Hanns Zischler Movies

Katja Flint, Hannelore Elsner and Heiner Lauterbach star in this German film about a woman who climbs the social ladder by sleeping with those she...

Architecture student Paul has failed again. He's been dead in bed for months. His girlfriend Ulrike angrily packs her bags. Then Paul's first...

Mifti is a teenager as beautiful as she is reckless. Mentally unstable, fed up with her dysfunctional family, oblivious to the youthful world, and...

In southern France, in a quiet little town, the mayor, who also owns a castle with some cattle, is in the wine cellar with some other people: the...

A man gets on a train to Cologne. Inspired by a poem by Rolf Dieter Brinkman.

From birth to death every subject remains intact. Three ages, three women. Daughter, mother, grandmother. Each of them before and after still and...

Dramatic life of Gustav "Bubi" Scholz, who rose from post-war obscurity and a background in black market dealings to become a celebrated European...

"In the Shadows" slithers through underworld Berlin in grand style. En route to a twisty finale, German writer-director Thomas Arslan keeps his...

This European drama, set in Paris, follows a brilliant musician as he suddenly forsakes his career, to live and love amongst the common populace....

Isn’t the trajectory of a shared life determined in advance? Get married, have kids, be like everyone else… According to Dietrich...

A man is raping women after having met them through ads on public noticeboards. At first this seems like an easy crime to solve for Martin Beck and...

The nine-year-old Nikolas has been missing for days. The criminal psychologist Claudia Meinert notices contradictions in her conversation with the...

"Wings Of Desire" and "Buena Vista Social Club", "Paris, Texas" and "The State Of Things": Wim Wenders is considered one of the pioneers of New...

Martin leaves his protective parents’ home and comes to Berlin as a law student with high hopes. He finds a tiny, run-down flat in a strange,...

Helmut Draeger, director of a German bank, gives the talented bank employee Martin Kreye the opportunity to speculate in New York in real estate....

With the offer to work for a major manufacturer of security software, hacker Alissa finds herself in a hermetically sealed high-tech world.

When wealthy college student Richard Oetker is kidnapped and held for a hefty ransom, state police officer Georg Kufbach becomes obsessed with...

A renowned artist must uncover a young dancer's secrets in order to truly capture her likeness for a commissioned work.

Carola and Dieter Martin have been married for 25 years. After Dieter dies in a car accident, Carola finds out that he was gay and had been in a...

Frederick Schopner, a young management consultant, has been invited to participate in a special kind of team-building event. He and his colleagues...