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The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kate Winslet

Made of four short tales, linked by a story filmed by Wim Wenders. Taking place in Ferrara, Portofino, Aix en Provence and Paris, each story, which...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fanny Ardant

England, 1021. Rob Cole, a boy born in a miserable mining town, swears to become a physician and vanquish disease and death. His harsh path of many...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Tom Payne

North Face tells the story of two German climbers Toni Kurz and Andreas Hinterstoisser and their attempt to scale the deadly North Face of the Eiger.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Benno Fürmann

David, now an old man, is still king of Israel. Among his sons, the ambitious Adonijah and the clever Solomon, fierce rivals, since both are...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Ben Cross

The story of the final seven months in the life of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.

Genre: Action

Cast: Ulrich Tukur

Isaac's son Jacob deprives his brother Esau of his birthright and has to flee for his life. He finds shelter with his uncle Laban, but is himself...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Matthew Modine

Jesus, a carpenter living a simple life, discovers his destiny as the biblical Messiah.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Jeremy Sisto

A promising career with the police, a baby on the way... Marc's life seems to be right on track. Then he meets fellow policeman Kay and during their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hanno Koffler

Once upon a time in post-war Rome: 13-year old Aurora, a gifted pianist, is the daughter of Valerio, a brilliant conductor. After Aurora's mother...

Genre: Family

Cast: Vanessa Hessler

Jenny is young. Her life is over. She killed someone. And she would do it again. When an 80-year-old piano teacher discovers the girl’s secret,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Monica Bleibtreu

In 1942, Friedrich Weimer's boxing skills get him an appointment to a National Political Academy (NaPolA) – high schools that produce Nazi...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Max Riemelt

While Emperor Domitian persecutes the Christians, the aged apostle John has prophetic visions.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Harris

The young Jeremiah grows up in a priest's family in the village of Anathoth, near Jerusalem. God appears to Jeremiah in different human guises on...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Patrick Dempsey

Esther, the beautiful queen of Persia, intervenes to save the Jewish people from a bloody massacre.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Louise Lombard

Although he actually just wanted to steal money, the crook Denis finds himself in the position of caretaking for the stroke patient Raimund. When...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Heiner Lauterbach

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tom Schilling

A biblical epic from the Book of Acts and Paul's epistles covering his conversion from Saul of Tarsus to his ministry to the Gentiles.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Johannes Brandrup

A portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late 19th and early 20th...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Malkovich

Based on Michel Houellebecq's controversial novel, Atomised (aka The Elementary Particles) focuses on Michael and Bruno, two very different...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Christian Ulmen