Peter Sattmann

Matthieu Carriere, who once starred in German director Volkor Schlondorff's breakthrough film Young Torless, turns director himself for Fool's Mate. Michael Marwitz plays a once-famous concert pianist and chess whiz. He compromises his talents by casting his lot with a group of self-destructive druggies and gamblers. Marwitz' new circle of friends effectively ruins his marriage to Victoria Tennant, an English architect. Fool's Mate makes no effort to cheer up its audience, but this sort of fare apparently is what the European film-festival circuit thrives on.

Sex, violence, and family secrets in the German countryside.

Four female cons who have formed a band in prison get a chance to play at a police ball outside the walls. They take the chance to escape. Being on the run from the law they even make it to sell their music and become famous outlaws.

Linda is a successful art director, but not only her career but also her bad experiences with men have left her lonely. Linda's gay colleague Donald is her best "friend," but at the moment he needs help himself. He is in love with the agency boss Peter König but Peter doesn't dare openly admit to this relationship.

Confirmed bachelor Paul falls for Iris, who’s unfortunately as good as married. Although his friends have women problems of their own, and all end up moving into Paul’s apartment, they concoct a daring plan to help Paul save Iris from marrying the wrong man.

After a fight with her father, 15-year-old Carla sets out to find her mother, who ran away years ago. Her odyssey through Schleswig-Holstein, accompanied by a young musician, goes hand in hand with her growing self-awareness.

The Berlin Observatory is facing the financial end. Against the will of the renowned physicist Robert von Reichenbach, the astrologer Lena Moosbach is set, which quickly establishes itself as a crowd puller and fills the empty cash registers of the planetarium. Worried about the scientific reputation of the observatory, Robert spat first poison and bile against the new colleague. But although the sober astronomer rejects horoscopes with the deepest conviction, he falls in love with the charming astrologer. However, when it turns out that she just feigned her Ph.D., Robert feels betrayed

Translator Lena Feldhusen travels to Copenhagen to supposedly research the Danish writer Karen Blixen. However, there is another reason behind the trip: the search for her father Carl, whom she last saw in her early childhood. During the trip, she meets the charming Mads, who also turns out to be a Blixen expert and runs the museum of the same name. Her trip becomes a confrontation with herself, old family conflicts and the chance of a new love.

The sympathetic music teacher Clarissa Springer leads a thoroughly average, but contented life in Freiburg. She lives with her father Walter, whom she has cared for since her mother's death. Although her boyfriend Marco urges her to finally move in with him, Clarissa does not have the heart to let her father "down", at least not so shortly before his 70th birthday. A special, rare guest arrives on Walter's day of honor: Ina, Clarissa's younger sister. Ina, beautiful and internationally successful as a model, turned her back on her homeland years ago and lives in Paris.

A bittersweet tale about three people - a young pianist, a moody antique dealer and a notorious thief - who are transformed by love.

An adulterous woman draws a meticulous plan to murder her husband with the help of her lover, a much younger man. Committed the crime, they move to a beautiful Mediterranean island where they remain hidden waiting for the insurance company pays the policy of her husband. Everything seems to go perfectly when suddenly, she thinks she has seen her husband in a supermarket

Sensitive Rieke Sattler has been married to her husband, fishmonger Fred, for over 20 years - but the romance of the early years is long gone: charming outdoorsman Fred has turned into a caustic grump who not only drives away customers at the village market with his bad temper, but also repeatedly offends his own wife. One day, Rieke's frustration gets the better of her and she flees to her daughter and her boyfriend in Munich. Here she meets her childhood sweetheart Bruno again - a dreamy bon vivant who courts her by every trick in the book.

Jorge is a DJ at a Lisbon nightclub. But the club owner, Queirós, who is also involved in diamond traffic, is obsessive over a woman, Cláudia, who betrayed him before. When she unexpectedly returns to Portugal and to the club, Jorge immediately understands Queirós's obsession over her. For her, Jorge also gets involved in diamond traffic and is slowly dragged into a world of passion, violence and betrayal.

In this mystery/thriller based on a novel by Patricia Highsmith, Nico Thomkins (Udo Schenk), a writer, and his wife Helen (Anke Sevenich) are in the habit of playing games with one another. Even while they are breaking up, they are sufficiently in tune with one another to continue this practice. When the writer's wife takes off without leaving a note behind, people begin to suspect that he may have murdered her, and he plays along with this notion to the point of planting clues which would incriminate him. Obviously, no one with a shred of common sense would do such a thing, and these tricks get him into trouble. However, his troubles don't really begin until he starts to search for her in earnest.

Changing jobs and changing boyfriends - until now, the beautiful Sonia has cheated her way through life. She found the support she needed with her sister Karin. But then Karin doesn't return from a supposed business trip. Sonia sets off with her dog Bigfoot in search of her sister. The first clue leads to an internet chat room where Karin regularly logged in under her alias Demi Moore and indulged in provocative sex talk.

After many years of happy marriage, Juliane and her husband Max have grown apart and are now close to divorce. Actually, the two still understand each other quite well, but when Max shows up at the graduation party of their son together with his much younger girlfriend, it comes to a scandal. Annoyed and disappointed by her still-husband, Juliane travels to Tuscany, where she meets the German olive grower Nikolaus. From the first moment, it seems to spark huge between the two. But when Max shows up, old feelings come back to life.

In the fourth film with Andrea Sawatzki as a newly invented housewife and mother Bella Jung, Bella faces a new, completely unexpected challenge: her father Friedrich. After 14 years without contact, he is suddenly drunk and destitute in front of Bella's door.

Dr. Emilia Seiler, a consultant at the Bavarian Ministry of Social Affairs and responsible for youth homes in Upper Bavaria, takes over the educational management of a youth home in Landsberg am Lech on an interim basis, as the manager in charge has been suspended. The home was founded in accordance with the "Home instead of detention" guidelines she had drawn up. She immediately clashes with the home's managing director, Mathias Hartmann, who is primarily interested in the home's balance sheets. But her greatest concern is for Martina, one of the home's residents, who had reported the former director for sexual abuse and is highly suicidal.

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.

As a housewife, wife and manager of a family business, Anne Stadler has everything under control. So the wedding of her only daughter Lisette should be a fantastic event, as she herself was not allowed to experience it. With Elan Anne organizes in the contemplative Black Forest village a social event of the first order, with church blessing, many guests and a big stag party. But in the middle of the preparations, she caught her godfather Gerd in the family-owned sawmill at the fling. When finally Arno Freywald appears, father of the groom Daniel and impostor, the cards are shuffled.

After two friends have their houses looted of expensive paintings and vintage wine collections, Cleveland finds those responsible when he travels to Germany.

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The exciting stories about the cheeky chimpanzee Charly, who finds a new home with a Berlin vet family.

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Series written by Christiane Sadlo about writer and journalist under the pseudonym "Inga Lindström" and her family. Characterized by impressive landscapes, all of which are shot on location in Sweden. Series has no continuous storyline, and each episode is filled with new characters.

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