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- An anthology series that follows the work of homicide detectives in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
- When the Devil's daughter is bored with life in hell her father sends her to Earth to convert the people there to evil.
- How far one is willing to go for the sake of one's political commitment.
- A TV star who throws herself into her career when faced with various health issues.
- TIGER gets what she wants. VANILLA does not know what she wants. Apart from one important thing: a uniform. TIGER teach her to bite, and VANILLA tastes blood. So TIGER needs to learn a new rule: They sow the wind and reap the whirlwind.
- An elderly widower pretends to be a young man on a dating site.
- Can Cleo turn back time? It seems that misfortune has been haunting her loved ones since she was born. A legendary treasure sounds like the solution to her problems, but Cleo will have to let go of the past.
- In 1984, Anna from West Germany and the GDR citizen Philipp meet at a church youth exchange in East Berlin. It's love at first sight. But it is also an impossible love, because between them stands the wall.
- Passengers on a train from Munich to East Berlin learn on the way that the GDR has just been closed off by the new Berlin Wall. They have 3 1/2 hours to decide whether to take the train all the way to East Berlin or to remain in the FRG.
- Cologne-Ehrenfeld, November 1944. They're young, wild and rebellious, like young people anywhere and in any time, but working-class boys Karl and his younger brother Peter are Edelweiss Pirates. They oppose the Nazis, and are pursued by the Gestapo. With the escaped concentration camp prisoner Hans Steinbrück, they plan acts of sabotage, until the Gestapo take them on with their full might. When they're arrested, Karl is torn between his will to survive, his feelings of responsibility, his love for his brother, and his loyalty to the Edelweiss Pirates.
- In the summer of 1989, a teenage girl finds herself facing adulthood as she deals with her handicapped father's suicide attempt - while also falling in love for the first time in her life.
- In the Lüneburg Heath, an author is looking for peace and quiet to write her novel, but strange things happen. Someone is stalking her, blurring reality with the supernatural. She must face her fears to escape the silent horror.
- On New Year's Eve in Hamburg, a young club owner is struggling to keep the party going when a violent ex-pimp, the police, a former rock star, and the love of his life all come for him.
- Andi's life is a constant battle for his home, his three children and the woman he still loves. He only has two weeks to pay her back the borrowed 5,000 EUR. When he loses his job, an amateur boxing tournament looks like the only solution.
- For many centuries, in a small town on the southern border of Europe, people have been worshipping a statue of a black Jesus. 19-year old Edward from Ghana, guest of the refugee center which is the subject of great debate in the village, asks to carry the statue in the annual procession and to stand next to the white locals that bear its cart. The community is divided. On a journey exploring the source of fear and prejudice against "the others", the inhabitants of this small European village are called upon to question their own identity, starting with the very icon of their own belief: a black Jesus.
- A documentary film based on Liverpool football club's anthem of the same name. The anthem originated from the 1909 Hungarian play 'Liliom' and was adapted by Rodgers and Hammerstein.
- The documentary follows the audition and application process young students have to go through to get accepted at the Hannover acting academy.
- Mr. Gay Syria follows two gay Syrian refugees who are trying to rebuild their lives. Husein is a barber in Istanbul, living a double life between his conservative family and his gay identity. Mahmoud is the founder of Syria's LGBTI movement and is a refugee in Berlin. What brings them together is a dream: to participate in an international beauty contest as an escape from their trapped lives and an answer to their invisibility. Will the dream come true or will the refugee crisis and the harsh consequences of being gay in the Muslim world shatter it to pieces?
- The opportunity to make some fast money by delivering a hot car moves Ana and Nicolae, a young couple from Romania, to take a bus from Bucharest to Vienna. When the arrive they are told to be patient; their car is not ready yet. Ana wants to go home, but Nicolae would rather forge on westward. With no money they are stuck in Vienna, and after a fight they split up, which leads to encounters with various locals. Nicolae meets Dana, a vivacious 30-year-old travel agent, and Ana gets acquainted with Jan, a department-store detective still suffering from his breakup with Rita, his ex-girlfriend across the hall. Martha, Jan's equally-apathetic roommate, keeps her head above water as a human crash-test dummy. When Ana and Nicolae meet again, their relationship is bathed in a new light.
- The detective inspector Alexander Bischof (Simon Licht) lives for his job. He doesn't have a family to look after after work or visit. He is convinced that as a police officer he can make the world a little better. He wants to be one of the good guys. But when the commissioner has to investigate a case in the vicinity of an Arab clan, he gets into a conflict of conscience.
- Tracing the emigrations of his family over more than half a century, this riveting 3D documentary epic from acclaimed expatriate Iraqi filmmaker Samir pays moving homage to the frustrated democratic dreams of a people successively plagued by the horrors of dictatorship, war, and foreign occupation.
- Cash, narcotics and prostitution gathers the criminals of Hamburg, Germany in St. Pauli, where Special Force 65 tries to solve the crime wave.
- Ferdi desperately wants a girlfriend, but he is ugly. One day he meets Jona, who is blind, and for the first time in his life there is hope. What Ferdi doesn't know is that Jona isn't actually blind; she's only pretending. After she dropped out of school and ran away from home, she needed a place to stay, so she pretended to be blind so she could live with her Cousine Cecile in the Home for the Blind. Should Ferdi find out this ugly truth, he is likely to kill himself.
- Molly Monster is the deeply-loved only-monster of Popo and Etna Monster. She spends her days in familiar surroundings playing with her best friend Edison, a clockwork toy with a life of his own. But when Mama gives birth to an egg (which Papa must hatch) Molly sets out on a journey to find her new place in the family. The journey takes her far away from home and over the Wild Hills to Egg Island, where she is reunited with her Mama and her Papa, and her new mini-monster sibling. "Molly Monster" deals with the theme of becoming a sister of a brother and the excitement that comes with it from the point of view of a small child. Enchanting and entertaining - a universal preschool adventure.
- 'Nobody can tell you exactly about the meaning of life, but one thing is for sure: It's not being the richest guy on the cemetery.' (Peter Ustinov) HANS DAMPF is a musical Roadmovie Fairytale about wanting and having: We accompany our hero on his quest for luck and love down south and lucky he gets. Bartering his VW-Bus for a Three wheeler, that one for a nice rubber boat and the boat for a bike. He's all out of money when he meets Fee and it looks like they could live happily ever after.
- The story of Bica, called Bitch, who lives alone and neglected on the streets of Bucharest. Lured by the promises of former policeman Cristu, she follows him to Düsseldorf in order to earn the money. But the job is in a group of organized pickpockets under horrific conditions.
- Probation Officer Benno finds in Hotte a real challenge. Shit gets his authority on petty criminals anyway, but Hotte is by far the most cunning rogue ever to enter his office. When Hotte is also given custody of his 2 children Dennis and Jenny, Benno sees red. Under no circumstances may Hotte move with the adolescents to a shared apartment and take over their education. Initially interested only the child support, but slowly he finds pleasure in living together with his children and a permanent residence. And while Hotte makes a sincere effort to rearrange his life, Benno develops an unimaginable energy to prevent just that .
- Marriage counselor Luisa is happily married to Richard, but also has an affair with Leopold, Richard's boss. Luisa can't decide which man to choose, until she wakes up one morning and meets a second Luisa, calling herself Ann.
- It all started with a spontaneous Google research: What does Helmut Berger actually do? Bettina Vorndamme, the mother of director Valesca Peters, surfed the net one night after being separated from her partner and was downright shocked by what she was reading about the once "most beautiful man" of the 1960s and 1970s.
- Claus Jansen experiences the inconceivable: his 12-year old son disappears without trace from his boarding school and is then found murdered. As the police don't seem all that committed to their enquiries, the father sets out to try and find the sex offender and is successful, albeit many years later. The film is based on the true story of Ulrich Jahr, whose son was the first victim of the "man in the mask" in 1992. After murdering three boys and abusing dozens of others, he was caught in 2011. One of the most disturbing cases in recent German criminal history.
- After 20 years of living in Berlin, the director Olga Delane goes back to her roots in a small Siberian village, where she is confronted with traditional views of relationships, life and love. The man is the master in the home; the woman's task is to beget children and take care of the household (and everything else, too). Siberian Love provides unrivaled insights into the (love) life of a Siberian village and seeks the truth around the universal value of traditional relationships. A freezing quest for love in rural Siberia.
- Depicts a section of Germany's history from the 1968 movement beginning with the year 2009 on the basis of a portrait of lawyers Otto Schily , Hans-Christian Ströbele and Horst Mahler .
- Heinrich Gruber, a public prosecutor as he stands, and the travel journalist Tom Gruber have little in common in life. The two gentlemen in their 60s are all the more astonished when they get to know each other at the opening of a will - as the husbands of the deceased. Sophia, who had a car accident, led a double life that was both secret and happy for decades. While the esoteric Tom would like to get to know his rival in order to understand his beloved wife even better, Heinrich turns completely stubborn in his pain. The paragraph-proof lawyer recognizes Sophia's Las Vegas wedding with Tom just as little as her last will: She asks that her ashes be scattered in the North Sea - by "her" husbands together. In order to comply with this illegal request, Tom steals the urn from the undertaker. Heinrich cannot be shaken off, however. On the trip together with Tom's camper, they get to know the pregnant hitchhiker Ella, who makes them pause briefly. However, the truce between the hotheads only lasts until the arrival on the island of Neuhever. Now it's a matter of who gets through his stubbornness on site: burial at sea or cemetery. Due to their rivalry, Heinrich and Tom initially do not notice that their prudent Sophia has arranged everything perfectly even with their last will.
- For many years, Nadja has worked as a housekeeper for an upper class Greek couple. When she's diagnosed with a serious illness, and the man of the house runs into financial difficulties due to the economic crisis, Nadja loses her job.
- Along the dark country roads of rural Germany, prostitutes from foreign countries work in old caravans. ln this uncanny world, the murder of one of the women .
- Marcus is a survivor of Theresienstadt and Auschwitz. His survival strategy after the war was total oblivion. But now the past catches up with him and he wants to be buried as a Jew among his own. To his surprise, however, he must first prove that he is a Jew at all. He needs documents or testimony.
- A documentary showing a Chinese investor's attempts to turn a small regional airport in north east Germany into a major international air traffic hub.
- Who was Arndt von Bohlen? A weird jetsetter in postwar German high society? A strange "bird of paradise" whose main interests were extravagant clothes and flashy make-up? Or simply Germany's wealthiest early retiree? This fictional documentary film, directed by André Schäfer, tells the story of the last of the Krupp von Bohlen line, the German steelworks dynasty that made two world wars possible. The movie presents a different image of Arndt von Bohlen than the gossip columns of the 60's and 70's did. With Arnd Klawitter, a very sensitive and creative actor, in the main role, Herr von Bohlen tells the story of an intelligent and melancholy person who was a kind of lightning rod for some of the psychological aftereffects of "black pedagogy" and Nazi ideology that plagued Germany after the war. In a fictitious interview Arndt von Bohlen tells us that he had to apply in writing for an appointment if he wanted to talk to his grandfather, Gustav Krupp von Bohlen.
- Central Asia/Kyrgyzstan: When Erkingul and her friends meet for tea, they talk about toxic cyanide, bride kidnapping, and where to buy the fattest sheep. The women of KAREK are mothers and wives, but first and foremost they are activists, who challenge not only the nearby goldmine but also the Kirghiz government. When a revolution topples the regime in Kyrgyzstan they are at the forefront of the protests. Erkingul, the 'boss' of the group, makes a leap into the Kirghiz parliament and as a politician she now continues her struggle against the mine. Set in a post-Soviet and increasingly fundamentalist country, the film allows an intimate glimpse into a microcosm of outstanding women. A film about courage, female companionship, and life after a revolution.
- The movie is based on the real story of 937 German Jewish refugees leaving from Hamburg in 1939, far from Nazism to Cuba. Their journey for freedom became an Odyssey on the Atlantic ocean.
- It is a fetish, a mantra, a secret religion to modern man: work. In times of the financial crisis and massive job reductions, this documentary movie questions work as our 'hallow' sense in life in a way that both humors and pains us.
- Arkus is reigned by Schiija. The Evil queen forces the inhabitants to give her their best work as gifts at the yearly gifts day. One day a former rival passes a hint on how to defeat the queen to the streetkids Jono and Saraja .
- "The Virgin Obsession" - In traditional Islam, like in so many other religions, sex is something that is reserved for marriage. What does this mean for young Muslims living in western secularized societies? The film maker himself has had a free upbringing, as there are many who do not share. And the fixation of honor and virgin is far from just girls. We can meet some of the film makers' friends, but also a psychologist, a lawyer and women's rights activists.