Peter Franke Movies

Heinz Strunk, plagued by crater-like skin rashes, lives with his sick mother in Hamburg-Harburg in the 1980s. As a saxophonist, he tours the North...

Ex-con Konrad Kühn smells a quick buck with the sale of a seemingly uninhabited house on the Baltic Sea. He claims to be the sole heir, but...

The dream of owning a house in the countryside comes true by chance for a family with two children. The parents buy "a house in need of slight...

The "Our Gang" type adventures of German working class kids from a Berlin apartment building (number 67) during the early 1930s. With Nazism's rise,...

The musician Udo Lindenberg (played by himself) is kidnapped during the party after a concert. Nobody realises this until the next day, when he...

The Gangster Macheath secretly marries the daughter of beggar king Peachum. When Peachum finds out, he instructs the police chief Brown to arrest and...

Uli and Nora share an intimate, late love. But Uli always avoids the decision to stand on the common relationship. One morning Uli suffers a stroke...

A war photographer in different theatres of conflict, Belfast, Beirut, Mogadishu begins to suspect that his uncanny knack for being in the right...

Olaf Gabriel is the head of the department and at the same time the only employee of the police station in Hedly, a small northern German coastal...

The impassive gaze of a taciturn adolescent loner named Andi, sole witness to the drowning of a young girl in an overgrown, abandoned local canal.

Alice Cordes is to spend Christmas with her boyfriend Nicolas Huber's family in Upper Bavaria. Although the Hamburg chef no longer has parents...

Olivia is hard hit by life. Her husband Klaus is buttering her up and her therapist is losing patience. Then self-centered mother Kora wakes up from...

It has been ten years since twelve-year-old Paula Wagner was the victim of a terrible crime - raped and murdered by her tennis teacher. Eleven years...

More than fifty years have passed since Harry left his great love Elly head over heels to go to America. Now he has returned to see her again - and...

An unusual family story about two father and son generations, beginning on a German country side and ending in the students' revolt in Berlin.