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- Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.
- In the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, everyone is more than they initially seem. May waits tables, raises a son, Henry, and is an aspiring actress. She needs a roommate and takes in a pizza deliverer named Jonathan, an aspiring songwriter. In the adjoining flat is August, an Austrian body sculptor who appears in a deodorant commercial and dreams big dreams. May takes a job delivering singing telegrams as a stripper, Jonathan invites Henry to tag along with him on deliveries, August gets into trouble with the police who call his father in Austria, and the friendships, frustrations, and love affairs of everyday life come to a head.
- Western intelligence agents try, by all means necessary, to prevent a Communist-bloc defector from leaving the West in his bid to return home to lead an uprising.
- Female prisoners of various ethnic background struggle to survive the hardships of Auschwitz Concentration Camp.
- Heidi, a young girl happily residing in a mountain chalet with her kindly grandfather, is taken by her aunt to live in Frankfort and help a wealthy man's crippled daughter, under the constant watchful eye of a cold and aloof governess.
- A countdown of the "100 greatest musicals" of stage and screen, as voted by the UK public through Channel 4's website and readers of The Mail newspaper. Each entry is represented by clips from stage productions and/or film versions, and many are accompanied by new interviews with those involved (actors, directors, writers) or celebrity fans.
- This tragic drama is adapted from a popular Ibsen play about the relationship between a mother, her ego-maniacal husband, and their daughter. The father never approves of anything the daughter does.
- In the white Rössl.
- Vienna 1905: A risque drawing is published and threatens to compromise the model, a doctor's wife. Artist Heideneck protects her and invents a name. But the name exists, and this respectable lady is drawn into the artist's shady affairs.
- A film version of the operetta of the same title, in which Dr. Gabriel Eisenstein ends up in prison when he was supposed to smuggle himself into a royal ball to persuade the Prince's wife to renounce her land.
- A long time-span of Austrian history (from the late 19th century to the years after world war II) is reflected in the ups and downs of a family of piano-makers in Vienna.
- A prostitute takes back her child, a boy who does not even know how to play.
- Vienna shortly after World War II. A music professor, in whose house a young widow with three children is quartered by the housing office, changes under the influence of the charming lady.
- Beautiful Dunja is bored to death at the post office of her father, far in the depths of Russia. When the dubious officer Minski arrives, she's fascinated by his stories about life in St. Petersburg and easily can be persuaded to accompany him there. Minski promises her father to marry her later. In truth he's soon tired of her and throws her out; she's passed around among the officers of the czar like a prostitute. When her father gets word of it, he wants to take revenge.
- Romantic complications in a small Austrian town.
- On a steamer bound for Europe two competing European investors try to get hold of a contract for exploiting oil wells in Brazil. Several agents cleverly play off one investor against the other to up the ante of a bogus scheme.
- Russia, 1917. Revolution is in the air. The Sevastopol anchors In Saint Petersburg. The sailors thirsty for women and celebration.
- An Austrian earl learns that he has inherited land in Arizona, in the American wild west. The count and his friend journey to America to claim the inheritance. There, they encounter danger, desperados, and the none-too-friendly daughter of the local sheriff.
- Since the death of her parents, 17-year-old Susanne Doren lives with her uncle Hannes. He was once a celebrated pop star, but retired from the public to take care of Susanne.
- A dumb student has a relationship with two girls, who then give birth to two children at the same time.
- Four orphaned friends move after the Abitur, supported by the janitor of her school, together in a flat and look for work to be able to finance her study. Two make the acquaintance of a frivolous young baron. One shoots in her outrage at him, nevertheless, is acquitted in court.
- The sole film version of one of his plays that the demanding Brecht approved of: A drunken rich man breaks up the engagement of his daughter to a respectable ambassador and wants her instead to wed his trusted valet.
- The first Austrian feature film.
- The married couple Joseph and Käthe Zeller live with their children Felix, Paul, Walter and Franziska on an Austrian estate. It's just after WW II. During a family outing, the father steps on a tell mine and is fatally injured. When arranging his legacy, Käthe realizes that her husband did not manage to do well. With the rest of her money she moves to Vienna with the children and buys a small laundry there.
- At the end of the Second World War, part of the traditional royal family are forced to flee from their historic lands. They still possess a castle in Bavaria. After a difficult journey to reach it they find that the castle is in ruins. Gradually they try to rebuild their lives in their new home and adjust to the challenges of modern life.
- The story follows two simple as well as incorrigible petty crooks, who always fail spectacularly in search of the big coup.
- Somewhere in the Salzburg mountains, young poacher Hans tries to conquer the heart of pretty schoolteacher Helga but is overthrown by forest warden Thomas. Krambambuli, the dog he once saved from being drowned, indirectly causes his death.
- Since the three actors Heinz Doll, Toni Mack and Hans Stiegler are without engagement, they announce themselves on an advertisement.