Thorsten Merten Movies

A young, naive and enthusiastic theater director named Kai comes to a grim provincial town to put on Beckett's Waiting for Godot. Although the...

A group of young, ambitious candidates for a special police unit in Baden-Württemberg are driven to perform at their best. One of them is...

The story of a seemingly settled bank employee who breaks the shackles of his everyday life and becomes a wanderer between worlds. Frederik is an...

Described as a high-concept anthology thriller; an exploration of the universal processes that can turn peaceful individuals into people capable of...

The life of a taxi driver is to not judge or get involved. It's to go where he's told to go, for a price. One day, Thomas gets a group of odd...

Even as a young boy, Simon hatched plans to get rid of his sister Sarah, who, as the baby of the family, drew all the love and attention of his...

One evening in the mid-sixties, Rolf Anschütz, a chef who runs a small restaurant in a town called Suhl in the middle of the East German...

After a blow to the head, Gilles wakes up in the hospital. He knows that his wife Lisa caused the injury. The act is the result of years of...

Plum out of luck, Swabian farmer Huber’s farm goes under. Then his girlfriend Birgit takes over her father’s newly-acquired firm –...

In Brunnenberg prison for men, the new warden introduces a revolutionary convict re-socializing project: training guide dogs for the blind. The perks...

A nameless man receives phone calls intended for someone else and ends up pretending to be that person, while a female character rebels against her...

Year 2047: "Inifinitalk" is the AI developed by some guys, offering possible eternal life through digitization of peoples mind and when they want to...

West Germany, 1983. Seventeen-year-old Ursula wants it all and is thus too much, although all she's looking for is love. Enter Siegfried Grimm, the...

Young 19-year-old Hajo wrestles with caring for his 6-month-old son and finding both work and his role of being a father.

Emily (8) is terminally ill. Her parents ask the new CEO of a small pharmaceutical company, Dr. Julia Schemmel, for the early release of a drug that...

They want to get away from each other, but they clasp each other even more firmly. They seek to save appearances at all force. The more they laugh,...

For Connie, things have been going to plan for many years, both professionally and in her private life. That is, until the son of the CEO takes over...

Jan Landers made it: Grown up in East Berlin, he quickly made his career after the turnaround: from the weatherman of a local station to the...

A young man is searching for his place in the world. He finds his way, religion and his "brothers" in the radical Islam. What begins with the wish of...

Lena, 17, is restless and desperate. In a few weeks she will finish school, but she doesn't have any definite plans for her future. She wants to make...