Jürgen Vogel

When Ruth's husband dies in New York, in 2000, she imposes strict Jewish mourning, which puzzles her children. A stranger comes to the house - Ruth's cousin - with a picture of Ruth, age 8, in Berlin, with a woman the cousin says helped Ruth escape. Hannah, Ruth's daughter engaged to a gentile, goes to Berlin to find the woman, Lena Fisher, now 90... (imdb)

Based on Peter Hoeg's bestseller, this film is set in snowy Copenhagen where a small boy is found dead after he fell off a roof. Smilla Jasperson, a close friend who lives in the same house begins to suspect murder because she knows that the boy was afraid of heights and would not have played on the roof. As she begins to investigate, she is pulled deeper and deeper into a conspiracy that could very well mean her death. (imdb)

After he loses his job, his father, and his girlfriend, Jan's life is a shambles. Then suddenly he meets freakish street musician Vera, and a bittersweet romance unfolds... (imdb)

In order to catch a basketball from the favorite team of his girlfriend's spoiled son, Fred (Schweiger) poses as a numb, wheelchair-bound fan. But when he catches the ball, he also catches the attention of young, attractive filmmaker Denise (Lara), who wants to feature an invalid fan in an image film for the team. Fred has to keep playing his role, while real invalid and really furious fan Ronny (Herbst) might call his bluff at any moment. Worse, still, love sets in... (imdb)

After nine years in psychiatric detention Theo, who has brutally assaulted and raped three women, is released. Living in a supervised community, he connects well with his social worker Sascha, finds a job at a print shop and even a girlfriend, Nettie, his principal's brittle and estranged daughter. But even though superficially everything seems to work out Theo's seething rage remains ready to erupt. (imdb)

Nackt is the story of three couples, one of which just broke up, one that seems to be about to and one perfectly okay. They are all friends and from time to time they gather to talk about everything. One time they gather for dinner at the second couple's "mansion" - the husband had become rich with his business. We see each couple as they prepare themselves for the party and learn a lot about their relationships. (IMDB Comments)

As Tobias, a young director, supposes that his girl-friend Ellen had an affair with his brother Markus, front man of "Hansen", one year ago, he decides to shoot a documentary about the band's next tour. When Ellen joins the project, everybody's emotions boil over, although they are observed all the time... (imdb)

A man is dying of pancreatic cancer and a down-to-earth young woman who takes him into her farmhouse after he wrecks the, well, borrowed Jaguar he wanted to get away in. (imdb comments)

This drama focuses on a woman who wants to start a new life with a new man, but cannot flee from the shadows of her past. Joachim Tietze, a farmer in the Hamburg area, believes that Ana, a young woman from former Yugoslavia, is the woman of his life... (imdb)

What happens when an introverted mathematician and an out-of-control 'life-artist' meet? Either they'll hate each other, or become great friends. In the case of Karl and Hans, the latter comes to pass.. (einfreundvonmir.de)

A womanizer (Schweiger) is forced to do community service at a local kindergarten, where he locks horns with a teacher (Tschirner). (imdb)

A couple of friends meet after years for the funeral of one of them. Some of them decide to rob a jeweler.

A high school teacher's unusual experiment to demonstrate to his students what life is like under a dictatorship spins horribly out of control when he forms a social unit with a life of its own. (imdb)

A film about life's problems and the love affairs of two men and women in their twenties. They pretend to suffer from the mediocrity of their lives but in fact try to cover their own lack of perspective and inner emptiness. Setted in scene surprisingly amusing, this crazy and happy Zeitgeist-Comedy abstains from a comment while describing those people in their vividness as well as in their incapacity of giving their existence any sense. (imdb)

Edgar, a convicted serial killer, is told by the female prison doctor that he will die of a brain tumor within days. Holding her hostage he manages to escape intending to quietly enjoy his freedom for the time left, but word spreads among the witnesses and survivors of his crimes. They all arm themselves, desparately seeking revenge. (imdb)

After the partner of a policeman is killed he is drawn into a mysterious plot of conspiracy and terrorists. (imdb)

A Berlin woman endeavors to choose between two lovers on a snowy Christmas Eve in this German drama. Art student Julia has been living with Christian, a policeman, for several years, but has recently embarked on an affair with Frank, a bartender. (allmovie.com)

When police detective Maggie comes home from work one night, her husband Dominik has vanished The only thing he left behind is a half empty plate of spaghetti on the kitchen table. Although Maggie moves heaven and earth, Dominik never resurfaces. At least so it seems... (www.filmaffinity.com)

Paul works in a pet shop and at at night he tries to make people laugh. However, he has only little success at first. Then he begins telling jokes about his best friend Hotte and his girlfriend Susi. The audience goes wild but Hotte and Susi are filled with rage. Soon, Paul has to make a decision: friendship or career?

Ingo, a dishwasher decides to go to Munich with Johannes, where he wants to try his luck once again. Arriving in Munich, they try to find cheap sleeping accommodation. They enter Ingo into the audition at Munich acting school. Moreover, Johannes falls in love with street artist Herta from Berlin. (imdb)

Feature adaptation of adaptation of Torsten Schulz's novel set in East Berlin in 1968. (imdb)

The story of a young Viking boy who accompanies his father, the chief of their village, and his men on their adventures -- and often is the person who uses his wit and instincts to help the men in their times of need. (imdb)

A destabilized family tackles a destabilized world, entering their future with all their hopes and fears. (telepool.de)

The story of a seemingly settled bank employee who breaks the shackles of his everyday life and becomes a wanderer between worlds. (imdb)

Hella is around 30 and works in a pharmacy. She is waiting for the right man to step into her life, but as she has a certain affinity for losers, she is kind of disillusionized. When she gets to know Levin, a dentist student who likes cars most, her dreams seem to come true. Levin has a very rich grandfather who likes her at first glance. The old man thinks of changing his last will to the condition that Levin has to marry Hella in order to inherit his fortunes. Like in a fairy-tale the door to (imdb)

In 1938 Hans Zeisig, an apolitical comedian, impersonator and cabaret actor, flees with a Russian passport (instead of American, which he would have preferred) from Nazi-Berlin, and finds himself in the legendary Hotel Lux, the 'lost paradise' of the Comintern, in Moscow. (imdb)

Hammerfest is a Norwegian town on the edge of the Arctic Ocean at the country's most north westerly tip. This small town is now home to a German couple and their son. Niels is an engineer working at a natural gas liquefying plant based on a tiny island opposite Hammerfest. Maria, a nurse at a hospice for the fatally ill, has decided to join her husband here to support this important career move. (mubi.com)

The rebellious Mika has not passed the school year. Instead planned to drive with her friend in a summer camp, they must now spend learning with the summer holidays. Her parents, both ambitious scientists, they send to the riding of embittered grandmother Maria Kaltenbach, a successful former show jumper who had to give up her career because of an accident. There, on the stud "Kaltenbach" to Mika find the necessary "peace and discipline" to learning.

In a train on way to Berlin, Emil, a young boy is robbed. At the German capital, he gets in an adventure to get his money back.

The appearance of a mysterious, hooded man evokes Erik's sinister past. (imdb)

Belgium, of all places. What's Belgium got besides chocolates and fries? No matter, this year it was Hannes' and Kiki's turn to choose the destination of their annual bike tour with their closest friends. They all looks forward to the adventure, after all they know that what counts the most is the time they spend together. It's only after the tour has begun that Hannes tells his friends that he's suffering from an incurable disease. The trip is to be his last. (imdb)

As burglars and safecrackers, Franz and Erich Sass embark on a series of small robberies in order to elude the all-seeing eye of the taxman. As their crimes escalate to include a bank where the Nazi's keep their substantial funds, the authorities quickly begin closing in while Franz and Erich plan their final heist and grand getaway (rottentomatoes.com)

Greenhorn Karl May comes to America to find a new beginning. There he realizes that even in the new world old mentalities die hard. Upon meeting the young apache warrior Winnetou, he fights for justice as Old Shatterhand.

A comedy centered on a sexually adventurous young woman who is trying to be the perfect wife, mother, and lover. (imdb)

Four teenage sleuths solve a case regarding abducted children and teenagers and a mind machine. (imdb)

Ötzi - The Iceman is one of the oldest and most well-known mummies in the world. With emotional impact, writer/director Felix Randau depicts the first unsolved murder case in the history of mankind.

Composer Johann Sebastian Bach is introduced to King Frederick II of Prussia in 1747. The aging composer and the young monarch clash and a battle of egos ensues. (imdb)

A European joint investigation team investigates organized crime across borders in Europe. (imdb)

The successful writer Paul and the sought-after voice actress Emilia were always considered to be the absolute dream couple by friends: Harmonious, happy, successful, with three charming children named Bo, Marie and Fe. But now, in their late 40s, their relationship is threatened by a crisis. (imdb)