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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.
- A bride-to-be wakes up one morning next to a man chained to the bed, but cannot remember what happened the night before.
- 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.
- 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.
- Novel-based story of Jacob Fabian, a somewhat liberal Berlin advertising copywriter who witnesses the collapse of the prewar German society during the 1930s.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- Matthias, son of popular rural Lutheran pastor Oskar Brendel and his wife Karin, about to graduate without honors unlike his emigrated big brother, is a pubertal rebel and hopelessly in love with local Maren Grothe. After he picks a fight at the village fair with her flirt and storms off, Maren s found comatose under the watchtower. Missing, Matthias is the only suspect, making the clerical family generally mistrusted. Karin finds her son, whose innocence she believes, apprenticing carpentry on the island where his buddy loves with his father Volkmann. Matthias explains he ran having seen his father Oskar refused ending an affair with Maren, who jumped as suicide attempt. The Brendels consider the due consequences.
- 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...
- 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.
- 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...
- 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 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.
- Ines Kupfer is a famous, widely celebrated and popular actress. Due to her career, she never had much time for her only daughter Nathalie - which led to a difficult relationship between the two women. Now Nathalie's wedding to the charming Stephan de Groot is just around the corner, and Ines has got it into her head to organize a lavish party for her daughter on her property. What was intended as a generous maternal gesture, however, offers material for new conflicts: Nathalie would have much preferred a small celebration with her closest friends. But that's not Ines' only concern. For a while she has been receiving anonymous letters and threatening phone calls from an unknown woman who is threatening to cause a scandal at the wedding party. As it turns out, this is Nora Regener, the jealous wife of Ines' family doctor Thomas: Completely drunk, she shows up in a red evening dress at the bachelorette party, makes a violent scene for Ines and threatens to reveal a dark secret from Ines' Past. Shortly thereafter, Nathalie overhears a conversation between her mother and Stephan, which reveals that the two once had an affair. So that's the secret with which Mrs. Regener wanted to make the wedding burst. That same night, Ines finds his wife Regener in the boathouse of her property - dead, apparently murdered. Little does she know that it is actually a tragic accident that Nathalie is to blame for. She tries to cover things up as best she can. However, a mysterious fire at the boathouse gets the police involved the next morning. The investigations into the "Murder of Regener" are in full swing. The wedding party turns into a tragedy. In desperation, the worldly Ines tries to maintain control while being cornered from all sides. In this situation, she suddenly realizes that she has one heart's desire above all - to finally come to terms with Nathalie.And in order not to endanger the happiness of our marriage and the future of her daughter, the famous film diva makes a decision that is as dramatic as it is generous.
- 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.
- 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.
- Together with her two children, Bettina Finke sets off for Italy. In the sunny south, she wants to get over the painful divorce from her husband. During a stopover in Bavaria, where Bettina wants to visit her great-uncle Gustav, the trip takes an unexpected turn. Gustav, so Bettina learns on arrival, died a few days before - and he bequeathed his picturesque farm to her, much to the delight of his old friend and colleague Karl, who hopes that the farm will not be sold to a petrol station chain after all. But Bettina wants to continue her trip to Italy as soon as possible - which is why she definitely wants to sell the property, but only to a buyer who would not demolish the historic building. But that's easier said than done, especially since the clever Karl pissed off all potential interested parties with wit and cunning. So, completely unexpectedly, Bettina's planned short visit turns into a longer stay. Surprisingly quickly she settles in again in the village of her childhood, not least because she meets her crush from her teenage days in the good-looking Martin. Thanks to him, Bettina finally seems to be able to overcome the divorce. However, the headstrong Martin is not the only one who is courting her: In order to get hold of Bettina's inherited property for the affluent gas station chain, Alexander, the company's representative, pretends to be a nature-loving writer and tries to soften Bettina with slogans and to ensnare romantic excursions. Only when it is almost too late does she discover Alexander's real intentions. As if that weren't enough excitement, a little later her dominant mother Sophie appears on the farm to take over the sale of the property. Bettina realizes that she must finally be clear about how and, above all, where she wants to start her life anew.
- After her husband leaves and her mother dies, Bogna Wegner recollects her childhood memories and experiences a sexual awakening from her past.
- Karen Bender is a plastic surgery expert who will soon be promoted to Senior Physician. Her family life with her husband Christoph and little daughter Kim could hardly be more harmonious. However, when a routine check-up reveals that the seven-year-old is a lethal tumor, Karen is unexpectedly caught up in her past: Professor Victor Novak, an internationally renowned neurosurgeon, is the only one who can save Kim's life. But years ago Karen had an affair with Viktor during a joint engagement in the Balkan war.
- 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.
- 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 teenaged girl is executed for going against a king's wishes and honoring her brother's death.
- Frank Drannemann, a passionate star chef and single father, is in a professional and private crisis. Since the tragic accidental death of his beloved wife, the soul of the gourmet restaurant "La Vie", business has been bad. Daughter Franzi, handicapped by a stiff knee joint since the accident, doesn't let anyone get near her. The little son Michael also feels neglected, because Frank mainly concentrates on cooking. When preparing his famous lobster or seasoning one of his irresistible sauces, the gourmet chef is in his element. But Frank has lost sight of reality: Since the friendly reception from Frank's wife has been missing, far too few guests appreciate his exquisite cuisine, and so "La Vie" is on the verge of bankruptcy. When his father-in-law and business partner Georg Krimmler tries to persuade the maître de cuisine to slow down the culinary heights so that more guests come, Frank is offended in his professional honor. To avert bankruptcy, Georg concludes a contract with the travel company "Gourmet Tours" over his head: The smart, pretty Marlene Renner is now booking "La Vie" for tour groups who want to enjoy local culinary delights on their city tours. Unfortunately, the hungry tourists don't understand that you have to spend a little more time for Frank's culinary creations. And when Marlene redecorated "La Vie" in the Berlin style on top of that, it was an affront for Frank, who regards the bar as the legacy of his late wife. The tablecloth seems cut - but when both of them are finally threatened with business failure, Frank discovers his love for Marlene.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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...
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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...
- 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.
- 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.
- For many years, the popular life coach Nora Bernd has been delighting an audience of millions with her TV programs. Thanks to her empathetic manner, she makes people talk in front of the camera and mends troubled relationships. But the passionate advocate of marriage and family virtue suddenly falls into the twilight when her adult daughter Jenny explains on a live broadcast that her mother left her and her father ten years ago for another man. The news hits like a bomb: A flood of indignant letters to the editor forces program director Wörner to cancel Nora's show. Devastated, Nora wants to retreat to the island of Rügen - but a car accident confines her to a wheelchair for a while. Nora is dependent on outside help. Jenny, of all people, saved her mother from the pack of reporters and brought her to her parents' house on Rügen. But Jenny cannot forgive her mother, with whom she has had no contact since she was 13. On behalf of a large magazine, she is writing a revelatory story in which she wants to reveal the double standards of her honorable mother. Little Jenny has no idea that her father Heiner, who lives as a failed artist on Rügen, has told her a big lie to this day. When Jenny confronts him on her mother's advice, she learns what actually happened back then.
- A small group of seal hunters, three adults and a boy, lost their way in fog and find themselves trapped in the middle of the sea.
- Elisabeth Romm wants to start all over again: The attractive and successful antique dealer is determined to get married for the second time and to start a new life with her great love Bert. But then it happens: On the day of the planned wedding, Bert collapses in front of the registry office with a heart attack and dies. From one moment to the next, stunned Elisabeth is left with nothing. She has not only lost her beloved life partner, but also her livelihood - namely, she had already given up her antique shop, as well as her own apartment. First, the grieving, disturbed Elisabeth comes to live with her daughter Isabel. But she soon senses that, above all, Isabel's selfish husband Adrian wants his mother-in-law out of the house as soon as possible. And suddenly Elisabeth realizes that she has to overcome the grief and look ahead again - so she quickly packs her suitcase and starts a journey south: just set off, without a specific destination and without a return ticket. Your path finally leads you to the wild and romantic Greek island of Santorini. With the help of the personable pensioner Daphne, she finds work in a jewelry store. Here Elisabeth blossoms to new life, because she is very familiar with art and old jewelry. But not only that: In Konstantin, the single owner of the shop, Elisabeth also finds a very charming admirer. At first she rejects his advances - but over time Elisabeth has to admit that she, too, has fallen in love with Constantine. So she seems to unexpectedly find her happiness far from home - if it weren't for Konstantin's son Meander and his scheming wife Katarina: They fear for their inheritance and therefore do everything in their power to separate Elisabeth and Konstantin.