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- The last year in Franz Kafka's life and its surprising love story.
- Séraphine and her mother arrive in Paris to visit the 1867 World Exhibition. In an overcrowded city they must be accommodated in separate hotels. During the night the mother, who wasn't feeling very well, gets suddenly worse. When next morning Séraphine goes to meet her every trace of her presence has disappeared and everybody denies having ever met her. The bewildered young woman must find someone who believes her. Previous version of So Long at the Fair (1950).
- Paris 1830. The story of the actor Debureau who with his art of acting and his mocking-songs on the hated King Karl X. enthuses the masses.
- DIE UNBUGSAMEN tells the story of women in the Bonn republic who literally had to fight for their participation in the democratic decision-making processes against success-obsessed and officially drunk men like real pioneers. Undaunted, ambitious and with infinite patience, they followed their path and defied prejudice and sexual discrimination. Politicians from back then have their say today. Her memories are funny and bitter at the same time, absurd and at times terrifyingly topical. The documentary filmmaker and journalist Torsten Körner ("Angela Merkel - The Unexpected") has succeeded in creating an emotionally moving chronicle of West German politics from the 1950s to reunification, intertwined with partially unseen archive cuttings. The images he has found unfold a force that allows cinema to be rediscovered as a place of political self-assurance. An insightful contemporary document that makes an unmistakable contribution to the current discussion.
- Interior decorator Lore works on Hans' apartment for his bride, starlet Daisy. But Daisy's other boyfriend Thomas pays for another apartment that she asks Lore to furnish. Lore complies even though Thomas is now heavily flirting with her.
- From the same Sudermann story that inspired Murnau's Sunrise: a villager is tempted by a sophisticated city woman and almost kills his wife in a boating accident.
- The race car drivers Robert Wenck and Kurt Harder are good friends. They become rivals when it appears that Robert is married to Eva. Eva was the former lover of Kurt Harder. Complications will follow.
- Berlin, 1900. Comedian Lepke desperately tries to raise money for the bicycle he needs for his variety act while the operetta director Knoppe uses his influence in high places to get the chorus line's risky costumes accepted by the censor.
- Oscar Wilde adaptation ,a satire of British society, in which the father of a bastard son returns after two decades in India and challenges the son who doesn't know him to a duel over a woman they both want.
- The exploits of a young German youth during World War II in Argentina.
- According to his last will, the rich American uncle of vacuum cleaner salesman Peter Pett only leaves his 5 million dollars to Peter if he is married happily. Otherwise the five million will fall to Peter's Scottish cousin Patrick.
- In 1908 Berlin, two men have their eye on a widow, who is bringing up three children on her own.
- A French chanteuse, fleeing her wedding, loses her money at the gambling tables.But a man who is a musical composer may be able to help her.
- Young and old couples, elated, lonely and jealous hearts, hope and despair, crooked and honest souls, drunks and dutiful medics, a hit-and-run driver and the first baby of the year all converge on the first-aid station in downtown Berlin.
- Six German boys visit the zoologist writer Bengt Berg in Sweden where they are shown film footage of water animals, migratory birds and elephants in the Nile area, narrated by the host's naturalistic adventure stories.
- After successfully starring as Casanova on stage Gregor escapes to his country estate but repeats his stage affairs in real life with actress Steffie, feisty matron Johanna and farm girl Gertrud who is the first to really touch his heart.
- Since Marion feels ill-treated by her boyfriend her friend Julia confronts him in his home only to learn that she is scolding the wrong guy: there are two cousins named Johannes sharing the apartment. And this Johannes is charming indeed.
- Two clowns kidnap a young American woman, so that she can capture the heart of a young man.
- A woman follows her husband to Indonesia because he'll be away for 5 years. She is surprised to find he has a grown up daughter from an earlier marriage there.
- Farmer Grillhofer is slowly getting old and sickly. His housekeeper Rosl takes care of him, while foreman Wastl takes care of the farm. Grillhofer's brother-in-law Dusterer knows that twenty-five years ago the farmer got involved with his maid, Riesler Magdalen, who then disappeared. He uses this knowledge to get Grillhofer to hand over his estate to him and his family.
- In a Near East land, a German company building waterworks and mining copper is threatened by foreign interests.When the chief engineer is framed for a murder, the nephew of the ambassador makes a heroic sacrifice.
- A romantic comedy about a competitive war between two hotels in the mountains; one called 'The Maiden' and the other called "The Monk". Played in the USA at the 79th Street Theater in New York City in March of 1935.
- Two down and out circus performers on a ship to South America get their hands on a lottery ticket and uncover the identity of a jewel thief.
- A hotel proprietor now wants to buy back his wife's necklace, which he had secretly pawned, to help his niece pay for singing lessons.Since the wife holds the purse strings, he gets a job waiting tables.
- After a sex encounter, ex-bestselling author Miki is in trouble: her one-night stand, which she blessed with a strap-on penis, accuses the mother of two of rape. Now the single parent not only faces imprisonment, but also the loss of custody. In great distress, Miki remembers her childhood sweetheart Ben, now a successful lawyer. While Miki hardly knows where her head is, Lilo Wanders appears to her in the middle of the night as a bathtub oracle.
- Miki meets with her lawyer Ben at a fancy restaurant. Even though her back is against the wall, she presents herself as a real celebrity. Unfortunately, the candlelight dinner ends in an argument. Luckily, there is her Viennese lover boy Heini at home, who runs the house with the children and submits to her sexually. Her masculine habitus also impresses two rappers for whom Miki directs a video.
- Only twelve more days until mom goes to jail. While her daughter Lilo keeps a wall calendar until the trial, Miki wants to go on the counteroffensive. However, on the advice of her lawyer, she pretends to the judge that she is a remorseful, quiet person, just as society imagines a good mother to be. Sucking, but successful. A bathroom guest wants to make it clear to her what is important. Out of frustration, Miki buys a dildo and goes to the men's sauna with it.
- After an unplanned night with Ben, Miki runs away before coffee. Her mother Isabelle is already waiting at home, telling her once again why, in her opinion, things will never work with men. But Miki now stands up for herself - and her body. She gets support from Lady Bitch Ray, who lectures the director about self-respect on the set of a porn shoot.
- The day of the decision: Miki sees more and more of her skin floating away in the rape trial. Her malicious and lying "victim" August and his lawyer use every trick to make her look like a bad mother and sex maniac. When Miki's submissive lover boy takes the witness stand completely contaminated with radiation after a three-day club tour, the proceedings take an unexpected turn.