Heinrich Giskes Movies

A notorious gang of robbers threaten the Ruhr region of Germany in the 1920s.

Paul and Böller from Wanne-Eickel have a dream: they want to apply to be lifeguards on Sylt. Not because the two VoKuHiLa advocates love saving...

West Berlin, 1974. The revolution didn't happen like it was supposed. Grischa, a 30-year-old actress dissatisfied with standard left-wing politics,...

A family spends their vacation in the basement so that their neighbors don't notice that they can't afford to go on vacation.

Tabloid reporter Jule learns that her marriage to editor-in-chief Max, which she entered into four years ago, is invalid. Since Max, who has known...

Some businessman of a software company moves to the seashore because his daughter suffers from asthma as her mother did before she died. He doesn't...

Marine Ringo deserts in Hamburg when he finds his girlfriend with rival Eggers. Squatting with friend Yusuf, he uncovers Eggers’s shady land...

The film is about a series of murders in Hamburg, in which Inspector Sophie Fleming, with the help of her ex-boyfriend Martin, hunts down a killer...

A schizophrenic patient is is wasting away in a mental institution, until a young doctor encourages him to write poetry. The resulting masterpieces...

Natalie has her life under control: She works in her dream job as a street worker and is happy with her boyfriend Sven, with whom she is expecting a...

This German language film is said to be loosely based on a story by Edgar Allen Poe. It is difficult to say, as there is no story to be discerned in...

A small village high up in the mountains of Ketama, Northern Morocco. The life of the people here has been shaped by the drug hashish for centuries....

Felix Hauser is the high-flyer par excellence in haute cuisine. He hosts a popular cooking show and his upmarket restaurant is frequented by...

The double suicide of Heinrich von Kleist and his companion Henriette Vogel on November 21, 1811 at the Kleiner Wannsee in Berlin is the focus of...

On the run from her criminal Italian husband, a young French woman meets a German lover in West Berlin who offers her shelter but who also gets...

Oskar Panizza’s The Council of Love (1895) is a blasphemous play set in 1495, during the first recorded outbreak of syphilis, which Panizza...