Zdf Movies

After Maren's brother is murdered, the young woman is completely shaken. Because the police only deal with the case in a routine manner and have no re...

In January 2012 Italian divers discovered the wreck of a massive plane off the coast of Sardinia. At a depth of 65 meters (213 feet) lies a Messerschm...

A quiet, unassuming man sentenced to a long term in a maximum-security prison uses his time to study and begins to write cryptic short stories.

Herculane Baths, one of the oldest resorts in Europe, the place where, a few centuries ago, kings and queens were diving in the healing waters, became...

Portrait of the Swiss artist H.R. Giger.

On her 40th birthday, director Heide Breitel interviewed female friends of the same age about their experiences. All of them—born in 1941, the Chinese...

Travelling salesman Gregor Samsa wakes to find that he's been transformed into a giant insect. This particular Franz Kafka adaptation is seen from Gre...

The extraordinary story of German businessman Ernst Leitz II (1871-1956),second only to his father in ownership of the optics company that developed...

A scientific and social exploration of the future of human reproductive technology. In vitro fertilization, sperm banks' potential repercussions and...

Sascha’s name wasn’t always Sascha. But now it is. Sascha doesn’t identify as a man or as a woman, but as trans non-binary. A story about what it mean...

China, the “Middle Kingdom,” has long been thought to have developed independently from the West. Mighty mountains and the inhospitable Taklamakan for...

While getting a beer in the police canteen, Docker is spied on by the BKA for a special secret mission: an attack is planned on an Indian maharajah du...

Various interwoven stories about women of different ages and life situations, each dealing with encounters, relationships, and expectations of love an...

Adolf Hitler consistently hushed up or denied his family lineage for fear that his ragtag bunch of ancestors and living relatives could tarnish his re...

Joseph Völz, a punctual, rule-bound tax officer from Cologne’s Bergisches Land, expects life to run like his orderly forms, until his daughter Grete,...

Joe Müller, a single father, is electrified: in front of him stands an outraged woman who insults him badly. Still, he falls in love. As it turns out:...

Gottfried Binder, a simple employee in the pathology department of the University Hospital Zurich, is suffering from lung cancer and does not have lon...