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- While subjected to the horrors of World War II Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. In the basement of her home, a Jewish refugee is being protected by her adoptive parents.
- James and Danielle meet on vacation and fall in love. She's going to the dark North Atlantic bottom to find life. He's going to Somalia to find a terrorist but gets a dark cell.
- He's a widower in Paris who speaks no French. She's a dance instructor less than half his age. Can they become a family, or will his estranged adult children halt the friendship?
- A hot-blooded Spaniard engages in a long and interesting conversation with a young woman in an attempt to woo her.
- A university professor's ignorance is exposed when he must prepare a student for a debate.
- The music video preview sparked criticism a few hours after release. The video features various events from Germany's history such as the Middle Ages, The Holocaust, World War 2, and the Berlin Wall; as well as others such as scenes in space. A black woman appears throughout the video. The video was directed by Specter Berlin and was released online on 28 March 2019 at 6:00 PM CET, following a 35-second preview for the video two days prior.
- Comedy based on the radio comedy and the bestselling books and audio-books by Marc-Uwe Kling.
- One day a nerdy middle-aged small-town man gets an exotic companion who can make wishes come true. Because the creature looks funny and behaves in an obnoxious way, he encounters all kinds of funny and embarrassing situations.
- 15-year-old Caro is one of the inconspicuous students in her school. One day she get noted by a handsome, wealthy Turkish guy who is 5 years older than her. Since they start seeing each other she turns into a totally different person.
- Light-hearted comedy about nuns who are constantly dodging attempts by the mayor to take over their cloister in order to create business opportunities for his party supporters. It is in German only.
- For twelve-year-old Ranji from Mumbai, Bollywood is the greatest: The colorful films of the Indian film industry with their infectious songs and dance choreographies make him happy - like millions of other compatriots. He wants nothing more than to stand in front of the camera with his declared hero, the Indian superstar Amir Roshan. But his great longing moves into an unreachable distance when his parents reveal to the boy their dream of emigrating to distant Germany. Only the hope of attending a casting for Amir Roshan's new film keeps him going - even if it takes place in his old homeland, India. You have to fight for your dreams - they won't come true on their own. Neighboring girl Toni, who turns out to be an unexpected ally for Ranji, knows that too. With courage and combined forces, the two set out to make their dreams come true - and in doing so they also find the happiness of true friendship.
- Three women travel together to Spain for different reasons. The pregnant Mrs. Rettich wants to marry her Spanish lover in Barcelona, while Czerni, bored by her husband Bart, wants to have fun. Sophie, the 1st person narrator, tries to forget the man she admires not knowing that he and Bart follow the crazy ladies...
- Much has been written and broadcast since a commando of the ndrangheta shot down six men in Duisburg in August 2007. Shedding true light on the issue, Men of Honour is the first documentary film to put the Calabrian Mafia bosses themselves in front of the camera. They not only explain why the Duisburg murders took place (as part of a vendetta between two feuding clans) but also reveal that the mafia is doing business in the midst of Germany with large-scale operations. We powder your noses and build your roads says the German adjutant of the ndrangheta, as the Mafia is known in Calabria. He blows the whistle on construction projects and financial transactions that the Calabrian Mafia has used to wash drug money. Today we are respected in higher political circles around the globe, he explains, particularly here in Germany. Film director Francesco Sbano, himself Calabrian, conducted years of research and was ultimately successful in penetrating to the very centre of the Onorata Società, or the honourable society. The Mafia godfathers show us their rituals, their traditions and their code of honour. Never before has a film been so successful in reporting directly and authentically from within this clandestine world. Men of Honour takes us to the Aspromonte Mountains, to the origins of the ndrangheta a journey that throws our picture of Italy out of focus. Filmed in quiet, wintery 16mm images by cameraman Marcus Jaeger, the film recounts the history of the Italian South as it has never been told before. In Men of Honour, the voices of day labourers and farming families are heard. Musicians sing about the deeds of the ndrangheta. And the residents of San Luca di Aspromonte stubbornly defend their villages name, fending off its reputation as a hub of organised crime. The film leads us deep into the hinterlands of Palermo and Naples, areas ridden with poverty and hopelessness. It tells of a culture alive between pride and desperation; a culture that wants social progress but needs the Mafia. The command is sacred, says a masked latitante, a man of honour who, having committed a bloody deed, is forced to live in the solitude of the mountains for several years. As a child, I had nothing. The honourable society raised me; it is the mother of all Calabrians. Men of Honour also recounts how the mafia has been continually used and endorsed by the powerful: how the Allied forces hired the Mafia to prepare the landing of US troops during World War II. How politicians profited from vote buying carried out by the local Mafiosi. How Mafia millions were fed into the nations financial system and how the Mafiosi advanced to become construction magnates, while their homeland was left behind as a social no man's land. Italys unity is a great deception, says the elderly historian Nicola Zitara, relegating the schoolbook version to the realm of legend. Under no circumstances had the rich North always maintained the upkeep of the impoverished South. During the 1860s, Piedmont was practically bankrupt. In the War of 1861, the Piedmonts secured the deposits of the Bank of Naples and then brutally crushed the subsequent insurgencies of the so-called brigands of rural Southern Italy. The streets of Calabria are still named after the Piedmont generals who introduced martial law. And the presence of the briganti, the rural guerrillas of the 19th century, is still ubiquitous. They live on in the traditions of the Mafia present in the tattoos of the old pastry baker, for instance, who is proud to be a man of honour. Were like snakes poisonous, he says, and shows the filmmaker a snakehead tattoo on his biceps. Above it, a wind rose is emblazoned, symbolizing Omertà, the conspiracy of silence. As long as I live, I will never fall into the filth is inscribed on his other arm.
- Kurt, who suffers from an incurable disease, gets obsessed with the idea of freeing himself from his sick body - at any price.
- When Ben is released from prison, undercover police agent Melody picks him up at the gate. Kahnitz, her sinister and ambitious boss, wants to see Ben convicted of another crime as soon as possible. Since Ben seems to show only mild interest both in Melody and in safe-busting she has to come up with a plan. Alas, the talkative cop has developed quite a liking for the taciturn gangster.
- A mother discovers her son's body in a lake near her housing estate. The investigation for Chief Commissioner Mohn is difficult because she herself grew up in this settlement and because of her job, Mohn is suspicious.
- What better job for a failing actor than to take on real life? In order to overcome the obstacles of his acting life, Mo Mikkelsen has to play different roles; Mo takes his acting skills to the next level: Life itself.
- Anna has been happily married to apple farmer Christian Ingstrup for many years. The couple runs a plantation together in the Altes Land near Hamburg. Business isn't doing particularly well at the moment, because arch-competitor Johann Quast, one of the richest farmers in the area, is gradually digging up the water for the Ingstrups. So far, Anna and Christian have always found a solution, because the two always pull together. That changes when Anna's past catches up with her one day: her illegitimate daughter Ines, who neither Christian nor her biological father know about, is standing in front of the door. At the age of 16, Anna was forced by her parents to put her child up for adoption immediately after birth. She always wanted to tell her husband about her daughter - but since their marriage remained childless, Anna lacked the courage. Nervous and anxious, she now tries to hide Ines' existence. But maternal curiosity soon prevails: Ines is a renowned cello teacher in Hamburg and the single mother of a 17-year-old daughter, Cosima, called Jo. When Christian finally discovers Anna's secret, his world collapses. He separates from Anna and sells the farm to Johann Quast. Anna has only one chance left to save her marriage and the farm. Together with her daughter Ines and granddaughter Jo, she comes up with a plan.
- Damascus, spring 2013. Husam is an ordinary Syrian soldier who visits his Family in Damascus on a 24hr leave. He sits in the kitchen and after a long absence enjoys the company and food of his mother, but there is a lump in his throat. He would like to open his heart for his mother and tell her what he really feels: That he is fighting for a group of corrupt and criminal people. He wants to say to her that he is afraid of death and he wants to escape military service, but his mother insists on describing him as the hero who is fighting for his country and his family honor. Both characters have an intense inner struggle that forces them to show the opposite of what they actually feel. Husam tries in many ways to tell his mother how dangerous the current situation on the front is, but his mother ignores his fears. She asks him to help her and bring the old television from the attic. There he finds an old plastic toy which intensifies his awareness to his tragic situation.
- This Documentary approaches the most notorious motorcycle club in the world from the inside. It is a different angel to what and who the Hells Angels are. We look back at the history of the club, it`s origins, backgrounds and worldwide growth and show what mass media has never shown so fair. The Hells Angels talk about, their conflicts and how they deal with them. There are always two sides to a story, the one and the other one.
- Bridesmaids.
- Bad suspicion.
- Norbert Singer asks Sister Hanna for help. She is supposed to help him to convey a difficult truth to his wife who has just awakened from the coma. Mayor Wöller is silent about the future of Kloster Kaltenthal.
- Mayor Wöller reflects on his resignation. The nuns want to turn their monastery into an agricultural cooperative. With the help of sister Hanna, Harry Riesch wants to save the bakery.
- Sister Hanna founds a citizens' initiative to take action against the planned military base. Secretary Laban and friend Huber convince Wöller that it is good to be great-grandfather. A desperate mother asks Hanna for help.
- A converted ambulance, which allows terminally ill patients to experience a final trip, will be deprived of the operating permit. Sister Hanna tries to help. The contract of sale for the monastery lacks an important signature.
- Mayor Wöller uses the missing on the purchase contract signature for his purposes. Hanna helps the 16-year-old Sarah Völkl, who wants to continue living as a boy. Mother Superior visits the monastery for a rest and leads a strict regiment.
- Sister Hanna still argues with Mayor Wöller for the monastery. Retiree Franz Hofer is found without orientation in the forest. Sister Hanna goes in search of relatives. Mother Superior has to say goodbye to Tayo.