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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.
- 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 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...
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- The last days of Willy Brandt as chancellor in Germany.
- 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.
- The life is wonderful, is not it? For Lilly Heiden, the sky over Berlin is currently full of violins. No wonder: the likeable rental cook succeeded in making the leap into self-employment brilliantly, the order situation in her newly founded catering company could hardly be better. And to make happiness perfect, Lilly and her boyfriend, the smart sports presenter Christian, will soon be moving into a huge, fantastically beautiful old building in a prime location. However, a small attack of nausea in your catering kitchen is the first indication that the supposed idyll will not last. A test then brings certainty: Lilly is pregnant. After the first shock, the maternal instinct sets in with her very quickly. But unfortunately Christian does not react very fatherly to the news of the offspring - the die-hard professional youngsters are gripped by the sheer baby panic. Deeply disappointed, Lilly dumps him. With that, of course, the planned move also fell through, and so from one day to the next the mother-to-be is not only without a friend, but in the worst case also without a place to stay. Fortunately, a new apartment can be found quickly - and a new admirer in her new neighbor and landlord Ulli König. He courted Lilly in a charming way and quickly gave her to understand that he would also like to take her with her child. This in turn triggers slight panic attacks in Lilly: How should she know what she really wants when her hormones are going crazy and hopelessly messing up not only her sense of taste, but also her emotions? She finds advice and support from her heavily pregnant friend Ida, whose slightly awkward husband Klaus is the exact opposite of Christian in his care. At the same time, Christian suddenly discovers unexpected father feelings and does everything in his power to win back Lilly. Between the chaos of love, hormonal surges and taste buds that got out of hand, the master chef soon no longer knows where her head is - and who is really the right one for 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.
- Veteran film director Matty Bonkers, a Hollywood legend, arrives in Berlin for an honorary retrospective tribute. While introducing his film Mockery, he receives a phone call from his producer lying in intensive care at a hospital. Blau needs a favor for old times' sake. Could Matty finish a porn movie before his legs get broken by Tokyo Tony? Matty reluctantly agrees. On the set he meets movie star and ex-cello-player Inga - and the experience is bizarre spirited uplifting a comédie humaine.
- 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.
- 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.
- A small, idyllic town near Bremerhaven. Katja Winzer, who runs her own practice as a physiotherapist, lives here with her eight-year-old son Tobias and her partner Jürgen Behrendt on a former farm. Tobias is a bright, independent and reliable boy who has a very intimate and trusting relationship with both his mother and Jürgen. When he couldn't come home from playing one evening, Katja started a round-robin campaign among friends and drove the boy's way home - with no result. Finally she turns on the police. Since the girl Levke was murdered by an unknown person in the region just a few months earlier, a large contingent of officials and volunteers immediately set off a sensational search. The desperate Katja is placed at the side of Chief Inspector Roman Maartens: The experienced police officer and family man has psychological training to look after family members in such cases and to seal them off from the sensational press. Days go by without Tobias being found. Days become weeks - between waiting, hoping and self-reproach, Katja's life is slowly but surely turning into a nightmare. While Jürgen tries to cope with the situation with alcohol and his suspicious behavior is targeted by the investigators, Roman Katja stands by her side. He even threatens to neglect his own family through his commitment and compassion. After the largest search operation in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany, weeks after Tobias' disappearance, remained unsuccessful, the police command had no choice but to abandon the search. Katja feels betrayed and disappointed. It wasn't until the sex offender who also murdered little Levke was caught that Roman came across a hot lead. He succeeds in persuading the emotionally unstable man to make a confession. For Katja this turn seems too late: she no longer sees any meaning in her life. She doesn't want to go on living without her son.
- 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.
- A hot summer day on a country road. A young woman in her bridal dress gets kicked out of a car. Lost and frustrated, she wanders off across a sea of grass into a dark wood - and discovers an abandoned house. Tired and worn out, she lies down on a bed. When she is awakened from her nap by a clap of thunder, she sees a cup of steaming hot tea and a package on the floor. She opens it - and finds a kimono. The bride knows she no longer is alone ... but should she put on the kimono?
- Poor but confident and resourceful tailor David trusts, after killing seven flies in one swat, he's a match for any challenge and sets out to prove himself in the wide world. After luck and cunning help him deal with giant Lothar, he arrives at the castle of petty king Ernst, who is ruled by constant migraine and his ambitious, manipulative court counselor Klaus, who desires to succeed by winning brat princess Paula's hand and claims to be the only savior who can rid the land of three supernatural dangers. David's costume-embroidered motto 'seven at once' however is misread as a warrior's tally, and he eagerly accepts to win the princess, who teases but likes him, and half the country by dealing with the giant brothers, then both other dangers, and having triumphed each time Klaus's last attempt to deal with his commoner rival.
- 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 .
- They are actually the ideal couple: the successful style consultant Juliane runs a thriving beauty salon, in whose exclusive rooms her boyfriend René, a hip gallery owner, exhibits expensive pictures. While Juliane pampers the ladies of society with peelings, facial massages and manicures, her rich husbands let René advise them which artists are "in" at the moment. Business is booming, and their private relationship also seems to work like clockwork - Juliane and René have the same expensive taste right down to the slippers. As a successful business woman, Juliane has arrived where she always wanted to be. Nevertheless, she notes, at least subliminally, that she is anything but happy about it. She suddenly becomes aware of this when the impetuous carpenter Johannes, René's frame builder, bursts into her life. This coarse block, who always appears in overalls and never minces words, is actually not her type at all. But at Johannes' side, the tough businesswoman is repeatedly involved in bizarre and turbulent actions, in which long-forgotten joie de vivre flares up. This change does not remain without consequences, Juliane leaves René, but as a result, the exclusive customers soon stop and her business goes down the drain for the time being. When she then separates from Johannes in an argument, she is also privately on the ground. But Juliane doesn't give up - with a new business idea she opens up a new group of customers and is soon off the hook, at least financially. If only the story with Johannes could be put right again.
- On Top - Iceland, a lighthouse, a cold winter evening. Her thoughts drift back to that summer ... to bathing in the hot springs ... to when they first met ... and embraced. Down Under - Australia, the desert, a blistering heat wave. His pickup stops at an icehouse ... he lays the blocks neatly on the buckboard ... and drives off haunted by a aching memory. Without dialogue or comment, save for verses from a sonnet by John Keats, Fridrik Thor Fridriksson links the thoughts, the emotions, the sensual longing of young lovers at opposite ends of the world. A tone poem, a collage of sight and sound.
- On the escape of the violent Poles 1946, the child of Rosemarie get lost. And Rosemaries tries to find her daughter.
- Manhattan- as it is every day of the week, year in, year out. Life is pretty routine for Bob, about to turn 70, yet aching for one last fling. Maybe his shrink is right: he should place an ad in the paper and just go out and look for someone. Someone like Angela. Because: This is New York.... Anything can happen... The sky's the limit...
- Susanne schreibt ein Plädoyer über die Liebe, steckt diese in eine Flasche und wirft sie ins Wasser.
- 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.
- A woman goes in search of an impotent man.
- Often cited for his quaint, ironic, humorous, close-to-the-skin story-telling talents - "the Woody Allen of the American Independents," said one critic - Amos Kollek is an actor-writer-screenwriter-director all rolled into one. He knows Manhattan like the back of his hand. His films are filled with a bevy of familiar Village characters: bar-hoppers and park-benchers, retirees and wanabees, the lonely and the beautiful. In ANGELA, his first Erotic Tale, Amos Kollek told a delightfully funny fairy tale about an ordinary guy aching for one last fling at the tender age of 70. In MUSIC he extends the metaphor to embrace a city that never sleeps - as though Manhattan at night is the very essence of the elusive, vulnerable woman. Spiced with surreal, Kafkaesque twists, MUSIC is about a man who loves music and is fascinated by the fair sex. But he is not quite sure why and how he has ended up in this strange hotel room ...
- The Californian desert, somewhere between Death Valley and Los Angeles. She - pert, forward, a ball of fire - has just thrown her mobile away after an angry tete-a-tete with her (ex-) boyfriend. He - rugged, handsome, the independent outdoor type - is hitching a ride back to LA and knows a good bet when he sees one.
- Marie Gruber (Christiane Hörbiger) is the owner of a very comfortable Viennese café in Berlin's best location. When, without any warning, the craftsmen moved in, the avid hostess is shocked. She notices fast that the house has been sold. Her former husband has taken a lot of money for terminating the lease contract and ran away a long time before. The house's new owner, Prospecta, an investment company from Frankfurt, wants to rent the wanted premises to a coffee shop company, which pays the rental fee five times higher. The new lease contract should already be made this weekend. But whatever may come, Marie must prevent it! Fortunately, her German-Turkish confectioner Erci (Eray Egilmez) has won a night exactly in the Berlin hotel, where the contract should be made. Marie wants to intercept Prospecta's manager - but that doesn't happen because she gets stuck in the lift. What a coincidence who's in the lift with her - Gerd Fürst (Michael Mendl), Prospecta's claustrophobic managing director. Without knowing with whom she got stuck, Marie manages to becalm the panic manager. The two fall deeply in love with each other immediately. But when Gerd Fürst finds out who Marie is, he thinks she just reassured him to save her loved café. Fortunately there's the canny receptionist (Ludger Pistor), who knows how to steer the lovinglys' destinies with rhythm and discretion...
- Like every year, the Mahlström family is going to the Baltic Sea. This year, however, everything is different. Kurt is on the verge of unemployment, but his wife Marga doesn't know that.
- Malte lives in Usedom, an island in the Baltic, very popular for its sunshine. The young boy survives with difficulty thanks to a small job in a snack bar but especially thanks to the smuggling of cigarettes. But Malta can no longer bear living with her alcoholic father. The return of her sister, who had left for Poland five years earlier, and her son Lukas, as well as her meeting with Annika, a young tourist, turns her life upside down.
- Since his wife left him, Hannes Herbst happily focused on running his old-timers garage, racing rallies in them and old-fashioned hobbies in his TV-free home. Then his sister Esther Wortmann, estranged years ago by deserting their dying father, arrives unannounced, expecting he minds her rascal sons Jonathan 'Jona' and little Bruno, 'while she is examined in hospital'. He accepts very reluctantly, disliking any disturbance to his meticulously planned domestic life, and is furious when she's scheduled for surgery and long recovery. Trapped, he relies on a disliked tenant to coach him at child-care, but slowly grows protective and even fond of the equally unamused scamps.
- Silvia, a successful architect and single mother of nine-year-old Marc, is about to marry her colleague Rolf. Just now, after years of silence, Marc's father Ricardo, a rich South American entrepreneur's son, shows up.
- A young maiden is the victim of an arranged marriage and runs away to the mountains to avoid her fate.
- Beate Uhse - The name stands for a legend of German moral history and is still considered a stimulus for a revealing approach to erotica.
- Book illustrator Isabelle and her husband Tom visit her best friend Julia, who runs a diving school in Thailand