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A thousand years of the gossip, scandals, successes, disasters, eccentricities and cupidity that lie behind the facades of a great city.

It all begins in the early 60s, in a slum just outside Paris inhabited by Algerian immigrants. Malika is 5, and her mum has just bought her a brand-new pair of sandals. They're so white that the little girl can't keep her eyes off them, and doesn't see the reversing truck. Then begin years of hospital, operations, suffering and struggle. Years far from her family, during which the little Muslim girl, in the hands of Catholic nurses and nuns, discovers music and singing at mass. From that point on, fighting the racism of French society as well as the enduring prejudices of her own community, Malika follows her dream and moves mountains to become the woman everyone will one day call "the diva of the ghetto".

In the dark days of 1914 Willie Rough set out to find work in Greenock. He becomes a shipbuilding shop steward and soon finds himself involved in a bitter political and industrial conflict.

The likeable, somewhat inconspicuous dental assistant Anna Maria has been secretly in love with her boss for a long time. However, the egocentric, always slightly stressed Dr. Leander Winter has no idea of his employee's feelings. Anna Maria is all the more surprised when one day he asks her to play his girlfriend for a short time: Winter's daughter is getting married and as his ex-wife will also be arriving with her new lover, he doesn't want to be alone at the ceremony. In any case, the jealous dad would prefer to prevent the wedding.

When she asks for a divorce, Elisa knows she's losing everything that made her daily life during ten years of marriage. The worst is that she may lose her children, claimed by her husband. She had only few months to rebuild. Find a job. Prove to the judge she can hold her family... A rebuilding that leads her to push her own limits, to put herself in danger, to learn how to trust people again and to discover a new herself... and, eventually, to fall in love again.

A young couple celebrate their wedding anniversary with a night on the town.

A car factory, assembly lines, robots. And men and women whose... Michèle moves to the night shift, with the secret hope of changing her hours to change her life. Farouk is retiring after 35 years on the line. Suddenly, the stop, the silence. Jeremie, Michèle's husband, is a team leader in the sheet metal and finishing workshop, a job that costs him too much. 13 hours to make a car. How many days for a love to be born or broken?

After the suicide of her husband and practice partner Rainer, psychologist Greta Chameni's life is turned upside down. She feels guilty about Rainer's death. And she is completely undecided about how to deal with her husband's patients.

A small town shopkeeper is conned into standing for an extreme right-wing party at a by-election, and later discovers that it's financed by the corporation that has dispossessed him of his business.

JB Gill hits the road in search of the ultimate motorway pitstop, uncovering the weird and wonderful world of the UK's most notable service stations and revealing which one the public has crowned best in a Which? poll. Along the way he explores Britain's busiest, newest and oldest service stations, travels to the Lake District to find out what the farm shop fuss is all about, and races against the clock to see if it's possible to grab a coffee and head to the loo in under five minutes.

Documentary about the impact of the film The Blair Witch Project, hosted and presented by film critic Mark Kermode.

A documentary about the famous Santilli-Film

Rebecca is a cop in the Juvenile Division. One day, Mathieu Francoeur comes to the station, saying his son, Joachim, has been kidnapped by his mother Christelle, with whom he's separated. However Rebecca had seven years earlier witnessed the man being extremely abusive to his ex-wife and child...

Funny film concerning John Prescott's affair with Tracey Temple

Through the rise of Silvio Berlusconi, this film investigates how private television transformed the public's relationship to information, power and democracy.

The sex is great, and Hubertus and Charlotte have been one heart and one soul for years. It doesn't even bother Charlotte that she is married to Hubertus' unsuspecting brother Balthasar. But then Anastasia turns up at Hubertus' veterinary practice with her sick dog. The seductive Russian woman whispers a few pleasantries in the naïve doctor's ear and his hormones jump in triangles. Hubertus reinvents himself, dumps Charlotte - and discovers that Anastasia is the mistress of his snobbish surgeon brother Balthasar. Brave Hubertus decides to fight - the only question is for whom...

Milly and her friends have been going on holiday together ever since they've known each other. This summer they return to one of their favourite haunts, a beautiful Irish country hotel. It's a place full of fond memories for all of them, but on this occasion their sense of ease and comfort is destroyed when a terrible secret is revealed.

Summer is here. To get out of a two-week vacation in the Bavarian Forest with girlfriend Hanna and her parents, Daniel promises to renovate a bungalow on a resort island for his father's company. With this alibi, Daniel and his best friend Mark have a ball. But their party mood sours when Hanna pays them a surprise visit and Daniel's lie blows up in his face. To get his girlfriend back, Daniel will try any trick in the book.

David Attenborough recounts his very personal experiences with the mountain gorillas of Rwanda. Ever since they were discovered over a century ago, these remarkable creatures have been threatened by loss of habitat, poaching, disease and political instability. But despite all odds their numbers have increased. David tells the extraordinary tale of how conservationists like Dian Fossey have battled to save the mountain gorilla from the brink of extinction.

In the Faroe Islands, a team of biologists is studying these marine plants with the aim of improving salmon farming and avoiding the need for drugs or chemicals. In Munich, others are working on a tiny algae whose high oil content could eventually replace petroleum. The carbon fiber obtained from it is a real match for fossil fuels. In France, a tower resembling a Morris column is being used to purify the air. The tower absorbs one tonne of CO₂ per year - the equivalent of several dozen trees - and converts it into oxygen.

A young orphan, Stephen, is sent to go and live with his strange, much older cousin at his remote country house. Once there, Stephen experiences terrible dreams in which he sees a young girl and boy who are missing their hearts.

The film recounts the tragedy of Istrian and Dalmatian exiles following the post-war armistice. Maddalena is eighteen years old and lives in Canfanaro, Istria, dreaming of becoming a painter. First the fury of war and then Tito's partisans destroy her family and her dreams.

The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young man is guilty or innocent of murdering his father.

In their songs, comedy and exuberant music, a travelling theatre company give a fiercely polemic account of Scottish history, from the aftermath of Culloden to the oil boom. Their production before a live audience is intercut with filmed reconstructions of the Highland Clearances and the Victorian obsession with hunting stags.

Director: Ben Wheatley

By choosing Victor Hugo for his first major theater production, Christophe Honoré surprises and intrigues. Angelo, tyrant of Padua surprises even more: little staged, this piece is almost incongruous. For him, it is a text whose clarity hides many secret doors and dark and ambiguous dungeons

A king has many beautiful daughters, but the most beautiful is the youngest, princess Sophie, who likes to go to a forest nearby her father’s castle and play with her favorite toy, a golden orb. One day the young princess loses her golden orb in the water and a frog offers to retrieve it for her, but in return she must make many promises to him.

A gloomy small town at peace with itself on the edge of a bizarre industrial landscape. The former night watchman of the industrial complex is discovered murdered. The police inspector in charge of the case soon sees a link between the murder and an ominous poison gas depot established at the end of World War II by a Nazi partisan group called The Werewolfs.

What happens to provincial journalists when there's nothing in the news and they have a paper to fill?

When Anna disappears suddenly and without leaving a trace, the police feel it was probably deliberate. But her husband refuses to believe it. And rightly so, someone had tried to murder Anna. Saved by a local from the mountains, she wakes up in the Pyrenees, with no memory at all.

The gloomy life of a high school censor is turned upside down the day he meets an old classmate.

To write In Cold Blood (1966), a nonfiction novel that revolutionized world literature, Truman Capote (1924-84) spent five years in Kansas researching the murder of members of the Clutter family and collecting the confidences of its two authors.

November 5, 2024 is election day and the USA is facing a momentous decision linked to the questions: Will Kamala Harris succeed in becoming the first woman President of the USA? Or will Donald Trump return to the White House? What consequences would a Trump victory have for the USA, the world and especially for Germany? Ingo Zamperoni, together with filmmaker Birgit Wärnke, embarks on a multifaceted journey through a country that seems more irreconcilable and polarized than ever before. The well-known Tagesthemen anchorman discusses the election-deciding issues such as inflation, migration, abortion and the Ukraine war during visits to members of his partly American family and their acquaintances, but also with celebrities such as pop star and Trump friend Kid Rock, football legend Jürgen Klinsmann, who lives in California, and the former commander of the US Army in Europe, Ben Hodges.

Benny, an Israeli living in Berlin is called back home following his grandfather death. He arrives to Israel with his girlfriend Sara and his family can't wait to meet her. But suspicions arise. The family realizes that Benny and Sara haven't actually met in a synagogue but in front of a synagogue and that the right pronunciation of her name is Zahra. Zahra Abdulla to be precise. Zahra was born in Germany to a German mother and an Egyptian father. As tension rises, the members of the family discover that Benny and Zahra were not the only ones who tried to lead a quiet life while keeping secrets.

Nico has just shot and killed a man by accident. He and his friend Max cover it up but it soon turns out that the victim was a big fish in the drug world, and that he was on his way to hand over important documents to the federal police. The feds want these papers badly, the drug lord wants them even worse, and only Nico and Max can retrieve them. But with Max recruited by the feds and Nico lured by the Mafia's money, the two friends are forced to cross swords in a hopeless and deadly situation...

Dr. Emilia Seiler, a consultant at the Bavarian Ministry of Social Affairs and responsible for youth homes in Upper Bavaria, takes over the educational management of a youth home in Landsberg am Lech on an interim basis, as the manager in charge has been suspended. The home was founded in accordance with the "Home instead of detention" guidelines she had drawn up. She immediately clashes with the home's managing director, Mathias Hartmann, who is primarily interested in the home's balance sheets. But her greatest concern is for Martina, one of the home's residents, who had reported the former director for sexual abuse and is highly suicidal.

Documentary about the rise of the female German boxer Regina Halmich.

A 100-year-long curse must be overcome by the 16-year-old Prince Parvus to wake up the sleeping Princess Rosabella. But he doubts that he is the right person for this mission. However, plant lover Parvus does not have much left time. Together with Feerich Amon and Rosabellas thoughts that they can feel with the help of a magical mist, he has to get into the castle before he the death curse of the dark fairy Rubia has been fulfilled.

It's such a simple, natural thing to have a baby, thinks Mary. But she and husband Paul are preoccupied with their careers. Can their young neighbour Tessa help, or are the emotions around a new baby more complex than anyone had expected?

Eight years after her daughter's disappearance, Clara hasn't given up hope. And when she recognizes her in a magazine photo, she sets out to find her, all the way to Sweden.

Focuses on the intense life of the French painter Raymond Monvosin and his relationship with his devoted assistant Clara Filleul, and his associations with political and high-society figures of the mid-nineteenth century.

Biopic of Arthur Lucan, who portrayed Old Mother Riley for over twenty years on stage and screen.

After returning from a long African exile, a sixty-year-old woman leaves her unfaithful husband and starts anew with her five-year-old granddaughter.

A black comedy about excessive consumption. A young couple are determined to make a break with a predictable future as servants of a large corporation and sink their savings into a restaurant. All is disaster until the appearance of the Porters, whose enthusiastic patronage soon has trade booming.

Two family owners of important horse stables living faced by old rivalries. When one of them asks the help of a doctor of horses to treat the disorder one of the most outstanding equine, the conflict passes into the field of the personal.

The Bokelberg photographic collection brings to life the Paris of the Belle Époque (1871-1914), an exhibition of workshops and stores with extremely beautiful shop windows before which the owners and their employees proudly pose, hiding behind their eyes the secret history of a great era.

Business executive Nick Porter starts an affair with landscape architect Holly while jogging on his way to see his half-brother Benjamin 'Ben' Goldman, a reclusive author who inherited an estate from his father, also an author. Recommended by Nick, Holly comes to renovate the garden for Ben, whose aloof attitude bugs her, but actually she's his first love. Nick learns this and that Ben has terminal cancer but refuses treatment, feeling his life has no meaning, so Nick pushes Holly to pretend to be in love with Ben, who learns the truth in the worst possible way at the worst possible time.

After they have graduated from school, the two best friends Kati and Jo jump into their purple Benz and embark on a journey around the world southwards. Kati, however, struggled with the decision for the journey as the love of her life returned to their hometown Tandern shortly before their departure. The journey leads the two friends over the Brenner pass, where their car suddenly stops working. When Kati then also learns that her grandfather is about to die, she wants to return home – this puts the friendship of the two to an acid test.

For the career of her husband, Irina has renounced her journalistic career and has become a housewife. After countless job-related processions, the two return to their hometown of Munich to finally start a family. When Reinhard has to leave for New York in the short term and leaves his wife with empty accounts and a debt mountain, Irina is forced to take the initiative for the first time. She founds a housekeeping agency. Her old school friend Frank stands by her side.

David Attenborough returns to the island of Madagascar on a very personal quest. In 1960 he visited the island to film one of his first ever wildlife series, Zoo Quest. Whilst he was there, he acquired a giant egg. It was the egg of an extinct bird known as the 'elephant bird' - the largest bird that ever lived. It has been one of his most treasured possessions ever since. Fifty years older, he now returns to the island to find out more about this amazing creature and to see how the island has changed. Could the elephant bird's fate provide lessons that may help protect Madagascar's remaining wildlife? Using Zoo Quest archive and specially shot location footage, this film follows David as he revisits scenes from his youth and meets people at the front line of wildlife protection. On his return, scientists at Oxford University are able to reveal for the first time how old David's egg actually is - and what that might tell us about the legendary elephant bird.

The story of an ordinary person who has to endure the daily barrage of advertising and pin-up girls.

At the beginning of 2000, the young commissioner Yvonne Weber moved from Frankfurt am Main to Eisenach. Together with the local colleague Frank Wolf, she is to review an unresolved murder case from the GDR era. The investigation team encounters inconsistencies in the file and it becomes clear that there is no interest in truth-clarifying the Eisenach department and the prosecutor's office in Gotha.