Single Bells

Single Bells 1997

7.15

Kati, successful advertising manager, dreams of a family with Jonas, who has been her boyfriend since eight years. As he doesn't like the plan at all, they start an argument. Kati finally decides to go to her sister Luise on Christmas instead of flying to Mauritius with Jonas. This turns out to be a bad idea because she isn't the only guest Luise's family has to bear... Kati, successful advertising manager, dreams of a family with Jonas, who has been her boyfriend since eight years. As he doesn't like the plan at all, they start an argument. Kati finally decides to go to her sister Luise on Christmas instead of flying to Mauritius with Jonas. This turns out to be a bad idea because she isn't the only guest Luise's family has to bear...

1997

About Me

About Me 2025

1

The performances by Petra Morzé (as a mature thespian preparing for a video audition) and Marlene Hauser (as the daughter assisting her) illuminate this gently comical drama that intelligently touches on a range of issues within its brief running time.

2025

Crust

Crust 2025

1

12-year-old Fabi has to finally prove himself as one of the family - by getting his first scar.

2025

Schlamassel

Schlamassel 2023

5.50

Germany, late 90s: Johanna is an intern at a local newspaper and is struggling with the death of her grandmother. In addition to her grief, she is burdened by conflict with her family after she angrily confronts her uncle, who is only interested in his inheritance, at the funeral. She seeks balance by throwing herself headlong into her work. In the process, she comes across an old photograph of a concentration camp guard named Anneliese Deckert. With this find, she hopes to advance her journalistic career: Johanna tracks down the now 80-year-old, but does not expect to meet her entire family on the spot, nor does she expect the fuss the photo causes.

2023

Bagage

Bagage 2016

1

The young Russian Leonid Zaharov tries to flee to the West via the GDR at the end of the 1980s. When he is bounced and there is no way forward, he looks back. Does he give up everything for freedom or does his happiness lie at his back?

2016

Passerby

Passerby 2011

1

A nighttime odyssey just before New Year's Eve: a woman and a man walking along a back road, caught up in a fight. Their conflict spreads out around them: it covers the dirty coat the woman is wearing, a child she meets and a waiter who doesn't want to leave her alone. Between external stimuli and internal conditions an idiosyncratic and seemingly inescapable space of repressed aggression and confrontation emerges.

2011

Zweigstelle

Zweigstelle 2025

5.80

When Resi and her clique get into a fatal accident on their trip to the Alps, they find themselves in a Bavarian afterlife authority that will decide their fate. Elysium, purgatory, rebirth - anything seems possible. When it becomes clear that the group lacks all conviction, the question arises: what the hell happens to someone who didn't believe in anything when they were alive? 

2025

Karla

Karla 2025

8.30

Twelve-year-old Karla testifies in court. She makes serious accusations against her own father, who should have guaranteed her safety. Judge Lamy supports her in this difficult trial and becomes her most important confidant.

2025

Helix

Helix 2024

6.00

As a bodyguard at the BKA, Helen Schilling is responsible for the security of the controversial Minister of Economics and Environment Richard Bauer at a press event. When Bauer has a seizure in front of the journalists, it quickly becomes clear: the minister has been the victim of a targeted attack. In the course of the investigation, Helen becomes involved in a highly explosive plot, behind which a war for the dominance of future genetic research and its ethical limits is unfolding.

2024

Before the Fall

Before the Fall 2004

7.03

In 1942, Friedrich Weimer's boxing skills get him an appointment to a National Political Academy (NaPolA) – high schools that produce Nazi elite. Over his father's objections, Friedrich enrolls. During his year in seventh column, Friedrich encounters hazing, cruelty, death, and the Nazi code. His friendship with Albrecht, the ascetic son of the area's governor, is central to this education.

2004

The NeverEnding Story III

The NeverEnding Story III 1994

4.48

A young boy must restore order when a group of bullies steal the magical book that acts as a portal between Earth and the imaginary world of Fantasia.

1994

Gasman

Gasman 2021

2.33

Speedy, merciless and with plenty of black humor Gasman shows the picture of a man searching for his inner soul.

2021

Silence Like Glass

Silence Like Glass 1989

6.60

True story of two diametrically opposed young women dealing with terminal illness.

1989

Aguirre, the Wrath of God

Aguirre, the Wrath of God 1972

7.45

A few decades after the destruction of the Inca Empire, a Spanish expedition led by the infamous Aguirre leaves the mountains of Peru and goes down the Amazon River in search of the lost city of El Dorado. When great difficulties arise, Aguirre’s men start to wonder whether their quest will lead them to prosperity or certain death.

1972

Ingenium

Ingenium 2018

4.79

As Felicitas' life is turned upside down, she doesn't know if her nightmares are taking over or if something bigger is trying to control her - and the only way to find out the truth is her best friend Natascha who is locked up in an asylum.

2018

Männersache

Männersache 2009

4.27

During the day Paul works in a Berlin pet shop and in the evening he works on his career as a comedian. Things are going really badly until he cracks jokes about his best buddy Hotte and his girlfriend Susi. The audience goes wild with excitement! But Hotte and Susi are p* off. Paul has to decide: friendship or career?

2009

Das Vergessen

Das Vergessen 1970

1

A police officer's life is thrown off course by a dramatic twist of fate. While trying to solve the mysterious disappearance of her 17-year-old niece Amelie, Pia Kraus receives a devastating diagnosis: she is suffering from an early form of Alzheimer's disease.

1970

The Horn

The Horn 2016

8.70

Documentary series following the mountain rescue teams in the Swiss Alps.

2016

Eine blassblaue Frauenschrift

Eine blassblaue Frauenschrift 1986

1

In October 1936, a high official in the Austrian government receives a letter from a German Jewish woman with whom he had an affair in 1925 asking him to help place an 11-year-old, half Jewish boy in a good Austrian school. Is the child his? Should he help? And above all should he help now, at a time when Nazis are becoming powerful in Austria?

1986

Danube: Europe's Amazon

Danube: Europe's Amazon 2012

7.50

This comprehensive cinematic portrait of Europe's second-longest river presents scenes of breathtaking beauty along the banks of the Danube and investigates the tension between humans and nature, civilization and wilderness. Dams and power stations alternate with sections of natural wilderness along this mighty river, which flows through great cities such as Vienna and Budapest.

2012

Nachbarschaftsstreit

Nachbarschaftsstreit 2019

1

When people live next door to each other, misunderstandings and arguments often arise. Almost every fourth Austrian has experienced this before. If the situation escalates, it can have dramatic consequences. ATV visited the brawlers and witnessed one or the other argument up close.

2019