Janek Rieke

Lichter is an episodic tale from Hans-Christian Schmid about the life on the border between Germany and Poland. The film sheds light on the everyday...

In October 1989, the part of the West Berlin borough of Kreuzberg called SO 36, had been largely shut off by the Wall from the rest of the city for...

Frank and Katrin return to Frankfurt to stop the scientist responsible for unleashing the plague of genetically mutated vermin upon the city.

Episodes about different stages of relationships: from flirtation to falling out of love.

The plan seems to be working. The beautiful policewoman takes up a position in Deniz's company and quickly gains the trust and affection of her young...

A girl, Carola, whose vacation in Kenya takes an interesting turn when she becomes infatuated with a Masai. Carola decides to leave her boyfriend to...

After greengrocer Mehmet Üsker is murdered, police detective Inspector Menemenci is put on the case. At the same time, detective Vera Gemini is on...

A municipal worker's strike combined with Frankfurt's hottest summer in 150 years brings infected rats out onto the streets.

Martin is the ambitious one in the family. He is poised to start on his doctorate, when he is diagnosed with testicular cancer and all his future...

When Tina arrives at home, another young woman has just been murdered in the village - the third victim of a serial killer

Paula, a primary school teacher from Berlin, was left by her then boyfriend Jan eight years ago. Now she unexpectedly gets an invitation to his...

During the pagan Rauhnächte, unbridled revelry reigns in the former Viking town of Ribe. Even at the police station, where conscientious patrol...

A hit man whose mission is to prevent the printing of a tell-all book written by a former Mafioso, falls in love with the employee who may lose her...

Jerry Cotton is the best agent of the FBI and suspected of murder. So he has to find the real killers from gangster boss Serrano.

Hatice has a problem: she desperately needs a man. Because her younger sister Fatma is pregnant and must marry immediately. However, that is only...

Journalist Elias investigates the background to a suicide in a village in East Westphalia. Günther Sperl, son of the local butcher, has taken his...

Frido Schulz and Rosa Schätzlein have known each other since their student days. But while Rosa made a career as a lawyer, Frido had to take over...

For years, the dairy farmer Klara has tried to keep the court of her deceased parents. But the business is running badly, a sale of the farm seems...

Jonas is in his mid-twenties, still lives with his parents and gets dumped by his girlfriend. He soon gets to know Lena, a tough young woman with...

Tamar, Josef, Bracha and Wolfgang survived the persecution and the camps. May 1945. The children do not know where their parents are. In the former...

An absurd comedy about a couple whose perfect façade is becoming more and more cracked. Olli and Anja are a happy couple – but then Anja gets...

Lily wants to be run a brothel. But corrupt cops threaten her with violence. Lily needs help.

"Are they corrupt?" After arriving in Cape Town, Johann and Inge are amazed by the swanky estate of their son Mark's future mother-in-law. His...

The Wieland and Aschenbach families urgently need daycare places. Fortunately, the director of the municipal daycare center, Johannes Herder, is...

Rosa can only dream of romantic togetherness with her husband Mark. Temporarily homeless, her mother Ruth has taken up residence in the middle of the...

Lisa faces a difficult decision. The landscape architect is heavily in debt. The bank is urging her to sell her villa on Lake Starnberg, in need of...

A deadly virus is stolen from the high-security laboratory of a biotechnology company. Although the thief can be found, lifeless and bleeding from...

Psychotherapist Ulf has finally managed to marry his Sarah and become Heinrich's son-in-law, but that's only where the problems begin. Just now,...

Psychotherapist Ulf Weiß and his girlfriend Sarah Gievenbeck want to get married. They go to Sarah's parents' house for a weekend. Sarah's father,...

Vera and Hans have been happy for 15 years - only the marriage certificate is still missing. Vera's mother wants to help the couple on the jumps and...

Gerri does not like anymore. Stylishly she wants to promote herself to the hereafter. She does not mince words in her farewell letters. But then the...

Claire's family life is not very harmonious at the moment: her marriage to teacher Frank is in crisis and her children Betti and Daniel are distant....

Back then they were just friends, now they are a couple: "Mothers, Fathers, Children" is the sequel to the comedy "How do I raise my mother?". This...

One last wish: In this tragicomedy, three women are asked to repeat their Interrail trip together after the death of their childhood friend - with...

Finally holidays. Tinka can hardly wait to be away from everyday life for the first time with her twelve-year-old son Paul and her dream man Jürgen....

A family celebrates Christmas in a Norwegian log cabin. Old conflicts and a tragic secret cloud the mood.

Although Maja and Thorsten have been divorced for two years, it is important to them to go on vacation with their sons once a year. The thought is...

Henni enthusiastically gets off the Munich-Bari intercity bus in sunny Apulia. Her new assignment takes the globetrotting nanny to a German expat...

Officer Henrik and therapist Anja would hardly be a match on a dating platform! She, a mother of three and in the midst of separating from her former...