Zdf Movies

A journey through the Spain of the Baroque, the glorious 17th century, an unfortunate era of endless wars and political tribulations; but also of grea...

The wealthy Selby Cliff lives with his much younger wife, Anita, in a medieval castle on the Scottish coast. He awaits the arrival of Frank O'Ryan, wh...

Several billion tons of earth are moved annually by humans - with shovels, excavators or dynamite. Nikolaus Geyrhalter observes people in mines, quarr...

Success is a question of confidence, particularly in times of crisis. Life would be unbearable if there weren’t beautiful things to brighten it up a l...

A small paper umbrella attracts the attention of Fredo Schulz when chief detectives Milan Filipovic and Lola Karras visit him at the North Sea. A seve...

Miriam Maertens falls ill with cystic fibrosis and struggles quietly with the disease. Mastering a double life she falls in love and achieves her prof...

When Hans Hass seeks a secretary for his Viennese office in the summer of 1947, Lotte Baierl applies for the job. She has just graduated from high sch...

A nihilistic art student meets the mysterious Edgar Allan at a coffee shop in Venice. The fascination for the older man soon turns into paranoia.

His opponents accused him of being homosexual. The male favorites he gathered around him during his short life gave those malevolent enemies solid arg...

Ulrich Mühe plays a German businessman who was born completely without scruples. This makes him an eminently suitable candidate for success in the cha...

The docudrama addresses the global threat posed by antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The film takes a scientifically grounded approach to exploring what...

Obsessively referring to the traumas and wounds that the Spanish civil war (1936-39) and Franco's dictatorship (1939-75) caused in their day no longer...

Conny Stein from the ordnance disposal service in Dresden has to defuse a bomb on his last day of work before retirement, on a construction site in a...

Jeff Corrigan has to enter the witness protection program with his family when he gives up his former boss to the FBI after discovering that he is a d...

A middle-aged Orthodox Jew, Aaron, living and working in Jerusalem with his wife and children, meets a homeless 19-year-old student. Aaron offers to g...

A documentary about the life of Karlheinz Böhm from his film career to his charity activities in Ethiopia.