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Petros, the little son of a fishing man makes a very special finding. While playing at the beach he discovers a message in a bottle. With the help of its Grandpa he succeeds deciphering the paper. "Atlantis is a lost city," he explains to his grandchild. "Since eternal times humans try to find this city, but up to now nobody succeeded." Petros, his dog Uzo and Grandpa start an adventurous journey after the lost city.
On his weekly train ride through Switzerland a student notices that the tunnel they are driving through is unusually long. The persistent darkness makes him increasingly apprehensive. His fellow passengers don’t seem concerned. Even the conductor reassures him that everything is fine. But when he heads to the engineer’s cabin with the chief conductor – they find it empty. And after their effort to pull the emergency break fails, they watch the rapidly accelerating train head straight into a dark abyss.
Walter Harrer, an engineer, is on the night shift and returns home in the morning to find his wife lying unsconscious in the garden. She is sent to hospital were a loss of memory is observed. Dr. Bogner, a young psychiatrist, is interested in the case and tries to help Mercedes. He talks to her husband, her former lover and her friends to see if he can get some clue as to why she can't remember who she is. She confesses that she killed Lona Logan, her rival. But Dr. Bogner isn't sure that she's telling the truth. Did she really do it or is it pure fantasy?
Short film by Kai Kinnert.
German adaptation of Maurice Leblanc's "Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes" stories. German copyright laws allowed the producers to return "Sholmes" to the proper "Sherlock Holmes" who was portrayed by Viggo Larsen.
Dr. Viktoria Wex tries to solve the coldly executed murder of an IT entrepreneur.
Known in the UK as The Flea of the Baskerville
When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.
Till and Tina are washing the dishes in their flat as something unsuspected happens...
A boy arrives at a school for a event. But once in the building everything he expected would happen begins to change.
At around 3,500 years old, the Ebers Papyrus is the oldest completely preserved medical manual in the world. Recipes were written down here on 18.6 meters in ancient Egypt. When Georg Ebers set out in search of the scroll in 1872, its existence was questionable and its sensational condition only a rumor.
A group of four friends spends a special evening.
A nightmarish journey that seems to hold more significance than it seems.
Alone, driven by hope, a blind painter wanders through the shards and shivers of the past in search of hopeless certainty.
The assistant of a creepy power couple inexplicably finds herself pregnant. Immaculata feels like an unexpected offshoot of Rosemary's Baby, between its half-open doors and a phobia of fluids.
When bringing his freshly washed laundry to the attic, a man sees himself confronted with quiet voices and noises. By hanging up pieces for piece smoothly and listening to each, he tries to find out whether the noise comes from the laundry. He ends up in a labyrinth of sheets, without having the mystery solved. Are the voices coming from inside him?
Thief: Someday You Will Pay
The absurd goings-on of a by no means ordinary hair salon, where men with great beards wait in vain for a shave while the barber takes a nap.
Buenos Aires, during the summer heart, in gated communities surrounded by wastelands covered with trash. The barking of stray dogs, repeated power outages, and uncontrollable clouds of smoke drive the inhabitants to confront their most primitive instincts.
A selfish Influencer and her clumsy Fan Girl/Assistant start an odd relationship that becomes more grotesque day by day.
The forest, a house, and people.
Circus themed films usually provides a thrilling drama. The relatively obscure "Schatten der Manege" provides just what you'd expect. Doing the trapeze act angle, combining it with romance and jealousy for a darker plot, it has a lot of the right the ingredients. Does have moments where it spends too long of circus footage, which ruins some of the pacing, but otherwise a fine circus flick.
When Leonie, Emmas colleague and best friend, dies, she has to take over the nightwatch in the hospital. Emma doesn't believe in Leonie having committed suicide, as everybody assumes, so she tries to investigate herself. Doing that, she finds Leonies diary that documents reports of various encounters of supernatural kind. And all are closely connected to Friedrich Grau, an entrepreneur, who fell in vegetative state, when his little daughter committed suicide.
On every anniversary of his wife's death, Tom Wieland performs the same ritual with their daughter.
Every Friday the 13th, a member of the Eulenstein family dies. The son of the most recent victim hires a detective to investigate.
An electrician is trapped in a looping room and goes mad.
After a series of events, Georg Hauser, an established middle-class man, is at odds with the world, in which he himself used to work so well. He wants out. He wants to live. In a moment of his very own clarity, he destroys his car, but whoever destroys his property is an enemy of the state.
Intriguing and transgressive, Jamaica has always been considered the most attractive island in the Caribbean. The place in the world that plays, sings and dances at all hours of the day and night.
A watch with history helps Theo write his own story.
Three friends are on summer vacation. They decide to spend the hot day at the lake. But there they make an unexpected discovery: the diary of a scientist who has been missing for a long time. What begins as an ordinary summer day quickly turns into an adventure full of puzzles and secrets. Curious, they follow the clues in the diary and set out in search of answers. But soon they find themselves in situations far more dangerous than they could ever have imagined.
Monsters have always been part of our nightmares and fairy tales. But where do they actually come from? How much of it is truth, how much is myth? Going to great lengths in this documentary, the filmmakers join scientists to explore a number of the best-known sagas and legends in the world. The search for the origins of what is likely to be the oldest legendary creature, the dragon, leads to snake pits, archaeological dig sites, gold mines and the inside of an Icelandic volcano. They also travel to Texas, hunting for traces of the “chupacabra,” literally the “goat-sucker,” a modern mythical creature with vampire-like teeth that was first spotted in Central America, and accompany palaeontologists to Kazakhstan in search of the remains of what might be the origin of the alluring unicorn, whose horn the Vikings used for trading.
A young woman finds herself in a decaying world from which there is just one escape ...
Two siblings that have been separated because of a terrible prophecy have to face their demon to get back together and experience a metaphysical love story.
Lea is an aspiring actress. In her new movie, she is confronted with a romantic scene but struggles to perform it - a problem with deeper roots.
Is the duck really talking?
Ein Wecker, der einen furchterregenden schrillen Schrei ausstößt? Den gibt es tatsächlich und die drei Detektive, Justus Jonas, Peter Shaw und Bob Andrews müssen versuchen, das Geheimnis dieses seltsamen Fundstücks zu enträtseln. Im Laufe ihrer Ermittlungen folgen sie zunächst der Fährte des exzentrischen Hörspielsprechers Bert Clock, bevor sie einem raffinierten Kunstraub auf die Schliche kommen. Fast dreißig Jahre nachdem sich Die drei ??? zum ersten Mal mit dem seltsamen Wecker beschäftigt haben, lösen sie den Fall erneut - und zwar live, auf der Bühne in einem einzigartigen Live-Hörspiel-Spektakel. So habt ihr die Geschichte um den schreienden Wecker noch nie erlebt - neu erzählt, mit modernster Technik umgesetzt, Live-Musik, Geräuschemacher und natürlich den Originalsprechern der drei ???.
An ambitious student walks through a gate that is known to doom everyone to failure.
German war film. This film is considered lost.
It is an eerie, cold evening, with the wind whistling through the trees. In a remote pub, a few people have gathered around a single candle and are telling each other scary stories. A man from the next table joins them and tells them about a mysterious apparition. An eerie face regularly appears on the wall of his room, giving him the creeps. The stranger recounts in detail how this gruesome occurrence is bringing him to the brink of a nervous breakdown. Whose face is it? Is it that of a dead person?
The German Tourist Frank Fleischer gets into drugs and spy story.
Haunted by the ghosts of his past and his angst of his future Roman is determined to prove himself as a boxer. For this dream he is willing to give up on everything: his friends, his health, even his own self.
Fragmented stories about the big city, loneliness and the need to communicate.
Two cousins, Wanda and Dora, are heading to their family's weekend retreat with Dora's boyfriend, Anton, and his friend Lukas. They're unaware that the relaxing weekend they have planned will end up showing them the realities of love, friendship and fear. The ensemble film "zweisam gemeinsam einsam" is made up of 3 independent short films that combine to form a larger story.
Two women who couldn't be more different. The young Julie, a cheerful and somewhat naive blonde, and the slightly older Lisa, a little bitter after the end of a relationship, meet on the Internet and quickly become friends. They decide to go on a weekend trip into the wilderness. Their destination is an old hunting lodge that belongs to Lisa's parents. On the way there, they are threatened by a hillbilly. The hunting lodge also seems to be hiding a secret. The situation comes to a head for both women until a sudden twist changes everything. It's a matter of life and death.