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- A violent chain of events ensues as a jailed criminal arranges to buy a car from a shady car dealer, unaware that his partner in freedom has squandered most of the money from their last bank robbery on horse race betting.
- Hannes wants to be a member of the Crocodiles, but he must do something dangerous to be part of them. When he is finally a member, they have dangerous adventures together.
- "What does your paradise look like, then?" - "Dark. Quiet. Wet. And full of fish." Jan likes Shakespeare, water and fish. Nina likes roller-skates, cars and brightly dyed hair. Jan loves Nina. Nina loves Jan, but ... Do Fish Do It? is a film about first love, the problems of growing up, the vital question if fish have sex and a threat this love is exposed to. 16-year old Jan is absent-mindedly strolling through the streets when he's run over by roller-skating Nina. As fast as she has stormed into his life, however, she rushes off again. Nina is 15 years old and full of crazy ideas. She lives together with her brother, her father and his new girlfriend. Her mother isn't in touch much. That's why there is the unconventional Angel whose own daughter disappeared years ago and who is Nina's best friend and substitute mother. Jan is a little shy, with a sheltered upbringing. Yet the image of the perfect family is an illusion. Jan feels lonely and the only person who seems to understand him is his grandfather. Jan's great passion is water and fish for they make him forget about his illness. When Jan tries to carry a newly-acquired fish home safely, Nina bumps into him after another failed attempt to brake. As a result, the fish dies. Nina feels guilty, doesn't want to let Jan go. Within a short time they get very close and Nina becomes equally fascinated by water and its scaly inhabitants. They start searching for an answer to the question if fish have sex and secretly meet at night to have picnics at the municipal aquarium. This is not without effect, friendship develops into tender love. Jan's parents, who worry about their son's health, are against the relationship. Only Jan's grandfather stands by him and doesn't begrudge him his happiness. On her birthday Nina learns that her father's girlfriend is pregnant. Appalled, she flees to Jan. For the first time they end up in bed together. Basically a rather innocent encounter but Jan realizes all of a sudden that he's dangerous for Nina and will continue to be so. He withdraws into his dream world - "dark, quiet, wet and full of fish". But Nina won't give up that easily ...
- New summer adventure of the Crocodiles, who set up their detective skills to find out who is behind the accidents of the factory where Ollie and Mary's parents work which could mean the closure of the plant.
- After their most recent loss, a soccer team discovers its goalie is gay and casts him out. He retaliates by bringing back an all-gay team for a game to prove who's better.
- A group of rather slapdash builders are rather imaginative at solving what problems come their way. Whatever it is that doesn't fit the picture, it will be made fit in no time.
- Years after a nervous breakdown Karl goes on tour with old friends and upcoming electronic music DJs. Beeing the only sober person in a environment full of drugs and alcohol starts to bring back demons.
- Ingo organizes a charity event for the local golf club. Special guest will be the Hollywood star Douglas Burnett. But who remembers what the aging star looks like today?
- Julian is a 12-year-old boy whose family is just scraping by in the Ruhr industrial region of Germany in the early 1960s . When his mother and younger sister go away for a while, he is left mostly alone in the apartment while his father works in the coal mine. He has to confront the confusing world of adults and older boys and the older girl next door on his own. Finally events build up and threaten to tear the family apart.
- A documentary on the German national team's World Cup 2006 journey, all the way from boot camp in Sardinia to the 3rd-place play-off.
- Three teenagers' quest to qualify for the 2012 US Olympic table tennis team.
- Hannes is a beer-truck driver in Dortmund. His biggest dream is to win the first prize at the International Time-Table Contest in Inari (Finland). When his new boss cancels his extra holidays to go there, Hans goes mad... On his journey to Finland by train, followed by the police, he meets lot of folks and the love of his life.
- In the Germany of the late 1970s, three unemployed young men try to escape the dreariness of their lives.
- Marija, a young Ukrainian woman, earns a living as a cleaning woman in a hotel in Dortmund, but dreams of having her own hairstyling salon, and puts away some money each month. But when she is fired without notice, her dream is suddenly postponed to an uncertain future. Jobless and under financial pressure, she is forced to look for alternatives but, in order to achieve her goal, she is ready to discard her body, her social relationships and her own feelings.
- The film (the third of the Reding brothers) is about a German teenager following his identity crisis. The boy, transformed by the usual down-trodden socio-economic conditions of contemporary Europe, becomes a skin head, following the first one's lead. On the other side he befriends with a leftist (a punk) who is gay. This causes more and more conflicts which eventually leads to an atrocious end for the punk. The film offers scenes of homophobic violence by skinheads, and the whole relationship between the skinhead and gay movements (in Germany gay skinheads represent a substantial subculture).
- This heartbreaking TV movie focuses on the first generation of Turkish migrant workers coming to Germany in the 1960s. Melike and Mustafa grow up in a small village of Ürgüp, Nevsehir in the central part of Turkey. She dreams of marrying him until he and his friend Kadir decide to leave their home country to work in Germany. After two years, the young woman must marry the much-older Yasar although she does not love him. For financial reasons, Melike also emigrates to the "golden West" and starts working in a factory. She reunites with Mustafa, now working as a photograph artist, and revives their romance, but one day, Yasar is standing at her door.
- Pitman Katlewski is fed up with his conventional life: a wife, small apartment, nice living room furniture - and DM 9150 in debt to pay for all of the former. One day at work, he walks miles underground to take another exit and decides that he won't return up through his pit and into his normal self, until he's freed himself of these bounds. He befriends the unconventional Uli, who offers him shelter. But soon he realizes that it won't be that easy to come up with the money, so he gets himself a chain saw...
- British pop duo Pet Shop Boys recorded live at various venus on their 1999/2000 world tour. Concert footage is presented simultaneously over layers of backdrop projections and computer-generated graphics, giving more than just the usual live recording. Featuring 22 Pet Shop Boys hits, including 'West End girls', 'It's a sin', and 'Go West', spanning their whole career.
- The Uprising Tour was Bob Marley's last tour before his tragic early death in May 1981.
- Buddies Hoffi and Lehmi awake in Dortmund Zoo, after a night of drinking.
- 2006's Football World Cup, held in Germany.
- The 80s: Four friends in western Germany try to impress girls with bad singing and worse dancing. They find out that to find your significant other it isn't enough to be just a pretty girl, neither it helps to be a showoff.
- A car painter in his mid-twenties is bullied by his boss
- A feature length documentary that covers the first 25 years of the band. It also features on disc one-Live at the Rainbow from 1981, Beast over Hammersmith from 1982, and live in Dortmund from 1983
- A Dutch family moves from the Northern area to the very south, in a time when the coal mines are booming and their lives are dictated by their employer and the catholic church. How do they remain true to themselves?
- A young man is recounting events in his childhood that led him to where he is to an unseen person. Next we see him as a child around 10 years old who is a lonely boy at school that is befriended by the school workman. At first, the workman is the only source of emotional warmth and kindness in his life. Things deteriorate quickly and we eventually come to understand both the impact of those childhood events as well as the true nature of the opening scene.
- Documentary shows the German national handball team on their way to winning the title at the 2007 World Cup in their own country.
- An illegal Polish worker on a building site falls from the scaffolding in the Ruhr region. Everyone wants to hush up the accident except the well-educated trainee.
- A dark and lyrical portrait of a pub and the people who linger in it. While they increasingly surrender to their innermost thoughts, their perception of things starts mingling with surreal events.
- Prince's Lovesexy Tour concert filmed in Dortmund September 1988.
- The musician Udo Lindenberg (played by himself) is kidnapped during the party after a concert. Nobody realizes this until the next day, when he doesn't show up in time for a rehearsal. Since the police believes this is only a promotion gag, private eye Kuhlmann (also played by Udo Lindenberg) has to be hired to find him in time.
- Iron Maiden's concert in Dortmund, Germany of the world tour "Death On The Road" from their 13th album, "Dance of Death".
- Moments from the lives of a large number of people who have nothing much in common except a strong desire to achieve their various personal goals and their attendance at a soccer match.
- After a string of unsuccessful job interviews, out-of-work David realizes that someone is conspiring to keep him from finding employment. Based on a short story by Salman Rushdie.
- Schulz is the most ordinary man in the world. But after an accident, he became the most unusual person. Now he has a special ability. But soon he noticed, that happiness has nothing to do with being special.
- The lives of a traveling salesman, a photographer, a coach and others intersect on German highways.
- Documentary about the famous 'Südtribune' in Dortmund.