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- A psychiatrist protects the identity of an amnesia patient accused of murder while attempting to recover his memory.
- An unassuming office worker is arrested and stands trial, but he is never made aware of his charges.
- Beautiful, biracial Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between two brothers, one good and the other bad.
- A happily married London barrister falls in love with the accused poisoner he is defending.
- An aging, world-weary gangster is double-crossed and forced out of retirement when his best friend is kidnapped and their stash of eight stolen gold bars demanded as ransom.
- In 1789, when the Revolution went on, a bandit named "Black Tulip" held the surroundings of village Roussillon in fear. The poor people respected him as Robin Hood, who declare himself a revolutioner but Count Guillaume de Saint Preux "plays" this benefactor. When he fought with Mouche, the policeman he was wounded ...
- This lavish, impudent, adult fairy tale takes the viewer from 18th-century Braunschweig to St. Petersburg, Constantinople, Venice, and then to the moon using ingenious special effects, stunning location shooting.
- Andrea Artusi begins to have doubts about the loyalty of his beautiful wife . When doubt becomes an obsession , his behavior becomes completely crazy , stalking her relentlessly.
- Two criminals on the run end up working in a rice field and decide to recruit other workers for their next robbery.
- Idle intellectuals Albrecht, Octavia and Äls, are given to quoting and emulating their philosopher hero, Nietzsche. Albrecht later contracts typhus bringing the foster child gravely ill Äls out of an infected area.
- Six youth criminals are chosen to participate in a social experiment, named "Guesthouse Objectivity" (Pensionatet Sakligheten), where they are assigned to live together in an apartment while being supervised by two forgiving social workers.
- A married couple learns that it is possible to build an illegal house in the outskirts of Rome, as long as it is erected in one single night and has a roof.
- A model agency in Rio de Janeiro is actually a front for a white-slavery ring that kidnaps European women and sells them on the South American sex market.
- Olivier, a handsome but callow and moody young student, picks up an enthusiastic actress during a theatre rehearsal, and is introduced to her acquaintances -- a group of jaded rich kids who spend their time storming around the Riviera harassing passersby, throwing wild parties and following all the latest trends. When sexy Elke gives him the eye, he leaves the actress in the lurch and joins the gang for a decadent party aboard a yacht. However, Elke's wanton ways and Olivier's inexperience do not mesh. Charlie accidentally sets the yacht afire. The gang wreaks its vengeance by luring him into a dangerous contest of bravura on a construction site.
- A young, by-the-book judge is appointed to a Sicilian village controlled by corrupt leaders and the Mafia.
- As Germany's fortunes in the latter part of World War II wane, several young boys, in their enthusiasm to do something "for the fatherland", volunteer to fight with the German army in the East. Horrified at the news that their children are to be sent to the Russian front, the boys' mothers begin a desperate effort to get their sons back.
- Andreas, a young German student, comes to Hungary on an exchange programme. In the Hungarian village he falls in love with the stationmaster's daughter Piroschka and spends much of his time with her. They have an enchanting summer until Andreas gets an invitation to join another young woman at a nearby resort. Piroschka is jealous and follows him there, causing trouble. It takes a long time for Andreas and Piroschka to even talk to each other again. When Andreas must leave Hungary at the end of his holiday, he is determined to return someday.
- Two out of work musicians put on drag to get work in an all girl band. Inevitable comical romantic complications ensue.
- Adventure drama during WW2 in Italy where a mixed group of people get trapped inside a cave after a bomb raid. But can they co-operate? And will they survive?
- King Ludwig II of Bavaria is frustrated, having to accept parliament's will to join Bismarck, rather he his cultured Habsburg friends, in wars. His love-life being as fruitless, he seeks comfort in art. But building fairytale castles and an even grander opera for his musical idol Wagner proves so expensive, his cabinet ends up resorting to formally challenging his mental health, plausible as his beloved brother Otto contracted schizophrenia earlier. Tragedy now lurks in Ludwig's prison-castle.
- As the end of the Second World War approaches and the Soviet Red Army is advancing, a group of concentration camp inmates is helped to escape by a Polish doctor. They hide in a wood where they meet other fugitives, who have been there for months, constantly in fear of being discovered. Out of fear of the German army patrols, they do not dare to leave the forest, even as the food supplies run low.
- In 1908 a traveling circus arrives in a small German town. The circus director, known as Sascha Obolski, is actually Alexander Oberholzer, the brother of local garden gnome maker Albert Oberholzer.
- Play the game of truth at your own risk.
- The German physician Dr. Struensee, brilliant doctor and favorite of women, is summoned to the royal court in Copenhagen.
- In Nazi Germany actor Hans refuses to divorce his Jewish wife Elisabeth. He is threatened to be drafted and sent to the front while she will be deported to a concentration camp. Desperate, Hans decides that suicide is their only way out.
- A German woman doctor in a Siberia prison camp during WWII inspires her fellow detainees with her compassion and strength.
- Literary adaptation: An American heiress in Europe falls in love with a German prince, but he is required to marry someone else for reasons of state convenience.
- A group of people gathers back in the post-war ruins of a luxurious Munich hotel they inhabited at one point or another years before; each trying to cope with the tragic consequences of the war and their own actions.
- Mr. Drake and his wife live a nice, quiet life on their Sussex farm, until one of their ducks lays a radioactive egg made of uranium. After the government finds out about this, the armed forces storm onto the farm in a frantic search for the duck responsible.
- Caught at the window just before an air-raid warning (WWII) composer Paul tells how he met his wive Anni, a revue star and song writer, how he handled the courtship and the early years of his marriage, inspite of some professional conflicts - his operas were flops, while his wive had one success after the other - they finally found out how they could help each other.
- Beppe Musolino is falsely accused of murder. He is tried, found guilty, and imprisoned. Unexpectedly he escapes from prison and to survive he starts living like an outlaw brigand. He falls in love with village girl Mara, who helps him hunt down all of the witnesses who lied about him at the trial.
- In the winter of 1944 the widow Vera von Hoff, her daughter Marion and the pony Prusse flee from East Prussia to the farmer Buddensiek in Lower Saxony. There Marion falls in love with doctor Meining not knowing that he is in love with her mother...
- An actress used to playing only bit parts becomes the center of attention when a movie director buys her life story as a film project, she is now faced with a psychological crisis.
- A long time-span of Austrian history (from the late 19th century to the years after world war II) is reflected in the ups and downs of a family of piano-makers in Vienna.
- A Nordic fishermen's village surrounded by the raging sea. This is were fisherman Haldor (Wilhelm Borchert) is living. His marriage with the proud Salvör (Heidemarie Hatheyer) is going to be impend. While on the sea in a storm, he is being cast upon an island. There he falls in love with the farmer's girl Maria (Ingrid Andree). When Haldor learns, that Maria is pregnant, he takes her with him back home. Salvör who was still waiting, hates him for that and marries a rich merchant. Twenty years later Haldor's daughter Gunna and Salvör's son Ragnar, are falling in love with each other. And only now Haldor learns from Salvör that Ragnar is his son.
- A GI on furlough attends a Folies-Bergères show. He falls in love with a dancer, Claudie, the star of the theater.
- Tonio is an aspiring writer and the son of a rigid aristocratic father and a music-loving mother. Wandering throughout Germany and Italy to "find himself," Tonio frequently remembers his childhood experiences in a series of flashbacks.
- Niddy is the paternal Niece of the deceased Owner of the Hotel Hovelmann, She lives in the Hotel and is watched over by Karl, a kindly, father figure, who is a long time Servant and friend to the family and Mother. Her Cousin Alwin shows up and She eventually falls in love with him Alwin wants to eliminate Karl who interferes with his plans to convince Her to marry him. Niddy is guaranteed a place to live in the Hotel and Karl is guaranteed a job there, a common deal in that Era. Niddy fall for Alwin. Karl stops Alwin once, because he can not be fired, He is "degraded" to supervision of the washroom. He quits,and later meets Till, a Ten year old House-Boy from the Hotel while sitting in the Park. He takes Karl home and there, Karl decides to return to the Hotel and take the Job as Bathroom Attendant. There he meets his old Friend Claasen, the owner of a whole Hotel Chain. Claasen buys the "Hövelmann". Hotel, and Cousin Alwin and His plans are destroyed by Karl.
- Rose Bernd, a pretty farm girl, attracts the men around her against her will. Not only her boss, Christoph Flamm, a rich landowner married to an invalid woman but also Arthur Streckmann, a virile excavator driver. Both manage to make love with her, which results in her falling pregnant. Rose's father decides to lodge a complaint but while in the street on her way to the law court Rose gives birth to her baby.
- A satire on the romantic adventures of a youth who follows in the footsteps of his Don Juan like father.The student is sent away from Cologne where his family lives to a smaller town for falling in love with an actress,and is later expelled from school and lands up in the army just as they are preparing for a dangerous war.
- This early postwar suspense story, based on a well-known 1926 murder trial with Dreyfus-like overtones also represents an East German reflection on Nazism. Dr. Blum, a Jewish manufacturer living in Germany, is falsely accused of killing his booker. Even when the real killer's identity becomes evident, the state prosecutor refuses to accept Blum's innocence. The film explores German reaction to the trial and investigates the relationship between the legal system, antisemitism, and fascism, providing insight into the historical context that allowed Nazism to flourish.
- The man who broke the jug, the judge, is trying a case who determine who broke the jug. Long before the evidence becomes conclusive against the suspects, it becomes apparent that the blustering and bullying - and naive - village judge is the guilty one.
- A man and a woman meet in a shelter during an air raid. They feel strongly drawn to each other, but are separated without knowing exchanging names. A year later the two meet randomly. He now learns that she is addicted to morphine.
- The son of an entrepreneur goes to the family castle in Tyrol to reunite his family. There he met the orphaned boy Thyme. The two look very similar and decide to swap roles.