Four contemplative stories about problems with love: "Profitability" is about money, "The Smile" is about coping with a difficult situation, an "Experiment with Alf" is supposed to save a marriage, and in "Paternity" a lawyer and her husband are committed to a little girl who is the subject of a...
The young Prue Shackleton travels from London to Cornwall to visit her beloved aunt Phoebe, who has just become a widow. On the train she meets Charlotte, a sad little girl who comes from a broken home.
This drama is taken from Thomas Mann's 1903 semi-autobiographical novel. Tonio (Jean Claude Brialy) is an aspiring writer and the son of a rigid aristocratic father and a music-loving mother. Wandering throughout Germany and Italy to "find himself," Tonio frequently remembers his childhood...
For the career of her husband, Irina has renounced her journalistic career and has become a housewife. After countless job-related processions, the two return to their hometown of Munich to finally start a family. When Reinhard has to leave for New York in the short term and leaves his wife with...
Retired detective inspector Keith Kendrick is to commit the perfect murder and collect 20,000 pounds for it! The shrewd old fox from Scotland Yard can hardly believe it...
Erika, Dorle and Ilse, three friends between 60 and 70, have always stuck together and always manage to take life on the bright side. Erika's big dream is to have an expensive breast reconstruction. But she doesn't have the money. In order to fulfill her friend's heart's desire, Dorle and Ilse take...
The attractive Léa is around 40 and has a 20-year-old son, the result of a fleeting relationship. She lives with him in a posh studio apartment. Now Léa falls in love with David, who is supposedly an architect with a full order book and promises her marriage. In reality, however, he is a...
