Wdr Movies

A young woman has the idea of setting up her boyfriend with a very wealthy but sickly lady to claim her inheritance.

Marko Stemper, 19 years old, comes from a disadvantaged background and works as a window cleaner. His father, an alcoholic, tyrannizes the whole famil...

An ailing police inspector (Stefan Kurt) hunts a dangerous criminal who escaped from custody.

The mining industry, which always had been “sponsor” and “financier” of the soccer clubs in the Ruhr valley during the post-war period, doesn’t exist...

Documentary about the first five decades of the Eurovision Song Contest

Blues hommage by Sönke Wortmann.

The film takes a look at a professional gambler, who very successfully specialized on the German version of the slot machine.

1818 in the Münsterland: Innumerable pilgrims seeking comfort and consolation visit the bedside of Anna Katharina von Emmerich, a nun whose body bears...

Once again, the "border crossing" is celebrated, as every seven years in the Upper Hessian town of Bergen. It is really turbulent at this folk festiva...

A strangler known as the Kenbourne Killer has been murdering streetwalkers for 25 years. The police set out to track him down.

Berlin, 1932. The Weimar Republic is torn apart in the struggle between right- and left-wing extremists and Berlin is a powder keg. Nightclub singer H...

In 1976, a nuclear reactor near the Italian town of Seveso explodes, leaking highly poisonous dioxin into the atmosphere.

Documentary feature about the accident of the super tanker "Exxon Valdez" in Alaska in 1989.

Yacine is the veterinarian of the only zoo remaining in the Palestinian West Bank. He lives alone with his 10-year old son, Ziad. The kid has a specia...

Documentary on Erich von Stroheim

In the Southeastern-most part of Germany, rises Mount Watzmann. This mighty peak is a stone guardian of a remarkable wild region that holds tight to i...