Movies: Rainer Reiners

When Prussia and Austria declare war on Denmark, two brothers are called to serve in the bloodiest battle in Denmark's history....

A few people decide to found their own little state n the middle of Germany, near Berlin......

To save his grumpy father's Persian butcher's shop, Mohsen, a sensitive scarf-knitter, buys sheep on the cheap. On the way to them, he gets stranded in East Germany and falls in love with ex-ball-striker Ana. In the village, Mohsen's father is though...

Nerdy Jewish Nelly Sue Edelmeister, daughter of a New York mother and Berlin musician in Berlin gets straight A's, except for gym. When she hears her dream prince, actual royal Edouard, a fellow astronomy buff who studies in Luxemburg, patronizes the...

Gräfenhausen near Pforzheim, on the morning of April 29, 1997: Harry Wörz is awaited by a large police force as he leaves his apartment and is immediately arrested. He is said to have visited the policewoman Silke, with whom he is still married but n...

All of a sudden, 16-year-old Martha vanishes. Her father Lothar, who for years has had no contact with her or his ex-wife, sets off unwilling to find her. He soon realises other young people are also vanishing from the city inexplicably. Lothar follo...

After a truck accident, Lab crows escape, and provoke a panic in the neighborhood. Alexandra, a young pregnant lady will go to every length to escape the mayhem and raise her neighbors' awareness about the danger....

When Martin, a former GDR citizen, is released from jail, he lately becomes confronted with the consequences of the German re-unification....

The story follows a number of protagonists who are hiding from truths or escaping them, lying to each other in a circle of deceit. Meanwhile therapy patients offer glimpses of truth that underscore the increasing web of lies whose consequences will e...

The Spaetkauf (Late Night Shop) has been at the heart of Berlin Prenzlauer Berg and an integral part of people's daily lives for over 13 years. A place to meet and hang out, local bar, grapevine, a place to buy anything you might need out of hours. A...

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East German Stasi officer Fritz travels to Cuba with orders to thwart a suspected CIA operation against Fidel Castro. In Havana he meets Lola, a young woman who will both endanger his mission, and change the course of his life dramatically....

Fun-loving Miri is a genius with numbers. She puts this talent to good use in her job at the town bank in the small village of Hattenstein, where she actively helps her often overburdened boss. When a local winegrower is found dead in a wooded area, ...

The story of Manni and Renate, a middle aged german couple, living in the Hessian countryside. Their life ist turned upside down, when a family of refugees from Syria is moving in with them....

Lynn is a cheerful 22-year-old who works at a cafe and lives with her brother. Though she has no real direction in life, she is happy. Conversely, her boyfriend, David, is a career-driven swimmer who seems to care only about his training. Then Lynn m...

Urgent call from the clinic: Not for the first time, Dr. Felix Hoffmann the comfortable TV evening for use in the emergency room. He spontaneously takes over the night shift for a colleague. The ward doctor has no idea what consequences the next few ...

Simone Mankus is a woman in her prime who has left little out in her life. The former showbiz diva is a child of the late 60s, endowed with humor, a sensual lust for life, but also the melancholy of an entire generation that has lived through wilder ...

Marie (25) is a young, penniless mother trapped in a life she never wanted for herself. When she saves the life of adrenaline junkie Erich (30), she is fascinated by him. Erich introduces Marie to the world of showmen and takes her on a hunt for an i...

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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 power plant. In the process, he discovers a girl who had previously come to the city in a minibus fu...