During the early 16th century, idealistic German monk Martin Luther, disgusted by the materialism in the church, begins the dialogue that will lead to the Protestant Reformation.
The story of a close-knit group of young kids in Nazi Germany who listen to banned swing music from the US. Soon dancing and fun leads to more difficult choices as the Nazis begin tightening the grip on Germany. Each member of the group is forced to face some tough choices about right, wrong, and...
As a young boy, future emperor Nero witnesses the mad Emperor Caligula kill his father and exile his mother. While in exile in the pontine islands, Agrippina, his mother, sees a vision telling her that her son can become emperor, but she will have to die first. She accepts the proposal. Back in...
After the death of her husband, the mother of Julie, Jack, Sue and Tom begins to suffer from a mysterious illness. Aware that she is going to have to go into hospital she opens a bank account for the children, so that they can be financially self-sufficient and will be able to avoid being taken...
New York publisher Paige Duvall travels to New Zealand to accept a mysterious inheritance. A certain James Abott has bequeathed her a considerable piece of land, for which there is also an interested party. The hotel investor Steven Armstrong wants to build a wellness facility. But local sheep...
Shortly before her wedding, Ella learns that she has leukemia. A bone marrow transplant from a blood relative is the only way to save her life. But her mother confesses to her that she was adopted as a baby. Ella sets off in search of her biological mother and begs her: “Mother, I don't want to...
Eva works as a decoy. Her job is to test husbands for their fidelity. Her good friend Corinna gives her a particularly well-paid assignment. She is to seduce Stefan, the husband of the very wealthy Christiane Reedmann, and lure him into a trap. A short time later, Christiane is killed and all the...
Matthias, son of popular rural Lutheran pastor Oskar Brendel and his wife Karin, about to graduate without honors unlike his emigrated big brother, is a pubertal rebel and hopelessly in love with local Maren Grothe. After he picks a fight at the village fair with her flirt and storms off, Maren s...
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...
Almost 15 years, the unequal sisters Mia and Susanne have not seen each other. But after her mother's death, Mia returns to her family. Problems are preprogrammed. But the fight for the family business and the memory of an old unfortunate pact connect the freedom-loving Mia and the family man...
Anne Berger, wife and mother of two children, is looking forward to the family vacation on Sylt. However, on the day of departure, she must learn that her husband Stefan has an affair with his assistant. So Anne sets off with her children alone. In order not to be found for Stefan, she lodges in a...
A married housewife with two teenage children realizes that things are no longer working out with her husband. By chance, she meets her former gay classmate, a photographer with a camper van, who shows her that she is still sexy. He has to sell his parents' house. She comes up with the idea of...
Thé beautiful bookseller Sophie wants to realize her lifelong dream and set up a reading café in the old shed next to the house inherited from her aunt. But the house still causes problems, a plumber must come here. And it seems like this Phillip White could also do other things than broken water...
The turmoil of the last days of the war. 13-year-old Tom loses his mother while on the run. In Vienna he meets the one-legged black marketeer 'Krücke' - a sly, cunning survivalist and at the same time an adorable, kind friend. The two find shelter with Bronka, a Jewish woman who serves alcohol to...
