and Babette, reveal themselves to the undercover agent Max, as he gets closer to Babette. The two are in love. The romantic entanglements further complicate themselves as Franz falls for the filmmaker, Josephine. She arrived to make a documentary about the Luniks, upon hearing about the cause of Franz and his Christian communist enclave. Beyond that, the love-hate relationship between Alfons and Emilia thickens, as does Tom's adoration for the fed-up Nora, who's being snatched up by Toni for his nightclub pursuits. When Franz and Babette hold up a supermarket, the ground falls out from beneath them, and results in a chain of events from which no one remains unharmed.
- DirectorMaria von HelandStarsAnna Maria MüheKaroline HerfurthJosefine DomesKati and Steffi have been best friends forever. Their love lives are heating up, so they're hitting the books less and going out to nightclubs more. When Steffi sees her father with another woman, her life begins to spiral out of control.
- DirectorAndreas KleinertStarsAlbrecht SchuchJella HaaseIoana IacobRebel. Poet. Revolutionary: LIEBER THOMAS is a declaration of love to writer Thomas Brasch, congenially brought to life by exceptional actor Albrecht Schuch.
- DirectorNico SommerStarsLina WendelThorsten MertenHarald PolzinWith her husband leaving, Silvi finally realizes that her rather dull marriage has failed. The 47-year-old woman, now lost and lonely, but also driven by the desire to not be alone, she decides to start over again.
- DirectorIlker ÇatakStarsAnne Ratte-PolleOgulcan Arman UsluGodehard GieseA touching love story that challenges stereotypes about the courage it takes to face the stranger, to take risks and to accept challenges.
- DirectorUlrich KöhlerStarsLennie BurmeisterDevid StriesowTrine DyrholmA German soldier goes AWOL and returns home to more problems than he left.
- StarsJulia JentschJohanna IngelfingerSaskia Rosendahl20-year-old Janine disappears without a trace, and her mother is the only one who is convinced that something happened to her daughter; left to her own devices, she has to piece together a puzzle to try to find her daughter.
- DirectorThomas StillerStarsLiv Lisa FriesVeronica FerresJule RonstedtSusanne invites her classmate Josch to her 16th birthday party. She provokes his friend Linda. Linda and her clique kidnap and abuse the girl until she dies.
- DirectorMartin JablonskiStarsTorben KarstensGerhard MohrKatalyn BohnLured by quick money, David a loving family man and aspiring star lawyer lives a dangerous double life. While under the assumption the end would always justify the means he gets mixed-up in a political intrigue.
- StarsPetra Schmidt-SchallerSascha Alexander GersakAmer El-ErwadiThe city of Schwerin is sweltering under a heat wave never seen before. Detectives Lona Mendt and Frank Elling are on the trail of a serial murderer, who seems to choose his victims at random - but nothing is what it seems.
- DirectorNick Baker-MonteysStarsJürgen ProchnowPetra Schmidt-SchallerTambet TuiskA former German Army officer, accompanied by his granddaughter, journeys to the Ukraine to find the woman he once loved.
- DirectorDennis GanselStarsMax RiemeltTom SchillingDevid StriesowFriedrich's boxing skills gets him in an elite Nazi high school in a castle in 1942. He enrolls against his dad's wish as it promises a brighter future. It's not what he expected.
- 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.
- DirectorAlain GsponerStarsKatja RiemannUlrich NoethenHannah HerzsprungInner chaos breaks free in two families.
- StarsFriederike BechtChristoph LetkowskiFelix KlareIn a spectacular escape, a sadistic murderer breaks out of a psychiatric institution. Sunny, a police officer just ending her medical leave, is assigned to lead the manhunt. But will the truth about her own past come out and destroy her?
- DirectorJörg ButtgereitMichal KosakowskiAndreas MarschallStarsLola GaveAxel HolstMichael ZennerThree German tales of love, sex and death in Berlin from Germany's most shocking directors.
- DirectorDoris DörrieStarsAlba RohrwacherVinzenz KieferMatthias BrandtTwo young people in Berlin, a refugee and a homeless punk, form a relationship.
- DirectorDominik GrafStarsUlrike C. TscharreRonald ZehrfeldArved BirnbaumThe former mostwanted gangster Liviu Caramitru succeeds in breaking out of a prison in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Within a few hours, experienced LKA special investigators Hanna Landauer and Sven Schröder begin a large-scale manhunt across the country. The first attempt to apprehend him fails on the banks of river Oder on the border with Poland and Caramitru manages to narrowly escape yet again. His path leads the two police detectives via Bucharest to a remote village at the foot of the Carpathian Mountains. There, far away in Caramitru's Romanian homeland, Landauer and Schröder hunt down the fugitive - from the traditional wedding of his sister to the inevitable Western showdown high-up in the mountains.
- StarsElisa SchlottReomy D MpehoFranziska BrandmeierSet in the 1950s in a small town in Germany with a large-scale US military presence, this historical drama is a powerful story of friendship between two young women during a time of upheaval.
- DirectorKilian RiedhofStarsAlexander FehlingFabian HinrichsMatthias MatschkeFilm about the death of the German politician Uwe Barschel, who was found dead under mysterious circumstances in his hotel room in 1987, and the surrounding political scandals.
- DirectorRamon ZürcherSilvan ZürcherStarsHenriette ConfuriusLiliane AmuatUrsina LardiLisa is moving out. Mara is left behind. As boxes are shifted and cupboards built, abysses begin to open up and an emotional roller coaster is set in motion. A tragicomic catastrophe film. A poetic ballad about change and transience.
- DirectorEdward BergerStarsIvo PietzckerGeorg ArmsLuise HeyerJack is a young boy who lives in a troubled family with little money.
- StarsChristoph WaltzMario AdorfDeborah KaufmannThe 1530s. Many are convinced that the Day of Judgement is at hand. A protest movement is making the heart of Europe beat faster and louder: it is a protest against the dissipation of the Catholic clergy, but also against the religious remedies prescibed by Lutheranism. The Anabaptist movement preaches the second coming and prophesies that all enemies of the "true faith" will "drown in rivers of blood". All those, however, who renounce the devil are promised both earthly and heavenly happiness in a "new Jerusalem". When the Anabaptist doctrine overtakes the flourishing town of Münster ("the pearl of Westphalia") and the town's Catholics are either driven out or forced to live in a ghetto, the newly-elected Prince-Bishop of Münster and Osnabrück, Count Franz Waldeck, decides to take fiercer action against what he sees as the "Anabaptist scourge"; anyone who lets themselves be rebaptized in his diocese, whether male or female, is to be hanged from the nearest tree. Sebastian Kien, a vagrant travelling actor (actually quite similar in nature and temperament to François Villon) uses a mixture of cunning and deceit to save a young girl from being hanged. Since the girl, Engele Kerkerinck, has lost her entire family, Sebastian takes her under his wing, gives her the courage to carry on living, and says he will teach her how to sing and to dance. Engele, however, wants to go to Münster where the legendary Jan van Leyden, an Anabaptist, is preaching, and to whose sermons Catholics and Protestants alike - and women in particular - are flocking. Engele, too, is under the spell of this man, and mesmerised by his stature, his fire, his powerful words and his charisma. Sebastian Kien recognises an old friend in Jan van Leyden: the latter is none other than the actor and pimp Jan Bockelson, with whom he used to make the same kind of living (often a pathetic one) that he still does now. A rapturous reunion ensues. Bockelson wants his old friend to join forces with him and predicts a glorious future for himself: "One day I'll be King of Münster!" But resistance from those Catholics who still remain in Münster has not yet been fully overcome. The prosperous burghers still distrust the man who preaches poverty and renunciation while stashing his own coffers with money and jewellery. Bockelson overcomes a crisis of confidence in his abilities, sparked off by the town council, by asking a famous prophet known as Jan Matthys to come to the town's assistance. Sebastian Kien is given instructions to turn the prophet's arrival into an occasion of popular celebration. After an almost supernatural piece of stage direction, Bockelson succeeds in winning the hearts of the townsfolk once more, little realising that the prophet's arrival in Münster means that he is about to be inexorably caught up in a rapid succession of events. The reason for this is Divara, Jan Matthys' wife. She and Bockelson seem to recognise one another as kindred spirits from their very first meeting: both are held in the sway of a powerful mutual fascination. Divara sees the future potential of the young, beaming Bockelson, and considers him far more promising than the already ageing Jan Matthys who, plagued by self-doubt, is falling prey to alcoholism. Divara, attractive, desirable and very self-confident, uses all the weapons a woman possesses. She provokes Jan Bockelson into killing the Catholics' leader, Trutelink, and accuses her husband of weakness, urging him to practice what he preaches and to go and prove his mettle against the Prince-Bishop. Fully aware of what is going on, and in the knowledge that his days are numbered, Jan Matthys rides off into a trap carefully prepared by Tom Korteboldt, a double agent in the pay of both sides. Jan Matthys dies with a prophecy upon his lips: "In three days' time I shall be resurrected from the dead!" When this prophecy is not fulfilled, Jan Bockelson faces yet another crisis of confidence. At the very last moment Divara manages to stop the mayor, Knipperdolling, and the rest of the town council from accepting the Prince-Bishop's offer of negotiation in return for surrendering the town without a fight. And once again Sebastian Kien is faced with having to help his old friend out of a dilemma. Engele persuades him to do so. Sebastian stages a supernatural event - the arrival of an angel - for the credulous and astonished townspeople, and thus restores his friend's charisma. Divara makes use of the townspeople's credulity to tie things up once and for all. She ensures that Jan Bockelson, favoured by the Lord, becomes "King of Münster", while she herself takes over the role of Queen. Engele has long since fallen prey to her fascination for Bockelson. She is endured as the King's mistress by Divara, who sees the girl as next to no competition; indeed, she even sees her as strengthening her position. Sebastian Kien decides he wants to leave the town. His concern for Engele developed into affection, and affection has now turned into love - a very different kind of love, though, than that practised by his former friend Bockelson. Out of concern for Engele, Sebastian remains in the town - also, perhaps, because he is still hoping that she will come back to him. From now on Bockelson surrenders to his own personal whims and delights, cloaking it all in the guise of "divine inspiration". When Clarissa, the daughter of mayor Knipperdolling, and the last Catholic in Münster, is discovered hiding in a well-shaft, Bockelson orders her father - whom he has appointed the kingdom's chief executioner - to behead his own daughter. Bockelson's sudden decision to humiliate the intractably Catholic Clarissa still further, rather than just kill her outright, saves the girl's life. The King of Münster makes the mayor's daughter his courtesan, and shortly afterwards has polygamy and free love announced as a tenet of the Anabaptist faith. Münster celebrates this new edict with an orgy. The siege of Münster by the Prince-Bishop has now been going on for over a year. The town is riddled with disease and starvation. The townspeople scratch moss off the stones in the graveyards to fill their bellies, women scrape plaster off the frescoes in the church to make "milk" for their children. The cholera victims are tipped unceremoniously over the town wall. Divara is aware of the danger and she takes decisive action. She promises the town council "help and salvation" within three days. And, as a pledge, she promises that "the King will burn if the prophecy is not fulfilled". Panic-stricken, Bockelson seeks the advice and support of his friend Sebastian, whom he has thrown into prison. Yet again, it is an idea of Sebastian Kien's that allows Bockelson to extricate himself from the affair. He sees his chance in the double meaning of the verb "to burn". At a ceremony which the preacher Rottmann turns into a religious ceremony, Bockelson not only burns the books written by his religious rivals but also the last Catholic in Münster, Clarissa Knipperdolling, who refuses to renounce her faith. The crowd's enthusiasm is boundless. This first human sacrifice is soon to be followed by a second. Engele beseeches Bockelson in vain to spare the life of Sebastian Kien, whom Bockelson now regards as his most dangerous rival. For Kien knows the truth about Bockelson's past life - and he screams it into the face of the man who calls himself "the messenger of the Lord". At first, the townspeople, who have rushed enthusiastically to the Prinzipalmarkt to watch Sebastian Kien's execution, seem stunned. But then Rottmann the preacher puts on his most successful performance so far: he turns Kien's accusations upside down by treating them as proof of divine long-sightedness and mercy, and in doing so succeeds in winning the crowd's approval. And as if to prove his magnanimity and humanity, Bockelson answers Engele's prayers: he sets his friend free. Prince-Bishop Waldeck, unswerving in his faith and unbending in his desire to recapture Münster for his own, makes one final attempt to go down as magnanimous and merciful in the history books. He decides to defeat his enemies - who have used the word of God to take over the town - by the word of God too. In a magnificent display of religious pomp, he stands face to face with the "latter-day King", and reads him the parable of the lost sheep from the bible. Bockelson, seeing his followers already on their knees before the cross of Catholicism, manages at the very last moment to stop the Anabaptists from capitulating. Waldeck and his followers are then forced to realise just how much power Jan Bockelson has over the people of Münster: the Prince-Bishop's carefully staged entreaty is mockingly answered by a phalanx of naked Anabaptist buttocks along the town battlements. Waldeck gives the order to attack. That night, in the year 1535, Münster drowns in a sea of rain and blood. When the sun comes up again, the town is in the hands of the Prince-Bishop. Waldeck meets an enemy who shows no remorse or submissiveness. Even as a prisoner, Bockelson is condescending and full of scorn. Not one word of regret about what he has done. Bockelson senses that God is on his side - in the struggle against the corruption of the authorities. Count Waldeck and his followers prepare the punishment rite. It is to be an occasion of great magnificence: a public execution that will remain etched in popular memory for generations, demonstrating the victory of the righteous and God-fearing over all that is evil. Divara, whom Waldeck finds very attractive, turns down the Prince-Bishop's offer to make her his mistress by committing suicide. All the anger and hatred the victors have left is now concentrated on one man: Bockelson. Bockelson is interrogated, and tortured eight times - all in vain. He is unyielding, even under pain. He impresses his inquisitors by quoting Thomas Aquinas, and uttering obscene jokes dating from his days as a pimp and innkeeper at the "Three Herrings" in Leyden. Bockelson, Mayor Knipperdolling and Chancellor Krechting are placed in three cages and put on display in front of the curious crowd. Looking at them costs one pfennig. Touching them costs one pfennig extra. Then there is the final wordless meeting between Bockelson and Engele, who prays to God to grant him a merciful death. It is the night of the condemned Bockelson's last meal, to which he has invited his "friend" Sebastian: the "latter-day King" uses up all his actor's talents to put on a show of pride and dignity. He, Knipperdolling and Krechting are to be hung in their cages high up on the Lambertikirche, and Bockelson's last wish is to be hung higher than the other two. The execution has all the trappings of a festival, especially for those who have long since returned to their original belief. The executioners, it has been decided, will slowly torture Bockelson to death with red-hot pincers. Bockelson knows about this because Sebastian has already told him, but he has also prophesied to Sebastian that he will neither groan nor scream - though he might just hum and sing... Sebastian Kien follows the progress of the event from some distance away. He has resolved to applaud and to shout with relief as Bockelson is slowly tortured to death. He sees the glowing pincers, hears the hiss of burning flesh and then, very quietly: he hears Bockelson singing a song, one that they used to sing together in the old days. Sebastian Kien does Jan Bockelson a final service. He rushes towards the tribune, past the executioners, and stabs Bockelson twice with a knife. The first time he misses the heart, but the second time he makes no mistake. Together, on the covered wagon they arrived in, Sebastian and Engele leave the town that has kept them like prisoners for 16 months. Engele confesses to Sebastian that she is expecting a baby - Bockelson's baby. "I'll teach him to dance and sing and write poetry", says Sebastian. "Can you be a comedian and sing and dance without believing in God...?" asks Engele. Sebastian: "You can..." "Why do people dance, then...?" asks Engele - and receives no reply...
- StarsMercedes MüllerMax RiemeltSebastian BlombergRecounts the rise of Germany's Federal Republic after the terror of World War II.
- DirectorFranziska StünkelStarsLars EidingerDevid StriesowLuise HeyerLife of Werner Teske, the last man to be executed in former East Germany in 1981 before the death penalty was finally abolished in 1987.
- StarsLuise BefortSvenja JungAnja KlingSet in the Friedrichstadt-Palast music hall in the late 1980s, follows twin sisters as they search for their roots.
- DirectorElisa MishtoStarsKatharina SchüttlerKim RiedleMartin WuttkeSmart, quick-witted Julie is in her mid-20s. She marches to the beat of her own drum and has her own manifesto: do nothing. And she really means NOTHING: no work, no studies, no friends. Agnes is a happy-go-lucky nurse of the same age. With a husband and a child, she fits into society's expectations without giving them any great thought--until, that is, she meets Julie. Together they start a rebellion that brings them to the limits of their respective worlds. Stay Still is the story of a generation with a poetic, witty undercurrent. Dangerous, but very exciting.
- DirectorFlorian Koerner von GustorfStarsChristiane PaulRonald ZehrfeldSebastian HülkAstrid (47) and Paul (50) are at the beginning of their romance. A long weekend in Budapest will be a journey into the past for both that will determine the present.
- DirectorGregor SchnitzlerStarsPaula KalenbergFranz DindaHans-Laurin Beyerling"Die Wolke" (The Cloud) is about the breakdown of a nuclear-power station in Germany and the story of teenage lovers Hannah and Elmar, who take refuge. 38,000 people die and Hannah unfortunately becomes contaminated.
- DirectorSebastian KoStarsMehdi NebbouUlrike C. TscharreJanina FautzA divorcing couple get back together to cover up their daughter's heinous crime.
- DirectorWalerian BorowczykStarsAnne BennentMichele PlacidoJean-Jacques DelboThe story of a sexually enticing young dancer who rises up in society through her relationships with wealthy men, but later falls into poverty and prostitution, culminating in an encounter with Jack 'the Ripper'.
- DirectorMarc RothemundStarsBenno FürmannTom SchillingKaroline HerfurthA free-wheeling chronicle of the Munich sex film industry in the 1970s.
- DirectorStina WerenfelsStarsVictoria SchulzJenny SchilyLars EidingerWhen her mother decides to stop administering medication to her mentally challenged daughter, 18-year-old Dora awakes, as if from a deep sleep. Dora discovers her body, her sensuality and finally, sex, too.
- DirectorRomuald KarmakarStarsFrank GieringAnne Ratte-PolleManfred ZapatkaShe is full of energy for life; she wants to have fun and be happy. But husband sits all day on the couch, reading. But the young woman does not give up; she wants more out of life. She encourages him, she provokes him.
- StarsJurij DrevensekSebastian KochTaddeo KufusAn incorruptible judge has spent his career fighting organized crime. However, tables are turned when his son is guilty of a hit-and-run case.
- DirectorZiska RiemannStarsPalina RojinskiBjarne MeiselEmma-Katharina SutheSix teenagers experience tumultuous vacation at the Baltic Sea with a lot of sun and beach. At the holiday home they meet the sexologist Ellen. The teenagers experience their first love, the first sex and what possibly can go wrong.
- DirectorDominik GrafStarsJessica SchwarzAngela RoyFriedrich von ThunA rebellious young woman is thrown out by her wealthy, but marbly parents and gets into a nightmare of poverty, prostitution and sickness.
- DirectorJan BonnyStarsThomas SchubertRicarda SeifriedJean-Luc BubertBecky, Maik and Tommi, a group of right-wing radical youths, aim to establish a terrorist cell in Germany. Seeking national attention, they commit a range of escalating crimes whilst facing disorientation and their appetite for murder.
- DirectorCyrill BossPhilipp StennertStarsThiemo BrandAnton AlgrangDominic Marcus SingerOne year on from the events of the Krampus case, junior police officer Yela Antic finds herself working under the guidance of Ellie Stocker.
- CreatorMartin EiglerSönke Lars NeuwöhnerSven PoserStarsBastian PastewkaSusanne WolffJanina FautzAn overwhelmed family man (Bastian Pastewka) starts to produce counterfeit money in his own run down print shop.
- DirectorChristian AlvartStarsTrystan PütterNurit HirschfeldFelix KramerTwo cops investigate the disappearance of two teen sisters in a remote town, where it seems like everyone has something to hide - including the bodies.
- StarsNadja UhlBarbara AuerNicolette KrebitzThe life of three sisters shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
- DirectorHermine HuntgeburthStarsJulia JentschHeike WarmuthMirko LangAmbitious German imperial hussars veteran baron Geert von Instetten takes office as coastal district administrator, hoping to e promoted to the colonies. His childhood love, Luise, married local estate owner von Briest and now arranges for their daughter, Effie, to wed the baron, rather then her beloved cousin Dagobert. In his creepy home, built and filled with exotica by an ocean captain whose Chinese servant is said to haunt it, Effie believes to meet ghosts. She starts an affair with married, swagger major von Crampas.
- CreatorEva SpreitzhoferStarsUrsula StraussWolf BachofnerAndreas LustAngelika Schnell is a chaotic policewoman who trusts her inner voice more than facts, which leads to curious conclusions as well as discussions with her medical-examiner ex-husband Stefan Schnell and her two team-assistants, Franitschek and Maja.
- DirectorNina VukovicStarsLisa VicariLudwig TrepteMeryem ÖzA young policewoman from Hamburg is torn between rigid adherence to her professional ideals and the testosterone-fueled power lust of her head of operations. After her training at the police academy, 24-year-old Laura begins her service in a task force of the Hamburg riot police. Sooner than expected, she realizes that the daily routine in the social hot spots of society is draining. When she makes a serious mistake during an operation, she has to decide what kind of policewoman she really wants to be.
- 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.
- DirectorAndreas DresenStarsMerlin RoseJulius NitschkoffJoel BasmanIn 1990s east Germany, three boys are in love with techno music and start their own club.
- DirectorPhilipp LeinemannStarsRonald ZehrfeldClaudia MichelsenAlexander FehlingIntelligence expert Martin Behrens supplies information leading to a U.S. drone strike on a wanted terrorist. Then his lover - a political journalist - is killed in a terrorist attack. Martin starts to investigate on his own.
- StarsKevin KühnertFlorian SchroederAimen AbdulazizKevin Kühnert is young, ambitious, socialist and the young hope of the German SPD. What influence does he have on the political orientation of the party? In the six-part documentary series Filmmakers Katharina Schiele and Lucas Stratmann accompanied the politician for three years with the camera.
- DirectorArne FeldhusenStarsCharly HübnerAnnika MeierDetlev BuckYears after a nervous breakdown Karl goes on tour with old friends and upcoming electronic music DJs. Beeing the only sober person in a environment full of drugs and alcohol starts to bring back demons.
- DirectorEsther BialasStarsFriederike BechtNina GummichJan KrauterA young woman tries to solve the rape of her friend and encounters resistance everywhere - including from the victim herself.
- DirectorPhilipp LeinemannStarsAylin TezelKen DukenTimur Isik
- DirectorEckhart SchmidtStarsDésirée NosbuschBodo StaigerSimone BrahmannThe hero-worship that Simone has for a pop singer is built to a crescendo until she passes out when she finally sees him up-close in a crowd of fans. She is later shocked when he lets her know that he does not love her.
- DirectorStephan LacantStarsElisa SchlottHassan AkkouchHeike MakatschLena (17) meets 19-year-old Farid, a young Muslim. She has a clear-cut attitude towards his culture and religion: utter rejection. Despite their differences - or perhaps because of them - they fall in love. When Lena unexpectedly gets pregnant the two of them must make a pledge to each other and their child. Hannah, Lena's mother, sees red, realizing this means her daughter will be expected to marry a Muslim man - unfathomable both to her and to Farid's family. A couple destined to be together stuck between worlds, traditions, religion, contradictions and prejudices.
- DirectorEd HerzogStarsBenjamin SadlerJördis TriebelFriederike BechtThe lover of a policeman is strangled in his house.
- DirectorAndres VeielStarsAugust DiehlLena LauzemisAlexander FehlingWest Germany, early 1960s. Star crossed lovers Bern and Gudrun begin a life long affair in the stifling atmosphere of provincial Germany. Setting out to challenge the establishment they become part of the global uprising joining forces with leftist writers and political activists. By the late 60s Gudrun has joined the gang lead by Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof and Bern risks his sanity to finally writing a novel to change the world. An emotional true story of an explosive era starring August Diehl (Inglourious Basterds (2009), A Hidden Life (2019), Salt (2010)).
- DirectorWolfgang FischerStarsLudwig TrepteFrederick LauAlice DwyerThis impressive psychological thriller about a sensitive German adolescent grappling with his father's suicide and his mother's new boyfriend plays out against the eerie woods and fantastic rock formations of the Brittany Coast.
- DirectorWladek JurkowGerburg Rohde-DahlStarsLidia BogaczównaRenate SteiningerThe film explores the only known case in the history of post-WWII era of concentration camp survivors helping the SS Commandant of the Auschwitz and Ravensbruck camps to escape prison and justice in Nazi trial.
- DirectorUrszula AntoniakStarsBien de MoorLars EidingerAnnemarie PrinsMarian, a middle aged nurse, devotes herself to her patients like a saint. Sometimes she even takes on the role of a redeemer, by helping the gravely ill to the soothing order of ultimate silence. When she gets linked to a neighbor in an act of common voyeurism, she becomes fascinated by him. Faced with the fragility of these newfound emotions, Marian surrenders to her human needs...
- DirectorMaren AdeStarsLars EidingerBirgit MinichmayrHans-Jochen WagnerWhile on a Mediterranean vacation, a seemingly happy boyfriend and girlfriend find their connection to one another tested as they bond with another couple.
- DirectorJohannes SchmidStarsOdine JohneStephan KampwirthSonja BaumWALTER (41) is planning on writing a book about German entrepreneurs. On a spring day he meets the physics student AGNES (28). He is fascinated by her extreme attitude towards life. After reading some of his short stories, Agnes proposes that he writes a story about her. Their love story already begins on their first date. But after a while, Walter gets irritated, because Agnes follows the picture he draws of her in real life. Events turn over and Walter discovers that there can only be one ending to his story - but this ending could cost him their relationship and it could also cost Agnes' life.
- DirectorSigrid HoernerStarsIris BerbenEdgar SelgeCarmen-Maja AntoniThe good news is that you can live until you're 100 The bad news is that society doesn't need you after 60. So what to do with the last third of your life? Louise and Frans both have a plan. Louise (60), a strong, independent molecular-biologist and daughter of Doris (77), decides to get pregnant and have a baby. Frans (60), a gallery-owner, life-long bachelor and father of Max (27), decides to re-start his career by discovering the next rising star in the contemporary art scene. While struggling to redefine themselves, correct past mistakes, make up for lost time and avoid total ridicule, Louise's and Frans' paths cross. Obsessed with Romy, his 27-year-old intern and regular sex-mate, the last thing Frans needs is to fall in love with a 60-year-old woman with frozen eggs and a sperm donor. But he does. Obsessed with turning back the biological clock and finally finding out what it feels like to hold her own baby in her arms, the last thing Louise needs is to fall in love with the father of her "anonymous" sperm donor. But she does.
- DirectorOliver RihsStarsHans-Jochen WagnerSamuel FinziOliver KorittkeFour friends come together, each of them with their own problems, to celebrate their long time friendship they used to have when they were younger. Excessive partying puts each of them out if their comfort zone...
- DirectorWerner SchroeterStarsCarole BouquetIngrid CavenChristine KaufmannStory of a mentally unstable woman who goes into an institution.
- StarsMelanie MarschkeMarco GirnthAndreas Schmidt-SchallerLeipzig police's Special Commission unit investigates capital crimes like murder and manslaughter
- StarsNaemi FlorezLudwig SimonAlexander ScheerBerlin in the 1920s. A dazzling place, but times are not only golden. They are marked by poverty and crime.