Hannelore Elsner

From the producers of "Run Lola Run" and "Goodbye Lenin!" comes the German box office smash, Go for Zucker, a film about a comically dysfunctional Jewish family. (First Run Features)

On Christmas Eve, Francesca sets out for Rotterdam in order to find her little sister, who has run off with her musician boyfriend. On the way, she picks up Gerlinde, a heartbroken older woman at the end of her rope. (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)

Sequel to Lucio Fulci's first 'White Fang' has the wolf-dog once again trying to stop the villainous Beauty Smith from claiming a recently discovered gold mine in 1899 Yukon, Canada. (imdb)

Based on the childhood memories of actor Michael Degen, the movie deals with the everyday struggle to survive as a Jewish boy in Nazi Germany. As his father had died in 1940 after being released from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, Michael and his mother fear to be deported themselves. They manage to live in Berlin with false names and faked papers, hidden by several, often broken, people... (imdb)

Flanders, a famous female author, travels 1989 after the fall of the Berlin wall into the German capitol. She is deeply depressed of the events because she saw the communistic states as a very good thing that has now ended. In the joy of these days she finds no person to understand her, so she has to travel back to Munich. After meeting several people, known and unknown, it seems as if there will be no way to go. (imdb)

A successfull novel writer called Dr. Jekyll feels haunted by Hyde, a character from his latest novel who somehow materialized. When Jekyll awakens from a surreal nightmare he realizes that Hyde took his penis away, leaving only a hole behind, what finally turns out to be the beginning of a psychological and at times quite campy journey through male fears of loss of power, identity and youth. (imdb)

The life story of German gangsta rapper, Bushido. (imdb)

This movie is loosely based on a real life person Rosemarie Nitribitt. It's a really good German drama about a wild girl who uses her looks and manipulation to get ahead. (amazon.com)

Giessen's gymnasium director Gottlieb Taft hopes a ploy will make the school's centennial a prank-free success: he enrolls his nerdy nephew Ewalt Kunst as spy in Pepe's dreaded class. (imdb)

Back in the days a little village used to be a favourite destination for skiers. However, there has been no snow in the last couple of winters - and thus no tourists either. The life of innkeeper Georg and his wife Emilie has been stagnating for some time, too, on both the professional and the romantic level. It is not until the passing of Emilie's devout and tedious mother Daisy that Georg finally releases some creative energy: Getting Daisy canonized in order to attract tourists once again. (filmportal.de)

This is Marie's last film; the last, lonely appearance by a great actress whose beauty is timeless. Marie has achieved all there is to achieve for a woman in her profession, and she decides to turn her back on her former life. While she packs her things, she discloses the details of her life - perhaps for the first time. And a young cameraman captures all of it. The result is a 90-minute solo performance in Marie's apartment in Berlin, a performance in which the actress looks back on her life. (amazon.co.uk)

In a small town in Germany towards the end of the war: the story centers around two good-time girls who use some money found in an attic to make a trip to Vienna. (ftvdb.bfi.org.uk)

Because of a storm every flight from the airport Belin Tempelhof is canceled. Every traveler is stuck there for the night. Some of the people meet on their way trough the night and their contact influences their fates.

Director Wolfgang Staudte helms this unconventional crime story with a comic twist about a group of aging retirees turned amateur gangsters who are lured into a life of double-crossing by their friend, a newly pensioned judge (Martin Held). They've all led otherwise respectable lives. But now they're getting their kicks by pulling off heists and putting other working bad guys out of business. (Netflix)

Marie has the bad habit of falling for the wrong guys. Yet her new love interest finally seems to be Mr. Right: Jeshua, who hails from Palestine, is sensitive, kind, a great listener, considerate and quick with a helping hand. Well, his behaviour might appear odd at times - but Marie gladly ignores these little faults in an otherwise perfect picture. And she has no idea that Jeshua is actually the Son of God himself, who was sent back to Earth to prepare everything for the coming Apocalypse. (filmportal.de)

Anneliese, owner of the Spessart Inn, and Frank, who's in the US Army are gonna get married. When Generel Teckel orders Frank off to a mission overseas, Anneliese tries to go after him with the help of three ghosts of astronauts and their time rocket, who accidentally crash-landed on Earth earlier. They steer off-course multiple times and have to land in the Stone Age, Medieval Times and the Year 2000 (aka the future). Everywhere they encounter the same basic conflict: Love vs. war. (amazon.de)

Collectable stamps trader Kurt Nietnagel's son Pepe recently transferred from a private boarding school to Mommsen gymnasium (classical high school), but is also already its king of pranksters. Latin teacher Dr. Knörz swears to get rid of Pepe, but a staged suicide means his own exit. Dr. Knörz's replacement, Dr. Kersten, proves a teacher to the rascals' liking. (imdb)

Dr. Maria Rohn accepts the mandatory defense for a truck driver who has killed a man on the highway at night. The man, Siebeck, asserts that two men had dragged the victor over into the street and thrown directly in front of his carriages; he could not evade. The police do not believe Siebeck, but his attorney feels that he is telling the truth.

On the 70th birthday of famous piano virtuoso Hannes Westhoff, a celebration is to take place at the patriarch's estate. For this occasion, his second wife Anne not only invited Westhoff's three sons Max, Fredrik and Gregor, but also their mother, Westhoff's ex-wife Renate. While Anne tries to maintain a friendly atmosphere, old conflicts resurface among the family. With tensions already high, things take a turn for the dramatic when son Max reveals shocking news.

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)

Rules of hospital practice are turned upside down in this complex drama of how non-compliant patients are denied rights. At the beginning of the story, a man is lying in a gutter and arrives at a police station without the ability to speak or memories of what happened to him. Perplexed and defeated by the unsuccessful attempts to make the mysterious man speak, the police send him to a hospital to be analyzed by psychiatrists. (Filmaffinity)

Dr. Peter Roland, a Geneva TV reporter and prankster, is ordered as punishment to cover the German schools. So he cheats his brother in law William 'Willy' Tell to steal his identity as exchange program teacher in Mommsen gymnasium in Baden-Baden. There he's assigned to class 10a, where local businessman Kurt Notnagel's son Pepe rules the pranking roost. Instead of siding with principal Dr. Gottlieb Taft's staff, he can't resist teaming up with Pepe, whose sister Marion digs slick Peter. (imdb)