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Monk Medardus, administrator of the relic chamber of a Capuchin monastery, drinks from the elixirs of the devil and is confronted with the dark sides of his soul.

Horst, a good-natured manager of a nightclub, falls in love with a guest, the beautiful Jenny. She is high class and spoiled and requires a lot of attention from him.

Based on the novel The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas.

Once before, the ravishing lake mermaid Undine has warned her lover Raoul. Their humid-romantic fairy-tale love is in danger because Raoul's brother wants to destroy the pristine mountain lake idyll with an ambitious hotel project. Undine defends her paradise. She is alluring, but also perverse and unpredictable. She can give a lot of love, but she can also kill.

Robert Lambard, son of a respected Parisian banker, seduces Marguerite Walser, the sister of Guy Walser, a diligent general manager employed by his father. At these times, especially in the upper social class, such an act is of course not without social consequences, and so Guy, after learning about this relationship, demands Lambard junior to marry his sister in order to restore her "soiled" honor . But he just laughs about it and brusquely rejects this request. Since Monsieur Walser puts the family honor and that of his sister above everything else, a heated argument ensues, in which Guy summarily kills the "despoiler of Marguerite's honor". Now Guy's life is destroyed too, because he is put on trial for this bloody act. There will be a convictionmanslaughter for ten years behind bars. This punishment is connected with a deportation. For seven years, Walser spent the life of a Bagno convict in nowhere, he was an outcast.

Christmas! Every year, expectations are high again. And that's why a little dissatisfaction quickly becomes the deepest despair. "Over there, it's snowing" tells of the joy and sorrow of December 23rd and 24th, as experienced by the residents of a Munich townhouse. The focus is on the freshly separated Miriam, her daughter Julchen and the awkward pastor Gregor.

Pregnant Martha decides to put her child up for adoption.

A boy walks through the market. He steals sausages, plates and a candle. An angry market vender tracks him, but something surprises him.

Ida lives on a sailing yacht with a crew of five men. While on shore leave in Marseilles, she becomes fascinated with the French Foreign Legion and decides to sail to Sidi Bel Abbès, the Legion's former headquarters in Algeria.

A film based on novel Jane Eyre.

The love story between Magda and Rudolf Neubert illuminates the fate of German anti-fascists in emigration. The Vichy regime in France offers them hardly any refuge, let alone protection in 1942. Like a provincial Casanova, the prefectural official Dufour recreates the young woman who is submerged as a Jewish woman without valid papers. With false documents, her husband gets into the catches of the police chief and his Gestapo spy Giacometti...

Ahab pursues a whale that chewed off a leg when his brother, vying with him for the hand of a minister's daughter, pushed him overboard. When he has caught the monstrous whale he will then deal with his brother.

April 1945. In a dramatic operation the SS transports 139 special prisoners, and kin of the prisoners, into the Alps. The plan: to use the prisoners as bargaining chips in possible negotiations with the Allies. During the journey a number of prisoners plan their escape and experience six days between liberty and death, their fates in the hands of ruthless and increasingly nervous criminals. But the hostages band together and turn the tables with a clever ploy: they call in the Wehrmacht to aid them…

Charlotte is in her mid 20's but still acts like a little child sometimes. A dark secret burdens on her soul about which she does not want to speak - in fear to remember, in fear to open up.

Interview with Jochen Girke, a retired East German Stasi agent, filmed March, 1990 to June, 1991. Questions explore his study of psychology for use as a filmmaker and trainer of interrogators and informers. Segments include conversations with his parents, teacher, former girlfriend and wife.

The brother of a high ranking lawyer has killed the husband of a Polish woman, with whom he is having an affair. Can the counsel help his brother without getting himself involved in scandal?

Paris, 1944. With France under Nazi occupation, General Quade entrusts an important mission to Furstenwerth, the commander of the Wermacht: to secretly transmit secret documents to the Allies. While carrying out this mission, the commander falls under the spell of a young French resistance fighter, Yvonne. He is discovered and arrested by the Gestapo. Yvonne and her group of resistance fighters will do everything to free him.

The gynecologist Marta lives peacefully with her son Nathan in the run-down country house of the rich journalist and system critic Roland - until the poor migrant worker Valmir is called in as a handyman and brings forgotten secrets back to light. In this visually stunning chamber drama, which is also a socio-critical family thriller, author Karin Kaçi and director Sebastian Ko relentlessly expose the sins with which the privileges of prosperity are bought - and the price that must ultimately be paid for them.

A group of young people become involved with the kidnap of a local politician with the aim of halting construction work on a nearby nuclear power plant.

A character simply named Old White Male holds court in the lobbies of various apartment buildings in Buenos Aires and expounds with measured disgust on death, consciousness, and the state of contemporary human relations. The man’s mostly unsolicited remarks form an unsparing, stitched-together modern-day monologue that alternates between absurd and chilling, reasonable and grotesque. Filmed in Buenos Aires in October 2019, Heinz Emigholz’s spare continuation—and sardonic distillation—of certain themes explored in The Last City is morbid, confrontational, and hilarious.

Alexander Schonath is an exceptionally gifted musician who plays first violin in a philharmonic orchestra. But when the orchestra runs into financial difficulties, Alexander is the first to leave and join a dance band – the other musicians, especially his father, see him as a "deserter." In Alexander's absence, his younger, perpetually sickly brother Hans makes a career in the philharmonic and becomes engaged to Maria, the daughter of the orchestra's chairman, Herbert Hartwig.

Three years ago, Benedikt caused a car accident in which a child died. Now he returns to the scene of the accident, to the small Upper Bavarian village of Baching. Benedikt's return opens up wounds that have only healed superficially. Six people, all involved in the accident back then, desperately struggle to live with their shared history. A movie about love, death and home. Told with human warmth and staged with astonishing ease.

A young intellectual falls in love with a circus performer and decides to cultivate her into a lady and marry her. Eventually however she decides to return to her tightrope walker lover.

Max and Chrige, a married couple of Swiss linguists, hike the Alps searching for rare words still uttered by the rural population. While on his way to a conference, the husband's plane disappears over the sea. Chrige is advised to give up hope of ever seeing him alive, but her heart tells her otherwise. Max comes ashore on a tropical island with another survivor, the plane's pilot. But where are they in reality?

The thirty year old bee is a daredevil, everything seems to work for him. But suddenly a tragic event tears him out of his carelessness. In the explosion of a carbide furnace in operation, a colleague is killed.

Tomas is happy as family father, raising teen son Milan (as his knavish buddy) and running-especially gastronomically- a club with his mother Nike, whose absences to take course aiming for career progress causes tension. Covering for Milan's systematic class dodging to pursue a musical ambition, Tomas discovers going trough Nike's stuff the knave isn't biologically his son, feels utterly cheated by wife Nike, and feels like wrecking their relationship, family and livelihood musical bar. Former common study friend Clemens, a divorced MD, confides he wasn't interested in Nike, being gay, and advises 'getting laid' without commitment, but finding that out hurts utterly confused Milan even more. The spouses must pull together when son Milan (16) decides to seek his genetic father, a former GDR literature professor Dr. Karoly Gaál, who is now in a home for demented seniors.

A series of rapes causes a stir in a German university town. A special commission led by senior public prosecutor Schildt and detective Gawilek investigates. After months of surveillance, everything points to a chaplain as the masked perpetrator, known as "Zorro". But the investigators were wrong, because "Zorro" strikes again when the chaplain is in custody. This time, charges were also filed. But not against "unknown", but against the son of the senior public prosecutor...

An actress takes on the role of the prostitute Eva.S, who waits for clients in hotel rooms. While waiting, she contemplates her situation as a follower of Socialism and as a woman with her own wishes and desires, but also her nationalistic character. Fiction and reality slowly start to blur. Eva.S sees no way out of her situation. Only while having sex does her life seem to find fulfillment. More and more she loses hope of ever realizing her dreams and original goals. Her motivation fades and step by step she starts destroying herself with a cocktail of alcohol and medications.

Young German boy whose father tells him that Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates can solve anything. His father dies and the little boy makes a trip to Seattle with his grandfather to find Bill Gates.

Yalda, Solveigh and Lou have shared a close friendship since childhood. But when Solveigh suddenly takes her own life, Yalda and Lou are left with the lingering question: how could it come to this and which one of them is more suitable to take custody of Solveigh’s five-year-old daughter?

Simon has cancer, a diagnosis that makes him lose hope. In the hospital he meets Frida, she is already doing her therapy, dreams of big things, one day traveling to Machu Pichu and seeing the world. From now on both try to go a common way.

Klaus works voluntary as a Santa Claus in a shopping mall. After an exhausting day, he considers to hang up his job. But then, he gets a call from the children's intensive care unit.

Shortly after Michael and Inga Lehnert and their kids Tommy and Tilly move into their new home in the countryside, Michael causes an accident in which the 20 years old Jule is seriously injured. Tormented by this Michael spends more and more time at the side of her bed in hospital, where she lies in a coma, neglecting his family and job. When Jule finally wakes up, they fall in love. Although her ex-boyfriend warns her that Michael does not realise that Jule is traumatized by a fear of him and will do anything to bind him to her.

In a mountain village a deranged alcoholic who routinely beats his wife and kids goes missing. Though everyone in the village is glad to see him gone, an investigation begins.

A man, in need of money and too lazy to work for a living, marries a plain but rich girl in the knowledge that she is ill and has not long to live.

1934, Hamburg. Adolf Hitler is about to visit the city. Hamburg's executioner falls ill, and is unable to deliver the sentence of four communists who are awaiting capital punishment in jail. Fearing that this would spoil Hitler's visit, SS leader Footh offers a local bankrupt butcher, Albert Teetjen, 2,000 Marks in order to carry out the verdict. The broke Teetjen agrees and follows suit. When his neighbors hear of the execution, they shun him. His wife cannot tolerate her husband's deed and puts an end to her life. Eventually, Teetjen also commits suicide.

Evi, a young single mother, works as a seasonal waitress in a winter sports village. She is young and wants to live on the edge and get all the enjoyment she can out of life. When she drinks, Evi feels completely herself, free and inhibited. But her excesses reveal themselves to be the ticking of a time bomb.

Jona still lives at home, has just got his first girlfriend and suddenly can’t get up anymore. A big, small incident that shakes his male self-confidence, which he has just awakened. A short film about big and little brothers and the man between pop, air rifle and egg liqueur.

Best friends Beto and Daniel spend most of their time together. Daniel struggles with his gender identity just to hide his feelings for Beto. To be himself, he has to overcome his fear by showing Beto what he truly feels.

When they start losing family members and neighbors due to WWII and the Nazi government's policies, a quiet married couple becomes disillusioned and begins spreading leaflets against the government - a crime punishable by death.

Drinking, fighting, sex and soccer matches - on Saturday, the people in the Nordkurve have nothing but pleasure on their minds. It's all about lust at any price, fighting with all means, intrigue, deceit and blackmail. After all, the all-important game takes place in the afternoon and 40,000 people want to be there. Everyone is preparing for it in their own way, everyone wants to make the deal of a lifetime. Substitute player Niebitsch is eagerly awaiting his appearance. Player agent Roland F. Beyer is trying to pull off the really big deal. The club is on the brink of financial ruin. President Vischering only thinks about the invitation to appear on "Aktuelle Sportstudio". And Gottschalk begins to systematically get drunk. In the end it is clear: Herberger's wisdom "The game lasts 90 minutes" is wrong. The game lasts all day, every Saturday...

Through psychological warfare, a man manages to outdo his former wife's second husband and return to her.

The diagnosis is a shock. Katharina refuses to accept that her 17-year-old son Basti will be in a wheelchair after a traffic accident. She tirelessly takes him from one doctor to the next, not realizing how Basti feels increasingly suffocated by her care. This changes when Katharina finally meets Janik, a man who understands Basti. In "Sprung ins Leben", Simone Thomalla as a mother has to learn to let go of her son and accept that he wants to live his own life.

Marion, a Berliner facing child custody and job loss as her ex Felix oversees her factory’s insolvency, scoffs at the idea of a savior, until Robin Hood appears in her kitchen. Believing medieval justice can fix modern woes, he takes on Felix to help Marion.

Nicole Lehnert came to work at an escort service through her friend Inès. It finances her law degree. Over dinner she met the much older Friedrich Benning - rather by chance. Friedrich's colleague Lars Albers had booked the meal through the escort agency. Nicole likes the charming, successful banker who falls in love with her.. He rents her an apartment and buys her fancy clothes. Friedrich doesn't understand that it will soon be too much for Nicole. She can no longer concentrate on her law studies, does not pass her exams. When Nicole got to know the up-and-coming start-up entrepreneur Josch, who was the same age, her relationship with Friedrich cracked. The drama of mutual dependencies takes a tragic turn.

Elias, born at the end of the war, receives an anonymous phone call on his 47th birthday: his parents are dead. He is now a successful politician, but thirty years ago he had fled from his home and parents in the East to seek a new life in the West. The return to his parental home causes Elias a sense of unease and disturbs the rigid order and complacency of his life.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, according to his biographers (and his letters confirm this fact), was an extremely sensuous person, and Nachtstück (Nocturne) was intended to refer to this aspect of his personality: We glide into "Eine kleine Nachtmusik" a bit, then abandon standardized paths of conventional representational film and encounter a few seconds of passionate sensory filmæan example of something I would like to call "physical cinema." The thesis: Herr Mozart would have enjoyed it.