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- In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance.
- A young author takes a tutoring position at the estate of a legendary writer.
- A corrupt, junkie cop with bipolar disorder attempts to manipulate his way through a promotion in order to win back his wife and daughter while also fighting his own inner demons.
- A German soldier tries to determine if the Dutch resistance has planted a spy to infiltrate the home of Kaiser Wilhelm in Holland during the onset of World War II, but falls for a young Jewish Dutch woman during his investigation.
- Set during the time of the first outbreak of bubonic plague in England, a young monk is given the task of learning the truth about reports of people being brought back to life in a small village.
- A young teenager camping in the woods helps rescue the President of the United States when Air Force One is shot down near his campsite.
- With the aid of a fellow Auschwitz survivor and a hand-written letter, an elderly man with dementia goes in search of the person he believes to be responsible for the death of his family in the death camp to kill him himself.
- A psychiatrist searches the globe to find the secret of happiness.
- A 19th century French aristocrat, notorious for his scathing memoirs about life in Russia, travels through the Russian State Hermitage Museum and encounters historical figures from the last 200+ years.
- A historical drama that illustrates Russian author Leo Tolstoy's (Christopher Plummer's) struggle to balance fame and wealth with his commitment to a life devoid of material things.
- The story of Venezuelan revolutionary Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization and raided the 1975 OPEC meeting.
- Addicted to drugs and alcohol, a housewife's self-destructive behavior starts to take its toll on her husband and two young children.
- A Catholic Priest and an English teacher get stranded in a school in Kigali during the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
- A talented professor is forced to come to terms with her clinical depression.
- Grumpy pensioner Arthur honors his recently deceased wife's passion for performing by joining the unconventional local choir to which she used to belong, a process that helps him build bridges with his estranged son, James.
- Following the arrival of a deaf and mute vagrant, a young woman, Josephine, disappears from her family estate. She follows him deep into the woods even though she seems to be disgusted by him, but does Josephine want to follow him?
- Kati and Steffi have been best friends forever. Their love lives are heating up, so they're hitting the books less and going out to nightclubs more. When Steffi sees her father with another woman, her life begins to spiral out of control.
- Young runaway Sherry meets the radical street collective Spark. Together they experience the group's giddy thrills as well as its punishing manipulations, as Sherry's journey to paradise begins to sour.
- The summer adventures of teenaged Sybilla, who falls in love with a middle-aged father while being romanced by his teenaged son.
- Humans are analogue! We're literally sick of the digital world engulfing us. People are yearning for real things and authenticty. IMPOSSIBLE is sensuous and inspiring film about the revenge of analog. And the eccentric, crazy Austrian scientist, who saved the world's last Polaroid factory - just when Steve Jobs introduced the first iPhone. An entertaining underdog story of a very modern Don Quixote, shot on 35mm. And a sumptuous invitation to fall in love with real things again. (Like sending you a beautifully typed application form on nice paper, rather than this cold tech template)
- A biography of Hildegard Knef, one of Germany's biggest post-war stars.
- A romantic comedy centered on two young cooks and a female sommelier working in a famous Zurich luxury restaurant.
- The Yildiz brothers - Celal, Sami and Mesut - still live under one roof - despite their differences. The family bridal shop is doing really badly and they each yearn for a different life: Heartthrob Celal pines for his ex-girlfriend Anna and risks every last cent of their family inheritance for his dream of a mobile phone shop. Sami is searching for true love but ruins every blind date with his anger mis-management. And Mesut, the youngest of the three, tries to combine a cool music career with his strict adherence to the Koran. So when a sweet little baby comes careering into their lives, nothing is as it was before. The three young Turkish bachelors are given a crash course in responsibility.
- This remake of the Finnish movie FC Venus (2005) deals with a male soccer team, Eintracht Imma 95, whose players bet that they would win a match against their wives and girlfriends. Anna and Paul live together in Berlin, but suddenly his old friends from the village where he grew up ask him to help the local soccer club. Under the pretext that he would enjoy a new life in the country, they move to Imma. However, Anna, hating soccer, soon realizes Paul's real motives and has a bet with him: Eintracht Imma 95 plays against its members' wives and girlfriends. If the men win, Anna and Paul remain in the village. If the women win, they will move back to Berlin...
- For many, the Alterlaa residential park remains the manifestation of a residential utopia. In the stories of the residents, the filmmaker traces her own memories and thus creates a playful portrait of the here and now.
- Playoff tells the story of legendary Israeli basketball coach Ralph Klein. He became a national hero, when he made Maccabi Tel Aviv into European Champions in the late Seventies, one of Israel's first great international sporting successes. But Max became a national traitor equally fast, when he then accepted the against-all-odds job of turning the totally hopeless West-German basketball team - of all people! - into European winners. Max always maintains that Germany - where he was born before the war - means nothing to him, and that training their national team is just another job on his path to NBA glory. But things aren't as simple as he refuses to speak German to the young players. The only person he seems to be able to relate to is a Turkish immigrant woman Deniz, and her cheeky teenage daughter Sema. Max just about falls in love with Deniz - and does succeed in reinventing the Germans as European champions. When he discovers what happened to his own family in the 1940s - it is not what he had expected. And he will realize that one cannot run away forever from one's own past and demons. Playoff is inspired by the life of Ralph Klein, Israel's most famous basketball coach, ever.
- Years ago, Lepel's parents left for a hot air balloon world tour. He stays with granny Koppenol, a mean bitch who constantly exploits him for domestic chores, in her buttons shop and even as accomplice in the department store where she steals the buttons from clothes. After she won't even leave him the balloon that kind salesman Max gave him, Lepel, now 9, runs away. He meets Max's slightly older daughter Pleun. Schoolmaster Bijts is also looking for him, but only as arithmetics talent for an academic schools contest. Max accidentally finds out the sad truth about Lepel's family.
- Valeri Sikorski knows from his doctors that his days are numbered because of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. He wants to make a last adventure in his life and goes to England, but first he stops in Berlin to pick up his best friend Victor. But Victor has disappeared. Now Valeri's journey turns into a search for his old friend Victor.
- Making of Russian Ark (2002), with on camera personal views by members of the cast and crew of the major film.
- What do the Shroud of Turin, Elvis's Graceland, and a flag flown barely a moment over the U.S. Capitol have in common. Mana - that sacred, spiritual power thought to reside in a person, place or thing. Belief is not just religion, say filmmakers Friedman and Manley. It drives the stock market; it determines how we encapsulate history and our personal memories. It underlies racism and war... A trip around the amazing world of power objects, from the sacred to the absurd.
- A shy research assistant of the Finance Minister falls in love with unconventional Gina in a coffee shop. He invites her to accompany him when he has to attend the important G8 summit,
- Dancing With Myself (WT) is a film about three Berliners and their search for happiness - on and next to the dancefloor. All three are passionate dancers and spend many hours every week shaking their limbs. Maybe because the rest of life isn't as cheerful? Laurin (18) strolls alone through the Berlin night, trying several semi-legal clubs, always in search for "her" place to dance, possibly for "her" man to love. For Mario (38), dancing is a stage, complete with mirror ball and laser show, where he hopes to forget his lack of employment and be somebody. Reinhard (62) is in search of himself and a rather more spiritual way of dancing - in self-help groups and express-yourself-through-dancing ensembles. His dancing began when he watched the movie Alexis Sorbas. The film encouraged him to accept his personal destiny. He still dances the Sirtaki at least once a week.
- Tells the story of punk in the GDR.
- The reunion of two German Jewish brothers - who took vastly different directions at the end of WWII, and needed a lifetime to find their way back to each other.
- Maren Hilbert starts her new job as a music and German teacher at the private school "Sophienbund". She soon finds a good rapport with her class thanks to her unconventional manner, but she also notices that the relationship between her 16- to 17-year-old students is not the best. One morning, she receives a call from the school secretary's office, which is still unmanned, in which an anonymous threat of a killing spree is made.
- After many years of absence, Marcus Lenk returns to his home village, which bears the meaningful name 'Neusorge' and is divided into two halves by the Elbe.
- The 33-year-old career woman Anna and her older sister Marie are on a vacation in Benidorm, Spain. Among other problems of Anna, she is concealing an abortion from her boyfriend.
- Milan is a boy who lives in a village and has certainly not had an easy life. His grandma is a witch, his father is a drunk and his mother is dead.
- 'Deutschland. Dein Selbstportät' is a movie similar to the YouTube movie 'Life in a day' from 2010, where people from everywhere around the globe send in their home videos from a single day. They talked about 3 major questions: 1st what makes you happy? / 2nd afraid? and 3rd what does germany mean for you? The result is a movie by the Germans about the Germans and Germany.
- A portrait of five St. Petersburgians and their connection to The Hermitage.