Komplizen was founded in 1999 by Janine Jackowski and Maren Ade, as a feature film production company. Jonas Dornbach joined them as partner and producer in 2010. Komplizen Film has produced and co-produced over 30 award-winning films such as Ade’s three films to date, and titles from Radu Jude, Miguel Gomes, Nadav Lapid and Valeska Grisebach. In 2019, it established Komplizen Serien, a sister company for serial formats, and made its first series SKYLINES for Netflix, produced by David Keitsch.

Recent film productions include Pablo Larraín’s SPENCER, Nicolette Krebitz’ A E I O U and Marie Kreutzer’s CORSAGE.