Pierre is in Hamburg on a merchant ship with his friends Georges and Jean-Marie. While they are just looking for a good time in the twenty-four hours they have to waste in the city, Pierre is seized by the memory of a young German girl, Maria, whom he had known and probably loved when he was a prisoner of war in the bombed-out port of Hamburg. He abandons his companions in search of her, but is unable to trace her, her house having been destroyed and the search services having no record of her.
Maria
Pierre
Georges
Jean-Marie
Barkeeper
N.A.
Pimp at Bar
Julius, the Cabaret Owner
Patron Sponging the Wrestling Winner
Heindrick
Blonde at Bar
29 Nov 1940
A successful German overseas merchant with a plantation in Haiti is looking for a suitable wife in Hamburg and comes across a barmaid from the Reeperbahn with an illegitimate child. He wants to marry her, but she does not follow him out of nobility. In search of her, he finds her in Mexico as the secretary of his former lover, a writer.
01 Jan 2000
The talented young lawyer Corinna Jakobs is given a great opportunity to make her professional breakthrough: she is to represent the well-known Hamburg fishing fleet owner Petersen in court, who is repeatedly denounced in the press as an environmental sinner by an eco-activist. But when the lawyer falls in love with the rough-and-tumble environmentalist, she finds herself in a difficult conflict of conscience.
23 Oct 1969
In Hamburg's red light district Jule and his mob of macks battle Holleck's competing Viennese clan. When a sex worker is murdered both kingpins join forces to hunt the killer and keep the police from cracking down on their business.
01 Jan 1970
A former U-boat commander becomes a pastor to ease the suffering of young Hamburg women in trouble.
01 Oct 1999
Two mismatched women are on the run from gangsters and must help one another to survive.
09 Feb 2008
This is the story of Isa, who grows up in a Hamburg suburb. It might be one of the world's richest cities but every beast has its belly and here, in the very underbelly, Chiko lives in a world where violence, staking and keeping a claim, and drug taking are the norm. Where down is not an option, Chiko is determined to rise to the top, whatever and whomever it costs.
18 Jul 2003
In order not to end up as a lock keeper in the country like his father, 18-year-old Abel wants to go to the USA to become a stuntman. Girlfriend Merle is supposed to come along, but then finds out that she is pregnant.
01 Feb 2007
Achim Bornhak's movie focuses on the restless life of Uschi Obermaier, the icon of the 1968 movement in Germany and groupie. At the age of 16, Uschi is bored by her job in a photo lab, but soon becomes the "it girl" of Munich's club scene. When she gets to know Rainer Langhans, they move to Berlin and live in "Kommune 1", the first politically-motivated commune in Germany. While the other occupants claim she isn't political enough, Uschi just wants to have fun, works as fashion model and leads international music stars in temptation.
30 Sep 1999
The Hamburg friends Walter, Ricco and Floyd take each day as it comes between the estates of tower blocks and fast food restaurants. All three are in their early twenties and are dreaming of another life when Floyd suddenly takes a job on a freighter going to Singapore.
14 Jun 2002
Wounded to the brink of death and suffering from amnesia, Jason Bourne is rescued at sea by a fisherman. With nothing to go on but a Swiss bank account number, he starts to reconstruct his life, but finds that many people he encounters want him dead. However, Bourne realizes that he has the combat and mental skills of a world-class spy—but who does he work for?
04 Mar 2004
It all starts with a bang. The car breaks through the crash barrier and falls off the bridge. The lights go out. After that, he is not able to see anymore. His optic nerve is severed, from now on the young stage-director Jakob is blind. His life will change and nothing will ever be the same. Jakob cannot handle the idea of never being able to see again and screams at the only woman who is able and willing to help him, Lily. A rehabilitation teacher, she helps the blind deal with the darkness. Lily has been living with it since birth, she too is blind.
24 Jun 1977
Tom Ripley, an American who deals in forged art, is slighted at an auction in Hamburg by picture framer Jonathan Zimmerman. When Ripley is asked by gangster Raoul Minot to kill a rival, he suggests Zimmerman, and the two, exploiting Zimmerman's terminal illness, coerce him into being a hitman.
01 Apr 1994
Chronicles the early days of The Beatles in Hamburg, Germany. The film focuses primarily on the relationship between Stuart Sutcliffe, John Lennon, and Sutcliffe's girlfriend Astrid Kirchherr.
02 Apr 1982
A Soviet sailor travels to the West for the first time. In Hamburg, he hopes to find his missing brother. But German secret service agents, inquisitive reporters and even his own countrymen are hot on his heels.
26 Aug 2021
Hamburg, Germany, summer 1988. A young bank employee embezzles a large amount of money using an ingenious technique and flees to Australia, from where he phones his girlfriend to tell her what he has done so easily; but her reaction is not what he naively expected.
15 Oct 1998
Gabriel, Bobby and Costa are old friends from Altona, a multicultural hood in Hamburg. Just out of prison, Gabriel wants to turn his back on crime, but the others continue to operate as petty criminals. Friendships are tested as the trio navigate a dark world of mafia bosses and deals gone wrong.
11 Mar 2004
With the intention to break free from the strict familial restrictions, a suicidal young woman sets up a marriage of convenience with a forty-year-old addict, an act that will lead to an outburst of envious love.
24 Jan 2023
Belgrade, 2022: A photojournalist is threatened by right-wing extremist groups in her Serbian home and flees to Germany with her daughter. But then she also experiences increasing strong threats and attacks in her new home.
24 Nov 2004
The film tells the story of a German woman's marriage to an Algerian virologist in Hamburg. When the man comes under suspicion of having contact with Islamist terrorist circles, mistrust grows between the previously happy spouses like a creeping poison...
14 Dec 2018
A story about a man named Max Wind, who celebrates a men‘s evening with his friends under the deck of a ship and leaves his pregnant girlfriend Nele at home. A storm is rising and the atmosphere below deck is tense. As Nele goes into shock from a lightning bolt hitting her house the situations start to escalate.