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- A teen girl in 1970s Berlin becomes addicted to heroin. Everything in her life slowly begins to distort and disappear as she befriends a small crew of junkies and falls in love with a drug-abusing male prostitute.
- An anthology series that follows the work of homicide detectives in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
- A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.
- 15-year-old dropout Mike takes a job at Newford Baths, where inappropriate sexual behaviour abounds, and becomes obsessed with his coworker Susan.
- After winning the "most virgin" contest, Miss Canada is married to a rich milk tycoon. But she quickly flees the marriage to experience the world around her, full of sweetness and anarchy.
- Partially based on the life of Sybille Schmitz, who found fame under the Nazi regime, but whose career was destroyed afterward. Veronika Voss is a once prominent UFA actress, kept by her doctor, who raises suspicion in a sports journalist.
- 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.
- Near the end of the 20th century, WMDs (weapons of mass destruction) are retired. However, certain factions plan to use a science space station as a weapon against each other. The astronauts inside will decide the world's fate.
- Adopted by his rich uncle from Germany, British teenager Frank falls in-love with his uncle's Italian wife Martha, and has conflicting feelings when she suggests he should kill his uncle in order to have her and the family fortune.
- Two former lovers, an embezzler, and a messenger boy become trapped on a Friday in a stalled office elevator.
- A rock music reporter and his view of the angry excited punk generation.
- The story of the half-Jewish Ida Raimundo and her two sons Antonio and Giuseppe in Rome, during and immediately after the Second World War.
- Dieter Pfaff portrays psychiatrist Dr. Maximilian Bloch, who works in Cologne and Baden-Baden and tries to help his patients with the help of detective nonsense.
- With slicked-down hair and three-piece suits, dependable Herr Raab is a technical draftsman. He gets along with his colleagues although his boss wants him to go beyond technical cleanliness to problem solving. He's a dutiful husband; his wife's a social climber and pushes him to seek a promotion, but they also share sweet moments. He's a caring father, helping his son with homework. His parents visit; his mother criticizes his wife. Old School friends drop by, as do neighbors. Some comment on Raab's wife's expensive tastes. His promotion may be a long shot, especially after he gives a dull and tipsy toast at an office dinner. But why would Herr Raab run amok?
- A quiet man in his forties is arrested for a minor reason and sent to prison.
- Felix is a down-and-out young drummer who obtains a pair of magic drumsticks from a street vendor. He soon finds out the sticks are able to make native New Yorkers dance uncontrollably.
- After his family tries to kill him and he has been pronounced dead, Michel returns to vex them. He presents each one with a voodoo doll, warning of their fate.
- An unnamed French intelligence service spies on and analyzes a French diplomat code name '51' to identify a method to control him.
- A married couple of artists move to a utopian town known for its absolute freedom, but behind the surface perversion and violence are spreading.
- Young poet Friedrich Schiller flees from the elite academy of Prince Carl Eugen to become an acclaimed theater writer in Mannheim. But the influence of Carl Eugen reaches farther than Schiller thought.
- The three daughters of the Dessau merchant Sellmann move in 1936 with their father to Prague, where he accepted a position as director of the Böhmische Landesbank. For the three different women begins a new life, which accompanies the film over a period of ten years. The Second world war will soon begin.
- A bearded director named EVA, a fictive Rainer Werner Fassbinder, lives in a large house with his cast and crew as he films Dumas' Lady of the Camellias. His accountant informs him he has many unpaid bills and little cash on hand. EVA throws a fit and fires him. He then proceeds to play one person off against another, dismiss with cruelty his recent lover Ali, sleep openly with his leading lady Gudrun, and make a direct and public play for his leading man, Walter. He's mercurial, dictatorial, and manic. Will he finish the film, having drawn great performances from his actors through his manipulations, or will his antics set events in motion that spin out of his control?
- A very middle-class Bavarian family spend the last day of their Mediterranean vacation on the beach, day-dreaming and muttering racist remarks about Italians.
- The intelligent Linda, daughter of Joseph and Jane, takes a critical view of her parents' marriage. Her father's dominant behavior and her mother's indifference become so unbearable to her that she decides to run away. She manages to persuade Jane to accompany her.
- A wild family tale: 15-year-old Mareike lives with her mother Jutta (43), her sister Franca (9), her brother Tim (6) and some chickens in a suburb of Mannheim. Jutta's job as a detective at the local department store doesn't pay much, so the family is always a little short of money. Mareike's ambitious plans to become a model and to participate in an expensive training are therefore problematic. And momentarily Mareike is rather chubby and doesn't really look like the classical beauty. But nevertheless she is prepared to go to any length to have her way and is full of ideas. Jutta hasn't overcome the death of her husband yet, nor have the children. Now she tries to keep her beginning love affair to her colleague Winnie a secret, but doesn't really feel happy about it. Mareike attempts to earn money for her model "education", and jobs around at the weekly market to prove to her mother how serious she is. There she meets Samir, a German-Arabian boy who Mareike immediately falls in love with. To impress him Mareike signs up for a belly dancing class, distrustfully watched by Jutta, who is nerved by her daughter's body fixation. But dancing gives Mareike a sudden boost of confidence and a lust for life, which Jutta must notice positively. And then suddenly Mareikes hair starts to fall out - a shock. An autoimmune disorder is diagnosed. There is no cure. Mareike's world is shattered...
- An unemployed investor creates a fictious business partner to attempt to improve business. Eventually, his creation gets out of control as his business becomes successful and his wife announces that she is in love with the partner and his son wishes the partner was his father -- although no one has ever seen him. To regain control, the man decides to "kill" his imaginary partner and is arrested for the murder.
- While traveling to a resort in Tunisia, the magician and clairvoyant Professor Vestar befriends the idle millionaire Edouard Vangard and he offers a ride in his car. Vestar discloses to Edouard that he had had a premonition of a woman being murdered in a desert area. Meanwhile, the Tunisian architect and engineer Sadry Fahres has relationship problems with his spoiled wife Sylvia, who refuses to visit her mother-in-law that is terminal. Sadry meets his former mistress Martine and she travels with him to visit his mother, rekindling their passion. Edouard observers the behavior of the trio of lover and decides to help the vision of Professor Vestar to come true, intriguing each one of them to force the murder.
- The 12 year old girl Gudrun experiences the end of childhood in a little town near Nuremberg. Her father is fighting far away on the Russian front, her mother packs Gudrun off to her grandmother.
- An old lady is far from suspecting everything that is going on behind her back, in particular what her servants are up to.
- A man has found a way to win any bet he places on a horse. However, he himself must never be the person to place the bet.
- German federal chancellor Ben Bischof's marriage is a shambles, each spouse cheating on the other. His latest affair, started while causing an accident on an incognito motorbike raid, is with an illegal Russian dentist, Mila, who can only get a cleaner's job. With his party convention coming up, the chancellor's office organizes damage control, but the emotional factor is beyond them.
- The farm where Hatschipuh (a gnome) and his friends live is about to be sold because the owners are going bankrupt. The gnomes need to help the family and rescue the farm. Live action film with animated gnomes.
- After the US Civil War ended, a handful of defeated Southern soldiers return home, to find that their village is almost depopulated. Some find their wives have changed, that their children grew up and no longer recognize them; others find they are now widows; others try to find new relationships, by flirting or by force. At first, there is a reception, with dance and merriment. Then trouble starts - and the men find that the women are now ready to defend themselves, with the law of the court, or the law of the gun.
- Fork-lift truck driver Ferdinand Weitel is desperate: he earns just a few deutschmarks a month, and now an unsavoury insurance agent has talked him into signing over expensive contracts. When Weitel decides to visit the assurance agency and put matters right, on carnival day, his journey turns into a satirical trip through German party life...
- Divorced, widowed or long-term single: The participants in the 50plus flirting course at the adult education center don't feel old yet, but they feel lonely. They hope that the course will provide them with professional support in their attempts to find a new partner. But what course leader Jan trains with Julia, Frieda, Gila and Britta, Friedrich, Heinz and Ulf quickly turns out to be much too mechanical for the individual needs and stories of the course participants. The course is in danger of failing. But then the participants fire the coach and take the initiative themselves.
- Gottfried Simmerauer's fatal diagnosis causes the uninvited return to his Alpine village mountain slope dairy farm of daughter Lena, a . geologist and environmental activist he ousted eight years ago, blamed for the death of her mother. She gets a cold welcome and a refusal to consider therapy, but Lena's daughter Theres (8), whom he blames her for never having presented, effortlessly wins Gottfried's affection, which forces her elders to get along for her sake. Lena also meets again her great love Anton Karcher, who entered a loveless marriage with Magda after she left without a word, wrongly assuming them a couple. Magda's employer, entrepreneur Dr. Manfred Sturminger, prepares a touristic ski center on the mountain slope, which Lena realizes is a crazy safety risk for geologic destabilization, as the village would lose its vital protective forest. Only Anton takes her seriously, learning the truth like her, and stormy rains traumatically prove the land slide danger.
- Satirical comedy about an East German citizen who manages to acquire a West Germany passport and go to live in the West, only to find that not all is gold that glitters.
- The 16-year-old Lukas finds it difficult to come to terms with his mother Beate's new partner Karsten. He figures it would suit him better to go live with his father Jochen. So far drugs has not been an issue for Lukas but under current circumstance alcohol fits in perfectly. It is so relaxing and it makes one feel better about oneself.
- A group of mechanics save a woman, fight against an evil big game hunter, and discover the real Loch Ness Monster. Chaos ensues.
- This is the story of John Glueckstadt, released from the prison he was named after. He tries to find his place in society again. The townpeople provoke him, stalk him and would like to get rid of him. This world becomes a second prison for him. His desperate attemps to live as others do result in unemployment and misery. Unfortunate circumstances such as the death of his wife make him all the more decide to emigrate with his child to America.
- Prosecutor Katja Schilling is leading a murder trial against the powerful underworld boss Mankoff. But more and more witnesses are withdrawing their incriminating statements in court, because Mankoff's arm still reaches far from prison. All the more important is Nadescha Schaposchnikow, the sister of the young murdered drug courier, who observed Mankoff's crime and is willing to testify as a key witness. Katja keeps them hidden in a secret place until she makes a statement. However, the committed public prosecutor is ambushed herself: an informant and former fellow student is murdered - with her pistol. Ironically, Chief Inspector Tom Schilling, her husband, with whom she is divorced, takes up the investigation and soon finds her trail. Katja is torn: Can she confide in her husband or is he the mole who keeps supplying Mankoff and his organization with secret police information? Her fatherly friend Mirko Nolte, also a detective and Katja's most important confidante, has her back as best he can. But then Nadescha suddenly disappears from her hiding place. Katja must do everything she can to save her witness' life.
- Ines and Hans try to save their crumbling marriage with a vacation trip. With three children, the grandmother, and some hamsters in the overloaded car to Sardinia.
- The story of a German woman's marriage to an Algerian virologist in Hamburg.
- Car mechanic Charly Zerbel has little desire for his work and for his boss, who finally fires him. He begins to study engineering but can't survive, so he tries to get his promotion through criminal means and operates as a car dealer.