Suzanne von Borsody
The little witch is only 127 years old – too young for the annual coven of witches. Although she is not yet old enough to be a real witch she wants to become a really good one. This decision causes trouble inside her magic world.
A former German Army officer, accompanied by his granddaughter, journeys to the Ukraine to find the woman he once loved.
The comedy tells the true story of a young waiter, who wants to become a journalist shortly after the turnaround. Although he has neither high school diploma nor contacts, but promises boldly the story in which all the newspapers and magazines desperately bite his teeth: the last interview with the overthrown GDR head of state Erich Honecker! To gain his trust, Johann Rummel turns out to be an avid young communist and begins an adventure that finally leads him to distant Chile. A journey that is not without danger. Max Bretschneider and Martin Brambach play the lead roles in "Welcome to the Honeckers".
Twelve-year-old Mia and her classmate Benny take a class trip to the Gruber Family's mountain ranch, where they begin to suspect something's fishy: Mysterious witching symbols appear, the Gruber's cattle falls sick, the well water turns black and the barn burns down. What the heck is going on here? Are they being haunted by an evil mountain spirit? Or is someone trying to put the Grubers out of business? Mia and Benny get unexpected support from their new classmate Johannes. Together they follow their handful of clues and leads: How did the poison the kids found wind up in the stable? What is the new cook hiding, and why? And what about the Mayor, who wants to get at the Gruber's property? Young Luca Gruber blames himself for trying to find the fabled Hoard of the Black King up on the mountain. Did he bring the curse of the Black King on his family? But Mia is too sensible to believe in fairy tales...
Jasper finally wants to meet his dad! To fulfill his wish, Mother Maike first has to find out who that is. Three teenage acquaintances come into question: a farmer, a car screwdriver and the village's former heartthrob. With the eleven-year-old and his little sister Luise in the luggage, the lone parent drives to her hometown Füdrum, where she once turned her back as a pregnant woman. While Grandma Inge immediately closes her grandson's heart, old wounds soon break open on Maike's part.
The young law student Aylin knows exactly what she wants: Become a lawyer. To finance her studies, she works as an escort girl. Because she had to defend herself against a pushy businessman, now threatened five years in prison. From the police comes an offer that she embarks on in her distress: As a decoy Aylin can avert her punishment and even continue to study law. Drug investigator Jan and his boss Hannah use them on the smuggler Musab to arrest him in the act. How dangerous the clever Clan chief can be, but they both do not say.
The family of Katharina Krohn is shocked when they learn that she is a member of a Swiss organization that helps people who have decided to leave this life, even though she has no life-threatening disease like many of the other members, but because she has lost the will to face life after the death of her husband.
While four nuns of a women's monastery in the Eifel begin their day, Bishop Rentschler decides to sell their monastery. The Prioress agrees, Novice Ruth is outraged. Bittner, who runs the village shop, is appalled by the news and worries about former Prioress Philippa, who is suffering from dementia. The bishop receives a protest letter, which is why a mediator is sent to the nuns. It is the psychologist Ulrike Purscheck. Her motivation seminar, however, with the appeal to let go of the old, but with the nuns on closed ears - except for sister Brionie.
A German girl travels to Israel to help people with disabilities, where she learns a lot about the role of her grandparents in WWII and meets a man who wants to move to Berlin.
Universes meet: Jule Ronstedt as a woman, who is a mystery of the world of numbers, and Alexander Beyer as astrophysicists collect the stars together from the sky. Thomas Kronthaler provides cinematic proof that there is no contradiction between mathematics and love. Other roles include Friedrich von Thun, Günther Maria Halmer and Suzanne von Borsody.
Psychothriller by facts. A lightly labile journalist (Felicitas Woll) wants to explore the motives of a women murderer (Heiner Lauterbach). When he was arrested, Johannes Heintz (Lauterbach) confessed that he had strangled seven women. He will not say more. "The people outside have me as a monster. I will not give them satisfaction. "From now on, neither the investigator Uwe Wolfmann (Jürgen Prochnow) nor the most skilled psychiatrists come to him. The stubborn journalist Dana Herrendobler (Woll) comes to the scene. She wants to interview the murderer, the causes and background of his deeds. Nervously, she faces the perpetrator and is astonished: Heintz is charming, intelligent and sensitive. He agrees to speak openly with the reporter - when Dana opens to him as well. If that works out? Because Dana is hunted by his own demons ...
The Lindenhof School is expecting a busload of proper young English ladies as exchange students. The shock is great when the students turn out to be teenage boys! But while Mademoiselle Bertoux is delighted to stage “Romeo and Juliet” with real boys, both Hanni and her sister Nanni fall for their “Romeo,” Clyde.
The wealthy farmer Karl Bruckner and his fiancée Anna are about to marry when Karl is killed in a car accident. While a world collapses for Anna, Charles' stepbrother Franz takes the opportunity to take possession of the family-owned farm. He lets Charles's will, in which Anna had been considered, disappear and swears a perjury that there was never a probate document. Anna is chased from the yard and leaves the village with her little daughter. Years later, she returns to finally bring the truth to light. Ludwig Anzengruber's famous folk piece as a gripping ...
The summer break is over and the twins returned to Lindenhof. That has now changed a lot. Because Mrs Theobald had to travel, Mademoiselle Bertoux has taken the lead.
A cold day in January 2006. The police make a horrible discovery in the Swedish town of Hudiksvall: In one night, 18 people have been brutally murdered in the small town. The police suspect a madman is behind the bestial act. But when judge Birgitta Roslin hears the news, she instantly knows that her grandparents August and Britta Andrén are among the victims. And even more: Almost everybody killed somehow relates to her. She realizes that the police are following a wrong track and starts to investigate on her own. Her search leads Brigitta to China where she finds out about the cruel scheming of the leading elite.
Six weeks after the accidental death of her husband, Wessendorf Vicky decides to travel to Bangkok to investigate the background of the scene of the tragedy. Her husband George had bought a luxury apartment in the city, Vicky wants to sell as quickly as possible.
Leo is a dance instructor conqueror who wins the heart of all students. One day, his boss, dissatisfied with the attitude of the teacher decides to give a lesson to Leo and sends him away. After losing his job and be unable to pay its debts, his only chance is to teach at a school dance that only selects older women to teach. Desperate, Leo asks for help to a friend and makeup artist becomes "Leonore" to get the job. There, he meets Sandra, a sweet single mom who is secretly in love with Marco, an instructor hunky not notice its presence. By figuring out how Sandra is good dancer, Leo decides to be your partner in a competition, where he finally understands the true feelings he has for her.
Financial Officer Katharina Kamp has to collect tax debts from the stud owner Carl von Balkhausen. She arranges a local appointment, but the grumpy squire ignores her. When Katharina unexpectedly loses her brother and his wife in an accident, she initially has very different worries. She lovingly takes care of her niece Lara, who survived the accident and now sits in a wheelchair indefinitely. By chance, Carls and Katharina's paths intersect again. He and his horses work wonders for Lara and Katharina.
The celebration of Joachim 'Blacky' Fuchsberger's 80th birthday. A biographical documentary.
A teenage orphan fights against the Red Army at the end of WWII and in the aftermath is 'adopted' by a Commissar. Years later he is sent to London during the Cold war to work for the KGB, where he questions his life.
Based on the life of German toymaker Margarete Steiff, the movie shows her long way from a 10-year-old girl, confined to a wheelchair, to one of the first and most successful creators of toy stuffed animals.
A misfortune rarely comes alone: First caught the charming Munich wine merchant Sonja Franke her husband in red handed, then she gets in her state of shock even in a traffic control. She arrives promptly in court because of excessive speed, where the meticulous judge Alain Mayer withdraws her driver's license. So Sonja must travel by train to her most important winemaker. But in the course of the extremely turbulent journey, Sonja realizes that her "merciless" judge can be a thoroughly sympathetic and loveable man.
A journalist from Berlin, Germany, and a Swedish lawyer discover the truth behind the sinking of the "MS Estonia" in 1994, where more than 850 people drowned.
In a small German town roams Ben, a boy with mental disorders. When several youths are murdered Ben becomes suspect.
The history of a family, in the film business now for three generations, behind and in front of the camera. The film is not only a foray through the history of this remarkable family, but also through the history of German film and contemporary history as well.
The successful spoiled stock market pro Arthur Boysen is a winner. When he is diagnosed with an incurable disease of the nervous system, he takes on the fight against the disease. - Gripping drama with Robert Atzorn as a charismatic financier, who only by the threat of a deadly disease can recognize the value of love for his wife.
Anna is illiterate. Her patronizing husband Rolf has always taken advantage of this to patronize his wife. But that is over now. Anna took the difficult step and moved into her own apartment with the children. Fortunately, her best friend Maria lives next door to help Anna read important forms. Anna also found a job through Maria's mediation. Anna waits in a bistro in which the eccentric best-selling author Tom Dellwig is one of the regulars. The vain writer always expects everyone to dance to his tune.
Margarethe von Trotta's TV movie focuses on a woman whose life is destroyed by her addiction to alcohol. Angela Rinser is a happy mother of two children and quite successful in her job as bilingual secretary. The sudden death of her husband changes everything. She starts drinking and loses her job. Her children Felicitas and Max try to hush up their social decline for years because they don't want to live in a foster home.
Lola receives a phone call from her boyfriend Manni. He lost 100,000 DM in a subway train that belongs to a very bad guy. She has 20 minutes to raise this amount and meet Manni. Otherwise, he will rob a store to get the money. Three different alternatives may happen depending on some minor event along Lola's run.
The rich Westerner embarks on a journey to find his daughter who vanished in Montreal and Zurich. The disappearance is linked to a sect that selects its followers for its heritage, education and physical beauty.
After a period of separation, Sarah visits her research scientist mother on a remote New Zealand island. Before long Sarah becomes inextricably involved in events involving both Maori legend and an Albatross.
After the death of their parents, the sisters Astrid and Britta want to make the Winkelmann fashion house number one in their hometown. Astrid accepts that her already troubled marriage to Bernd suffers from the ambitious goal - until Bernd agrees to have a relationship with Britta. When she gets pregnant, there is a scandal between the sisters.
Senator Isaak Kohler shoots and kills Professor Winter in a crowded restaurant, while Winter is dining with the struggling idealistic young lawyer, Felix Spat. Kohler puts up no defense and is sentenced to twenty years. Kohler then gets his daughter Helene to pay the reluctant Spat to reinvestigate the case, on the assumption that Kohler is innocent. The newspapers pick up on this and begin to question whether Kohler was wrongly convicted.
OSTKREUZ tells the episodic story of 15-year-old Elfie, who literally and metaphorically inhabits a no-man’s-land between the two Germanies shortly after the fall of the Berlin Walll. The film deploys a neorealist aesthetic to reinforce the difficulties confronting the girl, and by inference, Germany.
The emotion and feelings should not be confused with sentimentality. Emotion is ancient and more powerful than any artistic expression. The film observes young couples face difficulties while trying to move their love experiences clear decision making. A film full of ideas, details and associations, fictional scenes, documentary footage, archival materials and opera music.
