German Film Archives

99 Moons

Bigna and Frank are two people with different thoughts. When their worlds collide, they become obsessively involved in a passionate affair.

The non-fiction author Walter falls for the physics student Agnes. He is fascinated by her extreme attitude towards life and her reserved appearance, which is quite the opposite of his quiet and regular life. When Agnes encourages him to follow his passion for writing fiction, he starts to work on a book, a portrait of how he sees her.

Barbara

In 1980s East Germany, Barbara is a Berlin doctor banished to a country medical clinic for applying for an exit visa. Deeply unhappy with her reassignment and fearful of her co-workers as possible Stasi informants, Barbara stays aloof, especially from the good natured clinic head, Andre.

Cocoon

In the heat of a shimmering Berlin summer, Nora spends her days as a third wheel to her older sister Jule and her best friend Aylin. When Romy comes onto the scene, a friendship blossoms. Nora instantly falls for her, opening up a whole new world and unexpected summer of love.

Das Boot

A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. The crew tries to survive below the surface, while stretching both the boat and themselves to their limits.

Die geliebten Schwestern

A love triangle forms between post-Enlightenment writer Friedrich Schiller and two sisters — one who became his wife, and the other, his biographer.

In weiter Ferne, so nah!

A group of angels in the German capital look longingly upon the life of humans.

Kokowääh

Henry is a playboy who has no idea that he is the father of a beautiful, cute girl out of a One-night-Stand. Her mother left the daughter in front of Henry door after her husband realized after 8 years of marriage that he is not the father so their relationship now is breaking up… By the way: Kokowääh, is how a German (in this case an 8 Year old child) that has never heard the dish before – would pronounce “Coq Au Vin” (chicken in a wine sauce).

Kokowääh 2

Who said a patchwork family is without problems? Two years after the turbulence of Kokowääh, everyday life turns to everyday chaos…

Ludwig II

A dramatic retelling of the life of Ludwig II, King of Bavaria, one of the most fascinating monarchs of modern times. From his accession to the throne at the age of 18 to his passionate support of Richard Wagner and his music. From his ingenuous political commitment to his obsessive construction of extravagant palaces and to his gradual withdrawal into a lonely dream world, an epic narrative of breathtaking grandeur.

Mademoiselle Paradis

18th century Vienna. Maria Theresia von Paradis, a gifted piano player and close friend of Mozart’s, lost her eye-sight as a child. Desperate to cure their talented daughter, the Paradis entrust Maria to Dr. Mesmer, a forward-thinking-physician who gives her the care and attention that she requires. With the doctor’s innovative techniques of magnetism, Maria slowly recovers her sight. But this miracle comes at a price as the woman progressively starts to lose her gift for music.

Rubinrot

On her 16th birthday, Gwendolyn Shepherd finds out that instead of her cousin, she has inherited a rare gene that allows her to travel through time.

Run Lola Run

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.

Saphirblau

Gwen has just discovered, that she’s the final member of the secret time-traveling Circle of Twelve. Now she has to juggle with constant trips to the past, her relationships with Gideon and figuring out dark secrets surrounding the Circle.

Sechs auf einen Streich: Allerleirauh

Maddened by grief over his late queen, king Tobald decides to wed their only daughter Lotte, the only female resembling her. Having failed to put him off by exorbitant demands, she puts on the unique cloak made of all fur types in the realm and flees over the border, carrying only her mother’s three-party golden seduction kit and the king’s miniaturized gifts while posing as a poor girl. Hunting, king Jacob finds her and orders her into court chef Mathis’s scullery. He appreciates her zeal and culinary talents, helping him put the best dishes ever before the king, who is determined to find out about the gastronomic phenomenon, yet she makes that difficult.

Sechs auf einen Streich: Die zertanzten Schuhe

King Karl is desperate. His twelve daughters hold secrets from him. Every morning their dancing shoes have holes in their soles. Only Amanda’s shoes don’t have holes. A lot of princes already tried to unveil their secrets, but didn’t succeed and ended at the gallows. Soldier and puppeteer Anton falls in love with Princess Amanda the first time he sees her. He isn’t easily scared off and tries to get behind the princesses’s secrets. He gets help from a strange old woman.

Smaragdgrün

Adaptation of the final part of famous time-travel trilogy. Gwendolyn’s heart is broken, will she trust Gideon again? There’s no time to wallow in tears. Something unbelievable happens, and Gwendolyn finds herself in the race against time.

Surviving With Wolves

Eight-year old Misha travels across Nazi Europe looking for her deported parents. She knows they’re in the east. Using just a compass, she leaves her native Belgium on foot and heads for Ukraine. In the middle of winter, she’s adopted by family of wolves….

The Counterfeiters

The film begins shortly after the end of the World War II, with a man arriving in Monte Carlo. After checking into an expensive hotel and paying with cash, he takes in the high life of Monte Carlo, successfully gambling in a casino and attracting the attention of a beautiful French woman. Later, she discovers Identification in Nazi camps on his arm, revealing him as a survivor of the Nazi concentration camps.

The Lives of Others

In 1984 East Germany, five years before the fall of the Berlin wall, an agent with the secret police, begins conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover and finds that he is becoming increasingly absorbed and obsessed with their lives.

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