In Hamburg, a suspicious crash and mafia-style killings hinge on witness Maja Stein, who demands protection. Detectives Lanart and Marquardt hide her in a safehouse, but corrupt cops ambush them. Lanart saves Maja as Marquardt is killed. Discovering Maja is a decoy, Lanart becomes a lone target.
Australian geologist Graves meets Juliane in a Hamburg variety show. She mistakes Graves for a killer and lures him to gangster Tanzmann. When the mistake is discovered, they only have ten hours to find the real killer...
Horst, the 18-year-old son of a factory owner, and 17-year-old Karin dream up their future together in the most beautiful colors. Newly married, however, they don't float on cloud nine as they had hoped, but sink into the dreary everyday life of marriage. While Horst ends his school career...
Prüfstand VII is a 2002 German docudrama film directed by Robert Bramkamp, about the V2 rocket and the rocket research in the Peenemünde Army Research Center. The film deals with the history of ideas surrounding the rocket research and the conquest of space, with Bianca as the spirit of the...
While the masses enthusiastically meet to celebrate the new Millennium, one does not sense much commotion at the kiosk and corner bar "Das Frankfurter Kreuz ". Strangers as well as regulars come to the Kiosk owned by Walter.
In Hamburg, the police are faced with a mystery after a series of burglaries: there are no clues at the crime scene except for a Japanese character. The characters are soon found all over the city. A retired detective and a journalist finally uncover a huge conspiracy that goes back to the Japanese...
"The Publisher" is about the success story of a visionary man who begins after 1945 with a rickety car and a stack of novels. With his charismatic personality, he convinced the Allies to give him a newspaper license. A radio magazine soon follows, which quickly reaches millions of copies. His...
When a businessman falls in love with a widowed actress, her dream of owning her own theater on the North Sea coast finally seems to come true. But suddenly a young man enters her life and things take a dramatic turn.
The adventures of the unscrupulous successful therapist Mark Stroemer and his adversary Wolke Donner, who gains his trust under a false name in order to put a stop to his activities.
After the corpse of the programmer Klaus Pape was found neatly dismantled in a freezer, Commissioner Beate Stein starts the research that will lead her to both the red-light district and the better society of Hamburg.
Her only foray into science fiction—about the havoc wrought on society by a television that satisfies every human craving—The Last Days of Gomorrah was a favorite of Sanders-Brahms, who brought feminist politics to the New German Cinema movement of the 1970s. It is a forceful piece of...
