Matthias Tiefenbacher (Director)
Little is known about Matthias Tiefenbacher, a figure with a modest footprint in Director. Stay tuned for updates as more details become available.
Little is known about Matthias Tiefenbacher, a figure with a modest footprint in Director. Stay tuned for updates as more details become available.
In Berlin, young people search for purpose, happiness, and love on extensive nightly forays. They often get in their own way, masking their disorientation with busyness and self-deception in everyday life.
Release Date1988-08-12
Charactersd Stefan
Vote Count1
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 Date1970-11-29
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count4
Vote Count123
A long-running German television series about a two-man team of highway police, originally set in Berlin and later in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Release Date1996-03-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count131
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 Date1971-06-27
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count26
Crime lurks in the Saarland. Thankfully, Detective Judith Mohn and her colleague Freddy are always on hand to apprehend criminals of every kind. In their first case, the murder of a prostitute leads them into the trucking world.
Release Date2017-06-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count10
Franka Lauth leads a luxurious life. Thanks to her top job in a Berlin advertising agency, she can afford a penthouse, a chic convertible and, by the way, a sofa for 4,500 euros. Her soaring comes to an abrupt end when Franka's ore competitor Markus Spreng steals the presentation documents for a spectacular campaign. Her faint-hearted boss, Roland Kunze, doesn't believe Franka, who then quits in anger.
Release Date2010-02-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count4
As a criminal investigator of Jewish descent working in Berlin, Sara Stein was used to operating independently of everyone else. Her keen instincts and sound judgement enabled her to navigate sure-footedly through many sensitive cases. But it was not until she found herself investigating the murder of an Israeli DJ that politics and religion played such an important role in her life. Now facing new challenges as a detective in Tel Aviv, Sara continues to strive for truth and justice while dreaming of peace for her beloved new home, Israel.
Release Date2016-03-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count4
Vote Count2
Andrea is a teacher at a gymnasium in Lübeck. She prefers to convince her students with arguments rather than punishments. But it can also be very specific: For example, when it comes to averting the advances of her problem student Niklas. He has fallen in love with her, much to the grief of his girlfriend and classmate Lisa. On a school trip, the situation comes to a head, Andrea feels increasingly pressurized by Niklas. Her husband Michael is not much help in this situation - the dentist has just started a new job and only his research in mind. Jealous Lisa tells in school that they do have a relationship, which makes their marriage very much tested.
Release Date2008-09-29
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
A peaceful island will do anything to ward off the reputation of 'vacation paradise.'
Release Date2014-11-27
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count9
Unter den Linden – Das Haus Gravenhorst is a German television series.
Release Date2006-07-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count13
Das Beste aus meinem Leben is a German ARD family television series. It was broadcast between 15 December 2006 and 2 February 2007.
Release Date2006-12-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count8
After overseeing major projects as a construction manager for many years and having traveled all over the world, Peter is taking early retirement. First of all, he has big plans for the new phase of his life: he can finally make up for a missed togetherness with his wife Charlotte, a successful scientist who will soon follow him into retirement, and write his long-awaited novel. The reality, however, soon turns out to be far less romantic: Charlotte has little time for her husband because of her job, and Peter can't even get past the first sentence in his novel.
Release Date2009-04-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
What hurts more: losing the wife to her younger lover after 21 years of marriage or having to share a lottery win with her after the breakup? The parcel carrier Henry doesn't want to give up half of his unexpected wealth because of the divorce. While his wife Ellen wants to make a clean break with the new beginning, he tries to save the long-hopeful marriage, but only on paper. The disappointment hurts too much to share the cash fairly! Neither his own daughter, who needs money for a journalism school, nor his best friend Mehmet know about the new fortune. His "favorite colleague" Mona either doesn't like the fact that Henry doesn't tell her the truth. She doesn't really recognize Henry anymore, with whom she has fallen in love. Ellen is also surprised that Henry, who is chronically exhausted, can afford an expensive racing horse. But there's a reason for the secrecy, because Henry wants to make his dream come true to win the Grand Prix of Germany. His maxim: Believe in losers too!
Release Date2023-01-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
A harmless speeding ticket from Italy can sometimes have huge consequences - this experience must make construction manager Otto Schlegel, as he returns after a romantic weekend with his secret lover Renate from the south. There is an election campaign in the city, as no one may allow a misstep. As if that were not enough trouble, Schlegel has a new employee who wants to prove himself as a cover-up: Renate's husband Michael. But the press has already received weather. But the witty Schlegel does not let it get that easy. He struggles to keep his post and his great love Renate ...
Release Date2008-10-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
Release Date2004-10-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count14
Vote Count1
Hannah hero finds out that her husband Martin is cheating on her. Angered, she announces that she wants a divorce. But Hannah is waiting for the million-dollar legacy of her great-aunt Käthe and a divorced woman will never entrust her family heritage to the tradition-conscious old lady. So Hannah arranges the separation of table and bed with her future ex-husband. Then Hannah and Martin move into Aunt Käthe's villa and play a harmonious married life.
Release Date2007-06-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
The sleepy village of Gendering is basically just a tiny spot on the map, but a very beautiful one. The village is so attractively located between the Alps and Munich that the young innkeeper Paula receives an offer to sell the village to an investor for 18 million euros: Gendering is to become a luxury vacation park.
Release Date2019-05-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Some call it a men's holiday, the other flee from themselves: Thomas, Jens and Malte have rented a holiday home on a secluded Swedish lake - the complete contrast to life at home. They are only partially satisfied with that for different reasons. One is around 40, the first interim balance revealed weak points. But even in the Swedish forest, where there are at least one moose in addition to the free-running men, the guys catch up on the reality quickly. Because the wasteland is not as gullible as hoped ...
Release Date2011-03-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count6
Criminal psychologist Cathrin Blake is called to an emergency in the middle of the night: A young woman is threatening to throw herself to her death from a high-rise building. Cathrin knows the disturbed woman – Moon Flynn was in therapy with Cathrin a few years ago for a borderline disorder, but stopped it prematurely.
Release Date2023-10-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Release Date2013-10-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
Maria Nikolai was once a celebrated musician. 20 years ago she came to Hamburg with her husband, who has since died. But her neighborhood, which used to be a neighborly neighborhood, is gradually threatening to turn into a social hotspot: the streets are dirty, young people are killing time in front of the supermarket and alcohol is a constant companion for many. Foreigners have also been increasingly moving to the district for some time.
Release Date2014-11-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
A real and a fake Gauguin take Dupin back to the 19th century.
Release Date2014-04-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count10
Financial Officer Katharina Kamp has to collect tax debts from the stud owner Carl von Balkhausen. She arranges a local appointment, but the grumpy squire ignores her. When Katharina unexpectedly loses her brother and his wife in an accident, she initially has very different worries. She lovingly takes care of her niece Lara, who survived the accident and now sits in a wheelchair indefinitely. By chance, Carls and Katharina's paths intersect again. He and his horses work wonders for Lara and Katharina.
Release Date2007-09-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3
When Princess Sophie's affair with photographer Edgar becomes public knowledge, King Ludwig II breaks off the engagement. Sophie's parents immediately arrange a replacement: a marriage to the Duke of Alençon.
Release Date2001-05-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count1
Together with his students, Ralph is faced with an unpleasant task: The evening school is moving to an innovative educational center. Ralph thinks this is a bad joke.
Release Date2021-05-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3
Brigitta Nielebeck suffered a serious car accident in which miraculously escape unscathed. However, she has lost his memory. Doctors recommend her to spend time with family members. Therefore, make contact with Marie, her 16 year old daughter, who for two years living with a host family.
Release Date2014-04-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3
Release Date2005-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count5
The worn-out ex-journalist Ralph has to work as a substitute teacher at an evening school and in the end learns more than his protegees.
Release Date2018-12-17
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count2
The happily married judge Susanne has been carrying a secret with her for many years. As a 17-year-old, she released her baby for adoption. But a letter now confronts them with the past: Paolo, the Italian father of her girl, has died and has inherited his house in Tuscany to the unknown daughter. Despite better knowledge, Susanne sets out in search of her lost daughter - endangering the happiness of two families.
Release Date2010-11-18
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3
A brutal femicide has shaken the coastal city of Galway. Criminal psychologist Cathrin Blake, who was personally close to the young victim, is particularly distraught. The dehumanising violence against a defenceless woman challenges Cathrin not only professionally, but also, and above all, emotionally.
Release Date2026-04-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
His office is headed by the successful lawyer Dr. Frank new with left. Even his four teenage children appreciate her Daddy Cool, because as a single father he keeps the ball flat and does not cause any unnecessary stress. The four smart kids decide that it's really time for Papa to fall in love again. They start for the father an Internet contact action with chaotic resonance. How will Frank survive the gathering of widow-willing widows who, with a rose in their buttonholes, all together wait for the coveted lawyer in the senior café?
Release Date2002-05-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3
On their 35th anniversary, Barbara dreams of Provence’s lavender fields, but her husband won’t budge. Secretly, she joins a French class with free‐spirited teacher Alexander and classmates Mehmet, Richard, Simon, and Miriam, learning life as much as language. As Barbara blossoms in newfound friendships, her family notices her spark reignited, and she resolves to seize her own happiness.
Release Date2016-11-28
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
One of them is a cab entrepreneur with a Berlin snout, the other an ambitious politician in a fine suit - and the dissimilar twin brothers Jochen and Christian Lichtenberg haven't spoken to each other for a long time. Now they are both in trouble: gambler Jochen has betting debts with the gruff Mr. Fleischer, Christian is left by his wife after a fling with a leggy lobbyist. In the chaos that now befalls them both, the Lichtenbergs finally get closer again...
Release Date2014-12-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count4
As a junk dealer Anton is found dead, a case develops in which each of the Germingers is involved: the law-abiding Commissioner Franz Junior, his rebellious sister Anna, ex-policeman Franz Germinger senior and his wife Erika. Who could have wanted Anton? Commissioner Franz Germinger Junior first taps in the dark. His sister Anna is sometimes ahead of him in some situations, which may be because she likes to exceed her competencies. Even more annoying the junior but his father Franz Germinger senior, who can not refrain from finding.
Release Date2015-10-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
After Willy Unterkofer, an old acquaintance of the Germingers, is murdered, Franz Junior takes over the investigation together with Karl and Anna and a family quarrel soon arises. Franz Senior and Erika seem to want to steer the youngsters in a certain direction. Their credo is that the past should be put to rest, but this makes Franz Junior and Anna even more curious about what the seniors are hiding. The fronts soon harden and everything is at stake: not only Schwarzach 23, but also the whole family...
Release Date2016-10-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Detective Inspector Wencke Müller is passed over for a long-overdue promotion. Instead of Wencke, the police chief’s daughter, Ina-Annabel Michels, is given the leadership position at the Duisburg Police Department. The new team leader immediately takes charge of the current case, which involves the stolen handbag of Sophie Winger, the wife of a politician.
Release Date2013-10-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
After an argument with her parents, Sophie gets involved in an affair with her neighbor Max. When her mother meets Max during a reconciliation visit, the lives of everyone involved take a dramatic turn...
Release Date2012-10-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count5
Things could hardly be better for the attractive, lively Eva and her sensitive husband Max: The two are as in love as on the first day, have good jobs and live in a charming little house in the countryside. Eva works as an assistant in a renowned Frankfurt event agency and Max is an extremely talented carpenter. But on the very day that Eva is given the opportunity by her boss to organize and lead an important conference, Max confesses to her that he has lost his job. The role reversal in Eva and Max's young marriage puts their relationship to a serious test.
Release Date2008-01-31
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Release Date2020-08-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Everything in architect Tom Pohlmann's life is optimized down to the last detail. He even works on his weakness, his panic fear of speaking in front of people, with the help of a psychology app - in parallel to his morning sports program. Sarah Wünsche's chaotic everyday life feels completely different: she is raising her twelve-year-old son Paul alone, working night shifts and fighting for a mini-loan to get her bankrupt kiosk back. In order for two such contrasting people to come closer together, chance has to come into play several times: first in a minor hit-and-run accident that almost lands Pohlmann in prison; and then in the children's ward at the hospital, where the notorious speeding driver is doing his community service. There he meets Sarah's son Paul, who is suffering from mysterious breathing difficulties.
Release Date2020-12-04
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count7
Release Date2002-12-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count4
Heddi is a self-confident and battle-hardened coastal fisherwoman. She only has one weak point: her daughter Eva. Eva is an environmental activist and just as militant as her mother. But despite their resemblance, Eva doesn't want to know anything more about Heddi; there has been radio silence between the two for years. But now Eva and her ten-year-old son Jannis turn up unexpectedly in the small Baltic Sea village, ostensibly for a birthday visit to Grandma Lore, where Eva spent most of her childhood. In reality, however, Eva is in big trouble: She has to serve a prison sentence for resisting law enforcement - and a repeat offender at that! - she has to serve a prison sentence. But who will look after her little Jannis while she is away?
Release Date2022-09-29
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
At the centre of the comedy ‘Halbe Hundert’ (‘half of hundred’) stand three strong women at fifty. As with so many women of their generation, the number on their birth certificate seemingly doesn’t fit to their sense of life at all. But all three of them stand before decisive changes. Anne is successful in her professional life as a hand surgeon who is acclaimed all across Germany. The victim of her flawless career is her marriage to Klaus, who had her back with regards to children and household for years and now has left her unexpectedly. Anne reacts with wounded vanity and books a young, attractive male escort for a congress. But the relationship, considered to be professional, throws Anne out of the loop emotionally. Charlotte has worn down herself for the family for years as she is diagnosed with breast cancer. With the illness in front of her eyes, Charlotte finds the courage to break out of old confinements…
Release Date2013-04-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
She certainly has enough trouble on her hands: potter Teresa Blümel's business is doing poorly and the father of her children Max and Lisa has run away. Architect Robert Kant is in a hurry to get to the office in his hire car when he crashes into Teresa's van full of ceramics and plunges into the lake. Teresa fishes him ashore, but Robert has lost his memory and all his papers. So Teresa gives him shelter. While the village police mistake him for the Chinese man Cheng, the little ones make friends with Robert. Teresa also likes his sense of humor. But Robert can't suppress his old life forever...
Release Date2010-12-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
The prominent TV presenter Sandra Berger is dead. Gardening entrepreneur Britta Hausmann finds the TV lady beaten to death in her Usedom vacation home. Chief Inspector Ellen Norgaard is shocked when she meets the dead woman's husband, the equally well-known TV presenter Jonas Gomez, at the crime scene. The two are connected by the well-kept secret of a passionate affair. Karin Lossow senses that Ellen is in a bad way. The detective pours her heart out to her friend. Nobody at the police station suspects that Ellen was seeing Jonas Gomez at the time of the crime. It would mean the certain end of her career in the police force and the probable end of the career of her lover, who has no alibi for the time of the crime and is also being blackmailed.
Release Date2022-10-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3
Abbie Campbell is in prison for murder, she stabbed her sleeping husband. The background to the brutal act was never clarified, Abbie had refused any statement at the time. Criminal psychologist Cathrin Blake has to prepare an expert opinion on the young woman.
Release Date2022-09-29
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
More than fifty years have passed since Harry left his great love Elly head over heels to go to America. Now he has returned to see her again - and must discover that she lives as a nun in a Protestant monastery. At first she refuses to contact him, the pain is too deep that he has not been alive throughout the years. Only when she learns the true reason for his supposed silence does she let Harry back into her life. With the memory of the past times, the two also return to the old feelings. Elly gets into a deep moral conflict
Release Date2012-03-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
During Kaare and Hanne Eliassen's 25th anniversary, their teen model son Daniel, who was biting side pains until his exams, collapses and is diagnosed with potentially fatal chronic renal failure. Both parents are ready to donate a kidney for transplantation, but neither matches and Kaare discovers Hanne's 20 years secret: Kaare being presumed near-infertile, she had a 'loveless' but siring affair, which also generated Daniel's brat sister Emma, who encourages Kaare to fall for divorce and disown Hanna. Daniel needing a donor, Hanne desperately searches his biological father, who left town and has a rather common name: Leif Sörensen, only reported found by desperate radio appeal. The meteorologist lives in an island lighthouse, so Kaare, Hanne and Emma, who gets a mutual crush on helpful young fisherman Ronny Stene, sail hurried to the only man who can heal medical urgency, wondering what it will do to relationships, and Daniel finds out to.
Release Date2010-04-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Release Date2002-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
A man with narcissistic personality disorder has barricaded himself inside a pub with several hostages and is threatening to kill them. The hostages’ lives depend on Cathrin and her ability to empathise with people and win their trust.
Release Date2026-04-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Cathrin Blake's neighbor Coner O'Neill is found dead. While Superintendent Sean Kelly assumes a natural death - Coner was over 80 - Cathrin is skeptical, as Coner had shown no signs of frailty so far. At the same time, another male body is found, also over 80. It turns out that both men had contact with the exclusive care home "Eden View". Bridget Howard is a very likeable, warm-hearted woman who is devoted to caring for elderly people without families. Kelly is taken in by the older lady's charm, but Cathrin is suspicious of appearances. Then there is another death at Eden View, and Kelly comes across several unsolved missing persons cases - also linked to Bridget's retirement home. Bridget has plausible explanations for all the incidents, but could it all just be a chain of unfortunate circumstances?
Release Date2024-09-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
16-year-old student Moira McKendry, gifted, popular and fun-loving, is found dead after a school party. The fatal head injuries indicate a violent crime. Moira's best friend, the introverted Hanna, was apparently the last person to see Moira alive. But Hanna can't remember anymore.
Release Date2023-10-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Release Date2024-11-28
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Criminal psychologist Cathrin Blake is confronted with a very personal case: Superintendent Sean Kelly, with whom Cathrin is also friends, has to deal with his family history when his nephew Eoin comes to Ireland from his native Australia.
Release Date2024-09-26
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
The lawyer Dr. Wagner is a real disgust - neither for his employees nor for the residents of his apartment building does he have a friendly word. But when a violent pipe break in Wagner's penthouse flooded the apartments underneath on Christmas, the neighbors who had become "homeless" made a radical decision: Since Wagner refused to help his tenants, they settled under the leadership of the resolute Rita and her adult daughter Sophia without further ado with the stubborn loner - for a few happy, if not exactly quiet, Christmas holidays.
Release Date2007-12-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count7
When the head of Herbi Zidinger is discovered on the head of a scarecrow, Chief Inspector Franz Germinger Jr. is immediately on the scene. His sister discovered the skull, so Germinger Senior quickly learns about the murder and, as usual, gets involved in his son's investigation. The father-son team soon have three suspects.
Release Date2018-04-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Shortly before her 40th birthday, the successful surgeon Anne May is plagued by self-doubt: Actually, she would have to be satisfied, since she has long been married to her childhood sweetheart Peter and has built up a working family life with him. Nevertheless, Anne is deeply unhappy. When her husband is on a business trip, she meets Carolin Winter, the mother of a school friend of her son. Quickly, the two women make friends, Anne gets carried away by the joie de vivre of the native Chilean.
Release Date2011-06-29
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count7
School secretary Annett Ludwig is jogging by the sea. She discovers a dead teenager under a steep cliff: Theo Jacobsen, a pupil at her school. The 17-year-old was considered an inconspicuous outsider. Karin Lossow knew Theo from commercial school, where she led a course on legal issues as part of a project week. By chance, she had witnessed a bullying attack on Theo, who was at the top of his class, and offered to help the boy. Rainer Witt and his colleagues Holm Brendel and Dorit Martens investigate Theo's laptop. It turns out that he was engaged in a lively trade in test questions, which he sold to his classmates and made thousands of euros in profit. To do this, the alleged model pupil used access to the headmaster's surfer - only school secretary Ludwig knew the password.
Release Date2022-10-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3
Andrea recently lost her husband. Since then, she has been trying to keep her indebted art and junk store afloat on her own. The widow gives her beau Ludwig the cold shoulder - until she discovers in her grief that her husband of eleven years had a mistress.
Release Date2011-04-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
Release Date2025-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Release Date2003-12-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2