A character study of a family on vacation. The emotional abyss and problems are behind the seemingly nice facade of an intact family as they experience guilt, love, and jealousy.
A writer stumbles upon a long-hidden secret when he agrees to help former British Prime Minister Adam Lang complete his memoirs on a remote island after the politician's assistant drowns in a mysterious accident.
A Kentucky woman whose mine-worker husband is nearly killed in a cave-in, and whose father is slowly dying of black lung disease, joins the picket lines for a long, violent strike.
Donna is married to a workaholic who travels frequently for his job. When he takes a long term assignment overseas, Donna feels abandoned and turns to her daughter’s schoolteacher for companionship. She is unaware that he is a dangerous murderer and thief who preys on lonely married women. When her husband returns she is forced to deal with her betrayal and bring him to justice.
Fashion entrepreneur Verena has the company well under control. Only her husband Christian is busy elsewhere: He has been having an affair with lawyer Claudia for a long time. When Verena catches them both, she files for divorce. But because she is only awarded the loss-making part of the company, she has to come up with some ideas. On her way to investor Estelle da Silva, Verena meets the hot Leon. He has great tips - and a secret.
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.
Katharina and Elena are best friends. After a year of training in Canada Elena has now returned to Bavaria - with her Canadian fiancé Tom. Elena's father would rather be marrying down-to-earth Markus. But he is with Katharina. But then Katharina and Tom fall in love.
By chance Paul Kromberger discovers on the internet a photograph of the US opera diva Caterina Fabiani who is the spitting image of Evelyn, his dead wife. His unease and growing sense of alarm are transferred to his daughter, Sophie. Filled with curiosity, she leaves Germany and journeys across the Atlantic to make contact with this stranger.
8 shorts centered around 8 themes directed by 8 famous film directors involved and sharing their opinion on progress, on the set-backs and the challenges our planet faces today.
Agathe von Trapp, the eldest daughter of a well-known musical family, overcomes many obstacles to pursue her musical career and move to the United States.
Author Max Zorn, now in his early 60s, is on a promotional book tour in New York when he encounters the woman he could never forget. They spend a weekend together, seventeen years have passed. Can there be a future for their past?
Against the backdrop of New York's dazzling fashion scene, a woman in the process of transforming herself from a model into a designer is forced to live with her husband's ex-wife when he disappears without a trace.
In order to forget the love of his youth, a man flees to Namibia
In the feature film "Seed of Terror", a German secret service agent during her assignment abroad in Pakistan recognizes that attacks on civilians in Mumbai are imminent. It does everything in its power to thwart the attacks, but it must experience that their use is counteracted on different levels. Their fight becomes a race against time and various intelligence services.
Over a century ago, a family of immigrants was burned to death - could the killer's descendants still be haunted bo the victims? Does the ghost of a conspirator in Lincoln's assassination still haunt the U.S. Army? Psychics, scholars, and eyewitnesses tell stories from beyond the grave.
For as long as she can remember, 16 year-old Gracie has been raising her four siblings, each of whom has a different, absent father and their mother is on the fast track to self-destruction. When these children's lives are about to be pulled apart, Gracie will have to do the impossible and make the ultimate sacrifices to keep her family together.
Zoologist Verena is supposed to pick up two small lions from South Africa. The consequences of an accident force her to stay longer at the animal station - where she clashes with ranger Ben. A few strokes of fate later, however, everything is different. Verena finds an ally in the station manager Agnes, and then a secret comes to light...
After his successful first "case", Allmen decides to make finding lost art objects his profession and thus avoid financial misery in the future.
A radio psychologist who solves the murders of wealthy women finds her latest case is much deeper than she imagined-and it may cost her life!
This compelling political drama is based on the true story of high-ranking Pentagon official Daniel Ellsberg, who, during the Nixon era, strove to preserve American democracy by leaking top-secret documents to the New York Times and Washington Post. The documents in question would eventually become famous as the Pentagon Papers, which revealed the true reasons for U.S. involvement in Vietnam.