Swr Movies

More of a film essay - of the type pioneered by Orson Welles and Chris Marker - than a standard documentary, German filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck's The Net:...

Four men’s destinies slam into each other and intertwine on four balmy summer nights. Old wounds are reopened, new ones appear, unexpectedly there is...

A man who has lost his wife and daughter finds a baby in a garbage. He decides to save her.

Pianist Jenny, once a musical prodigy, finds her footing in the Christian faith after serving 15 years for a murder she didn't commit. When she learns...

A documentary directed by Christopher Buchholz and Sandra Hacker.

A documentary about entertainer/actor Peter Alexander by Birgit Kienzle. Peter Alexander doesn't appear in this film, but he was well at the time of t...

Paul leaves home with his best friend Max on the first day of summer vacation. Following in the footsteps of Paul’s missing father, the boys venture i...

Set in the Hasidic enclave of Borough Park, Brooklyn, "93Queen" follows a group of tenacious Hasidic women who are smashing the patriarchy in their co...

The new forester Georg Walch wants to put the poachers out of business. Believing that the animal will return to him, the poacher Wolf Pachler leaves...

Documentary about the work of 6 criminal profilers around the world.

In 1950s Germany, a farmer's children face an excruciating dilemma when the son resists expectations to take over the family farm.

Nine-year-old Max moves to Geroldseck Castle, together with his mother, who takes up a position as a geriatric nurse there. Apparently a shrewd thief...

A film portrait of the influential Bavarian actor, director and screenwriter who publicly confessed his homosexuality.

Architect Alexander Beck has just won an architecture prize. He wants to modernize GDR building blocks in Thuringia. Alex travels to the heart of rura...

Theatre of War is an essay on how to represent war, performed by former enemies. British and Argentinian veterans of the Falklands war come together t...