Ben Becker

In the beginning of the 19th century, Johannes Elias Alder is born in a small village in the Austrian mountains. While growing up he is considered...

Budapest in the 1930s. Restaurant owner Laszlo hires pianist András to play in his restaurant. Both men fall in love with the beautiful waitress...

After trying to smuggle a package into prison for his father Willi, Harry and his girlfriend Marlies also end up in jail. While Harry is billeted...

In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that he left 40 years before. He wants to discover...

In this sun soaked adventure for the entire family, a group of five orphaned children form their own makeshift family while attempting to operate...

Brothers Franz and Erich Sass grew up poor. Together with his brother Franz, Erich specializes in cracking safes. Erich spends the money with his...

Rex Gildo’s songs and musicals made him very popular. His best-known song was “Fiesta Mexicana” from 1972. Rosa von Praunheim tells the story...

Comedian Harmonists tells the story of a famous, German male sextet, five vocals and piano, the "Comedian Harmonists", from the day they meet first...

Being one of the most significant, contemporary painters, Albert Oehlen’s approach is complete refusal of the common art circus. In its own way the...

Inspired by real-life Elsa Andersson, this mostly fictional movie tells the story of her upbringing as a farmer's daughter, in the early 1900s, who...

Emanuel Goldfarb, a Jewish journalist respond to an invitation by a professor to tell his pupils about his life as a Jew living in Germany.

A story set in a small village in Sudetenland between 1937 and 1945. "Habermann" is based on true events.

The ruthless mafioso El Huron spreads fear and terror throughout Mexico. He and his henchmen know no mercy. When Chucky, a low-level member of the...

Max and Moritz are two young brothers living an adventurous life of petty crime in Hamburg, Germany. After the two boys steal a car and get into an...

A legendary band story began in Münster, Westphalia, in 1973: Udo Lindenberg and the Panikorchester played their first concert and released the...

Prussian general's son Friedrich, Freiherr (German baron) von der Trenck, is an unruly student whose countless affairs make him enemies, but he wins...

CHAOSTAGE is the first real german Punk movie. part fictional, part documentary it tells the story of some young punks...

Simon Sachs, a terminally ill ten year old boy, claims to have been a serial killer in his previous life and apparently he can prove it. He leads a...

The life story of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, a German Jew, who as a physician established the field of sexology, and fought militantly against German...

Ramona lives her lonely life in Berlin working in a lipstick factory. One day she accidentally runs into Andrzei, a Polish mechanic illegally selling...

In this biopic, Marlene Dietrich leaves Berlin for Hollywood, where she establishes herself as an international star through various film roles.

A man from Ostfriesland travels to Hamburg and sets course for America on a steamship to conquer this New World as well. What he leaves behind is a...

The discovery of an unknown virus in a young man leads to frantic activity on the part of the state apparatus. Fearing an epidemic, they want to send...

The naive 18 year old Dobrila leaves her little Serbian village to travel to Hamburg, Germany, where her boyfriend lives. The trip is not easy....

Follows the lives of students and their teachers based on the director's childhood memories. The events of the film take places in the actual...

After a policeman is shot dead, the Hanover CID receives an anonymous tip-off that the perpetrator is also a policeman. Detective Stefan Bregert is...

The day after his abduction, a nine-year-old boy is found seemingly unharmed, but he has suffered severe trauma as a result of his time in the hands...

The Rhine is the center of the European soul, the continent's largest and most important river. Over thousands of years, it has formed unique...

1640. A man attempts to flee from England, torn apart by religious unrest, to France. He is the philosopher and irreverent cynic Thomas Hobbes. But...

The wild West Berlin of the 1980s became the creative melting pot of pop subcultures: music, art and chaos. Before the Iron Curtain fell, anything...

Berlin Alexanderplatz; within 24 hours, various stories rotate between the heights and depths of the square, between the television tower and the...

Firefighters Stefan and Johannes and psychologist Marta Weber, Stefan's girlfriend, are targeted by the psychopathic arsonist Kovacz. Johannes is...

Germany, 1967. Ruby & Martin, a young couple, are rehearsing their uprising. The price is high: expulsion from school, parental violence, and...

In the little town of Herzsprung - whose name harks back to an ancient legend of broken hearts - almost nothing has changed since German unification,...

A family spends their vacation in the basement so that their neighbors don't notice that they can't afford to go on vacation.

This documentary tells the story of an unusual victim of the Nazi holocaust -- Kurt Gerron, a German film actor and cabaret star. During World War...

A radio presenter and a telephone operator, both mourning the loss of their unhappy love affair, meet anonymously in an Internet chat room after a...

Undine rescues a prince from drowning, and leaves him unconscious on shore, where he can be found, but she has already fallen in love with him. ...

Charly was a clown before he lost his talent for making people laugh. When Charly loses his last engagement, he decides to take his own life. He...

The young son of a sports journalist helps his out-of-town father out of a jam by getting into the hotel room of a famous boxer and conducting a...

Before there were home video formats and the internet, the “Bahnhofskinos” (“Train station cinemas”) in West Germany regularly showed trash...

Protected from the intrigues of con-men by the overwhelming blanket of the former regime in East Germany, at first it seems that Ada Fenske, the...

They once played together in a band called Chix and were inseparable. Today, each of them has their own problems.

Emma Mayer is a psychologist and advises people in crisis situations. She works at a radio station in Mannheim and does her best to provide callers...

Generosity, weakness for expensive pleasures and ruin is a combination that does not bode well. Johann Friedrich von Allmen was a man with a taste...

New Year's Eve, shortly after five. Ten travelers have missed the last ferry to Copenhagen and are lured aboard the small steamer "Esperanza" by the...

A man from Ostfriesland travels to Hamburg and sets course for America on a steamship to conquer this New World as well. What he leaves behind is a...

His name is the symbol of the traitor: Judas, the disciple of Jesus who delivered him to the cross. But is he really seen correctly or is our entire...

Nick has lost everything. A brutal robbery has destroyed his life and his dreams. Financially, he is facing ruin with just a few hundred marks in his...

Franz, editor-in-chief of a large publishing house and no stranger to sadness himself, learns shortly before his wife Simone's death that she has...

German 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...