Dominik Graf

My Falcon

Forensic biologist Inga Ehrenberg is so absorbed in her work at the Forensic Medicine Institute that she doesn't initially notice how lonely she is after her divorce a few years ago. It is only when her father claims that she has a half-sister and a falconer asks her to take care of a young falcon that she finds herself in a whirlwind of long-hidden, painful feelings. She begins to tame the falcon, convinced that the bird will never leave her.

Release Date:2023-10-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:5

Shadows of the Past

As a 16-year-old girl, Christina experienced her great love – with 39-year-old Jakob. When he died in an accident, he left an irrevocable gap in her life. Twenty years later, young Patrick rescues Christina from a thunderstorm. From the beginning, he reminds her of Jacob, from his friendly and confident nature to his characteristic gestures. The two become lovers. Christina is happy with Patrick, in whom she sees more and more the Jacob she has found again. But the more the two men become one person for Christina, the more irritated Patrick becomes. When he begins to see more than coincidence in their encounter, Christina has disappeared.

Release Date:2022-06-29

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:4

Twilight Eternal

It's his last chance to get back on his feet. And so Philipp Keyser knows no scruples as he approaches the young painter Alma, to find a lost painting, which is in the possession of a mysterious old man. Too late, Philip is clear that he expires more and more the young woman. In the main roles of Dominik Graf's film "In the evening of all days" Friedrich Mücke and the great theater actor and narrator Ernst Jacobi are to be experienced.

Release Date:2017-05-31

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:7

Manhunt: Escape to the Carpathians

A breathless criminal hunt, which leads into the remote mountain world of Romania, with the portrait of a foreign country, which has remained standing in time. Hanna Landauer and Sven Schröder are part of a special unit of the LKA, which traps fugitives across the borders to the remotest corners of the world.

Release Date:2016-06-27

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:13

Doomed Love: A Journey Through German Genre Films

An alternative history of the not-so-well-known West German genre cinema of the 1960s and 1970s.

Release Date:2016-02-19

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:1

Was heißt hier Ende? Der Filmkritiker Michael Althen

Documentary about German film critic Michael Althen.

Release Date:2015-02-13

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:2

Beloved Sisters

A love triangle forms between post-Enlightenment writer Friedrich Schiller and two sisters -- one who became his wife, and the other, his biographer.

Release Date:2014-07-31

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:46

Wealthy Corpses: A Crime Story from Starnberg

Release Date:2014-07-03

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:4

Es werde Stadt! – 50 Jahre Grimme-Preis in Marl

An overview of the interconnecting relationship between the most important TV award in Germany, the Grimme-Preis, and the town Marl where it is handed out once a year.

Release Date:2014-04-04

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Lawinen der Erinnerung

documentary

Release Date:2012-02-18

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

The Invisible Girl

Eleven years ago, an 8-year-old girl disappeared from a small German town on the German-Czech border. Although her body was never found, nor were there any traces of blood or DNA evidence, a mentally-disabled man was coerced to confess to the crime. Even though he withdrew his admission of guilt two days later, the forced confession was enough to convince the ruling judge. The responsible investigator Altendorf was discharged so that the investigation could be sped along by another colleague.

Release Date:2011-10-29

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:19

Dreileben: Don’t Follow Me Around

The police psychologist Jo is supposed to help catch the sex offender Molesch. Since the hotel is fully booked, she stays with her old college friend Vera and her husband Bruno. It turns out that Vera and Jo used to be in love with the same man. The two women's musings are interrupted when Molesch suddenly appears in the garden.

Release Date:2011-04-19

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:18

The Road We Don’t Walk Together

Release Date:2009-10-06

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Kommissar Süden und der Luftgitarrist

Release Date:2009-04-20

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Germany ’09 – 13 Short Films About the State of the Nation

Thirteen German directors present short films exploring the state of their country.

Release Date:2009-02-13

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:(segment "Der Weg - den wir nicht zusammen gehen") (voice)

Vote Count:14

The Vow

1818 in the Münsterland: Innumerable pilgrims seeking comfort and consolation visit the bedside of Anna Katharina von Emmerich, a nun whose body bears marks of the holy wounds of Christ on her chest, forehead and hands. Clemens von Brentano, an artist in his prime, visits the nun′s sickbed as a simple "writer of the wonders of God" to take down her visions and beliefs. He believes himself to be in charge of his life as a devout Catholic. The former rake′s encounter with the charismatic nun proves fateful, however. For both of them.

Release Date:2007-10-26

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:3

A City Is Blackmailed

A village is blackmailing the city of Leipzig.

Release Date:2007-02-23

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:7

The Red Cockatoo

A coming-of-age story set in Germany in the 1960s. Siggi becomes involved in a love triangle when he falls for Luise, but the tightening political climate forces him to make a fateful decision.

Release Date:2006-02-16

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:20

Cold Spring

A rebellious young woman is thrown out by her wealthy, but marbly parents and gets into a nightmare of poverty, prostitution and sickness.

Release Date:2004-03-12

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:3

Hotte in Paradise

Hotte, a Berlin-based pimp with only modest turnovers, suddenly becomes a big player in the prostitution business. He has three girls on the streets: Rosa is in love with Hotte and is working hard for him. Jenny, the new girl, is an unconventional prostitute but nevertheless much sought-after by her clients. And the third girl, Yvonne, also brings in a large turn-out. So, Hotte’s proceeds are more than sufficient to buy expensive accessoires and to boost his reputation with the other pimps. But when Yvonne quits her job and Jenny starts to work for another pimp, Hotte’s rise comes to a sudden end

Release Date:2003-01-25

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:10

A Map of the Heart

Katrin and Jürgen spend their holidays in Corsica. Katrin is in her mid-thirties, working as a tracer at Jürgen’s company who suddenly remembers he’s married – but not with Kathrin. So they decide to end their vacation earlier than they had planned. Virtually a second before they start to drive back to the airport, Katrin takes her belongings out of Jürgen’s car again and lets him go. Now being alone for the remaining days of her vacation, Katrin finds herself more and more bewildered by the things that happened to her.

Release Date:2002-07-25

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:9

Friends of Friends

Dominik Graf relocates the story of the same name by Henry James from the 19th century to the year 2001.

Release Date:2002-07-06

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:

Vote Count:12

Munich: Secrets of a City

A collage of memories, fictional stories, biographies, dreams and missed opportunities, which in their entirety represent the idea of Munich.

Release Date:2000-06-27

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Erzähler

Vote Count:4

Your Best Years

Vera Kemp, heiress of an industrial enterprise, lives in an apparently perfect world. While she doesn't care for big business, her husband Manfred runs the company. However, she learns about his affair with a younger woman and tries to save her marriage. During a vacation in Italy, Manfred and their son Max die in a road accident. Vera nearly despairs of her grief and, even worse, recognizes that her whole life has been a lie. Andreas Wolgast, a former employee, is the only one who supports her fight for the company and against her caballing family...

Release Date:1999-09-03

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:6

Bitter Innocence

Andreas Brandt is the head of the research department in a pharmaceutical company. He earns enough to build a future with his wife Monica and his daughter Eva. But a merger puts his position in jeopardy. Brandt randomly observes Larssen, who’s responsible for the merger, raping the waitress Vanessa. Instead of helping her, he takes a file which has previously been stolen by Larssen. It contains incriminating evidence against Larssen. Brandt tries to blackmail Larssen, but Larssen is capable to shift the buck back to Brandt. Slowly Brandt’s family becomes involved...

Release Date:1999-07-09

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:3

The Scorpion

Josef Bertholt is head of operations of the Munich Police's drug squad. When his wife Lily is the victim of a hit by drug dealers, he becomes even more obsessed with his work.

Release Date:1997-06-30

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:4

Journey to Weimar

Release Date:1996-10-03

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

Doktor Knock

Release Date:1996-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

The Invincibles

Simon, the leader of a police special unit, becomes caught up in a complex scheme involving bribery and money-laundering, as well as an affair with the beautiful wife of a government official investigating organized crime and political corruption. After the official is kidnapped, the chase leads to a dramatic conclusion high in the Bavarian Alps.

Release Date:1994-09-22

Department:Sound

Job:Music

Vote Count:17

The Gamblers

Jojo was counting on his inheritance from a rich uncle to pay off his gambling debts, but the old man played a dirty trick on him, giving him custody of an oversized dog, and leaving the real cash in the hands of one of his neices. His comfortable fantasy of future solvency has been sorely tried; to restore it, he begins to try wooing his cousin Kathrin (the woman with the loot). However, as things progress, he finds himself actually falling for her, which is perhaps the only really decent thing that he's done in his adult life. When he and a gambling buddy take Kathrin on a jaunt to the south of France, things get pretty dicey when a corrupt cop comes onto the scene. In this romantic thriller, only one will survive.

Release Date:1990-11-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:3

Tiger, Lion, Panther

Release Date:1989-07-06

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Die Beute

Release Date:1988-06-19

Department:Directing

Job:Director

The Cat

Two bank robbers hold the clerks hostage and demand 3 million German marks as ransom. What the police do not realize is that the true criminal mastermind watches them from outside the bank, anticipating every move.

Release Date:1988-01-21

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:25

Bei Thea

David flies from Tel Aviv to Munich to study. Through a gay friend he meets Thea, the older quirky landlady of a gay pub. He becomes friends with Thea. She recognizes through a ring David wears that he is her grandson.

Release Date:1988-01-10

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Drei gegen drei

Release Date:1985-11-28

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:3

Treffer

Albi, Franz and Tayfun want little more in life than to ride their bikes, but things toughen up when they get unemployed.

Release Date:1984-06-29

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:3

Second Sight

A young woman who works in a bookstore has been terrified by nightmares about having committed suicide in a past lifetime, combined with a sense of déjà vu regarding a specific apartment building. When she meets a young man who works in an optical company, whether she knows it or not, she is that much closer to the truth about her visions.

Release Date:1982-10-27

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:2

Neon City

Episode movie about the no-future generation of the early 1980s.

Release Date:1982-01-29

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:2

Nur ein kleines bißchen Liebe

An early short by Wolfgang Büld, in which he wanted to depict the pleasant, mundane songs and movies of the 50s. The film was supposed to be like a song by Peter Kraus or Ted Herold.

Release Date:1977-10-30

Department:Sound

Job:Sound Assistant

Golem

Upcoming science-fiction thriller directed by Dominik Graf.

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Jenseits des Rechts

The case of a young man found dead leads Inspector Cris Blohm and her colleague Dennis Eden into the amateur porn scene and to Mia, the daughter of well-known Munich businessman Ralph Horschalek who fears greatly for his good reputation. Then Cris Blohm is leaked information that could lead to the perpetrator but which, due to legal loopholes, may not be used. The investigation is blocked. In a precarious situation, she decides to pursue her most urgent suspicion nonetheless – even if it is on the edge of legality.

Release Date:2024-10-25

Department:Directing

Job:Director

The Universal Theory

Johannes, a doctor of physics, travels with his doctoral supervisor to a scientific congress in the Alps. A series of mysterious incidents occur on site. He meets Karin, a mysterious jazz pianist who seems to know more about him than she can know. Suddenly, mysterious deaths begin to pile up and Johannes tries to uncover the secret under the mountain.

Release Date:2023-10-26

Character:Erzähler

Vote Count:35

Melting Ink

In 2020, the author Anatol Regnier published Jeder schreibt für sich allein, a book that examines the life and work of writers in Nazi Germany. In collaboration with Regnier, Dominik Graf, Constantin Lieband, and Felix von Boehm have adapted this book into a polyphonic essay film of the same name – almost three hours in duration – that takes a meticulous look at the contradictory biographies of Hans Fallada, Gottfried Benn, Erich Kästner, Ina Seidel and Will Vesper.

Release Date:2023-08-24

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Fabian: Going to the Dogs

In 1930s Berlin, Dr. Jakob Fabian, who works by day in advertising for a cigarette company and by night wanders the streets of the city, falls in love with an actress. As her career begins to blossom, prospects for his future begin to wane.

Release Date:2021-08-05

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:49

In der Familie: Part 1

Luca Modica runs a pizzeria in Dortmund together with his wife Juliane. Although rather unsuccessful they can make ends meet financially, because the restaurant serves as a hub for mafia drug deals. After Pippo Mauro murders a drug dealer in Munich, he looks for shelter with Luca Modica, which he according to the rules of the Ndrangheta clan cannot refuse.

Release Date:2020-11-29

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Crossroads

A woman goes through a weekend full of ups and downs after a shocking diagnose, according to which she has less than a year left to live.

Release Date:2018-07-02

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:7

Open Wounds – A Journey through German Genre Films

A documentary about german cinema from 1960 to 1990. It follows "Verfluchte Liebe deutscher Film".

Release Date:2017-02-17

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

Show What You Love

In the 1970s, the Munich Group set about revolutionizing German film with low budgets and an excess of creativity. The Bungalow bar next to the Türkendolch theater was their meeting place, who were inspired by the French New Wave and New Hollywood. Munich Group star Iris Berben takes us on a journey back through time, a wild trip full of film clips and interviews with major figures of an unforgettable era.

Release Date:2016-06-25

Character:Himself

Vote Count:1

Return to Beethoven Street: Sam Fuller in Germany

A documentary on the 1973 Sam Fuller film Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street.

Release Date:2015-07-03

Character:Self

In the Face of Crime

Im Angesicht des Verbrechens is a German television series about the Russian mafia in Berlin. It received high critical acclaim, but the viewer figures were disappointing. It was broadcast by ARTE and Das Erste.

Release Date:2010-04-27

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:10

Vote Count:22

Mythos Metropolis

Documentary by Eckhart Schmidt.

Release Date:2010-03-01

Character:Self

Auge in Auge - Eine deutsche Filmgeschichte

This is not merely another film about cinema history; it is a film about the love of cinema, a journey of discovery through over a century of German film history. Ten people working in film today remember their favourite films of yesteryear.

Release Date:2008-07-03

Character:Self

Vote Count:3

Fremder Bruder

Release Date:2006-11-17

Character:Anwalt

Er sollte tot...

An intimate film that circles around a prostitute (played by Rosalie Thomass) who's being accused of murder.

Release Date:2006-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

German Television Award

Release Date:1999-10-02

Character:Self

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:1

Alpha Forum

Release Date:1998-01-07

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Sophie – Schlauer als die Polizei erlaubt

Release Date:1997-06-02

Character:Dr. Martens

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1

A Whispering in the Mountain of Things

Release Date:1997-02-17

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Irren ist männlich

Release Date:1996-10-31

Character:Lorenz

Vote Count:3

Sperling

Release Date:1996-03-02

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:18

Frau Bu lacht

Confectioner Mauritz is shot at close range. His wife, Thai woman Sita, whom he met two years ago through a marriage institute, is frightened and barely speaks German. Her five-year-old daughter, who she brought into the marriage, is also silent. The searches lead Commissioners Batic and Leitmayr to the Flügel Agency, that specialises in the placement of women with small children. Batic registers as an alleged customer with the institute.

Release Date:1995-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Morlock

Release Date:1993-02-17

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Nachtwache

A deliriously vulgar modernist journey to the end of the night.

Release Date:1993-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Morgenmagazin

Release Date:1992-07-19

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:2

Romy Award

Release Date:1990-01-01

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1

Blauer Panther

Release Date:1989-01-01

Character:Self

Episode Count:2

Tango im Bauch

Release Date:1985-06-29

Character:Willie

Der Fahnder

Der Fahnder is a German television krimi series which was aired between 1984 and 2005. In the Netherlands the series was broadcast by the VARA from 3 October 1985.

Release Date:1984-09-21

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Vote Count:7

Köberle kommt

Release Date:1983-07-14

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:12

Kieselsteine

Vienna in the eighties. An accidental meeting in a restaurant. She, Hannah, is Jewish and has a live-in lover, a young and successful architect. He, Friedrich, is a German and lives permanently in Vienna. Two worlds collide with another, begin to become entangled in each other. Friedrich too, has his problems. He is a "German", which fascinates and repels Hannah at the same time. She tries to get over her confusion by being ironic and flirtatious. Simultaneously, what she has tried to suppress breaks through in flashbacks...

Release Date:1983-01-01

Character:Sebastian

Telestar

Release Date:1983-01-01

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Bayerischer Filmpreis

Release Date:1979-12-01

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

1+1=3

An unmarried actress in Munich becomes pregnant but decides against marrying the child's father, and eventually moves in with a more agreeable man she meets on a winter sports holiday.

Release Date:1979-10-31

Character:Bernhard Grabowski

Vote Count:1

Der kostbare Gast

Release Date:1979-09-20

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Der Mädchenkrieg

The three daughters of the Dessau merchant Sellmann move with their father to Prague in 1936, where he accepted a position as director of the Böhmische Landesbank. For the three different women begins a new life, which accompanies the film over a period of ten years.

Release Date:1977-06-06

Character:Pavel Sixta

Polizeiruf 110

Polizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic Republic, and after the dissolution of Fernsehen der DDR the series was picked up by ARD. It was originally created as a counterpart to the West German series Tatort, and quickly became a public favorite.

Release Date:1971-06-27

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:7

Vote Count:21

Scene of the Crime

Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.

Release Date:1970-11-29

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:5

Vote Count:110

Grimme-Preis-Verleihung

Release Date:1964-01-16

Character:Self

Episode Count:10

Deutscher Filmpreis

Release Date:1951-01-01

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1