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A musical show combining pop, theater, and circus inspired by Johann Strauss's operetta “Cagliostro in Vienna,” written by Thomas Brezina and presented by the Roncalli circus company.

A village is blackmailing the city of Leipzig.

A high school student who leaves school shortly before graduating begins a relatively "exotic" apprenticeship as a bandager in order to become self-employed. In the process, she gains a wealth of life experience and, in addition to learning how to make prostheses, also has to learn how to provide emotional support and guidance.

Thriller about an accident victim with amnesia who may have been working as a hitman for his rescuer... After an accident, nurse Noah frees a stranger from his car. He steals the man's wallet, finds a room card inside, and drives to the hotel in the hope of finding more loot, where, to his amazement, he discovers a photo of himself and a gun. Noah feverishly searches for reasons why the man might have been targeting him. The stranger is of little help: since the accident, he can't remember anything.

Cara drags her sister Mari, a cashier, into a never-ending conflict, while an enigmatic stranger quietly helps herself to goods in the supermarket unnoticed.

A pianist plays in a huge theatre on a cylindrical piano, which is rotated by his dwarf assistant. The theatre is part of a huge, spherical city. Upon waking, he turns out to be a street musician, who has a restraining order, but wants to teach his daughter how to play the piano.

Famous composer Millöcker saves lovesick clerk Ferdinand from killing himself and helps him impress and get close to Henriette, the rich heiress the boy adores. But one day Ferdinand overhears Millöcker confessing his own love to the girl.

The Vietnamese German Huong, equipped with her small video camera, documents her life before moving out, exploring her relationships with friends, family, places and objects that she leaves behind. A poetic snapshot of her person, addressed to her father.

The moral is simple: keep your mouth shut, especially when you're working during the wartime in a factory, which produces racing cars only, or someone can (or even must) get murdered. Not a good movie, not a bad either. The ending is abrupt and artificial, which seems to be a common plague of Third Reich's crime movies. Gustav Fröhlich could never get rid of his silent era mannerisms and overacting. But on the other side, this film is not boring and has to offer some decent plot turns and acting.

This teenage drama deals with the emotional chaos of a high school graduate at the beginning of a new period of his life. 19-year-old Daniel is frustrated: he wants his great love Luca to be the "first" woman in his life, but she seems to be unreachable, so he is still a virgin. During his community service as a male nurse, his boss Anna falls in love with him and they finally have sex. Suddenly Luca is interested in Daniel...

Documentary about the German sex industry after the German reunification.

Two teenagers' lives are brought together through internet webcams. Anton's desire is awakened after discovering Lenny's personal video blog on YouTube. Away from the screen, Anton wanders through the big city, wondering whether his virtual meeting with Lenny has a place in the real world.

According to the last will of a deceased millionaire, her brother Severin Petermann and her two nephews Walther von Peterjahn and Johannes Petermann should only be entitled to inherit if they spend a summer together under one roof in an Austrian villa.

Marc Steinhauer meets Stella again after 20 years. Back then, she broke his heart, but now Stella asks the volcano researcher for help: her daughter has disappeared in Tenerife and Marc is supposed to help her find Mia. But Marc doesn't want to get involved at first – after all, Stella simply left him back then. But Stella has an ace up her sleeve, and the two set off on a search together.

E. is abandoned by O. and wants to start a family with U. U. wants to have sex. U. doesn't want to start a family.

Maditha witnesses an accident in the apartment opposite.

Andreas wants Kim, but Kim wants something more. She wants a penis. She doesn't want to talk about this with Andreas. And when their best friend, Anna, moves in, it all gets to be a bit much. But if two people feel lonely around each other, can they be less alone when there are three of them?

At the girls' school, the young teacher requests the young women to prepare a lecture on the topic "The Preliminaries", for next week, before the year's end. The girls would contact him if they had any problems with their work. Thus a series of sexual experiments start, which will involve the whole class, and even the teacher.

An allegorical documentary about the workers of the world, whose common destinies and hopes for peace are symbolically united by the rivers that run through their respective lands. The film was shot on the Volga, the Mississippi, the Nile, the Yangtze, the Amazon and the Ganges and combines these images of five continents with the music of Dmitri Shostakovich and the poetry of both Bertolt Brecht and Paul Robeson.

Eva wants to become a singer and ends up in the Mambo bar, where behind the scenes is traded with other goods than talents.

A young woman has the idea of setting up her boyfriend with a very wealthy but sickly lady to claim her inheritance.

Old captain Barkhahn keeps on going bankrupt with all his business endeavors. He’s made for the sea and not for the land. His newest idea is a family-run bed and breakfast with “Familienanschluß," and so Captain Bräuer moves in and quickly shows interest in Barkhahn's daughter Käthe, whom he met and bugged earlier already. Meanwhile, the bailiff is on Barkhahn's back, and the next catastrophe is on the rise.

A young woman on the verge of suicide tells her story to a driver who picks her up from the Elbe bridge: in order to free her husband from a blackmailer, she wanted to earn a lot of money through prostitution, but she finds it repulsive.

The director turns the diary of his sexual adventures into a serial narrative in the style of “One Thousand and One Nights”. This polyamorously-minded queer musical applies the same playful approach to folk tales as it does to Egyptian pop music.

A lonely woman pays a homeless stranger to take over the role of her ex as she struggles to let go.

An officer and a count who live in opposite ends of the same castle bet each other who will be the first to bed their respective new 'virgin' maid. The winner will get ownership of the castle. In order to attain his goal, the officer ignores his lusty fiancee but she soon finds a luitenant to turn her attention to. Eventually a whole stable of local prostitutes gets in on the act.

When actress Mary Baring is found in a daze beside her colleague's murdered body, all evidence points to her guilt. During the trial, juror Sir John Menier doubts the verdict, but yields to pressure. Haunted by remorse, he launches his own investigation.

'Elisa' portrays the claustrophobic and extremely painful relationship between nine year old Elisa and her mother.

Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump — one the President of the United States, the other the President of Russia. Two men at the pinnacle of global power whose relationship keeps the world on edge. One a former businessman, the other a former KGB agent. Both have been active in politics for years. What drives them? The struggle over a possible ceasefire — or even peace — in Ukraine brought the two together last summer in Anchorage. But the question remains: who wants what? And who is succeeding with what agenda?

The story of Judge Jan-Robert von Renesse, who in the early 2000s fights against his own judicial system for the rights of Holocaust survivors and almost destroys his own life in the process.

A silent film character is stuck in a German theater and wants to return to his film.

Julius, an eloquent young museum attendant loved by the people around him, invites his colleagues on a sailing trip on his aristocratic family's boat, but something goes wrong. Julius is not who he seems to be.

A delightful dark comedy about a group of girls who accidentally kill someone. Seven young female criminals, led by an over-enthusiastic social worker, work off community service hours by collecting garbage in a haunted forest when they accidentally kill someone. Flashbacks tell their backstories in a mix of folk-horror and teen comedy.

Nothing could be further from the mind of young, rebellious Romani woman Valentina than getting married. But when her beloved sister Jasmina moves to Germany with her husband Robby and her family in Macedonia finds itself in dire straits, marriage seems to be the only way out. In her desperation, Valentina snatches up a long-time admirer – but on her wedding night, she is unable to consummate the marriage.

For the USA, World War 2 was an all-out war - to mobilize the masses, the US government launched a huge propaganda campaign and cinema, the medium of the masses, was quite simply their most important weapon. Government authorities monitored the production of feature films and the military itself produced documentaries aimed at rallying the American people to support the troops. This film tells the story of four Hollywood directors of European origin, who returned to the "Old World" during the Second World War to make propaganda documentaries for the US Army at the front: William Wyler from Alsace, Frank Capra from Italy, Anatole Litvak from Ukraine and - in post-war Germany - Billy Wilder from Austria.

Thomas and Annette Winterhoff form a modern blended family with their two daughters from their first marriage. The birth of a child together should make their happiness perfect. But then Annette receives the devastating diagnosis: trisomy 18. While Thomas - himself a doctor - does not want to have the child because he does not want to expect his ten-year-old daughter Eva to lose her little sister, Annette feels that the child she wants is right in her body feels. The young family faces a crucial test. Can a short life be worth living? A difficult decision-making process begins.

Theresa feels neglected. When her husband Richard once again cancels an appointment on her birthday, she travels to Usedom for a spontaneous solo vacation. She receives a tempting job offer at the "Möwe" guesthouse, which is all the more attractive because the charming boat builder Sebastian entertains the guests with piano music in the evenings. When Richard finally sets off for Usedom to bring his wife back home, he is up against some serious competition.

Roland Brenner is a young, agile school principal with only one problem: Lydia, his bubbly girlfriend, teaches at a strange, faraway school. Roland now decides to get him transferred there. In order to succeed, he messes up the whole school. He is particularly taken with the schoolgirls... Only after long entanglements does he succeed in his transfer. What he cannot know: Lydia has at the same time obtained her transfer to his school!

Mary and Marquard are painters and lovers, with a common life. Once Marquard gets a prize of a considerable sum of money, his artistic creativity wanes. While Mary works in a series of paintings, Marquard visits his friend Gregor, a horse breeder and philosopher, sleeps with Angie and visits repeatedly her daughter Lucia. Marquard and Lucia, who have begun a tender and compassionate father-daughter relationship, spend two days in a seaside hotel, deciding not to speak in words. The feelings and communication emerge from a very special way. Mary, who does not know the whereabouts and the reason of the absence of Marquard, realizes it by herself: their love is over. Then, she abruptly interrupts her work so far and starts a new painting entitled "The visible and invisible."

The inmates of a reformatory for underage girls have had turbulent pasts: prostitution, crime, violence, and drugs dominated their lives. One of these young women is the rebellious Karin, who lets no one get close to her. Only the young pastor Johannes manages to reach her, bringing Karin's mysterious and sad past to light.

Catherine Miller's triumph at the Casino de Paris leads fashionable playwright Alexandre Gordi to ask her to create his next play. Flattered, Catherine moves into Gordi's villa near Cannes, escorted by her entire family. Only Jacques Merval, Gordi's secretary, disagrees. This is understandable, as it is he who writes the plays that Gordi, rather tired, simply signs. Jacques is a one-man band in every sense of the word, allying himself with the Casino manager to bring Catherine back to her music-hall successes. Despite a few clouds, and thanks to Gordi's generous intervention, he succeeds. Wasn't his only thought the happiness of the woman he loves?

At a motivational seminar, seminar leader Marius meets Jörg, an Ossi who doesn't understand. When Marius teaches him how to open a door with the right attitude, suddenly none of the participants can remember them. They are forgotten by the world, dependent on each other. Marius discovers that opening doors in the parallel universe creates unexpected opportunities for them to change places at will and live freely. But life as a couple brings with it tensions.

Andreas, a young German student comes to Hungary on an exchange programme. In the Hungarian village he falls in love with the stationmaster's daughter Piroschka and spends much of his time with her. They have an enchanting summer until Andreas gets an invitation to join another young woman at a nearby resort. Piroschka is jealous and follows him there, causing trouble. It takes a long time for Andreas and Piroschka to even talk to each other again. When Andreas has to leave Hungary at the end of his holiday, he is determined to return some day.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the young Chinese pianist divided music lovers: some praised his desire to popularize classical music, while others mocked his “showman” side. In 2003, Lang Lang's recital at Carnegie Hall was his baptism of fire. A star was born... This concert also gave the musician the opportunity to break free from his ambitious father, whom he invited to play on stage with him at the end of the concert.

When Ruth's husband dies in New York, in 2000, she imposes strict Jewish mourning, which puzzles her children. A stranger comes to the house - Ruth's cousin - with a picture of Ruth, age 8, in Berlin, with a woman the cousin says helped Ruth escape. Hannah, Ruth's daughter engaged to a gentile, goes to Berlin to find the woman, Lena Fisher, now 90. Posing as a journalist investigating intermarriage, Hannah interviews Lena who tells the story of a week in 1943 when the Jewish husbands of Aryan women were detained in a building on Rosenstrasse. The women gather daily for word of their husbands. The film goes back and forth to tell Ruth and Lena's story. How will it affect Hannah?