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Elfrida Phibbs thought she was retiring from her London life to a "geriatric bolthole" in the country. She soon finds herself compassionately tending to her neighbor Oscar, who has suffered a tragic loss. Together, they agree to depart to Scotland for the holidays, in order to avoid Christmas and the painful memories of what they have lost; they will just skip Christmas. But Elfrida has a young relative desperate to get her own teenage niece, Lucy Marchmont, away from ugly family drama in London, and asks to join Elfrida in Scotland. Soon, Christmas of the heart creeps in, and this group of random people finds that a different kind of Christmas might be the best kind.

Artist's daughter Penelope Keeling can look back on a full, varied life: a bohemian childhood in London and the wilds of Cornwall, an unhappy wartime marriage, and the one man she ever truly loved. Based on the work of Rosamunde Pilcher.

Agathe von Trapp, the eldest daughter of a well-known musical family, overcomes many obstacles to pursue her musical career and move to the United States.

A successful engineer recognizes a lawyer at a business meeting as the prostitute he spent the previous night with (despite being engaged). Based on a novel by Peter Märthesheimer, who also wrote scripts for Rainer Maria Fassbinder.

The life story of the multi-talented German nun Hildegard von Bingen. The film portrays an original woman - best known as a composer and religious visionary - whose grand claims often run counter to the patriarchal world around her. The monks and nuns at the convent become a kind of family, offering both confidants and enemies. For example Jutta, struggling with her jealousy of Hildegard's success, and the young Richardis who worships Hildegard both as an intellectual role model and a mother figure.

As a young child, Jeanette witnessed her parents brutal murder. After years in a mental institution, the 22 year old is finally strong enough to leave the asylum and begin a life on her own. Soon, Jeanette discovers with horror that many of her new found friends have been murdered. Does her painful past hide a mystery that could help her bring an end to the death around her?

In Berlin in the early 1940s, romance is forbidden between the young countess who is studying veterinary medicine and a young man she meets at the home of a former professor. But they fall in love. She gets involved in helping Jews escape from the Nazis. All get out of Berlin except the young man. There is a room in her apartment where he can't be seen through the windows and a chest converted into a sofa where she and her brothers played hide-and-seek as children. This real life hide-and-seek game has high stakes. The movie is said to be based on a true story.

A singer swaps the political intimidation of working in East Germany for the equally controlling capitalist music industry in the West.

"Die Wolke" (The Cloud) is about the breakdown of a nuclear-power station in Germany and the story of teenage lovers Hannah and Elmar, who take refuge. 38,000 people die and Hannah unfortunately becomes contaminated.

Rise and fall of actor Ferdinand Marian, who takes the chance and stars in the anti-semitic movie Jud Süß (1940).

70-year old Brandner Kaspar lives with his granddaughter Nannerl in the mountains at the Schliersee. As he is visited by the Death and wants to take him, Brandner Kaspar tricks him and gets another 20 years of life.

A tangled drama of cruelty and manipulation, attraction and love.

Young Mia is totally in love with cars and spends every free minute tinkering with her mother's old VW Beetle. Her big dream is to take part in the Paris-Dakar Rally someday.

Three high school graduates thinking to party all summer take jobs as hosts in a vacation club on Ibiza, the Mediterranean hot spot for oversexed boys and underdressed girls. Instead of sun, sea and sex, however, it's work, work and more work, as the three are kept busy around the clock by their sadistic boss Anna.

Ben is a young editor for a famous german music magazine in the mid 1990s. His life is falling apart after his girlfriend breaks up with him. From now on he decides to go solo...

A story about true love, set in the Berlin of the 1920s. In a shabby lodging-house inhabited by a number of faintly ludicrous characters, the young Russian exile Ganin is unexpectedly confronted with his past.

Two siblings try to find a rock crystal in order to bring together their parents who are from villages that are at enmity with each other.

By pure coincidence, a photograph found on the internet by chance of a renowned American opera singer, Caterina Fabiani, throws the lives of Paul Kromberger and his daughter Sophie into complete chaos. Paul, well advanced in his years, appears to recognize the image as that of his deceased wife Evelyn, Sophie's mother. Unable to convince her controlling-and-stubborn-to-a-fault father otherwise, Sophie sets off for New York to seek out this mysterious stranger...

A married couple meet an old friend of the husband during the vacation. The friend is also on vacation with his wife. The couples start to do things together. The four characters have different feelings about spending time together and the trip makes their inner dissatisfactions come to light.

It's a documentary with great pictures from bavaria's landscapes, mountains and seas. You will be informed from bavaria and the citys in it after the movie, too.

Drama about the dreams of four Russians living illegally in Germany and a ten-year-old runaway.

A woman caring for her terminally ill husband who she loves dearly develops feelings for his best friend who has come to assist her with their business. Will she resist the temptation?