A story about a family after the Second World War. The petty bourgeois cashier Karl Weber of Berlin observes from a distance how his son Ernst participates in the building of a new socialist society. Karl does not understand Ernst's visions, instead he confides in his other son Harry. However, Harry becomes involved in illicit business and Karl quickly realizes that it would be best to join his son Ernst in the citizen-owned factory.

When 17-year-old Effi Briest marries the elderly Baron von Instetten, she moves to a small, isolated...

A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by ...

After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replaceme...

Bambi's tale unfolds from season to season as the young prince of the forest learns about life, love...

A gently humorous look at otherness and xenophobia in modern day German with this tale of a black Be...

Inspired by true events, Olympic swimmer Harry Melchior defects from East Germany in the 1960s and h...

After a series of traumatic childhood events, a psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind boy becomes a...

David, a recently fired scrapyard worker and Marie, a prostitute, both about 20 years old, meet on N...

In the heat of a shimmering Berlin summer, Nora spends her days as a third wheel to her older sister...

After Jochen saves police officer Erich's life, the two men become close friends and Erich helps Joc...

A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.

Women play a heroic role in the Volunteer Army fighting the Japanese in the puppet state of Manchuku...

Germany 1982: The country is divided into two parts. Nele, coming from West-Germany, travels to East...

Three years after the Hiroshima bombing, a teenager helps a group of orphans to survive and find the...

A post-WW2 story about the village largely involved in wine-making business. The peasants who claime...

Katherine Watson is a recent UCLA graduate hired to teach art history at the prestigious all-female ...

Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the ...

Celebrating the end of World War II and liberation of their city, a group of students is set on hold...

Charting the rise and fall of three corrupt real estate agents who accumulate absurd wealth in no ti...

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