Zdf Movies

This film was prepared as a introduction to a series of opera broadcasts on German television. It depicts the behind-the-scenes manoeuvrings in prepar...

The courageous female wrestlers of Ciudad Juárez, a city known for its high murder rate against women - who fight in the ring and in their daily lives...

The satirical film is about the liquidation of a sewing machine combine by the Treuhandanstalt (THA) in the town of Altenburg in Thuringia. The compan...

Officially, the Wright Brothers flew first in 1903. But the Australian aviation expert John Brown argues that German born Gustave Whitehead flew in Co...

On September 14, 2012, a deflating lifeboat with thirteen people onboard was rescued in the Mediterranean. Working from a video filmed by a cruising t...

With his ultra-conservative policies, US President Donald Trump is disrupting the global order as well as US institutions and society. Filmed less tha...

Two amateur circus kids from a poor Ukrainian village, ten-year-old Barbu and his older sister Mimma, are sold to a circus artist called Caruso who pr...

Two men meet in the men's room of a courthouse. Both just divorced, they decide to help each other recover their wives.

Petra professionally works as a thief abroad to finance the studies of her younger sister Franziska in Germany.

This modern variation on Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale "The Girl with the Matchsticks" begins Christmas in a home for the disabled. The four wh...

China has been actively interfering in the workings of the Hollywood industry for nearly two decades, so that movies are no longer made on subjects it...

Jakob Sesam is the once successful creator of the children's TV series Hello Spencer. Twenty years after the last episode, he lives with his puppets i...

A story focusing on the difficult relationship between a professional pickpocket and her 15-year-old daughter.

A German energy engineer has been found dead in a burnt-out car off the main road in the African Namib desert. The Namibian police rule out an acciden...

Choir director Johanna Bischoff and her girls choir go to a concert in their hometown Hameln. Shortly before the scheduled performance disappear four...

In the film One Night. One Life, based on the cycle Pierrot Lunaire, Arnold Schönberg’s opus 21, director Oliver Herrmann has created a surreal, at ti...