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- An anthology series that follows the work of homicide detectives in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
- A series of erotic short films, all with similar unexpected endings.
- Thriller set in the world of Forensic Pathology. Coroner Paul Herzfeld finds a capsule in the head of a heavily mutilated corpse, containing a phone number and single word: the name of his daughter.
- A very clever parrot lives in a Hindu palace, surrounded by many beautiful girls, but the parrot escapes, and is trapped far from the palace. One day, when its new owner is sleeping, the bird convinces a young boy to open the cage door. In return, it shows the boy a secret passage to get into the palace.
- After taking a dip in the lake, an innocent maiden encounters an enigmatic stranger dressed in black. Soon, he will introduce her to the secret pleasures of the flesh and the mysterious ways of the world.
- A bride-to-be wakes up one morning next to a man chained to the bed, but cannot remember what happened the night before.
- After years of political agitation, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, and Leo Jogiches form a revolutionary German party, the Spartacists.
- While Erendira, a beautiful teenage girl, has a surreal mystical vision, her grandmother's house catches on fire and burns to the ground. Her grandmother holds Erendira responsible and, in order to extract restitution from the girl, forces her into prostitution. Erendira's surreal mystical experiences continue while her grandmother grows rich from exploiting her.
- The last days of life of the legendary Polish pedagogue Dr. Janusz Korczak and his heroic dedication to protecting Jewish orphans in the Warsaw Ghetto.
- In a totalitarian society of the future, in which the government controls all facets of the press, a homicide detective investigates a string of bombings, and finds out more than he bargained for.
- A writer taking a rest in a country hotel is obsessed with a strange woman in the same hotel. The woman seems to observe him in provocative ways, but he does not dare to approach her. One day he follows her to her room and listens to strange "erotic" sounds from inside, and begins to have erotic thoughts.
- Germany 1935. 16-year old Sanne is sent to live with her aunt in Frankfurt. She falls in love with her cousin Franz, and they plan to marry secretly, but her aunt learns of the plans, and denounces Sanne to the Gestapo.
- Davida enters a shop shortly before off-time and wants to buy a bathtub. Just the manager is still there. As business is not well, he is willing to stay longer. Davida wants to try the bathtubs. Although this is not allowed in the shop the manager agrees. As if that is not enough, Davida says she wants the bathtub for two and needs to be sure it fits her needs. She wants the manager to take place in the bathtub too.
- Teresa is not like her female colleagues. She cannot enjoy that kind of simple minded pleasure like watching males stripping. There is that Dutch painting in the museum she is fascinated of. Over and over she sits in front of it just staring at the young Dutch guy on it. One day the scenery on the painting becomes alive...
- Los Angeles, 2000. Megan David likes to keep track of her life with a camcorder. It's her video-diary, her art project for the Biennale. It depicts who she is, where she's going, how she's going 'to pop her cherry', as she informs her girlfriend. And hip video artist that she is, Megan has even picked out the right partner through the Internet - a theology major named Luke - for the summer of her deflowering at the Garden of Eden. But when the love-birds arrive on the motel, the concierge hands them the key to their room on a condition - they are not to eat the apple...
- In the aftermath of World War II, an American soldier falls in love with a Polish woman, and offers his help of leaving the country. But the circumstances turns out otherwise.
- Novel-based story of Jacob Fabian, a somewhat liberal Berlin advertising copywriter who witnesses the collapse of the prewar German society during the 1930s.
- The caring housewife and mother Vera is about to turn 50: one more night and then the time has come. Preparations for the planned party are in full swing. Vera's loving husband Werner and her mother Charlotte are already slightly annoyed by the commotion, especially since Vera's best friend Regine constantly interferes in everything. The arrival of Vera and Werner's adult children causes additional excitement. There's Philipp, for example, who gives his overprotective mother a lot of headaches: Not only did he not become a pilot, but "merely" a flight attendant - Philipp is also gay. And he also invited his new friend, the Frenchman Michel. Vera's daughter Christa also presents her mother, as a birthday surprise, so to speak, with her new lover: the likeable black African Mbele. The multicultural family festival is completed by daughter Anna, who brings her cute children and her fun-loving Scandinavian husband Sven. But that's just the beginning of an extremely turbulent birthday celebration. At first, the snobbish Aunt Hildegard causes confusion with her arrogant demeanor. And a little later the mayor is at the door to congratulate Vera on her 85 (!) birthday - and minutes later he is happily celebrating at the coffee table. When the chaos has finally somewhat dissipated and the illustrious guests find peace between cream cake, a cold buffet and filled shot glasses, another uninvited guest arrives in the evening: the urbane Charly, Vera's great childhood love. When he gives Vera and Werner a trip to his house in the USA, Werner is overwhelmed - because Charly knows full well that Werner suffers from a panicked fear of flying. Vera does manage to calm the quarrelsome people down. But when Werner surprises his wife with Charly in a compromising situation, all his fears seem to be confirmed.
- Two women escape the city and their frustrating relationships to spend a weekend alone in the country. The hills around Melbourne provide the setting for a sensual awakening.
- After her husband leaves and her mother dies, Bogna Wegner recollects her childhood memories and experiences a sexual awakening from her past.
- Story of four people in Sopot in 1933, mysteriously brought together to an old villa to reenact a murder ritual that took place 36 years earlier.
- Winnie Heller graduated from the police academy with top marks in crime and psychology and is a junior commissioner in the homicide department in Wiesbaden. In her late twenties, single, committed and ambitious, Winnie does not get along well with her new colleague Hendrik Verhoeven, who is 17 years older.
- An attractive young woman is accosted in the corridor by a young man with something rather sinister on his mind. A contest of give-and-take follows.
- A teenaged girl is executed for going against a king's wishes and honoring her brother's death.
- A young boy receives a mystical motorcycle that transforms into a woman when he rides it at night.
- A detective sees a woman flee the scene of a murder but loses her. No one else saw her. He meets the woman and falls in love. Confronting her with his suspicions, he discovers that she, too, is a victim.
- The birth, separation and reunion of a group of friends in Berlin at three key times: as children in the streets of postwar Berlin, in the 60s when walls are built, and in the late 80s when a new generation breaks them down.
- An equally despotic, ostentatious, and lavishly-living sovereign indiscriminately drives innocent peasant sons directly from the fields where they are working to sell them for a mercenary bounty to America.
- Winnetou has survived and now lives in the hills. He doesn't want to see other people, but when a group of settlers and a befriended tribe of Indians are threatened by some bandits, he comes to help.
- Veteran film director Matty Bonkers, a Hollywood legend, arrives in Berlin for an honorary retrospective tribute. While introducing his film Mockery, he receives a phone call from his producer lying in intensive care at a hospital. Blau needs a favor for old times' sake. Could Matty finish a porn movie before his legs get broken by Tokyo Tony? Matty reluctantly agrees. On the set he meets movie star and ex-cello-player Inga - and the experience is bizarre spirited uplifting a comédie humaine.
- The retired building contractor Arno Adelmann lives with his prudent housekeeper Nancy in a stately villa on Lake Constance. At first glance, the 77-year-old oddball seems a bit cranky; For example, when he shoots molehills with his double-barreled shotgun because they spoil his beautiful lawn. Ultimately, however, his heart is in the right place - even after the heart attack three years ago. When he sees his new neighbor Ina being coldly ripped off by a shady construction company during her renovation, he offers the nice pharmacist his generous support. Until her dilapidated house is properly repaired, Arno lets the single mother live with her little daughter Caro in his already almost empty villa. Alarm bells immediately ring for Arno's daughters Thekla and Bianca as well as his sons-in-law Bert and Theodor. In the eyes of her "dear relatives," Ina is nothing more than a sophisticated inheritance hunter who is after Adelmann's millions. In order to forestall this "bitch", Thekla and Bert try to obtain Arno's incapacitation with a costly psychiatric report. The suicide of Arno's eccentric girlfriend Romy plays a key role in the devious plan. There's some detective work to be done for Ina and the clever housekeeper Nancy.
- Ernest Hemingway wrote his Parisian stories on the table of a sidwalk café. Niko prefers to pen his Berlin tales on the counter of a funky bar behind the shark tank. What better place for a writer to pick up a girl? Along comes Sonja, who wants to know how the horny tale he's now working on will end. So she invites Niko to finish his erotic tale over a drink at her apartment! There's only one catch: Martin, her ex-husband, still hasn't moved out of the place.
- As the head of a traditional cruise line, Victoria Stellmann is her husband with intelligence and self-confidence. She has a brilliant reputation and is equally popular and respected by employees and business partners. In her private life, too, everything is going very well for the power woman: She leads a happy family life with her husband Kai and their children. But then she met the handsome Jacques Oberländer at a congress, apparently by chance. From the first moment on, there is a spark between the two. The casual businessman turns her head with charm, humor and empathy. At his side Victoria experiences a romance that has long been lost in her harmonious but routine relationship with Kai. Even after their return home, Jacques does not give up. Victoria reacts insecure, but at the same time feels flattered - and finally spends a passionate night of love with her admirer. However, the rude awakening was not long in coming: a few days later, she received an anonymous message from a blackmailer who was demanding half a million euros and threatening to publish a revealing video of her pastime. Fearing for her family and her reputation, she wants to meet the demand. Jacques offers her to take over the negotiations and the handover of the money - until Victoria finds out in horror that he himself is behind the blackmail as the mastermind. Disappointed and deeply hurt, awakens in her new fighting spirit. The lousy villain shouldn't get a cent from her. Victoria clears the table: she confesses to Kai her affair and turns on the police. In order to avert damage to the shipping company, she hands the management over to her brother, who has long wanted her post. But Jacques doesn't give up that easily. When he begins threatening her children, Victoria sets a risky trap for him.
- Lotte embarks on a bizarre journey across Germany after a divorce. The people she meets are wrapped up in their own worlds.
- The story of Udo Jürgens, one of the most popular musicians (singer and pianist) of German speaking Europe, beginning with the story of his grandfather being inspired to emigrate to Russia when he hears a street musician play the Russian folk song Kalinka on a bassoon. The film follows the fate of three generations of the singer's family.
- Story of the nun who stood out for her strong personality as a trusted servant of Pope Pius XII.
- A very regimented woman does everything possible for her boss who is a dentist. Unfortunately he is a womanizer and doesn't appreciate her enough. She seems to love him yet he doesn't realize it. It's actually funny and it was a decent movie. The setting is in Mallorca and the scenery contributes to the plot too. One must not take this film too seriously but rather go with it, as Bella goes through the motions of getting the dentist to love her back.
- A hot summer day on a country road. A young woman in her bridal dress gets kicked out of a car. Lost and frustrated, she wanders off across a sea of grass into a dark wood - and discovers an abandoned house. Tired and worn out, she lies down on a bed. When she is awakened from her nap by a clap of thunder, she sees a cup of steaming hot tea and a package on the floor. She opens it - and finds a kimono. The bride knows she no longer is alone ... but should she put on the kimono?
- For Ursula Gothe, the wife of the aspiring engineer Dr. Richard Gothe, life in the post-war period is finally back on track. That changes when she rediscovers her daughter Martina, who she thought was dead, in a wanted ad.
- Germany, 1944: In the east the war is entering its final phase when the soldier Karlheinz Rombach is given another leave from the front and spends a few carefree hours with his attractive wife Eva. While Eva's father Julius, in contrast to his level-headed wife Magdalena, still believes in victory, Karlheinz is anxious about his return to the Eastern Front. When saying goodbye, he asks his childhood friend Sebastian, who is exempt from military service due to a war injury, to look after Eva and his little son Peter if worse comes to worst. Shortly before the end of the war, Karlheinz was taken prisoner by the Soviets and the letters he wrote home never arrived. The years pass, but Eva firmly believes in the return of her husband. Little does she suspect that Karlheinz was sentenced to 25 years imprisonment in a labor camp after a failed attempt to escape. While Eva had a tough time in the post-war years, friends and family kept telling her that it was time to get involved with another man - after all, the boy needs a father too. But it was only when Sven Elsenau, returning from the war, appeared in the summer of 1948 and Eva took the last glimmer of hope for her husband's return, that she gave in to Sebastian's shy solicitation. After years of privation and suffering, Eva feels joy in life again for the first time - when Karlheinz suddenly stands in front of her .
- The days pass slowly for Lia amid the vineyards of a rural Georgian village. Still in the prime of life, her beauty is overlooked even by her husband Sandro, who runs the local car repair shop. Things change when Megi, the comely star of a film being shot nearby, happens upon the scene to get her car repaired. Lia knows a rival when she sees one - although she's also aware she doesn't stand a chance against a mini-skirt. Megi, however, has a few tricks up her sleeve too.
- Malou feels that the difficulties she is experiencing in her relationships lie in her past and so she searches out information about her mother. Her mother, a nightclub singer who lived in Germany, France and Argentina, becomes the focus of a series of flashbacks through which we learn of her mother's stormy life and the difficulty she had in bringing her up. These insights enable Malou to sort out the difficulties in her own life.
- The medical-technical assistant Marlen and her husband Henning are happily married, but cannot have children of their own. The couple decides to adopt a Chilean girl and, full of hope, sets off for Puerto Montt, where the child lives in an orphanage. Making contact with the reserved girl turns out to be more difficult than expected. When the ice finally breaks, a dramatic incident shocks the happy adoptive parents: Araceli and the other children in the orphanage are taken to the hospital with blue lights flashing. What the home manager thought was a cold turns out to be meningitis. Since the antibiotics administered do not work for some unknown reason, the children's lives are in danger. As an experienced laboratory technician, Marlen finally finds out the reason for the pathogen's resistance: salmon, which is contaminated with high doses of antibiotics, was regularly on the menu in the home. For an effective antidote, Marlen needs one of these fish from the salmon farm of the rich Ignatio Orotava Fuertu. But the influential breeder refuses and does everything he can to cover up the scandal surrounding his rotten fish; Instead, he offers Marlen to help her adopt another child if she lets the matter go.
- A dwarf from a circus and his best friend, an elephant, rescue a beautiful young woman from her burning car. When the dwarf visits the lady later, she tells him he has got a wish, because he saved her life. The dwarf wants one night...