' He's wasted his life and yours, Olive, on this sort of idiocy. He could have been a headmaster by now, if he'd stuck to teaching.' Jack Dunn is determined to beat the system with pen and postage stamp.
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' He's wasted his life and yours, Olive, on this sort of idiocy. He could have been a headmaster by now, if he'd stuck to teaching.' Jack Dunn is determined to beat the system with pen and postage stamp.
A young Parisian perfume creator discovers lost roots, danger and romance on the paradisiac island of Martinique.
Manila: Peter, the terminally ill son of the successful architect Klaus Timberg, falls in love with Diana. However, he does not know that his father has hired the prostitute to make his son's last days as exciting as possible. Diana has also fallen in love with Peter. When Peter accidentally finds a receipt for her love services at his father's house, he disowns her in his anger and disappointment. Only when it is already too late for him, he realizes how much Diana really loved him.
Beth's new house is supposed to be a fresh start, but eerie disturbances make it feel anything but home. Then she meets Melissa-an alluring designer who offers her help. As they work together, Beth finds herself drawn to her in ways she can't explain. But as strange events intensify, so do Beth's doubts. Is she losing her grip on reality, or is something far more unexplainable at play?
In Naples in the second half of the nineteenth century, a young noblewoman falls in love with a nobleman of ill repute.
Four years after "Valentine, the Pygmalion of the Vineyard", will Valentine finally marry the man of her heart?
A film about men's friendship and the complications of love: Karl and Peter are close buddies since they were pilots in defense of German cities during ww-ii. Now they are working together in a bomb disarm unit. During a vacation they visit Karl's mother and fiancée Helge in the heath-land. When Helge meets Peter, it's love on first sight. But Karl, who's considering quitting his job and buying a local gas station, fails to notice it. Torn between his feelings for Helge and his friendship to Karl, Peter accepts a dangerous job.
The morning after a class reunion, two hungover colleagues reconnect over breakfast but unspoken tensions of loss and desire adorn the air between them, driving them further apart.
Mental illness and the power of friendship. Mara and Joaquín were childhood friends, next-door neighbors. They are now in their early 30s. She's returned to Acassuno after eight years abroad, ostensibly to audition for a part in a musical. Joaquín has been a recluse in his parents' house, perhaps because Mara left without a word years before. Mara seeks to renew the friendship, which may be good f
Marseille, today. Aminata works as a hairdresser in an Afro hairdressing salon, Badara works as mechanic. When they meet, their love story will change their lives.
A screenwriter comes up with a story about an affair between a maid and her employer.
Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ('Ernest') on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using that name, which leads to a comedy of mistaken identities.
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.
In a world made entirely out of paper, the wistful drawings in a mans sketchbook are brought to life by the rhythm of a train journey.
Two 17-year-old pupils, Julia and Philip, are a successful beach volleyball team, and are to take part in a tournament in Mallorca. This is not easy for Julia, because her boyfriend, Andy, is rather jealous, and Philip is constantly distracted by young women. Julia, however, is extremely ambitious and is determined to win. She swears to abstain from sex while they are in Spain, and Philip and school friend David join her in the pledge. But when they arrive, they find that it is not easy to keep their promise!
Thomas Thomas is agoraphobic, has a computer-generated girlfriend, and hasn't left his home in years. Can a prostitute convince him to leave cyberspace and his home for the real world?
Two strangers living in New York. One Halloween they discover that, in a city of 8 million people, you might just bump into the one person looking for.
Natalia, a successful painter, and Hugo, a writer in a creative rut, are going through a rough patch in their relationship. After Hugo moves out in an attempt to finish his novel, Natalia is determined to do whatever it takes to reunite with him.
The Munich business lawyer Marc is not happy: Instead of going to New York as planned, he has to travel to the province of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania at short notice to represent his sick grandfather as a pub owner for four weeks. The lawyer juggles millions of dollars every day - it should be easy for him to get grandpa's ailing tavern going with Western know-how. But the down-to-earth Ossis are not in the mood for tapas and Thai food. Marc only realizes this when he gets to know and love the young, single parent Carmen. When Marc's fiancée Lisa shows up, decisions are pending.
Three young people sharing a flat become friends.
Clara appears naked and defenceless in a dense and mysterious forest just after a meteorite falls to Earth. With Pablo's help she lives again, falls in love, while trying to remember who she was and how she ended up there that night.
3 friends merge their paths on a cloudy day in Berlin. As they walk along the sunset each one will turn a page on their life. Some will be left behind, others will fly away but only one will stay keeping Berlin still possible for all. —Juan Carlos Lo Sasso
The love story between a peasant woman and her employer.
Manuela, Lizzie and Sabine are annoyed by their husbands. So they decide to go to Italy where they hope to meet some nice men.
"These Indian films. They're done to a formula - songs, dance, routines and a lot of sentimental heavy breathing." When her 17-year-old son Roy falls in love with a Muslim girl, and a Bangladeshi butcher seeks help from her husband Raji, Leela realises that the tears and romance of Indian cinema are closer to her own life than she has ever imagined.
In the twilight years of the Cultural Revolution, a Chinese filmmaker slowly becoming blind tours the country screening her last film to peasants. In it, the woman imagines two "alien" lovers walking from end-to-end along the Great Wall to join each other in the middle, one last time. This documentary is an adaptation of Ulay and Marina Abramovic's final collaborative project, the 1988 performance "The Lovers: The Great Wall Walk."
"Les Trois Valses" traces the love story of two people over three eras. In the first waltz (music based on Johann Strauss I), Yvonne is a sensitive Parisian ballet dancer, whose romance with a dashing officer is brought to an abrupt end by his family. She goes off to Vienna to become a big star. In the second waltz, her daughter, an even bigger star, but now of Paris music halls, has a brief flirtation with the rakish man-about-town who is the son of suitor number one. She throws him over pretty quickly for a chance to shine at a Gala performance. Finally, in the third waltz, the two get together, when she is a movie star, and he is posing as an insurance salesman.
Lily, a lonely young woman, meets James at a party. Together, they embark on a passionate love affair. But the relationship eventually comes to an end. Lily recalls the memories of her relationship and tries to explain what caused their separation.
Young Steffi goes to the city to take a job in a factory and falls for the son of the owner.
In the beginning there was fire: Adam and Eve were on fire for each other when he rescued her from a blazing house. Now they have been married for four years, and the burning desire for each other has turned into a lukewarm togetherness. The dream couple are no longer satisfied with each other: Eve would love to have a child, but in Adam's opinion, cranky brats have always had no place in paradise and the idea of Alete and family happiness in their cozy home makes him want to flee - in short: paradise is in danger.
A grief-stricken 18th-century Venetian gentleman is thwarted in love and placed in suspended animation. When he wakes up 200 years later, he finds the experiment has more serious unexpected consequences.
The path of teenage love rarely runs smoothly. But Lona and Calum believe their love can conquer everything. But can their marriage withstand the reality of independent living and financial hardship?
The desperate love of a moonstruck clown for a young lady inside a stopped clock.
A woman sneaks into her ex-partner’s house, where they once lived together. She enjoys this place one last time and tries to overcome the pain it evokes.
Loving wife & mother Sarah is abducted by intelligent and forensically aware psychopath Nigel. The family and the police are subjected to a manipulation of the reality that surrounds them. Relating to the darkest side of the human character Flowerman also connects with both a spiritual aspect and a basic drive for survival.
When Indie books an Airbnb, she has no idea the owner, Keira, is competing for the same dream job. What begins as an awkward encounter soon turns into late-night confessions, as their opposing views on love and connection collide. By the day of the interview, both women must decide - is love a risk not worth taking, or the only truth worth pitching?
A musical drama about two pupils from a provincial music conservatory who elope, marry, and move to London to try their luck. The husband becomes a singer in a nightclub, and is soon targeted by a predatory socialite. They start an affair, the wife finds out about it and decides to leave her husband, until matters are smoothed over by a third-party who wishes the couple well.
A psychological drama thriller based on infidelity....
Nico and Julia are considering moving in together. There is only one small problem: He has a cat named Nibbler and she is allergic.
Emanuel Goldfarb, a Jewish journalist respond to an invitation by a professor to tell his pupils about his life as a Jew living in Germany.
True love never dies, the loving heart never stops beating ... for Kerstin’s ex Thomas, who she still hopes will come back some day. Instead of Thomas, her mother Charlotte shows up at her door, mid-50s and freshly single again, too. Charlotte moves in with Kerstin and her flatmates, one of who shows her how to use a modern dating app to meet new men. As mom starts dating again, her daughter refuses to let digital reality intrude on her romantic daydreams.
Frank returns to his homeland as an engineer, falls in love with Regine, the housemaid of his uncle, and marries her. Thanks to the intrigues of Floris, one of Frank's rejects, Regine is suspected of having an affair with another man. Depressed and desperate, she intends to commit suicide, but is saved by Frank in the last minute.
To the dismay of his tradition-conscious father, the young Count Carl von Wildberg-Reutlingen has become engaged to a commoner. When his older brother Alexander dies in a hunting accident, Carl finds himself in the role of heir to the house. In order to prevent the family estate from falling to the state, Carl has to sacrifice his great love, as he must now continue the family line by marrying a noblewoman.
Claude, a photographer in search for inspiration, makes a living by taking medical pictures for a surgeon specialized in eyelids reconstruction. One day, Frida is standing in front of his camera. Claude's artistic search will then confront Frida's deepest wounds.
Just before Anniela and Robert are supposed to move to Singapore where they were planning on getting married and having Robert work for the family business, Anniela surprises her fiancé in the arms of his last girlfriend. Immediately ending their relationship, she stubbornly departs for Singapore alone. She is thrilled to see her old friend Ming Lee, director of a cultural center for deprived children. In addition to taking a job teaching German, Anniela offers music lessons to the kids. It isn't long before she falls in love with Dai Si, one of the students in her language class. However, he hasn't been truthful about his identity. Afraid of losing Anniela's love, he hides the fact that he is the son of the rich industrialist who plans on tearing down the cultural center to build a casino. Anniela eventually discovers who her new lover really is. Now twice brokenhearted, she prepares to flee Singapore for home. The magic of true love, however, is not so easily discouraged.
Katja Sterner has to start again. Full of confidence, she follows the beckoning of her rediscovered lucky talisman to the beautiful village of Herzfeldt. Will she find happiness there? There is an old pavilion in Herzfeldt where Katja's parents once got engaged. The pavilion is said to have magical powers in matters of love, but now it is to be demolished. Katja quickly decides to offer to restore the pavilion. But she urgently needs to find a job. A few years ago, she quit her job as a restorer to care for her parents. After their death, Katja now needs a new job, but there is simply nothing available in her home town. But Katja takes a positive view of things, and so her lucky charm leads her to Herzfeldt with her few possessions.