Doris Dörrie

The adventures of two brothers who travel from Munich to Japan for a retreat in a Buddhist monastery.

Nackt is the story of three couples, one of which just broke up, one that seems to be about to and one perfectly okay. They are all friends and from time to time they gather to talk about everything. One time they gather for dinner at the second couple's "mansion" - the husband had become rich with his business. We see each couple as they prepare themselves for the party and learn a lot about their relationships. (IMDB Comments)

On the brink of her 30th birthday, Fanny feels the door to marital happiness closing up on her. She is obsessed with death, even visits evening classes on dying and so it seems fitting, that she encounters a skeleton in the malfunctioning elevator of her apartment building. The skeleton is her neighbour Orfeo, a black, gay self-declared psychic, who convinces her that she is about to meet "him". But is it really Lothar, the new yuppie apartment manager ...? (imdb)

When Trudi learns that her husband Rudi is dangerously ill, she suggests visiting their children in Berlin without telling him the truth. As Franzi and Karl don't care much about their parents, Trudi and Rudi go to the Baltic Sea, where Trudi suddenly dies. Rudi is thrown out of gear, even more when he learns that his wife wanted to live a totally different life in Japan... (imdb)

Where is the line between happiness and success?

Anna Blume, a girl in her early 20s is absolutely fed up with her job at a supermarket, is offered a strange job by dentist Dr. Thal. For 2500 DM a month she shall live at his big house and shall do absolutely nothing. She can quit at any time, with her salary continuing for six months. At first she rejects, but finally accepts. She can not understand Dr. Thal's motive, and soon notices that he does not show (and probably doesn't have) any emotions. (imdb)

A man's wife leaves him to take up with an artist, so the man responds by becoming the artist's roommate. (imdb)

Viktor and Angelika are a straight couple. He is a professor of veterinary science and she has studied arts history. Both are more interested in their hobbies and professions than into each other. Additionally Viktor is not really interested in satisfying his wife anymore. Their in a way upright relationship changes dramatically when Viktor gets to know Lotte, a fomer school friend of Angelika. Back in school Lotte would have done everything for Angelika... (imdb)

A man's enthusiastic penis starts talking to him, getting him into awkward situations and convincing everyone he tells that he's completely insane. (imdb)

Kemal Kayankaya, a private detective, was hired by a Turkish women, Ilter, to search for his husband, Amend, who has been missing since the death of her father, Vassif. Unknownst to him, he was about to unravel the secrets of his client's family, as well as their various dealings with the underworld and the police. Moreover, being a Turk raised in a German foster family, he has also begun to understand and accept his own ethnicity. (imdb)

German people having trouble with love and identity. (imdb)

A Zen priest in San Francisco and cookbook author use Zen Buddhism and cooking to relate to everyday life. (imdb)

A woman starting a new life won't let anyone get in the way of her dreams in this comedy from German director Doris Dorie. After getting dumped by her husband and kicked out of the family home, middle-aged Kathi Koenig (Gabriela Maria Schmeide) picks up the pieces of her life and moves back to Marzahn, the Berlin neighborhood where she was born and raised. (fandango.com)

Two young people in Berlin, a refugee and a homeless punk, form a relationship.

A young German woman bonds with an elderly Japanese woman while touring the Fukushima region of Japan in the aftermath of the 2011 earthquake. (imdb)

An encounter of some very diverse people, whose lives are intertwined by a fateful incident a long time ago. (imdb)

A man stricken by grief at the death of his parents returns to the family home, in an attempt to face down his demons. (imdb)