Movies: Otto Mellies

Every year, many Germans are preparing to spend their vacations in the sunny south. And they all have to use the same highways. And every year everything ends in a big traffic jam....

Frank and Simone have fulfilled a dream and live with their two children in a row house in the suburbs. They are a happy couple, until the day Frank is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. The family is suddenly confronted with death....

A former Olympic champion wants to compete in the Berlin Marathon one last time....

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Inspired by West German terrorists, two pupils hijack a teacher in the GDR.//"Andreas Dresen is one of the most successful contemporary German filmmakers whose career began as the Berlin Wall was crumbling."// “Andreas Dresen’s films open a window i...

Kerstin is a successful department head of a tax consulting firm in Berlin. She is respected and feared by her employees. Only one thing is too short in her life: for years she had no sex and no husband by her side. At the company, she wants to show ...

Hans Wolgast is executed with a shot in the head in the idyllic town of Husum to Mozart's Magic Flute. His half-brother, Inspector Anton Glauberg, immediately suspects that the shadows of the family past have caught up with him because Hans was a mem...

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Ferdinand is an army major and son of President von Walter, while Luise Miller is the daughter of a middle-class musician. They fall in love with each other, but both their fathers urge them to end the affair....

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A murder has been committed in "Pension Boulanka", a famous guesthouse for artists and circus people. Captain Bruckner is heading the investigating team....

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A working-class son who became orphaned in the war is brought up by his foster father to become an upright citizen. Now, after graduating from a teacher training college, he is faced with the task of preparing young people for life....

After causing a deadly hit-and-run motorcycle accident, Conny Schenk spends two years in prison, where he is able to complete a printing apprenticeship and is released early for good behavior. While he is still on probation, money is stolen at the co...

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A portrait of East Berlin...

Under the slogan of the arms race of the superpowers, which escalates in the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 and brings the world to the brink of nuclear war, two exemplary post-war male figures challenge an almost archaic feud: Defense Minister Franz J...

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Puberty drama about the first love of a 15 year old girl from Berlin....

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