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- DirectorVadim PerelmanStarsNahuel Pérez BiscayartLars EidingerJonas NayA young Jewish man in a concentration camp has his life saved when executioners realize he owns a Persian book. Brought before a camp officer who wants to learn Farsi, Gilles agrees to teach him despite not knowing a word of the language.
- DirectorDavid WnendtStarsOliver MasucciThomas M. KöpplMarc-Marvin IsraelAdolf Hitler wakes up in the 21st century. He quickly gains media attention, but while Germany finds him hilarious and charming, Hitler makes some serious observations about society.
- DirectorMaria SchraderStarsMaren EggertDan StevensSandra HüllerIn order to obtain research funds for her studies, a scientist accepts an offer to participate in an extraordinary experiment: for three weeks, she is to live with a humanoid robot, created to make her happy.
- DirectorSebastian MeiseStarsFranz RogowskiGeorg FriedrichAnton von LuckeIn post-war Germany, liberation by the Allies does not mean freedom for everyone. Hans is repeatedly imprisoned under Paragraph 175, which criminalizes homosexuality. Over the decades, he develops an unlikely bond with his cellmate Viktor.
- DirectorOskar RoehlerStarsOliver MasucciHary PrinzKatja RiemannThe life and the impact of iconic German New Wave director, Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
- DirectorFatih AkinStarsJonas DasslerVasiliki Georgina PseimadaChristine JensenA serial killer strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s.
- DirectorFatih AkinStarsNuman AcarAdam BousdoukosDiane KrugerKatja's life collapses after the deaths of her husband and son in a bomb attack. After a time of mourning and injustice, Katja seeks revenge.
- DirectorDominik GrafStarsTom SchillingAlbrecht SchuchSaskia Rosendahl1930s Berlin. Dr. Jakob Fabian, who works by day in advertising for a cigarette company and by night wanders the streets of the city, falls in love with an actress. As her career begins to blossom, prospects for his future begin to wane.
- DirectorBurhan QurbaniStarsWelket BunguéAlbrecht SchuchJella HaaseA man from Guinea-Bissau moves to Germany, where he is befriended by a drug dealer and two women.
- 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.
- DirectorSönke WortmannStarsNilam FarooqChristoph Maria HerbstHassan AkkouchA university professor's ignorance is exposed when he must prepare a student for a debate.
- 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.
- DirectorÖzgür YildirimStarsDenis MoschittoMoritz BleibtreuVolkan ÖzcanLoyalty between two friends is stretched to its limit by one's deception.
- DirectorTom TykwerStarsUlrich MatthesMarie-Lou SellemFloriane DanielSetin a small mountain town, a man, looking for revenge because of his daughter's accidental killing, mistakenly tracks out a young couple, troubling with their ordinary life problems.
- DirectorMichael HerbigStarsJonas NayDonald TrumpElyas M'BarekFollows the real-life 2018 fake news scandal involving disgraced Der Spiegel journalist Claas Relotius.
- DirectorLars JessenStarsCharly HübnerLennard ConradPeter FrankeThe lecturer Ingwer Feddersen sets up a sabbatical to take care of his parents and moves back to his North Frisian home village of Brinkebüll for a year. There's nothing here anymore as it once was. The facades are only slowly crumbling, and true motives and events from Ingwer's childhood in the 1970s come to light.
- 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.
- DirectorOskar RoehlerStarsMartin WeißMoritz BleibtreuHerbert KnaupThis drama focuses on three very different siblings, all searching for happiness. Hans-Jörg is a sex addicted librarian, who is interested in young students. Werner is a successful politician with a dysfunctional family. Agnes, a trans woman, works as a table dancer in a nightclub. The three siblings just have one thing in common: their longing for a happy life.
- DirectorJan Georg SchütteStarsBjarne MädelMichael WittenbornAnke EngelkeA wellness hotel in a small German castle specializes in well-off couples, offering a wide range of services, including one some partners feel trapped into: relationship therapy. It's truth time; liberating for some, but forcing others to face the secrets and dysfunctions that hinder their relationships.
- StarsStefan KurtJacob MatschenzLuna Zimic MijovicThis Trilogy saga or Mini-Series made for TV, tells three different points of view about a little neighborhood in which a prisoner who went to visit his dying mother at a hospital, escapes and must hide in the forest while a huge police man-hunt for him is being made. First you see it from the view of young 20' something couple "love story ", then from the Police men and a specialized psychologist and finally the escaped prisoner.
- DirectorPeter ThorwarthStarsWotan Wilke MöhringDirk BenedictWolf RothIngo organizes a charity event for the local golf club. Special guest will be the Hollywood star Douglas Burnett. But who remembers what the aging star looks like today?
- DirectorSönke WortmannStarsIris BerbenChristoph Maria HerbstFlorian David FitzIt should have been a harmonious reunion on Lanzarote, but no sooner do the couple Stephan and Elisabeth and the new parents Thomas and Anna arrive at the family home than new quarrels break out in the Böttcher family.
- DirectorChristian PetzoldStarsNina HossRonald ZehrfeldNina KunzendorfAfter surviving Auschwitz, a former cabaret singer has her disfigured face reconstructed and returns to her war-ravaged hometown to seek out her gentile husband, who may or may not have betrayed her to the Nazis.
- 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.
- DirectorPhilipp StölzlStarsOliver MasucciDieter BernhardtElias GabeleTo withstand the psychological torture of the Gestapo, a lawyer imprisoned by the Nazis finds refuge in the world of chess.
- 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.
- DirectorMiguel AlexandreStarsHannah HoekstraFlorence KasumbaRainer BockArthur travels to Amsterdam for the last journey in his life, but there he meets Claire and together, they start a trip through the night.
- DirectorReinhard SchwabenitzkyStarsDieter HallervordenTilo PrücknerHans-Joachim GrubelA wealthy businessman and the owner of a rundown pub share one thing in common - they look like identical twins! When the businessman hears of a plot against him, he hires the pub owner as a decoy. However, the pub owner is accident prone and causes more trouble than he is worth. An action-packed, physical comedy.
- DirectorAndreas DresenStarsSteffi KühnertMilan PeschelTalisa Lilly LemkeFrank is diagnosed with an incurable brain tumor and given only a few months to live. He and his wife don't know how and when to tell their children about it. Meanwhile, Frank's health is getting worse with each day.
- DirectorNikolaus LeytnerStarsMatthias HabichJosef HaderFranziska WalserAfter a young woman is found raped and slain, her father can't accept her death or that the murderer is still at large. He searches for him for half his life.
- DirectorAnn-Kristin ReyelsStarsConstantin von JascheroffJosef HaderLuise BerndtDespite having lived in the East German countryside for several months, teenager Lars and his dad, Henrik, are still treated as unwelcome guests. Henrik is building a "marriage barn," a proposed bed-and-breakfast for newlywed Berliners.
- DirectorChristian PetzoldStarsNina HossRonald ZehrfeldRainer BockA doctor working in 1980s East Germany finds herself banished to a small country hospital.
- 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.
- DirectorEdward BergerStarsLars EidingerNele Mueller-StöfenHans LöwA film about three siblings. All have reached a point where they have to change something quickly before the second half of their lives begins. Between chaos, inadequacies and losses, they search for a path that might lead to happiness.
- DirectorMichael GlawoggerStarsMichael OstrowskiRaimund WallischAlexis Santiago HernandezAn episodic comedy that follows the lives of four men living in Vienna.
- DirectorAron LehmannStarsJohannes AllmayerJasin ChallahHeidi EcksLuise grew up with her grandmother Selma in a remote village in the Westerwald. Selma has a special gift, because she can foresee death. Whenever an okapi appears to her in a dream, someone in the village dies the next day.
- DirectorPeter MeisterStarsBernhard SchützJacob MatschenzSandra HüllerTwo art thieves have stolen the famous "Black Square" of Russian painter Kasimir Malevich. They plan to meet their clients on a cruise ship to hand over the looted art. However, things are not going quite as planned..
- DirectorSönke WortmannStarsFlorian David FitzAnke EngelkeJustus von DohnányiSet in a German school, the film centers on a father who, one Friday afternoon, knocks on the door of the staff room in order to convince the six teachers still in the building to allow his son to take the Abitur exams.
- DirectorTine RogollStarsMax HubacherMaeve MetelkaKrista StadlerKarl puts his life in Berlin on hold, only to wait every day at 3pm for the love of his life at Café Sacher in Vienna. But sometimes love happens to you, while you’re busy waiting for it...
- DirectorSonja HeissStarsArsseni BultmannLaura TonkeDevid StriesowJoachim Meyerhoff's autobiographical recollections include his childhood and teenager years living on the premises of a psychiatric clinic, his father being the director of the child and adolescent ward.
- DirectorDominik GrafStarsGötz GeorgeGudrun LandgrebeJoachim KemmerTwo bank robbers hold the clerks hostage and demand 3 million German marks as ransom. What the police do not realise is that the true criminal mastermind watches them from outside the bank, anticipating every move.
- DirectorDoris DörrieStarsElmar WepperHannelore ElsnerAya IrizukiAfter Rudi's wife Trudi suddenly dies, he travels to Japan to fulfill her dream of being a Butoh dancer.
- DirectorUlli BaumannStarsHape KerkelingAngelika MilsterJudy WinterKarl-Heinz, a filling-station attendant, and his family, Herta, a retiree, Kurt, a drugstore branch manager, and Margot, a divorced man-hunter, have only one thing in common: they have booked a holiday at Club Las Piranjas, where they want to relax from their nerve-racking occupations. But there are three people knowing a way to prevent this. Most notably the two animators Edwin and Biggy, who don't allow any amusement outside their own plans, and of course the always drunken club chief Mrs. Wenger, whose only thought is, that there shouldn't be any reclamation from the travel agency. Apart from the scruffy condition of the Club (no water in the pool, etc). and the obscure Club activities involving Biggy and Edwin, the vacation becomes a complete horror trip, with only one end in sight, which is to part from the club as soon as possible.
- DirectorWolfgang GroosStarsMaren KroymannGünther Maria HalmerMaxime DiemerThree frustrated pensioners volunteer themselves as Grand-Godparents to three stressed children.
- DirectorMarc RothemundStarsFlorian David FitzCecilio AndresenAylin TezelMirco's family is advised to go to a special school for Jason, his autistic son. He makes a pact to make every effort to stay in school if Mirco helps him find a favorite football club.
- DirectorFlorian GallenbergerStarsElmar WepperEmma BadingMonika BaumgartnerGeorg "Schorsch" Kempter is a gardener in a small Bavarian town. When the owner of the local golf course tries to cheat Schorsch for his money, he grabs the control stick and flies away in an attempt to save his plane and himself.
- DirectorSebastian SchipperStarsFrank GieringFlorian LukasAntoine Monot Jr.Three friends from Hamburg spend one last night on the town before one of them leaves the city forever.
- 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.
- DirectorAlex SchaadStarsMala EmdeJonas DasslerDimitrij SchaadAt first glance, Leyla and Tristan seem like a happy young couple. But when they travel to a mysterious, remote island, a game of identities begins, which changes everything.
- DirectorWim WendersStarsArthur BraussKai FischerErika PluharGoalkeeper Josef Bloch is ejected during a game for foul play. He leaves the field and goes to spend the night with a cinema cashier.
- DirectorLars KraumeStarsLeonard ScheicherGirley JazamaPeter SimonischekEnd of 19th century German ethnologist Hoffmann travels to the former colony "German Southwest Africa" to gather art and skulls for the Berlin Ethnological Museum and slowly begins to lose his moral compass.
- DirectorFlorian Henckel von DonnersmarckStarsTom SchillingSebastian KochPaula BeerGerman artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR-regime.
- DirectorJoachim RønningEspen SandbergStarsAksel HennieAgnes KittelsenNicolai Cleve BrochThe true story about one of the most brilliant saboteurs during World War II and his battle to overcome his inner demons.
- DirectorTimm KrögerStarsJan BülowOlivia RossHanns ZischlerThe year of 1962. A physics congress in the Alps. An Iranian guest. A mysterious pianist. A bizarre cloud formation in the sky and a booming mystery under the mountain. THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING. A quantum mechanical thriller in black and white.
- 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.