Meine Filme (2011 - 2012)

Three young soldiers are called up to one of the most dangerous places in the world: Afghanistan. But it's not just the constant psychological pressure that gets to them, the different culture and way of life in the country also pose problems for the young and impetuous men. However, it is precisely the interpersonal aspect that moves them, and so they become friends with Malik Jamil (Omar El-Saeidi) and his children. Their life and the condition at the post seem to improve as a result. But then there is a dramatic turn in the life of Malik's daughter, caused by the insurgent Taliban. And in times of battle, one fate affects the lives of others and the soldiers must painfully realize that war is never just.

Five kids and a dog investigate the disappearance of a professor, uncovering a conspiracy involving criminals related to his alternative energy project; they attempt to rescue him from kidnappers.

Occupied France; Lebrac leads a play war between two rival kid gangs, but a girl he likes, who's Jewish, is in danger of being discovered by local Nazi sympathisers. Lebrac and the village must now respond to the reality of what's happening.

A union pensioner and his wife are robbed, but find that merely getting the assailants brought to justice is not enough for their consciences.

Focuses on the cyclical journey taken by all living creatures, from birth to having youngsters of their own.

An unflinching look at the rise and fall of one of the most infamous political figures in US history.

A ten-year-old boy has multiple problems at school which may or may not be due to ADD.

The film is a drama about a young woman who has to grapple with the painful consequences of an unplanned pregnancy. It not only reveals loss and loneliness, it is also a story of the search for a meaning to life by 20- to 30-year-olds.

Narrowly avoiding jail, new dad Robbie vows to turn over a new leaf. A visit to a whisky distillery inspires him and his mates to seek a way out of their hopeless lives.

A man searches the world for a set of mystic artifacts. The twelve bronze heads of the animals from the Chinese zodiac.

An Palestinian surgeon living in Tel Aviv discovers a dark secret about his wife in the aftermath of a suicide bombing.

Transport Minister Bertrand Saint-Jean is awoken in the middle of the night by his head of staff. A bus has gone off the road into a gully. He has no choice but to go to the scene of the accident. Thus begins the odyssey of a politician in a world that is increasingly more complex and hostile. Speed, power struggles, chaos, economic crisis... Everything follows in quick succession and clashes. Emergencies follow on each other's heels. What sacrifices are men prepared to make? Just how long will they hold up in a state that devours those that work for it?

A daughter tries to remedy her dysfunctional relationship with her ailing father, a decorated baseball scout, by helping him in a recruiting trip which could be his last.

A doctor working in 1980s East Germany finds herself banished to a small country hospital.

On her latest assignment, a journalist for Elle immerses herself in a prostitution ring run by university students.

Set in the 1930s Arab states at the dawn of the oil boom, the story centers on a young Arab prince torn between allegiance to his conservative father and his modern, liberal father-in-law.

A documentary centered on a young man in Spain who claims to a grieving Texas family that he is their 16-year-old son who has been missing for 3 years.

Thriller charting the moral collapse of a police family. Two cop brothers, smothered by the shadow of their former police chief father, must investigate a crime they themselves have committed.

The murderer always follows the same pattern: According to an ancient punishment ritual of the Vikings, the "blood eagle", he literally executes his victims. So far, two women have fallen victim to the serial killer, a lawyer and a prostitute. Apart from their gruesome end, there doesn't seem to be any connection between the two. Chief Inspector Jan Fabel and his teammates Maria Klee, Henk Herrmann, the police psychologist Dr. Susanne Eckhardt and the new employee Anna Wolff are under great pressure to succeed. In addition to his superior, Fabel is also backed by an LKA officer who is showing unusual interest in the case. At the same time, the murderer engages the chief inspector in a macabre game by sending him emails with encrypted messages. Fabel feverishly pursues every lead. Nevertheless, the wanted person is always one step ahead of his pursuers. Soon the landlord of the murdered prostitute, Hans Klugmann, is targeted by the investigators. He used to be with the police himself, now he's on the payroll of the Turkish mafia. Henk and Anna begin to observe the man's surroundings. They witness a bloody shootout between rival groups of the Turkish and Ukrainian mafia. At first, Fabel does not believe in any connection to his case. Only gradually are the indications that the investigators are not only dealing with the insane follower of a bizarre cult of Odin. Rather, Fabel and his colleagues are on the trail of a large-scale coup by the Ukrainian mafia. Its leader apparently has allies in the police. And he will stop at nothing to get unwelcome witnesses out of the way.

Shin Dong-Huyk was born on November 19, 1983 as a political prisoner in a North Korean re-education camp. He was a child of two prisoners who had been married by order of the wardens. He spent his entire childhood and youth in Camp 14, in fact a death camp. He was forced to labor since he was six years old and suffered from hunger, beatings and torture, always at the mercy of the wardens. He knew nothing about the world outside the barbed-wire fences. At the age of 23, with the help of an older prisoner, he managed to escape. For months he traveled through North Korea and China and finally to South Korea, where he encountered a world completely strange to him.

Follows the hostage crisis of the Dos Palmas kidnappings in the southern Philippines, the life of the hostages whose survivors were freed after an awful year in captivity.

A British secret service agent is faced with the task of pursuing and eliminating a British-born suicide bomber and his terrorist cell.

An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.

With the help of a German bounty-hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal plantation owner in Mississippi.

A papermaker gets involved with a murder case concerning two criminals leading to a determined detective suspecting him and the former's vicious father searching for him.

As a police psychologist works to talk down an ex-con who is threatening to jump from a Manhattan hotel rooftop, the biggest diamond heist ever committed is in motion.

Shot documentary-style, this film follows the daily grind of two young police officers in LA who are partners and friends and what happens when they meet criminal forces greater than themselves.

Troubling questions arise after airline pilot Whip Whitaker makes a miracle landing after a mid-air catastrophe.

In the year 1590, powerful daimyo Toyotomi Hideyoshi nears his plan to unify all of Japan, but he comes across a floating fortress known as Oshi Castle. Narita Nagachika must use his army to defend the castle.

A young solicitor travels to a remote village where he discovers that the vengeful ghost of a scorned woman is terrorizing the locals.

Elise (15) is longing for a happy family life. But Betty (38), her mother, is weak and egocentric. She drowns her problems in alcohol. Everything seems to turn out good, when they meet Ludwig (39). But Ludwig does not fall in love with Betty, he loves Elise.

An elderly couple fight against local authorities in rural New Brunswick to build their final home.

A car accident puts Paige in a coma, and when she wakes up with severe memory loss, her husband Leo works to win her heart again.

The truth of how Mortimer Granville devised the invention of the first vibrator in the name of medical science.

A woman is convinced her kidnapper has returned when her sister goes missing.

Tim and his friend Can go to bars and lie to girls about one of them being terminally ill so they can gain sympathy and be guaranteed a "hook up" for the night. Tim meets Marie hooks up with her, but of course, they fall in love. However, Marie takes care of her older sister Edda who is sick and has lost the "zest for Life" and spends a lot of time in bed waiting for death to come. Although Marie still believes that Tim is terminally ill, Edda knows that Tim is faking.

Martin, a mercenary, is sent from Europe by a mysterious biotech company to the Tasmanian wilderness on a hunt for the last Tasmanian tiger.

Manny, Diego, and Sid embark upon another adventure after their continent is set adrift. Using an iceberg as a ship, they encounter sea creatures and battle pirates as they explore a new world.

Jack Reacher, a homicide investigator, digs deeper into a case involving a trained military sniper responsible for a mass shooting.

Two women get on the highway heading to Santa Fe. Marilyn dreams of winning a contest held by a famous belly dancing company, while her friend, Mona, has a secret: she's a fugitive from justice - accused of her mother-in-law's death.

Set in Depression-era Franklin County, Virginia, a trio of bootlegging brothers are threatened by a new special deputy and other authorities angling for a cut of their profits.

The personal journey of young Sita is not only an expedition into her family's burdened past during World War 2. It is also a journey to the abyss of modern European society, a trip which takes her from Berlin to Romania via Vienna and Warsaw - about losing one's homeland and discovering oneself, about hope and responsibility.

Two young boys encounter a fugitive and form a pact to help him evade the vigilantes that are on his trail and to reunite him with his true love.

Georges and Anne are an octogenarian couple. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, also a musician, lives in Britain with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.

As the Civil War rages on, U.S President Abraham Lincoln struggles with continuing carnage on the battlefield as he fights with many inside his own cabinet on his decision to emancipate the slaves.

A hairdresser who has lost her hair to cancer, finds out her husband is having an affair, travels to Italy for her daughter's wedding, and meets a widower who still blames the world for the loss of his wife.

Feature documentary about mountaineering icon Reinhold Messner and how he became what he is. This film is as much about his personality as it is about his extraordinary exploits - the psycho-gram of a controversial mountaineer.

Two 12-year-olds, who live on an island, fall in love with each other and elope into the wilderness. While people set out on a search mission, a violent storm approaching them catches their attention.

A commissioner and a public prosecutor become allies in the investigation into a case of child trafficking and child prostitution in Berlin. You are David against Goliath: courageous women who are not afraid to reveal and denounce the criminal structures protected by upper circles in politics and the judiciary, even at the risk of losing their own security. The film shows how easily children can become victims in a world between power and powerlessness, wealth and poverty and what it means for children to go through hell. Fee and Bran are two children from Romania who suffer this fate and who depend on the fact that there are people like Commissioner Wegemann and Public Prosecutor Lessing who are brave enough to look and intervene, even if they take their own risk .

After his wife is assaulted, a husband enlists the services of a vigilante group to help him settle the score. Then he discovers they want a 'favor' from him in return.

A reporter returns to his Florida hometown to investigate a case involving a death row inmate.

Paulette lives alone in a housing project in the Paris suburbs. With her meager pension, she can no longer make ends meet.

A journalist covering police assigned to a juvenile division enters into an affair with one of her subjects.

This day, Cathy's life is turned upside-down with the shocking news that her daughter has been murdered.

In Manhattan, a bike messenger picks up an envelope that attracts the interest of a dirty cop, who pursues the cyclist throughout the city.

Following clues to the origin of mankind, a team finds a structure on a distant moon, but they soon realize they are not alone.

When a madman begins committing horrific murders inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's works, a young Baltimore detective joins forces with Poe to stop him from making his stories a reality.

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

Mei, a young girl whose memory holds a priceless numerical code, finds herself pursued by the Triads, the Russian mob, and corrupt NYC cops. Coming to her aid is an ex-cage fighter whose life was destroyed by the gangsters on Mei's trail.

A young CIA agent is tasked with looking after a fugitive in a safe house. But when the safe house is attacked, he finds himself on the run with his charge.

After twenty years in prison, Foley is finished with the grifter's life. When he meets an elusive young woman named Iris, the possibility of a new start looks real. But his past is proving to be a stubborn companion.

A troubled veteran from the war in Afghanistan works to protect an orphaned teenager who witnessed a murder from the killer's henchmen.

Set in 1990s Belfast, an active member of the IRA becomes an informant for MI5 in order to protect her son's welfare.

After a stint in a mental institution, former teacher Pat Solitano moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife. Things get more challenging when Pat meets Tiffany, a mysterious girl with problems of her own.

Sebastian Ulmer is desperate. He flees through the center of Vienna, the police hot on his heels. He takes hostages in a bookshop. Among them is Richard Brock, the police psychologist and interrogation specialist. Brock tries to persuade Sebastian to surrender. But Sebastian shoots himself in front of him when he realizes the hopelessness of his situation. Richard Brock is deeply affected. Driven by feelings of guilt, he wants to find the cause of the tragedy. He finds out that someone must have tried to discredit Sebastian Ulmer. Criminally incriminating material was planted on him. In the course of the investigation, Brock comes across a clergyman, Josef Bacher, who makes him understand that Sebastian has been greatly wronged. As Sebastian Ulmer's confessor, however, he cannot reveal the secret. Suddenly there is a suspicion of sexual abuse. Sebastian Ulmer had already tried to take his own life at the age of only nine. Did Sebastian now want to go public? Who wanted to silence him? Richard Brock delves deep into the world of Sebastian's deeply religious family. Eva Ulmer, his mother, is firmly convinced that Josef Bacher, of all people, is responsible for her son's lifelong suffering and his death, and vows revenge. Brock realizes that Eva Ulmer was tragically mistaken and does everything he can to prevent the situation from escalating further. He does not have much time.

A pair of aging stickup men try to get the old gang back together for one last hurrah before one of the guys takes his last assignment - to kill his comrade.

Bank-robber Franck Adrien is serving a prison sentence after robbing a national bank. Before he was caught he managed to hide the money but now it's not just the police who are looking for the money. His cell-mate is Jean-Louis Maurel, an alleged rapist/child molester who claims his innocence. When the court finds Maurel not guilty, Maurel promises to look after Franck's family when he gets out. But one day, a man called Manuel Carrega tells Franck that Maurel is a suspected serial killer and that Franck's family is in danger. Franck escapes from prison and police officer Claire Linné and her team take up the chase.

Katniss Everdeen voluntarily takes her younger sister's place in the Hunger Games: a televised competition in which two teenagers from each of the twelve Districts of Panem are chosen at random to fight to the death.

After a plane crash Lena Schneider finds herself on a remote Andaman island with a teenage turk Cem, full of hormones, his religious sister and Greek Costa.

A look at Communist East Germany in its final decade. The story unfolds in 1982, when the cracks in the repressive police state's facade are beginning to surface. Despite the restrictions, the educated few still enjoy some advantages under the system. The Hoffmans gather often with family and friends for warm dinner parties rich with derisive political banter, live classical music, and spirited discussions, holding out for a better future. But even as Richard has high hopes and strict demands for studious Christian, he hides a passionate double life and shocking secrets that come back to haunt him. Against this tense climate of fear and mistrust, with the secret police lurking ominously in the background, choices are made and actions taken that have devastating repercussions.

Between 1949 and 1975 more than 800 000 German orphans have lived their post-war years in Church Institutions. They have endured terrible abuses. Everyone knew but no one spoke. In 2012 the Church admitted her wrongdoings. The movie tells the story of a German woman (Senta Berger) living in New York coming back to Germany to bear witness in front of a board of enquiry. During her stay she remembers her traumatic experience.

"Die Vermessung der Welt" follows two brilliant and eccentric scientists, Alexander von Humboldt and Carl Friedrich Gauss, on their life paths in early-19th-century Germany.

Charlie, a 15-year-old introvert, enters high school and is nervous about his new life. When he befriends his seniors, he learns to cope with his friend's suicide and his tumultuous past.

A woman finds herself inexplicably cut off from all human contact when an invisible, unyielding wall suddenly surrounds the landscape.

An indigenous clan-based people living in harmony with nature find their way of life threatened when violent interlopers from another culture arrive, intent on seizing their natural resources and enslaving them.

Marko is in his mid-thirties, has just published his first book, and has been living in Berlin since his university days - far enough away from his parents Gitte and Günter whose bourgeois lifestyle he could never quite get used to. He visits them once or twice a year, mainly to give them a chance to spend a few days with their grandson. His hopes of spending a quiet weekend with the family fall short when Gitte, who has been mentally unstable since Marko was a child, feels so healthy after a homeopathic treatment that she stops taking her medication. Her announcement triggers reserved reactions in the family, and a series of revelations tip his family's structure out of balance.

After thirty years of marriage, a middle-aged couple attends an intense, week-long counseling session to work on their relationship.

A drama set at a Swiss ski resort and centered on a boy who supports his sister by stealing from wealthy guests.

While settling his recently deceased father's estate, a salesman discovers he has a sister whom he never knew about, leading both siblings to re-examine their perceptions about family and life choices.

After he becomes a quadriplegic from a paragliding accident, an aristocrat hires a young man from the projects to be his caregiver.

As the Berlin Wall crumbles, Katrine, the daughter of a Norwegian woman and a German occupation soldier, finds her idyllic life disrupted as she refuses to testify a trial against the Norwegian state on behalf of her fellow "war children."

It has been two years since John Falk and Frank Wagner broke their cooperation and Frank stopped working undercover for the police. Frank has just had: Re-opening of his bar when his former girlfriend's brother Kevin ends up in trouble because of gambling debts. At the same time Johan and GSI Group, together with the German police, busted an unusually reckless league selling a new type of drug that is hard on young people. Frank's quest for Kevin crosses Johan's investigation and opens up a new collaboration between them - with the major difference that this time it's personal for Frank. Johan and GSI are forced to stage a second operation to entrap leaders of the drug gang. The situation becomes even more dangerous because there is another infiltrator in the game.

A firefight between two rival gangs breaks out in a Gothenburg city park, and when the conflict escalates the GSI group is called into it. A new gang is about to make its way in the Swedish underworld and Johan Falk is asked to identify them, but his only lead is a tattoo.

Some men infiltrate the retired chief engineer Arthur Jönsson's home. They look through the residence for a few drawings. Some time later the same men, who turn out to be former Swedish military, perform a robbery. A robbery that Johan Falk and his colleagues at GSI believe is just a rehearsal of a much larger robbery. A robbery that, as it turns out, will make all other robberies in police history pale in comparison.

Johan Falk's stepdaughter's biological father seems serious about getting to know Nina, but his construction company is in debt to the Russian mafia "Karayan". When Örjan can not pay their debts they kidnap Nina.

A group of young robbers, specializing in robbing shopping center security guards, are raging through out Gothenburg.

Frank Wagner is sleeping next to his family. Their plans to move abroad lay on the kitchen table, when they suddenly hear someone trying to break into the apartment and five masked men are trying to enter.

James Bond's loyalty to M is tested when her past comes back to haunt her. When MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost.

Whilst investigating the death of a pregnant girl who was pushed off a ferry, Wallander discovers a ten-year old skeleton in the garden of the house where he lives with girl-friend Vanja. Elderly neighbour Fredrik points him towards the house's previous occupant, violent pimp Jan Petrus, whose daughter Ellika went missing a decade earlier. However, after the pregnant girl has been identified by a friend who is also killed, Ellika contacts Wallander and gives him vital information to help identify the skeleton and her murderer. A confrontation with the killer also solves the more recent double slayings.

The discovery of two slain youths in a dinghy which washes into Ystad brings hard-drinking Latvian detective Karlis Liepa from Riga. He tells Wallander they were his informants in a drug-smuggling ring after the dinghy, containing cocaine, is stolen. Liepa is murdered on his return home and Wallander travels to Riga to learn that the secretive detective did not show his case notes to his colleagues. After Wallander discovers that his hotel room is bugged and he is being shadowed, journalist Sergei Upitis tells him that Liepa was investigating corruption in his own force, but Upitis is framed for Liepa's murder and is found hanged in his cell. The Riga police then close the case. However, Wallander, working with Liepa's widow Baiba and her cousin Inese, locate the missing case notes to unmask the traitor in the Latvian force.

Wallander considers the prospects of an enlarged family while dealing with dangerous extremists who have twisted Biblical metaphor to justify tragic cult practices.

While investigating a case of sisters who have vanished, Varg Veum is about to become a father. He realizes that the case has connections to a police-investigated murder. Varg is obviously risking his pregnant wife's life if he wants to follow the case.

Venetian transport firm chief Stefano Ranzatois is murdered at home. Commissario Guido Brunetti works out Ranzatois's fruit cargo was a cover for an illegal waste disposal business. It's run by Franco Barbaro, apparently the lover of businessman Maurizio Cataldo, whose cultivated wife Franca flirts with Brunetti for reasons rooting in a much earlier homicide. Brunetti's father-in-law seems implicated. Vice-Questore Patta has reached mandatory retirement age, so he nostalgically decides to take an active part in the investigation one last time. The man he helps arrest turns out to be an undercover mafia fighter, who is later murdered.

Acting under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film, a CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1979.

The story of three generations of a Turkish immigrant family.

A troubled husband and executive adopts a beaver hand-puppet as his sole means of communication.

Competition between the maid of honor and a bridesmaid, over who is the bride's best friend, threatens to upend the life of an out-of-work pastry chef.

A young cop is assigned to a precinct in the working class neighborhood where he grew up, and an old secret threatens to destroy his life and his family.

Bei einem Konzert stürzt ein Mann von der Decke nimmt einen Besucher mit in den Tod.

An English teacher brings soccer from England to Germany in the late 19th Century by teaching it to his class.

Follows the key people at an investment bank over a 24-hour period during the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis.