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'Bild von Ihr' tells the story of a poor, young , creative artist whose life gets turned upside down when he meets an unemotional business woman who pays him to have rough sex with her. Quickly her passion becomes his sorrow, when he falls in love with her.

Beautiful young Helga gets publicly shamed because a rich land owner seduced and impregnated her but refuses to take responsibility in a story of love and death in Sweden.

Franz Woyzeck, the protagonist of Georg Büchner's unfinished drama is incorporated in this adaption of a classic. The contemporary Franz Wodzeck lives in Germany's Ruhr industrial region. Wodzeck meanders back and forth between the monotony of working each day in a car factory and returning each evening to the cheerless desolation of the factory dormitory. Once his girlfriend, Maleen, snubs him for his boss, Wodzeck's personal and social frustrations escalate into a vista of emotions: he runs amok and bloodily stubs Maleen to death. After he has killed his one sole love Wodzeck resigns himself to his fate. A hollow shell of a man is admitted to a psychiatric asylum. He feels no more anxiety, no more desire. He simply exists. FBW Prädikat: "wertvoll".

Sandra, a pub landlady, meets Otis, a travel agent. The two initially clash as they learn more about each other from overheard phone calls than they would like. But they get talking, discover an amazing affinity and find each other to be valuable love advisors for their personal relationship problems. When Sandra's husband Christian meets Otis' best friend Bill by chance one day, the emotional chaos is perfect.

Daniel gets jostled on a crowded street and imagines teaching the stranger some manners. For Marie, a first date is one thing above all else: pure stress! What if he notices how disturbed she is...? Robert sees the other parents at the playground and is overcome with self-doubt. Alone in her room at night, Yara hears strange noises—a monster or her mom? Karsten is in the fast lane. Whoever slows down loses. Agathe seeks inner peace after a breakup, but the anger remains. And Lenny dreams of Mo, his idol—and of finally being seen.

A poor family with 6 kids that live in a ramshackle hut are suddenly offered a nice flat for cheap - with the landlord hoping they'll drive away their new neighbors whom he wants out of his building.

While on vacation with her friend Evi, the attractive Anna meets the charming horse breeder Carlos Sanchez on Mallorca. Although she is happily married to the busy lawyer Frank Glaser, Anna allows herself to be carried away by a night of love with Carlos. Back in Munich, Anna is tormented by a guilty conscience. Before she can confess her infidelity to her husband, Carlos turns up unexpectedly at the Glasers' house. While Anna tries to persuade the enamored “Latin lover” to leave, Frank discovers his wife's infidelity and goes completely mad with jealousy ...

A worker wants to escape the monotony of his work and sets off for Munich to see his pop music idol up close. Due to a breakdown, he doesn't make it to his destination, but meets a cabaret troupe, which he joins. The new environment confronts him with politically interested people for the first time in his life, but also involves him in a protest by the peace movement and gets him imprisoned. A modern fairy tale about a man who set out to see the world.

Anna has been suffering from violent nightmares for some time, which are obviously being experienced in real life by Aylin, a woman she doesn't know. Anna is magically drawn into Aylin's mysterious world, where dream and reality finally meet to rekindle the connection between these women.

A country girl, mistaken for the niece of an American millionaire, wins the prize in a toothpaste contest, a trip to the Baltic seashore.

Gellert is addicted. Sitting at the poker table, he must face his past. All he wanted was to pay back his debt. He really needs this last chance. He didn't want all this to happen. He just wanted one last game. One Last Game is a symbolic tale. Like All That Jazz, the movie follows Elizabeth Kuebler Ross's five stages of grief.

Suffocating memories dominate the mind of a young woman living alone on a houseboat. Ruled by her own fantasies, she lingers to the sound of old cassette tapes and smoldering cigarettes, while visions drive her deeper into the trauma and guilt that threaten to burn her.

Checko returns from the cities to his home in the Allgäu region. He wants to check on his grandfather Felix, who now lives alone—a loner, a recluse, as they say. The old man and the young man set off on a journey. Felix is searching for the story, for history, but also for the story of his friend Anton, with whom he distributed leaflets against the murderous regime during the Third Reich and with whom he also shared a girlfriend.

In 1938 Hans Zeisig, an apolitical comedian, impersonator and cabaret actor, flees with a Russian passport (instead of American, which he would have preferred) from Nazi-Berlin, and finds himself in the legendary Hotel Lux, the 'lost paradise' of the Comintern, in Moscow. Everyone believes that Zeisig is a man named Hansen, Hitler's personal astrologer. But Zeisig quickly realizes that he's gone from the frying pan into the fire. In the Hotel Lux he meets his friends Frida and later Meyer again, still passionate communists. For the three idealists an adventure between love and death begins to run his course.

Anorexia is taking up more and more space in Jean’s life or as he would call it: the incredible feeling of absolute self-control. His parents don’t understand him and put him under increasing pressure. But when the brazen Lili enters his life and turns it upside down, he slowly starts to open up. She takes him on an adventure and encourages him to confront his problem.

A few weeks after palliative nurse Hans spends New year's eve completely with new acquaintance Simone, she finds herself pregnant, unplanned. At another surprise meeting, handsome Hannes surprises her by reacting to the news by offering her to move into his fine home. While Hannes devotes himself further to terminal hospital patients, Simone lazily renovates the house, but somehow gets jealous of the neighbors and compromises everything.

Years after the end of the Bosnian war, a woman finds evidence that her young daughter, who disappeared during the war, might have survived and been adopted by a German family.

Jonasz studies insects and fishes, Signe leaves and herbs. After a day spent in gardens and libraries, they meet, take the train and leave the city, pitching their tent on the shores of a lake. As they read, eat fruit, wander the forest and swim in the cold water, the outside world feels further and further away. A stranger appears and a trio is formed. But there are also other trios, other lakes, different places, different times.

In 1932, the nation was shocked when the 14-month-old son of Charles Lindbergh was kidnapped, held for ransom, and murdered. Two years later, Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested, convicted, and executed. This film dramatizes the investigation against Hauptmann, the trial, and the execution, painting a picture of a corrupt police force under pressure to finger a killer framing an innocent man by manufacturing evidence, paying-off and blackmailing witnesses, and covering up exculpatory evidence.

Rosalie has had enough of "family life", in other words of Georges, her weak husband, and of her cantankerous mother-in-law. One day she decides to hit the road, not knowing where she is going. Joséphine is fed up with... being fed up with life. One day she decides to say no to cancer and depression and she hits the road. Her goal is to join her daughter Carole with whom she has been at odds for ten years. Rosalie and Joséphine, the two confused women meet, journey together, help each other and little by little become inseparable friends.

Jordan, a famous criminal lawyer, will only represent clients, of whose innocence he is convinced (must be financially not-too-well-off). One day, his future son-in-law, the jeweler Fabian, is arrested on suspicion of murder on the day before his wedding. He is said to have murdered his ex-wife, the dancer Ria Norady. The conductor Gillmore found her dead in her dressing room shortly after a visit from Fabian. Gisela Jordan asks her father to defend him. After speaking to Fabian, the lawyer is convinced he's innocent. But since there is no proof of this, he decides to go and try and find the real murderer himself.

A Yenish boy is placed in a mental hospital and experiences the Nazi euthanasia program. Aware of what was happening and attached to friends, the lad attempts to sabotage the program. The film addresses the complexities of the program director, the lives of the child victims, and the struggles of the child protagonist. More than five thousand children died in the Nazi euthanasia program.

A 60-year-old journalist falls in love with a young woman, abandons his wife and children and ends up falling into loneliness.

Two best friends find out they're competing for the same scholarship to play college basketball.

This film is a political and poetic portrait of the daily life of a low class woman who plays the part of a cleaning lady. Ramona lives in the suburbs of Buenos Aires. Every day she travels four hours and a half to reach her job and to get back home. She divides her working time between two upper middle-class homes where she receives the name of Réimon, a sound that evokes the English language, a Buenos Aires upper class snobbish custom. It´s fiction and it´s not. It´s also a film about the labour conditions of a worker, about the time this worker uses for working and the efforts that implies working. It´s also about the absurdity of cleaning someone else´s house, the absurdity of modern life and the differences between social classes.

A young man struggles with the pressure of caring for his terminally ill father while trying to unlock a secret that his father seems determined to keep from him. The story takes another dramatic turn when Ron, Burghardt’s long-lost friend from his youth, re-appears — and a well-kept family secret is uncovered.

Marie is dyslexic and cleans for the wealthy von Schermann family. Her mother Greta, who suffers from dementia, has just scared off her carer and her son Niklas has to travel with his wife. Marie decides to help out for a few days. While the two women get to know each other and explore Greta's past together, Marie's husband, police officer Dirk, sulks. But businessman Niklas has also made a mess of things. When his wife leaves him, he discovers Marie's charms.

For some disabled children during the Nazi era, their fate becomes a "journey of no return": under the pretext of being transferred to other children's homes, they are in fact subjected to medical experiments and subsequently murdered. The film's plot also weaves in a love story, a kidnapping, and a deadly escape.

Leo, an advertising executive in his mid-30s, falls in love with Alex who's just gotten out of a long-term relationship. While Alex doesn't quite know how to react to Leo's advances, Leo's facing trouble with Alex's oddball clique.

One of the many German "report" sexploitation films from the early 1970s, with the only distinction that it focuses on female apprentices instead of schoolgirls.

Rada and Chloe are homeless. When the train on which they are secretly washing suddenly leaves early, a game of hide-and-seek begins - if Rada is caught, she faces prison.

After the death of his father, the ambitious farmhand Hauke Haien works his way up to become the successor to the old dyke count, whose daughter Elke he marries. He develops plans for the construction of a new dyke to provide better protection against storm surges, but encounters resistance and inertia from the villagers, who superstitiously suspect him of being in league with the devil. As a heavy storm approaches, he chases towards the floods with his white horse...

Based on a provocative autobiography, this story — set in a largely Muslim neighborhood in Berlin — follows a teenage gang member who is caught between hiding his Jewish identity and saving his life.

Somewhere in Argentina: as an eclipse of the sun is predicted and the surrounding forest continues to be devastated by logging, only a few women and a little boy are left to fend for themselves. When everything collapses, one clings to the slightest hint of vitality.

About a man who suffers hell on earth after accidentally hitting his girlfriend. Richard, actor in a daily soap opera, wants to brighten up his crisis-prone girlfriend Katja and organizes a birthday party. After the guests had left, he wants to sleep with her, but she doesn't want to. When Katja playfully repulses his advances, Richard inadvertently knocks her unconscious.

After Willy privately photographs Renee her image headlines an ad campaign making her a star model. Her sister Elli loses her acting job but Willy's friend Max adds her singing to his musical variety act, and they score an instant success.

A man is raped and robbed in Paris on Christmas Eve. Completely traumatized, he tells everyone he comes into contact with about what happened.

Prussia, summer 1790: Two young men, August and Karl, escape from the rules and laws of their noble households. For one day, they live out their personal freedom. They find out what taking responsibility and staying true to oneself really means to them. Until the point where their utopia becomes real: when they know that it comes to an end….

A Sunday walk through the late summer landscape leads not only to a small lake, but also to the abyss of human existence. Dominance and oppression, superiority and humiliation serve for an alleged "incarnation".

Adaptation of Ibsen's play Vildanden.

A traumatized man confronts his dark side at a dinner party and suddenly faces a drastic life-or-death decision.

Two parallel tales of redemption, a century apart. In the New York storyline, Edge hunts for Angela's gold to pay back a debt, and gradually grows closer to her. In the Macedonian story, the brothers end up fighting for opposite sides of a revolution, with the religious Elijah taking up sides with the Ottoman sultan and gunslinger Luke joining "the Teacher" , a Macedonian rebel.

A dream becomes a nightmare: Shortly after the Iranian doctor Murath Tehrani and his German wife Claudia moved into a chic villa on the outskirts of Leipzig, threatening couple flutter into the house and Claudia is harassed by anonymous callers with xenophobic slogans. First, the woman tries to hide the threat from her husband. But not even the police can help her. Suddenly, every stranger approaching the house appears as a threat. Psychological pressure is also increasing the pressure on the harmonious marriage of the young couple. But Murath and Claudia are unwilling to be driven out of their homes by aggressive racists.

Lea's attempt to free herself from her toxic partner turns into a brutal act of strength as he does everything he can to prevent her escape.

The story of the famous high-wire patriarch Karl Wallenda and how he gets his first circus job in 1920's Germany performing handstands on the high-wire with the Louis Weitzmann Troupe.