Dominik Graf

A portrait of the youth in the 60s living in East Germany.

Albi, Franz and Tayfun ease through their small-town days, content to work at the garage, pick up girls and ride a bike. A little bit of freedom. When the new boss throws them out, they have to resort to new means to pay for the drinks, cigarettes and beloved motorcycles: betting, racing, crash-driving, car theft. But the tougher the going gets, the more they stick together. (imdb)

Two small time criminals (Junghein and Britz) try to rob a bank in Dusseldorf and things go awry. They decide to take the bank clerks as hostages for 3 million German marks as ransom. The police try to trick them, until they realise that the real criminal mastermind is outside the bank controlling the whole show. (imdb)

Simon, the "invincible" leader of a police special unit, becomes caught up in a complex scheme involving bribery and money-laundering, as well as an affair with the beautiful wife of a government official investigating organized crime and political corruption. After the official is kidnapped, the chase leads to a dramatic conclusion high in the Bavarian Alps. (imdb)

Vera Kemp, heiress of an industrial enterprise, lives in an apparently perfect world. While she doesn't care for big business, her husband Manfred runs the company. However, she learns about his affair with a younger woman and tries to save her marriage. During a vacation in Italy, Manfred and their son Max die in a road accident. Vera nearly despairs of her grief and, even worse, recognizes that her whole life has been a lie. (imdb)

Katrin and Jürgen spend their holidays in Corsica. Katrin is in her mid-thirties, working as a tracer at Jürgen's company who suddenly remembers he's married, but not with Kathrin. So they decide to end their vacation earlier than they had planned.Now being alone for the remaining days of her vacation, Katrin finds herself more and more bewildered by the things that happened to her.Then she meets Malte, a 17 year old criminal from Berlin, who is serving time in a reform camp. (imdb)

A rebellious young woman is thrown out by her wealthy, but marbly parents and gets into a nightmare of poverty, prostitution and sickness. (imdb)

A film about the life of Berlin Pimp Hotte and his daily struggles with "earning" money, keeping his hookers in mood and making an impression on other pimps.

Eleven years ago a little girl vanished from a small city near the german-czech border. Her body was never found but a mentally handicapped person got to covess murder. Now a woman is found murdered in the same city and a police officer from outside suspects a link to the missing girl.

The film depicts the meeting of shy Gregor and mysterious Billie. Billie has a son, her husband is in jail. Arthur, Gregor's friend, is a serial Lothario, forever unfaithful to his girlfriend Pia. Both Arthur and Billie have had a similar mystical experience related to someone's death. While Gregor believes that an elective affinity between two people preordains their lives, Arthur does not even subscribe to any possibility of romantic feelings between the sexes. (anonymous)

A romantic drama centered on the love triangle between rising poet Friedrich Schiller and two aristocratic sisters. (imdb)

This 10 part multi-layered, rich and fast paced TV series follows the stories of characters in and around the Russian mafia in Berlin...

Munich seen as every city worth living in. A playful hybrid of documentary and (science) fiction, a cinematic essay and literary reverie with a blind visionary as narrator, a pair of time-travelling lovers and the girl we always see but never get to meet. (IFFR.com)

When the biggest case in a long time - Leipzig will be bombed to rubble if it doesn't cough up 20 million in diamonds - lands in Kalinke's lap, folks get nervous. If things go wrong, some of them will have some serious questions to ask. Kalinke also has problems of his own. All the leads point towards Gralwitz, a (fictional) village he knows only too well from a case that went sour back in the Honecker days. (iffr.com)

1920s Berlin. Dr. Jakob Fabian, who works by day in advertising for a cigarette company and by night wanders the streets of the city, falls in love with an actress. As her career begins to blossom, prospects for his future begin to wane. (imdb)

A journey back to the buried emotional world of childhood, and long-suppressed, painful feelings.