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- The lives of two families in East Berlin between 1980 and 1990 as the era of communist DDR slowly comes to an end.
- After winning top awards in Montreux, Utrecht, and St. Petersburg for THE WAITING ROOM, followed by the Grand Prix at the Mediawave festival in Györ (Hungary) for THE GAS STATION, Jos Stelling completed his Erotic Tales trilogy with THE GALLERY. Stylistically they're all connected: each is narrated visually without dialogue, each makes merry fun of an embarrassing erotic fantasy in a public place, and each features the same likeable fall-guy - Belgian actor Gene Bervoets - as the hero always ready and willing to strut his manhood like a peacock in heat. In THE GALLERY Gene finds himself the sensual object of a beautiful woman's desire. So when, suddenly and unexpectedly, she begins to strip for his pleasure ... one good turn deserves another ...
- A wide-ranging, energetic period piece tracing the rise of the Protestant Henry of Navarre as he goes from battlefield warrior to France's beloved King Henri IV. Director Jo Baier's epic is a classically-entertaining adventure, albeit one with much bloodshed and frequent bawdy sexual interludes. In late-16th-century France, Catholics and Protestant Huguenots are at war. Seemingly seeking peace, French dowager Queen Catherine de Medici summons Henry to her court to marry him to her daughter, which would unite the two warring factions. However, the Catholics slaughter the Protestant wedding guests in what became known as the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre and Henry--now married--must use all his guile to stay alive and maneuver for the throne.
- Based on the true story that shocked a nation in the summer of 1988 and revealed the scandalizing amount of errors committed by the media and the police in a half-baked attempt to rescue hostages.
- Los Angeles, 2000. Megan David likes to keep track of her life with a camcorder. It's her video-diary, her art project for the Biennale. It depicts who she is, where she's going, how she's going 'to pop her cherry', as she informs her girlfriend. And hip video artist that she is, Megan has even picked out the right partner through the Internet - a theology major named Luke - for the summer of her deflowering at the Garden of Eden. But when the love-birds arrive on the motel, the concierge hands them the key to their room on a condition - they are not to eat the apple...
- A rainy night, a car breaks down, an old house in the middle of nowhere with a light burning in the window. Soaking wet, Markus knocks on the door - and interrupts Renee in the middle of her pottery. She's suspicious of the young stranger, but interested. An Adonis is missing from her artistic collection of dildos. It's only a matter of warming to the occasion, and she's in the flush of life. So she reaches for Apollinaire on the book shelf. . .and a jar of honey.
- In her teens, Mme. Zachanassian had to flee her home town in disgrace. Now she's old and rich and the town is facing bankruptcy. But she returns with news that she wants to help - as long as the townsfolk kill someone for her.
- Having just become a father himself, master thief Robert returns to his parents, whose simple firm near the coast he left silently years ago, having been an out-of-control brat. Mother Svea's unconditional welcome is balanced by father Heinrich's understandable doubts. To both's horror, having proudly unveiled his criminal profession, he sets off to face his godfather, arrogant local count Gustav. Rather than immediately ordering his execution. Gustaf sets the boaster a triple challenge, which he accepts: he must steal the best horse from the court stables despite guards; next, from the count's bedroom the sheets and a wedding ring; finally, the curate and sexton from the dilapidated parish church.
- In Hamburg's red-light district, where the Albanian mafia rules the prostitution business, the harmless sandwich-seller Andi Ommsen is hired to take care of the mob leader's wife while he is away. Now Andi needs to act like the pimp king.
- A middle-aged man is in a traffic jam making eye contact with a young woman. When he bumps into the woman's car, she gets out and breaks off the rearview mirror of his car and takes it in her own car.
- Germany, 1944: In the east the war is entering its final phase when the soldier Karlheinz Rombach is given another leave from the front and spends a few carefree hours with his attractive wife Eva. While Eva's father Julius, in contrast to his level-headed wife Magdalena, still believes in victory, Karlheinz is anxious about his return to the Eastern Front. When saying goodbye, he asks his childhood friend Sebastian, who is exempt from military service due to a war injury, to look after Eva and his little son Peter if worse comes to worst. Shortly before the end of the war, Karlheinz was taken prisoner by the Soviets and the letters he wrote home never arrived. The years pass, but Eva firmly believes in the return of her husband. Little does she suspect that Karlheinz was sentenced to 25 years imprisonment in a labor camp after a failed attempt to escape. While Eva had a tough time in the post-war years, friends and family kept telling her that it was time to get involved with another man - after all, the boy needs a father too. But it was only when Sven Elsenau, returning from the war, appeared in the summer of 1948 and Eva took the last glimmer of hope for her husband's return, that she gave in to Sebastian's shy solicitation. After years of privation and suffering, Eva feels joy in life again for the first time - when Karlheinz suddenly stands in front of her .
- On his deathbed, miller Hinze, fallen victim to the cruel sorcerer Abbadon who terrorizes the whole region, bequeaths his goods to his sons. Hermann and Hubert get half of the mill each, only last-born Hans gets just the tomcat Minkus. However the feline speaks, transforms into a dashing knight and promises, if fitted with new boots, to turn Hans's fate for the better. Once attired, he sets out to the court of idle king Otto and his daughter Frieda. Fowl gifts win heir favor, and soon an invitation for his master, under the name of marques of Carabass. Hans, clearly more interested in the princess then in gold, is coached to fit the part, while the cat takes o the sorcerer in his castle by crafty magical dare.
- Jakob Fugger's scheming to become as rich as Croesus from copper and silver mining as banker of the mighty in Catholic Christianity requires seeing the papacy to organize a European crusader defense against the Ottoman Turkish threat. The church's self-absorbed puritanical Inquisition party would rather concentrate on fighting heresy and so on within, which includes burning at the stake converted Saracene Zobeida, the mother of monastery oblate Richard, the bastard son of Fugger's late brother, who swears revenge at inquisitor Heinrich Institoris -and remains his target- which he seeks to find as Jacob's confident.
- A designer with her own store must come to terms with being pregnant.
- An attractive young woman is accosted in the corridor by a young man with something rather sinister on his mind. A contest of give-and-take follows.
- Ernest Hemingway wrote his Parisian stories on the table of a sidwalk café. Niko prefers to pen his Berlin tales on the counter of a funky bar behind the shark tank. What better place for a writer to pick up a girl? Along comes Sonja, who wants to know how the horny tale he's now working on will end. So she invites Niko to finish his erotic tale over a drink at her apartment! There's only one catch: Martin, her ex-husband, still hasn't moved out of the place.
- On the day of her golden wedding in 1994, Barbara Reichenbach's lost wedding gift, an amber amulet, reappears. Barbara is now forced to reveal her well-kept secret to her three children and her husband Alexander. Flashback to 1944: Weddings are celebrated on the Schlossgut Hagenow in eastern Germany. The pretty Comtesse Barbara von Ganski marries the charming physicist Alexander Reichenbach, who is exempted from working at the front as a scientist. As a pledge of his love, Alexander puts an amber amulet around his bride's neck. But not all guests wish the happy couple a good future: SS man Luschnat, for example, has had an eye on the bride himself, and the young estate manager Elisabeth is in love with Alexander. After a dispute between the carefree Alexander and the staunch Nazi Luschnat, Barbara's father, Baron Albin von Ganski, expelled his son-in-law from the house. Barbara follows her husband to Berlin and accepts the break with her conservative father. Through this turning point, Elisabeth, who is the secret, illegitimate daughter of the baron, sees her long-awaited chance of finally being recognized as an equal member of the family. The baron finally agrees. But when Barbara and Alexander's mother Gunhild and shortly afterwards Alexander returned from bombed Berlin after a heavy bombing attack, Elisabeth was once again on the sidelines from one day to the next. Gunhild confesses to her son that she is a converted Jew. In order to avoid persecution by the Nazis and to protect Barbara, Alexander reports as a soldier for front service without her knowledge. Meanwhile, Albin von Ganski hides Gunhild on the castle grounds. When the war finally comes to an end, Barbara, Elisabeth, Albin and his wife Henriette wait in eager anticipation for the liberation by the Russian troops. The feared atrocities do not materialize, but Barbara and her father are appalled when Elisabeth fraternises with the rude soldiers. Meanwhile, Barbara falls in love with the cultivated Russian officer Belajew, who protects her from attacks by his soldiers. But even he cannot help her when Albin von Ganski is executed one day for the alleged murder of a Russian prisoner of war. When her mother then commits suicide, Barbara is faced with a difficult decision: should she and Belayev leave their homeland? Just as the young woman is about to leave her past behind, she thinks she sees Alexander on the estate.
- Commercial lawyer Judith Kemp is at the beginning of a steep career, but as a single mother she has less and less time for her two children, Julia and Marco. She has not yet been able to get over the death of her husband, which is why the constant advances of her boss Stefan Walther, who would promote the capable lawyer in the law firm to partner and preferably to wife, are gradually getting on her nerves. Judith studied family law and doesn't see her calling as providing legal protection for big business deals. When she accidentally overhears a six-year-old girl collapsing on the street all alone, the courageous lawyer sees the chance to finally do something useful. Helena Traber, the mother of the little ones, is a patent woman, but she cannot take care of her three children because three jobs at the same time are wearing her out: Although in a hopeless debt trap, Helen has her pride and does not want alms. It is only after a difficult approach that Judith can convince her that legal help is urgently needed: Helena's husband Maik, a raving father, as he says in the book, has left his wife with a mountain of debt and, on top of that, does not pay a weary euro of maintenance. Officially, he's broke - but runs well-functioning car repair shops through straw men. When it turns out that Judith cannot get at this crook legally, her boss Stefan suddenly develops unexpected skills as a crooked lawyer.
- Lea Walter stubbornly refuses to save the family's ailing Mallorca 'bodega' (wine estate) by selling some paintings of her late, eccentric father to finance the modernization her son Ebrico supervises. So he flew in family friend Sean Everrad, a New York gallery holder and psychologist. The heated family discussions and Enrico's son Daniel playing with the heirloom doll-house lead to uncovering dark secrets.
- The retired building contractor Arno Adelmann lives with his prudent housekeeper Nancy in a stately villa on Lake Constance. At first glance, the 77-year-old oddball seems a bit cranky; For example, when he shoots molehills with his double-barreled shotgun because they spoil his beautiful lawn. Ultimately, however, his heart is in the right place - even after the heart attack three years ago. When he sees his new neighbor Ina being coldly ripped off by a shady construction company during her renovation, he offers the nice pharmacist his generous support. Until her dilapidated house is properly repaired, Arno lets the single mother live with her little daughter Caro in his already almost empty villa. Alarm bells immediately ring for Arno's daughters Thekla and Bianca as well as his sons-in-law Bert and Theodor. In the eyes of her "dear relatives," Ina is nothing more than a sophisticated inheritance hunter who is after Adelmann's millions. In order to forestall this "bitch", Thekla and Bert try to obtain Arno's incapacitation with a costly psychiatric report. The suicide of Arno's eccentric girlfriend Romy plays a key role in the devious plan. There's some detective work to be done for Ina and the clever housekeeper Nancy.
- Dr. Giesel, president of an insurance company board, needs to track down former financial consultant Jan Hansen, believed a fraudster to have disappeared with ten of millions. He hires ruthlessly successful single Pat Wilson who guesses his new identity in Thailand and checks out leading plastic surgeon Prof. Narong. There she's charmed by generous children freebies sponsor Mr. Miller, who fits the profile. After a candle light dinner, they have a romantic and physical night. Next day, Miller is shot before her eyes, but shortly after Jan Hansen reappears and explains to have been set up. Next the pair of them become murder targets.
- Ten-year-old Kalli and friends secretly house a mischievous monkey. As summer unfolds, family issues, first crushes, and new bonds arise in Kalli's enchanting 10th summer of 1960.
- After a lot of trial and error, Hilde Reimer has finally decided to marry her late love Theo. Immediately after the wedding, Theo moves in with her in the Reimersche family villa - nothing seems to stand in the way of their mutual happiness. Or is it? While Theo soon gets to feel the idiosyncrasies of his new wife, Hilde quickly realizes that she can hardly keep up with the pace of the agile Theo in everyday life. In order not to worry him, she doesn't tell him about her mysterious dizzy spells. Even when Hilde faints while shopping and misses the plane to her honeymoon, she doesn't tell Theo about her health problems. No wonder that the deeply disappointed and hurt Theo begins to doubt Hilde's affection because of the canceled vacation and moves from the shared bedroom to the attic room for the time being. Even with Hilde's adult daughters, who also live with their families in the large villa, the house blessing is lopsided. While Anja waits in vain for her friend Karin, who went to Brazil alone, to finally get in touch, Sebastian fights to finally be accepted as the father of her child. Regina, meanwhile, returns to her old job at the bank with great success after her husband Robert loses his job - which soon leads to jealousies as the newly minted house husband finds the role difficult to cope with. The situation is very similar for Frank and Susanne, because Frank has the feeling that Susanne has never really accepted his job as a car mechanic and doesn't even see how much he puts in for her and little Viktor. Only when Hilde collapses again and is taken to the hospital do Theo, her daughters and their husbands finally seem to come to their senses.