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- "Ende der Schonzeit," set in 1942, tells the story of Fritz and Emma, who are hiding Jewish refugee Albert at their remote farm in the Black Forest. Since his marriage with Emma has remained childless, Fritz uses this opportunity to suggest an unorthodox deal: He asks Albert to sleep with his wife and conceive a child on his behalf. Against the background of war and escape an unpredictable drama of jealousy and sexuality unfolds that turns offenders into victims and vice versa.
- German-American Dieter Dengler discusses his service as a U.S. naval pilot in the Vietnam War. Dengler also revisits the sites of his capture and eventual escape from the hands of the Viet Cong, recreating many events for the camera.
- Two young boys from very different backgrounds become friends in 1933 Stuttgart. However, they don't realize how different they are until much later as one is the son of a well-to-do Jewish doctor and the other the son of a German aristocrat. After that summer and the election of Hitler, things change as anti-semitism gains fervor. After the core of the film deals with that era, the film flashes to the present and the Jewish man now returns to his boyhood home and seeks his old friend with some surprises.
- The life of a German-Jewish judge's family is destroyed by Nazi persecution in the 1930s. The children are sent to England with a Kindertransport, he goes into Cuban exile, and she remains in Germany. In 1947 the broken family is reunited.
- West Germany, early 1960s. Star crossed lovers Bern and Gudrun begin a life long affair in the stifling atmosphere of provincial Germany. Setting out to challenge the establishment they become part of the global uprising joining forces with leftist writers and political activists. By the late 60s Gudrun has joined the gang lead by Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof and Bern risks his sanity to finally writing a novel to change the world. An emotional true story of an explosive era starring August Diehl (Inglourious Basterds (2009), A Hidden Life (2019), Salt (2010)).
- The family saga set in Germany's Black Forest region, centers around the life of Hermann and Johanna Faller and their three adult children, Karl, Bernhard, and Kati.
- As a child, Michael Stock was sexually abused - by his own father. 25 years later he is still looking for inner peace. In conversations with his family and friends and his own reflections, he paints an ever clearer, if contradictory picture of what happened and of the consequences for each of the family members. Old family films seem to show a happy family - excerpts from Michael's first feature film hint at his extreme adult life, overshadowed by his lifelong trauma. Yet in spite of the intense drama, the film doesn't have an atmosphere of anger and hatred but rather a surprising air of hope and love of life. Michael's aim is not to accuse the "perpetrator" but to understand. In the end, he takes his video "Postcard" to his father. With the camera running, he confronts him with his past.
- As she enters retirement, a mother leaves behind her solitary life in rural Germany and memories of a once perfect family life and travels to protest-ridden Hong Kong, a place that has kept her son away from her for many years.
- A king without a son invites eligible royals and other high aristocrats for his eldest daughter princess Sophie's 18th birthday party, expecting her to get engaged with a suitable one, such as interested prince Friedrich. She also receives her late mother's most prized legate, a golden ball allegedly magically inspiring wise decisions, but loses it playing by the castle park lake. While a man lurks around, a talking frog promises to retrieve the ball if she takes him in as her companion. He keeps the deal, Sophie runs off leaving only a pearl string she first offered, but when the frog comes demand his prize at the royal dinner, and proves himself a talented singer, the king orders her to keep her promise, clearly unwillingly. Only when he exhausts her patience and is smashed against her bedroom wall, his evil fairy spell is broken and he re-assumes the shape of neighboring Brabant's heir, prince Floris. Now she falls in love and dumps Frederic to the king's horror, but must wait anxiously if he will return.
- The corpse of a fruit farmer is found in a meadow orchard. It was buried upside down, draped like a scarecrow. The spectacular staging of the murder leads Commissioner Maris Bächle and her colleague Konrad Diener to suspect a personal motive. While the black asylum seeker is quickly suspected as a perpetrator, the Freudenstadt speculate behind closed doors about the involvement of earth spirits - of course, just for fun. However, when Konrad Diener's introverted 14-year-old son disappears without a trace in the forest during a school trip and reappears completely changed, but refuses to give any information about his whereabouts, Maris remembers how she was found in the forest as an 8-year-old. She had mysteriously survived there. With the help of the city archivist, the two investigators come across an old legend about forest spirits and an old place of execution in the middle of the forest. The forest court once met in this mystical place. Apparently it is active again.
- After a tour of NATO 'peacemaking' duty in Afghanistan, studly German soldier David gets a warm welcome from his (step)family and his live-in girlfriend Kirsten. But the bedwetting he hides is just an early, minor symptom of a major trauma incurred on the Afghan base. Even the party his stepdad throws him for his silver valor decoration, part of an imposed deal to keep the army's dirty laundry covered up, is cause to lash out angrily. David alternates between protecting his doting kid stepbrother Benni and dragging him into his scary sequence of nightmares, mood swings, and guilt trips.
- The first case of Anna Northrup.
- When his ex-wife disappears without a trace during a trip in the Black Forest, a forensic scientist sets out to find her and comes across a remote village whose inhabitants have an extremely hostile attitude. A skeletonised woman's body is found whose DNA matches that of the disappeared woman; however, the dead woman died four years ago. It soon becomes clear that the inhabitants of the village are guarding a dark secret.
- Two young suicide candidates discover the sunnier side of life together and blossom into happy spouses.
- A documentary about skiing at the beginning of the century.
- The Middle Ages. It's Christmas time in the small village of Bortonville. Old hag Agatha and her adopted son Shlomo, the heroes of our story, live and work in a cozy little bakery at the edge of town. While Shlomo is busy caring for his sulky stepmother and running the family business, Agatha prepares herself for the annual baking contest. But although her father was the most successful baker of his time, she has never won the much sought-after trophy. But failure begets ambition. And this year Agatha is determined to win. With the help of an ancient recipe she is planning to bake the most delicious magic apple pie ever. In no time the magical ingredients are found and the baking is about to begin. After days of work Shlomo and Agatha are heading for the competition. And indeed they win. The whole village is thrilled by the extraordinary taste of Agathas creation and at last she is celebrated. But Agatha wouldn't be the vindictive hag she is, if she hadn't planned something beyond victory. So the exquisite apple pie has a strange side effect: A few minutes after consumption everyone who tasted it turns into an apple. And one by one the whole township is transformed. So, at the end of the day, Agatha and Shlomo are literally able to collect the fruits of their success. And they will bake happily ever after...
- Aristocratic Sabine marries her childhood love Klaus despite his coming from a lower class. When he does not return from World War I, she sinks into despair. They do find each other again until they've both grown old.