Michael Mendl

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...

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking...

Konrad von Seidlitz is a young yuppie lawyer currently celebrating his engagement with Cornelia, daughter of minister of justice Volkerts. As a...

Several young girls were killed in a rural area. Thus Inspector Matthaei has to travel to the region where it happened and has to search for the...

A hedonistic bachelor - he is his rich family's black sheep - falls for a suicidal mental patient.

The year is 2048, and global warming has flooded much of Earth's land areas. A father and his two sons try to salvage treasures from sunken buildings...

The German soldier Clemens Forel - determined to be reunited with his beloved family - makes a dramatic escape through bitter cold winters, desolate...

Marie Gruber fights tooth and claw to keep her café open. And yet she should be facing her "arch-enemy" with pure hostility. But she unwittingly...

Documentary about the 2004 movie 'Der Untergang' aka. 'Downfall'

In her teens, Mme. Zachanassian had to flee her home town in disgrace. Now she's old and rich and the town is facing bankruptcy. But she returns with...

Lilli is traveling to India, to solve a mystery.

The film is based on the well-known, translated into many languages novel of writer Pawel Huelle. It is imbued with nostalgia and the atmosphere of...

An adulterous woman draws a meticulous plan to murder her husband with the help of her lover, a much younger man. Committed the crime, they move to a...

Three musically talented children look to the future, but their hopes crumble when Germany and Russia enter into war.

This is a two-part Italian television mini-series directed by Giorgio Capitani and broadcasted in April 2002 on Rai Uno. It is the life story of Pope...

German TV adaptation of Grimm‘s fairy tale “Iron John“.

Hans and Fridel are a marriage that come to Java fleeing of the pursuit Nazi just before the Second World war comes untied. In this paradise Hans...

The rich Westerner embarks on a journey to find his daughter who vanished in Montreal and Zurich. The disappearance is linked to a sect that selects...

Maria has been living in a retirement home in Vienna for almost two years, but she is far from finished with life. She tries to break up the...

Lawyer Lea Jung has won a much-noticed process. Her client Nick Storm, accused of rape, was acquitted because Lena was able to prove the alleged...

During demolition work in a village in northern Germany, a cemented-in corpse is discovered in the wall of a building. The autopsy leads the...

Pat is working as an insurance detective for the large insurance company IVV in Bangkok. She is tasked to find the former co-worker Jan Hansen who...

Assistant Pastor Josef Mohr arrived in Oberndorf in 1818. In a time of political upheaval and economic hardship he writes a Christmas carol together...

Tired of never having enough money to spend, Rita and Susanne throw all bourgeois moral concerns straight out of the window and simply become...

A Black Forest timber industrialist has to assert herself against male supremacy and economic difficulties in the first half of the 20th century.

Jil has found great love in the landscape architect Marc. There is only a tiny problem: Marc is not a Jew, and Jil's devout Jewish family would never...

When wealthy college student Richard Oetker is kidnapped and held for a hefty ransom, state police officer Georg Kufbach becomes obsessed with...

The action of the melodrama takes place in the late 19th century, in an idyllic mountain village. Behind the façade of law and morality there is...

The wealthy Hamburg gallery owner Elaine Troost dies mysteriously on a stormy fall night and her body is subsequently found in the bathtub by her...

Paula, a 26‑year‑old Berlin woman, plans to introduce her boyfriend Daniel to her parents on Mother’s Day—but the day turns chaotic when she...

Journalist Katrin Tresko is on the trail of a criminal gang that is laundering money on a grand scale. But then she is murdered by their masterminds....

Claire suffers from memory loss, but is constantly tormented by fragmentary memories. The search for the truth leads the psychiatric patient to the...

Maria, Dana and Julie learn from their mother's diary that one of them has been adopted.

Susanne works for an auction company, and founds out that a painting that they have been charged to sell is a copy. So she goes to Florence, where...

Karla and Werner have 35 harmonious years of marriage behind them. But when it comes to vacations, the unity is over. A week of wellness is a dream...

Nico has just shot and killed a man by accident. He and his friend Max cover it up but it soon turns out that the victim was a big fish in the drug...

Three women decide to turn the tables and fight back: Henriette, the feisty journalist of a women's magazine, the editor Anna and the beautiful...

Hamburg landscape architect Ulrike inherits a vineyard near Barcelona, where she falls in love with Pablo. Her fatherly friend Joe advises her to be...

A situational family comedy, wordplay and a whole host of idiosyncratic characters are the ingredients for this both cheerful and emotional film...

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

Tracy Garret's a cop and after an incident that left one person dead, she's invited by her father to spend sometime with him in Berlin. While they...

Vormärz in Germany: Gisela and Walther, a maid and a servant - a predestined path of life, which Gisela rebels against. Her free-thinking spirit...

When dishwasher Ingo, whose girl-friend has just left him, returns a borrowed bar stool to the Folkwang Acting School in Essen, he stumbles into the...

Julian, Yasin and Addi learn from the executor of their deceased mother's will that the three men, who had previously been complete strangers, are...

Marianne is diagnosed with cancer. She doesn't dare confide in her stressed husband and two grown-up children. It is only when she meets her...

Ruth is an attractive, independent woman in her early 50s who has always lived for her daughter. But Lea, now in her mid-20s, is starting to break...

The leather designer Vera Klunert can not believe it: her husband Andreas, with whom she is happily married, has simply kept secret her impending...

This melodrama about love in the third age focuses on the 65-year-old Mathilde living alone after the death of her husband. When she gets to know the...

Andreas Brandt is the head of the research department in a pharmaceutical company. He earns enough to build a future with his wife Monica and his...

Shokov is the last cosmonaut of the "Mir" station. On board: the secret satellite weapon "Medusa". A corrupt minister wants to sell them abroad....

The annual sailing trip of four respectable men from Baden-Baden turns into a horror trip when a drug-addicted occasional prostitute is killed by one...

The sequel of the "Men in the city" movie which reunites all the characters.

Prince Tamino and his companions are chasing a magnificent boar. Caught up in the excitement of the hunt, Prince Tamino ignores all warnings and...

The inspirational story of the jolly cardinal Angelo Roncalli, who looks back at his memories as a poor country priest and is eventually elected pope...

Linda is a headstrong woman. She marries and lives with her husband Paul in the Ruhr area. But 12 years of marriage do not make Linda happy. She...

Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is appalled to discover that a poison gas he helped discover is being used...

At the beginning of the weekend, the detective commissioner Tina Campenhausen wanted to spend with her family, she is called to a hotel in...

In the chaotic, highly emotional period after the First World War in 1918, the foreign ministers Gustav Stresemann (1878-1929) and Aristide Briand...

Filmmaker Fritz Lang seeks inspiration for his first sound film by immersing himself in the case of serial killer Peter Kürten.

Inspired by a few youngsters in a coffee bar talking about aging, a busy man sinks into the idyllic surrounding of a lake. At this place the man...

An ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company's CEO from an idyllic but mysterious "wellness center" at a remote location in the Swiss...

Geologist Lena receives the news that her father Gottfried, who abandoned her eight years ago, is terminally ill. With a heavy heart, she travels...

Diamonds are a girls best friends, so when an exhibition of the first diamonds ever discovered in Germany is announced, Lana thinks it is her duty to...

Sophie wants to marry Martin and change her traditional farm into a farm that produces biologically grown food (sheep cheese, ...) To be able to do...

Sükran's son Veysel works in a factory. Suffering as a result of her husband's political actions, she tries to save her son from the same fate.

The real estate expert Jan Holzer travels to the Caribbean with a special assignment. Within a week, the businessman is to move the Cuban family...

Since the death of her husband, ex-teacher Franziska has had to look after her son David and his disabled brother Bobby on her own. Their new...

New York realtor Bella Castle's divorce is amicable and peaceful. But the news that her ex-husband Mick is going to be a father again throws Bella...

Simon Polt (Erwin Steinhauer) is no longer a gendarme. Arrived in retirement, he participates cheerfully in the Weinviertel on village life. When a...

The film depicts the breakdown of a family that lost all its money to one of the Islamic investment companies that are very common in Europe. Metin...

Successful husband, clever children, great job – the lawyer Eva lacks nothing. Except the erotic tingle that she and Richard, a writer have lost in...

A police psychologist saves a young woman from jumping to her death and takes the unstable stranger into her family. She soon becomes jealous of her...

Heligoland, April 18, 1947: Preparations for one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history are almost complete. The British want to raze the...

As a 25-year-old legal trainee Sebastian Haffner experienced the assumption of power of Hitler in Berlin in 1933. He became a witness of a dramatic...

Just as 16-year-old Miki Witt is about to steal a few beers, he witnesses Lebanese clan boss Ahmed Sayed shooting an LKA officer. Even though the...

Documentary about film director and actor Bernhard Wicki.

Zoologist Verena is supposed to pick up two small lions from South Africa. The consequences of an accident force her to stay longer at the animal...

At a conference in Verona, the dutiful German family man falls under the spell of the Italian Elsa. As soon as he falls for her, she disappears...

An underdog elf, driven by his unwavering passion for the holidays, becomes the North Pole's only hope of saving Christmas from a vengeful hacker.

"Der kleine Prinz" (The Little Prince) tells the story of a pilot who crash-lands in the Sahara desert and meets a young prince from another planet....

The inspirational portrayal of Mother Teresa, a simple nun who became one of the most significant personalities of the 20th Century. Armed with a...