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- An unexpected romance blooms after the the youngest daughter of a merchant who has fallen on hard times offers herself to the mysterious beast to which her father has become indebted.
- An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.
- A sixteen-year-old girl who was raised by her father to be the perfect assassin is dispatched on a mission across Europe, tracked by a ruthless intelligence agent and her operatives.
- Explores the origins of the first "Frankenstein" car driver, Carl "Luke" Lucas, who died in a race at the beginning of the first film.
- A young man sets out to uncover the truth about his life after finding his baby photo on a missing persons website.
- Two veterans of the Bosnian War, one American, one Serbian, find their unlikely friendship tested when one of them reveals their true intentions.
- Set in a 19th century village, a young man studying under a local doctor joins a team of hunters on the trail of a wolf-like creature.
- A beautiful girl with very long hair, living in a house with a witch, falls in love with a prince.
- 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.
- A tragicomic movie which focuses on two women and their daily struggle for survival during a summer in Berlin. Katrin, a jobless single mom, and Nike, a nurse, live in the same house and are best friends. Although always dating the wrong men and still pursuing for happiness, they don't lose their humor and spend many nights together on Nike's balcony, drinking and chatting. However, Nike gets to know the trucker Ronald one day...
- A drama about the relationship between a young black man and a rich German girl.
- Since the death of villager Weber, his widow lives from weaving. Docile daughter Marie helps her with spinning and all other chores, inseparable from pouch Strupi, while her sister Louise invokes delicate hands to do very little for her upkeep. Exhausted from spinning, Marie pricks herself, looses the spool in a water pit and trying to retrieve it, falls in, but emerges in the fairy land of Mrs. Holle. Having been kind and helpful to every creature and talking objects, she's welcomed and praised for cheerfully helping with seasonal chores, which regulate life on earth. Longing to her family, she asks and gets to be returned, with the spool and her dress turned into gold and gets a hero's welcome. Louise can't stand being utterly ignored, jealously pricks herself and jumps into the pit, but in Hole's land remains as rude and lazy, before being returned through the same magical gate, which rewards to merit: as dark and dirty as her selfish heart, with a wise advice as an only prize.
- Three musically talented children look to the future, but their hopes crumble when Germany and Russia enter into war.
- Poor but confident and resourceful tailor David trusts, after killing seven flies in one swat, he's a match for any challenge and sets out to prove himself in the wide world. After luck and cunning help him deal with giant Lothar, he arrives at the castle of petty king Ernst, who is ruled by constant migraine and his ambitious, manipulative court counselor Klaus, who desires to succeed by winning brat princess Paula's hand and claims to be the only savior who can rid the land of three supernatural dangers. David's costume-embroidered motto 'seven at once' however is misread as a warrior's tally, and he eagerly accepts to win the princess, who teases but likes him, and half the country by dealing with the giant brothers, then both other dangers, and having triumphed each time Klaus's last attempt to deal with his commoner rival.
- Frank is diagnosed with an incurable brain tumor and given only a few months to live. He and his wife don't know how and when to tell their children about it. Meanwhile, Frank's health is getting worse with each day.
- Pre-teen foundling Emil and slightly older middle class orphan Inga seek to comfort each-other in the pitiful conditions at Mrs. Landfried's orphanage. She sells the shoes the produce in a Dickensian poorhouse workshop but keeps most profits, only ambitious eldest turned foreman Franz gets a bonus. For Christmas, the kids must sell I town the sets of matchsticks she bargained as bonus with the shoes, the winner gets a goose helping, sub)standard sale means a caning. After chasing the duo from the lucrative market, Frans wins and even gets to cane Emil, but lets him off with loud pretense. Inga ran away, dreaming in the rundown family home of her late parents welcoming her home whenever she strikes a match. Emil informs the homonymous friendly cop they met on the market, who sees the tyrant is replaced by a proper administrator.
- On a Lower Saxony petty farm, the aging cat, dog, rooster and donkey see their hope of a happy old day smashes overhearing the spineless farmer Georg's second wife Martha say they need to marry off her stepdaughter Lisa to wealthier farmer Hans Sittler and kill off the over date animals. So they run for their loves, with a vague plan to become city musicians in Bremen. Lisa also flees thither, being in love with farmhand Johann, unaware Martha signed him up for a ship sailing from that very port. The three parties deal with hardships on the road, including a band of robbers, but gradually team up and devise a grand plan.
- 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.
- Luisa and Jenny are twins, but they are fundamentally different. Jenny is the dreamer, while Luisa is able to easily combine work and household. Luisa's life changes when Jenny comes to visit her for a few days.
- A renowned actor named Otto is the epitome of the problematic but beloved ladies man. Even when drunk he still knows more about filmmaking than does the amateur who is directing him in his latest movie. But what should the unreliable star do when a local actor joins the crew as his understudy? Comic situations arise not only because of the well-known environment, but also from an inclination to authentically capture the various relationships.
- On his deathbed, miller Hinze, fallen victim to the cruel sorcerer Abbadon who terrorizes the whole region, bequeaths his goods to his sons. Hermann and Hubert get half of the mill each, only last-born Hans gets just the tomcat Minkus. However the feline speaks, transforms into a dashing knight and promises, if fitted with new boots, to turn Hans's fate for the better. Once attired, he sets out to the court of idle king Otto and his daughter Frieda. Fowl gifts win heir favor, and soon an invitation for his master, under the name of marques of Carabass. Hans, clearly more interested in the princess then in gold, is coached to fit the part, while the cat takes o the sorcerer in his castle by crafty magical dare.
- Sleeping Beauty - the fairy tale.
- A screwball comedy about four couples living in a big city.
- Michael, the young king of a small German realm, promised on his father's deathbed to marry, but instead of choosing any of the daughters of reigning princes his minister makes him visit, Michael looses his heart to Marie, the blond daughter of a simple miller. Worse, the chief minister, who learned her father's secret, hides Marie locked-up in a castle tower, pretending to the king she was killed by wolves in the forest, and threatens her family so she spins gold from straw; so Marie must accept the terms of the magical dwarf Rumpelstilzchen (Rumpelstiltskin in English), who appears when Marie pricks her finger to spin gold thrice for her, but each time demands a prized counterpart- first her beloved Peter's gift, a ring, then her late mother's necklace, finally her firstborn when she will be Michael's queen...
- With Hansel and Gretel's woodcutter father being too poor to provide for the family, their stepmother persuades him to abandon them while foraging in the forest. Wandering hungry, they find and feast on a witch's cabin made of gingerbread covered in all kinds of candy and other treats. The seemingly hospitable crone owner soon cages Hansel to be fattened as her own feast, while Gretel serves as her maid. the pair must outsmart the hag to survive and escape or be eaten.
- This animated short follows the life of a poor, German coal miner, Peter Munk. Coal mining leaves Peter far from the riches he desires, yet when given the opportunity to have three wishes granted, things do not go as well as he had hoped.
- A retelling of The Princess and The Pea. The princess runs away and finds work at an orphanage to avoid marrying a prince she has never met. She unknowingly meets him while they are both pretending to be commoners which leaves him to decide whether he should follow his heart or marry for the good of the kingdom. Little does he know that he can do both.
- Playful, resourceful knave Joringel's shenanigans and chore flaws constantly vex the innkeeper, his employer and father of his beloved Jorinde, who wants to kick the knave out. yet when the local robber knight passes on one of his pillaging tours, Joringel's tricks save the boss's purse. Still he gets blamed after Jorinde disappears, actually seized by a grim sorceress who keeps love-'challenged' girls half-time caged transformed into birds, claiming to spare them a life of heartache. Joringel is welcomed in the castle of the knight, who wants him as junior partner, yet can't resist running off with his mysterious magical flower which warded off the sorceress, despite the knight's warning of terrible effects in term. It allows Joringel to reach the sorceress's magical home, but the price seems all too tragic.
- Eva, from East Germany is out of work. To her surprise the unemployment office send her to the Swiss Alps, to work on a Swiss mountain farm for the summer.
- The successful Berlin lawyer Tobias Becker wants to marry the widowed architect Nora Merz. There is only one catch: Tobias can't talk to Nora's teenage daughter Julia, and he can't get in touch with her little straggler Ben either. So that Tobias can grow into his future father role, Nora - amid heavy murmuring from the kids - booked a holiday in Crete in the dreamy holiday home with a pool and a sea view. The attractive event manager Marion Becker is also ripe for the island. As every year, she wants to spend the summer vacation with her divorced husband Tobi and their son Philip in Crete - and as stress-free as possible. Unfortunately, both families have booked under the name "Tobias Becker", and so there is an embarrassing double occupancy of the holiday home. For the same reason, Becker and Becker clashed at the airport and at the car rental company and learned to really "love" each other. While the two teenagers Philip and Julia quickly discover their sympathy for each other, the parents first experience the chaos on Crete. Only when the friendly landlady Maria relaxes the situation with two bottles of raki, new amorous entanglements arise under the Greek sun. During an extended night tennis match, the lively Marion and the agile Tobias notice that they are on the same wavelength. After minor and medium-sized disasters, Nora also discovers her feelings for the down-to-earth gardener Tobi, who is charming and, above all, is sensitive to children.
- A 3469 years old Pharaoh wants to destroy the world. Find him and blow him away. Childs play, one may think...
- Der Mond und andere Liebhaber narrates the story of Hanna, a woman who will not take lifes set-backs and knock-downs sitting down. Instead, she takes them in her stride, picks herself up and marches onward. This is a woman who continually draws new courage from her inexhaustible will to live. Whatever losses and uncertainties come her way, she remains true to herself. When her former employer, a cosmetics shop, goes bust, Hanna simply helps herself to boxes full of perfume. As life and politics change around her, principally the fall of the Berlin Wall and German reunification, Hanna battles on through the new job at the petrol station, the steady advances from Knuti (Steffen Scheumann), right through to a trip to Turkey until she meets the great love of her life. But Gansar (Birol Uenel) is not a free man. Hannas desperation leads to a very public scene and personal tragedy. Except, this is Hanna we are talking about. So she does what only she can. She picks herself up again, and starts over in new hope. As if Der Mond und andere Liebhaber needed it, another thespian seal of approval comes from Birol Uenel, whose performance in Fatih Akins Berlin Golden Bear-winning Head-On still resonates.
- An unsuccessful pool noodle representative and an ambitious corporate lawyer have nothing in common except for the desire to be at home for Christmas. But fate has other plans for them. Their accidental meeting at Vienna's airport is the beginning of an adventure that soon evolves into a winter odyssey across Eastern Europe.
- FROST tells the story of Naya, a young arctic hunter who longs for her father's recognition as a capable disciple. When a season of scarcity threatens their family, she embarks on a perilous search for food beyond the perimeter of their ancestral hunting grounds. Out there at the edge of the ice floes, Naya makes an astonishing discovery: a strange world beyond her ability to comprehend... and a dangerous predator that may be beyond her ability to survive.
- Marco (13) is the son of the mayor in a little village. One day he finds an inscription written in strange letters on the wall of a tomb in the town cemetery. The tomb is closed off to the public due to plans of demolition. Upon investigation Marco is pulled through a time tunnel into 1766. Here he meets his grand-grand-grand-grandfather, William, also 13 years old. He also meets the beautiful Marie. All decide to travel together in time. Complications abound, as Marie falls ill, and Marco bringes his cousin Christian, a medical student, to 1766, while at the same time the plans for demolition of the tomb draws closer.
- When her mother inherits an old guesthouse in a sleepy town in Brandenburg Maja is less than happy. There is, however, the local legend of a ghost - could the stories be true?
- Academic teacher Sascha Fuchs (Jan Sosniok) meets translator Julia Ritter (Ellena Salvo González), with whom he falls in love at first sight. The couple are planning a wedding and a future together. Everything changes when one day a woman receives an invitation to a scientific conference and leaves for Turkey. Soon her lover receives news about the tragic death of Julia, who drowned while diving. A devastated man plunges into depression. Then, while watching a TV report from Iraq, he notices his fiancee among the hostages held by bandits. Convinced that the woman is alive, he decides to find her at all costs. He soon discovers that Julia had many secrets. Over time, he puts himself in mortal danger.
- Leo and Marie are two inconspicuous individuals, who work in a large insurance company. Both live an undisturbed, but also very lonely life, until one day they meet by chance in the elevator, see each other and fall in love.
- Katrin is a single mother of twins. When they find out that they owe their existence to a sperm donation, they persuade their mother to find their biological father.
- Marie is a 13 year old girl and blind. When she meets Herbert something wonderful begins.
- Landpomeranze kommt in die große Stadt und wittert prompt überall Unheil und Verbrechen: Allenfalls Christiane Hörbiger könnte diese Rolle ähnlich großartig verkörpern wie Senta Berger. Und die brilliert als leicht verhuschte, aber immer noch begehrenswerte einstige Schönheit, die permanent hin und hergerissen ist: zwischen ihrem Gewissen und einer Neugier, die durch längst verloren geglaubtes Begehren zusätzlich entfacht wird. Ruth Thomas dankbares Drehbuch bietet Berger die Möglichkeit, als Frau eines erfolgreichen Juristen (Michael Gwisdek), deren Dasein offenbar einzig der Blumenzucht gilt, ihr ganzes darstellerisches Spektrum auszuschöpfen. Das beginnt mit der Trauer über den Verlust ihres Traumhauses im Grünen und mündet zunächst in komische Verzweiflung, als das Ehepaar nach dem karrierebedingten Umzug in einem Berliner Hinterhaus landet. Dort selbst packt Helga das kalte Grausen, hat sich das Leben der Mitbewohner angesichts der heißen Sommernächte doch mehr oder weniger in den Innenhof verlagert. Und weil Frau Forstmann sonst nichts zu tun hat, verbringt sie Tag und Nacht am Fenster zum Hof. Wie im gleichnamigen Hitchcock-Film blickt die misstrauische Staatsanwaltsgattin auf diese Weise nicht nur in so manchen menschlichen Abgrund, sondern beobachtet auch allerlei Ungereimtheiten. Einiges ist offenkundig Resultat ihrer Vorurteile; bei den beiden dunkelhäutigen Herren zum Beispiel handelt es sich mitnichten, wie sie überzeugt ist, um Dealer. Doch der stolze Türke von Gegenüber (Erdal Yildiz), der sein munteres Liebesleben vorzugsweise am offenen Fenster betreibt und auch ihr mit seinem animalischen Charme imponiert, betätigt sich nach getaner Triebabfuhr anscheinend als Serienmörder; jedenfalls pflegt er des Nachts verpackte Körper in den Keller zu tragen. Gemeinsam mit ihrer putzmunteren Reinigungskraft (Nina Kunzendorf) observiert Helga den virilen Nachbarn, doch selbst ihr Verdacht kann nicht verhindern, dass sie ihm selbst in die Liebesfalle tappt. Geradezu lustvoll bedient sich Stephan Wagner der sattsam bekannten Thriller-Versatzstücke, um sie fröhlich zu konterkarieren. Senta Berger treibt das Spiel mit den Kontrasten auf die Spitze, weil Helga grundsätzlich das Gegenteil von dem tut, was ihr die Stimme der Vernunft einflüstert. Wunderbar gespielt sind auch die Momente, in denen sie Tatkraft andeutet, um die großen Gesten dann doch im Ansatz stecken zu lassen. Und Gwisdek ist in seiner Mischung aus grantiger Gemütsruhe und geschäftiger Gleichgültigkeit ein wunderbares Gegenstück.
- As every year, police chief Krause prepares for the traditional Christmas dinner with his two sisters Elsa and Meta in their inn in idyllic Schönhorst in Brandenburg.
- Après la mort tragique de son épouse, Ralf, décide de partir loin pour refaire sa vie avec ses enfants. Il rachète une ancienne auberge afin dy ouvrir un restaurant. La famille ignore, que jadis, lauberge fut le théâtre dévénements étranges, que les villageois imputent aux fantômes des frères Buckler, des brigands qui sévissaient 4 siècles plus tôt.