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- An anthology series that follows the work of homicide detectives in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
- A historical drama that illustrates Russian author Leo Tolstoy's (Christopher Plummer's) struggle to balance fame and wealth with his commitment to a life devoid of material things.
- On her 16th birthday, Gwendolyn Shepherd finds out that instead of her cousin, she has inherited a rare gene that allows her to travel through time.
- In late 1944, even as they faced imminent defeat, the Nazis expended enormous resources to kill or deport over 425,000 Jews during the "cleansing" of Hungary. This Oscar-winning documentary, executive produced by Steven Spielberg, focuses on the plight of five Hungarian Jews who survived imprisonment in Auschwitz.
- It's Lara's 60th birthday, and this very evening, her son will be giving his debut piano concert. Lara mapped out his musical career. But Lara is not welcome at his debut performance. Even if Lara engages, everything gets out of control.
- It has been two years since a zombie virus epidemic infected all but two German cities. Vivi and Eva flee the struggling community in Weimar for the one other safe-haven: Jena.
- ILLUMINATED exposes the truth behind the controversial group, the Illuminati. Written and directed by Johnny Royal ("33 and Beyond"), ILLUMINATED reveals the origins, documents, rituals, and degree ceremonies of the Illuminati.
- The 18th century literary genius Friedrich Schiller falls in love with the sisters Charlotte and Caroline von Lengefeld. After a passionate summer together in a menage a trois, jealousy and rivalry endanger their union.
- Cameramen from Britain's Army Film Unit capture footage of concentration camps in German in 1945.
- The lives of four best friends Ella, Cecile, Lulu and Silke are turned upside down, and the dogs are involved in a decisive way.
- Elise (15) is longing for a happy family life. But Betty (38), her mother, is weak and egocentric. She drowns her problems in alcohol. Everything seems to turn out good, when they meet Ludwig (39). But Ludwig does not fall in love with Betty, he loves Elise.
- The relationship between Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the great German writer, and Christiane Vulpius, a village girl, is one of the instantaneous and fiery passion. They lived together for 28 years, 18 of these living in sin, 10 a married couple. Christiane's rival, Charlotte von Stein, a former favorite of Goethe, begins plotting and scheming against her. Christiane puts up with countless insults and humiliations like having to 'disappear' with their son into the servants' quarters and to stay at home on official occasions. Goethe marries her when she saves his life during an attack by plundering Napoleonic soldiers. Her new social position as Goethe's wife is resented and envied by all. When she is openly attacked by the snooty, jealous people, Goethe is only half-hearted in coming to her defence. But she stays with him for he is her great love, even when she turns to the charms of many youthful admirers...
- Years ago, Lepel's parents left for a hot air balloon world tour. He stays with granny Koppenol, a mean bitch who constantly exploits him for domestic chores, in her buttons shop and even as accomplice in the department store where she steals the buttons from clothes. After she won't even leave him the balloon that kind salesman Max gave him, Lepel, now 9, runs away. He meets Max's slightly older daughter Pleun. Schoolmaster Bijts is also looking for him, but only as arithmetics talent for an academic schools contest. Max accidentally finds out the sad truth about Lepel's family.
- Based on the novel by Thomas Mann. Charlotte Kestner, the love of Goethe's youth, became famous because she was the real-life Lotte represented in his renowned The Sorrows of Young Werther. At age 44 she travels to Weimar to see Goethe again, and high society's posturing and Goethe's personal history lead her to an unexpected conclusion. Dramaturge (later Studio Director) Walter Janka was befriended by the Thomas Mann family, making this adaptation possible.
- Thomas Müller is spotted by a marketing agency for his exceptional normality.
- Romantic film about the great music composer Franz Liszt. Long journeys, great successes, passionate loves and, of course, lots of music in this lavish Soviet-Hungarian co-production with a Hungarian all-star cast.
- Before the Berlin Wall fell, Erich Mielke was the most feared man in East Germany. He created the East German "Stasi" and, for over four decades, ruled this most perfidious and effective secret service: 300.000 men, women and children, to control a population of 17 million. Fear was key to the efficiency of the Stasi, and Mielke was the master of fear.
- Schoolboy Martin, bright but small for his age, has to move and change school because of his mother's new jobs, while only his father really tries to understand him. Even before he reaches class he bumps into cocky, athletic rascal Oliver. It seems like Oliver's best friend Silke (a girl) taking to Martin will aggravate their tension, but she actually gets them to spend time together and grow closer. Martin even takes the blame, which neither parent understands, for Oliver smoking in class, a third strike meaning expulsion. Oliver's knavish mischief actually stems from his dad's drinking problem and its root, his ma's infidelity. When he runs away, Martin takes him in.
- Eight-year-old Anna, the daughter of a veterinarian in the village loves her father. She is very proud of him, and does everything to please him. Even when she becomes an adult and makes a decision.
- A great mosaic, a labyrinth of scenes, dialogue splinters, interviews, portraits of people surrounding Hamlet and wanting to be part of his story.
- Berga Soldiers of Another War reveals the untold story of 350 American prisoners of war caught in the tragedy of the Holocaust. It is the final work in the distinguished 50 year career of late documentary filmmaker Charles Guggenheim, winner of four Academy Awards. His personal connection to the story compelled him to write, direct and narrate the film.
- Joël is jealous and violent. After one crisis too many, Nicole, his young wife, returns to live with her parents with their three-year-old son. Joël hangs on, begs, threatens. One day, he kidnaps the little boy.
- Nelly is with her parents on vacation in Romania. The 13-year-old girl will find new friends and experience the adventure of her life.
- The married couple Heidi and Peter lived in East Germany as children and now, after more than 40 years they are returning to the former DDR, which partly resembles a large construction site. Are west and east compatible? Great emotions
- "Bach - Eine Weihnachtsgeschichte" is a biopic about the life of german composer Johann Sebastian Bach.
- Maria, former employee at the film studios Tbilisi, still polishes this long forgotten stronghold of Georgian Film. When the wrecking ball threatens her world of remembrance and imagination, a struggle begins between two realities.
- Sebastian is a physics professor at the University of Jena and dealing for years with parallel universes. Meticulously, he tries to prove its existence scientifically. His college friend Oskar, professor of theoretical physics at CERN in Geneva, smiles at Sebastian's firm belief in parallel universes and the many-worlds theory. In order to devote himself to the evidence in peace, Sebastian brings his son Nick to a summer camp, while his wife Maike is on vacation in the mountains. At a rest stop Nick disappears out of the car and so for Sebastian a nightmare begins.
- High-school senior Peter considers the adults around him to be hypocritical, self-congratulatory, and immersed in the past. He gets suspended for writing an essay that his teachers consider to be a challenge to the state. Just Don't Think I'll Cry became one of twelve films and film projects-almost an entire year's production-that were banned in 1965-1966 due to their alleged anti-socialist aspects. Although scenes and dialogs were altered and the end was reshot twice, officials condemned this title as "particularly harmful." In 1989, cinematographer Ost restored the original version, and this and most of the other banned films were finally screened in January 1990. Belatedly, they were acclaimed as masterpieces of critical realism.
- A tragic love affair ensues between German poet Friedrich Hölderlin and banker's wife Susette Gontard.
- Jens Lehnert sends his grumpy consultancy partner and key employee Carla Schneider to audit the old-fashioned mint farming of a collective in Saxony. In an attempt to coax a probably negative report, unwitting the assessor is female, she's lodged with its director Simon Vorberg and his charming family, but it alas starts on a frightening tone. Gradually, she's charmed by the village and especially the Vorbergs, alas unlike the enterprise, yet is inspired by the inventive villagers' fair stalls.
- Lena, 17, is restless and desperate. In a few weeks she will finish school, but she doesn't have any definite plans for her future. She wants to make music, that's the only thing she knows. Will she be able to resist the pressure that comes from the people around her - parents, teachers, and society? Will she make her way?
- Two different mothers in two different worlds. The first one from comes from the western world, lives in France and after a tragic lost of her child is trying to continue living and find purpose of it. The other is coming from completely different world, very traditional, patriarchal society, where things change very slowly and where the women are married as exchange for money. The first one wants to die, the other wants to live. Their parallel paths converge when the one from the western society comes in the world of the other in the east. This intrusion turns, unintentionally and unconsciously into a very violent one.
- Nico and Milos are brothers and Roma from former Yugoslavia - they've been tragically separated in childhood. Years later they meet at a police station - Nico as respected citizen, married to a German and policeman. Milos' life went a different path, he's accused of having robbed and brutally beaten up a woman. When the brothers sit in the same room for the police questioning, Nico has to make a decision - loyalty towards his job or his brother.
- April 11, 1945. 3:15 in the afternoon. Five miles outside of Weimar, Germany. The inmates of the notorious Buchenwald concentration camp rise up from the horror of their imprisonment and liberate themselves from their brutal Nazi captors. Shortly thereafter US Army troops and the Red Cross entered the camp to secure it and support those who survived. Beyond the Fence: Memories of Buchenwald examines the liberation of Buchenwald through the eyes of its survivors and those soldiers who helped to liberate them. Leon Bass, a 19-year-old black soldier, was among the first to enter Buchenwald. He enlisted in the army to fight for his country, but the US Army's policy of segregation denied him the rights he was fighting to protect. Mr. Bass was an angry, young, Black soldier when he entered Buchenwald where he came face to face with what calls 'the walking dead'. Among the thousands of inmates at Buchenwald was Robbie Waisman, a 14-year-old Polish Jew, who later discover that the his entire family had murdered at the hands of Nazi tyranny. Mr. Waisman eventually immigrated to Canada and slowly put his life back together over the next six decades. Later in life, Robbie Waisman and Leon Bass met again and fostered a great and lasting friendship that endures to this day. Beyond the Fence focuses on the shared history of persecution and suffering that Robbie and Leon experienced -- in essence, the reality that each could have found himself on either side of that barbed wire fence surrounding Buchenwald.
- During the Cold War, Ulrich and Heike Molitor's attempt to escape from the GDR with their children hidden in the car ends in a prison conviction and both kids going to adoption unless they accept to leave daughter Rebecca behind to that fate and choose 'exulsion' with son Klaus. When the kids near adulthood, Klaus is frustrated that his parents only wine about his lost sister. Meanwhile, the time is ripening for the Berlin wall to come down. Rebecca's adoptive pa resists his wife's bitching to leave the Stasi.
- A new inspector recently transferred to a police station that used to be in ex eastern Germany, digs up evidence that an old case had been rushed purposely, and an innocent man had been imprisoned.
- Robert Clary returns to Europe in search of his own story: his happy childhood in the streets of Paris, his incarceration at Drancy (France) transit camp and at Buchenwald.
- The story of Howard Triest, a German Jew who fled Nazi Germany in 1939 when he was 16 years old, returned as a victorious American soldier and then served as an interpreter at the Nuremberg Tribunal.
- With the help of a magic stone, Marietta transforms her little brother Tobias into a little dog - but the situation threatens to get out of control.
- GG 19 is a cinematic journey through Germany within 19 articles. Á la short cuts, in 19 stories, the fundamental rights of the Federal Republic of Germany become an emotional experience. Not didactic or even edifying, but always experience-oriented, the spectator is sent to an exciting tour through Germany with humorous, dramatic, also absurd, but unfailingly with stories that are obliged to the acting characters. An experiment, 1 film with 19 stages, an adventure for every participant and a totally new experience with the own home country, with Germany - a tour d'Allemagne.
- Martin Greenfield survived the Holocaust to become America's most celebrated tailor. Now, at 89, his legacy is at stake. How can he maintain his trademark quality with intrinsic value in the age of fast and cheap?
- The last bachelorette Stefanie doesn't find a man, but instead a woman, whom she finds even more fascinating.
- Marie is a 13 year old girl and blind. When she meets Herbert something wonderful begins.
- Journalist Björn Cederberg travels to Berlin, Jena, Weimar and Rome to meet his old friend, the cultural worker Sascha Anderson. He got to know Anderson in 1983 in the GDR, where he was a central figure among opposition writers and artists in East Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg. Cederberg has a hard time believing that it is true that the media reports, namely that for 20 years Anderson has been an informant to Stasi, the East German authority that spied on its own citizens.