Thelma Buabeng

Wonderfully Beautiful

After two pregnancies, Sonja struggles with her body feeling and the relationship with her husband Milan. Frauke, shortly before her 60th birthday, shares this fate and feels almost invisible to her husband. Daughter Julie is working on her modeling career, but a flaw is discovered on her body again and again ...

Dating Alarm

The ladies' man Edgar dates stewardesses and frequent flyers. The system behind it: While one is away, there is plenty of time for flings with the others. Edgar doesn't want to commit to one woman until he meets his childhood sweetheart Hannah again. But frequent flyer Hannah has also perfected the system for herself in matters of love and meets up with several admirers.

Cocoon

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

More Beautiful

The main thing is sexy - no matter whether thin, fat, what skin color, young, old, we can all be sexy in different ways. Almost every woman grows up having to work on herself in order to remain desirable. Why? What if we stopped pushing ourselves into a sexy pose with all our might? What if we no longer fought for the right to be sexy, but were truly free? What if we stopped investing all our time and energy in being heard and the world started to hear us? A modern movie about modern women and men - who might be able to find a common language.

Billie

Nina and Angie are best friends and struggle through life together. When Angie's teenage daughter Rahel needs €300 for a school trip, they decide to go to the bank where Nina's husband Marc works to ask him for a small loan. But when Marc harshly rejects their request, Angie loses her temper. Things get out of control—and suddenly the friends are stuck in the bank and mistaken for gangsters.

Toubab

Matured through two years in prison, Babtou is looking forward to a new beginning with his buddy Dennis. A free man in a free world! But of all things, his welcome party where all the boys from the block are gathered ends in a police operation. Babtou has his hands cuffed again and is confronted with dramatic news. He will soon be deported to his “home country” of Senegal. To prevent a deportation, Babtou and Dennis are willing to do anything, including marriage.

Freaks - You're One of Us

After having a chance encounter with a mysterious character, Wendy, a young working class mother, discovers that she has super powers.

Borga

"Borga" is Better. A Borga is a Ghanaian abroad living an excessive wealthy lifestyle. At least that's what they want everyone to believe.

Wonderfully Beautiful

After two pregnancies, Sonja struggles with her body feeling and the relationship with her husband Milan. Frauke, shortly before her 60th birthday, shares this fate and feels almost invisible to her husband. Daughter Julie is working on her modeling career, but a flaw is discovered on her body again and again ...

Dating Alarm

The ladies' man Edgar dates stewardesses and frequent flyers. The system behind it: While one is away, there is plenty of time for flings with the others. Edgar doesn't want to commit to one woman until he meets his childhood sweetheart Hannah again. But frequent flyer Hannah has also perfected the system for herself in matters of love and meets up with several admirers.

Cocoon

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

More Beautiful

The main thing is sexy - no matter whether thin, fat, what skin color, young, old, we can all be sexy in different ways. Almost every woman grows up having to work on herself in order to remain desirable. Why? What if we stopped pushing ourselves into a sexy pose with all our might? What if we no longer fought for the right to be sexy, but were truly free? What if we stopped investing all our time and energy in being heard and the world started to hear us? A modern movie about modern women and men - who might be able to find a common language.

Billie

Nina and Angie are best friends and struggle through life together. When Angie's teenage daughter Rahel needs €300 for a school trip, they decide to go to the bank where Nina's husband Marc works to ask him for a small loan. But when Marc harshly rejects their request, Angie loses her temper. Things get out of control—and suddenly the friends are stuck in the bank and mistaken for gangsters.

Toubab

Matured through two years in prison, Babtou is looking forward to a new beginning with his buddy Dennis. A free man in a free world! But of all things, his welcome party where all the boys from the block are gathered ends in a police operation. Babtou has his hands cuffed again and is confronted with dramatic news. He will soon be deported to his “home country” of Senegal. To prevent a deportation, Babtou and Dennis are willing to do anything, including marriage.

Freaks - You're One of Us

After having a chance encounter with a mysterious character, Wendy, a young working class mother, discovers that she has super powers.

Borga

"Borga" is Better. A Borga is a Ghanaian abroad living an excessive wealthy lifestyle. At least that's what they want everyone to believe.

Echte Bauern singen besser

Artist agent Franzi is faced with a problem: her top client, washed-up rock star Alexander Gromberg, urgently needs a comeback! Instead of working on new songs, however, he has one crash after another. Rumors about his excessive lifestyle have already spread to record boss Fricke, who wants to take a look at Gromberg first.

Wahrheit oder Lüge

Annabelle Martinelli, successful lawyer at the renowned Berlin law firm Quante & Ackermann, specializes in sexual criminal law.

Löwenzahn - Indianische Kulturen

Berlin Alexanderplatz

In 2015, thirty year old refugee Francis, the sole survivor of a boat that illegally crossed the Mediterranean, is drawn into Berlin's seedy underbelly.

You Believe in Angels, Mr. Drowak?

Lena is a cheerful student who firmly believes in happiness and the good in people. As part of a social project, she is sent by the office as a writing coach to Hugo Drowak, who has long since lost his luck and lives alone in a run-down tower block.

Highly Explosive

In the center of Hamburg, the discovery of an unexploded bomb from the Second World War not only leads to a far-reaching evacuation, but also to an interpersonal state of emergency.

Curse of Medea

On January 27, 2010, Okpako visited the (East) German author Christa Wolf to discuss a film project based on Wolf's novel Medea: A Modern Retelling. Over tea, with the sound of planes landing at nearby Schönefeld airport, they talk about how she came to tell the story of Medea the immigrant, treated with suspicion in her host country, and are joined by the voices of Medea, Jason, Agameda, Glaucke and the passing of the East German era. This film premiered at the Berlinale in 2014.

Meine Freundin Volker

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.

5 Finger sind 'ne Faust

Heil

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.

Live a Little

On a couchsurfing trip through Europe, Laura wakes up in a guy's bed without any memories of what happened. Triggered into a both destructive and liberating exploration of her own boundaries, she crosses country borders to find her truth.

Am Ruder

Michael Schröder is the owner of a fitness studio that is not running. His marriage to the aristocratic and wealthy lawyer Elisabeth also only exists on paper. She lives out her love affair with lover Cornelius openly, but a divorce is unthinkable for Elisabeth for reasons of reputation. Because Michael is up to his neck financially, she gets him a loan. When he arrives at the bank, he is taken hostage during a robbery. The masked bank robber turns out to be a female bank robber. Nina seems aggressive, tired of life and unpredictable. The grueling wait for ransom money and a getaway car eventually turns hostage and hostage-taker into a fated couple. Michael even knows who they can demand more money from. But then everything gets out of hand.

Hit Mom – Mörderische Weihnachten

Hanni works around the clock as a cleaning lady. She has to because her husband, whom she loves, has not exactly shown himself to be a support financially. They also have their son Viktor. One day Hanni witnesses an attempted murder on an old lady. The killer now has an involuntary confidante and must eliminate her. But it doesn't come to that because Hanni uses her cleaning agents at the right moment, with her presence of mind. The killer falls unhappy and falls into a coma.

The Power of Women

Seeking the truth in a human grey area. Lawyer Annabelle Martinelli has specialized in sexual offences and represents victims of domestic violence. Shoe salesperson Doreen Markowitz seeks her support after pressing charges against her husband Leon for assault and sexual violence. The opposing lawyer is Annabelle's ex-boss John Quante, a cunning and unscrupulous divorce lawyer. Annabelle is convinced that her client has been systematically intimidated, beaten and forced to have sex. But the evidence is thin. One of several cases she has to deal with which put her professional distance to the test.

MOBY DICK; or, The Whale

An adaptation of Moby Dick as a silent film and theatre piece with a postcolonial and queer reading that highlights its marginal characters.

Immer der Nase nach

Sorted out - and at almost 50! Both professionally and privately, window dresser Tanja feels like she's been left behind. But she bravely sticks her chin out. Of course she can still keep up, and after one order after another falls through, Tanja is eager to start canvassing. An online course is designed to make her digitally fit. She is so preoccupied with herself that she neglects the most important people around her.

Scene of the Crime

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.

Kulturzeit

Wer weiß denn sowas?

Kölner Treff

Der Kriminalist

Der Kriminalist is a German television series produced by Monaco Film Hamburg, subsidiary of Odeon Film. Directors during the first season were Sherry Hormann and Torsten C. Fischer, during the second: Thomas Jahn, Jobst Oetzmann and Torsten C. Fischer.

Löwenzahn

Each 30 minute episode is dedicated to a separate issue or theme and consists mainly of related short featurettes, which explain, explore and educate how things of everyday life and even complex systems work. It spans a wide variety of topics from technology and industry to something as mundane as how the postal service works.

jerks.

Best buddies Christian Ulmen and Fahri Yardim can't help to embarrass themselves from time to time. The troublemakers they are they love to test the limits of ethics and political correctness.

Professor T.

Jasper Teerlinck, an eccentric professor, is an adviser to the police.

Nachtschicht

Kommissarin Heller

Shades of Guilt

In the final analysis, it all comes down to guilt, different shades of guilt that one assumes in a single moment of thoughtlessness or in months of premeditated planning. Defence Attorney Friedrich Kronberg knows he must tip legal scales of justice in favour of his client for crimes that are never black and white and what they may seem. In German with subtitles.

Käthe und ich

Hotel Adlon

The mini-series follows the construction and history of the famous Adlon hotel in Berlin, as seen through the eyes of Sonja Schadt, the youngest member of the wealthy fictional Schadt family who are friends with the Adlons.

Der Upir

Clashing Differences