Alexander grows up in a small house with his loving grandmother. In order to avoid his father’s fate, on his tenth birthday, he promises her that he will never fall in love. Every Sunday, Alexander visits his father, who has retreated to live in the Vienna subway system since the death of Alexander’s mother. As a young adult, Alexander wants to be closer to his father and decides to take a job in a lostand- found office in the underground. It is here that he meets the beautiful and vivacious Caro (Verena Altenberger) in her cute subway hatter store. Although Alexander has successfully resisted love before, now his self-imposed oath becomes a difficult promise to keep.
Hostage-taking in a maximum security prison. Three felons bring three friends with homemade bombs under their control. A police officer who happens to be on duty conducts the negotiation with the highly narcissistic head of the hostage-takers, who are ready for anything.
The contrasts between Marlen (Corinna Harfouch) and Fynn (newcomer Daniel Sträßer) couldn't be any more extreme if they tried: Marlen's apartment is packed to the rafters with objects too valuable or important to throw away, while Fynn plans to go through life with only 100 things in his possession. The fact that they can't keep their hands off each other and end up falling in love holds true to the old adage that opposites really do attract...
Five former high school friends reunite for an evening of fun, remembrance and sadness in this Altmanesque portrait of female friendship. A look at how youthful idealism turns into adult pragmatism, and how one can fight such changes, from the director of Free Radicals.
A marriage couple find their daughter drowned in the pool house. At the hospital, the doctor refuses to give up and holds tightly to a remote hope of saving the girl.
In southern Burgenland, Austria, 18-year-old Renate is found dead in a wooded area. Investigator Elfriede Jandrasits, who is known for her tenacity at the Eisenstadt Criminal Police Office, takes on the case. She is under a lot of time pressure because her husband's retirement party is imminent.
The movie is about a nuclear desaster in the Czech nuclear power station Dukovany.
They've swapped Christmas – again. Can Hayley and James' relationship survive another turbulent family Christmas or has their future together gone off-piste?!
Paula Rom and her family live in the suburb of a small city - happily and approved by society. Their average and inconspicuous life changes totally, when her 15 years old son shoots ten of his classmates and kills himself afterwards. From that day nothing is how it used to be. The whole family has to struggle with the anger and sorrow of the people around them. They need to deal with the assassination and the circumstances, how it could come to the disaster out of nowhere.
Most of the time, Patrick Angerer enjoys a pretty laid back view of life. So he's not especially impressed by the protest action his workmates are taking against the strict wage targets set by the new management of Falkendorf steel plant. But things suddenly begin to get interesting for Patrick when his ex, Barbara Brossman, still the great love of his life, is sent to Falkendorf as the union's lawyer: as she's brought along her new partner, Patrick has his work cut out trying to convince Babs that his life doesn't entirely consist of football and trips down the pub.
Franziska only wants the best for her bright grandson Tobias. That's why the retired teacher is very worried when the boy starts to drop off at school. His mother Silke, a hands-on woman from a modest background, is not worried. She doesn't want to raise Tobias to be a bookworm anyway, but is annoyed that her dedicated grandmother spoils the little boy rotten. The fronts harden. After an ugly argument, Silke forbids her grandmother to have any contact with Tobias. Franziska doesn't want to put up with this and goes to court.
Julia, 28, lives a double life as Escort and tells her daughter Lilli, 10, that she works as a secret agent.
Georg is a writer hoping for his big breakthrough. When he meets the unemployed Alois, he recognizes in him the novel material he has been so desperately searching for. Alois has a strange habit: he entangles his fellow human beings in absurd situations seemingly without meaning. Georg decides to get to the bottom of Alois' behavior and gets caught up in a chain of such bizarre, embarrassing and threatening events that he soon finds himself in over his head.
Rosa Hofer accidentally discovered that her son-in-law Udo is highly indebted . She follows and observes him secretly and finds out that he is trying to make some money in illegal poker games in a more than dubious cafe. To avoid the worst and save the family , and the house , which is already overwritten on the children, Rosa treading unusual ways for her. After initial differences, she gets help from Charly, who works in this cafe.
The 16-year-old daughter of the highest dignitary in Hüttenberg is found murdered in the disused mine. For the first time, Muck has to deal with a case of this magnitude.
John Gruber is in his mid thirties, an egocentric, living life in the fast lane and sparing no expense. But all of a sudden he is thrown off track by a cancer diagnosis and by the person who unwillingly delivers the news: Sarah, a DJane from Berlin, who is not his type at all. Feelings just aren’t Gruber’s cup of tea and now, without having asked for them, he has more than ever before…
On the 3rd of October a twenty-four-year-old student from Vienna kills his lover and chops up her corpse. Her torso is found in a dumpster, other body parts and the head are missing. There is no clue about the motive of the murder. A silent chronology of the events.
Elli is an android and lives with a man she calls her father. Together they drift through the summer. During the day they swim in the pool and at night he takes her to bed. She shares his memories and anything else he programs her to recall. Memories that mean everything to him but nothing to her. Yet, one night she sets off into the woods following a fading echo… The story of a machine and the ghosts we all carry within us.
Horst receives the monthly pension from his grandmother. The only problem is, that she is dead. As a local politician wants to congratulate the grandmother to her birthday Horst "borrows" an old lady from a hospital nearby, not recognizing that he just kidnapped actress Elfriede Ott.
Major Vilser is in trouble. First he gets a young Vorarlberg policeman assigned as a sidecar, then his twelve-year-old son Florian is at the door. And Gerlinde Zach from the anti-corruption agency has her eye on him.
Postwoman Liesl is a hobby detective investigating the village of Öd, a town with a population of just a thousand. While attempting to deliver a package to a woman from Schamberg, she finds her dead in bed. According to the village doctor, Barbara, her best friend, the cause of death was a heart attack. This explanation is also sufficient for the new post commander, Magnus Tröger, and the case is closed. When he transferred to Öd, he had hoped to have peace and quiet.
In the village of Öd, a village with a population of just over a thousand, a stork is placed in the garden of Adam Möschl, a former host of the Schlagerparade (pop music parade), and his wife Dietlinde. However, she is not expecting a child. The stork may mean that Adam is having an affair, and that she is expecting a child. Soon after, he is found dead. After it appears to be an accident, station commander Magnus Tröger believes there is no murder case. Dietlinde, on the other hand, is convinced that her husband was driven to his death by the postwoman Liesl. Liesl doesn't believe it was an accident either; she has to prove that she had nothing to do with Adam's death.
The fall is so rapid that it seems like a bad dream. Just a moment ago, 16-year-old Nadja was a carefree, cheerful young girl, but shortly afterwards the horror follows: the older boy she falls in love with is a junkie who also drags Nadja into misery. Her wealthy parents learn in an extremely painful way about a world they had previously only known from hearsay: their search for their daughter literally becomes a journey into the underworld.
Enis, in his late 20s and of Turkish background, must pay off a huge debt to save his video store. With help from an Asian amateur hacker, he contacts a mysterious businessman on the darknet. The businessman offers a bizarre deal. If they prevent the Kazakh president's state visit on Christmas Eve, he'll pay off the debt. Enis and his ally see only one option: they enlist a notorious skinhead to carry out the mission.