When a train carrying atomic warheads mysteriously crashes in the former Soviet Union, a nuclear specialist discovers the accident is really part of a plot to cover up the theft of the weapons. Assigned to help her recover the missing bombs is a crack Special Forces Colonel.
A portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late 19th and early 20th century.
Anoush, an emigrant, who fled post-soviet Armenia from her abusive husband, is facing eventual deportation years later…
10 people, 10 relationships, 10 realities. Within 24 hours unexpected, almost impossible facts come into light and change the lives of the protagonists forever. An episodic film about the polarity between freedom and responsibility.
Natalie (Anne-Sophie Briest) has found a job and a new love. She meets her 14-year-old Miriam, who risks being under the influence of Natalie's ex-pimp. Natalie and the computer nerd Sven research a child pornography ring.
After a small sample of fabric, the eternal student and occasional dealer Paul ends up in the emergency room. Enraged, father Willi takes his offspring back to his sleepy Westphalian home, where foxes and rabbits still say goodnight to each other. He locks him up in the dog kennel on his farm and makes him memorize a doctor's novel to get him out of his head and teach him about real life. But not only Paul's girlfriend Lena, but also two dealers miss Paul and set off in search of him...
During a business meeting at the Exotarium, beauty journalist Eva Christ falls over a bucket of fish. This rude misstep not only brings her into the life of the likeable zookeeper Max Hay, but also causes her a tricky relationship problem: Her growing affection for the unconventional zookeeper jeopardizes her long-term relationship with her lover. Karl, who has two children with his wife Ines and works as a lawyer in his father-in-law's office, leads a perfectly organized double life - until rival Max crosses his path.
The film adaptation Ödön of Horvath's piece about small bourgeois disasters.
Interior designer Kim Joosten is like many modern women: self-confident, successful and always concerned about her appearance. When she saves a child's life at a barbecue, she suffers severe burns and is disfigured by a large facial scar. However, representation and good looks are a must in her job, in which she is now increasingly marginalized. When she also discovers that her husband Max is having an affair, Kim no longer knows what to do.
Aunty Agatha has passed away at a healthy ninety years. She had known all along, that her family wanted nothing more than to get their hands on her riches. That's why she devised a cunning plan before leaving her kin - in a state discord: She hires former journalist Vincent to give her eulogy. Vincent's ex-wife Victoria, who runs an exclusive florist's shop branded "Leaf and Blossom" is to provide the floral arrangements for her funeral. Of course aunt Agatha didn't tell either half of the former couple, whose marriage didn't end too harmoniously either, that their ex was involved. When the will is read Agatha's family doesn't take it well that Victoria and Vincent are also bequested and it doesn't help that the total value of the legacy seems to be much lower than they hoped for. But aunty is sending her avaricious offsprings onto a deviously plotted scavenger hunt that's leading them to the real fortune. Victoria and Vincent of course are given the crucial clues to take the lead.
In the year 1968, the “Bockerer” has decided, after many attempts, to marry his long-time widowed housekeeper, Anna. Gustl, whom he as taken in like a son after the war, will open a butchery in the Czech small town Kostelec and invites the Bockerers to spend their wedding journey with him and his Elena. The “Prague Spring”, of which everywhere is talked so much about, promises a nice honeymoon, and their friend Hatzinger is taken along on the journey as well. Soon after their arrival, the Bockerer has to realize that “Communism with a human face” is still an idle wish.
The parents of a talented 23-year-old pianist were killed in an accident on the way to her wedding to a career-oriented violinist. She tries to keep the family together and gets custody of her three underage siblings. Although her relationship breaks up and her job suffers considerably, the young woman remains in good spirits and manages to bring calm to the sometimes turbulent and problematic family life.
Geologist Lena receives the news that her father Gottfried, who abandoned her eight years ago, is terminally ill. With a heavy heart, she travels back to her home village in the mountains with her young daughter. A journey into a difficult past, as Lena is not only confronted with Gottfried's rejection, but also with her former great love Anton, whom she has never been able to forget and who is now married to the enterprising and scheming Magda. But this is not the only problem: Lena discovers that her village is threatened by a landslide as a result of massive environmental destruction.
Ten episodes tell the stories of ten encounters involving a male hooker, an actor, a cleaning lady, a female theater director, a male kindergarten teacher, a poetess, a publisher, a woman, who is a lawyer, a male puppeteer and a female make-up artist. The whole circle is triggered by the off-chance meeting of the poetess and the puppeteer on an overnight bus to Vienna, where the puppeteer succeeds in persuading the poetess to stay for a day in Vienna. All the encounters take place in one day and after 24 hours they meet again, but their lives have changed.
Attractive uncompromising politician Mona Dengler is investigating the tobacco industry. Tomboyish bodyguard and single mother Johanna Sieber is assigned to protect her. This endangers Johanna's son. Mona unexpectedly falls for her.
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
The film is set in the near future, in a world of perfect capitalism. Society is sustained by a class of top achievers; meanwhile, so-called minimum recipients live under sedation in Fortresses of Sleep. The great majority of top achievers view themselves as happy. An outsourced agency has been established for the rest: Life Guidance is charged with turning these individuals into optimal people as well. Alexander has internalized the system but one wrong word to his child triggers Life Guidance. He starts to rebel and encounters the horror of the system in all its brightness and affability.
Fat German star restaurant chef Gregor shows romantic interest in waitress Eden Drebb. She's happily married to hunky Xaver Drebb, but feels romantically neglected. Gregor's deserts seduce her, first trough her brat daughter Leonie, to spend time with him and his fabulous dishes. That soon becomes a rather platonic affair, and domestic troubles. Xaver decides to exact revenge on Gregor, with tragic results.
Two young women are hitchhiking when they get picked up by a man who proceeds to sexually assault them. He disappears after that. The suspicion that the „girls" - having a reputation of being "loose" when it comes to sex - killed him, begins to grow.
After twenty unsuccessful years, pop singer Harry Kuntz has landed a hit: a remake of Lehár's "Your is my whole heart" catapulted him to the top of the charts. While Harry basks in his sudden fame, his brother and manager Tommy's dream of wealth is just around the corner. A car breakdown on a stormy night leads the brothers to a remote house. Harry is once again playing the sexual daredevil and thinks he's having success with his pick-me-up. A fatal error. Suddenly, the two brothers find themselves in a nightmare from which there is no escape.
The hero is an astronaut who has fallen from the heavens; afflicted by nightmares, he vegetates in his hospital room until an aged, sexless humanity needs him again...
A single long-range shot shatters the quiet of a country morning, leaving a beloved doctor dead on the steps of his family home. In the aftermath, a grieving widow and her withdrawn son cling desperately to the safety of routine. Meanwhile, a weary detective – mid-divorce and living out of a suitcase – is called to investigate, joined by a young colleague still reeling from a recent trauma.
Village policeman Gasperlmaier has a tough time in his third case. He's immediately summoned from a funeral to the bathroom of a family home. There, he finds a dead body. Together with his new superior, the investigation begins. But the first death is followed by a second. More and more pieces of the puzzle are piecing together a grim picture from the past. There's little time left for Gasperlmaier and his new boss, and it seems his mother-in-law is also involved.
Hertha is determined to shoot her unfaithful husband. But by chance, she becomes a hostage-taker, giving her neurotic victim Philipp the worst hours of his life. A road movie across Lower Austria: Not even the Waldviertel wine bottles remain unscathed in the gunfire.