The world's most loved fairy tale is back in a whole new fantastic imagining in Pinocchio. When a piece of pine-wood falls into the hands of the poor old toy maker, Geppetto, he carves it into a puppet which he names Pinocchio. To Geppetto's delight, Pinocchio comes to life - and like most little...
The accident during an air show in Ramstein in the summer of 1988 is one of the greatest tragedies in German post-war history. Against the backdrop of the momentous collision of two aerobatic planes on "Open Day" at the American air base, this film tells the story of four families in fictionalized...
Julian is a 12-year-old boy whose family is just scraping by in the Ruhr industrial region of Germany in the early 1960s . When his mother and younger sister go away for a while, he is left mostly alone in the apartment while his father works in the coal mine. He has to confront the confusing world...
Working life was often no walk in the park for the resolute Henriette. Without any training and with many odd jobs, the now 58-year-old has struggled through life. And so Henni decides to take the bull by the horns once again and take her fate into her own hands. She reinvents herself as a "premium...
Lydia and Vincent Lufft adopted the now 10-year-old Marie, so Vincent has better career prospects at the very child-friendly Henderson Games. But Marie forges with her friend Nick a plan: they want to fake a kidnapping to get away from the adoptive parents. To find the alleged abducted Marie Max...
Annabelle Rosewood has turned her hobby into a profession: she auctions off stranded suitcases at airports and then has them opened on her own TV show and tells the stories behind them. Unexpectedly, an unusual piece of luggage ends up on Annabelle's show. When it is opened, valuable designer...
Due to his developmental disorder, the autistic inspector Leander Lost has a photographic memory and a feeling for whether his counterpart is lying. For this, he has trouble understanding irony and understanding social and emotional connections. As part of a European exchange program, Lost is...
Tessa Grant, the feisty owner of a bed and breakfast in Cornwall, and David Johnson, an upper-class charmer, face an unexpected turn in their lives. After David's mother Carol loses her fortune to a swindler, they are left with their inherited bed and breakfast. With the aim of selling the...
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...
A woman is faced with a big decision. As the young mother of a 15-year-old son, she believes she has missed out on something. Without further ado, she leaves her husband, who is 30 years her senior, and rediscovers life with a sporty surfer.
Tired of never having enough money to spend, Rita and Susanne throw all bourgeois moral concerns straight out of the window and simply become contract killers. With their little heads and guns, they bring a few unpleasant contemporaries around the corner and collect a tidy sum for their own use....
Single parent Mona Doermer travels to the Baltic Sea with her two children Tom and Marlen. The mentally unstable mother and the children, which are alarmingly mature for their age, form a strange team that many in the coastal town notice - including the young Commissioner Greta. When little Marlen...
Rosamunde Pilcher: Meine Cousine, die Liebe und ich
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Holly Shaw wants to prove her writing talent in a reading of her romance novel. But she achieves the exact opposite with the cynical reporter Aaron Kingsley. On the way to her car, Holly is attacked. Her papers, her books, her coat and her shoes are found by the police on the riverbank.
Lynette Dawson wants to set up a foundation in the name of her late husband. Her sons Patrick and Robin are to act as directors. Lynette hopes that her daughter-in-law Kim and daughter-in-law-to-be Marisa will also get involved in the business. But they have completely different plans. While Kim is...
Anne Harding looks after her small fruit and vegetable farm, her teenage daughter Jamie and her mother Molly, who suffers from arthritis. Then one day John Smith, her Aunt Sally's butler, turns up on her doorstep. The widow wants to lend John to her sister Molly for six weeks. With his discreet...
16-year-old Sophie Reiner is living a happy life, but then her friend Karen is murdered after a visit to a disco. Sophie's perfect world is shattered. She falls in love with the charming detective Mike Kleist and begins a secret affair with him. When another of Sophie's classmates is murdered, the...
At the beginning of 2000, the young commissioner Yvonne Weber moved from Frankfurt am Main to Eisenach. Together with the local colleague Frank Wolf, she is to review an unresolved murder case from the GDR era. The investigation team encounters inconsistencies in the file and it becomes clear that...
Former boxing world champion Kai Burdenski is up to his ears in debt and can neither pay rent nor electricity for his boxing school. This is tragic not least because he trains teenagers from youth welfare, for whom his run-down hall has become a home. In particular, the young, talented asylum...
There is no one-size-fits-all recipe for the right way to die. Cancer-stricken pensioner Hermann is having a hard time dealing with the inevitable: He doesn't want to wait for death and instead wants to give it a helping hand - but discreetly.
Florist Gwen is an employee in a flower wholesaler and is ensnared by her likable boss Joey, which the young woman does not mind. They both start an affair. The relationship with her constantly frustrated and stressful mother, Ellen, doesn't look that rosy. Thankfully, there is still her life...