Monica Bleibtreu

A portrait of a single day in the late summer of 1956, toward the end of Bertolt Brecht's life, as he prepares to leave his lakeside home, surrounded by the women who form his extended family. (Film Forum)

German horror about a serial killer who likes ... TATTOOS!

An elderly piano teacher trains a young convict at a women's penitentiary. (imdb)

Police Commissioner Alex Glass has been twisted into a sarcastic cynic by the hard luck story that is his life and by his daily contact with the criminals of Berlin's underground. His new assistant, Shirly Mai, is an attractive and conscientious woman who embodies a quality of virtue that her boss gave up a long time ago... (imdb)

Bibi Blocksberg has spent far too much time on wizardry - and far too little on her studies. Since her math notes are abysmal, she is forced to spend summer vacation in the all-work-no-play boarding school of Altenberg Castle. (filmportal.de)

Nelly Sue Edelmeister is a skinny thirteen-year-old Berlin school girl with a brain the size of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and a brilliant career in astronomy ahead of her. But that's before she develops a hopeless crush on handsome Prince Edouard from Luxemburg. And it's definitely before she meets basketball ace Max Minsky, 15, Nelly's last hope for making the school team before it heads off to Luxemburg and virtually into Prince Edouard's arms. (filmportal.de)

Bavaria after World War II: the young countrywoman Maria falls in love with Jean-Pierre, a former French prisoner of war, while the rest of the family still believes in the return of her husband Hans from Russia. Nevertheless, everybody accepts the relationship, but suddenly Hans, now totally haggard and uncaring, comes back. The desperate situation drives Maria to an extreme... (imdb)

A biography of Hildegard Knef, one of Germany's biggest post-war stars. (imdb)

This drama deals with a woman, whose life is destroyed when she discovers that her husband has another family... (imdb)

On a winter day, Walter Dahlman is getting ready for a job interview; he's an unemployed architect in Hamburg. As he leaves his flat with little time to spare, a boy of about eight stops him in the hall and asks for a ride to school. Walter doesn't know the lad, who says he's Yuri. The boy is persistent; Walter, who has only a bicycle, ends up giving Yuri a lift to school. The boy calls him "Daddy," and it's just the beginning of Walter's trials and tribulations. (imdb)

Picking up where "God Does Not Believe In Us Anymore" leaves off, Freddy struggles to find work after arriving in New York in 1940. His world of refugee acquaintances includes the depressed daughter of a poet/delicatessen owner, an aging surgeon who cannot find work, and a lovable charlatan photographer. Corti's trilogy continues with "Welcome in Vienna" (National Center for Jewish Film)

In Hamburg, a german-greek chef unknowingly disturbs the peace in his locals-only restaurant by hiring a more talented chef.

Deep within a blue-black forest lies the secluded murder farm. It was here that the entire Danner family, including their children and the new servant, were brutally murdered. Two years later, when the 26-year-old nurse Kathrin turns up in the village, the killer still hasn't been found. She soon discovers that behind the tightly woven web of lies and silence lays a deep sense of guilt in the village and she realizes that this case has much more to do with her than she would have liked to admit. (the-match-factory.com)

Chronicle about Germany's most extraodinary literary family, including the brothers Thomas and Heinrich Mann. (imdb)

This two-part drama examines the fate of the generation of Germans which came of age after World War II. (imdb)