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- Ruza left Belgrade for Switzerland as a young woman full of hope for a new, better life. 25 years later she appears to have achieved everything: She owns a canteen in Zurich, which she manages with a firm grip and financial success. Ruza values her meticulously-structured daily routine, both in her professional and private life. Ruzas's orderly world shifts when 22-year-old Ana from Sarajevo enters the scene. She feels threatened by Ana's direct, impulsive manner while at the same time she is intrigued by her zest for life. Slowly a friendship develops between these two self-willed women. However, a certain distance between them remains: Ruza's afraid to open herself up completely, and Ana has a secret too difficult to reveal.
- During the First World War, female German spy Fraulein Doktor and her team of saboteurs plan to kill Lord Kitchener, obtain the Allied defense plans, and steal the new French mustard-gas formula.
- To improve the morale of the German officers, a train with beautiful girls is arranged to entertain them when on leave.
- A Nazi's fiancee helps an escaped U.S. soldier, then meets him in postwar Berlin.
- One fine morning, Benno finds sand in his bed. While he tries to ignore this at first, he soon must realize that he himself is loosing the sand. Day after day the sand increases and soon his time literally starts running short. Finally he is left no choice but to ask Sandra for help, who runs a small coffee shop under his apartment. Although Benno hates her with a passion, he started having dreams of her every night. What could Sandra and the dreams have to do with the sand?
- Described as an answer to Fassbinder's The Marriage of Maria Braun, Fraulein tells the story of a former German Trümmerfrau now trying to enjoy the economic miracle and to find the balance between own needs and her marital obligations.
- An impressive solar storm befalls the Earth causing power surges and blackouts. A deeper storm rages in the soul of Regina, a lonely spinster called 'Fräulein', after a mysterious tourist passes the gate of her hotel closed for years. What was supposed to be a one night meeting, it will turn soon into a surprising coexistence.
- At an all male school where it is assumed that women are inferior, a lady substitute takes over for a math and chemistry teacher who has had an accident. Will she be able to change minds as to the equality of the sexes?
- Several men have been murdered lately, mostly rich lovers on their way to meet their mistresses with gifts of fine jewelry. To fight this scourge, King Louis XIV decides to create a special court named "La chambre ardente", designed to find and punish the perpetrators of such heinous crimes. An unexpected person, Mademoiselle de Scudéry, the famous poetess, will find herself entangled in the web of a criminal intrigue linked with the jewel murders, along with a a goldsmith, his daughter and her fiancé...
- Emil Raffke (Werner Krauss) is a newly rich industrialist who arrogantly revels in his wealth. While at the seaside with his family, Raffke and his daughter Lilli (Lee Parry) attract the attention of the young Baron Von Geldern (Hans Albers) who is in a relationship with a dancer who has helped him out of the lurch financially. But Von Geldern is interested in Raffke's money, while Raffke sees a chance of entering into nobility when marrying off his daughter to the baron. But Lilli has already secretly married another young man, which leads to a break-up of the family and to increasingly dramatic events.
- The true story of Claerenore Stinees, who became the first woman to circumnavigate the globe by car.
- Miss Anita Liman is the sole owner of a coffee importing company, with offices in Hamburg, Genoa and Santiago. Anita's first competitor Benno Karden would merry her purely for business reasons, but he falls in love with her. Benno has not realized that his lover is a smart competitor. Complications follow.
- A young woman reluctantly decides to compromise her values in order to save her family from bankruptcy and disgrace.
- The world financial crisis is over. Only a small circle of rich Western people has survived the economic breakdown and they spend their holidays in a remote luxury hotel in India. Miss Else joins her aunt to spend her holidays there. She receives a message by her mother disclosing that her father has enormous debts and her mother asks Else for help. This gets Else into serious troubles - with deadly consequences.
- Free-floating yet rigorously structured, this film presents 18th century botanist Catharina Helena Dörrien. Via regulations and formulas, nature philosophy and policy converge.
- A snapshot of Brion Allerton giving dating a try in the middle of a global pandemic. Navigating a torrid, potentially platonic love affair, he learns that these days people hear but don't quite listen.
- A young woman named Yuna Kagurazaka becomes the Guardian of Light after winning a contest, now she must be rescued by her friends.
- 'Clemence M. Schönborn''s first feature film is a typical Austrian black comedy, dealing with an easy-going forty-something, who likes playing games with others, which has serious consequences... Phyllis, in her early 40s, still lives together with her mother, whom she loves and hates at the same time. When she gets to know Henry, supporting actor of a soap opera, she pretends to love him, but sleeps with the show's lead actor Walter, whom she finally runs over with her car, which makes Henry the show's new star - and the new lover of the lead actress Doris. However, Phyllis isn't done with him...
- Literary adaptation on how a 17th century French lady intellectual is caught up in a criminal inquiry by the King, involving a goldsmith.
- Miss Inge Becker is an telephone operator. She makes an appointment with the her unknown opera singer West. Simultaneously, Rainer, the young director of the telephone distribution, makes an appointment with the him unknown Miss Lotte Schröder. Location of the meeting and sign of recognition of the two pairs are the same. An exchange with consequences cannot be avoided, as the next day the director wants to speak with Inge, because she neglects her service.
- After the death of their father, 18-year-old Helene and her little sister Asta must find their way in a radically changed life situation.
- A young woman borrows an expensive piece of jewelry from the store she works in, to impress her boyfriend at a winter Alps resort.She won't get in trouble because her boss loves her as well.
- Lilli, daughter of a large family, finds job at a jewelry shop, and is taken to Montecarlo by her boss to, under a false identity, make the jewels appeal to rich customers.Only they are stolen,seemingly by the young man she has fallen for..
- TV adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's eponymous book with Edith Clever as the only film actress.
- Berlin Underground-star Ulrike S. went to the Toronto-Filmfestival and then to New York - to find out something about the film business and also about her own desires, daydreams and nightmares.
- Prussian king Frederick the Great advises a young settler along the eastern frontier who is going to be married to the daughter of a state counselor, to be a model farmer and raise plenty of children.
- Miss Annemarie Tessmer is a clerk in the house of the manufacturer Herman Schilling and she is indispensable. She is exploited by all the family members and her own life is completely in the background. Herman Schilling wants his daughter Thea merry with the representative for foreign affairs Dr. Richard Rauch. However, after a number of dramatic complications, Richard chooses for the good, selfless and hardworking Annemarie.
- Julie, a young noble woman is drawn to a senior servant, a valet named Jean, who is particularly well-traveled, well-mannered and well-read.
- While the county is out of town, daughter Julie stays home for the feast of the servants. She tries to take advantage of her position and explores the limits of seduction with servant Jean.
- Literary adaptation of how a 17th century French lady intellectual is caught up in a criminal inquiry by the King involving a goldsmith.
- Yuna Kagurazaka returns to destroy more bad guys.