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- Dumped by his girlfriend, a high school grad decides to embark on an overseas adventure in Europe with his friends.
- Vampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife.
- A group of friends are in a holiday home by the Baltic Sea where emotions run high as the parched forest around them catches fire.
- Set during the time of the first outbreak of bubonic plague in England, a young monk is given the task of learning the truth about reports of people being brought back to life in a small village.
- A ghost writer, hired to complete the memoirs of a former British Prime Minister, uncovers secrets that put his own life in jeopardy.
- Benjamin, a young German computer whiz, is invited to join a subversive hacker group that wants to be noticed on the world's stage.
- A doctor working in 1980s East Germany finds herself banished to a small country hospital.
- Follows three men who are in love with a beautiful waitress during World War II: an intellectual restaurant owner, a mysterious musician, and an erratic businessman.
- Who is lovesick these days? A young journalist wants to expose the charming founder of a lovesick agency as a fake and embarks on a search for his own lost ability to love.
- Abandoned as a baby, Jon finds himself in prison on a manslaughter charge. He falls in love with prison guard Iro, unaware of their fateful connection.
- The 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.
- A man is released from a mental institution after serving 9 years for multiple rape.
- When a girl's body is found, two investigators (Fahri Yardim and Henriette Confurius) join forces to solve the case. They come across a strange series of murders with connections to Germany's past.
- The dishonorably discharged Afghanistan veteran Thomas returns to his home village of Jerichow. Ali, a local Turkish-German businessman, owner of a snack-bar chain, hires him as a driver. That's when Thomas meets Laura, his Turkish boss's young and attractive wife. A classic love triangle is born, unfolding in desolate northeast Germany, where thick forests suddenly end on cliffs overlooking the Baltic Sea. Caught between guilt and freedom, between passion and reason, the protagonists have no hopes for fulfillment of their dreams.
- Kacper, an ex-guerrilla soldier is chased by a female werewolf, realizes that he is possessed by the spirit of his deceased wife Maryna. He also recognizes the same werewolf symptoms in Julia, a predatory countess who has a relationship with an Austrian officer.
- Luxury hotel. Luxury clientele. Irritable staff. A couple who might fall in love, or they might leave their relationship in its raw state - like the titular steaks.
- The tale of young Gritta who lives with her father, an unsuccessful inventor. When her new stepmother tries to put her away in a convent she discovers some dark secrets there.
- Cows and nothing but fields. 24-year-old Christin lives on the farm of her long-term boyfriend Jan in Mecklenburg. Their relationship is loveless. Time seems to stand still - until 46-year-old engineer Klaus turns up.
- Anna and Hans belong together; all their friends simply call them the Hannas: a well-balanced long-term couple in their sleepy 30s, united by a cooking obsession. One day they meet ADHD sister Kim and Nicola. Secretly, the Hannas each begin sizzling hot love affairs with the sisters but wind up put through the emotional wringer; Kim and Nicola are connected by something the Hannas hadn't suspected. THE HANNAS: A story about 30-ish bodies, food, and love.
- Five kids and a dog investigate the disappearance of a professor, uncovering a conspiracy involving criminals related to his alternative energy project; they attempt to rescue him from kidnappers.
- Ministers from the G8 countries meet in Germany to decide on a secret plan affecting many countries. IMF director Roché has invited a monk for his confession. Roché's later found dead. Is it murder or suicide? Did he reveal the plan?
- Jule (Heidemarie Hatheyer), a 25 year old women is not having an easy life. Her cousin Stefan Rüdiger (Albert Matterstock) has left "manor Jobshagen" as an 18 year old and Jule has had to manage business since then. Her uncle, Stefan's father, never could get over the leaving of his son and isolated himself from the world. Jule, once a blithe youngster, became a tough woman by the time. And there are heavy debts on the manor Jobshagen, 6000 Marks. The innkeeper Meyer could give Jule the money, but he wants a big part of the estates of manor Jobshagen for exchange and that is the last thing that Jule would accept.
- After 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?
- Structurally weak and sparsely populated regions of Germany, especially in the north, such as Mecklenburg Switzerland, attract a very special form of ideologically extreme right-wing colonists. Nationalist settlers. For generations, such families have settled in the countryside with right-wing sentiments. They often cultivate organic farming, follow traditional crafts and maintain old traditions. They operate in secret and are difficult to grasp. There are no secured numbers and no umbrella organization. Stealth is their strategy. Even their children are brought in line in educational centers. Where villages die, farms are abandoned and schools are closed for lack of pupils, every new settler is welcome and nobody asks what political views are being taken by the new friendly neighbors. They are networked and dangerous. Because therefore they are observed by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution. The documentary goes on exploration, analyzes their historical roots and describes their influence in today's burgeoning right-wing scene.
- The cover model of an East German fashion magazine is tempted by a photographer she falls in love with, to flee to to the West.
- Prora, on the Baltic Sea. Mysterious, endless. In this deserted former Nazi holiday camp and communist military complex, teenagers Jan and Matthieu embark on an adventure that puts their friendship at risk.
- 1828 in the German port city of Bremen: A female law clerk tries to prove her worth during the investigation of a series of poisonings.
- German film loosely based on the sinking, by a Soviet submarine, of a Nazi troop-transport ship in the Baltic Sea on January 30th 1945.
- The cases of the crew of the Albatros, a patrol boat of the German Coast Guard operating in the Baltic Sea area.
- SOKO Wismar is a German crime series.
- Dennis is a new inmate. Mike is an older black inmate. Together the two face hostile prison officals and inmates in their attempts to become a loving couple.
- Tristan is a young and ambitious fashion designer searching for independence from his family. When he meets Sunny, a charismatic hustler, he sees what freedom can look like. But Sunny has secrets. What begins as a wild and beautiful love story slowly turns into an intense trip between dream and reality.
- The riveting true story of Rita Vogt, a 1970s West German terrorist who escapes to the East with the help of the Stasi. She lives in constant fear of having her cover blown, until it unavoidably happens after the German re-unification.
- Simone Carstensen-Kleebach has everything she could wish for in life. A husband who supports her, whom she's been married to for almost 20 years, a daughter, and great success in her job. But the pressure of being perfect in all of these roles increasingly drains her. When she gets to know Leon on holiday, sparks fly between them. And even though Simone never dreamt that "something like this" could happen, she starts flirting with Leon. Back in Hamburg with her family, she suddenly receives compromising photos of Leon and herself which could pose a threat to her marriage and professional standing. But who took these photos and what does the sender hope to achieve? Is it blackmail? When things start to get out of control, Simone does everything she can to protect her family ...
- A biographical film of Otto von Bismarck, the Prime Minister of Prussia, and how he and his policies - including aggressive war - helped to unite Germany.
- Idle intellectuals Albrecht, Octavia and Äls, are given to quoting and emulating their philosopher hero, Nietzsche. Albrecht later contracts typhus bringing the foster child gravely ill Äls out of an infected area.
- Together with his therapy dog, psychologist Paul supports his patients in challenging life situations, spanning a variety of topics, such as the drive for self-optimization, the difficulty of forgiving, loneliness or narcissism.
- Through archival footage and dramatic readings of his personal writings, the life of Nazi Germany's Propaganda Minister, Josef Goebbels, is examined.
- After his colleague and a mentor, Prof. Achenbach dies in a set-up accident, while trying to produce gold from the lead, Werner Holk seeks revenge. Meanwhile, a British millionaire suggests that Holk work on him on a similar project.
- This historical-biographical film begins in the first days of November 1918 on the western front. News comes to the soldiers of a revolutionary uprising in Kiel. Young Thälmann, a soldier against his will, would like to join the expanding conflict on the side of his comrades in Hamburg. As the revolution becomes threatened by the betrayal of the right-wing Social Democrats and the splintering of the working class, he nevertheless tries unremittingly to unite the workers. The reactionaries grow ever stronger and the neediness of ordinary people multiplies. In this dire situation, the Hamburg police commissioner would like to block the unloading of a ship full of provisions that were sent from Petrograd as a message of solidarity. But Thälmann prevails in unloading it. The high point and conclusion of the first part of the Thälmann films is established at the Hamburg Uprising in October 1923.
- Children reviving an old heathen ritual by standing in the frigid waters of the Baltic Sea; the one standing in the longest shall be referred to as the king of Kummerow.
- There are only a few iconic football stars being constantly admired across the globe for their art of handling a ball and controlling a game, winning basically all the relevant titles. Toni Kroos is one of them.
- In 1944 many Germans in Eastern Prussia, like Lena von Mahlenberg, daughter of a local aristocrat, believed that Hitler would surrender and spare them from being invaded by the vengeful Russian Red Army. He didn't and they had to flee.
- An unbeatable team of five teenage friends, the Peppercorns, unites to find out who is behind the kidnapping of a missing oceanographer who has discovered a means of getting rid of plastic waste in the ocean.
- People from different walks of life in the German city of Rostock intersect when a rampaging mob besieges a residential building occupied by Vietnamese immigrants.
- Jesper is a soldier in the German army. Although his brother was killed whilst serving in Afghanistan, he nevertheless reports for a new tour of duty in this war zone. He and his unit are to protect a remote village from the Taliban. One of the people accompanying Jesper is a young interpreter, Tarik, whose job includes mediating between soldiers and villagers. Both sides have a hard time trying to overcome the differences in their respective ways of life. Jesper must gain the trust of both villagers and the allied Arbaki militia and his nerves are soon on edge. He finds himself increasingly morally conflicted as a result of his superiors' orders. His association with the Germans means Tarik's life is constantly under threat, but when Tarik begins to fear for his sister's safety, Jesper has to make a decision. Feo Aladag uses this portrait of an ISAF soldier in Afghanistan to explore questions of affinity and otherness, trust and failure. How humane can your actions be if you are bound by the workings of a strict military bureaucracy? What remains of the ideals of human dignity when you are caught up in a daily struggle for survival?
- In 1929, music teacher Paul Leinert receives an unexpected letter from his old friend Otto Schiffmann, a young and talented composer who has moved away from Berlin after a failed marriage. The letter is an invitation for Paul to come and visit Otto in his forest cabin - and to get to know his new work, a long-awaited symphony. Taking along his wife Anna as well as his colleague Willi, the three find the cabin, but Otto is nowhere to be seen. As they go looking for him the next day, Paul notices something odd about the song of the local birds...
- Germany 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.
- An exciting piece of Berlin's cultural history from the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall to the vibrant present.
- A complete opposite of a hero is banished from his village for his (in)actions. He then travels the world with more or less the same result trying to impress.