Peter Rühring

In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enters into a world of love, betrayal, and politics.

France, 1914, during World War I. On Christmas Eve, an extraordinary event takes place in the bloody no man's land that the French and the Scots dispute with the Germans…

Famous Nazi doctor Josef Mengele — the 'Death Angel of Auschwitz', who killed more than 300.000 people — emerges from his hideout in Argentina to Germany as a 87-year-old man, and must stand for his crimes in court. The young solicitor Peter Rohm is assigned to defend him, but Rohm himself — an expert on Mengele and his crimes — feels unable to do so. When he decides to take on the case, he endangers not only his marriage but also his and his wife's lives.

A Jewish strongman performs in Berlin as the blond Aryan hero Siegfried.

A great historical film about the origins of the automobile: Bertha Benz wrote herself into the history of technology with the first, daring ride in a horseless carriage and gave her husband Carl's invention its breakthrough. Behind this daring act is a story of unshakeable trust, confidence and great love.

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.

A dinosaur clone escapes from a scientific laboratory. It swims across the Rhine River to Germany's largest lake—Lake Constance—and begins killing innocent people. All the usual clichés are used: the main scientists (a divorced couple who find each other again during the story!) have been fired before the final experiment; children go swimming at night, even though everyone knows there is something dangerous in the lake; the equipment is completely destroyed because someone shoots at the screen...

"Was ist, wenn man strampelt und strampelt, um an die Spitze zu kommen, und dann merkt, dass man nur davongelaufen ist?" Diese Frage quält Hanna Meiwald (Sophie von Kessel). Just als die gewiefte Münchner Geschäftsfrau einen Riesendeal über die Bühne bringen will, wird sie von der Vergangenheit eingeholt. Ihr dementer Vater wurde von einem Zug überfahren, nun muss sie in ihr Dorf zurückkehren. Sie war fünf, als ihr Vater für den Mord an ihrer Mutter verurteilt wurde. Jahrzehntelang hat "Mörderbalg" Hanna das Heimatkaff gemieden. Dort, wo nach wie vor Engstirnigkeit und Tratsch regieren, stößt Hanna aber auf eine Spur, die Zweifel an der Schuld ihres Vaters weckt. Mit Kommissar Arnsberger (Brandt) rollt sie den Fall neu auf…

A young journalist researches the life of his father which leads him to path of contradictions until he uncovers a gruelling truth.

Vera Kemp, heiress of an industrial enterprise, lives in an apparently perfect world. While she doesn't care for big business, her husband Manfred runs the company. However, she learns about his affair with a younger woman and tries to save her marriage. During a vacation in Italy, Manfred and their son Max die in a road accident. Vera nearly despairs of her grief and, even worse, recognizes that her whole life has been a lie. Andreas Wolgast, a former employee, is the only one who supports her fight for the company and against her caballing family...

Brothers Helmut and Wolfgang Kaminski live on opposite sides of the still porous Iron Curtain: Helmut works as a reporter for radio in the American sector, Wolfgang as an SED functionary for the construction of socialism. His father Otto was a brigade leader at the large construction site in Stalinallee, where the demonstrations began on June 16. On June 17, 1953, the East Berlin workers formed an uprising.

This TV-Movie is based on real events that took place in southern Germany in the mid 80's. A policeman tries to build a house for his family while he experiences financial troubles; everything goes tragically wrong from then on.

Bettina Hinrichs, who owns a flower shop, has been nominated to act as Schöffin (a german version of jury member) at court. Robert Wrengler is accused to have murdered his wife with a letter bomb. Bettina Hinrichs has mixed feelings about her duty: How can she decide who is telling the truth? Should she believe the tears of the bereft widower or the accusations of his brother-in-law? Her life is turned upside down even more when she finds out that a detective is following her and her daughter, uttering threats in case she makes the wrong decision. And what about Peter, the nice guy she met by accident right after the trial started - is he really on her side? Weighed down by doubt, she finds Wrengler guilty - but that's not the end of it all.

In the year 2030, young journalist Lena Bach witnesses a crime. A desperate pensioner takes the CEO of the wellness company "Prolife" hostage and tries to force him to confess. Just as the manager starts to talk, there is an explosion. Darow has allegedly detonated a hand grenade. The hostage-taker and his victim are killed and the bodies are immediately removed by special units of the German army. Then Lena meets an informant who has promised her important details of Darow's life via videophone in an illegal Berlin backyard hospital. She now knows: The hand grenade Darow was carrying was a plastic dummy. What really happened in the office of the CEO of "Prolife"?

Between 1924 and 1934, six children grow up in an apartment building in the Munich suburbs. Among them is the rather inconspicuous and melancholy Leo Knie, who has been in love with the pretty Marilli Kosemund since early childhood. Marilli is not averse to the young man's advances, but she wants to be conquered. But that is exactly what shy Leo finds difficult. So he escapes into harmless dancing with his buddies, pursues other girls - rather unsuccessfully - and resigns himself to his predetermined fate.

Almost casually, the young concrete worker Bastian kills a tramp. The police believe it was an accident and so the murder remains undiscovered for the time being.

Wigald, a spoiled offspring, is no good with women. He finds solace with a psychiatrist and love with his poodle. When his mother dies, he is only allowed to claim his inheritance if he manages to get a run-down petrol station back on its feet. However, he has leased it to three girls of all people.

At the end of the 1960s, in the midst of political and social turbulence between revolt and reaction, journalist and filmmaker Oswalt Kolle fights for his ideas of liberal sex education with great commitment and sometimes missionary zeal. But Kolle has to fight against fierce resistance: The German Film Industry's Voluntary Self-Regulation Body (FSK) wants to put his latest film "The Miracle of Love" on the index. In a tough and at times unintentionally comical battle, Kolle has to go through three instances before he wins full approval for the film with the help of his agile producer Lenz Schäfer and the resourceful lawyer Dr. Fritz Ascher.

Frank and Katrin return to Frankfurt to stop the scientist responsible for unleashing the plague of genetically mutated vermin upon the city.

Rhoda loves Max but he is a workaholic. So Rhoda decides to become a successful businesswoman herself and falls in love with her co-worker Paul. So Max quits his job to fight for his relationship with Rhoda full-time.

A taxi driver is found dead. Since Paula should actually have driven the tour, she feels responsible and investigates the case on her own.

Upon learning that his deceased ex-lover has willed him a substantial sum of money after succumbing to AIDS, a young Swiss man finds his life endlessly complicated by the deceased man's homophobic mother and headstrong recent boyfriend in director Christof Vorster's heart-rending drama. Steff and his ex-lover Martin Hilder had some great times together before parting ways, and when Steff learns that Martin has named him as the sole beneficiary to his substantial fortune, Steff finally begins to consider fulfilling his lifelong dream of starting his own business. It's not going to be as easy as it sounds, though, because in order to get the money, Steff is going to have to go through Martin's controlling, vehemently anti-gay mother. Add to that the fact that Martin's most recent ex-boyfriend, Rex, is determined to fulfill the deceased's wishes of having his ashes scattered in the Atlantic and Steff soon finds himself forced to reexamine his life and reassess his priorities.

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A reassessment of the role Albert Speer played in the Third Reich. Speer, who was ultimately convicted at the Nuremburg trials and served a 20-year prison sentence, was known for designing many of the Third Reich's buildings and for being Hitler's minister for war production.

A camper burns ablaze in the forest area. In the rubble: the remains of a human body. There is a single witness.