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- A traveling projection-equipment mechanic works in Western Germany along the East-German border, visiting worn-out theatres. He meets with a depressed young man whose marriage has just broken up, and the two decide to travel together.
- An inept British World War II commander leads his troops through a series of misadventures in North Africa and Europe.
- Tells the story of the Frank family and paints a portrait of their brash and free-spirited daughter Anne, perhaps the world's most famous victim of the Holocaust.
- Popular joker, wheeler-dealer and heckler Till Eulenspiegel cleverly exposes the stupid greed of Lübeck burgomaster Klaas Wüllenwever, who vows to revenge the humiliation in order to restore his shaken authority in city council, as he plans to demand a plenipotentiary mandate to wage war on the main Hansa city's Baltic rivals, including the Danish realm and Dutch republic. As a trap, Klaas orders Till's patrician first ex Kathrin incarcerated, while his soldiers fail to hunt down elusive disguise-master Till. Kathrin sends to Till her cocky but resourceful kid daughter Marie, who escapes from the nunnery orphanage to commandeer Till as 'her helper' to free mother. After a daring plan to get Copernicus's master key invention, they return to Lübeck, where it's truth time, changing Till's and other lives forever.
- Realistic presented love story surrounded by friendship, intrigue, laughter and tears, situated in the German city Lüneburg.
- True story of three British POWs and their attempt to escape from Nazi Germany.
- BBC investigative documentary series noted for its new perspectives on historical events.
- 99% of those who carried out the murders in the Holocaust were never prosecuted. Why not?
- Cameramen from Britain's Army Film Unit capture footage of concentration camps in German in 1945.
- The BRD is haunted by a mysterious, deadly plague. In Hamburg, a group of people head for an odyssey through the country to search for survivors and a rescue.
- German scientist murders his fiancée during World War II when he learns that she has been selling the results of his secret research to the enemy.
- The life and music of Johann Sebastian Bach as presented by his wife, Anna.
- Originally made with a German soundtrack for screening in occupied Germany and Austria, this film was the first documentary to show what the Allies found when they liberated the Nazi extermination camps: the survivors, the conditions, and the evidence of mass murder. The film includes accounts of the economic aspects of the camps' operation, the interrogation of captured camp personnel, and the enforced visits of the inhabitants of neighboring towns, who, along with the rest of their compatriots, are blamed for complicity in the Nazi crimes - one of the few such condemnations in the Allied war records.
- German soldiers are transported to a prisoner-of-war camp in Japan after the First World War.
- A beautiful young drifter comes to a small village and battles Death itself to save the man she loves.
- A lord falls in love with one of his serfs and chooses to be disinherited and stripped of his title in order to marry her. Her love and gratitude extend beyond the grave.
- When he doesn't tell his girlfriend that he got fired, a young startup manager gradually loses himself in obsession with his former boss and has to fight to save his relationship.
- It tells the story of two boys who look identical but come from very different backgrounds. One is Calvin Prinz, the son of a wealthy businessman, and the other is Kevin Bottel, a poor orphan who lives with his abusive aunt and uncle.
- Not everyone deserves a second chance. The experienced investigator Wallat is sure of that - and certainly not the child murderer Hagenow, who is released after 15 years in prison, although he is still considered dangerous. Wallat takes over the management of an LKA team that monitors the potential repeat offender. His "unofficial" assignment does not fit into any service manual: Wallat is supposed to catch Hagenow in the act - in good time, of course - in order to put him behind bars forever. Meanwhile, the ex-convict moves into a room in the house of the idealistic village pastor Berkenbusch and starts a job at the local sawmill. The LKA team serves him around the clock. When Wallat loses sight of him during a night walk, a nightmare begins the next morning: Max, the eight-year-old son of Berkenbusch's housekeeper, has disappeared without a trace. Wallat and his colleague Lisa are ready to touch Hagenow harder from the start. Her colleague Eric, who was there 15 years ago, insists on compliance with the service regulations. After all, it could have been someone else. For Wallat, however, there is no doubt. He suspects the boy is still alive, but has little time to save him.
- Norbert inherited a building in the lonesome German heath and now takes two days off to combine an inspection of his new property with a vacation in the relaxing landscape. Two run-down friends join him, and they swear: No alcohol, no nicotine - no women! The house turns out to be an empty barn but - surprise, surprise - there are the pretty maids Ursula and Anna who are willing to comfort them. So the vacation won't be as relaxing and abstinent as planned, but much more fun.
- A stuffy old civil servant is forced to retire during World War II, but when his son, a Navy submariner, is lost at sea and his city is heavily bombed by English bombers, his old patriotism is re-awakened and he determines to be of use to his country once again
- Arkus is reigned by Schiija. The Evil queen forces the inhabitants to give her their best work as gifts at the yearly gifts day. One day a former rival passes a hint on how to defeat the queen to the streetkids Jono and Saraja .
- The former landowner Lüder Lüdersen had to flee East Prussia because of the war and is now working as an administrator for his cousin in Lüneburg.
- In 1980 Franz Josef Strauss competed against Helmut Schmidt for the Office of the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany.
- When a young, troubled prison inmate gets released on parole, he tries find his way back into society.
- Germany during the Olympic Games summer of 1936. A boy's life, torn between the love for his Jewish grandmother and his fancy for the Hitler Youth.
- Hamburg, 1945: Orphaned children from the Bergen-Belsen camp find temporary accommodation in the upscale Elbe suburb of Blankenese. After the Nazi terror, they are now waiting to leave for Palestine. Jewish carers (Alice Dwyer, Harald Schrott and others) want to give hope to the traumatized orphans. But the departure was delayed, and many Germans still met the Jews with undisguised hatred.
- The Final Journey follows the rail lines of the Nazi Controled Deutsche Reichsbahn system that delivered millions of people from every corner of Europe to the door-step of the infamous Concentration Camps. By integrating a special collection of rare photographs and crystal clear archival film, the viewer is taken on a then and now journey to each of the former Nazi camps of Dachau, Sachsenhausen, Buchenwld, Flossenbuerg, Mauthausen, Ravensbrueck, Neuengamme, Stutthof and Bergen-Belsen where millions suffered and died.
- When the corpse of student Heike is found, the police book it as a case of suicide. But Heike's girlfriend Wiebke thinks otherwise: she believes that Satan's disciples are involved in the case.
- Pieces of lives spent in this crazy, meaningless, violent Pale Blue Dot in the murkiness of space that we call Earth.
- A teacher turns down an offer to become a Hamburg university instructor, preferring his country Heimat, and after some complications his childhood girlfriend from the city is able to join him as well.
- This drama focuses on a woman who wants to start a new life with a new man, but cannot flee from the shadows of her past. Joachim Tietze, a farmer in the Hamburg area, believes that Ana, a young woman from former Yugoslavia, is the woman of his life. When Nikolas, Ana's son from her first marriage, drowns shortly after their marriage, a stranger claims to be Ana's first husband, who apparently has died in a fire with the couple's daughter, and accuses her of killing the children. As Ana admits having lied about her first marriage, more and more people -even Joachim- don't trust her any more...
- A forest ranger, after spending years tracking down a poacher, is taken aback to learn the man is the father of his beloved.
- Germany in the 50ies: A love story between an eastern spy and a western secretary who detects him (and her love) ...
- 16-year-old Oliver falls in love with young Sina, who is also his father's secret lover
- After more than half a century, Harry is suddenly standing in front of Elly again, once the love of his life, now "Sister Elizabeth" and a Protestant nun. In 1958, under unfortunate circumstances that were never really clarified for both of them, they had lost touch. Harry then disappeared after Bill Haley's legendary hooligan riot concert in Hamburg. Together with his best friend Paul he hired himself out as a roadie in the USA and spent his unsteady life in the entourage of rock bands. Now the two are surprisingly returning to their home in Nordheide on motorbikes. Harry has a serious reason for this. But Elisabeth doesn't realize that, his presence confuses her too much. The same goes for Fred Schmidt, who was a member of the circle of friends at the time. As a retiree, he volunteers in the monastery and has always been a close confidante of Elisabeth. During their youth together, he was Harry and Elly's "postillon d'amour". The fact that he played fate in a momentous way is his secret, the discovery of which he now fears. But inevitably, Harry and Elisabeth reveal the true background of their traumatic and mysterious separation. Suddenly not only the old events are alive again, but also the old feelings. And that is not without consequences - especially for Elisabeth, whose whereabouts in the evangelical community is suddenly in question.
- Pretty blond Clara Arnold works for a newspaper in picturesque Lüneburg, just outside Hamburg in northern Germany. Being single, she firmly believes that some day she will meet the man of her dreams. She shares her flat with her rather chaotic sister Meike, chronically broke, who is trying to fix her up with Leonard, a good-looking and successful young man, who has been pursuing Clara for quite some time. But then Clara picks up the wrong pictures at the photo shop and falls head over heels in love with the handsome stranger on the pictures. It is Ben Ivaldi, a furniture designer - but it takes Clara some time and several approaches to get to know him. Further complications arise when Clara's boss, a rather unpleasant lady from the big city, also falls for Ben, and Ben's former girlfriend Lena, who dumped him for a job in Italy, returns to claim him back.
- Ursula Diewen, daughter of a recently-deceased merchant, is engaged to marry Heinrich Heinsius. On the wedding day, Ursula's friend Martha Detleffson tells her that Heinrich is the father of her illegitimate child. Ursula cancels the wedding and takes refuge in a country estate; Heinrich commits suicide. Ursula meets young schoolteacher Uwe Alsiev, and the two find they have much in common. Martha arrives and arranges with Ursula to have her child boarded at the home of a nearby pastor. Village gossips then spread the word that the child is Uwe's.