Movies: Das Kleine Fernsehspiel

  • 2023
    Behind the Haystacks

    Behind the Haystacks (2023)

    Behind the Haystacks

    7.82023HD

    A middle-aged fisherman living with his wife and daughter on Greece’s northern border, who is drowning in debt, starts to smuggle migrants across the border lake, in exchange for a hefty fee. Until a tragic incident strikes the family, pushing the th...

    Behind the Haystacks
  • 2026
    Cotton Queen

    Cotton Queen (2026)

    Cotton Queen

    02026HD

    In a cotton-farming village in Sudan, teenage Nafisa is raised on heroic tales of battling British colonizers told by her grandmother, the village matriarch Al-Sit. But when a young businessman arrives from abroad with a new development plan and gene...

    Cotton Queen
  • 2025
    Hysteria

    Hysteria (2025)

    Hysteria

    52025HD

    A film shoot takes a dark turn when the burning of a Quran throws the crew into turmoil. Caught in accusations, intern Elif is drawn into a dangerous game of secrets and lies, finding herself at the heart of an all-absorbing conspiracy....

    Hysteria
  • 2025
    Sound of Falling

    Sound of Falling (2025)

    Sound of Falling

    8.62025HD

    Over the course of a century, as four girls from different time periods experience their youth on a German farm, their lives become intertwined until time seems to dissolve....

    Sound of Falling
  • 1971
    Der kopflose Falke

    Der kopflose Falke (1971)

    Der kopflose Falke

    01971HD

    Vincent, a 36-year-old employee of an art gallery in Manhattan, has an affair with a young girl. The girl sells him a painting of a girl with a severed head and a large, headless falcon. Both the painting and the girl attract Vincent in a way that fi...

    Der kopflose Falke
  • 1994
    Berlin, 10:46

    Berlin, 10:46 (1994)

    Berlin, 10:46

    01994HD

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    Berlin, 10:46
  • 2025
    What Marielle Knows

    What Marielle Knows (2025)

    What Marielle Knows

    5.52025HD

    Julia and Tobias discover that their daughter Marielle has suddenly developed telepathic abilities and can see and hear everything they do. This leads to situations ranging from the awkward to the absurd as uncomfortable truths are revealed....

    What Marielle Knows
  • 2024
    No Dogs Allowed

    No Dogs Allowed (2024)

    No Dogs Allowed

    7.42024HD

    Fifteen-year-old Gabo seems like a regular teenager who goes to school, plays video games with his best friend, and does other things a normal teenager would do – except he’s not. He has tendencies he knows to be wrong, but cannot control. He befrien...

    No Dogs Allowed
  • 2025
    A Poet

    A Poet (2025)

    A Poet

    8.52025HD

    An ageing poet finds purpose mentoring Yurlady, a talented teen, though exposing her to the poetry scene might be unwise. His own poetic pursuits led nowhere, leaving him a stereotypical obscure writer....

    A Poet
  • 2025
    Thanks for Nothing

    Thanks for Nothing (2025)

    Thanks for Nothing

    02025HD

    Katharina, Ricky, Victoria and Malou live in an assisted living group. There they have built up an anarchic utopia as an alternative to everything they reject: Parents, school, rules. With social worker Ballack as a half-hearted guardian, things go w...

    Thanks for Nothing
  • 2024
    Mel's Block

    Mel's Block (2024)

    Mel's Block

    5.22024HD

    Today, Mel (34) belongs to the winners in life, but that wasn’t always the case. The thought of her own past so upsets the self-made millionaire’s that she summarily buys the large panel systems-building where she grew up. She would like to come to t...

    Mel's Block
  • 1969
    Gepellte Haut

    Gepellte Haut (1969)

    Gepellte Haut

    01969HD

    Four young people from Berlin decide to spend their summer in Portugal. They throw away their smart phones, open up their relationships and try to free themselves from any social norms. But just as their utopia comes true, a devastating forest fire b...

    Gepellte Haut
  • 2002
    Auf demselben Planeten

    Auf demselben Planeten (2002)

    Auf demselben Planeten

    02002HD

    The filmmaker delves into her family's past and the seemingly intact world of childhood begins to fall apart. Here, the private sphere reflects the helplessness and excessive demands of German society in the 1970s - between the shadows of the Nationa...

    Auf demselben Planeten
  • 2026
    Smalltown Girl

    Smalltown Girl (2026)

    Smalltown Girl

    02026HD

    Nore and Jonna meet again by chance in their early twenties and move in together. In conversations, it becomes clear that Nore was never the precocious "femme fatale" who admired as well as bullied Jonna, but experienced sexual assault as a young gir...

    Smalltown Girl
  • 2025
    Soldiers of Light

    Soldiers of Light (2025)

    Soldiers of Light

    02025HD

    David is a raw vegan influencer. In addition to spreading supplements, he also shares stories about dark forces and God. The film delves into a complex world between conspiracy ideologies and self-optimization, portraying people who want to establish...

    Soldiers of Light
  • 2024
    Exile Never Ends

    Exile Never Ends (2024)

    Exile Never Ends

    02024HD

    In conversations with her parents Yıldız and Mustafa as well as her brothers Taner and Onur, she goes on a painful journey into the past. Political persecution of the Alevi-Kurdish family in Turkey, the flight to Europe in 1989, several racist attack...

    Exile Never Ends
  • 2025
    Sirens Call

    Sirens Call (2025)

    Sirens Call

    02025HD

    In their feature-length debut, Gossing/Sieckmann dive into the merfolk subculture with performance artist and siren Una. Genre elements, fiction and documentary, self-care, political activism and self-chosen identities blend into one another....

    Sirens Call
  • 2005
    No Songs of Love

    No Songs of Love (2005)

    No Songs of Love

    5.82005HD

    As Tobias, a young director, supposes that his girl-friend Ellen had an affair with his brother Markus, front man of "Hansen", one year ago, he decides to shoot a documentary about the band's next tour. When Ellen joins the project, everybody's emoti...

    No Songs of Love
  • 2025
    Toro

    Toro (2025)

    Toro

    02025HD

    Toro is the tragicomic odyssey of Rocco and Angelo, two friends navigating the challenges of adulthood in their late thirties and the struggles faced by a new generation of young men....

    Toro
  • 2016
    On the Bridge of Death and Life

    On the Bridge of Death and Life (2016)

    On the Bridge of Death and Life

    82016HD

    Every year many thousands of people visit the mighty Nanjing Yangtze Bridge. Every year dozens of them have no intention of leaving the bridge alive. But there is one person determined not to see them plummet to their deaths: Chen Si. For some 13 yea...

    On the Bridge of Death and Life