Frederick Lau

A high school teacher's unusual experiment to demonstrate to his students what life is like under a dictatorship spins horribly out of control when he forms a social unit with a life of its own. (imdb)

Tobias, aged 13, lives in an East German city and his life is as depressing as the blocks of flats in his quarter. He doesn't know who his father is, his classmates think he is "anti social" and pick on him permanently and his mother Anja lives together with the ignorant and violent Fritze. During a dispute in his class, Tobias claims that his father came back from South America with an iguana. The next day, he shows his amazed classmates and teacher the animal and a photo of his father... (imdb)

Schoolboy Rico is a typical loner and outsider. He is neither a stellar student nor has any success with the girls or in the sports classes. Due to his constrained hearing ability, the sensitive boy more and more lives in his own world. When one day, a schoolmate is poisoned and dies, Rico at first does not show a lot of compassion because he never really liked the deceased. But when he learns that the attempt was initially targeted on him, Rico's life is more and more thrown out of joint. (filmportal.de)

Two-part mini-series based on a true story. After a German U-Boat sinks a merchant vessel, it resurfaces against orders to rescue the civilian passengers.

Kevin is new in youth prison and has to find his place in a system where no one can be trusted and where bullying and violence is common practice.

A teenage boy, Anton, spends his vacation with his mother and her boyfriend in rural Bretagne. He gets soon attracted to the mysterious next door neighbours, David and Katja, and while hanging out with them experiences a whole new world.

Niko, a melancholic man in the end of his 20s, tries to get on with his life and to get a cup of coffee in a black and white Berlin.

A story of a single mother who haven't have sex in seven years. At work she is surrounded by men who clearly like her but she has rejected their attention because of her son. (muutanet)

Detective Kreutzer is back in a new case. This time he has to find the murderer who killed a doctor in the parking garage of a hospital. But murder isn't the only problem the doctors in the hospital an Kreutzer have to deal with.

1980, West Germany. Frank Lehmann is drafted into the Bundeswehr because he neglected to object. As his bourgeois pa claims his room for TV repairs, Frank moves in with hippie squatters in his natal Bremen. Just as in the army, his big mouth and naive honesty keep causing trouble. He's appointed unit spokesman and shows courage standing up for a virtual deserter. Back home, pacifists keep blaming him as if he volunteered. Trouble at the Berlin Wall changes a lot. (imdb)

This drama is based on the childhood memories of Hans Jürgen Massaquoi, who was one of the few black native Germans in Nazi Germany. In 1935 at the age of nine, he lives with his German mother in a small flat in Hamburg's working class district Barmbek, while his father and grandfather had left the country. Although the boy is not persecuted by the Nazis and dreams of joining the Hitler Youth, his skin color makes him a target for racist abuse...

Many years have passed since Paul Averhoff celebrated the biggest triumph of his life, winning the marathon at the 1956 Olympics. Now however the former champion has to move to a retirement home with his wife. As soon as he gets there he just wants to leave again. Then, a thought is born. Every morning he puts on his sports shoes and heads for the park to run. The other seniors in the residence think he is crazy but Paul is convinced that he is going to run the Berlin Marathon - and win. (filmportal.de)

While on holiday in Berlin, a young woman finds her flirtation with a local man turns potentially deadly as their night out with his friends reveals a dangerous secret.

A comic look at the fall of the Berlin Wall in November of 1989, told from the point of view of the German border guards at the checkpoint where it all started. (imdb)

Young pilots of the German Air Force only want to fly the new Starfighter. But after a short time, more and more pilots crash and die - and the German government and the air force cover up these incidents. (imdb)

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. (imdb)

Frederick Schopner, a young management consultant, has been invited to participate in a special kind of team-building event. He and his colleagues will be chased across an outdoor obstacle course while being assessed on leadership qualities and their capacity for teamwork via video surveillance. (imdb)

A surrealist rural noir about a German thief who flees to a small Luxembourg village only to discover that the locals have secrets of their own.

In the last moments of World War II, a young German soldier fighting for survival finds a Nazi captain's uniform. Impersonating an officer, the man quickly takes on the monstrous identity of the perpetrators he is trying to escape from. (imdb)

Based in Neukölln, Berlin Toni manages the daily business of dealing with the Arabic gangs and ends up wanting to leave his old life behind for his family, but as expected, its never that simple. (imdb)

Ben and Barnabas are unseparatable since they are small. The two of them, however, are no ordinary pair of brothers, for Barnabas, with his twenty-two years, remained mentally at the age of three. This also gave him the nickname "Simpel". But even if Simpel is a terrible nuisance, Ben can never imagine a life without his brother. [...] (imdb)

Milo works as a bartender in Berlin and one night gets to know the woman of his dreams Sunny through a series of coincidences. The two meet for a date, but the perfect romantic evening doesn't quite go as planned.

Charting the rise and fall of three corrupt real estate agents who accumulate absurd wealth in no time but fall into a vortex of fraud, greed and drugs.

Charly's quiet life with family in Berlin disrupted when past associates threaten them, forcing him to steal coin. Charly and driver Joseph, fatefully collided, now flee with family to escape danger. (imdb)