A young woman becomes entangled with a successful businessman, but her ex tries to win her back, provoking intense jealousy that leads her to reconsider her choice. Ultimately, one man's actions force a resolution to her dilemma.
Pepe Nietnagel's father has a valuable stamp collection stolen in Amsterdam. Street musician Pit recovers it. To show his gratitude, Pit is invited to Baden Baden and enters the Mommsen Gymnasium. There, he joins Pepe in his pranks.
A husband is humiliated at home and at work. He decides he has had enough of it and hires a prostitute to help him get back at his boss, wife and friends and get a lot richer in the process.
An American occult novelist battles to save the soul of a young girl from a group of Satanists, led by an excommunicated priest, who plan on using her as the representative of the Devil on Earth.
The teacher Dorothee Durand, young and single, travels from England to the picturesque south of France to find the remaining remnants of her family. Her search takes her to Nimes, where she meets the likewise single Marius, a hotelier, who immediately falls in love with the beautiful woman. And so it turns out that after traveling through half of France, Dorothy not only finds her relatives, but also ...
Scuggs, the utterly unpleasant super of a Bronx tenement is driven to desperate measures by an innocent-appearing, but manipulative 11 year-old girl. Based on the graphic novel by American Master Will Eisner, Meinecke combines larger-than-life characters, borrows from the traditions of melodrama and applies a visual language derived from German Expressionists to create a haunting tale, that won particular favor with New York critics.
Over two decades after their affair ended, a married man is haunted by the presence of his former lover.
Drama about an old lady who begins to suffer from dementia.
A wealthy citizen of Salzburg wants to write a play about ordinary people.
Based on the best-selling novel by Nobel-laureate Heinrich Böll, this drama is a passionate indictment of Catholicism. Hans Schnier (Helmut Griem) has earned his living as a clown, though he is in fact a very covert sort of social critic. After enduring a difficult childhood in Bonn during the Second World War, including his mother's fanatic Nazism, he is appalled to discover many of the people he knows and loves swept deeply into involvement in the Catholic Church.
At the behest of his father, the young Karl Valentin is to complete a carpentry apprenticeship. When the father gets into a financial mess by a strict creditor, the boy works with growing success as a comedian to support his parents financiall
On his way to Vienna, veterinarian Klaus Wolf meets Biggi, a hitchhiker. Klaus is supposed to examine rhinos in Vienna, but with a monkey addicted to alcohol and other animal problems, Klaus has enough on his plate. He finds it rather inappropriate that he now also has Biggi on his hands. But he soon discovers a new, shy soul who is not as unsuitable as he initially thought.
Scampolo is a young, poor girl who lives on the island of Ischia. She falls in love with a young architect who hopes to win a design competition. Scampolo intecedes on his behalf with the minister and helps him to make his dream come true.
A young German woman searches for happiness, liberation, and independence in the illusive wake of a transformative national recovery.
The multi-millionaire Eduard Schlüter takes part under the name Schulze in a raffle of his own Schlüter works and wins a stay at the Grand Hotel. Disguised as a poor swallower, he would like to study the reactions of the hotel staff and guests. As an assistant, he takes his reliable servant Johann with him. Once there, he makes friends and also has cause for annoyance when his daughter and the housekeeper arrive.
The talkative dentist Dr. Agartz lets the drill whir and tries to entertain his patient Thesi Petersen with the latest society gossip: the famous Hamburg architect Robert Petersen is about to remarry. The new girl's name is Karin Nielsen and she comes "from the best family".
A baby is delivered to the Hamilton family, triggering a turbulent search for those responsible among six potential fathers.
The three daughters of the Dessau merchant Sellmann move with their father to Prague in 1936, 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.
A married couple of artists move to a utopian town known for its absolute freedom, but behind the surface perversion and violence are spreading.
A young man seeks freedom and eventually gets conformed. To escape society, he wanders south. After some adventures he returns to his lover, where he expects a civil career.
A vet has successfully taken over her father's practice. Now the already smouldering marital crisis comes to a head when anonymous letters accuse her husband of having an affair. Meanwhile, the doctor is being courted by the local mayor.
When her father suffers a heart attack, Christine, a qualified vet, travels with her two children from Munich to Carinthia to take over his veterinary practice while he recovers. However, this puts her marriage to architect Thomas, which is already in crisis, to the test. While the jealous Thomas is on a business trip to Salzburg, the attractive Christine is being courted in Carinthia by the charming farmer Georg Reiser.
An ex-tennis pro carries out a plot to murder his wife. When things go wrong, he improvises a brilliant plan B.
Willy Loman is an over-the-hill salesman who faces a personal turning point when he loses his job and attempts to make peace with his family: Willy's long-suffering wife Linda, and Biff and Happy, his troubled sons and his life.
A reporter becomes embroiled in a deadly game when researching a series of murders on a South American island.
The film around the intelligence officer Captain Smith plays in the headquarters of a British tank regiment shortly after the beginning of the invasion of 1944, where Le Havre waws to be overrun by allied troops and forced to surrender. Smith refuses to continue the fight as he is convinced that the war has become meaningless, he came to that conclusion due to the denial of the request of a German general to evacuate the French civilian population.
Six women from three generations of one family live in an old villa on the outskirts of a provincial Polish town. All of them have lost their husbands; one is divorced, the others are widows. The women live on their memories, raving about the old days or looking back bitterly on a lost life. The doted center of this isolated women's world is the old grandmother, whose wise kindness determines the atmosphere of the house. Joanna Nielewicz returned to the family circle just a few months ago, after the death of her husband, who was respected by all for his particularly high moral standards. Since his death, Joanna has been tormented by a guilt that she finally confesses to her grandmother: once during her marriage, she was unfaithful to her husband. One day, the surprise visit of a young girl brings unrest to the villa. Despite the women's resistance, she manages to get through to Joanna and reveal that she is the illegitimate daughter of her late husband.
Vlassov is a Soviet spy who defects in France. He is whisked to the U.S, where Allan Davies takes over the case. After polygraph tests and cross-examinations, Vlassov names several Western European agents who are also spying for the Soviets. Davies wants to take the listed agents into custody; meanwhile, those on the list start dying under mysterious circumstances.
The attractive young Franka runs the traditional porcelain manufactory Rhomberg with her father. In contrast to her fun-loving sister Joe, the sensible Franka has no time for men. That changes when she meets the sensitive, good-looking Luca - who unfortunately has just married her "best enemy" Nathalie. Franka suddenly has to fight against unfamiliar feelings. Joe falls seriously in love too, but is the easy-going bartender Marco the right one for her? The lives of the two sisters are turned upside down.
Film adaptation of the last part of Martin Walser's "Kristlein Trilogy": After the perpetually failing intellectual Anselm Kristlein had to make a living as a sales representative and advertising copywriter in "Halbzeit" and became a writer in "Das Einhorn" (filmed in 1977 by Peter Patzak), he now tries his hand as the owner of a pinball arcade in Munich, loses his wife's fortune, and returns to Lake Constance in a chaotic state of mind.
TV-Movie by Rainer Erler
This film tells the unusually sensitive story of two women who try to cope with men, one a pragmatic gold digger type, not unsympathetic though, the other a dreamer who falls in love with a man in a magic moment ... or so she thinks.
Somewhere in the American countryside, reporter Ellis Yester and his wife Paula live in a tranquil country house. When one day Yolande and Edmund Clenz move into the neighborhood, the lives of both couples change abruptly. The unemployed journalist and the attractive neighbor fall in love with each other. This happens because both are dissatisfied with their respective spouses. Ellis and Yolande begin to plot a murderous plan...
Within the span of 48 hours "contemporaries" encounter each other. In the middle is Max, who lost his job years ago because of his affair with the wife of an influential man. The story of an encounter which turns out badly because the people involved can't quite communicate.
Heiner and his friend Florian go canoeing on the river Mosel. With them is Monika, Heiner's sister, as Heiner's wife hasn't got time to be with them. But as a joke, Heiner passes Monika off as his wife, and while Monika likes the conceit initially, it becomes a problem when she falls in love with Florian who however wants to remain loyal to his friend. Things get complicated when the trio meet Susanne and Tilo, another canoeing couple, and when finally Heiner's wife Nora arrives, too. Soon quite a bit of partner-swapping seems imminent...
A lot has happened in Cecily Harrington's life. The young woman has not only won 10,000 pounds in the lottery, but has also unceremoniously dumped her fiancé Nigel after falling head over heels in love with Bruce Lovell. But after their wedding, when they retire to a remote country house, the likeable globetrotter changes visibly. Eventually, she even begins to suspect that her husband may have a terrible secret: Is he the wife-killer who is being searched for around the globe and who poisons his wives and buries them in the cellar?
The sister of a famous, but as yet uncaught, criminal named The Hexer is murdered. Inspector Higgins of Scotland Yard believes that The Hexer will surface to take his revenge on his sister's killers, and plans to set a trap to finally capture him. However, soon bodies start piling up, and it looks as if The Hexer may get away yet again.
Adaptation of a story by Henry James.
In post-war Austria, an opportunistic young man begins working as a footman to a widowed countess and uses his sexual talents to better his station in life.
In a future world where the disease has been finally defeated and everything can be sold, even the crude spectacle of death, the rare case of a dying woman becomes the morbid theme of a revolutionary reality show, broadcast through the curious eyes of a peculiar camera.
In 1882 a country girl disappears from a small Hungarian village. The inhabitants suggest that she was murdered by the Jews. Everything is done to accuse them before the trial. A study in stubbornness, racism and intolerance and how to fight against it.
Two years after an accident in which she lost her husband and son, advertising manager Marie Schiller returns to the scene - to Prague.