German

After aspiring poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe fails his law exams, he's sent to a sleepy provincial court to reform. Instead, he falls for Lotte, a young woman who is promised to another man.

In Wittelbacherpalais, Munich's prison and Gestapo center, middle-aged Else Gebel awaits trial for carrying anti-Nazi material. She serves as a clerk in the Gestapo office. On Thursday, 18 February 1943, two youths arrive at the prison, arrested for carrying anti-Reich pamphlets and suspected of dropping leaflets from the university tower and painting anti-Hitler signs along Ludwigstraße: Sophie, 21, and her brother Hans, 24 and back from the Soviet front. Sophie is housed with Else, and for five days, as Sophie is interrogated and charges brought, the women form a bond based on simple interactions: poetry, tea, shared clothing, courage, love of freedom, and a promise Else gives Sophie.

A romantic drama set in 1961 that follows a young studio extra's ambitious efforts to reunite with the French girl he loves after being separated by the construction of the Berlin Wall.

Isi (27) is stuck in a quater-life-crisis. With a graphic diploma in one hand and a drink in the other, Isi is stuck in a strange place 'inbetween' university and real life. This place would seem bleak and lonely, if her very best friend Lotte wasn't there with her. But that changes abruptly when Lotte not only finds a real job but also falls in love with her colleague Leo, effectively ending their live as a twosome. One second later Lotte is a vegan grown up and Isi's live is turning backwards. She has to move into a filthy flat-share despairing over the antics of her "musician" flatmate Klausi and the slightly crazy medical student Daniel. While Isi is working on a Graphic Novel from Scott Fitzgeralds "The Beautiful and Damned", she starts to realize, that adulthood has arrived, like a runaway train, and there's no getting out of its way. She finds herself in an almost awesome, love-hate relationship with her twenties, which is "pretty far from okay".

Undine works as a historian lecturing on Berlin's urban development. But when the man she loves leaves her, the ancient myth catches up with her. Undine has to kill the man who betrays her and return to the water.

A case that remained a mystery for nearly thirty years. The desperate search of a brother for his sister. And the agony of those who are left behind by a chillingly brutal crime.

"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.

The story of piano student David, who hurls himself into the world of music and into his first love. Full of zest for life but with growing pressure, he soon begins to lose control.

1980: 19 year old Robert, fed up with Hippy phoniness and bourgeoise narrow mindedness alike, flees the German provinces for West Berlin. A tour de force through the glorious dirt of West Berlin ensues. Full of sex, drugs, love and PUNK.

Twin boys move to a new house with their mother after she has face-changing cosmetic surgery, but under the bandages is someone the boys don't recognize.

An African-German author loses his memory and is used by a modern National Socialist Party as promotion-figure for more political power over Germany.

Luisa Jobst is a grade-school teacher in Bavaria. She's as idealistic as she is fair - much to the displeasure of a father who's hoping she'll give his son better grades. One day, a nude photo of Luisa suddenly appears on the school website. The police can't help her, and the whole town is gossiping. By herself, she tracks down the person responsible - and soon goes missing without a trace.

Hamburg 1973. When the well-known women's rights activist Zarah Wolf receives the offer to become Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the high-circulation magazine "Relevant", the dedicated journalist sees the opportunity to push forward the issue of emancipation.

A provocative comedy about the difficulties of living a happy relationship. A shoe theft on the ICE forms the prelude to a kaleidoscope of relationships and dependencies between a wide variety of city dwellers.

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.

Bastian returns home for the holidays to learn that his brother is dating his ex, and if that wasn't enough, his parents are also keeping a big secret.

Barkeeper 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.

On Labour Day 1987, a riot broke out in Kreuzberg which gave this west-Berlin district its legendary reputation - a reputation which has prevailed right up to the present day. During the night of 1 May, the Berlin police used force to try and break up a street party - and triggered off a riot in which old and young, Turks, Germans, anarchists and ordinary citizens battled shoulder to shoulder to repel state authority.The riot ended with the police in retreat, a supermarket in flames and one more problem for Berlin's Senator for Internal Affairs. How was he to keep a district in check when the inhabitants were clearly hell-bent on protesting against the Queen's and Ronald Reagan's visits as well as the International Monetary Fund conference? Kreuzberg's anarchists included a group of women living in an apartment in Ritterstrasse, or "Knight Street". These "female knights", as they were known, fought any and all manifestations of patriarchy with exactly the same verve they applied to organizing resistance to the IMF meeting. And then: the wall came down, the world changed and nothing was the way it used to be anymore.

Martha is in a happy relationship, she has a home and knows just where she belongs. But then one day, two policewomen appear at her door and all at once everything changes.

A woman's life is destroyed when she discovers that her husband has another family.

The Hotel Lunik is a refuge for a group of radical utopists. In the center of it all, are the Siblings Franz and Babette, who through their anti-capitalist guerrilla campaigns call into question the basis for a money-based society. On the other side Franz's cousin Toni, is setting up a nightclub on the ground floor of the hotel with an entrepreneurial spirit in diametric opposition to it's surroundings. Guests are to be lured with a high-class lounge act along with a quiz show developed by Franz's own father, Alfons. Toni and his loyal bartender Viktor have their hands full contending with the difficulties of an unmotivated workforce. Among Lunik's odd population are Tom, the bellman with a screw loose, Nora, the pretty cook peeling potatoes and dreaming of a world in show business, and Emilia, the chronically sick photographer who wants to spend her last weeks singing in the company of friends. The criminal campaigns of Franz and Babette, reveal themselves to the undercover agent Max, as he gets closer to Babette. The two are in love. The romantic entanglements further complicate themselves as Franz falls for the filmmaker, Josephine. She arrived to make a documentary about the Luniks, upon hearing about the cause of Franz and his Christian communist enclave. Beyond that, the love-hate relationship between Alfons and Emilia thickens, as does Tom's adoration for the fed-up Nora, who's being snatched up by Toni for his nightclub pursuits. When Franz and Babette hold up a supermarket, the ground falls out from beneath them, and results in a chain of events from which no one remains unharmed.

With her husband leaving, Silvi finally realizes that her rather dull marriage has failed. The 47-year-old woman, now lost and lonely, but also driven by the desire to not be alone, she decides to start over again.

A German soldier goes AWOL and returns home to more problems than he left.

Susanne invites her classmate Josch to her 16th birthday party. She provokes his friend Linda. Linda and her clique kidnap and abuse the girl until she dies.

Lured by quick money, David a loving family man and aspiring star lawyer lives a dangerous double life. While under the assumption the end would always justify the means he gets mixed-up in a political intrigue.