Movies: Lisa Martinek

Things are going wrong in the life of unsuccessful 30-year-old penny dreadful novelist Juliane. Her fiancé Jürgen has split up with her. She is rescued by her uncle Hans, who hires her as a temp for his dental practice in Berlin. Here she meets Büffe...

The fall is so rapid that it seems like a bad dream. Just a moment ago, 16-year-old Nadja was a carefree, cheerful young girl, but shortly afterwards the horror follows: the older boy she falls in love with is a junkie who also drags Nadja into miser...

Under the influence of alcohol a couple run over a young cyclist...

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Conny could be happy all round. Her bike rental business with a small workshop is going well, she is happy with her boyfriend Frank and the fact that Conny is pregnant rounds off her happiness. But Conny is struggling with the past. Years ago, she ga...

A young prosecutor in postwar West Germany investigates a massive conspiracy to cover up the Nazi pasts of prominent public figures....

11-year-old Tim is way ahead of the other boys his age: nothing excites him more than explorers, myths, dinosaurs and legends - and planning his mother's life! One day, however, Tim's life is about to change completely: He accidentally discovers a ph...

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Brothers Helmut and Wolfgang Kaminski live on opposite sides of the still porous Iron Curtain: Helmut works as a reporter for radio in the American sector, Wolfgang as an SED functionary for the construction of socialism. His father Otto was a brigad...

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Ahmad is an Iraqi asylum seeker with uncertain residence status in Germany. The bureaucracy has sent him to the Westerwald, near the sleepy village of Weilershagen. When Ahmad meets the pub owner Katja there, he charms her with his passion for Americ...

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"The Publisher" is about the success story of a visionary man who begins after 1945 with a rickety car and a stack of novels. With his charismatic personality, he convinced the Allies to give him a newspaper license. A radio magazine soon follows, wh...

The unorthodox millionaire's wife Eva Klüber raves when her husband Rainer divorces her and she should keep according to the marriage contract nothing of the common assets. Eva fictitiously her own kidnapping, in order to come to what they see as mor...

Bernhard and Claire have always lived to work. Now that's over: the workaholic and entrepreneur turns his back on his airplane company, Claire sells her time-consuming nursery. But life in their new dream home, which does justice to their contrasting...

Opening in remote Kurdistan, Eine Hand Voll Gras introduces us to the impoverished family of 10-year-old Kendal (Arman Inci). In desperate need for cash to fund his older sister's wedding, Kendal's parents allow themselves to be persuaded by Kendal's...

Martha and Helene Weiß - one a devout nun in a Swabian convent, the other a convinced atheist and mother. Two unequal sisters who almost only argue with each other. Martha's faith in particular is always a red rag for the younger and wilder Helene. B...

A policeman unintentionally wrecks havoc when he installs a traffic light in a small, rural community....

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