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Der deutsche Film konnte nach 1933 nicht mehr an seine international ausstrahlende Kinotradition anknüpfen. Die Gründe für den Bedeutungsverlust der bis zur Gegenwart nicht aufgeholt werden konnte sind vielfältig und zahlreich. Die unterdurchschnittliche materielle Ausstattung und die jahrzehntelange fehlende Wertschätzung des Films als Kunstform zog eine verblüffend geringe Talentdichte nach sich. So scheinen alle zu wissen, dass es von den mehr als 200 jährlich entstehenden deutschen Filmen wenigstens ein paar zu internationaler Wahrnehmung bringen müssten. Und alle reagieren mit reflexhafter Empörung auf die Tatsache, dass in den Wettbewerben der großen Festivals von Cannes und Venedig kaum ein deutscher Film läuft. Trotzdem machen alle einfach weiter.
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- 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?
- DirectorHelmut DietlStarsGötz GeorgeMario AdorfHeiner LauterbachJakob Windisch has written THE number one bestselling novel. Since he is very shy, no-one has seen him except Uhu Zigeuner who is the designated director of the film adaption. Zigeuner is on the hunt for the woman of his dreams, a woman who should also play the main role in the film. Meanwhile, ruthless producer Oskar Reiter wants to buy the film rights at all costs - and he is struggling for the love of the beautiful Valerie. These and a lot more egos meet every night in a restaurant called "Rossini" where everybody must go so that everybody else sees them.
- DirectorErnst LubitschStarsCarole LombardJack BennyRobert StackDuring the German occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.
- 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.
- DirectorFritz LangStarsPeter LorreEllen WidmannInge LandgutWhen the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.
- DirectorUlrich SeidlStarsMaria HofstätterChristine JirkuViktor HennemannIn the tomb-like quiet of their ranch-style purgatory, a divorced husband and wife fight a wordless war while mourning an unspeakable mutual loss. A sadistic lover's ritual humiliation spawns both tenderness and revenge.
- 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.
- DirectorVicco von BülowRenate Westphal-LorenzStarsEvelyn HamannVicco von BülowIrm HermannAfter ordering enough typewriting paper for 40 years, just to get discount, Heinrich Lohse is forced to retire. The former manager has plenty of time now to spend with his wife and their 16 year old son. But - do they want that?
- DirectorChristian PetzoldStarsNina HossDevid StriesowHinnerk SchönemannYella is estranged from her possessive and violent husband; but he can't quite bring himself to give her up. When their fraught interaction finally comes to dramatic conclusion, Yella's life takes an odd shift.
- DirectorRainer Werner FassbinderStarsHanna SchygullaKlaus LöwitschIvan DesnyMaria marries Hermann Braun in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. Alone, Maria puts to use her beauty and ambition in order to find prosperity during Germany's "economic miracle" of the 1950s.
- DirectorFrauke FinsterwalderStarsGisela AderholdChristoph BachMargit CarstensenA number of individuals in Germany whose lives are connected in some ways, and all of them have dark sides which may shock us to the core.
- DirectorWim WendersStarsBruno GanzSolveig DommartinOtto SanderAn angel tires of his purely ethereal life of merely overseeing the human activity of Berlin's residents, and longs for the tangible joys of physical existence when he falls in love with a mortal.
- DirectorWerner HerzogStarsKlaus KinskiRuy GuerraHelena RojoIn the 16th century, the ruthless and insane Don Lope de Aguirre leads a Spanish expedition in search of El Dorado.
- DirectorMichael HanekeStarsGabriel Cosmin UrdesLukas MikoOtto Grünmandl71 scenes revolving around a recent immigrant, a couple that has just adopted a daughter, a college student and a lonely old man.
- DirectorHelge SchneiderStarsHelge SchneiderJimmy WoodePete YorkThe life of a Jazzplayer: Teddy Schu (Helge Schneider) loves Jazz and plays nightly in a small pub with his two friends. Sadly, there is no audience and the owner can't pay them anything for their music. Hence Teddy has to work 3 jobs to satisfy his grumpy wife. In the evenings he always finds a minute to sit with a homeless and nameless friend underneath the bridge and wonder about life and the legendary Jazz player Earl Mobileh. Jazz meets Dada!
- DirectorHelmut WeissStarsHeinz RühmannKarin HimboldtHilde SessakA successful writer, home-schooled in his youth, masquerades as a student at a secondary school to experience all the fun and pranks he missed out on.
- DirectorMichael HanekeStarsIsabelle HuppertAnnie GirardotBenoît MagimelA young man romantically pursues his masochistic piano teacher.
- DirectorUlrich SeidlStarsFritz LangAlfreda KlebingerManfred EllingerA documentary that reveals what its subjects do in their respective basements.
- DirectorChristian PetzoldStarsNina HossRonald ZehrfeldRainer BockA doctor working in 1980s East Germany finds herself banished to a small country hospital.
- DirectorChristian ZübertStarsLucas GregorowiczMoritz BleibtreuMarie ZielckeStefan and Kai have good going business, self-grown cannabis screened as pizza delivering service. For now they only have to deal with aphids.
- 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.
- DirectorJosef von SternbergStarsEmil JanningsMarlene DietrichKurt GerronAn elderly professor's ordered life spins dangerously out of control when he falls for a nightclub singer.
- DirectorEdgar ReitzStarsJan Dieter SchneiderAntonia BillMaximilian ScheidtJakob longs for a new life for himself and his troubled family in Brazil.
- DirectorPeter ThorwarthStarsOliver KorittkeMarkus KnüfkenRalf RichterA violent chain of events ensues as a jailed criminal arranges to buy a car from a shady car dealer, unaware that his partner in freedom has squandered most of the money from their last bank robbery on horse race betting.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorRainer Werner FassbinderStarsBarbara SukowaArmin Mueller-StahlMario AdorfA seductive cabaret singer-prostitute pits a corrupt building contractor against the new straight-arrow building commissioner, launching an outrageous plan to elevate herself in a world where everything-and everyone-is for sale.
- 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.
- DirectorHelmut DietlStarsMoritz BleibtreuAlexandra Maria LaraUwe OchsenknechtA comedy that proves everlasting love is a myth.
- DirectorDetlev BuckHans-Erich VietStarsBernd Michael LadeIngo NaujoksJulia JägerYoung policeman Koeppe just left the academy and is transferred to a small police station in the countryside. He's a merry guy and dreams of a career, but he's not very bright. A brutal cow slayer keeps the local police perplexed. In his spare time Koeppe is struggling with his approaches towards the rich Annelie.
- DirectorUlrich SeidlStarsMargarete TieselPeter KazunguInge MauxTeresa, a fifty-year-old Austrian mother, travels to the paradise of the beaches of Kenya, seeking out love from African boys. But she must confront the hard truth that on the beaches of Kenya, love is a business.
- DirectorLars BeckerStarsAndreas HoppeTyron RickettsDavid Scheller
- DirectorHelmut DietlStarsThomas GottschalkHarald SchmidtVeronica FerresThe program director of a German TV station desperately looks for a new talk master for the Late Show.
- DirectorFatih AkinStarsBirol ÜnelSibel KekilliGüven KiraçWith the intention to break free from the strict familial restrictions, a suicidal young woman sets up a marriage of convenience with a forty-year-old addict, an act that will lead to an outburst of envious love.
- DirectorXaver SchwarzenbergerOtto WaalkesStarsOtto WaalkesElisabeth WiedemannSky du MontOtto, a young man from East-Frisia, comes to the big city of Hamburg to make his fortune. Most of all he is engaged with two problems: How can he impress Silvia, a wealthy young girl; and where does he get 9,876.50 DM to pay off a loan shark?
- DirectorArne FeldhusenStarsChristoph Maria HerbstMilena DreißigBjarne MädelThe movie spin-off of the TV series centered around the incompetent boss of a German insurance office.
- DirectorHelmut DietlStarsGötz GeorgeUwe OchsenknechtChristiane HörbigerThe slightly fictionalized story of an art forger, a journalist desperate for a big story, and the biggest press scandal in German history: the Hitler Diaries.
- DirectorRainer Werner FassbinderStarsBrigitte MiraEl Hedi ben SalemBarbara ValentinA lonely widow meets a much younger Moroccan worker in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love, to their own surprise and to the outright shock of their families, colleagues, and drinking buddies.
- DirectorOliver HirschbiegelStarsMoritz BleibtreuChristian BerkelOliver StokowskiFor two weeks, 20 male participants are hired to play prisoners and guards in a prison. The "prisoners" have to follow seemingly mild rules, and the "guards" are told to retain order without using physical violence.
- DirectorVicco von BülowStarsVicco von BülowKatharina BraurenEvelyn HamannGray-haired furniture retailer Paul Winkelmann still has his dinner cooked and his laundry done by his mother. He spends his evenings playing Scrabble with Mama's friends and discussing the role of women in society in his carnival club. When he meets psychologist Margarete Tietze, "Pussi" finally begins to rebel against his dominant mother.
- 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.
- DirectorDetlev BuckStarsJoachim KrólHorst KrauseKonstantin KotljarovTwo brothers both of which can neither read nor write making their way across Germany in order to claim to their inheritance. On their way they meet Viktor, a deserted soldier of the sowjet red army and Nadine, a beautiful young woman. Later an incident with some highwaymen, which can be solved easily with Viktor's kalashnikov, they become accused for murder - something they had neither intended nor realized. They claim Nadine to be their hostage, fleeing police forces until they reach the coast.
- DirectorUlrich SeidlStarsViviane BartschTanja PetrovskyLisa GrossmannFour models share their life experience.
- DirectorWolfgang StaudteStarsWerner PetersPaul EsserRenate FischerDiederich Heßling is scared of everything and everyone. But as he grows up, he comes to realize that he has to offer his services to the powers-that-be if he wants to wield power himself. His life motto now runs: bow to those at the top and tread on those below. In this way, he always succeeds: as a student in a duel-fighting student fraternity and as a businessman in a paper factory. He cajoles the obese district administrative president Von Wulkow and wins his favor. He slanders his financial rivals and hatches a plot with the social democrats in the town council. On his honeymoon with his rich wife Guste, he finally finds a chance to do his beloved Kaiser a favor. And when a memorial to the Kaiser is unveiled in the town where Diederich lives and works, he delivers the address. He stands behind the lectern in the pouring rain, saluting his Kaiser. The crowd is dispersed. Everything is laid in ruins...
- DirectorVolker SchlöndorffStarsDavid BennentMario AdorfAngela WinklerIn 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.
- DirectorThomas JahnStarsTil SchweigerJan Josef LiefersThierry van WervekeTwo terminally ill patients escape from a hospital, steal a car and rush towards the sea.
- DirectorMarco PetryStarsDaniel BrühlJasmin SchwiersNiels-Bruno SchmidtThe last weeks of school have begun; before graduation, the boys catch their last chance to really have fun with friends and all the girls. From the life of a group of school pupils in a small town- the last days before real life begins
- 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.
- DirectorPepe DanquartStarsHenry HübchenMoritz BleibtreuCorinna HarfouchA killer for the Russian Mafia in Vienna wants to retire and write a book about his passion - cooking. The mafia godfather suspects treason.
- DirectorPeter ThorwarthStarsPeter ThorwarthRalf RichterHilmi SözerA group of rather slapdash builders are rather imaginative at solving what problems come their way. Whatever it is that doesn't fit the picture, it will be made fit in no time.
- DirectorMichael HerbigStarsMichael HerbigChristian TramitzMarie BäumerThe hilarious adventures of two best friends, Apache chief Abahachi and cowboy Ranger, in the Wild West.
- DirectorMaren AdeStarsSandra HüllerPeter SimonischekMichael WittenbornA practical joking father tries to reconnect with his hard working daughter by creating an outrageous alter ego and posing as her CEO's life coach.
- DirectorGregor SchnitzlerStarsMatthias SchweighöferNora TschirnerOliver WnukBen is a young editor for a famous german music magazine in the mid 1990s. His life is falling apart after his girlfriend breaks up with him. From now on he decides to go solo...
- DirectorStefan RuzowitzkyStarsFranka PotenteBenno FürmannAnna LoosA cute med student starts a summer course at Heidelberg University. David's on her dissection table. She met him the day before on the train. Something's wrong.
- DirectorUlrich SeidlStarsMelanie LenzVerena LehbauerJoseph LorenzThe final installment in Ulrich Seidl's Paradise trilogy, 'Paradise: Hope' tells the story of overweight thirteen-year-old Melanie and her first love. While her mother travels to Kenya ('Paradise: Love') and her aunt does missionary work ('Paradise: Faith'), Melanie spends her summer vacation at a strict diet camp for overweight adolescents. Between physical education and nutrition counseling, pillow fights and her first cigarette, Melanie falls in love with the camp director, a doctor forty years her senior. As the doctor struggles with the guilty nature of his desire, Melanie had imagined her paradise differently.
- DirectorMarijan David VajdaOtto WaalkesStarsOtto WaalkesBarbara MayHans Peter HallwachsOtto is the only one who is able to save his Frisian homeland, but he needs the help of his brother, who is abroad. But when his brother does not want to fulfill what he has sworn to do, Otto tries to convince him.
- DirectorGerhard HahnNiki ListMichael SchaackStarsKlaus BüchnerAndi FeldmannKulle WestphalBroesel has to make a Werner animation film but right now he has no real ideas for new stories. Thus he simply draws some stories from Werner's youth.
- DirectorHelge SchneiderAndrea SchumacherStarsHelge SchneiderZorroPeter ThomsCommissioner Schneider is back. Nineteen years after "00 Schneider - Jagd auf Nihil Baxter" aging policeman now has to face villain Jean-Claude Pillemann.
- DirectorChristian ZübertStarsMoritz BleibtreuDar SalimThomas BinderStefan's back in Germany for a paper for his wedding in Dubai. His old friend, Kai, gets him in drug trouble. They try to help Kai's stepson, who works for drug dealers. Stefan meets an old flame.
- DirectorHannes StöhrStarsPaul KalkbrennerRita LengyelCorinna HarfouchA man tours clubs around the globe with his manager and girlfriend. On the eve of their largest album release he is admitted to a psychiatric clinic after overdosing at a gig.
- DirectorHans-Christian SchmidStarsRobert StadloberTom SchillingOona-Devi Liebich16 year old, paralyzed Benjamin switches to a boarding school to get better grades where he has to struggle with the various problems of coming of age: He falls in love with the school's dream girl Malen.
- DirectorSönke WortmannStarsTil SchweigerKatja RiemannJoachim KrólThrown out by his girlfriend from her apartment, Axel lives for a while with Norbert, a gay man he met some days before.
- DirectorWerner HerzogStarsBruno S.Walter LadengastBrigitte MiraA young man named Kaspar Hauser suddenly appears in Nuremberg in 1828, barely able to talk or walk, and bearing a strange note.
- DirectorDani LevyStarsHenry HübchenHannelore ElsnerUdo SamelA Journalist of Jewish descent in Berlin feels that he is a loser of the political changes in Germany after 1989. When his mother dies, he has to meet his brother to whom he has not talked for years and to meet all his other family members. But during the preparations for the funeral he plays a snooker-cup for paying his debts with the money for the victory, and many other things mixes up.
- DirectorChristian GörlitzStarsMaxim MehmetAndreas SchmidtOliver BröckerHeinz Strunk is a young and unemployed musician who lives with his sick mother in Hamburg-Harburg. One day he gets the chance to play the sax in a dance band.
- DirectorFatih AkinStarsBarnaby MetschuratMoritz BleibtreuChristian TascheIn the sixties Romano Amato, his wife Rosa and their two sons Giancarlo and Gigi emigrate from Solino in Italy to Duisburg in the Ruhr area and establish the first Pizza restaurant in town. Their business emerges well and both children get used to Germany. 10 years later the brothers fall in love with the same woman; they break tie with each other in anger and Gigi returns to Solino with his mother. A decade later both meet again and have a retrospect on their lives.
- DirectorDetlev BuckStarsDavid KrossJenny ElversErhan EmreFrom the youth directed novel of the same name by Greogor Tressnow comes a film by Detlev Buck that is a realistic portrait of life in the section of Berlin called Neukölln. It's about power and weakness, delinquents and victims, and the difficulties a 15-year-old faces in a poor and criminal environment.
- DirectorOliver HirschbiegelStarsBruno GanzAlexandra Maria LaraUlrich MatthesTraudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII.
- DirectorFatih AkinStarsAdam BousdoukosMoritz BleibtreuPheline RogganIn Hamburg, German-Greek chef Zinos unknowingly disturbs the peace in his locals-only restaurant by hiring a more talented chef.
- DirectorUli EdelStarsNatja BrunckhorstEberhard AurigaPeggy BussieckA teen girl in 1970s Berlin becomes addicted to heroin. Everything in her life slowly begins to distort and disappear as she befriends a small crew of junkies and falls in love with a drug-abusing male prostitute.
- DirectorUli EdelStarsMartina GedeckMoritz BleibtreuJohanna WokalekA look at Germany's terrorist group, The Red Army Faction (RAF), which organized bombings, robberies, kidnappings, and assassinations in the late 1960s and '70s.
- DirectorDoris DörrieStarsHeike MakatschBenno FürmannAlexandra Maria LaraThree couples meet for dinner and talk about love and sex.
- DirectorMichael SchaackVeit VollmerStarsIlona SchulzHelge SchneiderArne ElsholtzHe is a small, short-sighted boy who politically incorrectly terrorizes his environment in an old-fashioned, disrespectful and sometimes vulgar manner.
- DirectorHans WeingartnerStarsDaniel BrühlJulia JentschStipe ErcegThree activists cobble together a kidnapping plot after they encounter a businessman in his home.
- DirectorHans WeingartnerStarsMoritz BleibtreuElsa Sophie GambardMilan PeschelFrustrated, because he is forced to produce bad TV-shows, a manager of a TV-station, enters the station and manipulates the ratings, to initiate a TV-revolution.
- DirectorHelmut DietlStarsMichael HerbigKaroline HerfurthSenta BergerA social satire in which a chauffeur accidentally becomes the editor of an online newspaper.
- DirectorWolfgang BüldStarsTil SchweigerTina RulandStefan GebelhoffProud German owners of Opel Manta's race the streets against VW's and Mercedes. They decide to set up a real race with lots of money involved.
- DirectorSven TaddickenStarsJördis TriebelJürgen VogelMaik SolbachMax is very ill. He decides to steal in his own company. But when he tries to run away with the money, he has a car accident that takes him to Emma's pigs farm.
- DirectorDennis GanselStarsJürgen VogelFrederick LauMax RiemeltA high school teacher's experiment to demonstrate to his students what life is like under a dictatorship spins horribly out of control when he forms a social unit with a life of its own.
- DirectorWerner HerzogStarsKlaus KinskiClaudia CardinaleJosé LewgoyThe story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an extremely determined man who intends to build an opera house in the middle of a jungle.
- DirectorFritz LangStarsBrigitte HelmAlfred AbelGustav FröhlichIn a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
- DirectorFritz LangStarsRudolf Klein-RoggeOtto WernickeThomy BourdelleA criminal mastermind uses hypnosis to rule the rackets after death.
- DirectorWim WendersStarsDennis HopperBruno GanzLisa KreuzerTom Ripley, who deals in forged art, suggests a picture framer he knows would make a good hit man.
- DirectorWerner HerzogStarsTimothy TreadwellAmie HuguenardWerner HerzogA devastating and heart-rending take on grizzly bear activists Timothy Treadwell and Amie Huguenard, who were killed in October of 2003 while living among grizzly bears in Alaska.
- DirectorWim WendersStarsYella RottländerRüdiger VoglerLisa KreuzerA German journalist is saddled with a nine-year-old girl after encountering her mother at a New York airport.
- DirectorRainer Werner FassbinderStarsHanna SchygullaGiancarlo GianniniMel FerrerIn 1938, a German singer falls in love with a Jewish composer in Zurich, who helps Jews flee Nazi Germany. She wants to help but is forced back to Germany. Her song "Lili Marleen" becomes a hit with soldiers and the Nazi top brass.
- DirectorWolfgang PetersenStarsJürgen ProchnowHerbert GrönemeyerKlaus WennemannA German U-boat stalks the frigid waters of the North Atlantic as its young crew experience the sheer terror and claustrophobic life of a submariner in World War II.
- DirectorTom TykwerStarsFranka PotenteMoritz BleibtreuHerbert KnaupAfter a botched money delivery, Lola has 20 minutes to come up with 100,000 Deutschmarks.
- DirectorMichael HanekeStarsArno FrischAngela WinklerUlrich MüheA 14-year-old video enthusiast obsessed with violent films decides to make one of his own and show it to his parents, with tragic results.
- DirectorMichael HanekeStarsSusanne LotharUlrich MüheArno FrischTwo violent young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.
- DirectorUlrich SeidlStarsEkateryna RakLidiya Oleksandrivna SavkaOksana Ivanivna SklyarenkoA nurse from Ukraine searches for a better life in Central Europe, while an unemployed security guard from Austria heads East for the same reason.
- DirectorUlrich SeidlStarsMaria HofstätterNabil SalehRené RupnikA single woman in her 50s devotes her vacations to doing Catholic missionary work in Vienna, descending into violent self-punishment as part of her faith.
- DirectorVolker SchlöndorffMargarethe von TrottaStarsAngela WinklerMario AdorfDieter LaserA young woman's life is scrutinized by police and tabloid press after she spends the night with a suspected terrorist.
- 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.
- DirectorDetlev BuckStarsMavie HörbigerSimon SchwarzPierre BessonA girlie stranger to a small village seduces some men and causes real chaos in the lives of some straight citizens.
- DirectorGötz SpielmannStarsPetra MorzéAndreas PattonHary PrinzThree stories revolve around the love lives of an adulterous woman, a checkout girl and a single mother.
- DirectorGötz SpielmannStarsJohannes KrischIrina PotapenkoAndreas LustEx-con Alex plans to flee to the South with his girl after a robbery. But something terrible happens and revenge seems inevitable.
- DirectorRomuald KarmakarStarsGötz GeorgeJürgen HentschPierre FranckhFritz Haarmann, who has killed at least 27 boys, is questioned by a psychology professor in order to find out whether he is sane and can be held responsible for his crimes. During this interrogation Haarmann reveals his motives and his killing methods.
- DirectorSebastian SchipperStarsLaia CostaFrederick LauFranz RogowskiA young Spanish woman who has recently moved to Berlin finds her flirtation with a local guy turn potentially deadly as their night out with his friends reveals a dangerous secret.
- 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.