In the brief period of peace after a terrible war on a far future Earth, an outer-space military academy is attacked by an unknown and unstoppable alien force. The commander, along with a group of newly graduated cadets, escapes to a large research station. Pursued by the aliens, the station jumps through a mysterious hyperspace gateway that sends them to a planet in an unknown part of the universe.
A classical art professor and collector, who doubles as a professional assassin, is coerced out of retirement to avenge the murder of an old friend.
In a dystopian, polluted right-wing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on account of her now rare fertility.
Hundreds of years after humans have settled on Mars, Regulator Rogul and Lord Jens Maul, lead a force of Martians to Earth in order to conquer the planet. Queen Metaphor looks to the gay heroes aboard the spaceship Surprise -- Captain Kork, Mr. Spuck, and first engineer Schrotty -- for help.
A group of heroic warriors has only six days to save the planet in "Mortal Kombat Annihilation." To succeed they must survive the most spectacular series of challenges any human, or god, has ever encountered as they battle an evil warlord bent on taking control of Earth.
A man from Ostfriesland travels to Hamburg and sets course for America on a steamship to conquer this New World as well. What he leaves behind is a swath of devastation, a breach of confusion, a Milky Way full of music, a dead end full of mad jokes and perhaps a touch too much wordplay at the expense of others. But what is worst of all: he has also made a film about it!
When the wife of a crime boss is accidentally killed, the hit man who was hired to protect the remote house in which she was living tries to keep her death under wraps. Fearing vengeance from the gangster, he's soon locked in a fight for survival.
When a World War II bomb with two days to detonation is found in Berlin, Alex and his wife must work quickly to solve a 40-year-old puzzle.
Master gunslinger Sabata arrives in Hobsonville, a town completely owned by McIntock, a robber baron who is taxing the inhabitants for the cost of future improvements to the town. Or that's what McIntock says he'll do with the money...
A journalist gets caught up in a terrorist plot in Moscow while investigating the Russian secret service.
In this pilot Western produced for Canadian television, two brothers and their cousin become bandits to rescue their ranch from a greedy land developer.
Nils Lovelorn, blessed with a present ego and a "second self" in the form of a well-rounded super blonde called Bebe, is sent back in time by time machine. There he is to blow out the lights of a pharaoh who, 3000 years later, threatens the world with destruction as a demon. Unfortunately, his feminine second half occasionally gains the upper hand and, to make matters worse, falls in love with the blood-sucking, evil pharaoh.
Berlin, a city with an evil past and a secret hidden in its bunkers. What began as a vacation became a trip to hell...
Simon Sachs, a terminally ill ten year old boy, claims to have been a serial killer in his previous life and apparently he can prove it. He leads a lawyer, Robert Stern, to the locations of the bodies, who were killed long before Simon was born. Stern takes on the most compelling and mysterious case of his life.
The crew of the nuclear submarine USS Ulysses rescues supposed victims of a boat disaster, but the victims turn out to be terrorists intent on capturing nuclear weapons aboard the sub. Only a former SEAL, now a submarine consultant, can save the crew by sliding aboard while the sub is underwater. The term "crash dive" refers to the sudden dropping of a sub to escape detection, an act that a nuclear sub is never supposed to make. Of course, it comes into play in this film.
Virus alert in Cologne: a deadly influenza pathogen has been released. Shortly afterwards, Sonja Kessler finds her husband Reinhard, a virus researcher, dead in their apartment. Everything points to suicide, but an unusual trail leads her and her stepson Jan to an apartment rented by Reinhard. Reinhard was apparently secretly researching a deadly virus there.
Anita Drögemöller has transformed herself from a small-time street prostitute into a luxury call girl. But one day she finds her former pimp dead in her apartment with a broken neck. Chief Inspector Langensiepen takes up the investigation and discovers an impenetrable web of sex, lies, raison d'état and murder.
During the time of the Peasants' Wars, the free knight Götz von Berlichingen gets into all kinds of private and political entanglements when he defends the Bishop of Bamberg. He is declared an enemy of the empire and ostracized as a robber. Insurgent peasants, of whom he becomes the leader, also betray him by attacking a town against the condition that no violence be used.
After his parents separate and he loses his place on the soccer team, Moritz must put together a new team against incredible odds.
Londo Mollari, the Centauri Emperor, recounts the initial contact between the Humans and Minbari, which resulted in a major incident and subsequent war, for an eager pair of youngsters wanting a story about love and conflict.
An estate agent is forced into witness protection soon after selling the apartment of a girl who died in suspicious circumstances. However, when the deceased girl's mother is also found dead, all signs point to a murderer on the loose, and it becomes apparent the agent's new identity may not protect her from the killer.
Monika and Johannes are married. With increasing frequency, their son Manni becomes the focus of their arguments. Since the two cannot agree to a compromise, they decide to break up. The ten-year-old Manni is supposed to spend four weeks with Monika followed by four weeks with Johannes on an alternating basis. They want to prove to each other who has the better parenting skills. The plan fails, however, because Manni is very good at playing his parents off against each other. When Monika and Johannes finally see through their son’s game, they realize that their way of life does not lead to better parenting and they conclude that good parenting can only be achieved if they work together.
Caroline Landry's husband has a sudden mid-life crisis and their idealistic 20-year marriage breaks apart when he leaves her for a younger woman. With the help of her friends and children, Caroline learns to pick herself up again and do the impossible - move on with her life.
Johanna, a beautiful brunette, comes back to her father's house after accomplishing a training course in a car factory in Turin. At home, she reads a note her father had ensconced in the welcome bouquet of flowers: «You're back at last.» Then, she meets her best friend, Jasmin, and they go together to see their group of friends # all have grown up together by the lake. It comes up they have all received a message similar to her own. Next evening, these young persons are having a good time, dancing, flirting, drinking a lot, as a retarded person watches them, and evokes a memory of a similar evening years ago... Then, people start dying around, and in the peaceful lake that hides mysteries they share.
Endres wants to be more than just a farmer's son. He wants to be able to read and write, wear clothes without holes and sleep in a proper bed. He goes to the court of the King, who is said to be the cleverest man in the land. Endres becomes his personal servant and every day after dinner brings him a mysterious golden bowl. No-one knows what the bowl contains, not even Princess Leonora. When the queen's ring goes missing, suspicion falls on Endres.
Based on the drama by Wolfgang Bauer. Fery Kaltenböck is a painter of the Viennese avant-garde in the post-1968 milieu. His lack of success plunges him into depression. Out of frustration, he builds the Pölten painter Blasius Okopenko into a star, only to subsequently destroy him and gain fame through the scandal. But his plans fail because he underestimated Okopenko. When Kaltenböck realizes that he is becoming the manipulated man, depression and conscience drive him to suicide, and he hangs himself.
The five unlikely friends Caroline, Eva, Estelle, Judith and Kiki have been meeting on the first Tuesday of every month for 15 years to gossip and gossip - and once a year they go on a short vacation together. This time, at Eva's suggestion, they want to spend a week of fasting in a remote castle hotel: seven days without everyday life, without stress, without men - and without food. Unfortunately, the meager therapeutic fasting mainly causes ravenous hunger among the women, and the problems at home cannot be shaken off so easily. Empty bellies and sleepless nights soon cause friction. Finally, the real reason for Eva's vacation suggestion turns out: she hopes to find her unknown father at the castle.
Rookie is a German spoof on several movies, e.g, Forrest Gump, Rocky, Rambo, Indiana Jones, Predator, Star Trek, Spider Man and The Wizard of Oz. Story: After a failed career as a boxer, Rookie is going to search for Sam in the Vietnamese jungle.
Occupation, children and marriage - everything is right with Merrit. But on the day when she wants to go on vacation with the family and her best friend Bea, she learns that her father has suffered a heart attack. Instead of going to Italy she drives to the Eifel. The father is the circumstances, but with her idiosyncratic mother Iris Merrit gets back together again. And then suddenly her husband Immo and the children are standing in front of the castle gate. Her daughter Jule is completely disturbed - she has caught her father in bed with Bea.
The Trixters are four grifters on a mission: to avenge the victims of fraud and injustice by taking on the powerful. For these modern-day Robins des bois, no holds are barred. They've decided to take on an arms dealer who has robbed a group of elderly people of their savings.
Melanie Sheffield visits her childhood friend Sarah Rudd at her estate. After her arrival she meets the mysterious Ben Fox. Melanie feels magically drawn to the attractive Ben. Ben also seems fascinated by Melanie, but behaves distantly. When the two finally find each other, happiness is perfect. But then Melanie is confronted with Ben's past.
Since the accidental death of her fiancé , Keira has lived on her parents ' country estate in southern Ireland, where they have a well-respected horse farm . Keira is wracked with guilt over the accident . She blames herself and her favorite horse , Othello , and has since the eventcompletely withdrawn from the traumatized horse . Concerned about Othello , Keira's father Samuel hires American horse whisperer Patrick O'Connell. He hopes that the American , who is of Irish immigrant descent, will not only treat Othello , but will also be able to relieve Keira of her feelings of guilt . PatrickO'Connell falls in love at first sight with the beautiful Emerald Isle and with Keira, who reciprocates his feelings . Cathleen and Samuel are delighted with the development . Only her brother Jacob, who mainly takes care of horse breeding , makes no secret of hisdislikes Patrick and spins a dangerous scheme .
Stella loves the old treasures she sells as an auctioneer . But since she has been working with her husband Peter and his father Richard in the family auction house , her marriage has been in trouble . After another argument , she wants a divorce. But before they start their projectimplement , she receives an invitation to the reading of the will of a Lord Willoughby, of whom she has never heard . Curious , she makes her way to Cornwall . There they are awaited by an impressive property and the attractive architect David, who after the death of theLords temporarily looking after the estate . When she is greeted by the cranky old butler James with "Countess of Willoughby" , she is stunned. In addition to Stella , the Lord's second wife, June , and her sister Virginia are present at the reading of the will . To the all-roundTo their surprise , they learn that Stella is the Lord 's granddaughter . Stella 's father had chosen his civil love and had been cast out as a result .
What do parents think first when the room of a 15-year-old is empty on Sunday morning? The fact that he secretly goes to church, brings his otherwise open-minded patchwork family together: what's going on in the child's head? While Ulrike C. Tscharre wants to be the indignant mother of the pastor, Ben Braun proposes in the role of the casual stepfather before a self-experience trip in the distance.
Jakob, a soldier mistreated by the king finds in a well a mysterious blue light which turns out to be a stroke of genius. He merely wants to teach the king a lesson by asking him to temporarily stealing whatever the king values most. He doesn't expect to be brought the king's daughter...
Two young oil salesmen from Hamburg, who are tasked with buying oil from the Middle East as cheaply as possible for their company, get caught up in a clash between a local gang of drug smugglers and the police. Each stage of this dangerous adventure could earn them either twenty years in prison or liquidation by the gang. The appearance of a beautiful, somewhat enigmatic woman adds to the allure. Two middle-class existences in a foreign country, confronted with the rude methods of the police and criminal elements, form the field of tension in this adventure story, which was produced with an international cast.
An American couple's battle through bureaucracy to adopt a Romanian child.
Katja is a single mother of her six-year-old son. She has told him that his father is a famous musician. In reality, however, it is her childhood sweetheart Nick, with whom she wanted to emigrate to Australia. After some misunderstandings, however, he left alone and she stayed behind in Hamburg, unaware that she was pregnant. Now that a class reunion is coming up and Nick has announced his attendance, it's time to tell the truth.
A former East German boxing champion reduced to working as a bouncer and debt collector is forced to reflect on his life when he is diagnosed with a fatal disease.
Simon is a notoriously suspicious control freak, Lea is more the unconventional type. He has turned his obsession into a profession and works in the security department of a Stuttgart-based food company; ever since he had the employees' access cards fitted with tracking chips, his colleagues have seen him as nothing more than the "Stasi bridge man". Lea dropped out of her degree in food chemistry, is currently working in the company canteen and dreams of driving around in a food truck. She is currently using the old Mercedes bus, a former fire engine that now bears the lettering "Brand Herd", as her accommodation. Two such opposites would never cross paths in real life. In the movie, they can become true love, provided Simon lets himself be kissed awake.
1981: Marita Lorenz checks into an Havana hotel and, in a flashback, remembers 22 years' before. At 19, visiting Cuba from New York, she comes to the attention of Fidel Castro, the country's rebel president. He invites her to be his secretary and to be part of the making of the new Cuba. She accepts, but soon learns he already has a capable secretary; Marita's duties lie elsewhere. She becomes pregnant. She's also come to the attention of the FBI and the CIA, so when she wakes up in a US hospital after what may have been a botched abortion against her will in Cuba, her government presses her into service as an assassin: her job, to go back to Cuba and kill her former lover.
Emma has a wonderful job: she is a registrar and marries couples who want to get married. However, she is not happy because her own marriage to Thomas is now on shaky ground. She has become estranged from her husband and couples therapy doesn't seem to be working. When she meets her childhood crush Ben again, she is faced with a big decision. However, Ben is about to marry Julia and Emma is supposed to marry him and his fiancée.
In the Jim-Crow South, Val Xavier is a bass-playing drifter who retains a wild, compassionate spirit amid neon-lit decay. Nicknamed “Snake Skin” for his animal-hide jacket, Val seeks to shed the emptiness of wealthy nightclubs and, after turning thirty, yearns for a modest, purposeful life grounded in honest work.
Tiffany is in her early twenties. She is a cosmetics salesperson and pleasingly plump. She's good at her job, fun-loving and self-confident. That she hasn't has her big breakthrough yet, she attributes to her figure, which doesn't conform to the prevalent ideal.When she meets a guy, falls in love, but he shies away whenever she wants to get intimate, and when her boss fires her and hires a thinner replacement, she makes a decision: no matter how, the fat has got to go...
Best prospects for young Nika Kreschinski: She is an assistant in the PR department of the renowned Seckbach Bank and is engaged to Fritz , the son of the house. But shortly before the planned wedding , the orderly life of the career woman is thoroughly shaken up: her father Herby,an old hippie, appears on the scene because the Seckbach Bank wants to turn his Greek dropout island into an amusement park ...
After the death of her father, the headstrong Countess Eva Marie-Luise von Aspach-Ney returns from Berlin to the Saarland. Her father left behind a villa, which is now Eva's only source of livelihood. Due to her chosen path in life, her father's inheritance has been placed in a foundation. Now Eva has to transfer a considerable amount to the aforementioned foundation every year if she wants to keep the villa. The countess and the other residents of the villa, including Trude, the maid of honor, and her husband, janitor Gustav Düppenweiler, are faced with a seemingly impossible financial task. To make matters worse, the conflict with the hermit Philipp Arthur Limberger threatens to escalate. The community must now stick together in order not to lose their beloved roof over their heads.
He was arrested 23 years ago. In May 1995, Germany's most famous building tycoon and fraudster was caught by FBI and BKA investigators in Miami. Jürgen Schneider had been hiding there with his wife Claudia for over 13 months after his flight from Germany triggered the biggest real estate bankruptcy of the post-war period. He left behind debts of over 5 billion Deutschmarks to more than 50 banks. Never before had the banking industry in Germany been so ripped off. But it was not only the banks that were affected, but also many, especially East German craft firms.
A dead body is found in a burning car on the Berlin-Leipzig highway. The police investigate: Murder. Objects found in the car point to gold smuggling. At the funeral of the murdered man, his circle of acquaintances is scrutinized. They are all suspects. The trail leads detective Lindner to a bar.
Our world is the home of millions of plant as well as animal species and provides several territories, each with its own geological and climatic conditions: steep mountains, deep forests, wide oceans and arctic ice deserts. The inhabitants have adapted to its different conditions and are still developing new strategies to survive. “Wonderful World 3D” not only takes a look at the interesting creatures of our planet, but also highlights cosmological circumstances, which made our world unique, diversified and above all so adorable.
In an alternate world, humanity and vampires have warred for centuries. After the last Vampire War, the veteran Warrior Priest lives in obscurity with other humans inside one of the Church's walled cities. When the Priest's niece is kidnapped by vampires, the Priest breaks his vows to hunt them down. He is accompanied by the niece's boyfriend, who is a wasteland sheriff, and a former Warrior Priestess.
A young orphan boy Jim Button, his best friend Luke and a magical steam engine called Emma travel across the world in search of the truth about where Jim came from. Battling pirates and dragons, outsmarting make-believe giants, they must travel through the Forest of a Thousand Wonders, beyond the End of the World to find the hidden Dragon City.
Gustl Bayrhammer takes audiences big and small on a musical journey to “Wonderland”. There he meets various characters from comic books, fairy tales and legends.
Fletcher tells his psychiatrist how he was mistakenly held captive by a mysterious secret service. This secret service is said to have tried to manipulate him in an elaborate power game to break his spirit. Fletcher's psychiatrist is suspicious of the story and tries to help Fletcher stay sane, because the truth is even more frightening.