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- Trapped in a London subway station, a woman who's being pursued by a potential attacker heads into the unknown labyrinth of tunnels beneath the city's streets.
- The true story of Graeme Obree, the Champion cyclist who built his bicycle from old bits of washing machines who won his championship only to have his title stripped from him and his mental health problems which he has suffered since.
- A father and his son live together in a roof-top apartment. They have lived alone for years in their own private world, full of memories and daily rites. Sometimes they seem like brothers. Sometimes even like lovers. Following in his father's path, Aleksei attends military school. He likes sports, tends to be irresponsible and has problems with his girlfriend. She is jealous of Aleksei's close relationship with his father. Despite knowing that all sons must one day live their own lives, Aleksei is conflicted; his father knows he should accept a better job in another city, perhaps search for a new wife, but who will ease the pain of Aleksei's nightmares?
- 17-year old Murat from Turkey, living in Berlin, Germany, slowly discovers his homosexuality. His older brother Osman, head of the family since the father's death, wants him to finally lose his virginity (in a heterosexual manner) and thus causes Murat to run away. In a bar, Murat meets Lola, who has some things to tell about him.
- In 1942, in Bavaria, Eva Braun is alone when Adolf Hitler arrives with Dr. Josef Göbbels and his wife Magda Göbbels and Martin Bormann to spend a couple of days without talking politics.
- A man goes for a walk through the countryside with his dying mother.
- Historian Klaus Müller interviews survivors of the Nazi persecution of homosexuals because of the German Penal Code of 1871, Paragraph 175.
- A day in the life of the 21 years old Deniz, who aims to become an actress and makes her living by dubbing movies. After she has split with her old boyfriend she gets to know Diego and spends the evening with him.
- On her honeymoon on a ship the daughter of a rich plant owner realizes that she's not happy with her marriage. She meets a poor woman on the way to meet her future husband, a missionary in India. The women decide to swap roles...
- A hungry, homeless, socially isolated and socially alienated young man living on the streets of an anonymous Russian big city in the 19th Century is looking for answers about himself.
- Jasmin, Tamara, Valentin, Senad, and Roman live near the northern border of Austria in 1995. Their lives repeatedly intersect and drift apart. The characters involved are young migrants from the former Yugoslavia, Romania, Poland, and Austria itself. Strangers in a strange land, they feel a sense of loss in their new, temporary environment. The quintet meets and gets close to one another, hopelessly clinging to friendships and relationships with no future. They frequent cafés and train stations dreaming of a better tomorrow. Often, they just fall back on the prospect of short-term affection in yet another doomed romantic or sexual encounter. Trying hard to suppress the memories of war and alienation, they try to find moral strength and warmth through one another.
- In the course of a failed bank robbery, Charlotte is taken hostage in her husband's bank
- Axel and Karla are an ill-matched couple in a borderline situation. The two meet in the hospital. Axel is keeping watch at his son's bedside and Karla is waiting for some sign of life from her sister. None of the doctors can tell them whether the young couple will come out of their comas after their serious accident. As the weeks of uncertainty, fear and tedium pass by; a peculiar relationship develops between Axel and Karla, sustaining both of them. The questions they put to their unknown counterpart increasingly become the questions they are asking themselves...
- 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, 24h Berlin documents a day in the life of the German capital. Exactly one year before the broadcast, 80 film crews were on the road for 24 hours in all districts of Berlin.
- Klaus Kinski is one of the few German actors who has achieved international fame. He made headlines. And disappeared behind them. Kinski lived his parts 24/7. This film tells the story of a man who no longer could understand the difference or distinguish between fantasy and reality.
- What does a baby's cry have in common with the echo of a mountain yodler, and what connects the head tone of a Tuvin nomad with the stage show of a vocal artist? The answer is: THE VOICE. Against a background of powerful alpine vistas and modern city landscapes, "heimatklänge" enters the wondrous sonic world of three exceptional Swiss vocal artists. Their universe of sound extends far beyond what we would describe as singing. In their engagement with local and foreign traditions, the powerful mountain landscape becomes a stage as do the landscapes and sonic backdrops of modern life.
- Adventure 1900 - Life in the manor house.
- A dead man, two rivals for the widow's favour. The bald-headed undertaker ruins the work of his rival, the dead man's hairdresser. Each man has worked out a plan for seducing the widow.
- The film explores the impact of September 11th 2001 through several fictional episodes intercut with documentary material.
- Captures the past, present, and future of the remarkable Epstein brothers - Max, Julie and Willie - Klezmer music legends on a joyous international comeback tour.
- Documentary with dramatised episodes about the lives of Erika and Klaus Mann, children of German writer Thomas Mann.
- Real Time History offers in-depth looks at various important episodes of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century conflicts, such as the War of 1812, the Franco-Prussian War and World War 2
- The story of Caribbean music pioneer Pacho Rada, who started playing the accordion when just a boy.
- Wolfgang Grams, RAF terrorist, killed in a police shoot out in 1993 was thought to be part of the 1989 murder of high placed banker Alfred Herrhausen. This documentary interviews people close to Herrhausen and Grams showing what made them the people they became.
- The touching encounter of two drifting beings - Meiting, a hairdresser, and Chen Mo, a street vendor, in Beijing. A strange relationship on the background of survival and anonymous urbanization, a chronicle on the survival of feelings.
- In February 1990, shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Ministry for State Security is dissolved. The end of the Stasi has come.
- Levi is a Jewish man living alone in a small village in Germany in the mid-1930's. He does a good business buying and selling, he courts the farmer's daughter, and he chats with his pet rabbit during his long road trips. But then there's a cave-in at a nearby railroad tunnel, and this brings the railroad engineer and workers and bureaucrats from Nazi Berlin. Suddenly things get difficult, and not just for Levi.
- A young woman time-travels to the Roaring Twenties. As the lady of a plush manor in Germany 1927, she entertains her guests who visit for a summer in the country. Formal etiquette is abandoned, living is easy. New technologies challenge and excite - electricity, radio, the automobile. In the cellar below, fellow time-travelers work tirelessly as housemaids and servants. Despite their status, they are of equal ability and education as 'those above'. A recipe for revolution...
- Daniela, a 23-year-old mother of four lived in a high-rise estate in Frankfurt am Oder. Without permanent work and adequate support from the children's fathers, the young woman was increasingly overwhelmed.
- Mali is young, African, beautiful and stranded in Berlin. With nowhere to stay, a "good samaritan" offers her a place to crash. A quirky romantic comedy about obstacles and opportunity.
- The angel Gabriel, who is in charge for the humans and resides atop of Berlin's landmark Victory Column, is going through a major crisis. Sick and tired of all the moaning and discontent around him, he then meets Marc, whose car has broken down in the middle of the road below. The two of them become engaged in a passionate, yet funny debate...
- The film examines the thorny issues raised by pre-implantation genetic diagnosis by focusing on a child "designed" to be a perfect donor for his sister. The film, which aired in Europe in October, has stirred up significant debate in the German medical community
- About the Berlin S-Bahn station Oranienburg, where the S1 still has one of its two end stations. At that time I took the S1 through Berlin every day, but never to Oranienburg. Because Berlin did not yet have a Ringbahn.
- In five episodes, director tells the adventures of several Yugoslavian refugees for whom Germany is no paradise.
- The culinary adventures of Sarah Wiener.
- The culinary adventures of Sarah Wiener in the UK.