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- The story recounts the early life of Genghis Khan who was a slave before going on to conquer half the world in 1206.
- With the intention to break free from the strict familial restrictions, a suicidal young woman sets up a marriage of convenience with a forty-year-old addict, an act that will lead to an outburst of envious love.
- A boy is raised by a Buddhist monk in an isolated floating temple where the years pass like the seasons.
- When a cop goes undercover to infiltrate a gang of hooligans, he finds himself being drawn to the other side.
- When a headstrong chef takes charge of her equally stubborn 8-year-old niece, the tensions between them mount... until an Italian sous-chef arrives to lighten the mood.
- China, 1860s: Having his army slaughtered, General Qingyun joins 2 bandit leaders in raids on rebels and in blood oath. They form a Qing loyal army with eyes on rebel held Suzhou and Nanjing.
- A couple finds out their son urgently needs an expensive heart surgery. While struggling to find the money, the father is approached by a mysterious man proposing a sinister deal.
- An old Norse legend of revenge, power and human spirit, that subsequently inspired William Shakespeare on his tragedy - Hamlet.
- Dr. Laura P. takes a job on a cargo spaceship for 4 years plus 4 years back. She'll join her sister on Rhea. 44 months later, in Laura's shift, strange things happen in cargo. The crew is reanimated and the captain dies mysteriously.
- 25-year-old Sibel lives with her father and sister in a secluded village in the mountains of Turkey's Black Sea region. Sibel is a mute, but she communicates by using the ancestral whistled language of the area. There she crosses path with a fugitive. Injured, threatening and vulnerable, he is the first one to take a fresh look at her.
- The life of Octave Parango, a flamboyant ad designer, filled with success, satire, misery and love.
- Still mourning the loss of his beloved wife and daughter in a horrendous car accident, a reclusive sexagenarian decides to visit a rather peculiar and secretive brothel.
- A noir thriller told from the point of view of a femme fatale, who falls for the detective in charge of a murder case.
- Marlene, a woman plagued by horrific dreams, suffers a breakdown in a remote village. As her daughter Mona follows, she comes upon a well-kept family secret and an old curse that ultimately threatens her life - a never-ending nightmare.
- Stefan and Kai have good going business, self-grown cannabis screened as pizza delivering service. For now they only have to deal with aphids.
- After a lukewarm marriage of over twenty years, a woman appeals to her husband's compassion to obtain the desirable divorce document in front of a court, which proves to be more challenging than she would expect.
- A promotion brings a Muslim's relationship with God into question.
- In a society ruled by machismo, a hibernating "bird" becomes a serious matter. In a life of brutality, the sleeping bird is an allegory for a peaceful and serene life, even when the whole world tries desperately to rouse it.
- Marty (Alfred Molina) is a down-and-out jazz musician with colorful dreams of making it big, but right now he's living on the edge and making small money by giving music lessons to people who don't seem to want them.
- The story of the first cloned human being, told in her own words: At age 30, world-famous composer Iris Sellin, who wants to live forever, learns that she has an incurable illness. She refuses to accept it. To preserve her art and also herself beyond death, for all posterity, she has herself cloned. Her daughter Siri, whom in this way she turns into her virtual twin, learns as a child that she is the world's first cloned human being; a blueprint in fact: a blueprint of her mother. From that moment, on nothing is as it was before.
- In the start of the 1990s, the British government decided to send prisoners with short sentences to serve abroad. Some went to Romania, to serve in schools, orphanages, and hospitals. Some were brutal beasts.
- The story concerns a hapless civil servant who gets more than he bargained for when he moves into an apartment with a gay fashion student and finds himself on the catwalk. The film sets out to explore the difficulties young people have in keeping their identities in a fast-moving culture of drugs and clubs.
- The Social Experiment" is about a group of young people who are lured into a supposed "Escape Room" adventure by a competition. In fact, however, it is a behavioral analysis experiment. The experiment is conducted by two scientists. In order to be able to tailor the games exactly to the strengths, weaknesses and characteristics of the participants, they have programmed an AI. This starts to play the participants off against each other and confront them with their deepest fears. The friendship is put to the test. A fight to the death begins. Everyone has to question themselves and their beliefs and choose a side. Central themes of the thriller are friendship, manipulation and social media.
- The 1920s: The German Fuhrmann family spend their holidays in Italy again. The country is full of mysteries in that time. The Fuhrmanns have realized the upcoming and growing fascism in the country, and their children are fascinated by a magician visiting the town. Soon nothing is as usual. The times are changing ...
- The film follows the daily life of Vanda Duarte, a heroin addict in Lisbon, and the community she lives in.
- Moshe and Tami are a couple, Moshe is in his fifties and Tami is in her early twenties. They live together in a cruel and violent relationship, from which Tami seems unable to set herself free. Tami and Moshe are father and daughter.
- Three friends from Hamburg spend one last night on the town before one of them leaves the city forever.
- A German soldier goes AWOL and returns home to more problems than he left.
- A crime soap opera about a Russian mobster retiring from "the business" on New Year's Eve, only to discover he has been targeted for death by a rival mobster.
- Mertkan has a simple life in Istanbul: 'working' as an office-boy in his dad's construction company, hanging out with his male friends in malls and discos, cruising with his dad's 4-wheel drive at night. There is no urgency for him to find a meaning to this emptiness.
- A German expedition with a international crew is in the remote Arctic ice when the 2nd world war starts, and they are commanded to take active part in the war. Soon they find themselves in a fight of life and death.
- In the sixties Romano Amato, his wife Rosa and their two sons Giancarlo and Gigi emigrate from Solino in Italy to Duisburg in the Ruhr area and establish the first Pizza restaurant in town. Their business emerges well and both children get used to Germany. 10 years later the brothers fall in love with the same woman; they break tie with each other in anger and Gigi returns to Solino with his mother. A decade later both meet again and have a retrospect on their lives.
- A fairy tale-like love story between young circus artist Lola and the bear Misha, who one day transforms into a human.
- A Palestinian-Israeli boy named Eyad is sent to a prestigious boarding school in Jerusalem, where he struggles with issues of language, culture, and identity.
- In "German Chainsaw Massacre" people meet up with a household of butchers. They detect low cost meat in the East Germans moving over the old boundary into the West and start turning them into sausage. Clara flees the slaying of her sleazy spouse and the rotting East, and lands in the arms of butchers. She is held alive simply because the daughter of the family falls in love with her. This German movie is a satirical massacre splatter flick that provides lots of inexpensive gore. It's full of political overtones and has a lot to Tobe Hooper's terror classic "The Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers". If you're a lover of German gore and absurdness, check it out!. 16 million East Germans on their way to the golden West. 4% never got there: were they turned into Wuerste (sausages)? If you knew Christoph Schlingensief's other movies like "United Trash" you will know what this is all about - some call it art, some trash. Shot in 14 days after October the 3rd 1990. With Udo Kier in a small role.
- After a boy's mother refuses to help him prepare for his bar mitzvah, he forms a bond with a religious neighbour who volunteers to help him.
- Five irresistible dogs and a zany parrot live together under the protective roof of Miss Lilly's house of pets. These scruffy but adorable dogs are the best of friends, a real team. Who needs money when you've got your friends - and the security of Miss Lilly's mansion? But then a sudden mega-inheritance turns these pups into a pack of pampered Millionaire Dogs. Before you can say "Who let the dogs out?" these hot dogs are out of the fat and into the fire. Now they're in for the biggest adventure of their lives. Can their 'all-for-one and one-for-all' loyalty overcome their selfish dreams of fame and fortune?
- At 40, Miriam radiates serene beauty and tranquility, a confidence and self-assurance as vast as the sea close to her summer home. There are no taboos in the polished, urbane life she shares with her partner André and their 15-year-old son Nils; there is understanding and tolerance. If Nils invites his 12-year-old girlfriend Livia to spend the holidays with them, fine. But when the brazenly sensual Livia begins flirting with an older man, Bill, Miriam feels it is her responsibility to stop the questionable relationship. But as she does so, it is she herself who falls for the shy and charmingly insecure Bill. Miriam forges ahead, seducing him, seeing him secretly. But it is Livia that Bill loves, not Miriam. And suddenly the vast horizons of her life vanish in a fog of jealousy and rejection - emotions that prove to be far less controllable than she thought...
- Lisbon, 1989. A middle-aged poor idiot, tormented by an illness, lives in a cheap room in a family boarding house, in the old section of the city's waterfront.
- The Ethiopian intellectual Anberber returns to his native country during the repressive totalitarian regime of Haile Mariam Mengistu and the recognition of his own displacement and powerlessness at the dissolution of his people's humanity and social values. After several years spent studying medicine in Germany, he finds the country of his youth replaced by turmoil. His dream of using his craft to improve the health of Ethiopians is squashed by a military junta that uses scientists for its own political ends. Seeking the comfort of his countryside home, Anberber finds no refuge from violence. The solace that the memories of his youth provide is quickly replaced by the competing forces of military and rebelling factions. Anberber needs to decide whether he wants to bear the strain or piece together a life from the fragments that lie around him.
- NORTH Following a nervous breakdown, ski athlete Jomar has isolated himself in a lonely existence as the guard of a ski park. When he learns that he might be the father of a child way up north, he sets on a strange and poetic journey through Norway on a snowmobile, with 5 liters of alcohol as sole provisions. On this trip through amazing arctic landscapes, Jomar seems to do everything in his power to avoid reaching his destination. He meets other tender and confused souls, who will all contribute to push Jomar further along his reluctant journey towards the brighter side of life.
- He is a small, short-sighted boy who politically incorrectly terrorizes his environment in an old-fashioned, disrespectful and sometimes vulgar manner.
- Passion, criminal instincts an traditions melt together in this film, that shakes our conception of crime.
- Axel is 14 years old, male prostitute, living in Düsseldorf. His mother drinks and her friends abuses him. He is sent to a bar to pick up customers. There he meets Karl-Heinz, and a loving relationship begins.
- 17-year-old Mauser has a turbulent life: he stands between two women, one who is not interested in him, and one in whom he is not interested. Also, he constantly sees an Indian and feels that he is being persecuted by him. Mauser must learn what really matters in life.
- Basri, a widower little out of retirement, walks every day along the railroad tracks to check the status. Aside from his work, his only thought is to have news of his son, who's been missing for many years, after he was arrested during student demonstrations in Istanbul.
- A film about life's problems and the love affairs of two men and women in their twenties. They pretend to suffer from the mediocrity of their lives but in fact try to cover their own lack of perspective and inner emptiness. Setted in scene surprisingly amusing, this crazy and happy Zeitgeist-Comedy abstains from a comment while describing those people in their vividness as well as in their incapacity of giving their existence any sense. Therefore, the film becomes a both interesting and alarming seismograph for mental concussions and shortfalls.
- Katrin, a police doctor, and Max a criminal inspector seem to lead a happy marriage and both work for the Munich Criminal Police. Of course, in the course of the marriage, a certain amount of routine creeps in, both privately and professionally. In the medical recruitment test, the Katrin performs on the new official Franziska, she gets a magical tingling sensation. Something seems to excite her on this woman, she feels almost attracted to her. What Katrin can not guess at this point is that she has a colorful past behind her because of a traffic accident in which she is not guilty and her husband was killed, she suffers from mental health problems behind her trying to hide her cool-looking facade. However, everything comes up again in Franziska, as she drives a joint mission with Max and sinks with him in a haystack. To make matters worse, that she also recognizes that she has developed feelings to Katrin, but at the same time to Max, who in turn, despite his marriage to Katrin, also takes a liking to Franziska. Thus, the story ends in a delicate, partly romantic, partly erotic relationship.
- Mark and Antonia are real but still artificial characters, prototypes of their generation. Antonia has the forceful personality, who wants everything and at the same time lends a lot. Mark has a difficult time accepting, he is fascinated by her and totally unable to cope. He returns his identity crisis back into his relationship.