Carla Nowak, a dedicated sports and math teacher, starts her first job at a high school. She stands out among the new staff because of her idealism. When a series of thefts occur at the school and one of her students is suspected, she decides to get to the bottom of the matter on her own. Carla tries to mediate between outraged parents, opinionated colleagues and aggressive students, but is relentlessly confronted with the structures of the school system. The more desperately she tries to do everything right, the more the young teacher threatens to break.
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98m
Reise nach Jerusalem
39 years old Alice get's into a lot of absurd situations, while trying to keep up appearences as a successful freelancer...
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120m
Blind & Hässlich
Ferdi is ugly. And he desperately wants a girlfriend but he can't because: ugly. One day however he meets Jona and Jona is blind. For the first time in his life, there is hope. What Ferdi doesn't know is that Jona isn't really blind.
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98m
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The romantic and coming-of-age misadventures of a 13-year-old American living in Germany.
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91m
When a man awakens from a coma only to discover that someone has taken on his identity, he teams up with a young woman to prove who he is.
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113m
Die Blumen von gestern
An almost romantic comedy on the edge: Holocaust researcher Toto is having a major life crisis. Just when things at home and work could not get worse, he unwantedly gets a new assistent assigned to himself. Zazie is french, jewish, slightly germanophobe and supposed to help Toto to prepare a major congress. As the star of the congress suddenly wants to pull out, the problems are piling up and the two have to fix it.
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125m
Der Albaner
Handsome Albanian villager Arben wants to marry Etleva, daughter of a neighboring clan, but her father has promised her to another man who is offering a 10,000€ bride price. But when it turns out Etleva is carrying Arben's child, the pressure is on for him to come up with the dowry before the baby is born -- and before her brothers take revenge for the dishonor he has brought their family. Fleeing to Berlin without papers, experience or knowledge of the language, Arben soon learns the ways of survival.
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105m
Im Alter von Ellen
A German flight attendant's life spirals downward after she leaves her husband, quits her job, and joins a radical group of animal rights activists.
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95m
Lila, Lila
David, a waiter, finds an unpublished manuscript in a dresser drawer. To impress a girl, he claims to be the author. When the novel becomes a best-seller, the real author introduces himself and begins to take over David's life.
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In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a plan to assassinate Nazi leaders by a group of Jewish U.S. soldiers coincides with a theatre owner's vengeful plans for the same.
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153m
Anonyma - Eine Frau in Berlin
A woman tries to survive the invasion of Berlin by the Soviet troops during the last days of World War II.
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131m
Meine schöne Bescherung
A couple celebrates Christmas with their 3 ex-husbands, 1 ex-wife and everyone's new partners.
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96m
Five young Europeans (German, English, and Irish) try to find answers to life's questions in India and Thailand.
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89m
Reine Geschmacksache
At 52, traveling salesman Wolfgang Zenker (Edgar Selge) is in old school territory: he peddles the company's classic clothing line to boutiques that cater to women over 35. When Wolfi loses his drivers license in his brand-new Mercedes but can't afford to lose the season's sales because his frustrated wife (Franziska Walser) desperately wants a new bathroom, their son's vacation plans take a back seat as Karsten (Florian Bartholomäi) is forced to making sales rounds with his father instead of celebrating his high school graduation in Spain. Also making the rounds in small town southern Germany is successful and attractive sales rival Steven Brookmüller (Roman Knizka), 33. As the men's paths cross, long-hidden secrets are revealed and things come to a hilarious head.
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105m
Knallhart
From the youth directed novel of the same name by Greogor Tressnow comes a film by Detlev Buck that is a realistic portrait of life in the section of Berlin called Neukölln. It’s about power and weakness, delinquents and victims, and the difficulties a 15-year-old faces in a poor and criminal environment.
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An epileptic girl suffers a breakdown during her first year at university, then decides to seek help from a priest in battling the troubles associated with her strict upbringing.
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Der Wald vor lauter Bäumen
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As an awkward idealistic high school teacher begins her first job in the city, things turn out to be much tougher than she had imagined.