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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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Novel-based story of Jacob Fabian, a somewhat liberal Berlin advertising copywriter who witnesses the collapse of the prewar German society during the 1930s.
- 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.
- 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.
- After years of political agitation, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, and Leo Jogiches form a revolutionary German party, the Spartacists.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The self-confident Cologne television journalist Julia Schiller has just thrown her faithless husband Wolf out the door, but her life hasn't gotten any quieter. This is not only ensured by her four children: the brash Lena, her self-confident younger sister Anna and the cheeky twins Anton and Philipp. They miss their father. In consideration of this, Julia doesn't want her relationship with her new lover Jens Zumbelt to become too close. The fact that Jens is also her boss at the private broadcaster "Canal 5" doesn't make things any easier. Although Julia would like to make socially critical reports, Jens pushes her to do exciting tabloid stories. Julia is offered one of these by her very sprightly aunt Isolde. After the sudden death of her friend in a retirement home, Isolde works as a hobby detective on the trail of the alleged poisoner Eckard Born. While Julia doesn't believe a word she says, the children sense a big adventure. They let Aunt Isolde incite them to break into Born's room and actually come across a list of poisons along with revealing excerpts from the dead's account. Julia can't complain about not being sufficiently excited. On the twins' birthday, she lets Wolf guide her to a meadow where a hot air balloon is waiting - the balloon pilot's heart attack means the ride takes off However, an unexpected end only confirms Julia's bad opinion of the Hallodri Wolf. Nevertheless, she has to ask him for a favor again. Isolde disappeared without a trace after her visit to Eckard Born. Through worrying about their aunt, Julia and Wolf finally become closer again. Julia courageously seeks out the mysterious Mr. Born. He invites her for a cup of tea, but it tastes strangely bitter.
- After her husband leaves and her mother dies, Bogna Wegner recollects her childhood memories and experiences a sexual awakening from her past.
- 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.
- 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...
- A young boy receives a mystical motorcycle that transforms into a woman when he rides it at night.
- Anne Berger is very glad to travel this year with her family (husband and two children) to Sylt.The day has come and suddenly Anne Berger learns that her husband Stefan has a love affair with his female assistant.Very angry she decides to travel with her two children without saying anything to her husband.Instead of going to the hotel where the family made reservations, Anne finds an old boarding house managed by Lina Hansen, a very kind woman.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Marcel Ophuls interviews various important Eastern German figures for their thoughts on the reunification of Germany and the fall of Communism.
- Katrin Berger works as a successful businesswoman in the pharmaceutical industry. It's not her dream job because she is actually a doctor. However, after a traumatic experience, Katrin changed her job. She also turned her back on her great love Max, with whom she had studied together. When the two of them run into each other again after 15 years, Katrin realizes that she still loves Max. And so she spontaneously agrees to become his wife and to follow him to Africa as quickly as possible. Together with his friend Sam, Max found his life's work in Namibia in the management of the Guguletho Bush Hospital. But when Katrin arrives in Namibia a short time later, she receives shocking news: Max had died in a car accident the night before. He leaves behind a boy, Neo, and their little daughter, Lindiwe. The two lost their mother a few years ago and are now orphans. Katrin feels responsible for the children and wants to take them to Germany, but Neo and Lindiwe don't want to know anything about her. In order to make herself useful, Katrin jumps in for the time being in the hospital - although she still has anxiety in the operating room. Gradually she finds access to the children, but when Neo suddenly gets stomach pain and a fever as a result of an acute ruptured appendix, Katrin is caught up with her past: Only an emergency operation can save the boy - Katrin has to defeat the demon of her fear.
- 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.
- Brandenburg, near the Polish border; it all started with a toothache. Then the boss called to say he was needed. Extra Duty - to guard a gangster for the night in an emergency ward. Konzak was sorry he ever became a cop. Besides, the prisoner was a moody boxer-type, and the room at the hospital was like in the middle of the Sahara Desert. Sweat was already dripping down his back when the night nurse stopped by on her rounds. A sway of the hips.. the look in her eye...she was a real knockout. Konzak forgot the toothache and the prisoner...
- A Finnish music conductor and a Brazilian girl have virtual sex.
- 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.
- 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.
- A group of people from the wealthy middle class in endless quasi intellectual quarrels and discussions trying to find some meaning in their comfortable and indolent life.
- The student Judith is pursued by bankruptcies, bad luck and mishaps in her life, but she bravely defies her fate. Some days, however, everything seems to be conspiring against her. Judith seeks comfort from her boyfriend, but Holger, who is in his late teens, would rather go around with his clique. Judith suddenly decides to break up with him. When she returns home visibly hungover, her neighbor Leo becomes seriously worried. The charming set designer not only takes care of broken sockets and drains in Judith's apartment, but has secretly long since fallen in love with the woman next door. However, Leo is too shy to reveal himself and the stressed Judith simply ignores him. Judith acts snippy and aloof, but in reality she is sensitive and vulnerable. When she not only loses her bistro job, but is also responsible for her sister Rebecca's children destroying the decorations for a fashion show, it's too much even for Judith. She wants to lie down in the bathtub with the hairdryer, but Leo stops her. He finally loses his shyness and also gets Judith to live out her artistic fantasy.
- Inland town Chantaburi police chief Lin Thanapat is confronted with a jungle foundling and turns to German psychotherapist Dr. Julia Wagner in an international clinic in Bangkok. The half-starved girl of eight, who likes to be called Alice, seems paranoid, but soon bonds with Julia, who takes her and an inseparable puppy to the Chantaburi clinic run by fellow expat Dr. Max Carrasin, chief physician who helps prevent the interesting case to become psychology professor Lirut's study object. The girl is identified as the daughter of previously wrongly-convicted contractor Henry Thomas, who was also indicated without proof having abused her and her equally missing mother. The police helps look into the case, while Henry impatiently demands parental custody restored, which Thai courts grant near-automatically. It's back to the jungle for evidence.
- The film takes a look at a professional gambler, who very successfully specialized on the German version of the slot machine.
- Six students between the ages of 16 and 18 are waiting in a classroom for their new teacher.
- A teenaged girl is executed for going against a king's wishes and honoring her brother's death.