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- Four weeks after a mysterious, incurable virus spreads throughout the UK, a handful of survivors try to find sanctuary.
- Multiple teams race around the globe for $1,000,000 to 'amazing' locations.
- A look at Germany's terrorist group, The Red Army Faction (RAF), which organized bombings, robberies, kidnappings, and assassinations in the late 1960s and '70s.
- Katja and Isabella are happily married and feel the time is right to have a child. As the weeks and months pass by, it becomes clear that the process will be far more fraught than either were prepared for.
- German biopic loosely based on the World War I fighter ace Manfred Von Richthofen, nicknamed the Red Baron by friend and foe alike.
- The SOKO Stuttgart team investigates analytically and with sensitivity in the likeable state capital. The exciting cases of the series lead them to bizarre crime scenes and to different milieus.
- Believing to be able to communicate with his deceased father, a young boy develops psychic powers where he uses them to try to stop supernatural forces threatening his family and friends, especially a possessed ventriloquist dummy.
- People start getting murdered, and the coroner is convinced the killings are the workings of a reclusive odd baron who died decades ago. The baron's great grandson arrives to stay at his ancestor's castle as the strange murders continue.
- "Dr. Klein" is a medical and family TV series, which moves between great emotion and humor. Valerie Klein is 1.32 meter tall and the only doctor in the children's hospital who meets the small patients at eye level. There are many conflicts to solve both at work and at home with her family.
- Two sisters both fight for women's rights. Juliane is a journalist and Marianne a terrorist. When Marianne is jailed, Juliane feels obligated to help her despite their differing views on how to live.
- A man from Guinea-Bissau moves to Germany, where he is befriended by a drug dealer and two women.
- A 15-year-old Ukrainian gymnast exiled in Switzerland, who is working to secure a place at the country's National Sports Center. When the Euromaiden revolt breaks out in the country, anxieties rise as her family gets involved.
- Two young boys from very different backgrounds become friends in 1933 Stuttgart. However, they don't realize how different they are until much later as one is the son of a well-to-do Jewish doctor and the other the son of a German aristocrat. After that summer and the election of Hitler, things change as anti-semitism gains fervor. After the core of the film deals with that era, the film flashes to the present and the Jewish man now returns to his boyhood home and seeks his old friend with some surprises.
- Countryside thieves are won over by a young orphan girl.
- An intimate look at the life and work of Greek-American opera singer Maria Callas, as told in her own words.
- A documentary about the design of cities, which looks at the issues and strategies behind urban design and features some of the world's foremost architects, planners, policymakers, builders, and thinkers.
- Its a story about two sisters who are witness about murder there parents. After 20 years the people how murder there parents are out of jail. This is the time one of the sisters takes revenge.
- A very romantic comedy on the edge of the abyss: in the middle of the deepest life crisis, Holocaust researcher Toto is assigned an assistant for the Congress preparation: Zazie, of Jewish origin and with pronounced Teutophobia. The star guest of the Congress, a famous actress, suddenly withdraws the promise, and bizarre connections emerge between Toto's and Zazie's biographies.
- A wealthy woman falls in love with a rock-star who will soon get arrested for Murder.
- The first entry in Petzold's "ghost trilogy," Something to Remind Me marks the first of his many collaborations with actress Nina Hoss. It's also the director's first variation on Vertigo, reshaping Hitchcock's classic story of pursuit, manipulation, and doomed obsessions via a seemingly innocent attraction between reserved attorney Thomas and Leyla, a lonely blonde woman who's new in town. But all is not what it appears to be. Dialing back Hitchcock's romantic impulse and cinematic extravagance, Petzold uses his trademark stylistic rigor and keen eye for human complexity to craft a fragile moral universe all his own. Courtesy of Austrian Filmmuseum.
- After an attempt of a suicide of a 11 year old bullied kid, Stela "a shepherd dog" is the only one that can get through him and restore his faith in life.
- The educated Fariba Tabrizi flies from Teheran to Germany expecting to have asylum, since she is persecuted in Iran due to her lesbian relationship with her beloved Shirin. However, her application is denied by the authorities and Fariba has to return to her home country. When her recent acquaintance Siamak, who is grieving the death of his brother, commits suicide, Fariba assumes his identity and status of political refugee and is sent to a refugee camp in a German village. Fariba finds an illegal work in a cabbage factory and she has many difficulties for not having bath with the other male workers. She becomes close to her colleague Anne and they fall in love for each other. However, prejudice and her illegal condition jeopardize her exile in Germany.
- A documentary feature film about the 1970's seminal all girl band, The Runaways.
- Eight friends help each other repeatedly move house. One year of moving, from apartment to apartment, from shared flat to shared flat. These changes of the apartment are also a changes of relations -some break, others grow.
- Stuttgart law form senior partner Max von Holbach plans to retire in favor of daughter Elisabeth and her fiancee Daniel Kerner , both careerists. First she must pull off for Max's mate's major Black Forrest touristic real estate project the sale of destitute, yet unwilling farmer Karl Lindner's homestead. Semi-accidentally posing, with a broken-down car, as ZU researcher, she gets invited on the farm, gets on well with the family, finds out -while helping with field and barn chores- his parents whose life work he feels he must carry on want out anyhow, and the pair falls in love. * Having found out about his outstanding debt, she had the weapon the enforce foreclosure, but hesitates to break his dreams, even questions her own future in the urban rate race.
- Ina Hofmann works in a toy factory. To welcome her egocentric new boss, she gift him a live fish, unaware that a mysterious man had cursed it. Her boss becomes small as a toy.
- The widow of a resistance leader, Judith Therpauve, agrees to take over a large daily, established after the liberation of France. But she is soon under pressure from dirty dealings, on the one hand, and labor demands, on the other.
- Salesman Wolfgang has lost his vital drivers licence while being threatened by a rival stealing his customers. So he desperately recruits his son Karsten as a reluctant chauffeur. To top it all, Karsten falls in love with his dad's rival.
- Nelly is with her parents on vacation in Romania. The 13-year-old girl will find new friends and experience the adventure of her life.
- Young Mia is totally in love with cars and spends every free minute tinkering with her mother's old VW Beetle. Her big dream is to take part in the Paris-Dakar Rally someday.
- Franziska is a romantic woman with two children and a husband who is working around the globe as a movie director. When she wants to buy a flat, she gets in contact with Enno Winkel, a fanatic lawyer whose hobby is divorce cases. Before she even realizes what is happening, Enno Winkel initiates her divorce.
- Three monks are making their way from Germany to a monastry in Italy, because they cannot afford the rent for their facility any longer.
- In 2007 the Sydney Dance Company appointed 29-year-old choreographer Tanja Liedtke as their first new artistic director in 30 years. However before she could take up the position, she was struck and killed by a truck in the middle of the night. Admired internationally as a dancer and celebrated for her fresh choreographic voice, she was known as a dedicated artist, intelligent, dorky, funny and generous. 18 months after her death her collaborators embark on a world tour of her work, and in the process they must deal with their grief and explore the reasons for her death. Interspersed with intimate footage of her artistic process and previously unseen interviews, Life in Movement is a film about moving creatively through life and loss. Filmmakers Bryan Mason and Sophie Hyde give us a powerfully rendered take on art and artists, creativity and our own mortality.
- As Felicitas' life is turned upside down she doesn't know if her nightmares are taking over or if something bigger is trying to control her - and the only way to find out the truth is her best friend Natascha who is locked up in an asylum.
- Filmmaker David Sieveking portays the home care of his mother who, like 2 million other people in Germany, suffers from Alzheimer's Disease. David's parents had been a part of the student movement in the sixties and led an open relationship, which is now put to the test dramatically by the disease. The whole family has to deal with the smoldering conflicts to find a new solidarity.
- During the final decade of 18th century in Mexico City, capital of the vice-royalty of New Spain, the official choreographer publicly complains of the abusive and unjust methods of the administrator of the vice-royalty, and puts in jeopardy his life and his mestizo son's, in a climate of social privation, racism and intrigues of power and religion faith that grows out of proportion when the Inquisition intervenes.
- Though almost forgotten today, Veit Harlan was one of Nazi Germany's most notorious filmmakers. His most perfidious film was the treacherous anti-Semitic propaganda film Jud Süß (1940) - required viewing for all SS members. An unrepentant and blindly obsessive craftsman, no figure - save for Leni Riefenstahl - is as closely associated with the cinema of the Holocaust years. (Harlan's epic Burning Hearts (1945) was the basis for Inglourious Basterds (2009)'s pivotal film-within-a-film Stolz Der Nation.) This documentary is an eye-opening examination of World War II film history as well as the story of a German family from the Third Reich to the present; one that is marked by reckoning, denial and liberation.
- JÜRGEN DECKER is an undercover cop pushing 60. His current case, teenagers dying from a strange, unidentified drug, manufactured by a mysterious man called DENNIS has him realize he is too old to be working in the undercover drug division. As he is looking for a younger partner at the academy, he stumbles upon CHRIS, a big hearted but inexperienced young man rejected from the academy. In exchange for his help, Decker promises Chris to get him into the academy and the unlikely duo embarks on a mission that turns out to be much more dangerous than anticipated.
- Josh is about to turn 30; he's intellectually disabled, and likes to play at being a vampire. His sister Nicole is 15, and dealing with her impending womanhood; middle brother Mike is the "normal" one, but in some ways the most childish - his latest conquest is Nadine, who runs the dog kennel at his security guard job. Nic is fixated on getting laid, and watches Mike and Nadine through the skylight with Josh. Josh also gets fixated on sex, though he has no clear idea what it's all about, and in particular on Nadine; to Mike's chagrin, she seems more interested in Josh than in him.
- Viktor, a methodical hit man, probably on his last job, has no plan for his retirement. He does not kill Nina, a woman sleeping beside his latest mark; then he follows her and rescues her from an attempted suicide. Nina is attracted to him, but also wants to know who he is. Her pursuit of his identity crosses the investigation of Lang, a brilliant police investigator who tries to inhabit the minds of the victims and the killer. Viktor's employer also wants to kill Viktor and his contact, an aging arms dealer and family friend. Does Viktor have a future?
- "Neues Kino movie" about life in the circus dome narrated in Brechtian spirit; deceptively illusionist grip is broken violently by aloofness and sweeping subjective tracking shots.
- Docudrama in two parts, based on the abduction of the president of the employer's association of Germany, Hanns Martin Schleyer, by the Baader-Meinhof gang in the Autumn of '77.
- A comedic overhaul of Fritz Lang's 1960 film by means of dubbing. Dr. Mabuse is a criminal mastermind, who uses people and eavesdropping equipment from the Nazi-era to take over the newly invented internet.
- A male prostitute (David Schütter) is trying to escape his long forgotten feelings. The unexpected tender encounter with a young woman (Nadja Bobyleva) confronts him with his real desires and puts his whole life to the test.
- For the first time since her husband's death, Ute visits their former FKK-club. Curiously she enters this familiar place and immediately receives a warm welcome. However, she painfully has to realize that in the eyes of her old friends she primarily has become the widow. Unintentionally she finds herself involved in a group game in which you have to make your teammates laugh by saying one simple sentence: "Hey Babe, I love you and if you love me too, give me a smile". Quickly this innocent game becomes an unexpected challenge for Ute.
- Teenage Sascha has two dreams: to write a novel about her mother and to take revenge on her step-father who brutally murdered her.