Colonel Mortimer's son Gregory, his pride and joy, returns to the ancestral Cornish estate by the sea for the summer after loosing that year's only Horse Guards officer promotion to his neighbor-buddy Eric. By ancestral tradition, that means another delay too for his long-planned marriage with...
Jonathan MacKenzie is the founder of a leading brand textile Irish who now heads her daughter Kate and her husband Patrick O'Hara. But on his deathbed his past haunts him and confesses the whereabouts of Teresa, his granddaughter, daughter of his deceased son, whom he took when he was born and now...
Aldo Viezzi, a brilliant surgeon secretly addicted to cocaine, retreats to Prague for research but sinks deeper into dependency. With sociologist Teresa’s help he uncovers a drug-trafficking manager, endures a forced, drug-free operation to save a kidnapped patient, and finds the strength to...
Western intelligence agents try, by all means necessary, to prevent a Communist-bloc defector from leaving the West in his bid to return home to lead an uprising.
The young Laura actually has a bright future ahead of her: She marries Alec Haverstock, the man she loves as she has never loved anyone before. But Laura has no idea that Alec's past has a flaw that will soon overshadow her young happiness. On a trip to see Alec's relatives in Cornwall, she embarks...
Pauline is very disappointed by her boyfriend. Fearing lonely holidays, she accepts her boss Max's invitation to celebrate white Christmas in his parents' mountain hut. It is taken for granted that she is Max's girlfriend. He enjoys the misunderstanding and asks Pauline to play along.
Menschenfrauen is a film about relationships and the psychological oppression of women in society. Franz, a journalist, maintains relationships with four women. His three mistresses are introduced with television dreams of intense emotional violence (in the first dream, a mother shouts at her...
In order to win the respect of her friends and family, divorced housewife Sabine decides to perform Wilhelm Tell with a group of Asylum seekers in the Swiss mountains.
Emil, Bruno, Fritz and Dieter-Thomas are four fit pensioners and old friends. They want to refresh their friendship with a cozy golf weekend in the mountains. Having just arrived at the hotel, Emil confronts his friends with serious news: he is terminally ill and has decided to put an end to his...
