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- Orphaned at the tender age of nine, prodigious introvert Beth Harmon discovers and masters the game of chess in 1960s USA. But child stardom comes at a price.
- Story of a young ultra-Orthodox Jewish woman who flees her arranged marriage and religious community to start a new life abroad.
- Young, pretty and innocent Fanny Hill has lost her parents and must find her way in life amidst the perils of turbulent 18th century London. She is fortunate enough to find rapidly a place as chambermaid of the effusive Mrs. Brown. Mrs. Brown lives in a large house teeming with female "relatives" in négligée and with very relaxed manners. She also insists that Fanny meets alone various gentlemen who show an ardent interest in Fanny.
- Cethegus, leader of the Roman nobility, travels to Bizantium and its leader Justinian, in an attempt to raise an army to march on the Goths under Narses. Cethegus would like to set the two sides to war against each other, that his own forces might take control at the outcome.
- In the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separated in the woods, and Leon, a local peasant who's now a farmer of some wealth, discovers the woman, Rosa, and hides her in his cellar. Leon's a middle-aged Catholic bachelor, tormented by his sexual drive. He doesn't tell Rosa he's seen signs her husband is alive, and he begs her to love him. Rosa offers herself to Leon if he'll help a local Jew in hiding who needs money. Leon pays, and love between Rosa and him does develop, but then Leon's peasant subservience and his limited empathy lead to tragedy. At the war's end, a ray of sunshine comes from an unexpected place.
- French seamstress is deserted by romantic German sailor
- Renegades trying to get the army to abandon their fort get the Indians addicted to whiskey, then convince them to attack and drive out the soldiers.
- The memoirs of Swedish doctor Axel Munthe. Munthe was a fashionable physician in Paris who built one of the best-loved houses in the world - San Michele - on the Isle of Capri, on the site of the villa of the emperor Tiberius.
- A foreigner and his son arrive in a small German village and evoke a story that the villagers do not want to remember.
- Caterina auditions for a minor part in what would be her second movie. Her dancing and singing impresses the director so much, that he wants to give her the leading role. However the author Thomas Krauss objects, because he believes she's just a good singer and not talented enough as an actress. Caterina doesn't want to let go of her big chance and applies as maid in Krauss' house under a different name to convince him she can play the role.
- West Germany in '50s is becoming an economic superpower. In such climate, Rosemarie is just one of many enterpreneurs who wants her piece of new fortune. She uses her charms to bring members of West German industrial elite to her bed. There she finds business secrets and later sells them to French competition. However, when scandal errupts, Rosemarie would find that she can't beat the system.
- While on a GPS treasure hunt in the Palatinate forest (Pfaelzerwald), four teenagers come across an abandoned US military radio tower station that once was part of a secret military program with horrible side effects.
- Cethegus starts the war between the Ostrogoths and their queen, Amalasuntha, and the Byzantine Empire, but when the Byzantine army invades Italy to reconquer Rome, romance prevails and threatens to ruin the plans for Cethegus.
- 1933 in Germany. The rise of Nazism fears war and some officers, concerned the fate that hostilities would reserve to their country, organize an anti-Nazi group. They send a reporter, Golder, to communicate the plan of the German offensive allies.
- Film about three unemployed artists who, in their distress, set up a pirate radio station and are very successful with it. Many well-known colleagues from radio and film take part in the programs of "Love Channel X", and the friends always manage to elude the police. When they are finally caught, they have made so many people happy that instead of being fined they get radio engagements - and the girls they love too.
- The rise of a four-headed girl-pop group and their adventures with a one-track-mind Casanova, who works as their composer and manager.
- Dr. Peter Holmes (Carl Moehner), zoologist and veterinarian, relectantly agrees to permit his dog, Wolf, to be used in a launch project commissioned by the International Conference of Science, at Geneva, to study body function and survival in outer space. Holmes had discovered Wolf as a pup in the forest, only to lose him again in a flood, and is fearful of risking the dog's life again. So he says no. O.K., he didn't, but don't expect "Lassie Goes to the Moon." In fact, while Wolf is off in outer space, Holmes goes into flashback mode recalling how he found, lost and found the dog again, and this memory jaunt serves to cover the time that Wolf is gone and it is now time for Wolf to return from outer space. But the capsule's recovery area is out in the artic terrain, so Holmes dons his parka, snowshoes, hitches up the raindeer and mushes out to rescue Wolf once again. One can only hope that the edited-out 11 minutes in the American-release showed Wolf gathering up rock samples on the moon.
- A watch manufacturer experiences the turmoil of the first half of the 20th century in Vienna.
- An idealistic young doctor takes a job at a woman's clinic. He loses his confidence and questions whether the medical field is right when he is faced with acute abortion and genital diseases.
- An actress makes her actor husband aware, shortly before her death in a car accident, that he may not be the real father of her son.The actor, feeling guilty for her death, turns to drink and then tries to kill himself.
- John is arrested in Moscow and charged by the Soviet Court with espionage for the United Kingdom and sentenced to twelve years of forced labor.
- It's Ursula's ambition to seduce renowned gynecologist Dr. Brückner, but when he resists her advances she accuses him of having raped her. Brückner is arrested and tried. Young lawyer Eva is determined to defend him and clear his name.
- The crooked Sabri, manager for the female dancers of the Seven Blue Stars are booked at the Alhambra in Tangier. Cilly find out about Sabri's shady plans and is now found dead in the harbor. Sabri have the girls passports in his pocket.