Zdf Movies

Episodic film based on four plays (‘Der Hund im Hirn’, ‘Lohengrin’, ‘Der Mörder’, and ‘Minna Magdalena’) by Curt Goetz, each with Carl-Heinz Schroth i...

Tensions rise when a doctor (Daniel Veronese) pressures his teenage son to follow in his footsteps.

Ali is a young Tunisian who dreams of a better life and ekes out a lonely existence selling contraband oil on the black market. When his father dies,...

In a driving school, three women of different ages meet for the so-called idiot test. There is a close friendship between the women. Annette, Katja an...

Three years without a man by her side. A pubescent daughter who wants to know how things work with men. And a boss at the Schwarz auction house who de...

Professor Lichtwitz, a successful architect and notorious womanizer, secretly accesses his penthouse via his office. Employee Bodo, assuming Lichtwitz...

What are the social climate and cultural traditions in Costa Rica which nurture "machismo" and allow the domination of women to continue in Latin Amer...

A series of tableaux illustrating the life and death of a celebrated 19th century German opera singer.

The lover of a policeman is strangled in his house.

The peat farmer Hannes Gerhards wants his girlfriend Helen Dahms from the city to pull him to the countryside. As in peat cutting work the skull of a...

Is there a risk to a child's welfare if a girl is denied the opportunity to learn to hear? Or should parents be free to decide which life is best for...

Dutch composer Louis Andriessen collaborates with director Peter Greenaway on a commissioned short film to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the de...

A portrait of the inventor of the letterpress, who was a key figure in the history of mankind, but also an enthusiastic inventor, a daring businessman...

A journey through time and history of diverse monster types, from the latex monster in devastated postwar Japan to aliens and serial murderers.

The story of François Perret-Latour, a formerly successful banker and member of Parisian high society. His exciting life is long gone, and despite hav...

Portrait of the Italian sculptor Donatello (1386-1466),a precursor of the High Renaissance who considerably influenced sculptural art with his innova...

German TV adaptation of Grimm‘s fairy tale “Iron John“.