Post office manager Ruth is good-natured. Unfortunately, her friend Karolin takes advantage of her. One day, Karolin upsets Ruth so much that she violates postal secrecy: she opens the rejection letter that Karolin sends to one of her admirers and writes back in Karolin's name.
Walo Lüönd
Sabina Schneebeli
Post office manager Ruth is good-natured. Unfortunately, her friend Karolin takes advantage of her. One day, Karolin upsets Ruth so much that she violates postal secrecy: she opens the rejection letter that Karolin sends to one of her admirers and writes back in Karolin's name.
Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.
The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance.
Middle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters Ruth and Matilda are struggling to survive in a society they barely understand. Beatrice dreams of opening an elegant tea room but does not have the wherewithal to achieve her lofty goal. Epileptic Ruth is a rebellious adolescent, while shy but highly intelligent and idealistic Matilda seeks solace in her pets and school projects, including one designed to show how small amounts of radium affect marigolds.
Two law school friends find themselves at odds when one becomes a Justice Department lawyer and the other goes into politics.
A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law.
Russ Millings has just been released from prison after serving 21 years for a 3rd strike conviction for possessing an ounce of marijuana. As he tries to adapt to a world he doesn’t recognize – including trying to learn how to use the internet – he finds an abandoned baby in a dumpster behind the fast food restaurant where he works as a dishwasher. Unsure of what to do, and caught between impulses of kindness and panic, Russ soon realizes this could be his chance at redemption.
Set in a warm summer in 1990 in former East Germany, it follows a young woman who begins a relationship with a charismatic farmer who is twice her age.
A woman embarks on a journey alone across the United States after fleeing from her violent husband.
While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.
A sweeping drama set in the chaotic aftermath of the US invasion of Iraq, where the life of top UN diplomat Brazilian Sérgio Vieira de Mello hangs in the balance during the most treacherous mission of his career.