In Victorian England, the independent and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a hardworking young sheep farmer; Frank Troy, a handsome and reckless Sergeant; and William Boldwood, a prosperous and mature bachelor.
In 1968, Donald Crowhurst, an amateur sailor, endangers the fate of his family and business, and his own life, blinded by his ambition to compete in the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, attempting to become the first person in history to single-handedly circumnavigate the world without making any stopover.
After a whirlwind romance with a wealthy widower, a naïve bride moves to his family estate but can't escape the haunting shadow of his late wife.
Two young men, Martin and Rudi, both suffering from terminal cancer, get to know each other in a hospital room. They drown their desperation in tequila and decide to take one last trip to the sea. Drunk and still in pajamas they steal the first fancy car they find, a 60's Mercedes convertible. The car happens to belong to a bunch of gangsters, which immediately start to chase it, since it contains more than the pistol Martin finds in the glove box.
A young Englishman plots revenge against his mysterious, beautiful cousin, believing that she murdered his guardian. But his feelings become complicated as he finds himself falling under the beguiling spell of her charms.
An FBI agent works to uncover an all-American family as Soviet sleeper agents, and gets caught up in friendship with their oblivious teenage son.
The Newlyn School of artists flourished at the beginning of the 20th Century and the film focuses on the wild and bohemian Lamorna Group, which included Alfred Munnings and Laura and Harold Knight. The incendiary anti-Modernist Munnings, now regarded as one of Britain's most sought-after artists, is at the centre of the complex love triangle, involving aspiring artist Florence Carter-Wood and Gilbert Evans, the land agent in charge of the Lamorna Valley estate. True - and deeply moving - the story is played out against the timeless beauty of the Cornish coast, in the approaching shadow of The Great War.
A hedonistic bachelor - he is his rich family's black sheep - falls for a suicidal mental patient.
When she is slightly hurt in the factory where she works, Iris quits her job and finds a new one as an assistant in a laboratory of a very peculiar kind. Without fully grasping what is at play around her, she gradually engages in a disturbing love affair with her enigmatic employer.
Victoria Stellmann, head of a traditional cruise shipping company, leads a happy but routine family life. But then she meets the charming Jacques and gets involved in an affair. The angry awakening does not leave long to wait, her lover proves to be an unscrupulous blackmailer. He threatens to publish a video of her night of love. Victoria starts to flee to the front.
Serious problems overshadow Lea Walter's 70th birthday. Her son Enrico's mismanagement has brought her Mallorcan winery to the brink of bankruptcy. Now Enrico is pressuring his mother to sell her father's valuable paintings and Lea, who is plagued by dark nightmares, is at a loss for words. With the help of her old friend Sean, a sensitive art connoisseur, she unravels her father's secret.
Her daughter has just gone abroad for a school year when Anna's husband Rolf tells her that he wants a divorce. Anna, surprised and desperate, seeks refuge with her father Hannes. In her idyllic hometown, she meets her childhood sweetheart Nick again, whose wife took the life half a year ago. Nick's little daughter is so traumatized by this experience that she has not spoken out since. Anna cares lovingly for the child, and Anna and Nick come closer. But Rolf has since regretted his decision.
In Paris, unhappy movie actress Catherine Crachat becomes infatuated with the mathematician Pierre Indemini, but then breaks up with him. After a film shoot in Vienna, Catherine stays with a rich admirer, Fanny Hohenstein. Fanny has a history of many lovers of both sexes, two of whom killed themselves over her.
Georg, who is happy with his job as a scientist, with his loving wife and with his three children, hears one day that an accident has happened in a chemical plant nearby. All of a sudden, he finds himself face to face with one of the victims. The man, whose face has been eaten away by the sour gas that escaped from the plant, is staring at him in despair. Does Georg really see the man or is this a mere hallucination? Is he becoming insane or is he more alert to the dangers of the world than the common man?
A woman travels to New Zealand for the purpose of visiting his daughter. Give the fact that your company is interested in buying the farm where the girl works. But when her daughter announces the unexpected commitment to the son of the owner of the farm, a series of unexpected events completely change the two families.
Maria embarks on a one-night stand with Lothar. Lothar proves to be a ruthless seducer and when Maria becomes pregnant, she sinks into a nightmare from which there seems to be no escape.
Munich cardiologist Katja is happy – in two weeks she's marrying wealthy management consultant Richard, and she's about to be promoted at the hospital. But things turn out differently: It's not her who becomes head of the cardiology department, but a competitor. And Richard doesn't react to this rejection as empathetically as the disappointed doctor would like.
Major operation at the Alpine Clinic: a heavily pregnant woman tries to help a paraglider who has crashed and injures herself badly. Dr. Daniel Guth can only save her baby. While he and clinic manager Miriam search for the child's father, senior physician Dr. Linda Singer falls in love with the extreme sportsman entrusted to her care. When Miriam's son's girlfriend collapses with abdominal cramps, Dr. Guth suspects a hereditary disease. And there also seems to be something wrong with the photographer Nadja, who is visiting her brother, Mayor Rosner.
A successful landscape architect is forced to stay overnight in a remote castle hotel after a car breaks down, where she learns that the castle owners' adopted 20-year-old daughter is actually her own presumed dead daughter.
In a small North German village a drama played out during and shortly after the Second World War about duty versus individual conscience and morality.
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A teenager finds himself transported to an island where he must help protect a group of orphans with special powers from creatures intent on destroying them.
In a dystopian future, a totalitarian regime maintains peace by subduing the populace with a drug, and displays of emotion are punishable by death. A man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system.
The orphan boy Pinky follows the Captain on an exciting and dangerous journey across the big oceans to the kingdom of Lama Rama, hunting for a treasure and the answer to who is Pinky's father.
When SAS Captain Peter Skellen is thrown out of the service for gross misconduct due to unnecessary violence and bullying, he is soon recruited by The People's Lobby, a fanatical group aiming to hold several US dignitaries hostage. But Skellen's dismissal is a front to enable him to get close to the terrorist group. Can he get close enough to stop the Lobby from creating an international incident?
After Nick's girlfriend dumps him, his best mate Shane has the perfect antidote to his break-up blues: three days at an epic music festival.
Mr Wickers takes his class on a final trip to Cornwall, which descends into chaos as they encounter a local separatist group.
Having conquered the Asian underworld, crime boss Don sets in motion a plan that will give him dominion over Europe.
In order to find an apartment, dancer Pia pressures the straight-laced clerk Hartwig to pretend to be a prosecutor and pose as her husband. Although Hartwig is acting on behalf of his snobbish girlfriend, he agrees and falls in love with the vivacious blonde. But Pia isn’t quite ready for that yet.
East Germans abduct a U.S. coed (Linda Blair) and throw her in a women's prison run by a brutal inmate (Sylvia Kristel).
Kumar Cunningham loses his fiancee in Sri Lanka during a festival, only to discover her dead from a drugs overdose. Mad with grief, he kills the two dealers and is arrested for murder. He manages to escape and is bent on revenge.
Eric is a successful entrepreneur - in an unusual line of work: he provides people who want to cheat with watertight alibis. When Eric sees his ex-girlfriend from his student days, the vivacious interior designer Andrea, again, sparks fly between the two. But Andrea is horrified by Eric's job, as fidelity is the most important thing for her - she wants nothing more to do with Eric. But he comes up with a trick.
After a series of career setbacks, a young man tries his hand at working as a sexworker, only to discover that this job has its own set of challenges. When he falls in love with a college student, making a living becomes even harder for him, because at first he doesn’t realize that the woman he loves works in the same line of business.
Anyone looking for Austrian cuisine in Dresden goes to the restaurant "Lieblich an der Elbe" in the idyllic Elbschlösschen, which Maria Lieblich has successfully established together with her friends Steffi Krieg and Carola Bleibtreu. But the bank is breathing down the necks of the ambitious restaurateurs with high loan demands. When the elegant ship owner Hermann Augartner offers them a lucrative catering job, the ladies see their big chance to get out of their business predicament. However, it soon becomes clear that Augartner has no interest in helping the ladies out financially.
Accordion virtuoso Bruno has signed his first record deal when he is seriously injured at work. At the Alpine Clinic, senior physician Linda Singer advises the immediate amputation of his hand after examining the X-ray images. This would mean the end of the young artist's career. As an experienced surgeon, Dr. Daniel Guth still sees a chance: in a difficult operation, he saves the young musician's hand, but during the treatment he overlooks an internal injury. Has Daniel committed malpractice? Arch-enemy Linda senses her chance to finally replace Daniel as chief physician. With "Emergency for Dr. Guth", entertainment specialist Peter Sämann continues the story of the popular Alpenklinik series. In the role of the dutiful head doctor, audience favorite Erol Sander clearly has too much patience with his adversaries.
