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Refusing an arranged marriage, young aristocrat Carmela is sent to a convent. Her arrival intensifies the power struggle between the debauched nun Elizabeth, and the stern but evil Mother Superior, as both are smitten by Carmela's beauty.

While traveling to visit their grandfather, two children are told the story of a family curse that has lasted 200 years. During Napoleon's Italian invasion, Elisabetta Benedetti fell in love with French soldier Jean, but while Jean was distracted, Elisabetta's brother Corrado stole some gold that Jean was guarding, and set the curse in train. The Benedettis become wealthy, corrupt, and hated by their former friends, who rename them the Maledettis--the cursed. The children's grandfather Massimo is the last man to be directly affected by the curse--but will he pass it on to them?

Widower Paul always delayed talking to his daughter about sex. But when workers on a nearby construction site are falling down their scaffold because 16 years old "Herzblatt" is tanning naked, he feels he has to take action. In the hope she'll learn herself what consequences the difference between boys and girls has, he tries to get her a boyfriend.

Someone is killing the residents of an old castle, which is haunted by a legend involving vampirism.

Based on the infamous novel by Leopold Sacher-Masoch this fine film follows the perverted passions of a young couple as Severin watches the beautiful Wanda writhing naked amongst furs. His disturbing peeping tomism triggers off a whirlpool of emotions due to a childhood episode which punishes voyeurism with pain.

While on their yearly Italian holiday, a German family confronts the disturbing reality of Fascism's rise in the late 1920s, marring the once-serene atmosphere of their seaside retreat.

A ballet dancer is affected with cancer.

Pascale, married to an architect, misses her flight to London and is forced to stay in Berlin, at the Kleinhoff Hotel where she stayed as a student. Karl, a would-be revolutionary, lives in the adjoining room and Pascale spies on him and his ex-girlfriend through a hole, then follows him to a questionable place where she is arrested by the police during a revolutionists' raid. When she returns to the Kleinhoff Hotel, Pascale finds Karl crying, enters his room to console him and they have a love affair. While she sleeps, he kills himself; upon awakening, she coldly dresses and leaves the hotel.

Annemarie's mother, the well-known noble prostitute Rosemarie Nitribitt, was found murdered nearly twenty years ago.

A network of spies affects the lives of people in and out of the organization in this routine espionage drama.

15 years ago Paul Jordan was a star in Hollywood musicals. But then he retired from show-biz, married the rich Joan. Now, after being dependent on his wife's money for many years, he's sick of it and wants to work again. A romantic affair with his stepdaughter Shirley gives him the guts to ask for a role. His former agent gets him one, but it's with a small company in Vienna, Austria. The stress worsens his alcoholism - the tablets he takes to hide the effects lead him to hallucinations. When his wife and girlfriend appear at the same time, he's no longer capable of handling the situation.

The aging writer Aurelio Morelli is disillusioned: although the critics like his books, they are barely read. He develops hatred on youth and their depraved moral. One night he goes with a callgirl - and kills her. The police doesn't have a clue, only the unscrupulous sensational journalist Bossi suspects him. Instead of naming him to the police, he persuades Morelli to write about the murder for his paper. Morelli uses the occasion to write his memoirs, in which he confesses lots of other crimes before this last one...

A prominent lawyer has an affair with a girl from juvie who wants a way out. She's taping their tryst when someone enters and kills the lawyer. Now he's after her and the tape. Her only chance is a stand up female public defender.

The engineer Paul Holland proposes to his girlfriend Sybille shortly before a business trip, which she accepts. When Paul returns to Berlin, Sybille has disappeared without a trace.

A lawyer who survives a plane crash takes the opportunity to take a new identity and begin a new life.

The yacht of millionaire Hellmann explodes in the Mediterranean Sea, with him and 8 men crew on board. Insurance agent Lucas investigates at the Cote D'Azur, because there's the suspicion that it could have been suicide. He finds out that Hellmann's villa was monitored, the tapes also contain information about the explosion. He uses them for blackmail.

Daytaler Leni has the strong will to one day belong to the people "up there" on the Sternstein Manor. Thus she abandons her fiancé Muckerl and instead enmeshes Toni, the son of the landholder. She even manages to wangle a written marriage vow out of him.

Monk Medardus (Dieter Laser), administrator of the relic chamber of a Capuchin monastery, drinks from the elixirs of the devil and is confronted with the dark sides of his soul.

A groundbreaking feature film, both in style and content. A riveting live action story is presented in a new animation style that helps illustrate how moral lines can be blurred by necessity. A young female reporter returns to Iran to care for her ailing mother, but is soon drawn into reporting on a forbidden subject - the women and girls who prostitute themselves in sham 'temporary marriages.' Arrested, imprisoned, and beaten by officials who demand that she confess to her 'sins' (of trying to tell the truth), Roxana realizes that the only way to survive is to seduce her interrogator in prison. Amir falls in love with her, and against all odds, gets her released from prison, an act that helps her escape the country at the expense of his own demise.

Three ordinary, disillusioned citizens decide to rob an armored car.

Story of the relationship between two women. Ines, a successful career woman, and Monika, whom Ines takes in after she has attempted suicide through her inability to form lasting relationships with men or to sustain a career.

Dark Heritage Synopsis:Claudine was born in Congo going through lots of problems as a young girl. She was adopted by Chris, a physician living in Congo. As a teenager Claudine was sent to the US to study medicine in college. Now she is a young doctor living in the US struggling with several personal and professional issues. Claudine always had an interest in investigative journalism so she accepted the recommendation of an American Magazine and invitation of her step father traveling to Congo in order to write an article about Coltan mines. What happens during this trip sets Claudine free of all her childhood nightmares. A trip full of mystery and adventure teaching Claudine eye opening lessons while relocating her long lost childhood sweetheart by coincidence.