Festplatte 2

On the first day of a new school year, the over-strained teacher Andrea tells her best friend and colleague Katja that she will quit her job. But a dramatic incident with a pupil shatters the lives of Drea, Katja and their pupils forever.

An insurance representative is seduced by a dissatisfied housewife into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, a claims investigator.

One evening, a married young singer Zoha meets the French lawyer Mathieu in a night club in Beirut. Mathieu will become suspected of spying, while Zoha is trying to flee from her husband. Despite these problems, the two will witness a love story for few days mixed with violence and fear.

Fascinated by gorgeous Mrs. Bannister, seaman Michael O"Hara joins a bizarre yachting cruise, and ends up mired in a complex murder plot.

What to do when the workers of a factory have been laid off overnight? Louise has an original idea: why not pool the compensation money to hire a hit man and to liquidate the boss? Motion accepted so Louise goes in search of the gem they need and unfortunately comes across Michel, a security specialist. Michel, who is busted, gladly accepts the deal but proves so inept that he sub-contracts the job to improbable novices. As the factory was a mere branch of a multinational company, it is no bed of roses to find the one who actually made the decision to outsource its activities, but Louise will not give up so easily.

Markowitz brings African refugees to Hamburg for a cartel. Half the people flee from a traffic stop. While Markowitz searches for the fugitives, the team investigates a complaint of domestic violence.

An unlikely friendship develops between a hitman and a suicidal guy who have both checked into the same hotel for different reasons.

Suzanne "Dame Kristin Scott Thomas" is a well to do married mother, but her bourgeois lifestyle gets her down and she decides to go back to work as a physiotherapist by building an office in their backyard. Then Suzanne falls in love with the man hired to build the office.

Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders in London in which the victims are killed according to their initials.

A tribute to Desmond Llewelyn (1914-1999), the great beloved character actor best known for his role as Q, the gadget supplier in the many films of the James Bond franchise, becoming the most regular actor in the series, through four decades and five different actors as Bond (from Connery to Brosnan). The many personalities involved with the Bond franchise, from cast and crew of the many films, share their stories about the experience of working with Llewelyn.

A potentially violent screenwriter is a murder suspect until his lovely neighbor clears him. However, she soon starts to have her doubts.

Broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow looks to bring down Senator Joseph McCarthy.

A politically charged epic about the state of the oil industry in the hands of those personally involved in and affected by it.

When a congressional aide is killed, a Washington, D.C. journalist starts investigating the case involving the Representative, his old college friend.

The story of Coco Chanel"s rise from obscure beginnings to the heights of the fashion world.

A young peasant maid working in the house of painter Johannes Vermeer becomes his talented assistant and the model for one of his most famous works.

Based on a fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, a girl goes on a quest to save her village from an evil king.

A band of rogue DJs that captivated Britain, playing the music that defined a generation and standing up to a government that wanted classical music, and nothing else, on the airwaves.

In Hamburg, Ibrahim "Ibo" Secmez, of Turkish descent, wants to direct the first German kung-fu movie. For now he makes commercials for his uncle"s kebab restaurant. When Titzie, Ibo"s aspiring-actress girlfriend, finds out that she"s pregnant, Ibo"s uncertainty about fatherhood is compounded by his own father"s disowning him for getting a German girl pregnant--so Titzie sends him packing. He makes attempts at getting it right, but as the birth approaches, he"s still not ready. In the background are three thugs in search of good tripe soup and a Capulet-Montague feud between the kebab joint and the Greek taverna across the street. Can Ibo be the glove upon that hand?