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- Florian Hoffmeister's feature film debut focuses on a woman, whose world is turned upside down when her lost vanished boyfriend returns after five years. When Jan and Marie traveled to Spain with some friends, Jan disappeared without a trace. Five years later, Marie, now married to Frank, incidentally discovers Jan's Spanish address and writes him a farewell letter, which she throws into the wastebasket. However, Frank finds the crumbled paper and sends it off. After a short while, Jan returns to his hometown, making Marie uncertain of her feelings...
- This Out of Africa (1985) style three-part movie deals with a courageous woman, who moves to Africa to flee her past. Berlin, 1914: When Katharina von Strahlberg discovers that her husband Richard had an affair with her sister-in-law Martha, she leaves him after stealing some important plans and photos of East Africa and travels to Dar es Salaam with one of Richard's business partners. In the German colony, she learns that nobody wants to employ her because of her husband's power, but she draws new courage from meeting Franz Lukas, a doctor, and Victor March, a lively Scotsman...
- This drama focuses on three very different siblings, all searching for happiness. Hans-Jörg is a sex addicted librarian, who is interested in young students. Werner is a successful politician with a dysfunctional family. Agnes, a trans woman, works as a table dancer in a nightclub. The three siblings just have one thing in common: their longing for a happy life.
- Germany, 1986: Niels, 17, and his mother Hanne leave Bremen to live in a rural hippie community after her divorce. While Hanne falls in love with Peter, the guru, her son doesn't like him and their new life at all. Then, Niels gets to know Martina, the mayor's daughter, and starts supporting the militant opponents of a nuclear power craft near the village. Suddenly, the news of the Chernobyl nuclear accident shocks everybody.
- This Groundhog Day (1993) style comedy focuses on a midwife, finding herself living the same day over and over again. Anna, a single mother of two, works as a midwife and hasn't been on holidays for years. Unfortunately, when she wants to go to Italy, her neighbor asks her to accompany him and his pregnant girlfriend to the hospital. She helps giving birth to the baby reluctantly, and then grabs her children to start their journey. However, Anna wakes up in her own bed the next morning again...
- Isabel Kleefeld's crime drama deals with a little boy whose life is in danger after he had watched a road accident. In a small village, the young police officer Marc Fischer celebrates promotion with his colleague Horst Bäumer. Shortly after, he drives under the influence and dies in an accident, whose only witness is seven-year-old Arnie. Bäumer's wife Hannah gets to know the child and tries to reveal the hidden truth. When Arnie suddenly disappears, she starts searching the boy together with the local mailman Enno, fearing someone wants to silence him...
- Bianca Berger is a young woman with a dark secret: despite her innocence, she has been in prison for four years. After her release, she falls in love with Oliver Wellinghoff, son of a wealthy banker's family, but their relationship seems to have no future because Oliver's engaged to Judith Simon. As Bianca and her intriguing cousin Katy become employees of the Wellinghoff family, they are involved in many affairs, secrets and lies...
- Finishing his trilogy about desperate young women in New York, Amos Kollek focuses on an alcoholic, who tries to regain custody of her son. Being addicted to alcohol, single mother Anna had to give her son to foster parents, but they would "sell" him back if she offers enough money. When she gets to know Pete, the mentally handicapped son of a wealthy author, his father asks her to marry his son for one million dollar...
- Stefan, a gay bartender in a trendy club, doesn't care a lot about his professional and personal future. One night, the mysterious Martin stares at him, so he thinks that his guest searches a quick love affair. Stefan invites him to his apartment, where Martin is rather surprised at his intentions and explains that he doesn't want sex, but his attention for their common past. Martin searches his father, a foreign worker from Italy, who is also Stefan's originator, which he didn't know. Their mother kept Martin, while Stefan was adopted. After the first shock, Stefan decides to join his "new brother" on his trip to Italy. They only have some photos and letters of a holiday trip to Cattolica and their father's name: Giuseppe Iacoviello. This is the beginning of an odyssey across Italy and their way to themselves...
- After Rudi's wife Trudi suddenly dies, he travels to Japan to fulfill her dream of being a Butoh dancer.
- Michael Mühlhausen, crafty manager of a big food company, dreams of being promoted. While he plans the contested takeover of a main competitor, he doesn't notice the estrangement from his wife Charlotte and his daughter Hannah. Meanwhile, dubious things happen behind Mühlhausen's back, which he doesn't see through until the company's leading chemist is murdered and he becomes the prime suspect...
- Andrea Sawatzki plays a woman, who tries to start a new life after a personal tragedy, but moves into a mysterious apartment building. On her birthday's eve, Franziska Giano celebrates a costume party with her husband Manuel and their friends. Manuel leaves to call for their daughter Laura at the station, but on their way back a terrible accident happens, in which Manuel dies and Laura goes blind. One year later, the women move into a Frankfurt apartment building. Although their neighbors seem to be nice, the atmosphere there becomes more and more mysterious...
- Jo Baier's drama focuses on a lively photographer, who wants to show his suicidal brother the beautiful sides of life and love. While Anno works as a successful photographer in Munich, his brother Julian thinks about committing suicide by jumping from a railway bridge in Wuppertal. As Anno wants to keep him from realizing his plan, he tries to prove Julian that life can be beautiful. On their way to Munich, Anno shows his brother the passport of a young woman named Laura, whom he took along due to a car break down. As Julian likes the photo, Anno later asks Laura not to give his brother love, but sympathy and strength...
- 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...
- Edeltraud Rabitzer's movie deals with a man, whose life is completely turned upside down due to a mysterious woman. Achim Weber, a happy husband and father, and his partner Sven get to know Denise, an attractive young woman, during a business trip. After talking to her about her failed marriage, he wakes up the next morning - confused and without his wedding ring...
- Based on a true story, Stephan Wagner's thriller focuses on a man and his fight against the East German secret service. After an escape attempt, Wolfgang Stein is sentenced to ten years in prison, but is finally ransomed by the West German government in 1971. Dieter Michaelis, another refuge, asks him to help an East German fellow-sufferer to flee the country via Bulgaria. This is the beginning of Stein's efforts to outsmart the agents of the East German "Staatssicherheit" again and again, until they finally try to eliminate him...
- Michael Wulfes's tragicomic documentary focuses on the dreams and disappointments of the young generation in the German town of Marburg during the Swinging Sixties. Ferdinand Kilian, a young barber working in the salon of his authoritarian father, dreams of discovering the world, but is kept in a cage called Marburg, a conservative university town. One fine day, the mysterious Mr. Öttinger enters the salon and changes Ferdi's life forever. He claims being a personal friend of John Lennon and promises to bring The Beatlesto Marburg for playing a concert. The peoples' enthusiasm is boundless...
- The Story of the German Sail-School Ship Pamir that sunk in a hurricane.
- As her father Hinrich suffers a heart attack, Dr. Jenny Fehse replaces him as doctor of a small coastal village for a while. When one of his cancer patients dies of an overdose, she realizes that her father's assistant Elisabeth Spengler and Hinrich are involved in several cases of euthanasia. Jenny gets into a moral conflict...
- When frustrated literature professor Julia gets the opportunity to teach in Paris for one year, the dream of her life comes true. Living in a small, but charming hotel room, she soon is annoyed by her young neighbors because of their unmistakable sex life. However, she gets to know them personally.
- Beate Thalberg's critically acclaimed documentary tells the story of two German families, whose ways first cross in the 1930s. Karl Amson Joel owned the fourth largest mail order company in Germany, but has to leave Germany with is family due to his Jewish roots in 1933. Meanwhile, the Neckermann family gains his business empire by profiteering from the Nazi expropriation laws. Almost seventy years later, their descendants, among them pop star Billy Joel, meet in Vienna to confront themselves and each other with their common history...
- Critically acclaimed five-part miniseries based upon the family story of novelist Ralph Giordano. In 1897, Italian immigrant Giacomo Bertini and his Swedish wife Emma decide to stay in Hamburg, while Rudolph Lehmberg marries the young Jewish girl Recha Seelmann. Twenty years later, the Bertinis' son Alf, an upcoming pianist, gets to know Lea, the Lehmbergs' daughter. Although Lea is a talented musician herself, she decides to marry Alf and support his career. At the beginning of the 1930s, the couple realizes that Alf's dreams of becoming a music star were illusions. Lea tries to earn money to feed her three sons Roman, Cesar, and Ludwig. The Nazi takeover in 1933 changes everything because Lea and Alf's relationship is now considered to be "intermarriage". They have to fight against discrimination and hate in the new "Aryan" society. The family finally fears deportation to a concentration camp and hides in a cellar in inhuman conditions.
- Maren Eggert and Matthias Brandt star in this drama about a family, trying to start a new life, which fails because of the mother's mental disease. After a difficult time, Martina and Stefan Schneider move into their new house. Although the couple and their son Daniel seem to be happy, Martina suffers from a mental disease. When Evelin and Klaus Garbers become their new neighbors, they soon make friends with the Schneiders. However, Martina thinks that Evelin and Stefan have an affair, so she gets into a panic when Evelin announces her pregnancy. Martina believes that her husband is the baby's father...
- Based on a true story, Miguel Alexandre's two-part drama focuses on a East German woman and the fight for her children. Spring 1982: Sara Bender, living with her daughters Silvia and Sabine in the East German town of Erfurt, wants to marry her colleague Peter, but shortly before the wedding, her father is killed in a road accident. As the funeral takes place in West Germany, she isn't allowed to go there, so she starts planning to leave her communist home country forever. Trying to flee via Romania, she is caught by the secret service. After years in jail, Sara is ransomed by the West German government, but without her daughters. To draw the world's attention on her desperate situation, she starts demonstrating at the Berlin border crossing Checkpoint Charlie...
- German film loosely based on the sinking, by a Soviet submarine, of a Nazi troop-transport ship in the Baltic Sea on January 30th 1945.
- This popular family drama deals with the smaller and bigger problems of caretaker Martha Haslbeck living in an average quarter in the city center of Munich. Although life doesn't always treat her fair, she doesn't loose her good sense of humor. Martha has to take care of her unreasonable daughter Christa and her son-in-law Bertl, the often annoying occupants of her house and, last but not least, her lazy ex-husband Josef and his eccentric new wife Ilse. One fine day, she gets to know the Greek craftsman Costa Doganis and falls in love with him...
- After Victor, 19 years old, is accused of raping a 17-year-old girl, his teachers -under the direction of principal Cornelia Cordes- have to decide whether he should be suspended or not. The discussion of these nine persons shows the contrasts in human character and reveals some bitter feelings...
- Nina Vandenberg is married to a coffee entrepreneur and a frustrated housewife. While the whole family celebrates her husband Gero's birthday in Switzerland, she sits lonley and drunken in their mansion in Hamburg and burns down the living-room. After she is released from hospital, Gero dies in a plane crash. His legacy reveals some very bad news for Nina: illegal money was found in the wreck, the company is nearly bankrupt and she is accused of tax fraud now. While Nina learns that her whole life has been a lie, the company's intriguing vice CEO Wolf Sevening tries to take control. Although some members of her own family also fight against her, Nina starts to search vanished money -40 million euros- which could save the enterprise and her life. Three men are her allies: Bent Peerson, her husband's former business partner, Jens Thiede, official in charge of the tax office, and Gero's older brother Arno who emigrated to Kenya many years ago. As the family owns a big plantation there, Nina thinks she could find the money, but reveals a bitter secret of her own past in Africa instead...
- Twelve years after their little son Jakob has been kidnapped, Lena and Wolfgang Breuer learn that he lives together with his kidnapper Carola Weber, who named him Tim. While Lena wants to call the police immediately to get her child back, Wolfgang is convinced that they cannot exclude Carola from Jakob's life...
- Based on Elke Heidenreich's short story, this drama focuses on the difficult relationship between a lesbian journalist and her mother. Shortly after forty-something Nina has fallen in love with the photographer Flora, her mother Eva, who doesn't know anything about her daughter's sexual orientation, suggests going with her on a business trip to Budapest, which becomes a look back to their common past...
- This critically-acclaimed drama focuses on the Drombuschs, an average German family living in Darmstadt near Frankfurt. Siegfried, the father, runs an antique shop, while his wife Vera looks after their home and the three children, Chris, Marion, and Thommy. Chris is a dutiful police officer who marries the complicated Tina, daughter of a wealthy family, but his sister can't handle her life after she gives birth to Daniel and becomes a single mom. Siegfried's mother moves in and annoys the whole family. After a while, Vera and Siegfried buy and start to renovate an old mill, but the financial problems and stress are too much for Siegfried, who dies after a heart attack. At this difficult time, Vera is supported by Uncle Ludwig, a relative who suddenly turns up and secretly falls in love with her while she starts a disappointing relationship with journalist Martin Sanders, whose wife Brigitte tries to destroy their love. Over the next years, Chris is killed by a hooligan and Tina must raise her adopted Black son; Marion has an affair with a pander, but finally finds her true love. In the last episode, Vera follows a frustrated Ludwig to Mauritius, while Marion discovers that the mill is burning down with her grandmother inside.
- Italy, 1940: Carmen de Blasco is married to a fascist, but falls in love with a friend of her father Ubaldo, the young partisan Armando Zani. At the end of the war, their daughter Giulia is born, but Carmen returns to her husband. Two decades later, Giulia falls in love with university student Ermes Corsini. Nevertheless, he decides to marry the egocentric, but rich heiress Marta Montini. After some years and a disastrous marriage, Giulia meets the love of her life again. Ermes is annoyed by Marta, so he starts an affair with Giulia, but one day she gets a horrible diagnosis...
- A woman wakes up after three years of coma and finds that her husband has sold her house and now lives together with her best friend. She finds out that she had a car-accident, but can't remember the time before it. Now, she begins to investigate.
- A romance between a British pilot hiding in Germany and a German nurse is shown on the background of massive allied bombing of Dresden towards the end of World War 2.
- Margarethe von Trotta's TV movie focuses on a woman whose life is destroyed by her addiction to alcohol. Angela Rinser is a happy mother of two children and quite successful in her job as bilingual secretary. The sudden death of her husband changes everything. She starts drinking and loses her job. Her children Felicitas and Max try to hush up their social decline for years because they don't want to live in a foster home. While Max finally leaves the family, Felictias becomes her mother's drinking pal...
- Uschi Obermeier, a German cover model from the 1960s who embodied the dreams of the hippie generation - joins a commune, begins a modelling career, meets rock stars, and travels the world in a bus, enjoying love, drugs and freedom.
- The series shows, in a highly exaggerated way, the coexistence of a West German family in a North Rhine-Westphalian row house settlement at the beginning of the 1970s.
- Johannes Fabrick's movie deals with the heart-breaking, but never kitschy story of Rebecca, a young girl fighting against leukemia, and the different ways her parents handle the desperate situation. While her mother Ellen concentrates grimly on Rebecca's health condition, her father Ralph doesn't let the disease rule his life. When Ellen is told that her daughter won't survive, she wants to take desperate measures...
- Tim Trageser's TV drama focuses on a couple whose love passes through a crisis when they start a weekend relationship. Jan and Maria are a young and happy couple, living in the country with their little daughter. When Maria gets the tempting offer to work as chef in a refined Berlin restaurant, Jan confirms her intention to accept. However, they estrange more and more from each other after a short while...
- A Boy has to decide between being gay and being a professional swimmer. He takes the latter, marries and gets a son. 19 years later the whole thing explodes.
- Two half brothers in Berlin, 30+, one an introverted scientist, the other a sexually frustrated teacher, have no love life. That's about to change.
- Alice is 16 years old and an introverted girl with a special ability: she hears extraordinarily well. When her mother sends her to a Catholic boarding school for girls, she remains an outsider in a group of self-confident teenage girls. Only Berivan, a Kurdish refugee who seeks asylum in Germany, tries to learn more about Alice. They finally become close friends, but Berivan's relationship to a childhood friend of Alice threatens the girls' friendship.
- Klarissa, 26 years old, takes intensively care of her mother Waltraud who has a terminal illness. However, Waltraud isn't grateful, but amused because she doesn't want anyone's pity. As she doesn't like Klarissa's boring boyfriend Marius, she -together with her partner Enno- tries to convince her daughter to leave Marius and enjoy her life. Enno also wants to improve the women's relationship, which changes Klarissa's feelings towards him dramatically...
- Gabi Kubach's romantic comedy focuses on a tax consultant, who falls in love with his professional opponent, an ambitious tax official. The talented, but unreliable tax consultant Stefan Ahrens represents an old lady, who runs a hotel, against the fiscal office and unfortunately the woman he loves, Ulrike Stechlin. The tax official hopes to be promoted if she reveals the hotel's irregularities in book-keeping, but Stefan defends persistently his client's interests...
- Three women travel together to Spain for different reasons. The pregnant Mrs. Rettich wants to marry her Spanish lover in Barcelona, while Czerni, bored by her husband Bart, wants to have fun. Sophie, the 1st person narrator, tries to forget the man she admires not knowing that he and Bart follow the crazy ladies...
- 'Clemence M. Schönborn''s first feature film is a typical Austrian black comedy, dealing with an easy-going forty-something, who likes playing games with others, which has serious consequences... Phyllis, in her early 40s, still lives together with her mother, whom she loves and hates at the same time. When she gets to know Henry, supporting actor of a soap opera, she pretends to love him, but sleeps with the show's lead actor Walter, whom she finally runs over with her car, which makes Henry the show's new star - and the new lover of the lead actress Doris. However, Phyllis isn't done with him...
- This coming-of-age drama deals with a young man, realizing who he really is and which things he will never do. Loic, 18 years old, being annoyed by his work in a chocolate factory, cruises in the internet by night to have sex with older men. His life is turned upside down by a row of events such as his friendship to a man who is not just interested in his body and the suicide of his best friend...
- This movie focuses on the sad story of two Greek brothers living in the poorest neighborhood of Munich. As they were part of the small Turkish minority in Greece, the family of Maikis, 17, and Christos, 13, emigrated to Germany to start a new and better life. The boys soon realize that their dreams will not come true. As they live in a small apartment together with their mother under poor conditions, they start stealing, dealing with drugs and even going on the game at the central station. The only cheering prospects in their disappointing situation are social worker Xaver and the new teacher Hanna, but even they cannot prevent a tragedy...
- Sebastian, an 11-year-old Bavarian boy, feels responsible for his mother's death, who died during his birth, and naively attempts multiple ways to reach immortality (procreation, reincarnation, sanctification) to prevent his tenure in hell
- A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Bosnian War.