Moritz Bleibtreu

A makeshift prison is set up in a research lab, complete with cells, bars and surveillance cameras. For two weeks 20 male participants are hired to play prisoners and guards...

A romantic road film, the story focuses on Daniel, a shy and naive physics teacher trying to get from Hamburg to Istanbul in 7 days in order to meet Melek, a woman he's fallen in love with. His wild odyssey is shared by Juli, a young woman hungry for life who predicts Daniel will soon find his one true love. On his way East, Daniel discovers a new self and learns to truly fight for his happiness. (Film Philos)

Lola receives a phone call from her boyfriend Manny. He lost 100,000 DM in a subway train that belongs to a very bad guy. Lola has 20 min to raise this amount and meet Manny. Otherwise, he will rob a store to get the money. Three different alternatives may happen depending on some minor event along Lola's run. (imdb)

A tale based on the life of Wilhelm Furtwangler, the controversial conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic... (imdb)

Kamran is a 12 year old boy in the present day who discovers that his ancestor is the 11th Century Mathematician, Astronomer, Poet of Persia, Omar Khayyam. The story has been passed down in his family from one generation to another, and now it is his responsibility to keep the story alive for future generations.

Steven Spielberg directs an international cast in Munich, a gripping suspense thriller set in the aftermath of the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munch Olympics. This dramatic exploration inspired by true events follows a secret Israeli squad assigned to track down and kill the 11 Palestinians suspected to have planned the Munich attack -- and the personal toll this mission of revenge takes on the team and the man who led it. (Universal Pictures)

Two young men, Martin and Rudi, both suffering from terminal cancer, get to know each other in a hospital room... (imdb)

Mamlakat (Khamatova) is 17, she is beautiful and vivacious and dreaming secretly of becoming an actress... (imdb)

Agnes and his brothers have little in common, except an eccentric old father, relationship problems that are totally screwing up their lives, and a distinct possibility those two things are connected. (First Run Features)

In the sixties Romano Amato, his wife Rosa and their two sons Giancarlo and Gigi emigrate from Solino in Italy to Duisburg in the Ruhr area and establish the first Pizza restaurant in town. Their business emerges well and both children get used to Germany. 20 years later the brothers fall in love with the same woman; they break tie with each other in anger and Gigi returns to Solino with his mother. A decade later both meet again and have a retrospect on their lives. (imdb)

Based on Michel Houellebecq's controversial novel, this movie focuses on Michael and Bruno, two very different half-brothers and their disturbed sexuality. After a chaotic childhood with a hippie mother only caring for her affairs, Michael, a molecular biologist, is more interested in genes than women, while Bruno is obsessed with his sexual desires, but mostly finds his satisfaction with prostitutes. His pitiful life changes when he gets to know the experienced Christiane. In the meantime, Michael meets Annabelle, the love of his youth, again... (imdb)

An escort (Harrelson) who caters to Washington D.C.'s society ladies becomes involved in a murder case. (imdb)

Stefan and Kai have good going business, self-grown cannabis screened as pizza delivering service. For now they only have to deal with plant-louses. (imdb)

Cook and Mafia-hitman Oskar is back from prison, has a new girlfriend who demands 'no more violence', one last job to do, and he's planning to publish a book with the title Secréts. The godfather of the Russian Mafia in Vienna is not amused when he learns his ever-loyal henchman is obviously about to reveal the secrets of the organized crime (itsvery.net)

Laura Siprien is a French scientist who adopts a young Thai boy. After a car crash, he falls into a coma and a mysterious German doctor asserts he can heal him... through unconventional methods! It leads Laura to Mongolia to find out the origin of the young boy.

Frustrated, because he is forced to produce bad TV-shows, a manager of a TV-station, enters the station and manipulates the ratings, to initiate a TV-revolution. (imdb)

A comedy that proves everlasting love is a myth. (imdb)

Two young and attractive social workers/nuns bring fresh air into a city missionary station, but are also challenged by lust and money, offered by a millionaire. (imdb)

The story sounds familiar enough: Isa, nicknamed "Chiko", wants to make it big fast, and isn't afraid to use brute force. With the aid of an old friend, he gets rid of a couple of small-time dealers, only to come face to face with a certain "Brownie"... (qantara.de)

Based on the classic 1960's Japanese animated series chronicling the aspirations of a young race car driver as he attempts to obtain glory, with the help of his family and the Mach 5, the advanced car created by his father. (cinema.com)

A look at Germany's terrorist group, The Red Army Faction (RAF), which organized bombings, robberies, kidnappings and assassinations in the late 1960s and '70s. Based on Stefan Aust's best-selling nonfiction book. (imdb.com)

From the depth of the Teutonic woods comes a man, who gives Rome the creeps! (imdb)

n May 1944, a group of French servicewomen and resistance fighters are enlisted into the British Special Operations Executive commando group under the command of Louise Desfontaines and her brother Pierre. Their mission, to rescue a British army geologist caught reconnoitering the beaches at Normandy, and to kill a German SS colonel who is close to figuring out the imminent secret of D-Day, proves to be emotional and brutal. (imdb)

Mamba is new at school. The bosses are the members of the Heavy Metal band 'Smashers' and only the members of the Turkish HipHop band 'Fresh Family' are in opposition. Mamba does not want to be involved but has to make up his mind when he gets interested in Nadja, the girl of Smashers boss Thommy. Meanwhile the new teacher Pilgrim is planning the play "Romeo and Juliet" which has certain parallels to what's happening at school. (imdb)

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

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

Young law student Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is in love with Lotte, but Albert Kestner also laid an eye on her. (imdb)

The sequel to 1988's "Troublemaker": Unsuccessful Luxembourg bank robber Johnny Chicago is released from prison and immediately and incompetently attempts to resume his life of crime. (imdb)

Vienna in the 1930s. Victor Kaufmann, the son of a wealthy cosmopolitan Jewish couple, works in his father's art gallery. His best friend whom he has known since childhood and from whom he is inseparable, is Rudi Smekal. Victor's girlfriend, the attractive and vibrant Lena, is also a friend of Rudi's. In a moment of exuberance Victor shows his friend a well-kept family secret: a drawing by Michelangelo that was believed lost. (www.berlinale.de)

Rise and fall of actor Ferdinand Marian, who takes the chance and stars in the anti-semitic movie 'Jud Süß'. (imdb)

A biography of Milanese bank robber Renato Vallanzasca. (imdb)

A look at what happens when partners from different social backgrounds engage in in physical relationships. (imdb)

When two children move into an old house with their mother they find magical mystery involving a lively spirit and a precious diamond. (imdb)

A journalist gets caught up in a terrorist plot in Moscow while investigating the Russian secret service. (imdb)

A troubled former soldier works to protect an orphan who witnessed a murder from the assassins out to get her. (imdb)

Wilhelm Wilder (Will) is a talented actor stuck on a New York City children's TV show where he portrays Bad Luck Bunny, a hapless green rabbit. Feeling a failure, he bears his fate with touching self-irony, but grows sulky and petulant when he thinks that his wife, daughter and all his friends have forgotten his 40th birthday. In the confusion following a road accident, all the world believes he is dead. (imdb)

The appearance of a mysterious, hooded man evokes Erik's sinister past. (imdb)

An A&R man working at the height of the Britpop music craze goes to extremes in order to find his next hit. (imdb)

A psychedelic mushroom trip turns a successful lawyer into a wanted man. (imdb)

Hagen develops disturbing nightmares and soon can no longer distinguish between dream and reality. (imdb)

Bank teller Till Reiners' life is torn out of a rut by a series of offbeat coincidences, which ultimately lead him to find himself and realize: His life isn't so bad after all... (imdb)

G8 meeting is being held at a luxury hotel on the German coast. The world's most powerful economists are gathered to enact important provisions that will deeply influence the world economy. One of the guests is a mysterious Italian monk, invited by Daniel Rochè, the director of the International Monetary Fund. He wants the monk to receive his confession, that night, in secret. The next morning, Rochè is found dead... (letterboxd)

David Berman and his friends, all Holocaust survivors, have only one purpose: to go to America as soon as possible. For this they need money. Close to his aim, David is not only deprived of his savings but also overtaken by his shady past. (imdb)

Stefan and Kai meet again after years. Stefan became a successful lawyer in Dubai while Kai is stucked in their home town. Kai has relationship issues and is that rying hard to get in touch with his step son who is getting serious trouble with some drug dealers. Can Kai and Stefan solve his problems? And what happened to their old friend Frank? (imdb)

After a botched robbery attempt five years ago, Ricky went to jail for his brother Rafael and his buddy Latif. Now that he is back out of jail, Latif wants to show his gratitude: he says he has a surefire scheme to get rich quickly, and Ricky could use the money to set up his new life. Ricky hesitates at first but then agrees. Complications arise as soon as some preparations start. Things kept going out in awry, especially as a form of hardup policewoman Diana. (imdb)

Two lost teenage boys, from Congo and Britain, meet in Morocco and take a road trip in a stolen RV to France, encountering poverty and refugees on the way. (imdb)

Thriller set in the world of Forensic Pathology. Coroner Paul Herzfeld finds a capsule in the head of a heavily mutilated corpse, containing a phone number and single word: the name of his daughter.

For decades, Freya has been protocolling criminal interrogations for the Berlin police department. She lives a secluded life, haunted by the gruesome accounts of violent crime - and even more by the disappearance of her daughter Marie, 11 years earlier. An old friend, Henry takes over the department as new police commissioner. As their friendship gradually turns to love, Freya suddenly feels something akin to happiness for the first time in years. (...) (imdb)

Winter in Vienna. Children disappear. For now without a trace, then their bodies are found. A gift for the tabloid press. For the police a series of defeats. Politically a problem. And at the same time the long-awaited opportunity for the ambitious interior minister. The organized crime is in trouble. The child murderer must be found so that all other dirty jobs can go on. —Superfilm (imdb)

On a cold November day, electricity fails all over Europe. Blackout. While the government and authorities struggle with the effects and with clarification, a former hacker comes into the focus of the investigators. (imdb)

In the 1980s, German paper 'Stern' published Hitler's diary, giving insights into his deepest and private thoughts; Shortly after, it is revealed that they are fake. The mini-series is a fictional account of the publication and reveal. (imdb)

Frederick Kronberg, an eminent criminal defence lawyer, faces fascinatingly grey characters in his professional life. He has to cope with complicated moral issues as he defends criminal suspects. (google)