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To avoid losing her house, unemployed widow Pia Brandt forges her references and gets a job as a private secretary. Pia is to assist the noble Isabel Haberland. Pia also has to keep the ladies of high society happy. And her four lively children are not easy to keep away. When she falls in love with the potential husband of the Haberland's daughter, Pia's nerve-wracking balancing act becomes an acid test.

A married couple retreats to a luxury, high-tech, fully automated house on a remote island. The house AI system goes rogue and turns against them.

“As I child, I always had music in my head. I thought everybody did,” the legendary conductor Sir Simon Rattle recalls. His charming and humorous reflections on the unifying magic of conducting are complemented by interviews with well-known contemporaries and accompanied by thrilling concert footage. His music is a joy to all those who listen to it!

Television entertainment in the southwest from 1954 to the present day: Frank Elstner recalls the best moments, the great shows and the famous stars of television entertainment from the beginnings in the 1950s of SDR, SWF and SR to today's SWR television program. The retrospective with many excerpts shows the great show hosts, such as Joachim "Blacky" Fuchsberger, Michael Schanze and Paola and Kurt Felix. Memories of the legendary music galas such as "Bonsoir, Kathrin" with Caterina Valente, "Baden-Badener Roulette" from the Kurhaus with the world stars of the time or the various hit shows. In addition, interviews with contemporary witnesses who worked in front of or behind the scenes offer insights into one or two exciting moments in television history.

15-year-old girl tries to find her place after she moves to a new town in eastern Germany with her mother following her father's death.

A young electrical engineer, engaged to his boss's daughter and on the way to a secure existence, breaks out of his usual life when he meets a childhood friend.

Hidden away at the end of Mulholland Drive, just north of Los Angeles, lies the Motion Picture & Television Fund. Its residents were once the backbone of American showbiz. The Fund gives them a home and new meaning in their old age. Still going strong in their own studio, they produce short films and pursue other creative projects. This documentary follows one such project from the first brainstorming session all the way to the premiere, revealing enduring dreams and hopes beyond the limelight — and lessons in life and love.

A young Italian worker is always having problems with his coworkers because he doesn't understand their language. His only friend is a dog that came up to him. After his coworkers kick the dog, he becomes angry and beats up the bully. He is then summoned to his boss, who wants to fire him. Standing beside him, however, is a man who wants to take him to Austria to work. There, he meets a beautiful woman and falls in love with her, but he isn't the only one. Someone else has a crush on the woman, and so a conflict erupts that escalates to a head-on.

A refugee family in Sweden faces trauma after their youngest daughter falls into an unexplained coma when denied asylum. Parents struggle to find a cure, resilience tested amid difficult circumstances.

A man sets out to find his wife in an apocalyptic world overrun by the living dead, and where the living are just as dangerous and deadly as the relentless living dead.

A woman reflects on her romantic relationship with a young Moroccan years ago. Her daughter travels to Morocco, attempting to relive her mother's past.

During the Second World War, a small group of students at Munich University begin to question the decisions and sanity of Germany's Nazi government. The students form a resistance cell which they name the "White Rose" after a newsletter that is secretly distributed to the student body. At first small in numbers and fearful of discovery, the White Rose begins to gain massive support after a Nazi Gauleiter nearly incites a student riot after a provokative speech. At this point, the matter is taken over by the German Gestapo, who pledge to hunt down and destroy the members of the White Rose.

A young woman works in a Berlin hotel while her husband, a commercial art student, drives a cab. They are 3600 DM in debt. In order to pay the rates, the woman agrees to work as an entertainer in a bar against her husband's wishes...

Paula Semmelrogge's little store is under threat. But a blow with a frying pan turns the old, withered and stingy retired lawyer and landlord Riemer into the youthful lover he has always suppressed within himself. Compulsions now fall off him like chains, and he finally gives in to the urge to get into bed with his tenant Paula and abandons the plan to sell the house. Much to the chagrin of real estate agent Suhr, whom he thus deprives of his business.

Match Factor is a story about the power the prejudices and the strength of trust. Ahmed, a young football player from Iraq comes to Berlin to participate in the FIFA Charity Match. When he disappears from his hotel, a search for him is mounted as a possible case of defection. Brigitte, a young policewoman is on patrol duty when she comes across him.

13-year-old Pauline, called Pik, has lived with her grandmother Wischonka since her mother died. Pik has never met her father. Her grandmother runs a boarding kennel that is on the verge of insolvency because many customers have handed in their animals at the wrong address. Pik wants to help her grandmother and tries to raise money at Cologne airport by performing a song. But she is taken away by the airport police. Although she manages to escape from the police at first, she accidentally observes how the corrupt policeman Kowatsch and a customs officer take away seized drugs. Kowatsch realizes that he has been observed, but is unable to catch Pik.

Richard de la Croix's brother, Andreas, has been driven insane by a notorious vamp and socialite named Sappho. A friend takes Richard to the Odeon to meet her, but when Sappho actually meets him, he is unaware that she is the woman who drove Andreas to be institutionalised. Sappho genuinely falls in love with Richard, and decides to leave her vampy ways and her older lover behind her so that she can have him.

A memorable event: Martha Argerich and Daniel Barenboim in a piano duo in Buenos Aires! Together, the two friends had already performed almost everywhere in the world, except in their hometown. This first concert at the Teatro Colón was a great musical moment and, in a way, also a popular celebration.

In a castle whose floor is littered with dead leaves, a man compulsively plays a tape recorder. Surrounded by figures that haunt him, he listens, rewinds and listens again to the music of Bluebeard.

Explores the incredibly complex backstory of Ted Kaczynski, the infamous Unabomber. This exquisitely crafted inquiry into the rationale of this mythic figure situates him within a late 20th century web of technology—a system that he grew to oppose. A marvelously subversive approach to the history of the Internet, this insightful documentary combines speculative travelogue and investigative journalism to trace contrasting countercultural responses to the cybernetic revolution.

An episodic battle of the sexes inspired by the best-selling book of the same name.

Shortly before Christmas, Dresden lawyer Julius Weimann is expecting his beloved daughter Julia. The 19-year-old has been in the USA for a year. When he picks her up from the plane with her godfather Harald Mauthe and takes her into his arms, he realizes that the "little polar bear" has become a young woman. To Julius' surprise, she has brought the man of her dreams with her from the States, whom she wants to marry at Christmas. Thomas Berner is an event manager from Dresden and fifteen years older than Julia! When Julia realizes that her father has hired a private detective to keep tabs on her fiancé, it causes a rift between father and daughter. With a heavy heart, Julius finally comes to accept his future son-in-law, and after clearing up a misunderstanding, the two men even become friends. But then Julia gets cold feet and breaks up with Thomas.

A beautiful and popular young woman enters a relationship with a wealthy but womanizing cavalry captain.

Three guardsmen who accidentally end up in a girls' boarding school after a merry night out have to disguise themselves in women's clothes to avoid detection.

An advertising man, young, casual and a yuppie, stands up his girlfriend and suddenly finds himself relegated to the role of the fifth wheel, which seriously questions his self-esteem.

Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, the paths of three people on the run cross by chance in the small Baltic Sea port of Rerig: Gregor, a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD); Judith, a Jewish woman; and a pastor who wants to save an Ernst Barlach sculpture classified as degenerate art. All those involved share a common fate and the dream of a fisherman's boy from Zanzibar, which is less a real goal than a utopia of a better future. Adaptation of Alfred Andersch's novel.

It's fall. Mausi and Kilo want to fly a kite. Kilo claims that he has the prettier one. Competitive jealousy arises until the mishap is perfect: Mausi sails away on the kite as if on a flying carpet. Kilo proves to be a resourceful rescuer.

Cathrin Blake's neighbor Coner O'Neill is found dead. While Superintendent Sean Kelly assumes a natural death - Coner was over 80 - Cathrin is skeptical, as Coner had shown no signs of frailty so far. At the same time, another male body is found, also over 80. It turns out that both men had contact with the exclusive care home "Eden View". Bridget Howard is a very likeable, warm-hearted woman who is devoted to caring for elderly people without families. Kelly is taken in by the older lady's charm, but Cathrin is suspicious of appearances. Then there is another death at Eden View, and Kelly comes across several unsolved missing persons cases - also linked to Bridget's retirement home. Bridget has plausible explanations for all the incidents, but could it all just be a chain of unfortunate circumstances?

Micha is 16, a difficult age. Like every year, he spends the summer holidays with his mother and brothers in a country house in Sweden. When the mother goes to Stockholm for a week, Isabelle, the fun-loving daughter of a friend, looks after the children. Micha lives under Isabelle's care, feels taken seriously for the first time and treated as a "man".

German movie set in the future where there is a village existing only to maintain a game preserve for the ruling class and whose inhabitants are kept happy by popping pills. Written and directed by Uwe Brandner, the movie operates on many levels of love-hate relationships, but it is primarily a political parable about fascism and freedom. A young teacher comes to a remote village , which rich gentlemen have chosen as their hunting ground. The residents are happy and nice to each other. Any dissatisfaction that arises is wiped away with freely available drugs or with the clubs of the village police. A gamekeeper who makes sure that the high lords' hunting parties are not endangered becomes the new teacher in the village's first friend. They fall in love, and the gamekeepers gift of love is a gun, which will eventually break their relationship as a confrontation ensues as the teacher starts poaching with his new gun.

On the 28th of October 1884 Daniel Paul Schreber, candidate of the National Liberal Party in Chemnitz, suffered a heavy defeat at the elections of the German Reichstag. He was taken up in the mental clinic of the Leipzig University soon afterwards. To his rehabilition he wrote an extensive piece of work, "Denkwürdigkeiten eines Nervenkranken" (Memoirs of My Nervous Illness), which was published in 1903 and led to his temporary dismissal. Hereby Schreber became the most quoted psychiatric patient in scientific literature. This second part was finished after Ernst Schmidt Jr. death by his assistant Susi Praglowski.

Until now, Carlo thought he was living a quiet, manageable life. And he seemed content with his "small world". But somehow, things have not been running smoothly in Carlo's life for a few weeks now. At home, problems are emerging with his son Hendrik and wife Jutta. His now somewhat outdated garage, which he has been running for 30 years, is hardly generating any orders, and even his tortoise Adenauer is giving him grief because she has stopped eating. And now? Carlo has no intention of letting his long-serving employees Becker, Roger and Köll go, because they are more than just his employees. They are his best friends, without whom Carlo's life would really no longer be possible.

Two worlds collide when the thoroughbred Swabian Roland Reuter is transferred to Duisburg by his employer, the bakery Weckle. There he is supposed to bring the downsized company branch back into the black. For the solid employee an immense challenge - not least because his wife Sybille and pubescent daughter at home in the country has remained. Thus, Roland works hard from Monday to Friday to implement Swabian work ethic for his staff, who are endowed with typical Ruhr-pot-serenity.

Two young students, a man and a woman, rent the same appartment without knowing it. They have to arrange with their upcoming feelings, strange neighbours and poverty.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) was the author of Werther, the romantic novel that was transformed into a play during Goethe's lifetime and which initiated the whole German romantic movement. The book's story tells of young love and suicide. In this East German film, based on a book by Thomas Mann, Lotte (Lilli Palmer) was the woman who served as the model for the heroine in the novel Werther. She comes to Goethe's hometown for a visit, and her experiences there eerily re-create episodes from the book. Goethe comes across as a pompous old bore, and his friends as pandering sycophants, in this very proper communist party-sponsored, anti-heroic movie.

María Nieves Rego (80) and Juan Carlos Copes (83) met when they were 14 and 17, and they danced together for nearly fifty years. In all those years they loved and hated each other and went through several painful separations. Now, at the end of their lives, the two dancers are willing to open up about their love, their hatred, and their passion. In "Our Last Tango" Juan and María tell their story to a group of young tango dancers and choreographers from Buenos Aires, who transform the most beautiful, moving and dramatic moments of the lives into incredible tango-choreographies. These beautifully-shot performances compliment the soul-searching interviews and documentary moments of the film to make this an unforgettable journey into the heart of the tango.

Reporter Jonas is supposed to be investigating a double murder, but then his luxury car is stolen overnight. He can't think of anything else, so he sets off on his own to find it. At his side is photographer Katja.

The Pirates Of Tortuga :Under The Black Flag Set sail with three young boys on an adventure where time travel, gold treasure and battling villainous pirates are all in a day’s work! On a trip to the city museum, three young boys, Alex, Max and Califax discover a golden bowl — part of a legendary Aztec treasure.

"Je t'aime, Chérie." These three words and a Bulgarian volleyball jersey is all Martina, a young working woman from Berlin, is left with after a night at the beach spent with a mysterious lover. But then she learns that she is pregnant, and once the baby is born, she starts for Bulgaria to search for her son’s father. The orderly yet diffident Thomas, an employee of the embassy of the GDR, joins her in order to provide diplomatic support. The quest, however, turns out to be rather difficult.

"A Guru Comes" - A failed opera singer rises to the leader of a new religious community. Satirical film about the new religious movements of the 1970s and 1980s.

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.

The viewer is immersed in this world with the main character Lea, who has a broken leg. It is hard for her to deal with it, because as she wants to get help, she comes up against many prejudices and barriers.

Together with his girlfriend and his friends, André is trying to survive in his wasteland of monotony. Drinking alcohol and smoking weed won't serve the purpose André is looking for. As he is introduced to MDMA things start to change.