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Horst Schlämmer is back—and he's fed up. People all over Germany are in a bad mood. So he leaves Grevenbroich and sets off in search of happiness. It must be somewhere!
In Germany, as graduate student Katie Armstrong researches cannibal killer Oliver Hagen for her thesis, she becomes obsessed with her subject and ultimately plunges into a lifestyle similar to Hagen's and the thousands of people like him.
En route to a party they are not keen on attending, the Famous Five are almost relieved when Aunt Fanny's car breaks down, stranding them in a small town. To pass the time, they visit the local natural history museum, where some newly-discovered dinosaur bones are being unveiled. Here they meet Marty, who tells them that his father, long dead, supposedly found a complete dinosaur skeleton and made a map of its whereabouts. Unfortunately the map has been stolen. Unable to let a good mystery go unsolved, George, Julian, Dick, Anne and Timmy, join a guided hike through the Valley of Dinosaurs. But their fact-finding mission soon turns into a race to find the dinosaur when they suspect that the thief is one of the group.
Because of their children's bad grades, some parents want the teacher Mrs. MĂĽller gone. They meet with Mrs. MĂĽller and try to convince her to leave the class.
Fate has taken its toll on the aging cabaret singer Ruth and the young but terminally ill Jonas. Yet despite their great age difference and their entirely opposite experiences in life, they form an intense bond and give each other a reason and purpose to live.
Factory worker Nadine falls in love with her colleague Paul. Years later, she questions her view of him. A romantic social drama about the magic of falling in love and the pain of falling out of it, set in the Rhineland lignite mining region.
A 30-year-old missing persons case lands on Thiel's desk: after the disappearance of 15-year-old Sven, his parents received letters from an unknown Chris, who was supposedly travelling with their son. Now, new letters arrive from Chris.
Three musically talented children look to the future, but their hopes crumble when Germany and Russia enter into war.
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Occupation, children and marriage - everything is right with Merrit. But on the day when she wants to go on vacation with the family and her best friend Bea, she learns that her father has suffered a heart attack. Instead of going to Italy she drives to the Eifel. The father is the circumstances, but with her idiosyncratic mother Iris Merrit gets back together again. And then suddenly her husband Immo and the children are standing in front of the castle gate. Her daughter Jule is completely disturbed - she has caught her father in bed with Bea.
Based on the best-selling psychology book by Paul Watzlawick, the film tells the story of Tiffany Blechschmid, a neurotic, moony, superstitious, contradictory and, no surprises here, single young woman in her late-twenties.
Hildegard von Bingen was truly a woman ahead of her time. A visionary in every sense of the word, this famed 12th-century Benedictine nun was a Christian mystic, composer, philosopher, playwright, poet, naturalist, scientist, physician, herbalist and ecological activist.
Hannes is a beer truck driver in Dortmund. His biggest dream is to win the first prize at the International Timetable 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.
A fast-paced comedy full of misunderstandings: Norbert Krabbe from pan, unemployed Bürokaufmann and passionate contest participant wins a fjord in Lofoten. But how to get only to Norway - for "Norbert Crab Fjord" including his own cabin - when you're broke and one is already driving poor at S-Bahn? What Norbert lack of money, he makes through original ideas betting: Disguised as a cleaning crew, he makes his way to his daughter by train to Copenhagen, on we go as a hitchhiker and with ill-gotten ship tickets. Many abstruse encounters later, among others with Horst Schlämmer, Uschi Blum and the strong-smelling Norwegians Lars, who predicts the future based on a Dog Quartet, Norbert expects the next surprise at its destination ...
Secretary Jule fights for the love of her boss Phillip and against shady investors who are not only cutting into his chair...
Marie is dyslexic and cleans for the wealthy von Schermann family. Her mother Greta, who suffers from dementia, has just scared off her carer and her son Niklas has to travel with his wife. Marie decides to help out for a few days. While the two women get to know each other and explore Greta's past together, Marie's husband, police officer Dirk, sulks. But businessman Niklas has also made a mess of things. When his wife leaves him, he discovers Marie's charms.
In the middle of his life, Paul Gompitz from Rostock makes the decision to travel to Syracuse in Sicily. He is driven to follow in the footsteps of the poet Johann Gottlieb Seume. But: Paul lives in the GDR, behind the most annoying border in the world. His plan is impossible by legal means. So he has to prepare an escape.
When courier driver Georg loses his job, he and his buddies plan the big thing!
Bavaria, Germany, 1950s. The sudden return of the young Kathrin to the small village where she was born stirs up the feelings of guilt and personal ghosts of its inhabitants, haunted by dark memories related to a multiple murder that happened two years earlier at the Tannöd farm, a hideous crime that remains unsolved.
A musician tries to get by working several jobs.
Even though everyday life separates them, sisters Rike and Nicola go on vacation together once a year. They take it in turns to organize their trip. Their trips are just as different as the two of them themselves, so that the trip to Salamanca in Spain once again presents new challenges. Because what Rike doesn't know is that Nicola has organized a volunteering vacation on the Camino de Santiago for the sisters.
After the sudden death of his wife, the lives of Markus Färber and his daughter Kim fall into disarray. Markus’ attempt to bring back normality into their everyday lives fails - he can’t let go of the past. 15 year-old Kim feels left alone with her feelings of guilt. But then she falls in love with the cool school dropout Alex. The two of them run off to Denmark to the place of Kim’s carefree childhood. Together with his mother Gerlinde and her cheerful home care Paula, Markus sets off in search of his daughter. A trip full of surprises and a journey back to life.
With a smile and beautiful words, you can create trust, build sympathy and sell your counterpart everything within four minutes. Welcome to the call center, the collection point for lifelong dreams in financial straits. If you're young and need money, you've come to the right place under the headset in the small telephone box. Sascha Wegemann has the best prerequisites when he enters the open-plan office of a Cologne call center for the first time. He has a way with words, the 30-year-old is sure of that. After all, he has what it takes to become the biggest presenter on German television, even if he has so far only worked as a crowd-pleaser for a chart show. Reality catches up with Sascha when his girlfriend Astrid becomes pregnant. What is more important, career or family, dream or responsibility? Sascha can't make up his mind.
"Cooking is war" - that is the motto of the ingenious, but self-centered celebrity chef and women's hero Michi Griesebach, who has been in trouble for years with the autocratic restaurant critic Harry Dumont. Now the showdown is due to the opening of his noble restaurant: Dumont, whose column will decide on well-being and woe, has already announced a devastating tearing. By chance Michi gets to know Dumont's daughter and starts a covert operation.
Bonn 1948. The member of parliament and lawyer Elisabeth Selbert fights tirelessly for the inclusion of the sentence "Men and women have equal rights" in the Basic Law of the future Federal Republic of Germany. Despite the opposition she encounters during sessions in the Parliamentary Council , there is _she does not stop and stubbornly sticks to her plan . Selbert experiences a grandiose triumph when her application is included in the new Basic Law under Article 3, Paragraph 2 . In doing so , she lays the foundation for what has now been a 65-year political and social debate on the subjectEqual rights.
The story of Karin and Mike. They work at Perla, a washing machine manufacturer. She is a career woman, he is on the assembly line and plays for the factory soccer team. The company is owned by an American corporation. Until now it has been business as usual, but all of a sudden comes the news that 400 redundancies are needed if Perla is to survive. Suddenly, there is everything to play for.
With a t-shirt sale the two friends GĂĽnther and Wolfgang finally want to turn their backs on unemployment benefits. But this plan is not as easy to implement as expected and in the end, almost everything is different than it initially looks. But one thing is certain: there is always time of a Schnitzel.
This French-German-Dutch biopic on the life of 17th century Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn is told in flashbacks from the point-of-view of the aged artist. Soon after establishing his career as a painter in Amsterdam, he marries the radiant Saskia. As he makes a name for himself, he can soon afford to buy a large house by teaching wealthy aristocrats how to paint. However, the couple's happiness is short-lived; Saskia dies soon after bearing their son, Titus. Crushed, van Rijn seeks comfort first in the arms of his maid Geertje and then with his second wife, Hendrickje, who gives birth to a daughter. In spite of his genius, van Rijn's determinedly eccentric behavior alienates the very members of the elite who were paying his bills. At one point, the artist's home and belongings, including many of his paintings, are seized and sold for humiliatingly low prices in a rigged auction.
Martina and her partner Ralf, who run a restaurant together in Cologne, enjoy their holiday in Brittany - until one day Ralf does not return from a sailing trip. The Breton police believe in a sailing accident and make Martina little hope that her friend has survived. But Martina does not want to accept Ralf's death and begins a desperate search on the coast of Brittany. However, when this remains in vain, Martina returns to Germany.
Katharina and Maria are identical twins. They were separated as babies and have no idea about each other. Katharina is a single mother of three children and earns a living by working hard in a bakery. Maria is a successful bathroom designer with her own company and a life of luxury. However, both have reached the point of complete exhaustion, leaving everyday life behind for the first time and hoping to recharge their batteries in a wellness hotel. In fact, everything changes when they unexpectedly come face to face with their "mirror image".
A tragicomedy about the trials and tribulations of life: three lonely hearts find each other, drift apart and experience the happiness of the moment together
A boy has to decide between coming out and being a professional swimmer. He takes the latter, marries and gets a son. 19 years later the whole thing explodes.
Jan is in the last year of his apprenticeship. He wants to be taken on and he wants to do everything right. But what is the right thing to do when restructuring increases the pressure on Jan and his colleagues, when redundancies are the order of the day and the HR manager, who is himself under control and pressure to succeed, keeps a watchful eye on everything? When Jenny, a temporary worker of the same age, joins his company, a tender love story begins. But does love have a chance under these conditions and will Jan manage to rebel against the system?
Olaf is to take care of the family's cleaner's store, while his dad is away on a fair. In the evening he runs into three Brazilian ladies thrown out of a limousine not knowing where to go. Olaf invites them to stay with him and his deaf pot-smoking grandfather, which at first just causes some confusion as he soon is to marry his girlfriend Vera. The next day it's topsy-turvy all over.
Student Philip grew up with his grandma, now he has to look after her: Dementia! Philip moves Grandma into his shared flat. His friends play along, Grandma blossoms - at first... Complex characters, the courage to face uncomfortable truths: The drama portrays the problems of people with dementia and their relatives sensitively and honestly.
Rainer Berg is a frozen food delivery man who has been let down by life. He has withdrawn from the world in order to avoid emotional trauma. His outlook on life is shaken when he is assigned a new colleague, ex-hairdresser Moerer, who turns out to be a pain in the neck. "This van is too small for two!" But it's no use, Berg can only get rid of his annoying co-driver once he has turned him into a good salesman, according to the new boss. Team spirit is suddenly required from the cold-ass misanthrope Berg.
State guests, international nobility, stars - Hella Wiegand loves her work as a housekeeper in the elegant grand hotel in Hamburg. Appreciated by her colleagues and superiors and popular with the maids under her supervision, she has a promising career ahead of her. Then Hella accidentally witnesses a sexual assault by her boss Jakob Braunstein on the chambermaid Shirin. She wants to support Shirin and convinces her to defend herself. But Braunstein manages to turn the tables. Hella suddenly finds herself in the pillory and Braunstein shamelessly exploits his position of power...
A boy feels neglected by his parents because they grieve for his older brother, who went missing in the aftermath of the second world war.
An anarchist surrealist film.
Casual single man with daughter meets smart single parent with son - sounds like a good start! Unfortunately, the omens are anything but favorable: neither of them feels like getting to know each other today of all days. The perfectionist chef is under pressure because she wants to serve up the best spaghetti bolognese of her life at a test cooking session for her dream job that evening. Philipp has to prove himself in a difficult group at his new job as a tourist guide. An aerial bomb that paralyzes Cologne's city centre means extra stress to the power of three for the two of them! The single parents spontaneously join forces: She looks after her seven-year-old son Fritz and his daughter Miriam, who is the same age, in the morning, while he takes care of the children in the afternoon.
