Zdf Movies

A family spends three summer days in a beautiful lake mansion close to Berlin. Together with her new lover, Irene visits her brother Alex, who still i...

A modern fairy tale: Young beauty meets the three musketeers and experiences her own "adventures".

Two-time Olympic champion, seven-time world champion, overall World Cup winner – Laura Dahlmeier is one of the most successful German biathletes and s...

Mali's Music defines the country's cultural identity. Radical Islamists are threatening the musicians. Together with the stars of Malian Global Pop -...

Tobias and Flasche are childhood friends. However, their alcoholic friendship is doing more harm than good to Tobias, who realizes he should focus on...

The film explores the background and build-up to this final flight to disaster. Using dramatic reconstruction, archive footage and exclusive interview...

The small Portuguese coastal town of Nazaré is unique in Europe. It became the Olympus of surfing in the 2010s. Monster waves roll ashore here between...

A documentary about Germany's last emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II.

Our planet is running out of drinking water. Only a vanishingly small proportion of the world's water is available as usable fresh water. This preciou...

Vormärz in Germany: Gisela and Walther, a maid and a servant - a predestined path of life, which Gisela rebels against. Her free-thinking spirit puts...

After 7 years spent in jail Paul is free again. With his old crew he celebrates his return. Nothing seems to have changed. And soon Paul finds himse...

In southern Burgenland, Austria, 18-year-old Renate is found dead in a wooded area. Investigator Elfriede Jandrasits, who is known for her tenacity at...

Discover Grace Bumbry’s inspiring rise to global opera fame. Spotlighting her historic performances, the film explores the racial barriers she overcam...

Documentary about the vanishing traces of WWII and the Holocaust in contemporary Berlin, and about individuals who keep the memory alive despite of th...

The majority of Germans think UFOs are just something for crackpots. Researchers see it differently. This includes Hakan Kayal, a professor of aerosp...