Fergal Reilly

Italiano

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iso_3166_1: IT

english_name: Italian

Latviešu

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english_name: Latvian

title: Open Season

overview: Boog, a domesticated 900lb. Grizzly bear finds himself stranded in the woods 3 days before Open Season. Forced to rely on Elliot, a fast-talking mule deer, the two form an unlikely friendship and must quickly rally other forest animals if they are to form a rag-tag army against the hunters.

character: O'Toole (voice)

original_title: Open Season

title: The Angry Birds Movie

overview: An island populated entirely by happy, flightless birds or almost entirely. In this paradise, Red, a bird with a temper problem, speedy Chuck, and the volatile Bomb have always been outsiders. But when the island is visited by mysterious green piggies, it’s up to these unlikely outcasts to figure out what the pigs are up to.

character: Foreman Pig (voice)

original_title: The Angry Birds Movie

job: Director

title: The Angry Birds Movie

department: Directing

job: Additional Storyboarding

title: Lenny & Sid: Love Thy Neighbor

overview: Introducing Lenny & Sid... a shy, daydreaming rabbit and a powerhouse of a mouse who meet for the first time in this animated debut from Toonacious Family Entertainment! Love Thy Neighbor is the beginning of an unlikely friendship between two "opposites" who find that God is the only thing that they have in common. In an effort to blend in, Lenny avoids conflict and confrontation at all costs. That also means avoiding Sid, the new neighbor with an "in your face" approach who's on a mission to make Lenny his new friend. Unfortunately, Sid's good intentions land Lenny in the path of Hilda, the school bully who is anything but friendly!  It's the story of how two totally different personalities find true friendship because of their differences and in spite of driving each other nuts! Discover the fun and exitement when this endering twosome produces hilarious results in Love Thy Neighbor.

department: Art

original_title: Lenny & Sid: Love Thy Neighbor

job: Storyboard Artist

title: The Iron Giant

overview: In the small town of Rockwell, Maine in October 1957, a giant metal machine befriends a nine-year-old boy and ultimately finds its humanity by unselfishly saving people from their own fears and prejudices.

original_title: The Iron Giant

title: The Longest Yard

overview: Disgraced pro football quarterback Paul Crewe lands in a Texas federal penitentiary, where manipulative Warden Hazen recruits him to advise the institution's football team of prison guards. Crewe suggests a tune-up game which lands him quarterbacking a crew of inmates in a game against the guards. Aided by incarcerated ex-NFL coach and player Nate Scarborough, Crewe and his team must overcome not only the bloodthirstiness of the opposition, but also the corrupt warden trying to fix the game against them.

original_title: The Longest Yard

title: Ronan Boyle And The Book Of Riddles

overview: Awkward Irish teen Ronan Boyle who lives in the long shadow of his famous parents. When Ronan’s parents are wrongly accused of the theft of a national treasure and sent to jail, Ronan sets out to prove their innocence and face leprechauns, undead goblins and many other legendary creatures of Celtic lore.

original_title: Ronan Boyle And The Book Of Riddles

title: Pooh's Heffalump Movie

overview: Who or what exactly is a Heffalump? The lovable residents of the Hundred Acre Wood -- Winnie the Pooh, Rabbit, Tigger, Eeyore, Kanga and the rest of the pack -- embark on a journey of discovery in search of the elusive Heffalump. But as is always the case, this unusual road trip opens their eyes to so much more than just the creature they're seeking.

original_title: Pooh's Heffalump Movie

job: Thanks

title: WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko

overview: Set in an alternate WWI reality where a senseless war rages on, two soldiers on opposite sides of the conflict play a joyful game of chess. A heroic carrier pigeon delivers the soldiers' chess moves over the battlefield as the fighting escalates. Neither soldier knows his opponent as the game and the war builds to its climatic final move. Whoever wins the game, one thing is for certain: there are no winners in war.

department: Crew

job: Storyboard

title: Osmosis Jones

overview: A white blood cell policeman, with the help of a cold pill, must stop a deadly virus from destroying the human they live in, Frank.

department: Writing

original_title: Osmosis Jones

place_of_birth: Ardee, Ireland

title: Open Season

media_type: movie

title: The Angry Birds Movie

title: The Angry Birds Movie

title: Lenny & Sid: Love Thy Neighbor

title: The Iron Giant

title: The Longest Yard

title: Ronan Boyle And The Book Of Riddles

title: Pooh's Heffalump Movie

title: Osmosis Jones


Eiji Minakata

Legendary Teacher

overview: A man who appears to have no particular passion for anything ironically proves effective with troubled high school students. Known as a legendary savior of problem schools, he shows up one day to salvage what's left of a class that had fallen apart completely. His highly unpredictable reactions and controversial advice to students shock the teachers and staffs much as they do the problem students themselves.

character: Tetsuya Yasuhara（安原 哲也）

original_name: 伝説の教師

original_language: ja

English

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english_name: English

日本語

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english_name: Japanese

普通话

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iso_3166_1: CN

english_name: Mandarin

Český

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iso_3166_1: CZ

english_name: Czech

普通话

iso_3166_1: HK

Slovenčina

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iso_3166_1: SK

english_name: Slovak

Italiano

Eiji Minakata

biography: Eiji Minakata è stato un attore giapponese.

Український

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iso_3166_1: UA

english_name: Ukrainian

title: 20 Duels of Young Shingo: Conclusion

overview: While on his journey through the countryside of Japan, Shingo encounters many people whose lives have been affected by his actions. Though the many duels he fought were intended to bring justice to those who sought to do evil, he is faced with the knowledge that his victories have also caused suffering amont the family members of his victims-leading him to question his life's philosophy.  This superb film is the final chapter in this part of Shingo's story. A fitting tribute to his quest to be the supreme swordsman.

original_title: 新吾二十番勝負　完結篇

title: Sonatine

overview: Murakawa, an aging Tokyo yakuza tiring of gangster life, is sent by his boss to Okinawa along with a few of his henchmen to help end a gang war, supposedly as mediators between two warring clans. He finds that the dispute between the clans is insignificant and whilst wondering why he was sent to Okinawa at all, his group is attacked in an ambush. The survivors flee and make a decision to lay low at the beach while they await further instructions.

character: The Hit Man

original_title: Sonatine

title: Hana

overview: In a poor district of Edo lives a young samurai named Soza. He has been sent by his clan to avenge the death of his father. He isn't an accomplished swordsman however, and he prefers sharing the life of the residents, teaching the kids how to write etc. When he finally finds the man he is looking for, he will have to decide whether he follows the way of the samurai or chooses peace and reconciliation.

character: Shojiro Aoki

original_title: 花よりもなほ

title: 鷹天皇飄々剣　吉野の風雲児

overview: 1962 Japanese movie

original_title: 鷹天皇飄々剣　吉野の風雲児

title: Sister Street Fighter: Fifth Level Fist

overview: Kiku Nakakawa, the only daughter of an old kimono shop owner in Kyoto, is enthusiastic about karate. To help her friend Michi avenge her brother, she sneaks into a movie studio in Kyoto where a drug dealing syndicate is based.

character: Movie Director

original_title: 女必殺五段拳

title: Red peonies on the skin

overview: Genjiro was a samurai in the past, but he became a Yakuza, a dandy with a tattoo of red peonies, he helps his younger brother who is caught up in a conflict with Hatamoto.

original_title: 緋ぼたん肌

title: Getting Any?

overview: While pursuing his dream of having car sex, a goofy middle-aged man makes all the wrong moves and ends up enrolling in a number of crazy escapades.

character: Opposing Boss

original_title: みんな〜やってるか!

title: The King of Minami: Insurance Embezzler

overview: #19 in the series, following "Con Man Elimination."

original_title: 難波金融伝 ミナミの帝王 劇場版IX 保険金横領

title: Onibi: The Fire Within

overview: After spending over half his life in prison, ex-hitman Kunihiro is determined to go straight. But the shortcomings of the new gangs mean that he is soon having to call on his old-school yakuza talents. And when he falls for Asako, a beautiful piano player, she unknowingly ignites a fire within Kuni that will immolate everything and everybody around him. Regarded by many as his masterpiece, Onibi has all the hallmarks of a Mochizuki film, with the gangster elements tightly compressed and controlled to allow space in which a subdued romance can bloom. Coming from a background in porno cinema, this master of sexual relations injects a fresh passion and tension into the macho world of the yakuza film.

character: Kanigawa

original_title: 鬼火

title: Restoration Fire

overview: Megastar Kataoka Chiezo is Vice-commander Hijikata Toshizo of the Shinsengumi in this realistic tale of Japan’s inner battles that led to the downfall of the Tokugawa shogunate. Excellent performances and extremely good swordplay highlight this glimpse into the heart and soul of Japanese history. Although known as “Razor Blade” Hijikata, the vice-commander is a man of deep conviction with a little-known sense of humanity. Starting after the famed Ikedaya Incident, in which they saved Kyoto from Choshu’s plot to burn the city to ashes, they work hard to change the public’s view of them as merciless killers to their true mission of protecting the shogun. This is an extraordinary tale of blood and guts! From the pen of award winning author Shotaro Ikenami (Bandit Vs. Samurai, Hunter in the Dark, Misumi's The Last Samurai)

original_title: 維新の篝火

title: Yoka chigo zakura Make no wakamusha

original_title: よか稚児ざくら　馬上の若武者

title: Bokunchi - My House

overview: A young Japanese boy's life is changed when his sister returns to the small island, full of eccentric characters, where he lives.

original_title: ぼくんち

title: The Kingdom of Jirocho 1

overview: The tale of real-life Yakuza boss Shimizu Jirocho is told from his earliest beginnings as a gambler on the road as he forms his gang and sets out on the path to fame and fortune. One of the smartest and strongest of all the gang bosses, he went on to survive the end of the samurai era and become a successful businessman. But first, he must survive against all odds in order to build his reputation and develop his strength. Powerful portrayals of the group are led by the great Tsuruta Koji with help from the likes of Matsukata Hiroki.

original_title: 次郎長三国志

title: The Kingdom of Jirocho 2

overview: Jirocho and his henchmen befriend Ishimatsu, a wanderer in Mishima.

original_title: 続・次郎長三国志

title: Faraway Heaven

overview: Chizuru, a typical Japanese young female office worker, is socially clumsy, poor at romance and unhappy with her job. Being weary from a busy and stressful city life, she seriously desires to end her life somewhere faraway from the city and leaves for deep in the mountains, where she finds one lonely house. Then she attempts to commit suicide by taking sleeping pills in the guest house but she fails.... This is the beginning of her new life.

original_title: 天国はまだ遠く

title: 神変美女桜

original_title: 神変美女桜

title: Dad's Backdrop

overview: Middle-aged pro wrestler Ushinosuke's wife passes away, and he and his son, Kazuo, move in with his father. His fellow wrestlers help them shift house and celebrate their new home, but in the midst of their revelry sits Kazuo with a pained look on his face. He hates pro wrestling with a passion and is embarrassed by his father who has made a heel turn in order to save the ailing wrestling organization he belongs to. He even keeps his dad's profession a secret from his new classmates. When Ushinosuke finds out how his son feels, he sets up an unusual death match with a karate champion in a bid for acceptance. He is knocked down several times, but each time manages to rise to his feet and inch towards the championship. Finally he manages to unleash his finishing move, a devastating backdrop, and achieves a miraculous upset victory with Kazuo watching on proudly.

character: Matsunosuke Shimoda

original_title: お父さんのバックドロップ

title: A Yakuza in Love

overview: When an innocent young country girl falls for a low level yakuza, she enters a completely different world in which the line between good and evil are quickly blurred. Through great ups and downs their love will be tested, but the ultimate test lies in whether or not they will survive the downward pull of the lifestyle they have chosen.

character: Okuma

original_title: 恋極道

title: Lord Mito: All Star Version

overview: In 1691 a terrible fire broke out in Denmacho, Yotsuya, burning down the towns around it, up to the shores of Shibaura. A month and a half later, another fire broke out, this time in Komagome, burning down the two gates of Asakusa and Sujikai, and continuing on into the night. As the government Elders consider evidence that these fires were arson, a fire breaks out in Hirakawa-cho, outside of Hanzo Gate. Nishonmaru catches on fire and burns down completely. When this rash of fires even strikes Kyoto, the task of finding who’s behind the arson, and stopping them falls to the Shogun’s uncle, the Elder Lord of Mito. Together with his trusted bodyguards, Kaku and Suke, the trio set of to save Japan from this scourge of evil. Featuring virtually all of their most famous stars, this is the best film in the Toei series about Mito Komon, one of Japan’s most popular historical figures who traveled through the country incognito to check on the people and fight injustice.

original_title: 水戸黄門

title: Big Magnum Kuroiwa

overview: Kuroiwa, a high school teacher who carries a “Big Magnum 44” gun is sent to a school that is full of violence. Can Kuroiwa reform the students with the gun?

original_title: ビッグ・マグナム黒岩先生

title: The Yagyu Military Art: The Buried Conspiracy

overview: Yagyu Jubei must protect the Yagyu scroll that holds the secret of the infamous assassination plotted by the Tokugawa government 30 years ago.

original_title: 柳生武芸帳　剣豪乱れ雲

title: Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights

overview: The remake of Yoshikawa's novel continues with the second installment in which Takezo, soon to be Miyamoto Musashi, emerges from the Himeji Castle after three years of intense contemplation and philosophical study and starting on his epic quest to complete his skill in the Way.

original_title: 宮本武蔵 般若坂の決斗

title: A Revengeful Raid

overview: In this tale of bravery and honor among the roving gamblers of old Japan, the heroic Jirocho, Boss of the Tokaido is called upon to help a young yakuza named Eijiro after he runs afoul of the new samurai officials who have taken over his hometown. Expertly portrayed by Kitaoji Kinya (son of the all-time great star Ichikawa Utaemon), this young man stands up for the townspeople and puts his life on the line. Jirocho, played by superstar Nakamura Kinnosuke, a boss known for his honor and valor soon finds himself involved in the feud which will only end in a brutal showdown.

original_title: 次郎長と小天狗　殴り込み甲州路

title: Shabu

overview: Makabe is a yakuza who is addicted to 'shabu' (a slang refers to stimulant drug). He lives as if he wants to destroy himself. He steals a mistress of the boss of a big yakuza syndicate by force. He takes over the yakuza group he belongs to, by killing the old boss. When he tries to use 'shabu' as the main financial resource of his group, it leads to the serious confrontation with another big yakuza syndicate.

original_title: シャブ極道

title: Sword of Destiny

overview: When master swordsman Mikogami Genshiro of the Ono fencing school returns to find that his ailing sensei has been murdered in the dead of night, he must find the culprit and exact revenge.  His return sets off a series of violent incidents and incites a high ranked female skilled in sword to test his mettle after he unwittingly offends her.  The ever delightful Misora Hibari co-stars with the great Tsuruta Koji in this exciting tale set in the earliest days of the Tokugawa shogunate.  Lots of exciting swordfights highlight this entertaining motion picture!

original_title: 孤剣は折れず　月影一刀流

title: Mighty Shosuke

overview: A comedy about a free-spirited man Shosuke, whose life is turned upside down when he is ordered to serve the clan lord.

original_title: 庄助武勇傳　会津磐梯山

title: Kōshoku hana densha

overview: After a man racks up a huge debt, his wife and his father are “persuaded” to perform together in a sex show in order to pay it off.

character: Heisuke Tsuzuki

original_title: 好色花でんしゃ

title: Tragedy of the Coolie Samurai

overview: Gonza was a handsome young laborer, a footman and spear-carrier, working hard for his meager wage. All Gonza wanted was to marry his young sweetheart, but despite their mutual poverty, her status as the daughter of a samurai blocked their path to happiness. A chance opportunity to achieve samurai status would come one day, but Gonza will regret trusting the so-called honorable samurai who extended this fateful offer, and the terrible price he'd pay, fighting for his life in one of the most blood-spattered samurai battles ever filmed.

original_title: この首一万石

title: Mark of Blood

overview: Three young yakuza, Fujitaro, Matsugoro and Kanjuro, travel the country fighting evil.

original_title: 血煙り笠

title: Billiken

overview: The main hero of this film is the spirit of the once very popular wooden statuette called Billiken. It's a small god with a pointed head, a fat belly and a characteristic smile. When the casket in which the statuette was found is broken, the spirit of Billiken is free. After that he tries to fulfill the wishes of all those who had prayed to him, but it doesn't always works.

original_title: ビリケン

title: A Madcap Corporation

overview: A yakuza family goes into show business.

character: Aihara

original_title: 唐獅子株式会社

title: Shimmering Sword

original_title: 胡蝶かげろう剣

title: Bloody Record of the Shinsengumi

original_title: 新選組血風録 近藤勇

title: The Princess and the Bearded Lord

original_title: お姫さまと髭大名

title: Moonshadow Ninja Scroll: Twenty-One Eyes

overview: A wave of terror is threatening to unseat Shogun Yoshimune. Police stations are erupting into flames, convicts escaping from prison, houses robbed and vandalized, streets teeming with panicked citizens. Is Ijyuin Tanomo, highly-placed official of Owari clan, secretly using deadly ninja to foment riot and rebellion? Narumiya Shinbei, a lone samurai spy adept at ninjutsu must uncover the hidden hand orchestrating these shocking crimes. Shinbei enlists a small band of dedicated ninja to lay siege to the enemy’s stronghold, where his own sister works as an undercover agent. Now, ninja must fight ninja in a last desperate battle to save the shogunate.

character: Mitamura Hyoma

title: Ninja Assassins

overview: Saotome Mondonosuke pursues the culprit who placed a malicious curse upon Shogun Tsunekichi.

title: Little Tengu

overview: A story about a tomboy, Otoshi, who is good at singing, dancing and fencing.

title: Case of Umon: Red Lizard

overview: Umon goes on an investigation to unveil the murderer known as Red Lizard.

title: Return of the One-Armed Swordsman

overview: The legendary one-eyed one-armed swordsman Tange Sazen is back to aid a Magistrate in his efforts to steal bribe money on its way to Edo for the benefit to poor farmers.

title: Tange Sazen: Heavenly Clouds, Earthly Dragon

overview: This movie depicts a familiar samurai Tange Sazen story realistically. Tange loses one of his eyes and arms in an attempt to recover a masterpiece sword for his lord. However, his efforts are not appreciated and he becomes a man of hatred.

title: Tsubakuro dōchū

title: 20 Duels of Young Shingo, Part 2

overview: The second film in the 20 Duels of Young Shingo trilogy directed by  Sadatsugu Matsuda.

title: Obugyō-sama to musume-tachi

title: Ninjutsu-tsukai to sennin masume

overview: A two-part series of ninjutsu films directed by Masahiko Izawa, director of Yagyu Bugeichou (1961), based on an original scenario by Yasuo Yokoyama.

title: Ninjutsu tsukai to sannin musume: onna kitsune henka

original_title: 忍術使いと三人娘　女狐変化

title: Jirocho' s Days of Youth: Whirlwind on the Tokaido

overview: Adventures of famous yakuza boss Jirocho and his disciples who settle in Kofu.

original_title: 若き日の次郎長　東海道のつむじ風

title: In Search of Mother

overview: Period piece about a young man who, because of his hard life alone in the world, has become a yakuza. When he hears that his mother may be living in Edo (Tokyo), he travels there, intent on finding her and leaving the swordsman's life behind. But a team of rival gangsters is hot on his heels.

title: An Edo Magistrate

overview: When a former artisan is tricked into putting his sister up as collateral for a loan by a gangster boss in a crooked gambling casino it sets in motion the story of Ooka Echizen, the famed magistrate of Edo during the reign of Shogun Tsuneyoshi.  In a world where humans bow down to dogs and are beheaded for harming them, it's a wonder people can survive at all. Nakamura Kinnosuke is a former samurai who has left the fold to live freely and must put his life on the line to save the girl he loves, and rescue her from the yakuza who duped her brother.  When the truth comes out about his background, he is forced to take on the role of Edo Magistrate, a decision that brings him unimaginable heartache and danger!

original_title: 江戸っ子奉行 天下を斬る男

title: Way of Morning Mist

title: Goro the Fixer

overview: He can sort out any financial trouble! The legendary hero from the Weekly Manga Sunday series is now available on DVD! The client this time for Goro Inui—commonly known as Goro the Fixer—is his former secondary school classmate, Yamanaka. Having squandered his money at a secret casino and racked up a massive debt, Yamanaka has, unbelievably, handed over a blank promissory note from his parents’ company as collateral. A few days later, his father receives a fax of the promissory note, bearing a face value of 100 million yen. Sensing the hand of a professional forger, Goro finally steps up to the plate as a master of the underworld!

title: 20 Duels of Young Shingo: Conclusion

title: Sonatine

title: Hana

title: 鷹天皇飄々剣　吉野の風雲児

original_title: 鷹天皇飄々剣　吉野の風雲児

title: Sister Street Fighter: Fifth Level Fist

title: Red peonies on the skin

title: Getting Any?

title: The King of Minami: Insurance Embezzler

original_title: 難波金融伝 ミナミの帝王 劇場版IX 保険金横領

title: Onibi: The Fire Within

title: Restoration Fire

title: Yoka chigo zakura Make no wakamusha

original_title: よか稚児ざくら　馬上の若武者

title: Bokunchi - My House

title: The Kingdom of Jirocho 1

title: The Kingdom of Jirocho 2

title: Faraway Heaven

title: 神変美女桜

title: Dad's Backdrop

original_title: お父さんのバックドロップ

title: A Yakuza in Love

title: Lord Mito: All Star Version

title: Big Magnum Kuroiwa

original_title: ビッグ・マグナム黒岩先生

title: A Revengeful Raid

original_title: 次郎長と小天狗　殴り込み甲州路

title: Shabu

title: Sword of Destiny

original_title: 孤剣は折れず　月影一刀流

title: Mighty Shosuke

title: Kōshoku hana densha

title: Tragedy of the Coolie Samurai

title: Mark of Blood

title: Billiken

title: A Madcap Corporation

title: Shimmering Sword

title: Bloody Record of the Shinsengumi

title: The Princess and the Bearded Lord

title: Ninja Assassins

title: Little Tengu

title: Case of Umon: Red Lizard

title: Return of the One-Armed Swordsman

title: Tsubakuro dōchū

title: 20 Duels of Young Shingo, Part 2

title: Obugyō-sama to musume-tachi

title: Ninjutsu-tsukai to sennin masume

original_title: 忍術使いと三人娘　女狐変化

original_title: 若き日の次郎長　東海道のつむじ風

title: In Search of Mother

title: An Edo Magistrate

original_title: 江戸っ子奉行 天下を斬る男

title: Way of Morning Mist

title: Goro the Fixer


Karoline Teska

München Mord

overview: Chief Inspector Schaller and his team solve the most unusual cases in beautiful Munich with wit and charm.

character: Nina Kurth

original_name: München Mord

original_language: de

Polizeiruf 110

overview: Polizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic Republic, and after the dissolution of Fernsehen der DDR the series was picked up by ARD. It was originally created as a counterpart to the West German series Tatort, and quickly became a public favorite.

character: Valerie Schönau

original_name: Polizeiruf 110

origin_country: XG DE

Lena Lorenz

overview: Lena Lorenz is a captivating drama series that follows the life of a talented and ambitious midwife, Lena Lorenz, who returns to her idyllic hometown in the Bavarian Alps after working for several years in a bustling city hospital. Seeking a quieter and more meaningful life, Lena embarks on a journey of self-discovery, as she navigates the challenges and joys of her new profession in the picturesque rural village.

character: Miriam Schuster

original_name: Lena Lorenz

origin_country: AT DE

Der letzte Bulle

overview: Der letzte Bulle is a German television series that was first aired in 2010. The series is about a cop from the 1980s put into a modern police department in Essen.

character: Lisbeth 'Lizzy' Gerber

original_name: Der letzte Bulle

Letzte Spur Berlin

character: Magda Siebert

original_name: Letzte Spur Berlin

Kanzleramt

overview:
Kanzleramt is a German television series based on the template of the American tv series The West Wing.

It is primarily set in the office of fictional Chancellor of Germany Andreas Weyher, telling stories about the German head of government's political career and private life as a widower and father of a teenage daughter.

It was neither a critical nor ratings success, and was cancelled after twelve episodes.

character: Tochter des Bundeskanzlers

original_name: Kanzleramt

character: Nina Weyer

Scene of the Crime

overview: Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.

character: Caroline Jähnicke

original_name: Tatort

origin_country: AT CH DE

SOKO Köln

overview: The SOKO Köln investigates the cathedral city with humor and often with hard work. Their cases take them into a variety of environments, from the Cologne clique to the terraced housing estates on the outskirts of the city.

character: Ebba Spicher

original_name: SOKO Köln

SOKO Stuttgart

overview: The SOKO Stuttgart team investigates analytically and with sensitivity in the likeable state capital. The exciting cases of the series lead them to bizarre crime scenes and to different milieus.

character: Mel Rehberg

original_name: SOKO Stuttgart

The Old Fox

overview: A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together.

character: Tina Lamsen

original_name: Der Alte

SOKO Leipzig

overview: SOKO Leipzig is a German police procedural television programme, a spin-off of the earlier German police programme SOKO 5113. It was first broadcast on 31 January 2001, on German television channel ZDF. On 12 November 2008, the first part of a two-part crossover between SOKO Leipzig and British police procedural The Bill was aired, with the same version being shown on both ZDF and British television channel ITV1.

character: Esther Bischof

original_name: SOKO Leipzig

Scene of the Crime

character: Tatjana Rausch

character: Alexandra Stein

Kommissar Stolberg

overview: Stolberg is a German detective television series, starring chief inspector Martin Stolberg. The series is more serious and less flashy than other contemporary German detective series.

character: Katrin

original_name: Kommissar Stolberg

Mit Herz und Holly

overview: The physician Dr. Katrin Herz needs support in her practice in Tangermünde. She finds it in the young Dr. Holly Sass. The Berlin city plant only agrees to the job on the Elbe in order to follow a promising lead to her missing mother. Dr. Katrin Herz puts her in touch with the previous practice owner, who probably knew Holly's mother as a patient.

character: Dr. Holly Sass

original_name: Mit Herz und Holly

SOKO Stuttgart

character: Svenja Reuter

Der Lehrer

character: Ina Lobwohl

original_name: Der Lehrer

Nord Nord Mord

character: Sophie Narjes

original_name: Nord Nord Mord

SOKO München

overview: SOKO 5113 is a long-running German police procedural television series. It was first aired in 1978 on 2 January. SOKO is an abbreviation of the term "Sonderkommission" in German.

character: Lilly Schwarz

original_name: SOKO München

ZIBB

character: Self

original_name: ZIBB

SOKO Köln

character: Jana Peters

Deutsch

Karoline Teska

biography: Karoline Teska (* 20. Mai 1988 in Halle (Saale)) ist eine deutsche Schauspielerin.

iso_639_1: de

iso_3166_1: DE

english_name: German

iso_3166_1: CH

title: Liebe am Fjord - Der Gesang des Windes

overview: During Kaare and Hanne Eliassen's 25th anniversary, their teen model son Daniel, who was biting side pains until his exams, collapses and is diagnosed with potentially fatal chronic renal failure. Both parents are ready to donate a kidney for transplantation, but neither matches and Kaare discovers Hanne's 20 years secret: Kaare being presumed near-infertile, she had a 'loveless' but siring affair, which also generated Daniel's brat sister Emma, who encourages Kaare to fall for divorce and disown Hanna. Daniel needing a donor, Hanne desperately searches his biological father, who left town and has a rather common name: Leif Sörensen, only reported found by desperate radio appeal. The meteorologist lives in an island lighthouse, so Kaare, Hanne and Emma, who gets a mutual crush on helpful young fisherman Ronny Stene, sail hurried to the only man who can heal medical urgency, wondering what it will do to relationships, and Daniel finds out to.

character: Emma Eliassen

original_title: Liebe am Fjord - Der Gesang des Windes

title: Mutants

overview: Thirteen-year-old Paula lives with her mother on a well-kept estate in a small town surrounded by nice neighbours. But Paula's view of normality has been sharpened by her extensive and consistent diet of horror movies.

character: Paula

original_title: Mutanten

title: Blueprint

overview: The story of the first cloned human being - told in her own words: At the age of thirty the world-famous composer Iris Sellin learns that she has an incurable illness. She - a person who wanted to live for ever - does however not give in. In order to preserve her art and also herself, beyond death, for all posterity, she has herself cloned. Her daughter Siri, whom, in this way, she turns into her virtual twin, learns as a child that she is the world's first cloned human being. In fact a blueprint: a blueprint of her mother. From that moment on nothing is as it was before...

character: Siri (13 Jahre alt)

original_title: Blueprint

title: Ihr könnt euch niemals sicher sein

overview: Der 17-Jährige Gymnasiast Oliver Rother bringt seine Gedanken, Gefühle und Erlebnisse gern in Hip-Hop-Texten zum Ausdruck. Als ihm seine Lehrerin Selma Vollrath eine Sechs für eine Deutscharbeit über "Die Leiden des jungen Werther" gibt, die er im Stil eines Rappers getextet hat, verlässt er enttäuscht und wutentbrannt die Klasse. Dabei verliert er einen Zettel, auf dem er in einem drastischen Song ankündigt, Frau Vollrath töten zu wollen. Aus Angst, einen potenziellen Amokläufer im Haus zu haben, informiert die Schulleitung die Polizei. Als diese bei der Hausdurchsuchung auf Olivers Computer gewalttätige Videos findet und sich der Jugendliche nicht eindeutig von seinen Sprüchen distanziert, nimmt ein ungeahntes Drama seinen Lauf.

character: Charlotte Stollberg

original_title: Ihr könnt euch niemals sicher sein

title: Das Glück am anderen Ende der Welt

overview: A woman travels to New Zealand for the purpose of visiting his daughter. Give the fact that your company is interested in buying the farm where the girl works. But when her daughter announces the unexpected commitment to the son of the owner of the farm, a series of unexpected events completely change the two families.

character: Mara Westphal

original_title: Das Glück am anderen Ende der Welt

title: Allein unter Schülern

character: Jessy Westphal

original_title: Allein unter Schülern

title: The Girl with Nine Wigs

overview: The true story of a young woman whose lust for life means she is determined to be so very much more than just another cancer patient.

character: Annabel

original_title: Heute bin ich blond

title: Ein Teil von mir

overview: 16-year-old Jonas becomes a father against his will. Jonas always wants to please everyone. But when 17-year-old Vicky, a half-forgotten party flirt, hands him a letter one day, his life is never the same again – he has become a father overnight. With charm and clever ingenuity, Vicky finally convinces Jonas to at least take a look at little Klara. With Vicky's persistence and her commitment to the child's love, Jonas gradually learns to take responsibility for his life.

title: Allein unter Töchtern

overview: When her mother dies in an accident, 17-year-old Jessy takes responsibility for herself and her two younger sisters. One day, her father Harald, a battle-hardened ex-military soldier who once left his wife and children for combat missions, turns up at the door. Accustomed to his own style of command, he finds it difficult to accept his new role as a househusband and father of three daughters and to empathize with the girls' emotional world. The children initially do everything they can to get rid of their father, who in turn doesn't like the fact that his eldest is having a fling with the class crush Sascha.

title: Sources of Life

overview: This is a family story that covers thirty years in the life of the Freytag family (narrated by the grandson, Robert). When his grandfather returns from Russia in 1949, he becomes part of the German "economic miracle" by producing garden gnomes. Klaus, Robert's father, wants to become a writer. He marries Gisela who almost immediately gets pregnant with Robert - but the marriage doesn't work. Both parents abandon the child, and Robert goes on living with both pairs of grand parents. While his father belongs to the 1968 generation that rebels against their fathers he falls in love with the neighbor's's daughter Laura.

title: The Wave

overview: A school teacher discusses types of government with his class. His students find it too boring to repeatedly go over national socialism and believe that dictatorship cannot be established in modern Germany. He starts an experiment to show how easily the masses can become manipulated.

title: Allein unter Müttern

title: Für kein Geld der Welt

overview: After years abroad, the entrepreneur's daughter Isabella Meinhardt returns to Germany at the request of her widowed father Friedrich. But instead of accepting her onto the board of his automobile factory as expected, Friedrich presents his stunned daughter with his new fiancée, the public prosecutor Viola. Isabella does get a chance at the company, but not on the executive floor: she is initially expected to earn her spurs on the assembly line. Incognito, of course. She falls in love with the smart engineer Sebastian, who has no idea of her true identity.

title: Boran

overview: Boran has been on the run from the police for 20 years. Back then, he was sent to prison after an unsuccessful bank robbery, from where he escaped. He left nothing behind; his wife and their son were killed in a car accident. At least that's what he thinks until one day he receives a letter in which a little girl claims to be his granddaughter.

title: Dyslexie

overview: Philipp Halbe can not read and write. He avoids life, works in a bar at night and does not engage in serious relationships. One day when his daughter Lily, whose mother died in a car accident, is about to die, he has to face the challenges of life and fight for custody. The aim of the film is to raise awareness of the problem of illiteracy and thus to contribute to the de-tabulation.

title: Eine wie diese

overview: Bremen 1974: Siggi Thieme, 22, is in a hurry to leave the typing pool where she works as a secretary: she has to go for a job interview. Her dream is to become a detective inspector. The law has finally lifted the barrier that prevented her from entering this profession. She hasn't told her family or her fiancé Jürgen about her application because she rightly fears a headwind.

title: Liebe ist unberechenbar

overview: Leonard and Judith have little in common. To be more precise: almost nothing. He is a professor of mathematics who loves solitude and avoids other people. Judith, on the other hand, enjoys being around people at her job in the campus café and gets involved in unusual ideas.

title: The Heartbreak Agency

overview: When a skeptical journalist reluctantly participates in heartbreak therapy for an article, he ends up opening his heart to his charming therapist.

title: Home Entertainment

overview: Florian and Marie want to spend a cozy evening on the sofa watching a movie. But that's more difficult than expected: the couple navigate through a digital world full of streaming portals, voucher codes, delivery service apps and broken remote controls and keep tripping over themselves in the process.

title: Liebe am Fjord - Der Gesang des Windes

title: Mutants

title: Blueprint

title: Ihr könnt euch niemals sicher sein

title: Das Glück am anderen Ende der Welt

title: Allein unter Schülern

title: The Girl with Nine Wigs

title: Ein Teil von mir

title: Allein unter Töchtern

title: Sources of Life

title: The Wave

title: Allein unter Müttern

title: Für kein Geld der Welt

title: Boran

title: Dyslexie

title: Eine wie diese

title: Liebe ist unberechenbar

title: The Heartbreak Agency

title: Home Entertainment


Jacob Matschenz

biography: Jacob Matschenz was born on January 8, 1984 in Berlin-Pankow. He is a German actor, notable for film and television work including The Wave (2008), 12 Paces Without a Head (2009) and The Sinking of the Laconia (2010). He won the Adolf Grimme Award in 2008 for his appearance in An die Grenze.

Mord in bester Gesellschaft

overview: Mord in bester Gesellschaft is a German television series.

character: Oliver Kaspari

original_name: Mord in bester Gesellschaft

Stubbe – Von Fall zu Fall

overview: Stubbe – Von Fall zu Fall is a German crime detective television series starring Wolfgang Stumph as detective Stubbe. It is being broadcast on ZDF, the second German public television channel since 1995.

character: Jacob Fahrenson

original_name: Stubbe – Von Fall zu Fall

Scene of the Crime

overview: Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.

character: Sascha

Polizeiruf 110

overview: Polizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic Republic, and after the dissolution of Fernsehen der DDR the series was picked up by ARD. It was originally created as a counterpart to the West German series Tatort, and quickly became a public favorite.

character: Daniel Dietzel

Toni, männlich, Hebamme

character: Flocke

original_name: Toni, männlich, Hebamme

Legal Affairs

character: Jonas Lindberg

original_name: Legal Affairs

München Mord

overview: Chief Inspector Schaller and his team solve the most unusual cases in beautiful Munich with wit and charm.

character: Fidelius Aubacher

original_name: München Mord

SOKO Köln

overview: The SOKO Köln investigates the cathedral city with humor and often with hard work. Their cases take them into a variety of environments, from the Cologne clique to the terraced housing estates on the outskirts of the city.

character: Jakob Schmidt

Bella Block

overview: Bella Block is a long-running German detective television series starring Hannelore Hoger, first broadcast in 1994 on ZDF. In 2010 the 30th series was produced.

character: Lenny Gravert

original_name: Bella Block

SOKO Leipzig

overview: SOKO Leipzig is a German police procedural television programme, a spin-off of the earlier German police programme SOKO 5113. It was first broadcast on 31 January 2001, on German television channel ZDF. On 12 November 2008, the first part of a two-part crossover between SOKO Leipzig and British police procedural The Bill was aired, with the same version being shown on both ZDF and British television channel ITV1.

character: David Balthus

Zwei Engel für Amor

character: Dirk Krahn

original_name: Zwei Engel für Amor

Scene of the Crime

character: Bernd Hermann

character: Michael Voss

The Sinking of the Laconia

overview: The true story of the Allied ship Laconia, sunk in WWII by a German U-Boat, which then surfaced against orders to rescue the civilian crew

character: Mannesmann

original_name: The Sinking of the Laconia

original_language: en

Scene of the Crime

character: Andi Schwab

Tornado - Der Zorn des Himmels

overview: Meteorologist Jan Becker has lived in America for a long time to study tornadoes and suspects something terrible when he returns: the extreme weather conditions in Germany - heat and hailstorms in a confined space - have the potential to spawn a huge tornado. But no one believes him, especially not his father, the head of the weather service. When a supercell forms a short time later in the Berlin area, Jan immediately sets off to gather evidence for his theory.

character: Michael

original_name: Tornado - Der Zorn des Himmels

Old Land

overview: Three women, three generations, one house in the 'Altes Land'.

character: Christoph

original_name: Altes Land

Till Eulenspiegel

character: Till Eulenspiegel

original_name: Till Eulenspiegel

Close to Home: Murder in the Coalfield

overview: When a grisly murder brings Detective Maik Briegand back to his small hometown, he finds himself dredging up bodies, clues and his own past traumas.

character: Jannick Wolf

original_name: Lauchhammer - Tod in der Lausitz

Charité

overview: Berlin, 1888. After penniless Ida’s life is saved at the Charité Hospital she must work off the treatment costs. While she becomes acquainted with the most brilliant physicians of this era at the world-famous hospital, the self-determined young woman discovers her passion for medicine.

character: Martin Schelling

original_name: Charité

Grimme Award

overview: Annual awarding of the Grimme Awards.

original_name: Grimme-Preis

Bavarian Film Awards

original_name: Bayerischer Filmpreis

Die Pilgerin

overview: In the 14th century, a young merchant's daughter from southern Germany sets off on the adventurous Way of St. James to faraway Santiago de Compostela to fulfill her father's last wishes and bring his heart there. Disguised as a man, the pilgrim is hunted by pursuers set on her by her conniving brother.

character: Sebastian Laux

original_name: Die Pilgerin

Babylon Berlin

overview: Beneath the decadence of 1929 Berlin, lies an underworld city of sin. Police investigator Gereon Rath has been transferred from Cologne to the epicenter of political and social changes in the Golden Twenties.

character: Fritz Höckert / Richard Pechtmann

original_name: Babylon Berlin

Viktor bringt's

overview: Moritz Bleibtreu plays the opinionated Berlin service technician Viktor, who has to come to terms with his son Mika. Together, they deliver electrical appliances and get into ludicrous discussions with customers about the big and small questions of life.

character: Paul Brehmer

original_name: Viktor bringt's

Unterleuten: The Torn Village

overview: In the middle of untouched nature, surrounded by forests and grain fields of the Brandenburg province, the fictional village of Unterleuten with only 250 inhabitants is located. Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall it seems a peaceful place for both locals and newcomers. But the appearance of rural idyll in eastern Germany is deceptive. There are turnaround winners and turnaround losers, friends and enemies, neighbors eyeing each other with suspicion, gossip, old secrets and hidden conflicts. When the mayor puts forward the proposal to have a company build a wind farm with dozen of wind turbines in order to secure the prosperity and future of the locals, the open fight for the only possible piece of land begins, which unfortunately belongs to three different owners. Everyone sees big money for themselves. Alliances are formed and friends become enemies. In addition, an unscrupulous vulture capitalism investor from southern Germany interferes that causes the glass to overflow.

character: Frederick

original_name: Unterleuten - Das zerrissene Dorf

Hamburg Journal

character: self

original_name: Hamburg Journal

Charlotte Link - Einsame Nacht

character: Sam Harris

original_name: Charlotte Link - Einsame Nacht

name: Miss Sophie - Same Procedure as Every Year

overview: At last, the long-awaited prequel to the cult sketch Dinner for One. England, early 20th century - a country estate near Eastbourne. Faced with financial hardship, young Miss Sophie decides to get married and invites marriage candidates to her castle. Before she can make her choice, one of the gentlemen is murdered. Miss Sophie challenges the bachelors to witty competitions for her heart and tries to secretly find the murderer. Always at her side is her butler James - and a tender but seemingly impossible romance develops ...

character: Sir Toby

original_name: Miss Sophie - Same Procedure as Every Year

普通话

雅各布·马申茨

biography: 雅各布·马申茨（Jacob Matschenz，1984年生于柏林）是德国演员。他以电影和电视作品而闻名，包括《海浪》（2008 年）、《没有头的 12 步》（2009 年）和《拉科尼亚号的沉没》（2010 年）。2008年，他因出演《An die Grenze》而获得阿道夫·格莱姆奖。

普通话

雅各布·馬申茨

biography: 雅各布·馬申茨（Jacob Matschenz，1984 年生於柏林）是德國演員。他以電影和電視作品而聞名，包括《海浪》（2008 年）、《沒有頭的 12 步》（2009 年）和《拉科尼亞號的沉沒》（2010 年）。2008 年，他因出演《An die Grenze》而獲得阿道夫·格萊姆獎。

title: Mutants

title: The Wave

title: Neandertal

overview: 17-year-old Guido suffers since his early childhood from neurodermatitis. After being taken to the hospital due to a heavy attack, he starts to question his personal and familiar environment and discovers that his parents’ relationship – which he assumed to be happy and sound – is built on lies. Unable to deal with this disappointment, he flees from it and moves in with his older brother and his roommates...

title: 1st of May: All Belongs to You

overview: An eleven-year-old Turkish boy, two young men from a small town, and a cuckolded policeman from the sticks all find their way to Berlin on May Day, where, in the district of Kreuzberg, emotions come to the boil every year.

title: 42plus

overview: When the beautiful, efficient and successful Christine, 42, arrives at their summer beach home with her husband and teenage daughter, a young hitchhiker catches her eye. What follows is the story of a woman who frees herself, tears her life into pieces and puts it back together in a different order.

title: An die Grenze

overview: 19-year-old NVA soldier, Alex Karow, is sent to the West German-East German border in May 1974, shortly after Willy Brandt's resignation and during the World Cup. The army is dominated by brutal rituals, tolerated or used by the officers.  Alex understands that the ideals of balance, democracy and human dignity are propaganda. The question of what happens when the other appears in the sights of the Kalashnikov occupies the soldiers day and night, interrupted almost exclusively by the games of the World Cup with the historic encounter between the GDR and the FRG. Alex draws strength from his love for Christine, a confident tractor driver who lives in the neighbouring village. Christine encourages him not to do what his father expects, but to follow his dream of becoming a photographer. But when her brother sends Alex's photo from the border fortifications to the West, everything gets out of control...

title: The Crocodiles

overview: Ten-year-old Hannes, growing up with his young, poor and single mother wants to join the coolest gang in the area, the Vorstadtkrokodile. When the ‘entry test’ goes wrong, Hannes’s life is saved by Kai, who is desperate to join too but is wheelchair bound and unable to even run away when things get hot. Hannes would accept Kai but the other gang members don’t seem happy to accept a handicapped member...

title: A Year Ago in Winter

overview: A renowned artist must uncover a young dancer's secrets in order to truly capture her likeness for a commissioned work.

title: Coxless Pair

overview: The film tells the story of the friendship between Johann and Ludwig as they strive for the ultimate “buddy” relationship. Going beyond, well beyond, what would be considered good and healthy, the pair attempt to become the ideal twins, driving their relationship based on their partnership in competitive rowing (coxless pairs) to the ultimate, to perfect harmony in mind, word, thought and deed. But their symbiotic relationship is thrown out of balance: Ludwig strives to tighten the bonds ever closer, but Johann discovers happiness in the form of love for Ludwig’s sister, Vera. But because Ludwig hates her, the couple keep their relationship secret. But secrets have a way of coming out and Ludwig is wounded to the core. As the finals of the rowing competition draw closer, Ludwig has already set his sights on a greater goal: to preserve their friendship forever, no longer in life but in death.

title: Whispers of War

overview: When Khalil, a primary school teacher in Berlin, gets hold of images of war from his Kurdish hometown of Cizre, he is forced to question his entire existence in Berlin. His life spirals out of balance as he seems to recognise his long lost sister in the videos – whom he thought long dead. He tries everything to get in contact, to save his sister, to inform the public about this brutal war. And loses himself.

title: Wholetrain

overview: This feature takes a look at the graffiti movement and young people who populate the niche culture. Following four such artists as they shape the graffiti community through both their art and their interactions, the film tells the story of how the foursome's decision to paint an entire train would affect their lives forever.

title: Weihnachtspäckchen ... haben alle zu tragen

overview: Parcel carrier Adika, who works as a parcel driver over the holidays, rarely loses his good mood despite the stress and the many deliveries to be made. It's only when he has to fight with Tessa over the same parking spaces that he gets a bit annoyed. He finds the nurse quite interesting, but doesn't dare approach her.

original_title: Weihnachtspäckchen ... haben alle zu tragen

title: Sex Up

overview: Three best friends accidentally discover a tropical plant which is actually all-powerful aphrodisiac.The effects of this plant’s juices are amazing: people end up making passionate love with a first person they see and all the brakes cut loose instantly!

original_title: Sex Up - Jungs haben's auch nicht leicht

title: 12 Paces without a Head

overview: The era of the feared sea pirates Klaus Störtebeker and Gödeke Michels is coming to an end. After a long period with no booty at last a bulging ship appears on the horizon. However, Störtebeker is badly wounded in the attempted capture and the pirates suffer ignominious defeat. Not only their ship is down the drain - Störtebeker himself is suddenly plagued by anxiety and doubt about his very existence as a pirate. He is drawn to the beautiful country girl Bille, while Michels gets rebuffed by the friesian princess Okka. In the very moment that the crew have mutinied and co-captain Michels is literally at the end of his tether, they discover on board their ramshackle old tub a most unique wonder weapon. Glory days are quickly revived - until the mighty Hanse consolidate their power and weaponry and go to war against the pirates. Störtebeker and Michels are forced to decide: To live as a farmer or to die as a pirate.

title: Wickie and the Treasure of the Gods

overview: When the mighty Viking Halvar suddenly disappears, his clever but timid son Wickie must lead the Vikings on a dangerous journey to rescue his father from the evil Sven and go in search of the legendary treasure of the gods.

title: Dreileben: Don’t Follow Me Around

overview: The police psychologist Jo is supposed to help catch the sex offender Molesch. Since the hotel is fully booked, she stays with her old college friend Vera and her husband Bruno. It turns out that Vera and Jo used to be in love with the same man. The two women's musings are interrupted when Molesch suddenly appears in the garden.

title: Sex Up Your Life!

overview: Ziege, Häschen and Max have now moved to Berlin for studying. They ain't got no money till the mystic plant reappears. Soon they have enough money for champagne, a penthouse and a nice car. But everyone's got private problems. Häschens girlfriend Valerie is in Sevilla, Max is too shy to go into Berlin's gay-clubs and Ziege is in love with the girlfriend of a manager of a big company. But being very boyish they don't just sell the SexUp pills, but also use them for themselves. Of course the old problems reappear.

title: The Crocodiles: All for One

overview: “The Crocodiles” are back and they are in for quite an adventure! Frank is seriously hurt and needs a liver donation. In order to save him, the gang needs to get Frank’s brother out of prison. Their plan is risky and the stakes are high.

title: The System

overview: Mike is twenty, attractive, intelligent and a loner. He only shares his thoughts and an apartment in a prefabricated housing estate in Rostock with his best friend Dustin. There, on the roof with a view of the sea, they smoke their joints and sort stolen goods. Mike doesn't think beyond the next day. But everything changes when he is caught by Konrad Böhm during a break-in. The charismatic businessman introduces Mike to a parallel world of international lobbyists and former GDR secret service agents who have saved their networks for reunified Germany.

original_title: Das System - Alles verstehen heißt alles verzeihen

title: Bis aufs Blut

overview: Fresh out of juvenile prison, Tommy has sworn off the drugs. But when the going gets tough, the only support he finds is from his best friend Sule - who has "the master plan": one last drug deal to finance their own auto body shop.

title: Run If You Can

overview: An independent tragicomedy, Run If You Can is the debut feature for director Brüggemann who, along with his sister, also wrote the compelling screenplay. Forced to spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair, Ben is deeply desperate, despite his humor and vivaciousness. When he meets Christian, his new assistant, Ben treats him like every other helper he’s had. Things suddenly change when Christian meets Annika, “the cello player” whom Ben has been observing from his window for years. The three become close friends, putting Annika in the middle of an emotional, and somehow dangerous, ménage à trois. While conquering Annika is nothing very serious for career-focused Christian, Ben’s love for Annika reminds him of his past and forces him to face his most remote fears. A character-driven story, Run If You Can owes much of its power to the actors’ performances, especially Robert Gwisdek’s outstanding interpretation of Ben.

title: Tomorrow We'll Be Happy

overview: The overworked and exhausted architect Leon longs for a shoulder to lean on. His confident girlfriend Jenni, however, is angry he's always working and doesn't have time for their relationship. Unexpectedly, Leon's 3D-architecture program produces a digital copy of Jenni. And the digital Jenni helps him get better without asking for anything... Stuck between his strong girlfriend and her always-friendly copy, Leon is looking for a possible relationship.

title: Dreileben: One Minute of Darkness

overview: An ailing police inspector (Stefan Kurt) hunts a dangerous criminal who escaped from custody.

title: Dreileben: Beats Being Dead

overview: Johannes is a loner who wants a better job. And then he meets Ana. Ana is attractive and even though her job is even less prestigious than Johannes's, he falls for her. And then she quits her job to be with him (and be dependent on him) and suddenly things become much more serious. She has fallen for him. But does he still love her? Did he ever? Enter Sarah. Sarah is the daughter of Johannes's boss. He and she have a past. Will Sarah and what she represents be his future, and Ana just a memory, something he'd like to erase?

title: Move

overview: Eleven moving dates, eight friends: Philipp, Wiebke, Jessica, Maria, Swantje, Michael, Thomas, Dina – all in their twenties and mutually lonesome. And always searching: For a new city, a new job, an own apartment, a new, or even an old love. The search is never-ending, and so they repeatedly find themselves at a ritual gathering: someone moving. Boxes are shifted from one side of Berlin to the other, or the length and breadth of Germany, from one abode to the next as one life is exchanged for another. In 3 ZIMMER/KÜCHE/BAD, director Dietrich Brüggemann portrays existences in which relationships, social networks and backdrops are in a constant state of flux; where best friends are the only, and therefore the most valuable constant. Humorous sketches of the self-conception of a generation for whom moving has become the symbol of a life on the go.

title: Das Lächeln der Tiefseefische

overview: Malte, who is almost 18, lives with his alcoholic father in a dilapidated house on the island of Usedom. His mother died a few years ago and his sister has moved away. The household budget is empty, but Malte has a dream: to get his driver's license and then run away. Malte tries to fulfill his dream with various jobs and cigarette smuggling, and just when the teenager has got used to his living situation, his missing sister and son Lukas turn up on Usedom again. From now on, Malte is also supposed to look after his little nephew, although he would much rather spend his free time with pretty Annika, who is on vacation on the Baltic island.

title: Finn und der Weg zum Himmel

title: Max and the Senior Squad

overview: Max can hardly believe his luck: In a retirement home, he has finally found a gang that will let him join! Admittedly, it's the oldest and most wrinkly gang in the world - but that doesn't matter. He's found the best friends a 10-year-old could wish for in the elderly Vera, Horst and Kilian. Especially when, like Max, you're bullied in your new class and need help. But the gang's attempt to improve his school situation backfires. Horst, a former Bundesliga soccer coach, challenges Max's over-ambitious gym teacher Stöhle to a soccer duel: the school team including Laura and Ole against a selection of old geezers plus Max! And then the castle is haunted and a new case begins...

title: Jack

overview: Ten-year-old Jack has to take care of his little brother, six-year-old Manuel, every day from the time he gets up to the time he goes to bed. When Manuel suffers an accident, their lives change forever.

title: GrossStadtklein

overview: A comedy about a crazy summer of young provincial guy in Berlin.

title: Wolfsjagd

overview: Wildlife ranger Sara Jahnke prefers to live in the solitude of Canada's forests rather than among people. In her home in Brandenburg, with her father Robert Jahnke and her grown-up daughter Julia, she can only manage for a limited time. Shortly before her return to Canada, Sara is commissioned to track down and remove a wolf that has become conspicuous. When she finds the body of a Romanian seasonal worker, an outrageous suspicion arises. Is Silvana the first victim of a fatal wolf attack in several hundred years?

title: The Guardians

overview: 15-year-old Nina witnesses a terrible crime that puts her life in danger. Being an orphan, she has nobody she can trust. When corrupt businessman Thomas Backer sends five killers after Nina, witness protection officer, Max, a former special-forces soldier, is responsible for her safety. They soon overcome their initial distance to find common ground. While on the run from the ruthless Backer, Rudi, one of Max’s former comrades, comes to their rescue – and continues to help the two out of some precarious situations. Even Max’s ex-girlfriend Sara is not just there to help him as a federal prosecutor. Nevertheless, Nina and Max face ever-increasing danger, and soon the teenager is not the only one in need of a guardian angel – Max could use one too.

title: A Murder of Crows

overview: Empathy is a two-edged sword, especially for Martin. Tormented by the past, haunted by the present, the chief inspector is a brilliant investigator and, together with his team, solves the most convoluted cases. From kidnapping to hostage situations, to murder. Unable to eat or sleep until a case is solved, they all take their toll.

title: Meine Freundin Volker

overview: Vivian Bernaise is the star of the Hamburg drag scene. After a glamorous performance in the Hamburg drag club "Die Donauwelle", she witnesses a mafia attack and has to flee. Vivian becomes Volker – and disguised as a straight man, she hides with the family of the elementary school teacher Katja in the rural areas of Schleswig-Holstein.

title: Death in the Eifel

overview: A money transporter is ambushed near the small Eifel village of Eschbach. The young LKA chief inspector Lona Schanz then determined in the village and its surroundings.

title: Experiment Bootcamp

overview: Alex is constantly in trouble with his father, who thinks he's a loser. When his father becomes violent again, Alex goes crazy and crashes his car into the counter of the bank where his father works. A short time later, Alex is arrested. In order to be back with his mother and little sister Lena as quickly as possible, he accepts an unusual offer: 120 days in camp instead of four years in prison - without realizing how hard his time there would be...

title: 3 Türken und ein Baby

overview: The Yildiz brothers - Celal, Sami and Mesut - still live under one roof - despite their differences. The family bridal shop is doing really badly and they each yearn for a different life: Heartthrob Celal pines for his ex-girlfriend Anna and risks every last cent of their family inheritance for his dream of a mobile phone shop. Sami is searching for true love but ruins every blind date with his anger mis-management. And Mesut, the youngest of the three, tries to combine a cool music career with his strict adherence to the Koran. So when a sweet little baby comes careering into their lives, nothing is as it was before. The three young Turkish bachelors are given a crash course in responsibility.

title: Auf dem Vulkan

overview: Moritz and Eva Jung's marriage is in crisis. Moritz is tormented by feelings of guilt, but is unable to talk about it with Eva, who keeps urging him in vain to open up to her. Realizing that the marriage has failed, volcanologist Moritz accepts an offer to carry out scientific research on Tenerife. In the volcanic landscape of Mount Teide, Moritz tries to say goodbye to the past. He meets the ranger Sophia.

title: Liberated Zone

overview: A financially devastated German town receives an encouraging boost with the arrival of a popular soccer star, though a heated love triangle threatens to overshadow the good vibes in this sexually liberated comedy from filmmaker Norbert Baumgarten.

title: Sputnik

overview: November 9, 1989, the day the Berlin Wall came down. A 10-year-old girl and her friends attempt to use their teleportation device to beam her uncle back to East Germany but instead, as they witness on TV, end up beaming everyone in their town into West Germany! They have to race against time to undo the experiment before the nasty border guards open fire...

title: Rose

overview: Rose is in her early forties and a single mother of three – supposedly – adult sons: Bernd, 23, earns money for the family during the day at a copy shop and in the evenings at a pub; Axi, 21, is training at a bank; and the youngest, Stan, who will soon turn 18, is skipping high school and would rather smoke weed and pursue a career as a DJ. Rose led a wild life as a squatter in the early 1980s, but that came to an abrupt end when she separated from Jürgen, the father of her three boys, more than ten years ago. They have had no contact since then. Rose moved into her grandfather's house with her three sons and now earns a living writing pulp fiction. And then there's her new boyfriend, Gerhard. She doesn't dare introduce him to her sons and doesn't know herself whether he's the right one.

title: Break Up Man

overview: BREAK UP MAN is an odd couple road movie and tells the story of Henri, who works for a break up agency in Berlin and on behalf of those who want to separate themselves from their future “ex”-partners. To complete his most important mission he is confronted with an unwanted partner, Toto, who spoils more or less everything and makes Henri’s life a nightmare.

title: Adam's End

overview: A coming of age story of people who are already adults. Torn between emotional dependency and physical attraction, Adam grows desperate between what his long-term relationship with Anna and the temptations his childhood pal Conrad offer, living a bachelor’s life indulging in occasional jobs, parties and one night stands. Adam progressively fails in disentangling the turmoil of jealousy and attachment.

title: Heil

overview: An African-German Author loses his memory and is used by a modern National Socialist Party as promotion-figure for more political power over Germany.

title: Nachspielzeit

overview: Cem is mid 20's and is making its voluntary service in the retirement home. There he falls in love with Astrid, which helps as a dance therapist residents to renewed vigor. And Cem loves Berlin-Neukölln. There he grew up, and he wants his neighborhood defend: against Nazis, speculators and displacement. But how to do that anyway? Who are the real enemy here? And how does the fight? a compensation Cem looking at his other great passion, football. In one game he gets violently with Roman together. Roman threatens him. The next day the windows are smashed in the restaurant from Cems parents. An Accident? Cem swears revenge. But the battle is attracting larger circles. When Astrid gets suddenly targeted by novel, the conflict escalates dramatically. Suddenly a matter of life and death.

title: Der gestiefelte Kater

overview: Once upon a time there was a miller who had three sons. When the miller died, the three sons shared the inheritance. The oldest, Hermann, got the mill, the second, Hubert, the donkey, the third, Hans, the tomcat Minkus.

title: Juls Freundin

title: Men in the City 2

overview: The sequel of the "Men in the city" movie which reunites all the characters.

original_title: Männerherzen... und die ganz ganz große Liebe

title: The Pasta Detectives 3

overview: The friends and amateur detectives Rico and Oskar experiencing their last adventure together. Here everything is really only one well, because now they live next door to. Ricos mother Tanya and Buhl are together, Oskar is with his father Lars pulled to Rico into the house. But dies as the grumpy Fitzke, the trouble begins. The stone Breeder inherited Rico his beloved stone-collection over which the boy also very pleased - but then he and his buddy note that Rico's favorite stone calf stone was stolen. The task now is to make the thieves apprehended. And because there are on the way to the Baltic Sea, Rico and Oskar must as soon as possible afterwards. Glad Tanja is flown by Buhl in the "snogging holiday" ...

title: Fliehendes Land

title: Forwards Ever!

overview: A stage actor's turn as GDR leader Erich Honecker inspires an outlandish scheme to keep his daughter safe during the Leipzig protests of 1989.

title: Pärchenabend

overview: Three couples arrange a dinner between friends. But no one is really in the mood for a reunion, as there are still some unspoken conflicts in the room.

title: My Blind Date with Life

overview: An ambitious young man struggles to achieve his dream of becoming an employee in a Munich luxury hotel despite being strongly visually impaired.

title: Chasing Paper Birds

overview: Mia, Keks and Ian are at a turning point in their lives, searching for happiness but not sure of what will happen if they actually find it. Over a long night in Berlin, their storylines weave into one another.

title: Tollpension

overview: The Mahlström family has been traveling to Södenhagen on the Baltic Sea for 15 years. But this year everything is getting out of hand: Kurt is about to become unemployed and can no longer afford to go on vacation. His marriage to Marga is in crisis and Kurt doesn't dare tell his wife about his difficulties. Pubescent Kati is also in a bad mood because she would rather have gone to France with her friends, and she falls in love with the chaperone Dominik.

title: Calm at Sea

overview: October 1941. Eighteen months into France’s occupation by German troops, young Communist members of the Resistance shoot dead an officer of the German Army. In retaliation, Hitler demands the deaths of 150 Frenchmen, as 'retribution'. The targets are to be mostly young men believed to share the assassins’ political convictions. Most of these men are taken from an internment camp for opponents of the occupation; a 35-year-old French rural administrator is ordered to select the victims. Although the parish priest appeals to their conscience and moral sensibilities, both the German military and their French helpers slavishly follow their orders.

title: Alone in Berlin

overview: Berlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime’s victory over France, a kitchen-cum-living room in Prenzlauer Berg is filled with grief. Anna and Otto Quangel’s son has been killed at the front. This working class couple had long believed in the ‘Führer’ and followed him willingly, but now they realise that his promises are nothing but lies and deceit. They begin writing postcards as a form of resistance and in a bid to raise awareness: Stop the war machine! Kill Hitler! Putting their lives at risk, they distribute these cards in the entrances of tenement buildings and in stairwells. But the SS and the Gestapo are soon onto them, and even their neighbours pose a threat.

title: Fly

overview: Dima, a petty criminal, is in constant fear of his imminent deportation from Germany.This fear he compensated by carelessness. As he meets one day Sarah, who is working on a documentary about young foreigners, he becomes the main subject of the film. Sarah offers him shelter in her loft, and the two of them get emotionally tied up.

title: The Famous Five and the Valley of Dinosaurs

overview: En route to a party they are not keen on attending, the Famous Five are almost relieved when Aunt Fanny's car breaks down, stranding them in a small town. To pass the time, they visit the local natural history museum, where some newly-discovered dinosaur bones are being unveiled. Here they meet Marty, who tells them that his father, long dead, supposedly found a complete dinosaur skeleton and made a map of its whereabouts. Unfortunately the map has been stolen. Unable to let a good mystery go unsolved, George, Julian, Dick, Anne and Timmy, join a guided hike through the Valley of Dinosaurs. But their fact-finding mission soon turns into a race to find the dinosaur when they suspect that the thief is one of the group.

original_title: Fünf Freunde und das Tal der Dinosaurier

title: Magical Mystery or: The Return of Karl Schmidt

overview: Under the auspicious name "Magical Mystery" the Berlin techno label BummBumm Records wants to go on a rave tour. Karl Schmidt aka Charly himself was once an aspiring artist on the scene, until he retired after a nervous breakdown five years ago. Since then he lives in a supervised withdrawal WG in Hamburg. Now, as a driver and custodian for the party-loving DJs and their producers, he becomes part of "Magical Mystery", trying to lead a self-determined life after years of patronizing and well-intentioned advice.

original_title: Magical Mystery oder die Rückkehr des Karl Schmidt

title: Gratisgeld

title: Kalte Karibik

title: Ludgers Fall

title: LenaLove

overview: Set in your average suburban town, a young girl suddenly disappears after being in contact with a strange boy on a social networking platform, and after being bullied by her former best friend. Some people in town start to get nervous as the facade of suburban perfection crumbles, lifting the shadow to reveal a monstrous intrigue and an appalling truth...

title: Never Look Away

overview: German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR regime.

title: Mord geht immer - Der Koch ist tot

title: A Regular Woman

overview: Hatun Aynur Sürücü, a German woman of Kurdish origin, was shot dead by her brothers at a bus stop in 2005. The story of a woman who fought for her freedom and independence despite her family's objections, and whose life ended in a horrific murder.

title: Circling

title: Rest in Greece

overview: David, an author in his mid-30s, travels to the Greek island of Tinos with his wife Nina to spend time in a secluded beach house in the off-season. While David searches for inspiration for his new novel, Nina is looking for a new spark in their life.

title: Undine

overview: Undine is a historian and tour guide at the Berlin City Museum specializing in urban development, while Christoph is an industrial diver. Linked by a love of the water, the two form an intense bond, which can only do so much to help Undine overcome the considerable baggage of her former affair.

title: It's for Your Own Good

overview: Three fathers who are also brothers-in-law make a pact to save their daughters from their boyfriends.

title: My Wonderful Wanda

overview: The Polish woman Wanda, 35, looks after Joseph, 70, in his family villa by the lake. She is there for him around the clock and also helps his wife Elsa, 75. The youngest son Gregi, 28, likes her very much. The work is poorly paid, but Wanda needs the money for her own family in Poland. Since everyone lives under one roof, Wanda gets an intimate view of their family life. So intimate that Wanda unexpectedly becomes pregnant.

title: The Black Square

overview: VINCENT, a struggling art-thief and failed artist, stole Malewitsch’s legendary abstract painting the „Black Square”. The sale and handover to a Russian Oligarch and his designated art expert MARTHA is set to take place on a cruise ship. When Vincent and his younger partner NILS realise that their principal accomplice will not show-up to provide the boarding tickets and fake ID’s, they desperately overbear two men in order to sneak their way onto the ship. To their horror they quickly learn that their victims are part of the cruise ship’s entertainment act. Desperate not to blow their cover, Vincent and Nils take on their roles as David Bowie and Elvis Presley doubles with varying degrees of success. Despite his best efforts, Vincent’s talents hardly convince the passengers and it does not take long until various crew members discover their true identities and the value of their loot. A wild goose chase for the “Black Square” breaks loose in the belly of the cruise ship…

title: Unschuld

title: Für immer Freibad

overview: High school graduate Simon has a crush on lifeguard Mira. The outdoor pool in Niederwülst at the end of the 90s becomes a place of longing for the 19-year-old, far away from the pressure of family expectations.

title: 5 Finger sind 'ne Faust

title: In It for the Payback

overview: Half-sisters Kim, Lesley and Olivia commit a robbery at a safe deposit box in order to convict the fraudster Christian Heisinger, who stole the development of Kim's HIV vaccine. But the coup fails. When the trio of sisters are released from prison five years later, Kim tries to persuade her sisters to give it another go

original_title: Gar kein Geld macht auch nicht glücklich

title: Mutants

title: The Wave

title: Neandertal

title: 1st of May: All Belongs to You

title: 42plus

title: An die Grenze

title: The Crocodiles

title: A Year Ago in Winter

title: Coxless Pair

title: Whispers of War

title: Wholetrain

title: Sex Up

title: 12 Paces without a Head

title: Wickie and the Treasure of the Gods

title: Dreileben: Don’t Follow Me Around

title: Sex Up Your Life!

title: The Crocodiles: All for One

title: The System

title: Bis aufs Blut

title: Run If You Can

title: Tomorrow We'll Be Happy

title: Dreileben: One Minute of Darkness

title: Dreileben: Beats Being Dead

title: Move

title: Das Lächeln der Tiefseefische

title: Finn und der Weg zum Himmel

title: Max and the Senior Squad

title: Jack

title: GrossStadtklein

title: Wolfsjagd

title: The Guardians

title: A Murder of Crows

title: Meine Freundin Volker

title: Death in the Eifel

title: Experiment Bootcamp

title: 3 Türken und ein Baby

title: Auf dem Vulkan

title: Liberated Zone

title: Sputnik

title: Rose

title: Break Up Man

title: Adam's End

title: Heil

title: Nachspielzeit

title: Der gestiefelte Kater

title: Juls Freundin

title: Men in the City 2

title: The Pasta Detectives 3

title: Fliehendes Land

title: Forwards Ever!

title: Pärchenabend

title: My Blind Date with Life

title: Chasing Paper Birds

title: Tollpension

title: Calm at Sea

title: Alone in Berlin

title: Fly

title: Gratisgeld

title: Kalte Karibik

title: Ludgers Fall

title: LenaLove

title: Never Look Away

title: Mord geht immer - Der Koch ist tot

title: A Regular Woman

title: Circling

title: Rest in Greece

title: Undine

title: It's for Your Own Good

title: My Wonderful Wanda

title: The Black Square

title: Unschuld

title: Für immer Freibad

title: 5 Finger sind 'ne Faust

title: In It for the Payback