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- Abandoned in the woods, a little puppy makes friends with six rabbit siblings.
- During WW2, German general Harry Harras is a test pilot and chief engineer for the Luftwaffe but his contempt for the Nazis and sabotage at the aircraft plant land him in hot water with the Gestapo.
- A young shoemaker is arrested for stealing a small amount of money, and is released after being jailed for 15 years. He wants to have a pass to get a job and start anew, but without a job he doesn't get a pass; and without a pass, he doesn't get a job. He gets into the net of Prussian bureaucracy, and can't see a solution. Until he enters a small Second-Hand Shop, and sees a Prussian Uniform that fits him like a second skin...
- 1951. Drama. Stars, Bonar Colleano, Barbara Kelly, Eva Bartok, and Gina Lollobrigida. When an Englishman leaves America to enlist in the RAF, his grueling combat experiences result in a loss of memory.
- A redhead, approaching forty, is bored with her husband and with life in general. Having an affair with another man fails to produce the excitement she is craving. So she leaves Germany, seeking adventure and fulfillment in Venice, where she finds work in a hotel. Initially, life seems more interesting, and she has new romantic adventures. But when she realizes that her British lover is merely using her for a personal vendetta against a German Nazi, she finds herself running away once again.
- It is the story of the famous British train robbery from the 1960s, told in almost documentary style from the view of the robbers.
- The movie reports the historical story of Schinderhannes, based on a play by Carl Zuckmayr. Johannes Bückler, this his real name, led a band of brigands in the Hunsrück mountains during Napoleonic times.
- After escaping from a nearby mental institution, a violent lunatic and sexual deviant terrorizes a group of seniors at their end-of-the-year high school dance.
- A very proper young woman is horrified to discover not only that her mother once worked as a prostitute in order to support her, but that she later became a whorehouse madam rather than give up the business.
- Dr. Danwitz (Karlheinz Böhm) and Dr. Hauser are assistant doctors at a hospital and they are not getting paid for their work, like it was usual in the Fifties of post-war Germany. While Dr. Danwitz' wife Edith (Marianne Koch) is working part- time as a model to bring home some money, Dr. Hauser has to drive a taxi at night for his living. When Edith' superior Mrs. Hambach (Heidemarie Hatheyer) finds out that she is pregnant, she doesn't want to have the child, because her husband is stepping out on her for so many times. After all Edith finds out that she is pregnant herself and she tells Mrs. Hambach that she can't go on working as a model, although there won't be any income for the Danwitzes anymore. Mrs. Hambach, very desperate, takes the chance and offers Dr. Danwitz and Dr. Hauser a very large amount of money for giving her an illegal abortion. But then something terrible happens.
- In Vienna in 1815. A lovely corset-maker fell madly in love with a so-called first valet.
- Mr. Schumann tells his little daughter a lot of lies about himself, so she can be proud of her father.
- Impresario Zwickel fears for the preview of his new operetta. One day remains to complete the fragmentary opus and the complete finale is still missing.
- Two GIs haven fallen in love with "Fräuleins", decide to stay in Germany and open a typically American drugstore in the center of the small town where their girlfriends live.
- An interpretation of Hamlet finds the heir Claudius Steel Works struggling with his mother's to uncle Van Eyk in a sterile industrial post-WW2 West Germany.
- Helga is a young single lady who has a baby with a much older married man.
- Emil is a coward. When he falls in love with a woman who wants a real man, he has to find the courage beyond his jolly demeanor.
- In Hamburg, the ex-captain Jonny Jensen runs the bar "Das Herz von St. Pauli". Business is not going well. Jensen is forced to enroll the shade "Jabo" Jabowski as a business partner. Jabo brings in contraband and store it in the cellar, he renovates the bar area and turns into a nightclub with young girls performing.
- When a composer is murdered and leaves his work unfinished, his apprentice and a singer must decide who is to blame.
- A gang of thieves plans to hit of a warehouse filled with precious stuff.
- When a parcel filled with cash is mixed up with a wrapped sandwich two accountants must follow their boss to Hamburg's red-light district to hand over the money, losing lots of it on the way to scheming con men and greedy girls.
- Adapted from a stage play by Curt J. Braun, the film takes place in a mid-sized German industrial town. When the local factory closes its doors, the townsfolk are thrown into confusion and dismay. The story concentrates on a dozen laid-off workers, relating their individual life stories and detailing their hopes, aspiration and fears.
- "Derby -- The Producer's Cut" is the essential slice-in-time cinema-verite film about the original American family action sport Roller Derby and its stars Charlie O'Connell and Ann Calvello as they dazzle fans across the country with their nonpareil skating and derring-do. The documentary Produced by William Richert, Photographed and directed by Robert Kaylor, follows a common man anti-hero, a young Dayton Ohio factory worker named Mike Snell who dreams about quitting his factory tire job and joining the Roller Derby to save his life and his family. Hailed by the NYTIMES and others as one of the 10 Best Films of the Year, lauded 4 Stars by Roger Ebert, the movie remains the best ever about the sport in the 1970's even as roller Derby Impresario and founder Jerry Seltzer leads the packs of tens of thousands of new skaters rolling world wide. "Amazing," says the CEO Mr. Seltzer. 'ONE OF THE YEARS TEN BEST' Proclaimed the NY Times. "FOUR STARS!" - Roger Ebert -- "DERBY...perhaps tells more about the state of the country today than all the 'Easy Riders' 'Medium Cools' and 'Joes' put together...the film is a kind of guided tour of Middle America -- it doesn't tell whee it's at, it shows where it's at, geographically and spiritually...a riveting piece of cinema-verite America." Oakland Tribune.
- Carefully chronicling in great detail the early years of Hitler s life and the events that shaped him into the zealous leader of Germany. This documentary offers a critical insight into the stealthy rise of the Nazi party and how it s racist vision of the world slowly took hold in a disillusioned Germany.
- Peter Karmann ist Lehrer und nebenbei Musiker. Er geht mit einem Ballett auf Tournee nach Afrika.
- Pulle and Kippe are burglars. They want to break into the apartment that is directly above the safe they want to rob next, but its inhabitants never leave and argue continuously. Repairing their relationship is the first step in the plan.
- Gabriela once a famous singer who enjoyed great success. She married, had a daughter Andrea, but pursued her career. Now that Andrea has matured into a young woman, Gabriela is overwhelmed by maternal remorse.
- Trophy wife Carola loves to spend her husband Bernhard's money until he puts an end to it. She leaves him to prove that she can earn her own living. Star author Tex hires her as his chauffeur - not because of her skills but her looks.
- Conservative dancing instructor Irene fears her school will be impounded. To raise cash she reluctantly agrees to manage a notorious night club she might inherit. Will the very attentive Dr. Maybach be a suitable business partner for her?
- Liquor smuggling in the Stockholm archipelago.
- The young and not particularly successful dancer Katrin, a "third from the right" showgirl, finally get her act together to grab that great career she deserves. But there are many obstacles on the way to success.