A 45-year-old employee‘s future begins to falter. He rightly fears that he will fall victim to his new manager's rationalization measures. But he doesn't want to bow to his "fate" so easily: in the fight for his livelihood, he resorts to dirty means himself.
Four young people dream of a simple life. In the middle of Berlin, they retreat to an idyllic villa with a garden, where they want to provide for themselves and lead an alternative lifestyle. But then an unscrupulous property developer wants to demolish the villa to build a modern residential...
Pit and Susi - the couple from the "dream car" - struggle with the small and big problems at work and in their relationship. Pit is on the rise: in his mid-20s, he is already on the management floor of a large Munich advertising agency and always on duty. He lives with Susi in a spacious apartment....
Pit is in his early 20s and meets the attractive singer Caro. He wants to impress her but lacks the resources. He comes up with the idea to saw off the roof of his car and turn it into a snappy convertible.
At the height of the cold war in the divided country of Germany, several individuals try to smuggle 'real' coffee from West Berlin into East Germnany via train, despite the erstwhile efforts of security guards trying to prevent them doing so.
A Greek father, estranged from his German wife, kidnaps his daughter from her busy career mother in Berlin, and brings her home to live with his family. An international custody battle follows.
The Riehl family has recently owned a small house in a new development in the countryside. Mr. Riehl drives into town every morning, where he works in a furniture store. The two children still go to school. Ms. Riehl takes care of the household and has to cycle long distances to do some shopping....
The Riehl family is preparing for their vacation in Italy together. But shortly before the start comes the bad news: a colleague of Mr. Riehl, who is now the managing director of a furniture store, has broken his leg.
Horst Valfelt, deputy manager of a medium-sized bank branch in West Berlin, is passed over for promotion. A woman is put in front of him as branch manager. A serious blow to Valfelt's career. One day, his former fellow student Thomas Berthold appears at the bank. He has achieved everything Valfelt...
A frustrated Frankfurt innkeeper is recruited as an agent for the "Gehlen Organization" and after a short training period, during which he is familiarized with sophisticated espionage methods, he takes his first steps as a spy. When the really big assignment comes his way, he loses contact with his...
Detective Heinz Ebeling's (Peter Eschberg) car breaks down with a broken windshield and a defective fuel pump on the way to Frankfurt. On the way to the next village, Ebeling witnesses a murder and other crimes, which he tries to solve.
